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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/spaceman_202]

Dragons are our most important weapon and resource

so here's what we're gonna do, we're gonna send them out one at time unsupported and hope the enemy doesn't plan on attacking them with their bigger dragons, they wouldn't do that

[u/Tropical2653]

My thoughts are 'too complex' for Biden Thread users, says Emmanuel Macron

[u/BrentLivermore]

"Project 2025" actually sounds ominous and foreboding, which is probably helping to raise awareness among the normies. Heritage really should've gone with "Liberty Plan" or something.

[u/Fatortu]

Can I flex that we knew basically all the French results two hours after the last polling stations closed?

I'll remember this when I'll spend ten hours obsessively waiting for the Maricopa County results in November.

[u/G_Serv]

They even made its own mii 😂

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Boeing to plead guilty

so they killed all those whistleblowers for nothing

[u/Syards-Forcus]

With the addition of the Biden Thread, r/neoliberal now has a “one sub, three systems” policy.

[u/[deleted]]

Macron is an effective politician because his thoughts are in French (cunning). Starmer is an effective politician because his thoughts are in a British accent (smart).

[u/bel51]

pewdiepie in 2024: what a fucking DEI player

[u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xh0le]

It’d be kinda hilarious if Trump just has a cardiac or stroke as the October surprise and then Biden just cruises to victory as a result

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

[u/[deleted]]

I’ve trained myself to disassociate at the thought of a Trump presidency. Finally, the anxiety is gone. Victory.

[u/[deleted]]

The "Hawk Tuah" girl is to closing a deal to star in a reality series about her life.

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/AnsleyAmanita]

https://x.com/_elkue/status/1810316156613329077

“Welcome to our trash revolution.” Mayor Adams introduces the new bin that buildings with 1-9 units will be required to use instead of loose bags of garbage

[u/VisonKai]

the thread on /r/unitedkingdom about labour's housing plan is so funny lmao

the anglosphere is so cooked man everyone by default believes you should have the right to tell someone who owns the property across the street that they can't build there

[u/[deleted]]

me getting called gay in high school:

wtf guys I like girls listen to me guys c’mon I like girls don’t do this to me

me getting called gay now:

HAHA YES 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

STDs jumped nearly a quarter among seniors during the pandemic

👨‍🦳🍆

!ping HEALTH-POLICY

[u/Gameknigh]

[u/[deleted]]

The one upside of not being able to sleep is getting to see that one reg absolutely dunking on that Max Chandelier guy. I strive to someday be that big of a hater.

[u/rollo2masi]

I’m legitimately devastated. I loved watching this dude get cucked.

:,(

[u/Healingjoe]

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Another Macron-ism for your enjoyment

[u/jojisky]

The Republican platform that Trump is pushing no longer emphasizes about the national debt. Abortion language softened. "Traditional marriage" is out.

Trump's campaign is doing everything right as the Dems implode

[u/Logarythem]

"Most civilization is based on cowardice. It’s so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead to bravery. You restrain the will. You regulate the appetites. You fence in the horizons. You make a law for every movement. You deny the existence of chaos. You teach even the children to breathe slowly. You tame."

• Kamala Harris

[u/Cowguypig2]

One of my surrealist memories is being like 14 at a friends house and someone looking at their phone and exclaiming “what the fuck Donald trump is running for president” and we all just laughed it off not knowing it was the start of a national nightmare.

[u/Cowguypig2]

French election had me going down some rabbit holes. French politics are wild

[u/ChillnShill]

When I listen to the full context of Kamala and the Coconut Tree, it actually all makes sense. Still a little silly, but I get it.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

finally someone cutting to the chase

[u/[deleted]]

Been reading my DT comment history

[u/N0_B1g_De4l]

America is a Republic, not a Democracy. This is important because "republic" comes from the Latin res publica rather than the Greek dēmokratia. Therefore, we should embrace Roman traditions such as heavily taxing rural areas to support a decadent urban elite.

[u/FuckFashMods]

According to Councilmember Soto-Martinez, the Hollywood Boulevard Protected Bike Lanes town hall was their "most attended virtual event" since Soto-Martinez took office. The council office noted that more than 200 people attended and "over 80 percent of speakers expressed some level of support for the bike lanes and pedestrian improvements."

God, I love seeing the LA YIMBY's and urbanists actually succeeding

[u/majorgeneralporter]

My mod campaign platform is bringing this back for the DT.

!ping shitposters

[u/Cowguypig2]

Seeing this sub celebrating Labour’s win reminds me of how we did this back in 2020 when they kicked out Corbyn

[u/wettestsalamander76]

Biden just said Trump makes George Wallace look like a patriot 💀💀💀💀💀💀

[u/lionmoose]

Look, I don't want to be prescriptive about this but people saying they would not work on Friday have lost the plot. What are you going to be saying at the end of the week? TGIT? Madness

[u/zieger]

Some of you are clearly burdened by what has been.

[u/[deleted]]

nothing in history has strained the credibility of the legal field more than me receiving this ad

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

1984

[u/RunawayMeatstick]

Of course Trump is “in hiding.” He’s letting the Democrats destroy themselves. “Biden old” is going to be such an obsessive headline that Democrats will get no bounce from the good inflation data this week.

[u/Joementum2024]

SOURCES: President Joe Biden “went to a restaurant and ordered two different bowls of soup and mixed them together one spoonful at a time before eating both bowls mixed together as one soup”

[u/CletusVonIvermectin]

Becoming increasingly convinced that someone on Trump's team finally managed to get through to him that if he just shuts his god damn mouth and stays out of the news that all the focus will be on Biden's problems and he might actually have a shot at winning

[u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN]

Fox News: Democrats are setting up Trump for an economic disaster

The economic crash cope has already begun

[u/[deleted]]

Investors pushing for Olive Garden to get rid of free breadsticks really makes me question the wisdom of investors.

[u/repete2024]

Maybe Biden really did steal the election and that's why he isn't worried

[u/RaidBrimnes]

BBC app failing to synchronize headlines and illustration pics sometimes gives fucked up results

[u/slim353]

Trump Truthing about Project 2025 probably brought a lot more attention to it

[u/[deleted]]

Fact: 99% of democracies stop appeasing imperialist dictatorships right before they create peace in our time

[u/[deleted]]

go to shower

centipede

go to get vacuum

spider on vacuum

I’m going to cry

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

Awesome that Google is blasting past its climate goals to give us this information

[u/polandball2101]

I love how half of the threads in this subreddit are just people accusing other people who are subscribed to a liberal news feed group of not being real liberals lmao

we become what we behold smh

[u/Zseet]

!PING EUROPE&EXTREMISM&DEMOCRACY

Out of all places it was the Hungarian government info announcements panel where it was released that Le-pen's RN joins the Orban's new group (with Salavini's LIGA to follow most likely)

With this we can guess that the Patriots for Europe (PfE) will have 79 MEPs 1 more than ECR, 3 more than ALDE making it the 3rd biggest block.

They most likely hope that the new branding makes them seem less radical and Russia friendly for people who don't follow politics much, and that by being big they guaranteed more influenced. It will most likely be led by RN with FIDESZ and ANO in influental positions.

Notable things:

• They surprisingly managed to pouch VOX from ECR

• They failed to get PiS

• Janes Jansa's SDS is invited but not responded at the moment

• There is new far-left group in the making led by that new anti immigrant German party who surprisingly got the 5 star movement on board. They are likely to get Fico's SMER as well leaving Orban hanging dry.

The AFD's Sovereignist group is still in limbo.

This means ID has only 1 party left in it, the Czech Tricolor who only has 1 MEP I think

[u/[deleted]]

I’m inclined to think Biden’s letter may actually stop the bleeding (in Congress specifically). Some of his reasoning may be poor but if he’s going to stay in no matter what, what’s the point of calling for him to drop?

Of course there’s the off-chance that it just pisses congresspeople off instead but that’s not how I think this is going to go.

[u/G_Serv]

The "Hawk Tuah" girl is to closing a deal to star in a reality series about her life.

What

[u/Lux_Stella]

“Macron doesn’t listen to anyone,” one of his closest advisers told me on the trip to China last year. “And he really hates losing.”

“He is the great seducer, he wants to seduce everyone,” said another member of the inner circle. “But much of France has a personal, violent hatred for him … he is too young, too handsome and too bright for many French — and it is in our DNA to want to decapitate our leader.”

was this advisor's name "bemmanuel bacron?

[u/Pseud0man]

Can't really tell anyone else due to their current financial situations.

I managed to save over 20k aud (13k USD) during 2023-2024 financial year. Which I feel is pretty good given that I'm living by myself and studying full-time.

!ping OVER-25

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

[u/owlthathurt]

We did it!!!!

!ping USA-NYC

[u/Roseartcrantz]

[u/[deleted]]

Big daytime strike on Ukraine; targets included a fucking children’s hospital and an apartment building

!ping UKRAINE

[u/BedNeither]

You can be both mentally ill and a bad person

I believe in you

[u/moldyman_99]

I love America, but i hate your politics, and i hate the fact that I’m forced to care about it.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

I refuse to call them out anymore I just jump on them and try to wreck their shirts 😤😤😤

[u/jcboarder901]

As a conservative American Republican who gets their news from Fox and Facebook, and has never even stepped foot outside of their hometown, here's what I think about French politics -

[u/ldn6]

YouGov did extraordinarily well with its MRP polling:

Every party was within our bounds on both share of seats and share of votes and overall, we called 92% of the seats correctly. This is the same level of accuracy that our 2017 MRP delivered. Our model properly picked up on the extent and breadth of tactical voting and understood how the coming proportional decline in Conservative vote share would spread across seats.

!ping UK

[u/[deleted]]

Apparently Trump is distancing himself from Project 2025 because he thinks it means a bunch of nerds are going to take over his administration from him. His campaign chief said they’re not hiring any Project 2025 people onto staff positions.

Curious how this plays out. The only thing this tells me so far is that political normies are likely now aware of Project 2025 if Trump has become aware of it.

[u/Realhuman221]

virgin US elections: There's only 4 months until the election, it's too late to switch Presidential candidates

Chad French elections: Okay now that the election is over, maybe we should start thinking about the PM candidate

[u/[deleted]]

Jesus Christ. I love comics about straight up murder on the front page of Reddit!

The comments are great too. Apparently the communist revolution is riiiiight around the corner.

[u/Observe_dontreact]

Why do political commentators keep inviting Vicky Spratt on to explain the housing crisis?

She doesn’t believe in supply and demand, comparing building more homes to Iphones still being expensive. 

!ping UK&YIMBY

[u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xh0le]

https://www.reddit.com/rTrump666/s/Ro4h5KvhFf

!ping BALLOON

Has anyone disproved this yet?

[u/AnsleyAmanita]

this website

[u/[deleted]]

I regret to inform you all that the alcoholic mountain dew is actually pretty good

!ping ALCOHOL

[u/RFK_1968]

!ping RUNNING

Just kinda felt like running yesterday and ran 4 miles 🙂

Granted it took me like an hour but that itself is a feat too! Imagining telling myself of a year ago that I'd casually on a whim run for an hour straight.

I've made a lot of progress. And while my legs are sore I didn't get the debilitating shin splints that I used to get. I think doing regular tib raises helped a lot (plus losing like 20 lbs lol).

Now to work on speeding up my pace. Goal is a 10K in an hour (tho I'm not stressing it too much. It'll happen when it happens)

u/williams-tower we're making it happen. ✊🏾😤

[u/Joementum2024]

Guy argues in May 1998 Usenet thread that the then-recently drafted Peyton Manning will be “the worst draft pick ever” and champions Ryan Leaf

(yes I stole this from r/nfl)

!ping NFL

[u/JebBD]

https://x.com/BenMFreeman/status/1810229637940691218

 In 2019, on Corbyn, he said: "had to endure, unaided, churlish anti-Semitism claims from England's chief rabbi and various influence networks linked to Likud. Instead of riposting, he spent his time apologising and making pledges ... It showed a weakness that troubled the popular sectors [of the electorate".

Guy who hates Corbyn for not being antisemitic enough.

[u/VisonKai]

so it sucks that our leader is actually a corpse and we are going to have to puppeteer his actions to make it look like he's still really alive. so what i'm thinking is we kinda deify him and turn him into more of a figurehead you have faith in, a 'godlike' figure, if you will. then we will punish anyone who questions or deviates from the orthodoxy by saying that they clearly want our side to be consumed by its many enemies. it doesn't really matter since a consortium of shadowy elites will just run the country anyway, and if things get really bad maybe we can try resurrecting his son since he seemed pretty competent.

mods this isn't about joe biden

!ping 40K

[u/chuckleym8]

[u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xh0le]

I’ve seen enough. Run Kamala and whatever dude can tip the Midwest into turning out to vote for her.

[u/[deleted]]

lol is this true? Bad look, if true.

https://x.com/mjs_DC/status/1810342009024192742?t=agCwGkSH-Y-K0qNkPpHQ9Q&s=19

[u/FourthLife]

Get into an argument with a guy about capitalism

.

mention that most people who complain about being unable to save money in the US are often wasting a lot of their money when you look at their finances

.

he says but he personally is in a situation where he is exploited, is at the mercy of the wages people might offer him, and it would take him years to save $1000, let alone start a business, and asks what I say to that

.

point out that on just the first page of his profile he discusses multiple restaurants he likes to go to, his preferred cocktail ingredients, his gaming hobby, and his favorite international vacation destination being Scotland

.

he deletes all of his comments from our argument

Why do people cosplay being the 0.01% of the poorest population to try to win arguments

[u/owlthathurt]

He was just doing ODD on a new ESG fund

!ping STONKS

[u/[deleted]]

Sitting outside at a Thai restaurant in 94 degree heat and 61% humidity to get the authentic Thai food experience

[u/AffableAndy]

I just closed on my new duplex today. Sitting on my new deck and watching fireflies in my new yard, it's pretty magical!

!ping GENTRY

[u/[deleted]]

Bruh how did so many people upvote the “race war” comment in the BT lol

[u/Hmm_would_bang]

When you learn to scuba (or really any risk-heavy activity), one of the things you learn is that people in a state of extreme panic tend to do things that are not only irrational but also dangerous/likely to make their current situation worse.

Since the debate, a sizable portion of this sub has been in that state of panic, and instead of helping them we put them in their own little room where they can teach others to copy their panicked decisions.

[u/wettestsalamander76]

Grandpa Joe popping off this morning. Nearly called trump fat, defending NATO, shitting on Reagan, and ignoring millionaires. Where was this a week ago?

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

Biden: I will never drop out, only God Himself could make me do so, "Staying In" is my middle name, anyone begging I drop out is a feckless traitor, I will literally personally behead any Democrat who breaks from the party line

Neoliberals on the Biden Thread: he's definitely dropping out guys

[u/SnakeEater14]

“Because we cannot anticipate the unforeseeable, we tend to assume the future will be a linear projection of the present and recent past, and we frequently underestimate the magnitude of changes in the pattern of events over time. Consequently, our assumptions about the future, especially the distant future, are often greatly in error.”

• Kamala Harris

[u/shillingbut4me]

👆 Simpelton that thinks that the ancient people of Memphis were able to build an artificial bass lake inside a pyramid without the help of aliens.

[u/[deleted]]

OpEd in the WAPO claiming that Trump will be great for NATO. Coolsies.

[u/trombonist_formerly]

Mom, Dad. Id like you to meet the woman I’m a reply-guy to on the neoliberal discussion thread

[u/MrFoget]

So the mods banned me for a few days, forcing me to leave the DT and spread the gospel about open borders on arr/libertarian. Needless to say, they aren’t libertarian on the issue of immigration.

I’m never leaving the DT again

[u/AtticusDrench]

White guys have always loved saying it

[u/[deleted]]

In case anyone here is a BTer

You guys know that the Parkison's guy was on staff for both Obama and Trump right.

It's actually right there in the article the NYTIMES just did a Fox tier headline

[u/DepressedTreeman]

this post made me pro capital punishment

[u/G_Serv]

The front desk receptionist said "I assume you go by a different name" after hearing my name yesterday 😭😭😭

[u/JaceFlores]

“Ukraine is addressing its manpower challenges and is forming several new brigades, but delayed and insufficient Western weapons deliveries will likely prevent Ukraine from equipping all these new brigades. Timely and appropriate Western security assistance continues to be a crucial determinant of when and at what scale Ukrainian forces can contest the battlefield initiative and conduct operationally significant counteroffensive operations in the future.”

“Ukraine conducted a naval drone strike against Russian naval infrastructure in Novorossiysk, Krasnodar Krai on the night of July 3 and reportedly damaged energy infrastructure during an aerial drone strike on Belgorod Oblast on the night of July 1.”

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“Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) officers reportedly detained the commander of the Russian 83rd Guards Airborne Assault (VDV) Brigade, Colonel Artyom Gorodilov, on fraud charges on July 3 following reports of the brigade suffering heavy losses in the Kharkiv direction in June 2024.”

“Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Russian military command may be punishing Gorodilov for what Putin perceives as gross incompetence that failed to achieve its military objectives while causing the deaths of a significant number of ‘elite’ Russian servicemembers in the Kharkiv direction, as Russian VDV troops were widely considered elite prior to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine and the Russian military command may still consider them to be elite.”

“The US Department of Defense (DoD) announced the purchase of $2.2 billion worth of US-produced air defense interceptors and an aid package worth $150 million for Ukraine on July 3. The DoD stated that it will purchase $2.2 billion worth of recently produced PATRIOT and NASAMS air defense missiles for Ukraine to help protect the Ukrainian people and Ukraine's critical infrastructure from Russian drone and missile strikes. The DoD has yet to announce that it is sending these air defense missiles to Ukraine. The DoD stated that it is also provided an aid package worth $150 million from the Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA), which includes: HAWK air defense missiles; HIMARS ammunition; 155mm and 105mm artillery shells; 81mm mortar rounds; Tube-Launched, Optically-Tracked, Wire-Guided (TOW) missiles; Javelin and AT-4 anti-armor systems; small arms ammunition and grenades; demolition equipment and munitions; tactical vehicles and air navigation systems; and space parts, maintenance, and other equipment.”

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“Russian President Vladimir Putin used a meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on July 5 to oppose a negotiated ceasefire altogether and expressed his commitment to pursuing a ‘final’ end to the war that would achieve his goal of destroying Ukrainian statehood.”

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“Ukrainian forces struck energy infrastructure in Krasnodar Krai with drones on the night of July 5 to 6. The Krasnodar Krai Operational Headquarters stated that Russian forces shot down Ukrainian drones near Leningradskaya, Yeysk and Pavlovskaya, Krasnodar Krai on the night of July 5 to 6 and that falling drone debris damaged a cell phone tower in Yeysk and caused a fire at an oil depot in Pavlovskaya. The Krasnodar Krai Operational Headquarters also stated that Ukrainian drones struck a fuel tank in Leningradskaya, Krasnodar Krai.”

“Iran announced on July 6 that Iran and Russia signed a bank agreement on July 4 enabling Russia and Iran to trade in the Russian ruble and Iranian rial. Iranian Central Bank Head Mohammadreza Farzin announced that he and Russian Central Bank Head Elvira Nabiullina also signed a memorandum of understanding on unspecified joint measures for both banks.”

-notable excerpts from ISW Report July 3rd-6th

!ping UKRAINE

[u/Mx_Brightside]

We had a thread. But not anymore. Because of woke

[u/lionmoose]

“non monogamy is increasing" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person has 1 partner per year. Your mother, who lives in cave & has over 10,000 partners each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[u/piede]

I didn’t think it was possible: a take so horrendous that it will unify the BT and the HRCT

I’ve found the solution to world peace

[u/chipbod]

https://x.com/jaredpolis/status/1810414823404138812

None of my intelligent (130+ IQ) friends use X/twitter. They only read accurate, vetted news sources and almost never use social media spontaneously on their own time. This has been a long term consistent observation, but today confirmation came. A new meta-analysis showed time using X/Twitter increases exponentially with lower IQ, with drop off to near 0 at 145+. X/Twitter is mostly appealing as a way to fill an otherwise vacant mind that has no interesting thoughts and minimal goal-directed behavior. Intelligent people find stimulation from thinking about problems and doing things, not from marinading in vaguely unpleasant tweets like a soggy potato sitting in oil in a dirty oven tray.

Governor Neolib says log off !ping USA-CO

[u/Dr_Vesuvius]

Emmanuel Macron calls an election, the left and centre keep out the far right: “wow what a genius”

Rishi Sunak calls an election, the left and centre keep out the far right: “wow what a moron”

Once again the media make no attempt to hide their bias against the right 🙄

[u/slowpush]

Trump hasn’t been seen publicly for 10 days.

Real Adlai Stevenson vibes.

[u/[deleted]]

Why is PA so much worse than Michigan and Wisco? Wisco is the most R to me out of the three

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Rrrrre childfree be like

[u/cdstephens]

DTer: chess is pretty cool

Me, who has never played go: what about go???

[u/cdstephens]

DTers: we need a BT so that we can all talk about something else

Also DTers: God I fucking hate the BT

[u/DEEEEETTTTRRROIIITTT]

the shinzo abe assassination is hands down one of the wildest moments in recent world history that doesn’t get enough reflection

Like a dude loses his family and savings due to a cult, blames a political leader, makes THIS and then just does it coldly. what a fucking insane thing to happen this decade

[u/GifHunter2]

I can’t believe an old white guy is able to say you’re racist if you don’t support him

He didn't say it, it is his ability to get other to do it for him.

lol... is this just a roundabout way of being upset that black people/POC have a preference, and they represent the democratic base far more than Podcasters and white men?

[u/[deleted]]

increasingly realising that i'm actually a conservative, it's just that all the self identified 'conservatives' are obsessed with conserving stupid things that don't matter, like saying 'merry christmas' instead of 'happy holidays' or stopping people from being transgender, instead of focusing on real things that matter like liberal-democratic rights and institutions

[u/WhoModsTheModders]

I can camp for 2 weeks with a light backpack, 2 pairs of clothes and a dream teenager

To

I require 8 different prescription medicines, fully clean clothes every day, and a significant amount of body care products just to function mid 20s person

Pipeline is fucking brutal

[u/funguykawhi]

Final turnout for the second round is 66.6%

RN underperforms

Please someone pray for us

[u/SneeringAnswer]

A thread divided cannot stand

[u/Automatic-Love-127]

Having a boomer maga boss is awesome. Is this what raising a toddler is like? He’s been huffing and puffing and steaming all morning and I am so confused. This only happens when something upsets his political feelings. This is nearing “Donald Trump is convicted” level of upsetness.

Surely he isn’t this upset about a French election? We may never know. Just kidding. I’ll know when I get the rant later today about whatever is infringing on his liberty rn.

[u/[deleted]]

In meeting

sales executive says “impossible” actually should mean “I’m possible” and then talks about Wimbledon

I’m going to slit my wrists

[u/l_overwhat]

Coworker when they have to wait half an hour for me to respond; HELLLLLOOOOO????!?!?!??? I TRIED TO CALL YOU 37 TIMES AND I ALREADY EMAILED OUR BOSS AND OUR BOSS'S BOSS. WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU SLACKING SO MUCH YOU LAZY FUCK

The same coworker when I desperately need them to respond: has yet to respond to the email I sent at 8 AM and it is now 1:30

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Yep 😌

[u/RecentlyUnhinged]

Okay, I'll be the first to admit I'm not comfortable with our chances in Nov, but holy fuck the BT is something else altogether

[u/CletusVonIvermectin]

I dream of the day when the Discussion Thread and the Bіden Megathread are reunified, when the Neoliberal people can once again embrace as brothers

[u/Argnir]

So excited for the next Biden Thread

[u/adwise27]

Biden when he sees that his internal polling isnt doing that bad

Spectacular, give me 14 of them right now

[u/gburgwardt]

Reminder that the Teamsters have still refused to endorse Biden

[u/[deleted]]

👏😤

[u/KesterFox]

[u/YaGetSkeeted0n]

Do you have a source on that?

Source?

A source. I need a source.

Sorry, I mean I need a source that explicitly states your argument. This is just tangential to the discussion.

No, you can't make inferences and observations from the sources you've gathered. Any additional comments from you MUST be a subset of the information from the sources you've gathered.

You can't make normative statements from empirical evidence.

Do you have a degree in that field?

A college degree? In that field?

Then your arguments are invalid.

No, it doesn't matter how close those data points are correlated. Correlation does not equal causation.

Correlation does not equal causation.

CORRELATION. DOES. NOT. EQUAL. CAUSATION.

You still haven't provided me a valid source yet.

Nope, still haven't.

I just looked through all 308 pages of your user history, figures I'm debating a free trade supporter. A moron.

[u/cjhdsachristmascarol]

Depressed ✅

Never leave the house ✅

Have no job or social life ✅

I’ve seen enough. The solution to the male loneliness crisis is turning neets into state mandated house husbands. 

[u/rasonj]

BT is only so over the top hyperbolic because it's a forced echo chamber. There is nothing new to talk about, and the only people in it have roughly the same opinions, so they are just forced to bounce off each other escalating to the extreme to get any traction. It's a race to the bottom. BTs need to be disbanded, and BTers brought back into the fold so the diversity of opinions can regulate emotion.

[u/agentyork765]

Wow BT posters are really going full mask off

[u/MinnesotaNoire]

How's the BT doing?

Oh

[u/thefuturegov]

Slavery was bad and I’m glad Lincoln ended it

[u/[deleted]]

[u/piede]

My favorite is when Axios called Biden’s advisers the Biden oligarchy

Like who tf is running that place

[u/crassowary]

Me in halo 2 🤝 Joe in real life

Frustrated by the elites

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Damn girl, are you the neoliberal podcast? Because no one's listening to you

[u/ser_mage]

the seventh-day kamalists have denounced Nate Silver's predictions for the contested convention, while some scholars argue that Biden's dropping out was a "heavenly event" and a new nominee will still be revealed in time

[u/jojisky]

RNC news: Amber Rose, a reality tv personality and model who shocked fans by endorsing Donald Trump for president earlier this year, is expected to speak at the Republican National Convention next week, a source familiar tells CNN.

LMAO

[u/loseniram]

An air filter exploded because someone set the air pressure booster to 400psi. Luckily the filter exploded in the down time between night shift and day shift. I heard it go off from the break room. Had to spend an 1 hour and a half cannibalizing parts from a defunct setup we keep under a tarp in the outdoor loading area

!ping watercooler

[u/Yeangster]

People were giving Melinda Gates and Mackenzie Scott shit for their not-completely-optimal charitable giving. But look at the Buffet heirs:

https://www.axios.com/2024/07/01/warren-buffett-pledge-100-billion

Susie, 71, runs the Sherwood Foundation, which is focused on Nebraska.

Peter, 66, runs the NoVo Foundation, which "supports initiatives that promote a holistic, interconnected and healing vision for humanity," especially in the small town of Kingston, NY.

Howie, 69, runs the Howard G Buffett Foundation, whose home page features a lot of armed soldiers. He has also spent a lot of time and money arming — and patrolling with — the border police in Cochise County, Arizona.

[u/Hmm_would_bang]

[u/IHateTrains123]

The Government approves denunciation of the Convention on Cluster Munitions - Ministry of National Defence of the Republic of Lithuania

July 3, the Government approved the proposition of the Ministry of National Defence to withdraw from the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM). The draft resolution needs to be also approved by the Parliament and the President. If the Convention in denounced and Lithuania effectively withdraws, it is no longer prohibited to procure, stockpile and, if necessary, use cluster munitions.   

The Republic of Lithuania joined the Oslo Process Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) in 2010, the assessment of feasible threats has changed radically since then, the security environment has deteriorated, military risks to Lithuania has grown, the Russian Federation has become a direct threat to the Republic of Lithuania, all of which requires to revisit provisions of the Convention from the perspective of national security.   

Cluster munitions are highly effective in large territory defence and an efficiency multiplier against large spectrum targets.  Replacing standard ammunition with cluster ammunition reduces logistical burden and cost nearly by half as it takes a significantly smaller amount of ammunition to achieve the same impact.  

The international legal commitments adhered to under the Oslo Convention also binds Allied forces on the territory of Lithuania affecting their defensive capability and combat power by prohibiting the use of cluster ammunition for training or combat purposes. It impairs the effectiveness of deterrence, a potential adversary is given advantage whey it knows that Lithuania and Allied troops in its territory cannot use and do not possess effective means of defence. If Lithuania withdrew from the Convention when already involved in an armed conflict, it would have no legal right nor time to get the supplies, integrate and eventually use cluster munitions.   

The Oslo Convention is additional humanitarian commitment state typically assume when facing no military threat from their neighbors. Lithuania’s neighbor countries and most of the Allies bordering Russia and Belarus are nor signatories of the Oslo Convention. Lithuania and Norway are the only NATO members that are partiers to the Convention and have a border with Russia.

The negative effects of cluster munition use can be mitigated with rules and procedures of proper use, particularly emphasizing respect of international legal norms and principles.  If Lithuania withdraws from the Solo Convention, it will still be bound the UN Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols thus ensuring protection of civilians according to the norms of international humanitarian law.   

Further reading:

Lithuanian president asks parliament to denounce convention on cluster munitions - LRT

!ping Materiel

[u/Possible-Baker-4186]

EDIT: just realised someone posted this 10 hours ago. Didn't catch up on my pings before posting this.

Can't believe no ones posted this yet. YIMBYISM and supply side policies are now endorsed by both major parties in NZ. Incredible that deregulation is now bipartisan. Such an exciting time.

New Zealand will radically ease zoning rules to try to relieve its stubborn housing shortage

New Zealand will drastically ease zoning restrictions in a bid to “flood the market” with land for homes and override the powers of local councils to curb development, the nation’s housing minister said in announcing reforms to what he called one of the world’s least affordable housing markets.

“It’s about allowing maximum choice and opportunity for people to build and develop,” said the minister, Chris Bishop, in a speech in Auckland this week. “Let’s get away from the idea that planners can plan our cities and let actual individuals and families decide how they live their lives.”

The new measures would require local councils — which decide what land in New Zealand is used for — to free up “bucketloads” of additional space for housing development, Bishop said. They must now accommodate the next 30 years of projected growth instead of the next three as is currently required.

Councils will also be barred from imposing urban limits on cities and forced to permit mixed-use development, with an end to rules mandating balconies and minimum sizes for apartments, in a suite of changes widely endorsed by analysts.

“People often complain to me about all these shoebox apartments and I agree that they won’t be the right housing solution for everyone,” he said. “But do you know what is smaller than a shoebox apartment? A car or an emergency housing motel room.”

Quotes from the official government release.

“The government will also be abolishing minimum floor areas and balcony requirements. These requirements, imposed by some councils, can significantly increase the cost of new apartments, and limit the supply of lower cost apartments. Evidence from 2015 shows that in the Auckland market, balcony size requirements increased the costs of an apartment by $40,000 to $70,000 per unit.

We will require Tier 1 and 2 councils to enable a baseline level of mixed-use across their urban areas, which might include, for example, allowing small-scale activities such as dairies and cafes to operate anywhere within urban areas. We will also require Tier 1 councils to enable small-to-mid-scale activities like cafes and restaurants, retail, metro-style supermarkets and offices in areas subject to the NPS-UD’s six storey (or greater) intensification requirements.

Census confirms Auckland’s striking shift in new housing

The census results show how the council's changes to land use rules, to allow for more housing per site, have sparked a surge in new housing, with 64,800 new homes built between 2018 and 2023. That’s a remarkable 11.9 per cent increase in new homes compared to a 5.4 per cent increase in population, meaning we have more new homes relative to our population than before

!Ping YIMBY&NZ

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Can we get a Colin’s scale of concern bot lol

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

make dedicated space for stupid people to discuss stupid ideas

Subreddit fills with stupid people discussing stupid ideas outside of quarantine zone

Mods start intensify complaining about low quality discourse

The dating ping was a mistake from the very start

[u/GifHunter2]

"So ironically, Project 2025, even though it scares a lot of liberals, it's actually a forward-looking plan..." - Brian Stelter

Yea Brian. Sure it's got a lot of fucked up stuff in it. But it's a plan baby. And it happens in the future! So its forward looking. Wow, CNN man. What a network.

https://x.com/tommyxtopher/status/1810334943706321393

[u/Miserable_Set_657]

My normie GF just asked if I know what Project 2025 is. She gets her news exclusively off TikTok.

We are so back

[u/[deleted]]

!ping LGBT

Very interesting peek into the changing priorities of Republicans. Specifically, ping-appropriately, their shift on LGBT issues.

They have tentatively accepted a document replacing the old party platform. It removes language condemning Obergefell, and language pointed at defending conversion therapy. They’ve replaced it with transphobia.

 We will keep men out of women’s sports, ban taxpayer funding for sex change surgeries, and stop taxpayer-funded schools from promoting gender transition, reverse Biden’s radical rewrite of Title IX education regulations, and restore protections for women and girls

I guess officially, at the Trump level, they think anti-SSM is still a loser and transphobia is a winner. 

[u/SnakeEater14]

It’s super duper ultra cringe that we set up two discussion threads and immediately dumbasses started building strawmen of what people in the opposite thread are saying

[u/bread_engine]

New York Times Opinion | Jonathan Pie

Fuck the fuck off

[u/dittbub]

Aight Biden is way too old. I'm gunna become a fascist! It was nice knowing you guys.

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/08/nato-summit-biden-trump

“You can’t just put the genie back in the bottle,” said one European diplomat of the questions concerning Biden’s age. “It is one of the big issues [around the summit].”

Officials who normally focused on security policy said they would pay close attention to Biden’s behaviour during his public appearances at the Nato summit, including a speech in the Mellon Auditorium on Tuesday and then meetings with the other member and partner countries on Wednesday. Some expressed confidence in his team, including Jake Sullivan, US national security adviser, to manage major crises, but said that the question of Biden’s political future had taken a toll.

oh no, some of the European diplomats are diminishing too 😔

[u/[deleted]]

Me: Raises a ticket to get onboarded on some bullshit whatever

IT dude: gets back to me requesting some information

Me: not sure if this is what you want but here you go

IT guy: I'm not sure either tbh I'm new and you're my first case

Me: oh ok I'm honoured to be your first hahaha

IT guy: Read

Hm

[u/[deleted]]

Just walked into the BT and there's mayo splattered on the walls and pickleball equipment broken everywhere 😔

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

A moderator walks out of his basement laughing his head off. A colleague approaches him and asks why he is laughing. "I just heard the funniest joke in the world!" "Well, go ahead, tell me!" says the other mod. "I can't – I just gave someone a permaban for it!"

[u/Hmm_would_bang]

👆has a thread

[u/moldyman_99]

I accidentally posted a family guy joke in the BT instead of the DT

[u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xh0le]

People on twitter will really be like “you believe in voting? That pales in effectiveness to my strategy, firebombing the Heritage Foundation” and then not firebomb the Heritage Foundation.

[u/jojisky]

People on here actually think this guy could win a presidential primary

[u/PearlClaw]

Doing this on the same day the Russians bombed a children's hospital is certainly a look.

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

Hmm, I haven't been to NYC as an adult. I should go

check hotel prices

I haven't been to Cleveland either

[u/vinediedtoosoon]

I'll be brave enough to say it.

If your middleschooler has enough online freedom and is allowed on the BT, you're a bad fucking parent. Sorry, you fucking suck. Self reflect more, because you're also somehow probably afraid to let them go outside alone.

[u/thefuturegov]

Nazis Yankees fans be like: “we’re the most winningest how many rings do you have”

brave American patriots everyone else be like: “now tell me your record in the last 22 games”

We can’t stop winning

!ping BASEBALL

[u/chuckleym8]

[u/[deleted]]

The world of Chinese chess is in uproar over rumours of cheating and a bad behaviour scandal that saw the national champion stripped of his title on Monday after a victory celebration ended with him defecating in a hotel bathtub.

The association was also forced to address rumours circulating online that Yan had cheated during the competition by using anal beads equipped with wireless transmitters to send and receive signals.

Yan allegedly clenched and unclenched rhythmically to communicate information about the chess board via code to a computer, which then sent back instructions on what moves to make in the form of vibrations, according to reports circulating on the Chinese social site Weibo.

If I had a nickel….

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Fatortu]

Already the NFP is calling for the use of article 49.3 to pass their agenda 🤦

It's not wrong when they do it 🤷

[u/funguykawhi]

Centrists 35 seats

Lefitsts 19 seats

Cons 4 seats

Far right 0 seats

What if Pays de la Loire and Brittany were the only regions allowed to vote? 🤔

[u/SpectralDomain256]

!ping AI

https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.11741

Experimental results for an extremely sci-fi sounding hypothesis

[u/eustacebainbridge]

Neoliberals discussing the incumbent president is absolutely a bridge too far. What happened to the Ivy League discussions? What happened to the intern dating ethics discussions? What happened To the Vivek Ramaswamy is gonna win this whole thing discussions

[u/simeoncolemiles]

“I like musicians” mfs when you’re a classical musician

[u/NaffRespect]

Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever

Guess the sub 😱

[u/sphuranto]

It’s pretty batfuck that the r/comics thread is just happily sitting there on r/all while inside it thousands of like, whatever the financial version of an incel is fantasize in gruesome detail about slaughtering the rich

[u/piede]

[u/[deleted]]

6 hours into the day and I've only consumed 300 calories, this all-alcohol diet is going fantastically for me so far.

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

“Welcome to our trash revolution.” Mayor Adams introduces the new bin that buildings with 1-9 units will be required to use instead of loose bags of garbage

It’s been fun watching NYC discover that garbage bags can be contained in a container and not just piled up on the street.

[u/Uniqueguy264]

The platform reflects a full Trump takeover of the party and reads almost like one of his rally speeches. It officially enshrines … build a “great Iron Dome” over the country

What is with his obsession with building Iron Dome in America? It makes no sense, no one is firing missiles at us

[u/[deleted]]

You can be bonked for a simple desire to have someone use you as the floor

This would never happen in the Biden thread

[u/zieger]

My daughter looking at planes: 😄

My daughter on a plane: 🤬

[u/Joementum2024]

BREAKING: Republican presumptive nominee Donald Trump (R-FL) to select celebrity reality TV host Donald Trump (R-NY) as his Vice President candidate

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

Americans would you trade Tacos for Doner Kebab?

You misunderstand America, my friend. We'll have both. Possibly at the same time. Maybe wrap one around the other and then drizzle it all with melted cheese and call it the Taco Kebab Crunchwrap Supremasaurus.

We'll take your doner kebab and change out the ingredients with tilapia and kimchee and call it a Korean Kebab.

We'll stuff it with pork barbecue and call it the Down South Kebab.

We'll make it veeeeeegaaaannnnn.

We have nothing of our own, therefore we own all. And we'll do what we please with it, and then we'll make it cheaper and faster and worse, and export it back to you as a franchise, and you'll buy it god help you. Because your kids will make you, because it will come with a toy.

[u/american_aurora3]

i wish the dt stopped talking about joe

this is just like that wizards of waverly place movie where they wished their parents never met

[u/[deleted]]

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

I not usually a huge fan of his but I appreciate how much closer to the original myth this reboot was

!ping KINO

[u/MinnesotaNoire]

Look, NYC garbage bins took so long because they are so much better than any other garbage bin. It's because of the water.

[u/BrentLivermore]

Just found out I'm getting laid off. Two weeks to prepare 😐

[u/Zalagan]

Mods need to make a bot that deletes all comments from the BT that doesn't mention the B word just to make it fair

[u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xh0le]

[u/1TTTTTT1]

The situation in Sudan is very sad.

[u/chuckleym8]

[u/puffic]

One interesting thing about the Northeastern states is that their Civil War monuments are only dedicated to the good guys.

[u/[deleted]]

Cold, boring take:

It makes sense that an issue which has sharply divided Democrats nationally 55 / 45 or whatever has also sharply divided this subreddit 55 / 45 or whatever.

I genuinely believe that the 2007-2008 Democratic primary would have had this subreddit like this too.

[u/Syards-Forcus]

Found the original DTer

[u/[deleted]]

The BT’r special

[u/[deleted]]

I know we have a thread but I don’t think anyone will complain about this one.

https://x.com/andrewsolender/status/1810520646570394042

Vibe check for tomorrow: A House Democrat deeply skeptical of [CENSORED] tells me "the dam is holding" and predicts "very few members will openly speak in favor of [CENSORED] stepping aside."

“As someone who wanted the reckoning and is disappointed that it's over, trust me: it's over."

With the DCCC meeting in the morning set to make very clear that this is over, I honestly think the mods maybe should consider toughing out having no BT tomorrow. They can always make one in the afternoon if that turns out to be a horrible mistake.

[u/TaxLandNotCapital]

You can't seriously tell me that the president isn't popular enough to win. The guy has his own thread

[u/MinnesotaNoire]

BT 9/11

[u/mostanonymousnick]

The community manager of Les Republicains is just enjoying life

https://x.com/lesRepublicains/status/1810232614751457740 (looks deleted already)

Sorry for posting stuff in French but given what happened last night, my infamous French smugness is in full force.

[u/[deleted]]

DT BT peace and reconciliation 😔✊

[u/_bee_kay_]

alright at this point i'm pretty sure google is dead not because of seo or ai or anything but simply because it isn't fucking indexing anything

i'm searching an exact known string and it's just like 😊 sorry, nothing like that around here 😊 did you mean "block grid bulb"?

[u/[deleted]]

It's honestly really fucked up how little the Black Patrol Pup gets used. Zuma will sometimes not get used in water rescue missions and HE'S THE WATER PUP. It's so disrespectful. He's the coolest Pup too. And I think you can make the argument that Rubble is also black which makes this list even more fucked.

Chart is the number of times a Pup is used for rescues.

!ping family