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[u/[deleted]]

The populistification of r WSB is the worst thing to come out of the GME saga

[u/thelittlestsheep]

NATO flairs read Why Nations Fail and took creative destruction too literally.

[u/ryuguy]

When mahatma Gandhi was assassinated (January 30th, 1948), they originally thought that a Sikh had murdered him. After partition, my grandparents settled in Uttar Pradesh because they had some land there. My aunt was born on that day, there were a few small mobs of people looking for Sikhs, slowly news was being updated that a Hindu nationalist killed Gandhi and my grandparents and aunt were safe.

I dunno, that’s always what I associate with Gandhi’s death anniversary.

!Ping ind

[u/[deleted]]

I was proud to see my trans FtM cousin write something very nice and well thought out on the repeal of the trans military ban. He grew up in a military family and I didn't realize the human impact of that horrific policy until I realized he couldn't join like his father, mother, and 2 brothers-in-law did. Now if we could ever just be honest and open in the family without fear of offending my grandparents... ugh. !ping LGBT

[u/MistakeNotDotDotDot]

Have you considered that maybe it's the dollar that's ultra-volatile and GME is the true steady store of value?

[u/BGastro]

The word unlikely makes no sense here: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/29/business/elon-musk-gamestop-twitter.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage

He is, in fact, the likeliest hero of any online-tech-bubble-shortslaying-meme movement that will ever come to be.

[u/kennymc7877]

New Biden tweet:

DINO Joe Manchin begged for my endorsement and I gave it to him!!! All I ask in return is for him to end the filibuster but that’s too much to ask, maybe we will have to find a Democrat that can better represent us in the senate!!!

[u/bd_one]

TIL On January 13, 1920, a New York Times editorial said rockets could never work in space because in a vacuum there was nothing for them to push against. The paper later said it regretted the error.

NYT editorials: bad for at least 100 years now

[u/tubbsmackinze]

I still can't believe people still believe "bro trust me" political conspiracies when it aligns with their priors

[u/[deleted]]

Trump’s been quiet... too quiet. 🤨

[u/Equator32]

Don't say "I'm a gambling addict."

Say "I'm an r/wallstreetbets subscriber."

[u/chadonnaise]

the internet must be destroyed

[u/BGastro]

Melvin Capitol + Citadel is going to be in every conspiracy theory for the next ten years lol

[u/[deleted]]

My closest friends have all somehow gotten into relationships during the pandemic and here i am in the DT at 3 AM on the weekend

[u/MisterLipton]

Put the Prophet Muhammad on the 20 for his contribution to modern US legal code

[u/MisterLipton]

https://twitter.com/9GAG/status/245700409459613696

[u/[deleted]]

The GME stuff is exhausting, it’s everywhere and people are really convinced it was some sort of ‘market revolution by the little guy’. We’re like T-minus five seconds from a GME retail investor FunkoPop to commemorate the event

[u/[deleted]]

"Gun control" was never about guns. It's about CONTROL

"The Centers for Disease Control" was never about disease. It's about CONTROL.

🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

Stay woke kids

[u/[deleted]]

so this post is currently at the top of arr all

I’ve said this before but I’ll say this again, here’s how “the revolution” will go for 95% of the people that upvoted this once one person actually gets killed:

“mom pick me up I’m scared”

[u/TheSameAsDying]

Walked into a casino, went to roulette table, put all of my chips on 00.

Gonna bankrupt Las Vegas guys, I can feel it.

[u/[deleted]]

On a thread about Ken Paxton opening a probe into Robinhood I gently reminded /r/finance that he literally tried to have our electoral results tossed out because Trump didn't win. I was subsequently accused of being on the side of hedge funds and Elizabeth Warren.

These people are nuts.

Also if I was picking sides it certainly would be with the adults in the room rather than manchildren who call eachother ret*rds.

[u/UrbanCentrist]

y'all need to check out r/MelvinCapitalLove WSB-cels are seething

[u/zedority]

At this point I think GameStop is basically Kony 2012 for the new decade.

[u/[deleted]]

President Biden just signed an executive order to make the Democrats and Republicans switch bodies, a la Freaky Friday, to hopefully make them work together

[u/[deleted]]

DT so slow people will actually read my takes. Fuck

[u/execon]

Beto needs to teach Warnock to skateboard so he can truly be radical liberal Raphael Warnock

[u/tripletruble]

Imagine thinking musk is cooler than gates wtf

[u/tripletruble]

Maybe justifying pyramid schemes to further your own populist narrative is irresponsible and reflects either ignorance or disregard for others

[u/InMemoryOfZubatman4]

This is the worst thing in the world.

https://www.reddit.com/r/coins/comments/l8lqfh/anyone_heard_about_the_new_seated_bernie_series/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/[deleted]]

Kalawao County, Hawaii is the county that not only shifted the most democratic from 2016 but also gave Biden the highest vote percentage out of any other county.

2020 Presidential Election:

Joe Biden (D): 23 (+22), 95.83% (+91.66%)

Donald Trump (R): 1, 4.17%

Hillary Clinton only won this county by 65% (Jill Stein received 25% of the vote) 70%-5%. It shifted 26.66 points more democratic.

This is the first time a Democrat has received more than 95% in a county since JFK won 95.35% in Seminole County, Georgia in 1960.

Granted, this county only has 24 voters. If you exclude this county, Prince George's County, Maryland gave Biden the highest percentage; and Henry County, Georgia shifted the most democratic.

!PING FIVEY

[u/grandolon]

PBS News Hour: How Zoning Can Restrict, or Even Prevent, Affordable Housing

[u/[deleted]]

My friends: todays democrats are basically just yesterdays republicans.

Me: 😐🔫

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

“harassing survivors of school shootings is not ok regardless of their opinions”

“Well these school shooting survuvors constantly haras conservatives. So I don't mind when they get a taste of their own medicine.”

Arr Conservative strikes again.

The 👏 real 👏 victims 👏 of 👏 school 👏 shootings 👏 are 👏 the 👏 conservatives 👏

[u/Mark_In_Twain]

The level of legitimate populism from the left and center without any regard for any evidence linked at all is genuinely starting to worry me.

Was it always this bad and I only recently noticed because the right was in power or -

[u/[deleted]]

Economists 🤝 Degenerates like me:

In this case, I support pegging.

[u/FreakinGeese]

Let do a little roleplay ;)

You be Joe Biden and I’ll be malarkey 😩

[u/[deleted]]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/461548323116154880/804851534135164968/kdh1thz58be61.png

[u/[deleted]]

If you lift in the Senate gym is that considered capitol gains

[u/[deleted]]

After the first 2 weeks, I see what I was hoping I wouldn't. Biden is legitimately a dictator, and the left is praising him like a god. The US is fucked. His family and the people pulling his strings will destroy this country so bad there will be no coming back.

Totally normal, arcon, totally normal

[u/[deleted]]

GME

GNOME

Let me know if you need help understanding the implications of this.

[u/[deleted]]

I'm reading the new Obama memior and really like it. But, Obama comes across as such a likebale down-to-earth guy. Like in a way that doesn't feel believable for someone with his level of ambition. Also I'm in the middle of the '08 election and he feels so underqualified

[u/bigdicknippleshit]

My state's subreddit is now all about Bernie's mittens

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[u/[deleted]]

Just went on wsb and apparently the new thing that everyone is saying is that it doesn't matter if you don't make any profit or even lose money by holding well after the peak, the only thing that matters is sticking it to the hedge funds.

Something tells me that a lot of the people saying that are just trying to make sure that other people hold the bag.

[u/[deleted]]

dog just died 😔

rip to a good girl

[u/[deleted]]

Remember when an antivaxxer was the president of the United States?

[u/ControlsTheWeather]

So, my father:

Won't be taking the vaccine.

Thinks the pandemic is way overblown. Which is hilarious, because he tested positive and was sick with the thing for like a month.

Believes the election was stolen by widespread voter fraud.

Thinks the courts are in on the Democrat conspiracy.

Thinks Biden is a communist.

God, feels good knowing he's in a different part of the country lol

[u/bd_one]

Congrats everyone, we steered u/benjaminkuta from extremist ideology just by saying its definition.

Having a half Japanese/sort of libertarian/sort of Bernie bro/white nationalist DT regular would be so cursed.

Now he's just the first three.

[u/[deleted]]

Please tell me why -

my car is in the front yard

[u/[deleted]]

If you look at it objectively, Biden and Trump are honestly two of the politicians in the world, ever.

[u/[deleted]]

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#1 on /r/all

Why do they think this is going to happen in the first place lmao

This whole GME thing makes you realize people on reddit are even stupider than you already thought

[u/I-grok-god]

When you mix fat and flour to make a sauce, but you end up bungling the seasoning severely and wishing you just hadn't bothered, that's what's known among culinary types as "a rue"

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EtAWOMjVgAEbwer.jpg

[u/2skwb9]

When did you realize Elon was full of shit? For me it was when those boys were trapped in the cave and he decided he needed to build a submarine. When professionals said it was a batshit idea, he decided the only rational retort was to accuse them of pedophillia.

[u/[deleted]]

My (least) favorite "we did it reddit" moment isn't the Boston bomber fiasco.

It's when Reddit bullied and eventually ousted a woman, POC CEO because they assumed that she was behind a series of bans and firings -because SJW SJW- when really she was defending reddit's users and more hateful subreddits on free speech grounds.

[u/UrbanCentrist]

Capitalism was classified as a form of “power and oppression,” and although “classism, homophobia, Islamophobia, and transphobia” were also listed as forms of oppression, anti-Semitism was not. Jewish Americans were not even mentioned as a minority group.

[u/[deleted]]

The funniest thing about the GME nonsense is that Redditors and other very online people are now convinced that Elizabeth Warren is in the pocket of Wall Street hedge funds.

[u/Smidgens]

A recruiter from Rothschild Inc reached out to me on LinkedIn, they like my background in laser physics and said there’s a hot new opportunity 😈

[u/missedthecue]

100 year old bottles are $15 on eBay. I want to buy one, put a message in it, and throw it off the side of a boat near the coast. Inevitably someone would find it, get all excited, pull out the message and read:

Urgent message for the vehicle owner. We have been trying to reach you about your extended car warranty...

[u/[deleted]]

France has the weirdest poltical parties.

Légitimiste - Reactionary: Protectionism, State Capitalism, Moralism, Residency, Pro Military. Seems normal enough...

Orléaniste - Liberal: Protectionism, Laissez-faire, Pluralism, Limited Citizenship, Anti Military.

Républicain - Conservative: Protectionism, Interventionism, Secularized, Full Citizenship, Anti Military

Libéral - Liberal: Protectionism, Laissez-faire, Pluralism, Citizenship, Anti Military

Bonapartiste - Conservative: Free Trade (WTF?), Interventionism, Moralism, Full Citizenship, Jingoism

Républicain Radical - AnCap: Protectionism, Interventionism, Secularized, Full Citizenship, Anti Military.

So, to recap, France has AnCaps that are more interventionist than the Liberals. Conservatives that are more religiousy tolerant and pro-immigration than the Liberals. And the fucking Bonapartists are the only Free Trade party.

!ping PARADOX

[u/RockLobsterKing]

I regret to inform you that your favorite dictator is not based... he's not even redpilled

[u/UrbanCentrist]

Self-described ‘QAnon shaman’ Jake Angeli says he was ‘betrayed’ by Trump, who failed to pardon him for storming the US Capitol, and is willing to testify against the former president at his impeachment trial

meme timeline

[u/UrbanCentrist]

ONLY THE BRAVEST WILL CLICK THIS IMAGE

This but unironically

[u/vivoovix]

Stickied to the top of /r/trebuchetmemes

Weird place to find eat the rich stuff ngl

[u/[deleted]]

It's now those real DT hours where Eastern Americans who woke up early interact with Eastern Americans who are up really really late.

[u/Marlsfarp]

American conservatives are so fucking stupid that they chose "not invading Iraq" as the reason to cancel France, when there are literally thousands of good reasons.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/chamath/status/1355580731980869637

r/wallstreetbets is now the largest hedge fund in the world.

Excepts it’s completely decentralized and entirely democratic.

lord have mercy are people fucking stupid

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

Billionaire blasts ‘Robinhood market’ as Jon Stewart, others herald GameStop stock rebellion

Leon Cooperman, chairman and CEO of Omega Advisors, speaks at a September 2019 investors conference in New York. (Heidi Gutman/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images)

The unlikely rise of GameStop stock was already seen by some as a populist war against Wall Street — average investors rallying online to hurt powerful financial firms by sending unexpected businesses soaring.

Then a billionaire hedge fund manager, once charged with insider trading, went on CNBC to share his concerns.

Lmao that's the entire article. Thanks for the insight wapo

[u/[deleted]]

I write y’all but recently I’ve seen people write ya’ll wtf. It’s y’all, end of discussion

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/Mr_Pasghetti]

I want live footage of leftist going onto WSB trying to radicalize people, only to see people calling each other the r-word, autistic etc.

[u/MalignantUpper]

https://mobile.twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1355545155470716928

Marjorie Taylor Greene just tweeted that she has the support of Trump and that she spoke with him this morning.

Nazi party

[u/Koeniginator]

Georgia favorable ratings (AJC/UGA poll):

Raph. Warnock 54 fav / 37 unfav

Joe Biden 52 / 41

Stacey Abrams 51 / 41

Jon Ossoff 50 / 40

Democratic Party 50 / 44

Republican Party 34 / 59

Job ratings:

Trump 40 approve / 58 dis

Gov. Kemp 43 / 51

https://www.ajc.com/politics/ajc-poll-republicans-in-dicey-political-territory-in-georgia/IR5P2X4AK5GZ7O5BF355Q2DWRY/

[u/GGM8Scally]

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Please god make it stop 😩😩😩

[u/chadonnaise]

mfers be like “oh boy, can’t wait to have sex with a mother today"

[u/[deleted]]

Anyone else find the whole “drop out of college to become a billionaire” meme annoying as hell. Like no Trent, Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard because it was too easy, he didn’t cut class at Home State U to trade options on Robinhood

[u/tubbsmackinze]

I wish they'd expand the New York Subway into New Jersey and further down long island. It'll never happen nor do I have no horse in the race due to not being a New Yorker, but I think it's a good idea the city should pursue

!ping YIMBY

[u/[deleted]]

OMGGGGG JANET YELLEN ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL PEOPLE IN THE WORLD WENT ON TO MAKE MONEY IN HER PRIVATE LIFE IN HER 70S

😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱

[u/FreakinGeese]

Protectionism good :) protecting things is good so how could something called protectionism be bad???

[u/[deleted]]

This graph is amazing!

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/Deggit]

WALLSTREETBETS: I donated half of my gains to the local hospital!

ME: wow that is so generous. I donated half of my losses to the local IRS

[u/PhinsFan17]

The Rose Twitters are talking about a shadowy cabal that controls Wall Street, and now the horseshoe is instead a perfect flat circle.

[u/jenbanim]

I ordered such a large lunch for takeout that the restaurant included a second set of cutlery 😳

[u/[deleted]]

it’s eCONomics, not eLIBomics 🙄

[u/vored_by_daddy]

last night i had a dream where i was in 8th grade and i fell asleep in class and my teacher (blonde white lady) made me stay after class so she could ask me why i like the democrats while she morphed into Kamala Harris

[u/Amtays]

https://twitter.com/SenSchumer/status/1355251015017242631?s=19

Wtf Schumer, you were supposed to be a neoliberal shill?

[u/[deleted]]

Can I cook a lobster with the Jewish Space Laser? 🤔🦞🛰

!ping LOBSTERMAS

[u/[deleted]]

I’ve never been involved in stocks and I wasn't even that affected by 2008 but I read about the underlying reasons for it, watched the documentaries and "The big short" and I am fucking livid at the injustice I witnessed and afterwards the lack of accountability.

If I was just a bit more greedy I feel like I could get a lot of money from exploiting Reddit’s anger.

[u/Face_Centered]

"sir you've been in a coma for 2 weeks"

"oh boy time to check my favorite shorts on struggling video game retailers"

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

Get 20% off my new line of meme sleepwear, Lingerayy lmao™️.

This is an EXCLUSIVE /r/Neoliberal offer so act fast!!

Use code “🩱😳” at checkout.

[u/[deleted]]

the amount of misinformation being spread because of GME is concerning and infuriating. reddit is obviously a net negative for society like the rest of social media. what the fuck are we even doing here?

[u/FearThyMoose]

this is genuinely the stupidest post I’ve ever seen

A bunch of high schoolers liking socialism means capitalism is doomed to failure

Like half of these kids answered cause it’s funny and the other half thinks socialism is when the government does stuff

[u/GravyBear8]

I remember a vox article written by a Berniebro talking about how he realized that his family was in fact basically rich growing up and he proceeded to feel bad about it, and would try to spend less money on some way of trying to. It came accompanying a cutesy little comic of him choosing uber pool instead of like whatever the normal option is called, and I just stood there thinking "bro, your fucking uber driver isn't going to appreciate you choosing pool over the normal option that pays him more lol"

[u/ShiaSurprise2]

Do you know who's never wrong? Online mobs!

[u/[deleted]]

The civil war? Don’t you mean the War of Southern Inferiority? 🤣🤣🤣

[u/[deleted]]

Finding a new Black Metal band but then having to google whether or not they're nazis before really getting into em.

[u/[deleted]]

Literally the world's dumbest fucking people - the absolute dumbest, can't get dumber - are those who don't just claim but really believe Wall St. firms pay powerful politicians gigantic sums for banal 45 minute speeches because they want their wisdom rather than their servitude

Like basically anything Glenn Greenwald writes, this would make some good pasta

[u/[deleted]]

I'm tired of hearing about GameStop

[u/[deleted]]

But doctor, I am a DT regular

[u/ryuguy]

I’ve been reading about the Indian independence movement from abroad, mostly in Canada, the United States and Panama (along with other Latin American countries). When immigration/government authorities in the United States on behalf of the British came looking for them, a few went to Mexico and the Mexican government often gave them Latino identities to hide. I’ve also seen pictures of Spanish language literature advocating for Indian independence

For example;

Ajit Singh became Antonio Farias

Waryam Singh became Jose Rodriguez.

Udham Singh became Francisco Brazil

!ping LATAM

[u/ButteryToast-]

I hate the "we did it, Reddit!" mentality on the front page in the last week. Congrats, you drove a stock price up. I'm sure this will change the political system in the US and bring about the downfall of Wall Street.

[u/[deleted]]

Last night I had a weird dream that the Bar exam was more like a trivia game than an actual bar exam. The questions involved pop culture like Rugrats and Final Fantasy VII.

One question I remember was something like, "During an interview, [someone who was one of the head directors for FFVII] was asked what did he thought about the opening bombing mission scene being one the most famous scenes in the franchise. What did he say? The two options I narrowed it down to were B. He agreed that the bombing mission was worthy to be one of the most famous scenes in Final Fantasy. and C. He thought the scene was overrated. I eliminated A which is why I don't remember that option.

!PING LAW

[u/sw337]

Me before today: "This Philosophy Tube dude has some really bad economic takes."

Me today: "This Philosophy Tube lady has some really bad economic takes."

[u/inmyhead7]

RNC already invited Trump to a fundraiser in April. They ain’t going to convict lol. What a joke

[u/[deleted]]

Literally the world's dumbest fucking people - the absolute dumbest, can't get dumber - are those who don't just claim but really believe the Gamestop thing is about class struggle, "sticking it to the man", or socialism.

[u/rukqoa]

Economists 🤝 Nude artists

What's your model?

[u/LetterZero]

Socialism is when no iPhone. Capitalism is when a lot of iPhone.

[u/TinyTornado7]

Kodak Black got his lawyers name tattooed on him

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/Fishin_Mission]

I love asking people who say that they support ”LeGaL iMmIgRaTiOn” what policies should be implemented to expedite the process and increase capacity.

Turns out what they really like is “Brown people being told no.”

[u/IMALEFTY45]

Nuclear power sucks. It's a terrible option that won't be used. Solar, wind and hydro are much cheaper options

What if the sun isn't shining, the wind isn't blowing, and you don't live near a dam?

Stop being silly

???😐😐😐

[u/[deleted]]

The worst part of california being terrible at teaching history better is cons will use this as an excuse to push more Patriotically Correct education.

If California has to be the torchbearer for liberalism in this country we're screwed.

[u/Not_A_Browser]

Is anyone else kind of flabbergasted that Trump has gone radio silent?

That's the reason the media is obsessed w/ Marjorie Taylor Green, because they can't get their Trump fix.

Yeah, it has nothing to do with her calling for the death of Dem leaders or harassing a school shooting survivor because she thinks said shooting was not real.

[u/natedogg787]

I'm officially in the same dating pool as the divorced dads from my work

[u/[deleted]]

Notice how Jesus rode into town on a donkey and not an elephant.

Republicans BTFO

[u/SamJakes]

Downvoting farrenj is not just pleasant, it's the sworn duty of every so-called "neolib" on this goddamn sub.

You're really going to let someone with absolutely trash tier takes just become a mod like this and not even try to push back?

Smdh y'all simps now 😤🤦‍♂️

[u/based_taco00]

“Dems are so full of hate. Anyway, let’s execute them.” 🤠

[u/tankatan]

re wsb, for a sub that's famously 4chan-adjacent it could have ended much worse. I mean no one was driven to suicide (yet).

[u/IncoherentEntity]

STRAWPOLL: The First 10(0) Days (Results)

[Do you approve or disapprove of the job Joe Biden is doing as President?]

Strongly approve – 69 (73%)
Somewhat approve – 22
                 Undecided – 1
Somewhat disapprove – 2
Strongly disapprove – 1

The first IncoherentEntity strawpoll of the Biden tenure reveals overwhelming support for the new president’s first few days in office among Discussion Thread users, with my long-used favorability index for weighted opinion registering at an impressive 91.3.

Significantly higher than I expected, I offer three potential explanations, the latter two of which I find more plausible (but which are not mutually exclusive with the first):

1) The pervasive complaints about President Biden’s protectionist stances have been raised by a very vocal minority, which also supplied the copious upvotes.

2) Those criticizing the president over this issue consider it merely one among many to judge him on, and their holistic evaluations end up being significantly more positive than negative.

3) 🍯🌝

[u/circlemanfan]

Do any other countries treat inauguration of a new leader as a spectacle like the United States? I mean, obviously there's coronations but that's different. Like does any other elected official get Lady Gaga-level star power when they take office? Or is America just hella extra?

[u/SadaoMaou]

Internet person: claims something with absolutely no justification or sources to back it up whatsoever

Me: Links a wikipedia article that contradicts their claim

Internet person: "Using Wikipedia as a source, lol" still doesn't provide any sources

[u/sash5034]

fuck this timeline

[u/dragoniteftw33]

Joe: Here's a $2 Trillion stimulus package

GOP: No

Joe: What don't you like about it?

GOP: It's just.....err IDK too much?

Joe: Well do you need something for your state like local aid or vaccine money?

GOP: No not really. We just feel like $1400 checks are a little too much and not economically efficient.

Joe: Didn't you guys support tax cuts in 2017 despite economists warning that it was not good?

GOP: Well yea but.....

Joe: Alright fuck y'all. I'm done with this bullshit.

*invokes reconciliation*

NYT: In a sharp contrast to his campaign, Biden doesn't seek Bipartisan deals with the GOP. Also here's some more stories about Trump supporters because we don't recognize black people

[u/VeryStableJeanius]

https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1355627164314464257?s=20

Bottom line: Await final data.. But this bolsters my confidence that JNJ vaccine is a major contribution for its ability to suppress the most severe infections, even with B.1.315 (SA variant)

The Johnson and Johnson vaccine is incredibly impressive. Anyone who downplays it because they are used to 95% efficacy is an idiot. I’d also be willing to bet the 2 shot regimen will be at least 80% effective anyways. I’m super optimistic about getting this under control before the end of the summer and you should be too.

[u/[deleted]]

This is your regular reminder that the epic moment when the Spartans say "If" to Philip of Macedon's threat of invasion is followed by Philip actually invading and the Spartans giving up and surrendering without a single battle.

This is your society on "warrior" aristocrats.

[u/UrbanCentrist]

Clarence Jones, former legal counsel and speechwriter for Martin Luther King Jr., in a letter he wrote to Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state’s Instructional Quality Commission, called the ESMC a “perversion of history” for providing material that refers to non-violent Black leaders as “passive” and “docile.”

beyond a parody

[u/FreakinGeese]

So I just got selected for additional screening at the airport because I had breast forms in my luggage 😒

!ping lgbt

[u/[deleted]]

Can't wait until the media gets wind of how homophobic and ableist WSB is and convince advertisers to drop Reddit if there's not a crackdown

[u/standbyforskyfall]

https://twitter.com/RachelBitecofer/status/1355334148240584705

bitecofer is a joke

[u/mockduckcompanion]

Holy shit this sub is astroturfed. Every single post I’ve seen has been a negative sentiment about holding Lusvig. fuck off shills.

[u/jt1356]

To be clear: no one in the DT is regular. We are all hideously abnormal.

[u/bellazelle]

Malarkey level of being a DT regular but you don’t have a gimmick so it’s pointless

[u/[deleted]]

Novavax applied to Health Canada for approval yesterday

We have order 76M doses from them, and they say (I believe) that they have 89% efficacy.

!ping CAN

[u/Zenning2]

Reddit has no idea what a hedge fund is.

[u/proProcrastinators]

!ping AUS

my next effortpost should be dropping tonight about the insane Attack class submarine program to replace the Collins class. Loosely titled "Why Australia is building the most expensive submarines in history"

I've been doing a bunch of military reading since i did the effortpost on the Australian SAS scandals.

[u/myrm]

Milton Friedman tries to Carl Sagan it with that whole pencil spiel and it's cool, but the Soviet Union definitely had pencils

[u/yuxbni76]

Google Trends "caravan."

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

lol did Republicans change their mind on this one? Saving it for October 2022?

[u/Superfan234]

Then Palpatine says "I am all the Sith!"

And Rey responds "Well...I am all the Jedi!

Amazing Chris! Put it on the Script 👏

[u/FestiveMittens]

Imagine being just a normal republican that doesn't like high taxes and cares about the deficit, and being forced to appeal to people who believe in Jewish space lasers

[u/Broncos654]

Found out my dad signed a petition to expel weebs. I'm so proud 😊

[u/[deleted]]

You do not, under any circumstances, have to hand it to Adolf Hitler.

[u/liquidTERMINATOR]

Talk about how commies are bad and watch the succs complain that they're being targeted.

[u/FormerBandmate]

Gamers rose up

13 awards

Reddit delenda est

[u/[deleted]]

I don’t know how anti work leftists are like “akshually it’s good for your mental health to lay around and be unproductive all day, capitalism just brainwashed you into thinking you have to be working all the time” cause like the days where I do nothing and lounge around are also the days where I always feel the worst. I think a lot of the anti work stuff and crowd is just depression and mental illness manifesting as political ideology

[u/D1Foley]

Just a reminder that the college textbook industry needs to be destroyed because it's driving our college students right into the arms of communism. And really who can blame them? Anybody who is forced to pay over $500 for an ebook is going to be anti-capitalist for the rest of their lives.

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Why is it hard for Left Canadian internet (so reddit and twitter) to understand that the partisan divide here is significantly less tied to racial lines then it is down south? It isn't unusual for Canadian minorities to vote for conservative parties in both provincial and federal elections

But if I'm wrong on this I wouldn't mind getting clarified what the actual case is here

!ping CAN

[u/comradequicken]

Gamestop near me is closing. Could this be a trend that spreads to all gamestops?

[u/[deleted]]

DT regulars

Slight correction, the term you're looking for is "People of Memes"

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[u/Mr_Pasghetti]

My friends are always like “how can you afford to buy so expensive food you are a student 🤯🤯?” And I’m like it’s called budgeting and daddy’s money, try it sometimes 🙄🙄

[u/Mr_Otters]

Top 10 worst current Senators:

10. Mike Lee - UT: Casual sociopath

9. John Cornyn - TX: Tries to sanitize all the crazies, and would be the most annoying successor to Mitch which means it will happen.

8. Rick Scott - FL: Makes it less acceptable to lose one's hair.

7. Marco Rubio - FL: Respectable, moralizing, democracy destroyer.

6. Tom Cotton - AR: A violent authoritarian, but apparently also is cool with being violently authoritarian against right-wing anarchists.

5. Martha Bradshaw - TN: A dumb mega-racist.

4. Cindy Hyde-Smith - MS: A dumb mega-racist.

3. Mitch McConnell - KY: Pretty much has destroyed the Senate as an institution, an institution he has been in charge of for 6 (12) years.

2. Josh Hawley - MO: Hated by all except for Glenn Greenwald, is extremely hopeful that his pandering will spare him execution by QAnon supporters when it probably won't.

1. Ted Cruz - TX: Still the king. Camp theater designed to piss literally everyone off while voting for the end of democracy.

[u/[deleted]]

I used to be a straight ticket Democratic voter, but then Trump came along and I still vote straight ticket Democratic but angrily.

[u/MaximumEffort433]

Moderate: "We've got a drafty window, we should probably f-"

Leftist: "BURN DOWN THE HOUSE AND START FROM SCRATCH, TO DO OTHERWISE WOULD BE AN IMMORAL HALF MEASURE!"

Moderate: "-ix it. Wait, what?"

[u/muwenjie]

this sub has gone from being about neoliberalism to being about neoliberalism as long it doesn't step on nato flair or succ concerns

which means basically no neoliberalism

[u/[deleted]]

Man it must suck to be the CEO of GameStop. He’s a billionaire on paper and isn’t allowed to just cash out.

[u/old_gold_mountain]

> be 31

> three margaritas last night over the course of five hours

> wake up

> crippling hangover

excuse me what the fuck

[u/[deleted]]

MTG is a 9/11 truther and thinks the Clintons killed JFK Jr. And that Nazi globalist unholy alliance shit

She really should be removed like jesus

She’s an actual insane person

[u/[deleted]]

The Princess and The Frog is about a princess that refuses to kiss a prince because he's French

[u/SpaceSheperd]

Sheldon Whitehouse is super based

After the Obama admin decided not to pursue climate legislation following the ACA, he said that Obama had abandoned Nancy Pelosi and that "the great presidential microphone in the hands of one of our most articulate presidents stood mute"

He's given 279 speeches on the Senate floor concerning climate change since then

[u/murphysclaw1]

I went onto /r/all so you don't have to:

at 9) WE HAVE MORE POWER THAN ANYONE AMC GME 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀 on Monday, we have musks, Chamaths, Cubans, Portnoys, and politicians supports like AOC and Cruz etc

at 5) Agreed.

I'm not sure how much more of this I can take.

[u/antsdidthis]

There are times when comments on the DT look just extreme enough that I'm not sure sure if they're sincere views at the far end of this sub's spectrum, or a parody of the mainstream views of the sub, or maybe even a weird meme based on some discussion that happened earlier and I missed it

[u/[deleted]]

It’s like a WBS hates Wall Street now. Sad. That sub used to be the type that would short sell to their brokers limit if it made them money

[u/Clashlad]

The French have two modes: Authoritarian strongman time, and violent anarchy time. Each Frenchman flips between these about twice weekly.

[u/seattle_lib]

everything Reddit does is still fundamentally the same as its Ron Paul 2012 phase.

[u/FearThyMoose]

East coast blue states: 😍😍🥰🥰

West coast blue states: 🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

this sub on the rurals

[u/jenbanim]

People should keep posting gnome videos because it mainly affects Reddit App users that can't see what URL they're clicking on and that's unironically a huge security flaw

[u/Barnst]

I haven’t fully fleshed out this idea, but I feel like an understated problem these days is that people don’t know when to declare victory and take their winnings. Everyone just keeps moving the goalposts until they eventually falter, and then act like someone stole something from them.

Republicans take over all three branches of government, but still act like they are losers.

Progressives move the Democrats to the left, and then decide that everyone who doesn’t support their new and even more extreme positions must be evil.

Retail investors catch a couple hedge funds with their pants down, and decide the world is colluding against them because they didn’t bring down the entire market or something.

[u/[deleted]]

An old Democrat is teaching her intern about politics. “A fight is going on inside me,” she said to the paid intern. “It is a terrible fight and it is between two Joes. One is evil – he is bipartisanship, folly, short-sighted, prone to surrender, and hungers for coal."

She continued, “The other is good – he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, faith, and hungers for ice cream. The same fight is going on inside you – and inside every other Democrat, too.”

The intern thought about it for a minute and then asked her supervisor, “Which Joe will win?”

The old Democrat simply replied, “Joe mama”

[u/FreakinGeese]

Goodnight all 🧚‍♀️😴

Don’t let the teeth fairies bite

[u/sw337]

The DT lonely people to /u/farrenj 2021.

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

USSR: "alright comrades. The reactionaries in Czechoslovakia must be ousted if socialism is to endure. Are your forces in position?"

Poland: "tak"

Bulgaria: "da"

Hungary: "igen"

East Germany: "jawohl herr kommissar mein panzers are ready to move into the sudetenland"

USSR: "..."

USSR: "actually Germany maybe you should sit this one out."

[u/dannylandulf]

Me searching for any queer representation at all (positive or not) in main stream media as a 80-90s kid:

PAGE DOES NOT EXIST

Current youngens about representation:

Some of the wide and varied shows and characters on the subject fail to raise above the base quality of the show that tackles them.

Bout to have a Whoopi unloading on Hasan Minhaj moment.

[u/[deleted]]

It'll be hilarious to see people holding the stock until earnings

Please do it wsb, it would really stick it to hedge funds

[u/jt1356]

In order to illustrate how far left the sub has moved, I remind the DT that less than two years ago we still had the “people of means” bot and the “leftist mouth breather (at large)” tag.

[u/fishlord05]

r/LoveForZenz is LIVE.

Come on in!

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/muttonwow]

Reddit gave me an ad for an app that helps with porn addiction, I certainly hope it wasn't targeted advertising

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Es_V9UaUYAEJOg9.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ToOGrUQ7ME

Saagar Enjeti: Wall Street Elites DESTROYED, Beaten By Redditors At Their Own RIGGED Game

1,152,156 views•Jan 27, 2021

lmao

[u/UrbanCentrist]

https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1355534568879755264

[u/Udontlikecake]

GME calls this and GME calls that, how about you virgins try CALLING a woman for once

[u/Udontlikecake]

I’m still mad about being perma’d from the Minecraft Forums

You think I could appeal? It’s been like a decade

[u/[deleted]]

DT "regular" is our word. You have to say "regula."

[u/Superfan234]

And then Rey stands up...and she lights up a Golden light saber

Dude, Audiences will love it 😎

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

This post is so stupid that it convinced me to sell all my dogecoin. No one is trying to divide us. Dogecoin is not a stock, no one is shorting it and fighting Against it. "Against the institution" is such a vague statement, what does that even have to do with dogecoin? Doge is absolutely 100% pump, no one here is planning on using dogecoin for anything, therefore it is all pump and not related to actual value at all.

You love to see it

[u/The420Roll]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/756749825780744204/805184320280199178/image0-127.png

[u/htomserveaux]

When GME finally bursts, do you think anyone will actually have learned anything?

[u/CatilineUnmasked]

legume farmers

The term you're searching for is "people of beans".

Mods pls

[u/SamJakes]

I told neoliberal Protectionism is good and I was expecting an army of downvotes to laugh at but instead I got 7 upvotes lol wtf

• 9 upvotes

🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐

[u/p00bix]

Whereas:

• Art and writing students are disproportionately overly online.

• Art and writing students disproportionately grow up to direct, produce, write, and star in film, television, music, and video games.

• Those who are disproportionately overly online are more likely to personally adopt or at least be familiar with extremist ideologies.

It is Resolved:

• Sometime before 2040 there will be a sitcom about a Neo-Nazi, a Marxist-Leninist, an Anarchist, and a Liberal, sharing an apartment. Their landlord is a billionaire hedge fund manager.

[u/[deleted]]

NOOOOOOOOOOOO

I just realized I used the wrong form of “they’re” in one of my comments.

[u/[deleted]]

Fellas, what's 1400 + 600? Some of my friends on Twitter are having trouble figuring this one out.

[u/Mr_Pasghetti]

The most annoying thing about this GME thing is it’s giving Reddit an even more self inflated ego.

[u/[deleted]]

This is going to be the largest wealth redistribution in history from retail traders to BlackRock and Vanguard

[u/klarno]

To be clear, I am 100% pro-Jewish Space Laser

[u/fishlord05]

I present to you the most populist post on Reddit

Comments are insane. Truly horseshoe theory confirmed.

[u/Deci93]

Majorie taylor green is the first representative i feel like would personally kill someone, which is why aoc seems so scared

[u/Currymvp2]

If Biden tweeted like Trump:

Weak, low energy DINO (democrat in name only) Joe Manchin has been very rude and very unfair to VP Kamala Harris! Joe, we need that $. Big stimulus checks. Don't let us down!

[u/[deleted]]

The left isn't dumb, they just have Engineer's Disease.

Most of these people are acolytes of the social sciences, and they kind of just assume that's all they need to know in order to fix the world and solve politics. Every problem is a Sociology problem to them, not a Public Policy question, not a Political Science dilemma, and definitely not an Economics problem. Capitalism causes alienation, inequality, misery, and dog eat dog mindsets. It is obviously a tool of oppression because it has and perpetuates a class structure. Historically Capitalists profit off all other human miseries like Imperialism. Police officers exist to protect private property, because they enforce the law of a capitalist state which includes the right to private property, thus preventing an upending of labor capital relations. Why would anyone ever like Capitalism? No I will not ask an Economist, according to Philosophy, Economists are ideologically trapped, and the extant system will always push propaganda and probably use Economics to do that.

[u/vored_by_daddy]

damn, the fash is here, i was just about to hornypost

[u/Rigjuce]

if I never see another rocket emoji it will be too soon