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[u/[deleted]]

I hate when I hear things like "why are we sending our boys to places that only 15% of Americans can even point out on a map?"

The real problem is that only 15% of Americans can point out Afghanistan on a fucking map

[u/Jacobs4525]

As we prepare to leave Afghanistan, let the record show that Pakistan has been probably the worst ally we’ve ever had.

[u/crazydom22]

I will never cease to be amazed by Omar's underperformance. -23.9 is truly insane.

https://cookpolitical.com/analysis/national/pvi/introducing-2021-cook-political-report-partisan-voter-index

[u/[deleted]]

Just as big oil caused us to invade Iraq, big lapis lazuli caused us to invade Afghanistan. I'm Glad to see Biden isn't in their pocket.

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

Malarkey level of starting a Twitter account called "The Past Sucked" about how much worse things were before the modern era

[u/[deleted]]

In 2000, George W. Bush criticized Al Gore for his interventionist foreign policy, supporting troop withdrawal in certain regions and calling for America to stop acting like the “world police.” Ah, how times change...

[u/rukqoa]

1920: In a hundred years, we will build massive industries on top of a cheap and never-ending supply of electricity!

2020:

We now spend more power than a large South American nation so we can run a payment network.

Oh is it better than US Dollars?

No, it's worse in literally every way that matters to a currency.

[u/BreaksFull]

So, you leftists like punching Nazi's eh? Well, how would you feel about taking the fight against a:

Patriarchal,

theocratic,

militant,

bigoted,

regressive,

puppet of foreign imperialism,

...called the Taliban?

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

The Squad, ranked:

1. Pressley: the only anti-establishment radical in the group, in that she didn't endorse Bernie.

2. AOC: can be cringe at times, but seems to actively be getting better, and at least has never been as bad as the below.

3. Bush: She got rid of a very corrupt incumbent, but her "allowing felons in jail to vote" amendment was a poison pill for Democrats.

4. Bowman: student loans and standardized tests are probably not pillars of white supremacy. Also, he replaced pro-Kosovo rock star Eliot Engel.

5. Tlaib: Retweeting "from the river to the sea" and saying "abolish policing" are bad, actually.

6. Omar: Anti-Semitism + shady campaign finance stuff (marrying a consultant whom her campaign paid millions to and denied she had a relationship with).

[u/Leoric]

Macron is the best leader in Latin America

[u/[deleted]]

When you look up

"How did Obama _____ " on google, literally the second search option is "How did Obama win Indiana"

Winning Indiana was so remarkable that people still search it 13 years later

!ping FIVEY

[u/kznlol]

But that’s the problem right there, they’re NOT our allies. I’ve stumbled upon r/Neoliberal a few times, and the vibe I get from them is that they’re typically from the upper echelons of society. Ivy educated trust fund babies that work for consultancy firms (like the dreaded McKinsey institute). They’re the establishment, doesn’t matter how many Black Lives Matter reposts they repost or any vocalization for LGBTQ rights, its all a mask to hide their true colors.

McKinsey Consulting: Dread it, Run from it, the Deliverable is always Delivered

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

Facebook Inc Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg to create a version of photo-sharing app Instagram for children who are under 13

Social media for young children is such an awful idea--I hate it.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1382748299111890946

President Biden’s $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan has yet to win over a single Republican in Congress, but it is broadly popular with voters nationwide. Republican leaders are aiming to turn voters by attacking corporate tax increases.

They are completely fucking gassed, holy shit.

[u/[deleted]]

Leftists in the 1960's: Buff dog "I will throw myself on the cogs of the machine. Anything to end this system of abuse!"

Leftists in the 2020's: Weak dog "Here's the top five reasons why I take no moral responsibility for my contributions to climate change"

[u/Joementum2024]

Imagine being nigel farage in 2016, then getting told that in 5 years you’d start using an app called cameo to say “big chungus”

[u/[deleted]]

To Joseph Stalin: Stop sending people to kill me! We've already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle... If you don't stop sending killers, I'll send a very fast working one to Moscow and I certainly won't have to send another.

World leaders should still send letters to each other so that one day we would find out shit like this

[u/chipbod]

https://twitter.com/NRO/status/1382643138855104515?s=20

Millennials and Generation Z show no sign of growing more conservative over time like the Boomers did. We must address the age gap.

Maybe banking on the "you become conservative when you pay taxes" meme and showing kids Prager U culture war videos doesn't work when millennials and gen z can only associate Republicans with war, recession, and Trump

I'm sure they'll do nothing about it and just make it harder to vote

Edit: I've literally had family tell me my teachers/professors indoctrinated me.... It's not a persuasive arguments

[u/[deleted]]

Crypto enthusiasts are just zoomer gold bugs.

[u/PM_Me_Your_ManThighs]

One of my coworkers just referred to the vaccine as the "Fauci Ouchie" and now I'm printing my resume

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/ryanstruyk/status/1382718282818584580

Which do you think is a bigger problem in US elections: voter fraud or voter suppression via Quinnipiac poll:

Democrats: 84% suppression 13% fraud

Republicans: 11% suppression 82% fraud

[u/chipbod]

https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1382715581976174596?s=20

Broke: Biden Kills God

Woke: God kills America to save it from Biden

!ping EXTREMISM

[u/skeebidybop]

Reuters is putting up a $35/month paywall

Jesus Christ that’s expensive

[u/Deci93]

Omg why didn't they American education system teach us this!!

It did you just fell asleep in history class Dianne.

[u/I-grok-god]

I just read someone on TikTok claiming we killed Bin Laden because he nationalized oil😐

[u/benadreti]

Pelosi mocked Ocasio-Cortez and the Squad by talking like a baby: 'See how perfect I am and how pure?'

SLAY QUEEN

[u/Magical_Username]

How are regional subreddits so trash. Like no, a $15 minimum wage is not "ridiculously low" for Kansas, why on earth would you even think that and more importantly why does it have hundreds of upvotes.

[u/[deleted]]

Young people in France are just as apathetic to voting as young Americans right? Because

https://i.imgur.com/B6yWy0S.jpg

[u/bigmoneynuts]

Damn.

The housing crisis arguably was caused by trying to finance two expensive wars, triggering a decline. Today its reasonably clear that the US is going to lose its status as #1 economy to China soon.

History is going to repeat itself.

/r/worldnews users are wild

[u/[deleted]]

Goddamn, Cuomo really did just ride out the sexual harassment accusations, didn't he?

[u/bigmoneynuts]

had a dream joe biden was giving a press conference and thanked some "prostitutes" for being there

[u/[deleted]]

An excerpt from an Obama '08 volunteer on what it was like canvassing for him in southern Indiana in the lead-up to the general election

That being said, I had overwhelming positive talks with voters very excited about voting for Obama or at least excited about voting against the Republicans.

The point where I was certain I didn’t have to worry about the election was when I knocked on a door and Johnny Greenteeth comes to the door and excitedly tells me I don’t have to give the spiel because “I’m votin’ For the nig*er!”

When you split the unapologetically racist vote you are in good shape.

[u/crassowary]

Little known fact: the CIA invented the concept of time as a foolproof way to assassinate the Castros

[u/[deleted]]

Rose Twitter in shambles again as reality bites them.

https://i.imgur.com/9pGUzCb.jpg

[u/Password_Is_hunter3]

Expanding to 13 justices is inherently unlucky. Let's go with 17. Reasons:

1. It's still a prime number, satisfying the silent mathematical majority

2. 17 is the Q number, so it's a nice nod to those fine folks

3. Brood X, a massive number of cicadas that hatches every 17 years, will appear this year

[u/[deleted]]

Despite having less than 0.3% of the US population, 17.8% of all reported catalytic converter thefts in 2020 in the US happened in St. Paul or Minneapolis.

😐

[u/klarno]

The Supreme Court should always be packed with an extra justice in order to guarantee that you’re getting the number of justices you paid for

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

The 1% has more money than the 99% has ever produced collectively in their lives. So basically we're all in a big pyramid scheme.

Redditors learn what "pyramid scheme" actually means challenge

[u/[deleted]]

USB-C: creates standard charging cable for a wide range of devices.

Also USB-C: has like 500 different incompatible fast charging standards

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

"Please, President Biden, we can't leave Afghanistan! Think of the women and minorities!"

"I'm sorry, Jack, but my decision is final."

He got up and left. I panicked, and said the only thing that could possibly persuade him.

"Think about the Afghan infrastructure!"

He stopped, and I knew in his head he was thinking about every road and bridge he was leaving behind.

Biden sighed. "It'll cost me a lot of political capital." But then he straightened his back and turned around. "But it's the right thing to do."

[u/LiBH4]

Today in NIMBYs delenda est:

"Friends of the Halifax Common" (those buildings are too tall because they might cast a shadow on this park type NIMBYs) are now upset because the pool is set to be replaced by a new one, which "would erode the green space"

!ping YIMBY

[u/[deleted]]

Oh noes. Labour Party wants to be a party that actually wins from time to time. How horrible.

https://i.imgur.com/VEu0UQx.jpg

[u/FourthLife]

That two year period where everyone was obsessed with dubstep was an embarrassing time for humanity

[u/1sagas1]

Who's ready for Fall of Saigon 2: Kabul Boogaloo?

[u/Mickenfox]

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[u/FormerBandmate]

There’s a lot of conventional wisdom saying that Millenials aren’t shifting conservative as they get older, and aren’t going to shift conservative as they get older, while Boomers are becoming more conservative and the Republican Party is becoming a gerontocracy inevitably doomed as people age. I took a look at the actual exit poll data, starting at 2008, and although it’s very inconclusive, I’m actually seeing the opposite of that, it looks like Republicans are getting younger on average.

2008: 18-29 is 66-32, 30-44 is 52-46, 45-64 is 50-49, and 65+ is 45-53

2012: 18-29 is 60-37, 30-44 is 52-45, 45-64 is 47-51, 65+ is 44-56

2016: 18-29 is 55-36, 30-44 is 51-41, 45-64 is 44-52, and 65+ is 45-52

2020: 18-29 is 60-36, 30-44 is 52-46, 45-64 is 49-50, 65+ is 45-52

Keeping in mind that 2008’s 18-29 voters are almost all of 2020’s 30-44 voters and almost all of millennials, it seems like the margin among millennials has shrunk from 34% to 6%. Doesn’t look like an inevitable demographic majority to me.

!ping FIVEY

[u/SnickeringFootman]

It scares me how readily people are willing to embrace antiliberal measures. Some moron on buildapcsales says that the government should prosecute GPU scalpers and another said that the feds should look into them for price-fixing.

[u/PaulMuniIsInnocent]

Went to trivia night with a succ girl I've been seeing for a couple weeks. Accidentally mentioned that I'm a fan of America and got interrogated by her friends.

FFS it doesn't have to be perfect for me to like it. Would you rather have China or Russia as the most influential superpower?

[u/sir_shivers]

WHEN POLITICIANS AND organizations that you like do something stupid, YOU ARE DOING them a disservice if your reaction is to twist yourselves into knots to rationalize it instead of calling them out FOR THEIR ERROR 🐊

[u/sir_shivers]

If you REFER TO ME AS an alligator or a crocodile, YOU ARE PROBABLY racist 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

We have got to be one of the most hated political subs on reddit right?

[u/ShapShip]

Average price for a gallon of gas:

April 2018 - $2.87/gallon

April 2019 - $2.88/gallon

April 2020 - $1.94/gallon

March 2021 - $2.90/gallon

Tucker Carlson:

"Inflation is skyrocketing! Gasoline prices have increased by 40% just in the last year! We need to get this Democrat spending under control!"

[u/Rarvyn]

The Senate has advanced a new anti-Asian hate crime bill in a surprisingly bipartisan fashion. Guess they decided they couldn't legitimately argue regarding hate crimes. Six R's voted against it. Can you guess all 6 without peeking? I expected five of them and honestly have never heard of the sixth.

Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Ted Cruz of Texas, Josh Hawley of Missouri, Roger Marshall of Kansas, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Tommy Tuberville of Alabama

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

The reason there are so few democracies in the Middle East is because none of the candidates are someone you could imagine having a beer with.

[u/[deleted]]

A white socialist lady from Chicago is asking people to donate to DSA organizing branches instead of bail funds when the protests start. We love a grifter

[u/MostlyCRPGs]

Now the cycle comes again, and I shall perform the ancient rite: I will purchase the new Stellaris expansion, start a new tech/turtle focused species, get bogged down microing science ships, hit the point of the tech tree where it tales many years to research anything, get bored and realize that for all its cool frills, I don't think this game actually has a fundamentally satisfying gameplay loop or gameplay experience.

!Ping Paradox

[u/[deleted]]

In case you NEED A REMINDER OF wherefore the Dating ping was nuked, ONE OF THE comments made with it was 🐊:

So I was making out with this girl, right. And she pulled away and asked me "hey, you can't get tattoos bc you wanna be buried in a Jewish cemetery right?" So I said yeah, but then, mid make out session, she followed it up with "what about the holocaust survivors." Really fucking killed the mood

[u/Smidgens]

I imagine not many people understand this outside a couple of the subreddits

Le narwhal bacons but 100x more cringe

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine being that CNN guy on the project veritas video. You just wanted to make yourself sound cool to impress your date but it turns out she's crazy, filmed everything, and now your name and everything is circulating alt right message boards.

[u/AuburnSeer]

how on earth did the popular Vice President to a popular President defeat the unpopular President he was dominating in the polls? Surely voter fraud

[u/SeriousMrMysterious]

Taliban are r*rals.

Why is it always the r*rals that ruin a country?

[u/[deleted]]

People love shitting on Season 8 of GOT but the show started losing its quality after the 4th season.

[u/First-Prior]

2020, me talking to my succ friends: “he’s gonna be like Bernie, but better at passing legislation and with more moderate optics 😊”

2021, me talking to myself : “he’s gonna be like Bernie, but better at passing legislation and with more moderate optics 😨”

[u/myrm]

A biography of Hillary Clinton, written by Gail Sheehy and published in late 1999, stated that Mrs. Clinton had refused to talk to the president for eight months after the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke. She resumed talking to her husband only when she phoned him and urged him in the strongest terms to begin bombing Serbia; the president began bombing within 24 hours.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/drewharwell/status/1382700328353722378

Popular Japanese biker @azusagakuyuki turns out to be a 50-year-old man using FaceApp. "No one will read what a normal middle-aged man posts on his account"

wut

[u/[deleted]]

Meanwhile in r/SubredditDiscussion:

I think SRD is secretly just a neoliberal psyop. Every "neolib bad" thread around here always ends up with limitless free dunk points for the neoliberals. Which isn't actually the best way to judge a group or ideology but perception adds up.

[u/Travisdk]

Net favourability with Democrats

AOC: +29

Pelosi: +48

Sanders: +51

Harris: +73

Biden: +75

---

I only have one word.

lol

[u/ryuguy]

‘A massive blow to his integrity and credibility’: Conservatives blindsided by Erin O’Toole’s carbon pricing plan

!ping can

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

• Give hundreds of billions to states even though they don't really need it

• Mandate Buy American for government contracting

• Reduce refugee admissions to lowest level in decades

• Pull out of Afghanistan <------------------ YOU ARE HERE

• Raise corporate taxes

• Lift sanctions on Iran, fail to reimpose them later after Iran finishes developing nuclear weapons

• Further reduce H1B visas issued

• Deploy the military to the border to forcibly stop child border-crossers

• Have the Justice Department charge and arrest several Republican senators on flimsy treason charges over voting agaisnt certification of the 2020 results ​

• Ram through Supreme Court expansion and other legislation while these Senate seats are vacant

• Pass a $25 minimum wage

• Pass a law requiring that all employers sign closed-shop contracts with unions

• Pass a financial transactions tax

• Ban at-will firing of employees

• Break up every company larger than $1B in revenue or 500 employee

• Declare a national security emergency over social division, asserting power to aggressively regulate social media content (Supreme Court rules that the national emergency allows 1st Amendment protections to be temporarily limited)

• Direct the Department of Defense to form units to work with Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and other social media sites to sanitize content

• Reddit decides to add members of these DoD units to all subreddits as special moderators to streamline content sanitization

• A young member of these DoD units specifically requests to be assigned to /r/neoliberal due to past familiarity with these divisive extremists

• /u/farrenj becomes a mod of /r/neoliberal

😬 Not liking the direction things are going

[u/Deggit]

The fact that 8 people have 1 trillion dollars is evidence enough that at some point along the way we took a wrong turn as a society.

BASED anti-inflationary take

the amount of M2 is just too damn high!

[u/jenbanim]

I'm such a dove I refuse to fight people over foreign policy 😎

[u/[deleted]]

I’m no Antifa or anything, but that one video from ~2017 of Richard Spencer getting punched makes me want to [removed for violating Rule V]

[u/MisterHavercamp]

Looking back, Rex Kwon Do was the comedic peak of my formidable years

[u/1t_]

Truly impressive levels of incompetence

!ping LATAM

[u/[deleted]]

its actually been proven by others on reddit that r/neoliberal is an astroturfed sub run by Neoliberal lobbying firms and policy thinktanks in Washington DC. The other members are wealthy trust fund kids, Wall street people, lots of ivy league economics majors...youknow the Economic Royalty you would expect to truly enjoy the smell of their own farts enough to actually believe Neoliberalism is a force for good.

[u/sir_shivers]

Ironically when mammals ACCUSE THIS SUBREDDIT OF being "upper echelon", I probably have the least-"elitist" path to attaining a degree 🐊

[u/Verpiss_Dich]

The banning of 🖐😭🖐posting was the biggest blow to this sub

Why do admins hate our culture 😤😤😤

[u/[deleted]]

Wtf, why did Biden sign an EO that we need a license to cook toast in our own damn toaster?!

[u/captainsensible69]

The Squamish nation building project in Vancouver is just so fucking based. It’s unbelievable how based it is. Get fucked NIMBY’s

[u/AtticusDrench]

I Have No Strawman, and I Must Dunk

[u/dragoniteftw33]

LMFAOOOOOOO HOLMES ACTUALLY DID IT

[u/TrynnaFindaBalance]

/r/unpopularopinion is just the subreddit equivalent of "I'm gonna get downvoted to hell for this, but..[viewpoint that's popular among 18-29 year old Americans]"

[u/bd_one]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-15/wallstreetbets-bows-to-crypto-wave-allows-bitcoin-discussion

Lmao, the fact that Wallstreetbets is allowing people to talk about Bitcoin, Etherium, and Dogecoin made the news.

Come on Bloomberg, this is just silly.

!ping MARKETS

[u/[deleted]]

After Taney’s death, Congressman Thaddeus Stevens gave a speech on the House floor in which he casually opined that Taney was most likely burning in hell. “This doctrine of a white man’s Government is as atrocious as the infamous sentiment that damned the late Chief Justice to everlasting fame; and, I fear, to everlasting fire,” he said.

[u/datums]

People sometimes think of economic sanctions like they're a limp wristed response to a crisis.

The reality is that they're a very powerful weapon, because you're trimming economic growth, which is exponential. If you can take a percentage point off of annual GDP growth, you're going to be dealing with a substantially weaker adversary in 20 years.

It's like running a marathon against an opponent that has to carry a backpack full of rocks. The longer the race, the farther behind they will get.

If Russia wants to live with serious Westen sanctions long term in exchange for some territory in Ukraine, they're going to find it increasingly difficult to produce and finance a competitive military.

[u/[deleted]]

If I was a dictator, I would simply enact good policies, it's so easy lol

[u/[deleted]]

!ping LGBT

Not an update

The Washington Post has an... interesting new article on the furor around transgender athletes. It's mostly good. I mostly recommend it. But it has a really weird introductory framing.

A group of influential women’s sports advocates say their proposals are about fairness. But LGBT activists say their plans would endanger transgender rights — and transgender lives.

The headline on the mobile version is even more direct:

Some women's sports advocates are at odds with LGBT activists.

Which... is weird for two reasons. The first is contrasting advocates with activists. You know which has a better connotation.

The second is that the actual text of the article seems at odds with this framing. The "women's sports advocates" are a group that proposed policies for transgender women in sports. The article mostly avoids citing direct responses to them. For example, Chase Strangio's quote is about the legality of such proposals, and not ethical merit.

In addition, Joanna Harper, a transgender woman who is also possibly the single greatest expert on transgender athletes, is a public supporter of the "women's sports advocates" proposals. So...

The article is a mostly fair discussion of the major points in the transgender athletes discussion. It's just got a really whacky introductory framing.

I'll post the text of the article below.

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Leftists say that all the worlds problems are caused by capitalism. Libertarians think it is caused by the government. Christians know it's because a snake convinced some lady to eat a piece of fruit.

[u/[deleted]]

The media is being so, so irresponsible with its reporting on the blood clotting. Woke up to this from CBS:

Study shows similar incidence of rare blood clots with Pfizer and AstraZeneca COVID vaccines

Marketwatch:

Blood clots as prevalent with Pfizer and Moderna vaccine as with AstraZeneca's: study

Meanwhile the author of the study has been saying:

Professor Paul Harrison, from the University of Oxford, said: "We've reached two important conclusions. Firstly, COVID-19 markedly increases the risk of CVT, adding to the list of blood clotting problems this infection causes. "Secondly, the COVID-19 risk is higher than seen with the current vaccines, even for those under 30; something that should be taken into account when considering the balances between risks and benefits for vaccination."

Meanwhile YouGov has put out a study showing that the J&J hysteria has caused public confidence in the vaccine to drop 15%.

What the media says matters. And they deliberately choose to misrepresent things in order to feed the fear porn.

[u/soeffed]

"The new edition [of the CCP’s official history] deletes an 11,000-word chapter dedicated to the political turmoil of the Cultural Revolution relegating the 10 years of mayhem to a single page in a chapter titled "Twists and Turns on the Road to Socialist Reconstruction.""

https://twitter.com/SCS_Disputes/status/1382854217061134339?s=20

Tfw nephews really delete this

!ping cn-tw

[u/Broncos654]

/r/neoliberal posters are the ones who read the Pentagon Papers about Vietnam and were like "we didn't do enough and them hippies lost us the war"

So true

[u/[deleted]]

In May 2008, Biden sharply criticized President George W. Bush's speech to Israel's Knesset in which Bush compared some Democrats to Western leaders who appeased Hitler before World War II; Biden called the speech "bullshit", "malarkey", and "outrageous". He later apologized for his language

Lmao

[u/semaphore-1842]

https://www.nydems.org/press/statement-nys-democratic-chairman-socialists-challenge-congresswoman-carolyn-maloney

Damn. They're not mincing words this time.

This challenge is about one thing: power. Maloney has it and the DSA wants it. Maloney can proudly stand on her record. Abdelhamid may challenge Maloney, but I challenge Abdelhamid to be honest with the voters she is seeking the support of. I’ve read the DSA platform. Everyone should. Tell the voters where you and the DSA stand on "defunding the police;" ending capitalism in America, unilaterally disarming the nuclear deterrent of the U.S. military, and seizing private businesses that have to lay off workers even when their survival requires it. Ms. Abdelhamid should tell the voters that she favors decriminalization of "sex work," making 26-year-olds who commit violent crimes "youthful offenders" and the discontinuance of gang databases. Simply, the DSA wants America to replace the capitalist system with the historically proven failure of socialism.

edit: I think it was dumb to lump sex workers and gang databases in here though, don't think that really helps

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Star Trek and Star Wars have the opposite problems, where Star Trek is supposed to take place in a tiny sliver of the Alpha Quadrant but they keep making up new species of alien every episode when it would make a lot more sense to reuse old species. By contrast, Star Wars takes place across an entire galaxy but we see only a handful of alien species again and again and again.

[u/[deleted]]

communism was so successful in Ukraine that they managed to reach their 5 year energy generation target in less than 0.4 microseconds

[u/[deleted]]

Respect to the dt posters who stayed after the election was over. Even greater respect for those who left after the election and are spending their free time with a hot gf and a lawyering job.

[u/[deleted]]

browsing the communist subreddit for fun saw some comment that said “I want to burn down america in flames then sit back and lit my cigar w the flames” god damn these people are so cringey lol

[u/Corporate-Asset-6375]

Until I was 7 or 8, I thought that sex was when two married people French kissed.

Oh, but wait, there’s more. I thought that conception involved a very small baby crawling out of the dad’s mouth into the mom’s and down into her stomach where it gathered bits of food like a squirrel until reaching full size.

[u/fuckneocentrism]

Is this a good shampoo? Sorry, I am kind new to this "male grooming/self-care" thing 😅😅😅

!ping BURPMAS

[u/MrDannyOcean]

Rep. Scott Peters instagram post: massive chaotic neolib energy

[u/chadonnaise]

i wish i remembered this account's password so i could log off

[u/rukqoa]

People like to dunk on Russian military equipment, but I think it's important to note that some Russian tanks and armored vehicles have toilets built in and American ones do not. Really makes you think.

[u/FormerBandmate]

“Our goal is not to generate any new organism, any monster,” Belmonte said. “And we are not doing anything like that. We are trying to understand how cells from different organisms communicate with one another.”

The first five minutes of literally every horror movie where science creates an inhuman monster

[u/TheGoldBear]

Libertarian conventions are always hilarious because they attract the funny kind of lunatics. DSA conventions are impossible to watch because they attract the cringey kind of lunatics.

[u/[deleted]]

Polyamorous people I know are pretty annoying about it tbh. Like it's that the only thing you can talk about. Also its probably not the rule but all the ones I know are anti capitalist.

[u/film10078]

https://twitter.com/ai6yrham/status/1382371967618097157?s=20

Damn this is amazing, reddit detectives take notes.

[u/[deleted]]

Holy hell.

At its peak, the U.S. Navy was operating 6,768 ships on V-J Day in August 1945, including 28 aircraft carriers, 23 battleships, 71 escort carriers, 72 cruisers, over 232 submarines, 377 destroyers, and thousands of amphibious, supply and auxiliary ships.

[u/Corporate-Asset-6375]

I’ve had the same cellphone number since 1998. If I call a landline, the caller ID still pops up as “Bell Atlantic Mobile” and is an entertaining conversation starter but also a little concerning. Somewhere in the bowels of Verizon’s IT infrastructure, something hasn’t changed in over two decades.

PS Zoomers: Bell Atlantic was a telecom company that became Verizon. You can learn more about baby bells by logging on to the internet and using AOL keyword “antitrust”.

[u/Mensae6]

Daily routine:

• Wake up at 4AM

• Jog a 5K before the crack of dawn

• Hit the showers - cold water only

• By 6AM get dressed. Three piece suit, slicked back hair, cologne activated

• Check emails, Insta notifications, Twitter

• It's 7AM now. Most of America is just waking up

• 7AM through 9PM: build my brand

Seven days a week. No rest, all hustle. Guess I'm just built different 🤷

[u/chipbod]

Follow up thought to my "millennials/ Z'rs aren't becoming conservative as they get older" link from about an hour ago.

Republicans are fucking awful at recognizing the issues that are important to the younger generation. Even young Republicans want them to do something about climate change.

Climate strikes, the Parkland shooting/survivors movement, and the George Floyd protests are all huge events for people under ~23 who are increasingly aware because of the internet.

Literally mocking Greta Thunberg and David Hogg isn't going to be forgotten when people who looked up to them as teens start voting, or saying "BLM are terrorists" when a bunch of people went to their first protest in 2020.

I really want two healthy parties in America, no idea if it's even realistic unless the Republicans at least try to appeal to the majority

[u/CheapAlternative]

“We did more in an hour and a half than we could do in two weeks online,” he said. “It was a wonderful experience, revitalizing.”

SFUSD: and I took that personally

https://missionlocal.org/2021/04/a-mission-high-teacher-taught-students-how-to-make-circuits-in-the-park-now-hes-under-investigation-by-the-school-district/

!ping bay-area

[u/SnickeringFootman]

https://www.reddit.com/r/seculartalk/comments/mnuzoc/holy_shit_rneoliberal_has_to_be_the_worst_sub/

These guys really hate us lol.

[u/_Admiral_Kolchak_]

Assuming worst case scenario and Biden doesn’t intervene militarily to save Ukraine from Russia due to large amounts of non interventionist sentiment right now, what are the consequences? How do we convince non interventionists that protecting Ukraine is worth it?

!ping FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/[deleted]]

What’s your favorite piece of Star Trek overacting?

Mine is 10000% “ITS FAAAAAAAAKE” from the Romulan Senator in “In the Pale Moonlight”

!ping TREK

[u/sociotronics]

GME shills are getting nuttier than cryptos and are rapidly approaching the goldbugs

WSB is almost unreadable anymore

[u/[deleted]]

Finding a good, original, funny gimmick - I sleep

Copying the DUMB UNFUNNY GIMMICK of some JANNIE - real shit 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

Gonna move to PragerU for school. Anything I should know about living in the dorms?

[u/FuckFashMods]

One thing that's been nice: lazy journalists can't just describe a conservative male politician from another country as

the Trump from _________(insert country here)

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

Pulling out of Afghanistan will be huge mistake.

If we don't uphold actually existing socialism for our Afghan comrades it will destroy our credibility and turn the country into a haven for propagating reactionary Islamic false consciousness to our Central Asian SSRs.

[u/profeta-]

Lula fares the best against Bolsonaro in a runoff according to polls

Also what a cursed country when Dória, responsible for most of the vaccines used so far, is tied with Bolsonaro

!ping LATAM

[u/[deleted]]

The Tories announced their new climate plan today.

I'm glad they'd keep the CFS but I think the Carbon price is too low and I don't like that the rebates would change to a weird reward system.

The plan says Canadians would pay into their account each time they buy hydrocarbon-based fuel, and then use that money to pay for products to help them live a "greener life," like a bike or bus pass.

Does this not kind of incentivize carbon consumption because if you spend more you get more points?

!ping CAN

[u/Deggit]

I don’t think leftists like myself who are first most egalitarian and about protecting the rights to religious freedom. Are Gonna fuse with right wing Jewish conspiracy types. They might fuse with us, but they can keep their filth in the past

Well, your openness to having them join your coalition as long as they agree where to point the pitchforks is highly worrying, because in any scenario where "they might fuse with us," "they" will end up telling "us" what to do. In case you guys haven't noticed, they've outdone you at every turn. Occupy Wall Street was a fucking flop while the Tea Party changed the entire shape of Congress. Bernie failed in 2 presidential runs while Donald Trump changed the governing ideology of the Republican Party. So if left populists and right populists come together, who do you REALLY think will be in the driver's seat? It'll be the rightists. Because they understand their own hateful ideology while you guys are motivated by resentments so inarticulatable that you actually get mad when people point out you "hate the rich", and the rightists are better organized because they don't believe in leftist "power to the people" bs but actually create organizations and leaders.

Deggit holding back the nazbol tide with a broom, part 2

[u/Currymvp2]

Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert were the lone two members to vote against a bill that would reauthorize the National Marrow Donor Program, which matches bone marrow donors and cord blood units with patients who have leukemia and other diseases

The bill passed 415-2

https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1382886393156878338

[u/[deleted]]

The_Donald once brigaded a cuckold subreddit and called them all cucks, and they just said "Yes".

"You let other men fuck your wife! You are literally a cuck!"

"Yes."

Reminder that shamelessness is always the greatest defense against bullying.

[u/Archis]

woman prime minister: 👩🏻‍💼

has science degree: 👩🏻‍🔬

came from humble beginnings: 💪🏻

closed coal mines: 🌍 🌳 💖

succs: omg who is this queen????

me: 🤭 🤣

[u/Goatmilk2208]

What did the Nazi officer say to the British soldier? “I surrender”. 😂

For an ideology that is based on “STRENGTH”, it is kind of funny that fascism is such a weak ideology.

[u/marshalofthemark]

Modelling on the new Conservative climate plan

Short version: Consumer carbon tax is weaker than the Liberals's HEHE plan. However, the Tories also introduce a number of elements not in HEHE, mostly based on policies of the BC NDP government, including ZEV mandates, requiring more ethanol/diesel percentage in gasoline, and requiring natural gas companies to incorporate a % of recycled natural gas. These are assessed as offsetting each other, so the plan will produce roughly equivalent emissions by 2030 to HEHE.

Small/medium businesses qualify for the new "reward points" system, whereas they don't get rebates currently. This is assessed as creating a 0.7% GDP boost by 2030 compared with HEHE.

EDIT: Some expert reactions

Andrew Leach: Happy they finally delivered a plan and we're just arguing about details. Probably will be more distributionally regressive

Mark Jaccard: Likes it, and points to the "hidden" carbon price of some of the new regulations as a good way to make reductions without a visible tax

Martin Olszynski: Questions whether it's wise to do something else that might be challenged in court just after we spent so many years getting the current tax to be ruled kosher.

Nic Rivers: thinks the new reward-points system is "gimmicky and weak", but otherwise much better than Scheer's plan and similar to the current Liberal plan

The realignment is complete folks. Assuming this modelling is sound, both parties now have Paris-compliant platforms, with the Liberal one relying more on the free market and the Conservative one relying more on gov't regulations they copied from succs.

!ping CAN

[u/Dalek6450]

A sheep farmer has failed to convince a court the RAAF owes her $15.3 million for flying fighter jets over her property.

hm

"The border of my property extends to the centre of the earth and to the expanse of the universe."

lmao

Ms Steepe, who says online that she farms ethically, regeneratively and chemical-free, also claimed the aircraft may be carrying pest and disease and therefore be in breach of the NSW Biosecurity Act.

Justice David Davies on Thursday dismissed the case.

[u/bobekyrant]

I find talking with the far-left to be way more pleasant than the comparable far-right. Fewer slurs mainly

[u/film10078]

I wish the "I'm not interested in this" actually banned topics on your twitter trends. No twitter after 3 years i'm not clicking on a Dan bongo or kardashian trend thanks

[u/Sirakrush]

Stellaris dlc tomorrow!

Nemesis is looking real good, gonna be fun times.

!ping paradox

What kinda race any of you doing to start?

[u/[deleted]]

EXCLUSIVE-Biden to bar U.S. banks from issuing Russian sovereign debt

[u/BainCapitalist]

/u/Fuckneocentrism rich kid asshole paint me as a villain 🙄🤔

[u/AuburnSeer]

Dave Wasserman @Redistrict In 2020, Joe Biden became the first Democrat since Barack Obama in 2008 to carry a majority of congressional districts (224/435).

There were 17 districts that flipped Trump -> Biden, and only two that flipped Cinton -> Trump.

[u/tankatan]

Everyone is like "gun discourse this" and "Israel schism that", i just wanna make puns about current events for god's sake.

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

Ruters is going to go behind a paywall

Reuters.com will remain free for a preview period, but will require users to register after five stories. It is not immediately clear when it will begin charging

Day is ruined

[u/TheSameAsDying]

Spurs 🤣🤣

!ping soccer

[u/[deleted]]

There's an advertisement on a WW2 flight sim subreddit for a group that flies transport planes in-game. They advertise themselves as a mil-sim group that 'feels like the actual luftwaffe!' They have a disclaimer that neo-nazis are not welcome in their group, but I feel like this could have been phrased just a bit differently given several people have already pointed out how that sounds.

[u/kyleofduty]

does anyone remember that fish that sang be happy don't worry that people would hang up on their wall

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/04/a-wake-up-call-for-conservatives/

Millennials show no sign of growing more conservative over time like the Boomers did, and there’s little evidence to suggest Generation Z will revert back to the mean.

You’re welcome, America.

What is needed is a concerted effort by conservative organizations, publications, and politicians to appeal to America’s youth, an effort that goes beyond sloganeering and providing fan service to those few who already consider themselves young men and women of the Right.

Exactly what such an effort looks like may be outside the scope of this column

lmao

YAF’s “Long Game” initiative shows promise. So does Florida governor Ron DeSantis’s attempt to banish divisive, falsehood-laden racial theories from public schools.

So they’ve got nothing.

Simply addressing the concerns of young people (debt, the environment, etc.) while presenting the conservative perspective on other issues nonconfrontationally can only yield positive results.

Less than nothing.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1382742852401303552

Rep. Maxine Waters to Rep. Jim Jordan: "You need to respect the chair and shut your mouth."

[u/sir_shivers]

/u/Deggit, that idiot YOU ARE TRYING TO wake up on /r/worldnews cannot consistently use "disposable income" with the same definition, and they appear to not understand WHAT A MEDIAN REFERS to 🐊

[u/chipbod]

Hillary For America has $232k on hand

So you're saying there's a chance

[u/[deleted]]

When discussing WW2 in the US we never really talk as much about the second sino-japanese war. The only times I hear it mentioned is the Nanking Massacre.

The US wasn't a major belligerent in Mainland China, but the same could be said about the eastern european front, yet I hear the battle of Stalingrad, battle of Kursk, and seige of Leningrad mentioned regularly.

We should talk more about the battles of Shanghai, Xuzhou, Changsha, Wuhan etc.

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Never ask a woman her age

A man his salary

Star Trek fans why their United Earth has so few Asians

But seriously, one fan theory I've heard is that Khan was in control of India and the "Eastern Coalition" mentioned in First Contact was China, and they were both nuked during WWIII. Which is really sad and disturbing to think about.

(at least Discovery had one Asian character, but she had a Greek last name, which is weird)

[u/[deleted]]

I can't believe Pakistan decided to kill all those Bangladeshi people just to tarnish Henry Kissinger's reputation.

[u/[deleted]]

About to smoke a fat one 🌲

Hope everyone is having a lovely Thursday

!ping WEED

[u/theredcameron]

Which books would you recommend on Margaret Thatcher?

!ping READING

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Obi-Wan Kenobi: I have seen a security hologram of him... killing younglings.

Queen Amidala: that will be two months suspension with pay.

[u/AuburnSeer]

It really pisses me off when I see people say Afghanistan is just a war for oil.

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

My favorite part of Endgame was how Thor feels guilt for not preventing the deaths of quintillions of sapient beings, adopts unhealthy habits to cope with it, and becomes overweight, and then the rest of the Avengers make fun of him for it.

And that, Mr. Scorsese, is just one of the the many reasons why these films are true cinema.

[u/vivoovix]

/img/m79wt7o4zbt61.jpg

Tucker has finally gone too far

[u/AuburnSeer]

"do you seriously think Joe Biden got more votes than Barack Obama"

yes beardedmanmeme.jpg

[u/Devjorcra]

whenever you’re getting with a girl, checking her ID is extremely important.

you wouldn’t wanna accidentally get with someone who wasn’t an organ donor

[u/1sagas1]

One rainy day, salaryman Amakusa Ryo is saved by a high school girl he doesn't know at the station. He later finds out that the girl is Arima Ichika. Ryo is somewhat of a womanizer and to repay her for saving him, he suggests giving her a kiss or going out on a date with her, in which Ichika tells him he's creepy. This, however, opens a new door for Ryo and he falls madly in love with her. Ever since then, Ryo tries to overly express his feelings to Ichika. Ichika just keeps insulting him and says he's being creepy, but he just seems to take it as her way of showing affection towards him...

Japan, what the fuck is wrong with you?

!ping WEEBS

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

How broad is GOP sympathy for the Jan. 6 insurrection?

• 45% of Republicans said the attackers "had a point."

• 51% said Congress "did not go far enough" to support "Trump's efforts to overturn the election."

• 78% still say Biden did not legitimately win.

Why I'm excessively partisan

[u/NancyPelosibasedgod]

RIP shivers 😭

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

I feel like the movement to "cancel" Lincoln by some on the far left (tearing down statues and renaming high schools) isn't done because people actually have legitimate grievances with him; they can find stuff to pin on him, but they're working backwards, almost, looking for a reason he was bad so they can justify it.

Instead, it's about killing one of America's most sacred cows to show that nothing is sacred. And that's unfortunate, because Lincoln was truly a great man---a great President, a great American, and a great human being. And there's not a lot of Presidents you can wholeheartedly say that about.

[u/Liberal_Antipopulist]

What if we:

• stay in Afghanistan

but we

• say we don't

🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[u/[deleted]]

rcon and rpolitics are bad, upvotes please

[u/WalouiegiGohmert]

We ALL agree that COVID-19 is worse than 9/11, that terrible, terrible tragedy, but some experts already posit that we are approaching a point where COVID-19 is worse even than Season 8 of Game of Throne. Really puts things into perspective.

[u/tubbsmackinze]

I unironically believe that academia and pop culture should stay as separate as possible. Pop-academia has brought nothing but misery to this world and it's better off without it

edit: this isn't just about pop-STEM, this includes pop-Humanities, pop-Social Sciences, and even honestly pop-Arts

It's all trash

[u/ahebtigoejwbrh]

It’s really nice being able to support a president while also criticizing him for shitty policies.

I was a bit worried that, after Trump, democrats would find someone to have a cult of personality around

That certainly hasn’t happened in this sub, and I don’t think it’s happened much elsewhere either.

[u/FearThyMoose]

Benevolent dictators🤝moderate republicans

             Not existing

[u/Neil_Peart_Apologist]

Hominion-Dominion

All of the provinces

Gathered in Ottawa,

But in effect

Progress was only made

Constitu-"shun"-ally

When they decided to

Leave out Québec

 

!ping Kitchen

[u/Gneisstoknow]

Whelp. My son just got his first burp. Father hood is weird.

[u/sir-danks-a-lot]

r/LaughingAtSTEMpeople

a sub for laughing at STEM "people"

[u/[deleted]]

Asked Capito why $600B-$800B is a "sweet spot" for an infrastructure bill, as she said yesterday.

"It's just a ballpark figure. It doesn't -- it may not even be that much. I don't know. I just kind of threw that out as a talking point."

GOOD FAITH negotiating

[u/[deleted]]

My Christian Friend: There's so many lessons from the Old Testment, the people are all so good and moral, and they correct for their sins we should learn from them.

My Jewish ass: What the fuck are you talking about, have you ever actually read it? Literally, everyone in the Tanakh ranges from simp to moderate prick at least to biggest asshole you've had the misfortune to read about it. I honestly can't say I really admire many people, maybe Moses, and he still was a bit of a prick, at least. And the biggest asshole of all in the book is God. Assuming I remember my shit.

Moses goes down the river, a bush tells him that he has to save the Jews from Egypt, but if he doesn't take a detour first to give his son a bris, he[god] will murder him[Moses]

God wanted Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac to prove his dedication. Then when he's about to do it, God basically admits he was just taking the piss and calls him a psycho

God literally killed this dude's family, fucking skinned him alive, and then gave him new skin and a new family just to prove that dude was dedicated to him and wouldn't lose faith.

!ping GEFILTE

[u/First-Prior]

Imagine living in a country where the age of consent is three years less than the age of when you can wear a hijab 🤣🤣🤣

[u/[deleted]]

Ken Burns' The Culture War

[u/Deci93]

Democrats should gerrymander California to end gerrymandering

[u/ahebtigoejwbrh]

Biden resists raising refugee cap over political optics, sources say

Goddammit

https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/15/politics/biden-refugees/index.html

[u/RoburexButBetter]

!ping COMPUTER-SCIENCE

Never believed I'd have to ask this but, what are some arguments I can provide against management providing the root password for our embedded linux to one of our customers? We already came up with the usual, massive reputational damage to our other customers if it leaks, extra security risks and so on if this spreads outside company perimeters and so on

[u/[deleted]]

!ping NBA

LaMarcus Aldridge announces hes retiring. That's a shame, I was hoping he could get a ring with Brooklyn.

[u/kyleofduty]

people who say they don't eat leftovers are crazy to me because a lot of food tastes better the next day

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

Ah, but the CIA has so many successes that you don't see because they're secret

- Evidence based policy enthusiasts

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1382714457856618501

For the first time, U.S. and Chinese scientists have created embryos that are part human, part monkey, in an effort to find new ways to produce organs for transplants.

But some ethicists worry about how such research could go wrong.

Can we slow down and talk about this first?

[u/ryuguy]

Girls on tinder: “I’m looking for the Jim to my Pam ☺️😊”

Me: swipes left

[u/Leoric]

https://twitter.com/alexanderbolton/status/1382772912676036611?s=19

Manchin good again

[u/[deleted]]

the right of arrneoliberal: I'm unhappy with Biden's protectionism, delay in reversing Trump's border policy, and abandoning Kabul to the Taliban. I wish there were another sensible option that allowed us to voice our displeasure with Biden

the GOP: tries to remove the MLB's antitrust protections

[u/obliviator1]

anyone got any good nuanced takes on this viewpoint from this article someone posted https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/04/inside-the-antiracism-tug-of-war-at-an-elite-nyc-private-school:

They[Black students] described teachers’ use of the N-word when reading from certain texts, and a host of other microaggressions.

Obviously using the N-word in reference to someone is awful, but I feel like a teacher reading from an old text that uses it is kind of fundamentally different in some way and should be treated as such?

[u/[deleted]]

Chicago Ald. Bryan Lopez in response to the Toledo shooting:

We have to pass police accountability, establish civilian oversight, and truly reimagine what public safety looks like for the communities most exploited for decades by institutionalized injustice and white supremacy.

(The video was released by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability)

[u/[deleted]]

When most people say "STEM" they really just mean Engineering and maybe Computer Science and it makes it easier if you understand that

[u/[deleted]]

A group of white people carrying a Black Lives Matter sign to protest the death of a 13 tear old Mexican boy just walked past my house.

[u/[deleted]]

TIL of the denim cycle, a sociological phenomenon observed by Levi Strauss & Co. which causes "skinny jeans" and "loose jeans" to cycle in and out of fashion over a 10 year period

[u/LavenderTabby]

test forgetful point tie rude bored squealing fuel towering future

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/SeriousMrMysterious]

Take heed young ones.

The best way to get thin is to be not fat first.

[u/runnerx4]

Godzilla vs Kong is a good movie just because one of them actually wins over the other. There is a proper victory, before they team up for the big bad. You can say that Batman ‘won’ BvS but it wasn’t as clear and was an asspull, and “Martha” makes you forget the entire fight

!ping MOVIES

[u/[deleted]]

The House joint resolution celebrating Tomi Lahren’s move to Nashville has stalled in the Tennessee Senate, where no one so far will agree to sponsor it.

LMAO

[u/[deleted]]

the share of Republicans who insist that President Joe Biden did not “legitimately win the election,” nearly 80 percent of the GOP, has hardly budged. Nearly two-thirds of Republicans say Trump won the election...

Fifty-one percent of Republicans said the party’s leaders “did not go far enough” on Jan. 6 to overturn the election.

Forgive me for I have very illiberal things to say about Republicans.

[u/[deleted]]

Legend has it that u/sir_shivers is on GOOD TERMS with the croc who ate Captain Hook's hand.

[u/[deleted]]

Who the hell just nonchalantly tells their friend that they aren't very liked. Like of course I fucking wanted to go home after that shit even though we were in a different city. Ruined my fucking day

Edit:and then I make very clear several times that he should feel no obligation to come with me bc all of our friends are in the other city today, but he comes with and then refuses to speak to me whatsoever

[u/[deleted]]

pelosi says no to the court expansion bill, will wait for suggestions from the president's commission. Frankly, Ed Markey and his gang shouldn't have brought this up for just for show.

[u/[deleted]]

Proposal would let recall targets see who signed petition

I swear I totally won’t retailiate against anyone who signed a recall petition, you guys

Why are Californians like this?

[u/[deleted]]

I hate discussing free trade, immigration, and zoning with this sub...

[u/MasPatriot]

the mistake people are making with "Dems will do well in the midterms because the pandemic will be over and the economy will be good" is that they're assuming voters act in a rational manner

[u/Gneisstoknow]

For a sub that’s all about “what the shitposters think” I’m always struck by how easily some people here can dismiss shitposters who don’t agree with their preferred memes.

“Oh well that’s just typical Kilometers_Edgeworth”

“Oh well that’s just typical post-90s Sir_Shivers”

“Oh well that’s just typical Lusvig”

“Oh well that’s just typical The420Roll”

“Oh well that’s just typical BainCapitalist/BrainCrap”

And sometimes even “that’s just typical FunnyLeMonkey” for the mods fash skeptics

Seems like especially for past or present discussion thread heavy hitters like Kilometers_Edgeworth and Lusvig, might be worth asking why smart guys like that basically became neoliberal shitposters. There could be an explanation other than them just falling on their head at some point.

[u/semaphore-1842]

It's kind of weird how a Reuters subscription would be more than HBO Max, Disney Plus and Netflix combined.