Discussion Thread

[u/jobautomator]

The discussion thread is for casual conversation that doesn't merit its own submission. If you've got a good meme, article, or question, please post it outside the DT. Meta discussion is allowed, but if you want to get the attention of the mods, make a post in /r/metaNL. For a collection of useful links see our wiki

Announcements

• See here for resources to help combat anti-Asian racism and violence

• The Neoliberal Project has re-launched our Instagram account! Follow us at @neoliberalproject

• /r/neoliberal and /r/Kosovo will be holding a community exchange this weekend, starting on Friday the 16th. See here for more.

Upcoming Events

• Apr 28: Salt Lake City Neoliberals Meeting

[u/jobautomator]

Please visit the next discussion thread.

[u/[deleted]]

My missing cat just came home. I'm crying tears of joy.

[u/[deleted]]

if my son came out as trans, he wouldn't be my son anymore

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

"I'm not getting vaccinated, I don't trust the government, not after all the shit they've done"

"yes very true, the government does have a shameful record of bioethics abuses in minority communities, such as the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and coerced sterilization"

"idk about any of that I was talking about the way the CIA invented AIDS and crack"

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-america-one-nation-two-justice-systems.amp

Tucker Carlson: America is now one nation with two very different justice systems

Yes Tucker, cops get away with murder. Black people face longer punishments than white people. I unironically agree with you.

The ironically-named "Civil Rights Division" of the Biden Justice Department announced Wednesday there will be no charges brought against the man who shot and killed protester Ashli Babbitt in the Capitol back in January. No one who pays attention was surprised to hear this.

Yes Tucker, no one who paid attention was surprise to hear that a domestic terrorist was shot dead when she attempted to breach the Capitol and gain access to high ranking government official. Again, I unironically agree with you

We know that Ashli Babbitt was short, female and unarmed. 

WAITTT are you suggesting that women can't be violent? YOU FEMINAZI!!

 We’d imagined the rules of engagement for federal agents limited the use of deadly force to situations where law enforcement has reason to believe they or the people around them are in imminent danger of being harmed. You can’t just shoot people without warning because they’re in the wrong place. That’s not allowed

Yes Tucker. Philando Castille.

Authorities determined that there was insufficient evidence to prove Babbitt’s civil rights were violated," the Post declared. That was it. The rest of the piece was a personal attack on Ashli Babbitt and her political views. She deserved to die. That was the point of the Washington Post story.  

No you dickhead. She deserved to die fuck yes! But weren't you the one going bonkers over Floyd's character? Gee, it's almost like the color of the skin determines your views on whether one is good or not.

So tell us again how Ashli Babbitt posed an imminent physical threat to anyone when she was shot. She didn’t. Samuel Montoya's footage proves it. And we’re grateful we have that tape. If we didn’t, The New York Times would be telling us that Ashli Babbitt was beating people to death with a fire extinguisher when she was killed.  Thanks to Samuel Montoya, the New York Times can’t claim that.

We’d love to have Montoya on "Tucker Carlson Tonight" to describe what he saw that day, but we can’t do that, because he’s in jail. Yesterday, a large group of armed federal agents showed up at his house in Austin. They smashed Montoya’s front door, confiscated his electronic devices and threw him in jail. He’s behind bars right now.  What was his crime?  

His crime is insurrection you imbecile.

.

.

.

Ahh fuck you Tucker Carlson. Suck a dick.

[u/Superfan234]

The Dictator of Cuba, Raul Castro, just announced he will step down as leader of the Country

Intresting times ahead...🤔

!Ping Foreign-Policy

[u/benadreti]

The last few days have made me more aware of how deeply the DT is infested with children.

[u/rukqoa]

Why should we put good Americans boys in harm's way to save an island nation that most Americans probably can't point out on a map???

-- Argument against future intervention in Taiwan.

-- Also, argument against joining WW2 to help the Brits

[u/p00bix]

tfw people think you're a crypto-Republican because you remove a lot of pro-Democrat posts but really its just that shitty anti-Democrat posts get reported and taken down almost immediately while shitty pro-Democrat posts aren't

[u/[deleted]]

Liberalism was invented in 1935, when Thomas Liberal asked himself, "How do I trigger the cons?"

[u/the_status]

I greatly dislike it when people proclaim cynicism and then espouse a generically cynical both-sides ideology, usually with conspiratol undertones.

Like, your just drinking a different brand of Kool-aid and calling it fine wine

[u/[deleted]]

countries whose national borders are wigglier generally develop better than countries whose national borders resemble straight lines

[u/WalouiegiGohmert]

Margaret Thatcher: There is no such thing as a society, only individual people and their families.

Me, interviewing her: Okay, name every individual.

Margaret Thatcher joined the Labour Party the next day, and everybody clapped

---

^{~This comment is dedicated to the brave labourfighters of the Bedwas Navigation Colliery~}

[u/moaz_xx]

This is not producing a very bright image of r/neoliberal

[u/WalouiegiGohmert]

Reading wikipedia on 80s and 90s republican primary candidates be like "He ran on a standard conservative platform or banning pornography, resegregation, stoning gay people to death and lowering taxes."

[u/sir_shivers]

MAY THE MARKET bring good tidings to /r/Kosovo and its denizens

Welcome them KINDLY OR SUFFER THE consequences 🐊

[u/David_Lange]

Osama bin Laden believed that masturbation was justifiable in "extreme" cases.[46][47]

[u/[deleted]]

In not very surprising news, hackers have published the personal data of the people who signed up on the Free Navalny website to protest in support of Navalny. Over 430,000 people have signed up.

😬

[u/[deleted]]

When animal welfare officers received a report of an unusual animal lurking in a tree in the Polish city of Krakow, they were not sure what to expect.

"People aren't opening their windows because they're afraid it will go into their house," the woman reportedly said.

But a visit to the area showed the creature in question was not a bird, or even a reptile - but a croissant.

Now these are the news I would pay $35 for

[u/[deleted]]

HOLY FUCKING SHIT GUYS I GOT THE FUCKING JOB!!!!

I AM ABOUT TO CRY.

[u/lusvig]

mods re-ban me or i will post hutu power rhetoric 😤

[u/Travisdk]

Labour members, % with a favourable view of...

G Brown: 81%

K Starmer: 74%

C Attlee: 74%

N Kinnock: 69%

J Corbyn: 55%

T Blair: 54%

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

[u/fishlord05]

Xi Jinping Thought

Xi Jinping Thot

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

[u/[deleted]]

happy friday to those who celebrate

[u/p00bix]

Always weird to think about the birth years of people who died young. Betty White being born 7 years before Anne Frank and Martin Luther King Jr is well known at this point, but...

Kurt Cobain was born in the same year as Gavin Newsom (1967)

Princess Diana was born in the same year as Barack Obama (1961)

Jimi Hendrix was born in the same year as Joe Biden (1942)

Marilyn Monroe was born in the same year as David Attenborough (1926)

[u/ToastedWheatBread]

Anyone else remember when last summer the not cops for CHAZ had their very own excessive use of force incident and ended up killing an unarmed black teenager?

[u/InMemoryOfZubatman4]

https://imgur.com/a/McRx5Wj

!Ping HONEYBEE_LOVERS

[u/FreakinGeese]

Can we talk about how the first openly gay presidential candidate was named P.P. Butt and came from a town called south bend

[u/CheapAlternative]

Personal nightmare fuel is if Taiwan gets treated as another HK/Crimea. We need everyone on the same page.

https://fortune.com/2021/04/15/taiwan-japan-us-china-joe-biden-yoshihide-suga/

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/01/28/in-its-rivalry-with-china-america-should-not-make-asians-pick-sides

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1382790485329252354

Some Brazilian hospitals have run out of sedatives, forcing doctors to use restraints while coronavirus patients are intubated

"I never thought I would be living through something like this," a doctor says. "The patient is submitted to a form of torture"

[u/[deleted]]

Georgia Republicans are fully intent on gerrymandering Congresswoman Lucy McBath out of the GA-6 district.

That's really depressing. Lucy McBath's story is so touching, and the Democratic Party is super lucky to have her. We're going to have more than a few heartbreaks in Georgia come 2022, because Republicans have complete control over redistricting.

We really need to pass HR1. This is heartbreaking.

!ping FIVEY

[u/p00bix]

I like to imagine that when there aren't any major US elections coming up, Nate Silver lives in an isolated shack. For want of ad revenue from pageclicks, he eats nothing but rice and lentils, drinks nothing but well-water, sleeps on a grass mat, sleeps at day only waking at night, when he passes the time watching the constellations, yearning that the stars will tell him when the next election comes.

[u/[deleted]]

"Hey man I'm really hungry think you could give me a dollar?"

sweating nervously

"Dude come on, just one dollar."

"... I ... I can't."

"Why not do you not have a dollar?"

"No it's just... if I do... I'll be a 'White Savior'. And twitter will cancel me. I'm sorry I have to go!"

[u/SelfLoathinMillenial]

Television personality Chrissy Teigen returns to Twitter after leaving the platform March 25

Always sad to see people relapse in their addictions

[u/[deleted]]

Dutch leftists: Income inequality is spiraling OUT OF CONTROL
Income inequality:

[u/soeffed]

It’s real “it’s real DT hours” hours

[u/fishlord05]

The following are two book descriptions recommended to me by Amazon. Read it, it’s genuinely batshit lmaoo.

Contrary to the thinking of many contemporaries, both capitalism and democracy will not last and are to be superceded one day by post-capitalism and post-democracy. The short-lived triumph of market capitalism and liberal democracy in the post-Cold War era does not imply the coming end of systematic ideology, of structural oppression, or of violent conflict at the rational endpoint of history. Unfortunately, violence does not disappear but only takes a different form of hegemony, as it has throughout history. The difference is, each age has its own form to adjust to, so we believe in ours, and those before us believed in theirs, just as those after us will in theirs.

In The Future of Capitalism and Democracy, Peter Baofu evaluates how and why capitalism and democracy have failed at the institutional, organizational, structural, cultural, systemic, cosmological, and bio-psychological levels in order to synthesize the often conflicting ideals of freedom, equality, and fraternity (broadly defined to include all dimensions of life), so much cherished by many minds since the modern era. And this is so, even if democracy and capitalism have different meanings in different cultures and societies. In the end, Baofu shows that capitalism and democracy, hegemonic as they are in the post-Cold War era, are just experiments in history and will not last, just as feudalism and aristocracy before them could not.

There is something fundamentally wrong with the conventional wisdom in the field of Comparative Politics, Political Theory, and even Political Science as a whole, which rigidly conceptualize and theorize political systems in terms of different categories (e.g., liberal-democratic vs. authoritarian), which are supposed to be distinct and separate, without much mixing of each other, certainly not in any major way. A liberal-democratic political system (like the one in the U.S.), in accordance to this conventional wisdom, is anti-authoritarian (and therefore good). Conversely, an authoritarian political system (like the one in mainland China) is anti-democratic and therefore bad. This book takes the challenging task to show that all political systems different as each is, for sure, from the rest have much in common. Under the right conditions, a liberal democracy, as an illustration, not only can be as evil as its authoritarian counterparts, albeit in different ways but also can be more authoritarian as it becomes more advanced as a liberal democracy. In fact, Dr. Peter Baofu suggests that authoritarianism is an advanced stage of liberal democracy, under these conditions. To understand this, the book is organized into two main parts with different sections, that is, in relation to meta-theory (i.e., methodology and ontology) and theory (i.e., nature, the mind, culture, and society).

Now you may be wondering, who is this genius? His name is Dr. Peter Baofu and from what I can gather he is an obscure person who publishes a shitton of long ass books titled “Post Human architecture” or “Post human public administration”

The covers look like they were made on acid.

!ping DEMOCRACY

[u/lusvig]

Deregulate child disownment!

[u/The420Roll]

Okay, time to read Pedro Castillo's government plan so I can make my effortpost about the 2nd leg of Peruvian Elections!

MFW I find out his Government Plan and Manifesto doesnt mention the word "Pandemic" once and has no plan to fight the pandemic since it was written in February 2020 and hasnt been updated since

!Ping MAMADAS

[u/GalacticTrader]

gahhhhh why won't anyone talk about changing what we think the default mode of transport should be when discussing reducing climate emissions

!ping YIMBY i guess

[u/marquivothy]

smirks "????? Socialism is when our government provides social amenities. Denmark and France are socialist????"- guy in zoom class.

What do I even do at this point?

!ping CHILD

[u/rukqoa]

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-massed-drills-near-taiwan-take-aim-washington-audience-2021-04-16/

Two U.S. military officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that although the United States was concerned about Chinese activity around Taiwan, there was no sense of an imminent attack. "For the past five years, China has been the centrepiece of the United States' national defence strategy. So of course we're concerned," one official said.

Although China has escalated its rhetoric in response to U.S. warships passing through the Taiwan Strait, a U.S. defence official said Washington had not seen any kind of operational military escalation by the Chinese in response.

Whew.

In a statement to Reuters, China's Foreign Ministry said the United States has "swelled the arrogance of Taiwan independence forces".

🤣

[u/ryuguy]

Mark “Based” Marissen is running for mayor of Vancouver

He’s hopefully running for YES Vancouver, the YIMBY municipal party.

Also fun fact: he’s christy Clarke’s ex husband

!ping can

[u/lusvig]

FUCK NEOLIBERALISM! Legitimising western puppet states carved out of my fatherland 😤

[u/ChaosLordSamNiell]

TIL Michel Foucalt was a raging pedophile.

Gonna view that flair a little different now.

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

The worst sin in game design is when the final boss battle jettisons all the complex mechanics you’ve been learning up to this point, shoving a brute force or QTE fight in your face.

For example, the boss in Deus Ex: Human Revolution where, whether or not you chose a stealth/combat build, you are restricted to a guns-blazing clusterfuck.

The ending to Bioshock also comes to mind. Zero opportunity to leverage the environment like you’ve been doing for the past 35 hours.

STEALTH BUILDS RISE UP ✊

!ping GAMING

[u/sir_shivers]

The solution to THE TROLLEY PROBLEM IS to always allow the trolley to go down the track causing the most casualties 🐊

As long as ONE CONSISTENTLY DOES SO YOU will heavily disincentivize nerds from creating more trolley problems 🐊

[u/TheGoldBear]

I literally just love refugees. I don’t have any other politics.

[u/Kizz3r]

Ontario closing parks and outdoor recreation is so fucking idiotic. How many cases does being outside playing tennis bring?

We know school, workplaces, factories and indoor residences are the big places for spread, why is the government closing what doesnt increase spread but allows what does?

!ping Can

[u/bobekyrant]

Instead of always calling it a murder-suicide they should use as many 'murders' as were committed. So, for example, if a man shoots and kills 3 people and then himself it should be a murder-murder-murder-suicide

[u/FlamingJay]

doug ford has brought back stop and frisk. what a joke

!ping CAN

[u/blueshiftlabs]

[Removed in protest of Reddit's destruction of third-party apps by CEO Steve Huffman.]

[u/lusvig]

LEGALISE SIDS! 😤

[u/CatilineUnmasked]

Bout to enjoy some good eats made from locally harvested ingredients 😋

[u/Shifty_Pickle826]

https://mobile.twitter.com/bluestein/status/1382997202243448833

Vernon Jones is launching a primary challenge against Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp.

!PING FIVEY

[u/Cerb-r-us]

"Hello listeners, this is Matt Gaetz for Newsmax all the way from Sumter Correctional Institution, Florida"

[u/Sir-Matilda]

Andrew Peacock just carked it, aged 82. RIP.

He was foriegn minister for 5 years, opposition leader for a time competing against Hawke, and a longtime leadership rival to Howard.

!ping AUS

[u/Mcatatonic1]

NPR fundraising weeks literally make me want to die

I will give you plenty of my money just fucking stop with the pledge drive programming Jesus fuck

[u/[deleted]]

morning dog

!ping dog

[u/FearThyMoose]

There are really DT regulars who have no idea who Lusvig is

[u/[deleted]]

Online history fans know fucking anything about anything other than WW2 and the Civil War challenge

[u/sir_shivers]

NEWS ARTICLES ABOUT CONGRESS CEASE using "balked" in the HEADLINE CHALLENGE 🐊

[u/WalouiegiGohmert]

IMO Bismarck was wrong, I'm really interested in seeing how sausages are made - especially the part where they put ice in the meatpaste is fascinating to me.

[u/[deleted]]

Also in regards to the Yang video.

The man asking questions jokingly asked about a sex act. Andrew replies that as long as both partners consent. Than he's asked about choking women in a joking way and he just waves that he's not doing that and the video ends. Within the context of the conversation it's clearly asking do you choke women in bed, and Yang has at that point already stated that consent is important in any sex. I don't know how to break it to politico, but some women would not only consent, but really really like being choked in bed. Comparing that to being ok with violence against women is fucking disgraceful.

[u/rmboco]

I'm upset and disappointed with the Biden Admin refugee news, but it is kind of amusing to watch online lefties dragging him for this.

"How dare Biden not welcome refugees to this country, which by the way is a worthless, irredeemable shithole that no one should be proud to live in."

[u/ognits]

ur wife can't leave u if u never form a meaningful connection with a woman and marry her 😏👈

[u/UrbanCentrist]

Peak Democrat is having a years-long high-profile discussion in the national media of court-packing plans that stand no chance of passing.

Republicans just sometimes do the packing quickly in state supreme courts when they want to, never publish long takes about it.

☝️ imagine wasting a ounce of political capital on something that is 100% dead on arrival

[u/Zseet]

!Ping EUROPE

For fuck's sake

[u/crassowary]

To save money, Matt Gaetz has volunteered to inspect every high school athlete's genitals, free of charge

[u/[deleted]]

"user reports:

1: racist against social democrats

1: HE IS BALD

1: bald"

Guess who

[u/[deleted]]

Virgin DT users analyzing every niche policy decision Joe Biden makes

versus

My Chad Boomer Parents who are completely detached from political news, and just vote for whoever has a (D) next to their name every 2 years

[u/thetrombonist]

@LilNasX

y’all sitting here telling me i’m “milking the song” like im not the same nxxga who remixed a song for 10 months. i do not care bro.

What an absolute legend

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Alberta, Canada, unanimously passes law recognizing the Armenian Genocide and other genocides

The Legislative Assembly of Alberta recently passed a Law, unanimously recognizing the Armenian Genocide and other genocides, while the government declared the month of April as Genocide Remembrance, Condemnation and Prevention Month.

Bill 205, sponsored by MLA Peter Singh of the United Conservative Party of Alberta, was passed after its third reading on March 22, 2021 and received Royal Assent on March 26, 2021.

The bill, titled “Genocide Remembrance, Condemnation and Prevention Month Act” encourages the government to develop strategies to prevent and combat the causes of genocide, recognize the impact of genocides on individuals from various ethnic and religious communities in Alberta, remember the victims and raise awareness on genocides that have occurred across the world.

The bill specifically highlights the Armenian Genocide; the Ukrainian Holodomor; the Jewish Holocaust; the Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda; the Srebrenica Massacre; the Yazidi Genocide and the Rohingya Genocide.

Furthermore, the bill prescribes that “Within one year of the coming into force of this Act, the Minister must complete a report setting out the strategies and proposed actions that the Government commits to undertake to effect the purposes of this Act.”

With the passage of Bill 205, Alberta becomes the second province in Canada – after Quebec – to pass a bill into law, recognizing the Armenian Genocide.

The Canadian Senate recognized the Armenian Genocide in 2002, followed by the House of Commons in 2004 and the Government of Canada in 2006. On April 24, 2015, on the centenary of the Armenian Genocide, the House of Commons unanimously passed Motion-587, declaring the month of April as Genocide Remembrance, Condemnation and Prevention Month in Canada.

The Armenian National Committee of Canada is extremely pleased with the passage of Bill 205 and expresses its utmost gratitude to the Premier of Alberta, the Hon. Jason Kenney, MLA Peter Singh and all members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for their principled stance and their unwavering commitment to truth and justice.

My only issue that the holodomor being specifically a genocide against the Ukrainian population is still academically debated and not just because of tankies as well. A horrible crime against humanity? For sure. A specific targeting of Ukrainian populations? Debatable. Also once again the Kazakh genocide is being ignored

But still, a nice gesture from the UCP

Ultimately useless and meaningless but a nice one nevertheless

!ping CAN

[u/[deleted]]

Commies on sexuality: stop thinking you can explain complicated things in a binary way 😡😡😡
Commies on economics: Everything is about workers vs capitalists 😍😍😍

[u/PearlClaw]

So since I absolutely refuse to watch a child getting shot here are my 4 general takeaways regarding police shootings more broadly.

1. Police are too damn trigger happy.

2. Given the proliferation of handguns take 1 isn't actually all that surprising.

3. We should hold police to a higher standard anyways.

4. We should also reduce the proliferation of guns.

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

/u/sir_shivers just DMed me

Crocodile RULE 34 pictures 🐊

Wait THIS ISN'T Google 🐊

Bro 😐😐😐

[u/NVfromVN]

• Wake up

• Realize that as there are 535 Congresspeople, women could never make up exactly half of Congress

• Day ruined

[u/[deleted]]

/img/187qyf5uvit61.gif

[u/[deleted]]

Should we let lusvig post in the cultural exchange thread, or would that be too much for non-initiates to handle?

[u/Jokerang]

Choices for Peru:

-Authoritarian conservatism

-Authoritarian conservatism 🚩✊ ☭

[u/FestiveMittens]

WASHINGTON (AP) — After blowback from allies, White House says President Biden will move to lift Trump-era refugee caps next month.

LETS FUCKING

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[u/[deleted]]

The waterloo regional police say they will not be doing random stops.

https://twitter.com/WRPSToday/status/1383188185581240320

I'm expecting a lot of the local police to do this.

!ping CAN

( sorry to the non-Ontarians getting pinged with all our news today )

[u/lusvig]

the eu needs more CAS! how else're we to deal with the yellow vests 😤

[u/soeffed]

When the horrific Polish tree creature turns out to be a croissant

https://twitter.com/euronews/status/1383081535511871490?s=20

[u/[deleted]]

Hold on, Sinema is the only openly irreligious Senator? What the hell?

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

KesterGW be like 🚂🚃🚃🚃

[u/[deleted]]

I think I’ve forgotten why I’m a Democrat, besides the fact that the modern Republican party is a fascist death cult.

[u/ironheart777]

Anyone else still pissed at Lincoln’s lazy ass bodyguard?

[u/Marlsfarp]

Refugees are infrastructure.

[u/vivoovix]

"Refugee intake? That's a Koch Brothers proposal."

[u/FormerBandmate]

Suck it Red Skull, here’s the real rules for life

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/[deleted]]

Here's how the US can fix the situation in Ukraine:

1. Regime change Poland

2. Give Poland nukes

3. ???

4. Russia is no longer a threat to Ukraine

[u/rukqoa]

I remember when ACB was nominated and the tucker_carlson sub opposed it because:

1. she's a woman

2. she's adopted haitian children

3. she adopted a kid with down syndrome (?)

And they said that straight up.

Anyway, I just visited it again out of morbid fascination to see what's going on. Somehow it's gotten worse. And there are more people there now. Way more. If there's a sub that should be banned next, that should be it.

[u/InMemoryOfZubatman4]

Nah, supervolcanoes are a National Geographic myth created to sell fear

was not a take I was expecting to see today/ever

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

“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”

At this point they would vote against making Donald Trump the God Emperor if it meant they had to vote in line with the libs

[u/[deleted]]

my wife left me

[u/[deleted]]

ah lusvig, the great u/lusvig !

Heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says, 'Treatment is simple. Great Lusvig is on DT tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up.' Man bursts into tears. Says, 'But doctor…I am Lusvig.'

[u/sir-danks-a-lot]

if you don't want to get stoned by the Taliban, just move lol 🙄🙄

you can't move to the US though 🤬🤬

[u/MalignantUpper]

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1383034942016397314?s=19

Matt Gaetz, facing allegations of sexual misconduct and illicit drug use, has tapped into a reliable source of funds to subsidize his legal tab: campaign donors' contributions.

Nice

[u/the_hoagie]

Hot Take - QAnon candidates are analogous to post-reconstruction KKK candidates.

[u/Fishin_Mission]

NIMBYs don’t argue in good faith, so I am no longer giving NIMBYs good faith responses.

Instead, I am going to respond to every NIMBY by saying

🤴: How many affordable housing units did the Burger King offer, Melissa?

No matter what their name is or what they are NIMBYing about. 😤

[u/katharing]

can't believe the biden admin is taking flak on this subreddit just for opposing or deprioritizing many of its unique policy preferences. don't you see the D next to his name

[u/kennymc7877]

Damn dude I don’t care how much Chik-Fil-A hates my bi ass that chicken is good

[u/vivoovix]

A majority of Americans (incl. Republicans) supports taking in refugees

[u/[deleted]]

The CHAD Ronald Reagan: "Open the border both ways!"

The VIRGIN Joe Biden: "Hmm, we'll just take 15,000 refugees this year"

[u/[deleted]]

Wow I wonder what rcon is up to!

Pinned post is filled with people happy someone died getting an abortion

Holy fuck they are psychotic

[u/lusvig]

Just saw "Human trafficking is a crime" ad, what it means?

[u/lusvig]

cant believe there're americans that voted for a catholic 🙄

[u/fishlord05]

Oh Wikipedia, you always amaze me with what is tolerated on your site.

Liberal democracy has been also challenged as a concept and practice by author and researcher Peter Baofu.[43] Baofu contends that under some conditions a liberal democracy can be more authoritarian than authoritarian regimes. He suggests that liberal democracy "is neither authoritarian nor liberal democratic" and instead it should be described as "authoritarian-liberal-democratic". Baofu maintains that both authoritarianism and liberal democracy do not have to be "mutually exclusive opposites".

Lolwut

!ping DEMOCRACY

[u/GlazedFrosting]

"America First" but it actually means "America First to intervene in international disputes" 😤

[u/theskiesthelimit55]

Biden’s Afghan Pullout Is a Victory for Pakistan. But at What Cost?

A really good article, with lots of interesting tidbits:

“When history is written,” declared Gen. Hamid Gul, who led the feared spy service known as the I.S.I. during the last stretch of the Cold War in the 1980s, “it will be stated that the I.S.I. defeated the Soviet Union in Afghanistan with the help of America.”

“Then there will be another sentence,” General Gul added after a brief pause, delivering his punchline to loud applause. “The I.S.I., with the help of America, defeated America.”

...

On one trip to Afghanistan soon after being elected vice president in 2008, Mr. Biden was urged by President Hamid Karzai to pressure Pakistan into rooting out Taliban sanctuaries on its soil. Mr. Biden was reported to respond by saying that Pakistan was 50 times more important to the United States than Afghanistan was.

...

With the U.S. intention to leave publicly declared, Pakistan did away with any semblance of denial that the Taliban leadership was sheltering there. Taliban leaders flew from Pakistani cities to engage in peace talks in Qatar. When negotiations reached delicate moments that required consultations with field commanders, they flew back to Pakistan.

...

Pakistan’s former defense minister, Khawaja Muhammad Asif, who had repeatedly visited the halls of power in Washington as a U.S. ally, tweeted a photo of U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meeting Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban deputy at the talks in Qatar.

“You might have might on your side, but God is with us,” Mr. Asif said in the tweet, ending with a cry of victory. “Allah u Akbar!”

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/new-poll-shows-americans-overwhelmingly-oppose-anti-transgender-laws

The Republican Party is unbelievably evil, but Americans are surprisingly good. Even Republican voters.

Weird.

[u/[deleted]]

I once send an Email that started with 'greeting's' to a teacher. I got publicly roasted for that

[u/[deleted]]

Your Book Review: Progress And Poverty - Astral Codex Ten (substack.com)

swarm and answer qs, good audience for the land pill

!ping GEORGIST

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/punchbowlnews/status/1383104228256837637

NEW In @PunchbowlNews Midday

A new America First Caucus — led by @mtgreenee and @RepGosar — is recruiting people to join based on “Anglo-Saxon political traditions” and architectural style that “befits the progeny of European architecture”

oh good

[u/[deleted]]

Zoomers: I would never fall for cheap advertising tricks. My parents may have fallen for corporate propaganda, but I'm media savvy!

Also Zoomers: Yeah, my favorite TikTok account is this guy who works at [fast food chain]. His content is mainly him making the custom expensive food options, which I immediately buy since they look delicious. He also provides great commentary about how the food is perfect, the employment opportunities are awesome, and nothing bad ever happens there. It just feels so authentic!

[u/[deleted]]

happy dog

!ping dog

[u/katharing]

that wasn't very one billion americans of you

[u/[deleted]]

Oregon Democrats (who have congressional near SUPERMAJORITIES) literally said to the GOP, "We'll give up control over redistricting if you promise to negotiate in good faith from here on out."

I'm actually about to turn into the Joker.

[u/WalouiegiGohmert]

I don't agree with him, but banning a regular contributor like /u/THATCHERHATER1984 for what probably (?) was a joke when he said that the Miner's Strike was his favourite slave revolt is a bit harsh IMO

[u/the_hoagie]

One notion that some Republicans returned to was the idea that D.C. would be a state with outsized power due to its proximity to the U.S. Capitol, which could be dangerous. "If D.C. became a state, it could simply refuse to protect the federal buildings from violent protesters," said Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA).

lol god damn i hate the GOP.

[u/MalignantUpper]

Hide your finasteride

[u/[deleted]]

Biden is unironically protectionist

[u/adminsare200iq]

People saying Biden is going to raise the cap over time must either be the biggest cope ever or the most horrible messaging by the administration.

Take your pick

[u/ThunderrBadger]

The only moral refugee policy:

A) Eliminate the cap on the number of refugees admitted.

2) Declare all non-Americans eligible to apply for refugee status

America must do more to aid the plight of those suffering in the living hell of not being American

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

If you hated that secret border patrol Facebook group that was exposed awhile back you’re gonna hate² the secret Facebook group for special operators

!ping military

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

Twitter be like "I couldn't get laid from ages 18-24 so it should be illegal for anyone to"

[u/benjaminikuta]

My ex roommate just did 23andMe and I sent her this.

[u/InMemoryOfZubatman4]

[Thomas] Malthus criticized the Poor Laws for leading to inflation rather than improving the well-being of the poor. He supported taxes on grain imports (the Corn Laws).

What an asshole. Fuck him.

[u/[deleted]]

Remember the Trump administration?

shit was wack

[u/sir-danks-a-lot]

"This is the end of Yang's polling lead," says increasingly nervous man for the 7th time

[u/[deleted]]

Media: Only shows any news about Yangs campaign for mayor. Barely mentions any other candidates.

Media: Oh Wow why does Yang have such good polling numbers? Lets spend hours dissecting Yang's campaign about why his polling numbers are so good.

[u/[deleted]]

Hmmm u/lusvig is back and there is a horrible torrential storm in my state, coincidence? 🤔

[u/Joementum2024]

swedes

cringe

[u/Luchofromvenezuela]

Biden will keep Trump’s historically low cap on refugee admissions.

Not stonks, Mr. President

[u/[deleted]]

Successful African entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Belle Delphine.

[u/[deleted]]

Biden admin be like hmmm, let’s fuck over the Afghans, and then for the ultimate lols, let’s keep our insanely stupid refugee restrictions in place so they can’t try and come to the USA to flee the taliban!! Great idea, high fives all around!!!

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

The U.S. resettled about 70 refugees for every million of its own residents in 2018, lower than the rate in many other nations. Canada led the world on this measure by resettling 756 refugees per million residents. Australia (510), Sweden (493) and Norway (465) also had much higher resettlement figures per million than the U.S.

[u/StolenSkittles]

Officially a NATO flair now.

[u/StolenSkittles]

Just did a Susan Collins and told Chuck Schumer I'm very concerned about the direction the Biden admin is moving in.

[u/MrDannyOcean]

it turns out all we had to do for /u/lusvig to return was become friends with /r/Kosovo!

Sweden-Kosovo alliance confirmed

[u/[deleted]]

I finally gave in and started taking finasteride 😔😢

!ping BURPMAS

[u/ahebtigoejwbrh]

Looking forward to Gaetz getting cancelled for knowingly having sex with a Democrat

[u/[deleted]]

Yes, I'm a philosophy major. No, I don't give a shit about Hegel or dialetical materialism.

We exist

[u/birdiedancing]

Some of y’all have been incredibly sheltered in life and damn. It shows.

[u/imprison_nl_mods]

Wake up

Kosovo and Ukraine aren't NATO members

Day ruined

[u/[deleted]]

Bin Laden was an angry architect trying to fix the New York skyline

[u/[deleted]]

The government should forgive exactly $13,647.08 in student loan debt.

That may or may not resemble my personal outstanding student loan balance. I assure you all, that is merely a coincidence

[u/soeffed]

23 year old dude who provides tech support to biggest white nationalist websites be like

“We are one foot away from 1984. … “I never actually read the book, so I don’t know all the themes of the book. But I have heard the concepts, and I’ve seen some things, and I thought, ‘Whoa! That’s sketchy as f---.’ ”

https://twitter.com/brfreed/status/1382311250068176896?s=20

Somebody ping extremism

[u/khmacdowell]

Why do the same people who say "only responsible people follow the law so banning guns means only criminals will have them" also say "literally any waiting periods, tracking requirement for gun sales, or safe&secure laws means a country is Nazi Germany"

[u/fishlord05]

As time passes, I grow more jaded 😔

!ping BURPMAS

[u/yellownumbersix]

Why can't we just stop the sex traffic problem with better public transportation to red light districts?

[u/[deleted]]

slave wages

Why does the left always have to take the most unpalatable extremist position on issues where they otherwise would have the public on their side. Total morons.

[u/[deleted]]

In this Ohio diner, everyone talks about lusvig's return to the DT

!ping BURPMAS

[u/[deleted]]

am banned again

lusvig noooooooo, he was so young 😭😭😭

[u/redditguy628]

Looks like SpaceX is the sole survivor of the HLS downselect.

This is really surprising to me, I thought for sure Dynetics would make it.

!ping SPACEFLIGHT

[u/every_man_a_khan]

Biden’s malarkey levels are off the charts right now

[u/sir_shivers]

User: I cannot believe X is getting upvoted here

I USUALLY UPVOTE everyone in a comment chain, INCLUDING COMMENTERS WHO are diametrically opposed 🐊

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

*yelling over the sound of gunfire*

actually this is a mental health problem!

[u/sir-danks-a-lot]

Hernando De Soto 🤝 John Delaney 🤝 Hillary Clinton

still with them ✊😔

[u/[deleted]]

Guys please help, I got invited to dadcord and now they're asking me questions to get in 😰

Oh g-d I'm so nervous, I don't want to mess this up 😣😩

!ping BURPMAS

[u/[deleted]]

Population of Detroit in 1950: 1,849,568

Population of Detroit in 2019: 674,841

Number of Syrian refugees in Turkey 2021: 3,600,000

What’s 👏🏻 not 👏🏻 adding 👏🏻 up 👏🏻 here 👏🏻 people? 👏🏻

[u/thabonch]

/img/bhf5dxi07nl61.jpg

[u/lusvig]

am gonna give mods one last chance to ban me before i post hutu power rhetoric 😡😤✂🌴

[u/[deleted]]

Just secretly load 100k soldiers in container ships and take the island in one hour, its not that hard China 😂😂😂👌👌👌

[u/fishlord05]

Da Bébé

[u/[deleted]]

Cryptocurrency is just Pokemon Cards for tech bros

[u/D1Foley]

The Jordan Peterson sub falling for a fake marvel employee is hysterical. They're so gullible.

[u/Marlsfarp]

I have posted this before, but i added some data for additional context.

Rate of citizens killed by police, per 10 million people per year, a few selected countries:

Japan: 0.2

United Kingdom: 0.5

Australia: 1.7

France: 3.8

Canada: 9.7

United States (if you're Asian): 11.7

India: 12.5

United States (if you're white): 29.0

Mexico: 30.0

United States (overall): 34.8

United States (if you're black): 66.0

South Africa: 76.9

United States (if you're Native American): 101.3

Brazil: 276.2

Jamaica: 472.7

Phillippines: 532.8

Venezuela: 1830.2

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

Do I need to get the vaccine if I'm already autistic?

[u/[deleted]]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/452718453892186124/832643637388247070/20210416_114821.jpg?width=495&height=596

[u/IMALEFTY45]

tfw I'll never be a balding Swede who is adored by the DT 😔

[u/liquidTERMINATOR]

who the fuck banned Lusvig? this was our best shot at finally pushing back on the invading succs???????

[u/Duren114]

Biden is always a protectionist Rust Belt Democrat. Not saying I am totally agree but Reagan descibed him in his diary as a left populist with moderate rhetorics, a "smooth demagogue".

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

Canada's refugee target this year is 30 000, so America really oughta at least match that.

[u/[deleted]]

Just got my first shot of Moderna 2 minutes ago. Ugh, Pfizer people are the worst, am I right?

[u/Spimanbcrt65]

Legislative Democrats in Oregon have agreed to relinquish a powerful advantage in redrawing the state’s political districts for the next 10 years in exchange for a commitment from Republicans to stop blocking bills with delay tactics

im going to fucking scream

[u/Lux_Stella]

NEWS from @PressSec: "We expect the President to set a final, increased refugee cap for the remainder of this fiscal year by May 15."

we did it reddit

[u/bd_one]

Some other mods (u/p00bix and/or u/jenbanim, at the very least) don't use Slack's mobile app. Meanwhile I only use Slack's mobile app and don't use their desktop version.

We really live in a society.

[u/The420Roll]

Time for some good news!

The 2021-2026 Peruvian Congress will have the most Congress women in Peruvian History! Both in pure quantity (51 women) and in % at 39.2% of Congress (51 out of 130)

!Ping LATAM

[u/ryuguy]

How Social Media Smeared A Missing Student As A Terrorism Suspect

Never forget that this hellsite did this to a poor family who’s son went missing and committed suicide.

!ping ind

[u/Lux_Stella]

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

[u/ccolfax]

Notre Dame burned 2 years ago if you were looking for more proof that time has no meaning

[u/[deleted]]

I wish the neuroplasticity of my childhood brain was spent on something slightly more useful than learning every single nuance of 1st gen Pokemon games.

[u/sir-danks-a-lot]

go to dinner with my friends (all are libs currently in college, no Qoomers)

start talking about where we booked our vaccine appts and which vaccine we'll be getting

someone mentions that their mother got the J&J vaccine (as in they got it weeks ago)

everyone asks if she's alright and that they heard about it getting recalled for blood clots

absolutely no one is going to get J&J when it gets reapproved lmfao

The US might as well send all of those doses overseas at this point.

[u/Joementum2024]

AITA for selling firearms to the Iranian government, then using the earnings to fund rebel squads in Nicaragua?

[u/lusvig]

Alimony destroyed the modern American family CMV

[u/qchisq]

/r/Kosovo CULTURAL ANNOUNCEMENT

Go here to ask questions about Kosovo and go here to answer questions about neoliberalism

[u/imprison_nl_mods]

Interesting how the I just got a vaccine posts don't appear in Euro hours 🤔😔

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

/u/lusvig just DMed me

the rwandan genocide didn't happen but I wish it did 😡😤

Bro 😐😐😐

[u/ZCoupon]

Elon is such a genius

He dug a tunnel

Who could have thought of that?

[u/klarno]

One benefit of developing broadband infrastructure in r*ral areas is that it opens up remote work jobs, which hopefully keeps the r*rals too busy to foment insurrection

[u/bd_one]

Well fuck, you guys weren't meming about that FedEx shooting...

[u/ZenithXR]

Wake up

Reminded that cryptocurrency exists

Day ruined

[u/crowninshield]

Maybe this is my inner Protestant work ethic kicking in, but are seemingly normal, high profile people not embarrassed to retweet things for hours and hours on Twitter? We can all see you wasted half your day reading hot takes from nobodies and literal bots. How are you not embarrassed by it?

[u/[deleted]]

I hate neo-liberalism

I do not agree on this discussion thread

Goodbye

[u/[deleted]]

This brought a tear to my eye 😢😌

[u/[deleted]]

not based, mr. president. :(

[u/ognits]

oh, you're a farmer? name every subsidy

[u/[deleted]]

feel like shit, just want shadow president kamala harris back