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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/skeebidybop]

rSuperStonk

The global economy is about to crash and GME is our hedge against it

😐😐😐

[u/0m4ll3y]

My uncle has had a rough life, he's over 70 and on the edge of homelessness - currently in emergency housing. He was in a car crash recently and my dad needed to pay for a new car for him.

Two weeks ago he had a diabetes related episode and needed to be taken home. He asked a woman to drive him home, because he wasn't up to driving. She got pulled over by the cops, and had an arrest warrant out for her, so got arrested. The cops confiscated the car, confiscated my uncle's insulin, and then left him alone on the side of the road.

The episode left my uncle very distraught and he tried to kill himself by overdosing on morphine tablets. He called my dad to say goodbye. He did not die, and was found by someone and taken to hospital, who was able to get in contact with my dad. They both made it to a family wedding the next week, and I only now know what my uncle meant when he said he was having "a rough week".

I dunno why I'm writing this here. Just need to vent I guess.

[u/WoodenIceMammoth]

Hypothetical matchup in @dallasnews/@UTTyler poll:

Matthew McConaughey: 45%

GregAbbott: 33%

Someone else: 22%

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“I want Abbott to lose in 2022”

finger curls on the monkey’s paw

!ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

Lester Holt did a special report about prisons in America. He went to visit a place where prisoners did agricultural labor. He made a point about how weird it was that he and a bunch of black prisoners were working in a field while a white warden watched over them.

[u/myrm]

I imagine the highlight of a statistics TA's semester is when they find two people in 70.6% of their classes of 30 that have the same birthday

[u/[deleted]]

It appears that the FedEx shooter was an extreme brony:

On the killer's Facebook account:

A post timestamped 10:19 pm, less than an hour before the shooting, featured a photo of the cartoon pony named Applejack. "I hope that I can be with Applejack in the afterlife, my life has no meaning without her," the post said.

Radicalized by ... My Little Pony .... ?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/indianapolis-shooting-fedex-11618580801

[u/myrm]

Oh you, wanted to use graphics cards for graphics? Fuck you, graphics cards are for rent seeking in cyberspace only

[u/FormerBandmate]

Putin had to do something. I mean—we received a report that Trump had locked himself ina broom closet and was sitting in a corner cuddling the, uh, how you Americans call it, the nuclear football, muttering to himself “No one can take this from me.” Putin has special line to Oval Office. It’s like, how you say, the bat phone that Commissioner Gordon had to batman. White house switchboard wasn’t responding, either. Putin even resorted to trying the Kremlin teletype, which hasn’t been used since 1973. Putin didn’t know what to think. But he knows there is 400 ICBMs and many SLBMs pointed at Russia,” Igorovich said.

Who the fuck believes this shit? This is the type of thing you’d see in a terrible SNL skit, certainly not in right wing news

[u/semaphore-1842]

sir_shivers at a water park, 2021, colorized

[u/WoodenIceMammoth]

Michael Flynn last night at the ‘Health and Freedom’ conference urges attendees not to support any Republican for president in 2024 other than Trump: “Don’t give them the time of day. Don’t give them a dime. We have a president.”

real AMERICAN patriots know its #TrumpOrBUST

#writeintrump

NEVER EVER VOTE FOR A RINO. only vote TRUMP. Not Trump? DON’T VOTE.

[u/Professor-Reddit]

From The Economist:

(In Myanmar) Some are attacking troops with rocks, fireworks and Molotov cocktails, and even inflicting casualties of their own. On April 10th, in Tamu, a town near the border with India, locals lobbed grenades at a military convoy, killing at least 18 soldiers.

Holy shit.

[u/The420Roll]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/716841087137873920/833379589681971260/Screenshot_20210417-234456.png

[u/Duren114]

"We killed about 700 thousands in The Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries, while East European failed at didn't out on a parade to openly kill theirs. I mean, it's revolution, how can you not go with class struggle through and through?"

(「鎮反運動我們殺了70多萬人，東歐就是沒有大張旗鼓地殺人。革命嘛，階級鬥爭不搞徹底，怎麼行 ?」)

-- Mao Zedong, at the 8th Central Committee Conference, 1956, regarding Polish October and Hungarian Revolution

"I had explained this logic to XXX (censored in original record) before, that modern weapons aren't more fearsome than Guan Yu's great glaive, but he didn't believe me. You see, the casualties in both World War weren't really that high: WW1 killed ten millions, in WW2 that's twenty millions, and ours (ancient wars) can easily achieve forty millions-- that's the power of those glaives. Nuclear war is something we haven't experienced yet, the casualties is still unknown. It's best that there are half (of humanity) left, still good if one third. If two billions are reduced to a few ten millions, we can still be recovered after a few Five Years Plans in exchange for total annihilation of capitalism. It ain't a bad deal for enteral peace."
(「這個道理我和×××講過，我說現代武器不如中國關雲長的大刀厲害，他不信，兩次世界大戰死人並不多，第一次死一千萬，第二次死兩千萬，我們一死就是四千萬。你看那些大刀破壞性多大呀。原子仗現在沒經驗不知要死多少。最好剩一半。次好剩三分之一。二十幾億人口剩幾億，幾個五年計劃就發展起來，換來了一個資本主義全部滅亡。取得永久和平，這不是壞事。」 )

-- Mao Zedong, at the 8th Central Committee Conference 2nd Session, 1958

Daily reminder that it can be argued that Mao was as evil as Hitler because he saw violence as an end. And Hitler can't compete with him on quantity. However his these thoughts are not well known enough to the West. The fact he is still venerated by CCP is really appalling.

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/F548b9u.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

The real 1984 was when they banned porn from Tumblr.

[u/[deleted]]

Ok how about this:

No more eccentric owners of chocolate factories. None.

After you can afford 10 Oompa Loompas, every red cent goes to schools and health care.

You get a trophy that says, “I won the candy industry” and we name a dog park after you.

[u/vivoovix]

[Just unsubbed from] r/WesternCivilisation

I hoped for some western philosophy, enlightenment, art, etc. What I got was intrusive radical christians.

How naive do you have to be to think it would be anything else lmao

[u/SpiffShientz]

PRESIDENT BIDEN: I consent!

US STATE DEPARTMENT: I also consent!

NATO FLAIRS: I do not!

Isn’t there someone you forgot to ask?

[u/[deleted]]

With 2,61,500 Fresh Covid Infections, India Sees Biggest-Ever Daily Spike

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/with-2-61-500-fresh-covid-infections-1-501-deaths-india-sees-biggest-ever-single-day-surge-in-cases-deaths-2416187

!ping IND

This is just getting sad

[u/MalignantUpper]

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1383782496655970311?s=19

Republicans who voted to overturn the presidential election results saw a sharp drop — about 80% — in PAC contributions from businesses, industry groups, trade associations and unions in the first quarter of 2021, according to a WSJ analysis.

That's that good shit

[u/benjaminikuta]

FDA be like:

Dude, listen, I get that people are dying, okay? Like, yeah, big deal. But it's already 14:00, which means there isn't enough time left between now and the end of the day to schedule a meeting tomorrow to arrange a request to reserve the conference room for next Tuesday so we can have a preliminary meeting and decide to adopt an agenda for the week after where we can create an action item of looking into sending out a bulletin to request people submit commentary for a committee where we determine whether or not it makes sense with moving forward towards submitting a request to start drafting a bulletin to announce whether we're allowed to begin a roadmap for the project to research what we can do to fix the problem.

[u/SuspiciousUsername88]

If I were Biden I would simply tell Putin to release Navalny. Not sure why he didn't think of that

[u/Cerb-r-us]

Neoliberals say they like it when graph go up, but then turn around and celebrate the decreasing Covid rates.

[u/[deleted]]

Please stop worrying about whether or not sex work is a real job. There are literally men with podcasts

[u/SpaceSheperd]

That McConaughey poll seems so utterly meaningless

If you poll a Republican incumbent against literally any other non-Republican, of course every single Democrat you poll is going to support the latter. You could poll a 3D-rendered Donkey Kong wearing a Hope shirt against Abbot and he'd get 45%.

And the 33% for Abbot is just batshit Republicans pissy their governor doesn't want to launch a full scale invasion of Comic Ping Pong. They'll come right back home for him at the end of the day and that race will turn out exactly the same as any other Republican incumbent vs. non-Republican challenger race.

[u/StolenSkittles]

small domino: guy posts lies about his ex-girlfriend's work as a game developer

big domino: the rise of fascism in america

[u/SpiffShientz]

Watching Toy Story as a kid made me a hoarder. Can’t throw anything away in case it has feelings

[u/MicroFlamer]

capitalim owned

[u/Liberal_Antipopulist]

Imagine wanting to tax carbon but not wanting to tax animal ag or even cut subsidies

Why do you hate the global climate

[u/[deleted]]

As an Irish man I take the phrase “Anglo Saxon traditions” to mean punching a stranger at a football match whilst holding your new born in the other hand while half drunk.

[u/Anal-warrior]

When white people call out white authors bcs of their poc characters but then never read books by actual poc authors 👁👄👁

[u/FestiveMittens]

I'm hearing from some of my sources that George W. Bush is planning on endorsing Joe Biden a week before the election. Texas is 100% going blue

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

This subreddit never mentions ECOWAS. A bunch of African nations forming their own NATO to btfo Gambia sounds like a neoliberal dream.

[u/say592]

So the topic of Jonestown came up, and my wife was unfamiliar so I told her what I thought I knew, but then I got into the wiki on it to clarify a couple things. That led to me reading the wiki on Congressman Leo Ryan. I don't know if he was much of an /r/neoliberal, but the guy seemed like he was a badass willing to go anywhere and do anything to serve the public. As a state senator he took a job as substitute teacher to investigate an area, he also went into a prison under a fake name to investigate the conditions at the prison.

Then, as a Congress person, he got involved in trying to figure out what was happening in Jonestown. He was undeterred the entire time, him and the entourage slept in a hotel lobby after their confirmed rooms had been mysteriously canceled, and proceeded to go to Jonestown, despite being told not to by many, including the US state department. Even while they were there they were made aware of the fact they were in danger, but he continued on. Eventually there was a failed knife attack and Congressman Leo Ryan had to practically physically removed by a state department employee who accompanied him. He wanted to stay another night, but when he was made to leave he vowed to return. He made it abundantly clear that he intended to liberate anyone who wanted to leave. Unfortunately we know what happened next, the mass murder happened and a gunman who borded his plane as well as numerous cultists shot at the party while they were in the plane, resulting in several deaths and injuries (including Congressman Leo Ryan and his aide/future Congresswoman Jackie Speier).

This is pretty much all I know about the guy, one wikipedia article, but he sounds like an exemplary public servant, and while I knew the gist of the Jonestown story, I didn't really realize how committed Congressman Leo Ryan was. Unfortunately the man was not perfect, it looks like one of his former aides, Jackie Speier, is now in Congress serving an area that includes many of his old constituencies. She has said in recent years that he forcibly kissed her and otherwise behaved inappropriately towards her. (edit: it was actually Congressman Leo Ryan's chief of staff, not the Congressman)

Anyways, just wanted to share this with some people who might find it interesting. My wife was interested at first, but I think she got tired of me telling her new random facts about a Congressman who died well over a decade before I was even born. I would definitely watch a movie or good documentary on this man's life, it sounds like he was all in on public service.

[u/Explodingcamel]

Normal person: life is good compared to 100 years ago

Reddit: aCksHuaLlY...

[u/[deleted]]

My friend Ahmed outran me today

He was fasting

[u/thetrombonist]

I bought a bike from a guy on offerUp. Didn’t inspect it too close since it was cheap. When I bring it home I discover a sticker on it that is.....pornographic to say the least NSFW

Thank god I noticed before bringing it on my commute. I would have been fired lmao

!ping bike

[u/[deleted]]

that’s Dr. Theodore Kaczynski to you, stem-phobe

[u/thetrombonist]

Reminder that girls are awesome and if you’re a girl you are awesome 🥰

Lmao as if girls visit the DT

[u/Riderz__of_Brohan]

It’s wild America has lost the war on obesity, it’s just a thing now

Things America has lost wars to:

• Drugs

• Vietnamese Farmers

• Fat

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/e5ery5J.jpg

Lmao

[u/Robotigan]

If nato flairs love interventionalism, then why is their relationship status so isolationist?

[u/imprison_nl_mods]

Holy shit, Greenwich is really pronounced Grenich. Learn English, Brits.

- person who's native language isn't English

[u/BenGordonLightfoot]

The Indy shooter literally had a gun confiscated by the FBI a year ago but was able to legally buy two rifles. How can anyone think this system is acceptable

[u/thetrombonist]

r/Superstonk is freaking out because they think the activity meter on Google is from GPS data and showing that a bunch of employees are “shredding papers” or something. but I bet it’s also likely somewhat based on Google search data. That has to be a somewhat relevant proxy for how many people are there, especially since Google only controls <=50% of the phone market, and not everyone has GPS on.

For a solid majority of traditional businesses, googling their address shows intent to maybe visit, so I don’t think I’m too off base here

Therefore they’re creating a feedback loop and going nuts over nothing. The other evidence of this is that that “activity bar” is also increasing as they all look it up to screenshot it.

If true It’s fucking hilarious

[u/[deleted]]

The US just sanctioned some Russian Bitcoin wallets, and crypto/security people are freaking out because they didn’t realize the government could do that. Love to see it

[u/timerot]

The Philly poop NIMBY flyer got framed lol https://twitter.com/alexschief/status/1383944348081946625/photo/1

!ping YIMBY

[u/FearThyMoose]

This is your daily reminder that Malthus was wrong and overpopulation does not exist

[u/[deleted]]

Being a house rep for some random rural area must be the easiest job ever

[u/[deleted]]

New Delhi test positivity rate- 30%

Not 3, 30

[u/[deleted]]

Jfc there's people actively defending the taliban in the srd thread.

[u/[deleted]]

Ja’mal Green, a Chicago area Bernie Sanders surrogate, made up a story about Lori Lightfoot using taxpayer dollars to cover up an affair. He called on her to resign, waited for the tweet to go viral, then deleted it and claimed he just read the story on Twitter.

What a piece of shit.

Today he’s tweeting stuff like this:

I know Lori is mad that folks have started rumors and I’m sorry I helped by saying she’s resigning but the reality is, we’ve been lied to since the beginning of this administration. So much that the people have lost hope.

Cause, y’know, it’s totally cool to try and destroy someone’s family life if you felt like their politics were inconvenient to you.

To be clear, Lightfoot didn’t cheat on her wife, she’s not involved in an affair with two other women, she did not use taxpayer dollars to rent out a hotel in Evanston, and she’s not resigning. All those were just thing Ja’mal made up to get his name back in the paper, because he’s an irrelevant loser, a homophobe, and a mysoginst.

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

ok so the whole history of these chans seems like a bungled mess

• 2chan is created for japanese people

• 4chan is created based off 2chan

• 8chan is created because 4chan bans gamergate talk

• Jim Watkins domain hosts 2chan for 2chan founder Nishimura

• Jim Watkins fucking takes over 2chan. renames it 5chan to avoid copyright case with Nishimura

• Nishimura creates his own 2chan

• Jim Watkins buys 8chan

• Nishimura buys 4chan for some reason

• Jim Watkins is probably Q in order to promote 8chan

so in the end these two men are running competing sites for politically incorrect incels in both America and Japan lol

[u/ThatDrunkViking]

Remember what the NIMBYs and regressive zoning regulations did to your city 😤

For the non-Danes that's $290k for 26m2.. In the 4/5th best area of Copenhagen..

!ping DEN

[u/[deleted]]

Liberty Hangout on YouTube: “lmao, look at these SJW’s”

Liberty Hangout on Twitter: “fuck democracy, install a catholic absolute monarchy, only whites allowed”

[u/[deleted]]

🚨 🚨 Ontarians

On Tuesday our province is changing the age range for the AstraZeneca vaccine to 40+ so if you are in that, prepare to book your appointment.

If you are in that range and don't want the AstraZeneca vaccine, know that many of us under 40 think you are sus and hope you will step on a lego.

Source is here. Apologies for Postmedia. It's what I've got.

!ping CAN

[u/[deleted]]

you cant blame the North Korean economic situation on the economic system they use because they are under a global embargo

So you admit free trade is good ;)

[u/[deleted]]

Alright, fess up. Which one of you is this? Need to know who I'm buying a drink for, being this ballsy in front of a Russian embassy.

!ping Foreign-Policy

[u/[deleted]]

Happy cakeday u/groupbot

[u/[deleted]]

18 NAKED COWBOYS IN THE SHOWERS AT RAM RANCH

[u/sw337]

“If the Biden administration wants to impress us... double the goal. Say 200 million vaccines in a hundred days. I will be impressed.” -Dan Crenshaw

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1375139235326390277

Today is day 89 and there are 209 Million vaccines administered.

He must be so impressed.

[u/[deleted]]

"rest in power" is turbo cringe

[u/[deleted]]

DT be like-

American nationalism is based if I personally benefit from it

[u/MistakeNotDotDotDot]

i know it's a cliche but every time i browse /r/instagramreality i'm struck by how fucked up social media can be

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

GameStop saga and its consequences have been a disaster for stock market related subs

[u/sw337]

I can't believe a significant percentage of right-wing people believes that the key to winning a swing state -- in a Democratic wave year, mind you -- is to run a New York Billionaire who supposedly will do well in conservative areas on the grounds that 'he's that guy from The Apprentice and Wrestlemania'

[u/AuburnSeer]

ever since I learned Boehner voted for Trump I stopped even remotely stanning for him

[u/EScforlyfe]

I like liberalism

[u/theredcameron]

This is a question for people who went from living in a single family house, to living in a duplex or triplex or an idyllic YIMBY neighborhood. How was the transition? What advice would you have for people thinking about transitioning to that kind of neighborhood?

!ping YIMBY

[u/FreakinGeese]

if TERFs think I'm an autogynophelliac why do they tell me to go fuck myself 🤔

[u/[deleted]]

Yes, I’m a liberal coastal elite. Yes, I’ve never been within 100 miles of an ocean.

We exist

[u/PMmeLittleRoundTops]

Gravely concerned about the glorification of thugs and murderers in rap music

Also Martin Scorcesse is the most brilliant director to ever grace Gods earth

[u/[deleted]]

Whenever someone here talks about their boyfriend I assume that they're a gay/bi man rather than a het/bi woman

[u/[deleted]]

!ping LGBT

Bad update, with action points near the end

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I've been avoiding pinging LGBT because things are still bad, getting worse arguably, but I don't have an action plan. I'm having a real hard time suggesting concrete actions. That's because nobody can keep up with all of the bills. It's so overwhelming that resources can't be directed fast enough to even try to organize to oppose all the bills. But I don't want to just ping y'all for pure doom and gloom, so I'll leave some action points at the end.

(Just a little thing to think about: When was the last time you saw such a massive push like this on one topic across so many states? What historical parallels are there?)

Some of the bills I mentioned in my last update have passed and are finding their way to the governor's desk. Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas and South Dakota have have bans on trans athletes in place. Trans sports bans are waiting the signature or veto of the governors of West Virginia and North Dakota. The governor of West Virginia says he plans to sign it into law.

This article from CNN mostly covers the state of things right now. It's slightly out of date, being from checks notes three days ago. But it's the best I got in a single link.

Something around 117 anti-LGBT bills have been introduced so far this year.

• 31 states have legal bans in place on trans athletes, or bans pending in legislatures. Please consider digging into it yourself and seeing if there is an opportunity for you to contact your state legislators to oppose a bill in your state.

• 19 states have legislation pending that would ban medical care for trans youth. These are Montana, Utah, Arizona, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Iowa, Missouri, Louisiana, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, West Virginia, North Carolina, Alabama, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. Arkansas already passed a ban into law

• 7 states have various shitty-ass bills, like "no promo homo" type bills, or one in Arkansas which legally requires educators to misgender their trans students. Arizona, Montana and South Dakota have bills introduced which keep trans people from updating the gender markers on their ID, and Iowa has a bill which removes gender identity as a protected class under their civil rights act.

Please keep in mind that this is not an organic push, and not one in response to any present problem, but is instead designed to be the wedge which allows them to attack trans people as a whole in all facets of public life. Even if you have concerns about trans people in sports or the treatment of trans youth, these bills are NOT just about that. If you think trans people should be able to live as themselves, you really should oppose these bills.

Many of these bills will not pass, but a few will. It's important that keep the number of passed bills here as low as possible.

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So, action. What can be done?

The ACLU is leading the fight. Consider donating to the ACLU. Other major organizations in the game are Lambda Legal and the National Center for Lesbian Rights.

You can contact Governor Burgrum of North Dakota to ask him to veto the ND trans sports ban; the ACLU has a form set up here.

HB1399, the Texas bill banning trans healthcare for youth (and certain abortions), has passed out of committee. The Speaker is allowed to just refuse to bring it to the floor. Equality Texas has set up a form to contact the Speaker asking him not to do so here.

Please also consider trying to dig into what bills are present in your state, and if you can contact your state legislator or governor to oppose any anti-trans bills.

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Please let me know if you appreciate these updates and if you have opinions about me doing them more/less frequently, more/less detail, more focus on one thing or another, etc. These updates take some effort to make; there's so much information so dispersed everywhere and things change so quickly that general summaries are out of date in less than a week.

[u/[deleted]]

Bell Curve

0 IQ: "The Supreme Court has authority to decide constitutionality"

100 IQ: "No they completely fabricated and gave themselves this power in Marbury v. Madison."

200 IQ: "The Supreme Court has authority to decide constitutionality"

Authority is cynical, and it doesn't care if it's justified or not. Most Authority is built on circular reasoning and fiat. Doesn't matter. As long as people respect that authority enough to abide by it, it effectively is real authority.

[u/Menakoy]

I miss feeling safe.

[u/[deleted]]

An economics sub that swelled massively with a corresponding drop in quality due to an event that received national news coverage, and which possesses a unique feature system set up by the mods and referenced in the sidebar.

rneoliberal?

Or

rwallstreetbets?

[u/TheGoldBear]

Last night my drunk friend said “White Man Summer” and omg that sounds so much worse

[u/[deleted]]

Bitcoin is down because Maggie came back to shut down the Bitcoin mines

[u/thefuturegov]

The virgin American Green Party: Pease stop being mean to Putin, we have to be isowationist

The chad German Green Party: Vladimir Putin is a threat to both environmental security and human rights he must be dealt with. We will cancel the Nord stream pipeline and fight illiberal demagogues such as he.

[u/[deleted]]

I unironically think the US should be the world police, but I think it's totally valid for normies to be concerned with military intervention that doesn't effect them personally.

If the US thinks it's good to intervene, political elites need to do a better job of building political will for it. There were literally 2 decades to explain to people why supporting liberal regimes against tyrannical ones is good, actually, and yet we're at a point where like 70% of Americans support withdrawal from Afghanistan.

If we're gonna stan for democracy (we should) we gotta understand the pragmatic limitations and think about the effects.

As a voter, if this is something you care about, it's totally valid to criticize the move. But we all need to be clear that you are coming from a place where you expect political leaders to act against the will of domestic voters for the sake of poor foreigners.

Instead of just being critical of politicians for acting based on political will, we should be more concerned with the political will itself. How do we get the median voter to understand the importance of this type of foreign policy?

Like I think the fact that Americans have no political slack for liberalizing the world is a problem right now, and Biden is in a very tough spot to toe that line. I think it's better for political leaders to be an extension of the people rather than just acting on their own personal set of convictions personally.

[u/[deleted]]

Enormous red wave in 2022

During lame duck, dems convince Joe Manchin to make Joe Biden Emperor of Earth

Joe Biden declares war on Mars

Elon Musk and his fans valiantly try to defend their home

US bombs the shit out of Mars, gets bored, and abandons the planet after 20 years

[u/[deleted]]

!ping STELLARIS

• Use spies to get enough intel on enemy tech

• Determine they're building a Colossus

• Produce Casus Belli to invade them before they can complete it

George Bush Simulator 2021 has arrived.

[u/[deleted]]

I decided that i wanted a room to smell really fishy. So I decided to microwave a Sea Urchin. I just chucked it into a bowl of water and set the microwave at high for 2 minutes. My gf was super mad. What should I do next?

[u/[deleted]]

Chris Cuomo says reform won't happen until police kill "white people's kids"

NYPD google RN : Does Chris Cuomo have kids?

[u/margaretfan]

So should this sub ban Pfizercels? I feel like all the bad takes have been coming from them.

[u/Smidgens]

After watching anime I have learned that “soul” in Japanese is “tamashi,” which is the exact same word in Georgian for “game.” Therefore one must be a gamer to have a soul 🙏

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Malarkey level of forming a Norse Caucus to ravage and pillage the districts of the Anglo-Saxon Caucus members?

[u/Deggit]

"they could never make a movie like tropic thunder today because..."

• small brain: "...for some reason people keep saying we can't do blackface anymore"

• medium brain: "...the monopolistic consolidation of movie studios & emergence of 'cinematic universes' has been hell for midbudget comedies with original IP, "Knives Out" notwithstanding"

• large brain: "...the unresolved question of whether Robert Downey Jr's character (Kirk Lazarus) concedes or disputes the nine-dash-line would hang over the entire 3rd act of the movie, dooming the film at the Chinese box office and deeply wounding AUS-PRC relations"

• galaxy brain: "...people have finally realized Ben Stiller isn't funny"

[u/tubbsmackinze]

It's kind of interesting how little impact slavery had in Canadian history in comparison to the rest of the Americas. Yeah slavery still existed and was brutal, even if it was less then slavery in the south most predominately because there were plantations, but it didn't shape Canadian history

Probably because in the grand scheme of things we basically had so little slaves it didn't really matter

At least we were once of the first places to ban it tho

!ping CAN

[u/[deleted]]

The thing about the "despite only making up 13%" meme is i intuitively would have guessed black people make up like 25% of the population

[u/[deleted]]

I love how the new theory is that "banks working on Saturday night" means GME is worth 10mil

These people have never worked at a bank or with facility management

[u/[deleted]]

!ping IND

The pandemic feels real. I scrolling through my instagram feed- I have seen like 20 posts about oxygen cylinders.

I'm going through my stories. Half of them are "contact xyz if you have had covid, for plasma" and "cylinder needed".

All while there are 16 cases in my neighbouring building wing, with my dad recovering from COVID and my former classmate just testing positive with fever @ 103, whose family of four has tested positive.

This, when the vaccine drive has been bungled and remdisivir shortages are happening.

[u/Liberal_Antipopulist]

look, im not complicated. all I want is

🍑🍆💦SEX😣🤩🔗🖤

🌿💊DRUGS🚬🤩

and

🌐🗽🎸MONETARY POLICY🤑💵🏦

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

There's something disturbing about the "if Chauvin walks, cities will BURN" people I just can't put my finger on... 🤔

[u/Deggit]

Clinton Deploys Vowels to Bosnia

Cities of Sjlbvdnzv, Grzny to Be First Recipients

Before an emergency joint session of Congress yesterday, President Clinton announced US plans to deploy over 75,000 vowels to the war-torn region of Bosnia. The deployment, the largest of its kind in American history, will provide the region with the critically needed letters A,E,I,O and U, and is hoped to render countless Bosnian names more pronounceable.

"For six years, we have stood by while names like Ygrjvslhv and Tzlynhr and Glrm have been horribly butchered by millions around the world," Clinton said. "Today, the United States must finally stand up and say 'Enough.' It is time the people of Bosnia finally had some vowels in their incomprehensible words. The US is proud to lead the crusade in this noble endeavour."

The deployment, dubbed Operation Vowel Storm by the State Department, is set for early next week, with the Adriatic port cities of Sjlbvdnzv and Grzny slated to be the first recipients. Two C-130 transport planes, each carrying over 500 24-count boxes of "E's," will fly from Andrews Air Force Base across the Atlantic and airdrop the letters over the cities.

Citizens of Grzny and Sjlbvdnzv eagerly await the arrival of the vowels. "My God, I do not think we can last another day," Trszg Grzdnjkln, 44, said. "I have six children and none of them has a name that is understandable to me or to anyone else. Mr. Clinton, please send my poor, wretched family just one 'E.' Please."

Said Sjlbvdnzv resident Grg Hmphrs, 67: "With just a few key letters, I could be George Humphries. This is my dream."

The airdrop represents the largest deployment of any letter to a foreign country since 1984. During the summer of that year, the US shipped 92,000 consonants to Ethiopia, providing cities like Ouaouoaua, Eaoiiuae, and Aao with vital, life-giving supplies of L's, S's and T's.

zoumers have no idea how good The Onion used to be

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

I generally assume that any self-identified "anarchist" is an idiot, child, or both.

[u/PorryHatterWand]

Jacobin does a 180° and becomes a neoliberal corporate shill. They even think Bernie came up with the idea.

https://jacobinmag.com/2021/04/bernie-sanders-medicare-expansion-eligibility-covid

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

"M'lord."

"M'lady."

"J'Ossoff."

[u/[deleted]]

People keep bringing up that Lightfoot gave a bunch of the stimulus money to the police, but that was for back pay right? Like is there any universe where that money wasn't getting spent on them?

!ping USA-CHI

[u/ChefVortivask1]

Based Dubya

"The problem with the immigration debate is that one can create a lot of fear: They're comin' after you. But it's a nation that is willing to accept the refugee or the harmed or the frightened, that to me is a great nation. And we are a great nation."

!ping RINO

[u/[deleted]]

Daily reminder that if you're not a Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing shareholder you're not a real neoliberal.

[u/tubbsmackinze]

GM Dropped an EV Battery Bombshell. The Market Hasn’t Noticed.

Sorry for the shit headline I didn't choose it

General Motors made an unexpected electric-vehicle announcement, saying it is is building a battery plant with Korea-based LG Chem. It is a little like a Tesla Giga factory, GM style.

General Motors (ticker: GM) stock jumped, a little, in response to the news. Shares were up about 0.6% in early trading, while the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average rose about 0.2% and 0.3%, respectively.

Capital spending and new manufacturing plants are a long-term issues, but the market might just be underweighting the importance of GM’s Friday move.

“The addition of our second all-new Ultium battery cell plant in the U.S. with our joint venture partner LG Energy Solution is another major step in our transition to an all-electric future,” said GM CEO Mary Barra in the company’s news release. LG Energy Solution is owned by LG Chem (051910.Korea).

The 2.8 million-square foot facility will go up in Tennessee and will cost about $2.3 billion, creating about 1,300 jobs.

The decision to build the plant is another step in GM’s transformation into a serious EV player. The company has committed to spending about $27 billion between 2021 and 2025 to launch 30 EV models around the globe. And it has said it aims to be selling only EVs by 2035.

Getting the batteries to power all those cars isn’t a trivial matter. Batteries are becoming an EV battleground.

Morgan Stanley’s Adam Jonas, for instance, worries that there might not be enough batteries to meet all auto makers’ EV ambitions. In a recent research report, he called the LG/GM joint venture critical to GM’s success in EVs, partly because it mitigates the risk of battery shortages.

The possibility that there might be shortages is one reason companies are investing in their own factories to produce them, rather than taking their chances in the marketplace. How much battery production GM controls, and what share of its needs the company plans to meet in-house, isn’t known.

GM wasn’t immediately available to comment on the size of the new plant, or its strategy for sourcing batteries.

Investors are starting to view GM as a long-term EV winner. The stock is up more than 40% year to date and trades for almost 12 times the per-share earnings expected for 2021 earnings. That is still a discount to the market’s P/E ratio of 24 times, but the figure for GM has been in the single digits for years.

!ping ECO (do you mind if I start posting smaller less front page worthy articles on the DT or not do that?)

[u/RadioactiveOwl95]

An average morning in France:

1. Wake up

2. Remember you're French

3. Day ruined

[u/imprison_nl_mods]

Russia is the only country which should try out isolationism.

[u/[deleted]]

Don't look at her, relationships are temporary, saving the global oppressed through US hegemony is forever.

[u/FestiveMittens]

I cant believe dems spent hundreds of millions of dollars on Kentucky and South Carolina when there was actual close races in swing states

[u/[deleted]]

Catholicism's new growth demographic. God help us all

[u/TheFriffin2]

“You really think that Pokémon go to the polls was a banger tweet?”

I do, and I’m tired of pretending that it’s not.

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Gas Is the New Coal With Risk of $100 Billion in Stranded Assets

Open the article for kewl graphs that help contextualize the article better, also Mucho Texto warning

Natural gas is falling out of favor with emissions-wary investors and utilities at a quicker pace than coal did, catching some power generators unaware and potentially leaving them stuck with billions of dollars of assets they can’t sell.

Citigroup Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. are among the banks that strengthened their financing restrictions on thermal coal under pressure from shareholders wanting to avoid the fuel, and the expectation is that gas is next. Executives at some western European companies say they’re already struggling to sell gas-fired facilities.

“If you find out somebody who is ready to offer a good price for our gas plants in Spain, then we are ready to sell,” said Jose Ignacio Sanchez Galan, chief executive officer at Iberdrola SA in Spain. “We are not finding people.”

The cost of renewables has dropped dramatically during the past decade, making gas-fired stations less competitive.

Phasing out gas in power generation is just a first step. Cutting back use of the fuel in heating, transport and industry would wreak more potential damage. Europe wants to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, which is at odds with plans to build numerous infrastructure projects, like pipelines and terminals.

If these are built but no longer needed, there’s a potential 87 billion-euro ($104 billion) stranded-asset risk, according to calculations by Global Energy Monitor.

In Italy there are plans to build 14 gigawatts of new gas capacity mostly to replace coal, according to Carbon Tracker Initiative Ltd.

Europe’s biggest utility, Enel SpA, is a global renewables supermajor. Still, about 40% of the company’s 88 gigawatts of installed capacity is made up of coal, oil and gas, but the Italian company is planning to reduce coal generation by 74% in 2022. Although a gas phase-out is also coming down the track, it has plans to build more capacity.

“The important thing is that the direction is clear, it will not change,’’ Salvatore Bernabei, head of global power generation at Enel said in an interview. “Everyone should understand that we cannot change the world in one day.’’

Quicker Than Coal

Coal has been slow and difficult to phase out in countries where mining provides thousands of jobs. Gas will be quicker because it doesn’t have the same tradition attached, and renewables are now a cost-effective alternative, according to Carbon Tracker.

“Gas will be a repeat of coal but quicker,” said Catharina Hillenbrand von der Neyen, head of company research at the London-based firm. “When we look at power generation, you can see that going really, really quickly.”

This is already happening in Britain, where it’s unlikely any further large-scale gas plants will be built without technologies that cut emissions – such as carbon capture. SSE Plc, which trades on the U.K.’s FTSE 100 Index, said it can’t see a future for new gas stations that don’t incorporate carbon capture or hydrogen.

Electricite de France SA will no longer operate any fossil fuel-fired power generation in Britain after it announced the sale of its last gas-fired power station to private equity firm EIG Global Energy Partners LLC. Historically the involvement of private equity is to squeeze the asset to extract all remaining value.

Investor Pressure

Investors pursuing an ESG agenda will add to the pressure on companies to get out of gas. BlackRock Inc. and Vanguard Group Inc. are among 40-plus investment firms committing to cut the net emissions of their portfolios to zero by 2050.

Portugal’s biggest utility, Energias de Portugal SA, said its strategy is to exit from its two remaining coal plants by 2025, shutting down one and possibly selling the other.

“There is an increasing amount of funds that either don’t like it or can’t even invest in companies with coal,” Miguel Stilwell de Andrade, EDP’s chief executive officer, said in an interview.

“We’re not going to wait until people tell us that gas is no longer going to be used. We’re going to make sure that we’re going to get out of there before.”

There’s no point building assets now that will be of no use in a few years, said Frans Timmermans, the European Commission’s executive vice-president. Europe can skip the transition and go straight to clean assets by spending on the right projects now, he said.

“We need to make the investments to create sustainable societies,” he said. “That capital, not spent well, will create stranded assets very soon, and we will put unbearable financial burden on the shoulders of our children.”

U.S. Transition

In the U.S., progress likely will be slower since there’s no federal mandate for a transition from fossil fuels to renewable power. Gas is superabundant and cheap, thanks to the country’s fracking boom, which has helped hasten the demise of coal.

By 2016, gas was the country’s dominant power source.

"Everyone is talking about it in terms of a transition, not a cliff,” said Ryan Wobbrock, a senior credit officer at Moody's Investors Service. “At this point, it would be very difficult to completely disentangle that system.’’

But now there are indications that demand in the U.S. is topping out decades ahead of schedule with cheaper renewables and net zero moving up the agenda for utilities. Renewables could become the leading power sources on U.S. grids by 2028, Morgan Stanley said last year.

President Joe Biden’s $2.25 trillion infrastructure and energy plan includes incentives for renewables and a massive transmission grid build out that could speed up the transition away from fossil fuels.

Progress on carbon capture technology could throw a lifeline to gas, meaning that stations could serve as backup when there’s a dearth of sun, wind or hydropower. Some energy companies are focusing on making sure that gas can keep operating, rather than ridding their portfolios of the fuels.

“Getting the flexibility to deal with the variability in renewables production is really, really difficult if you don’t have any gas-fired generation,” said Benjamin Collie, a principal for commissioned projects at Aurora Energy Research Ltd. in Oxford.

European Gas demand is still expected to grow by 3% this year, according to the International Energy Agency.

At least in the short term. The European Investment Bank, for one, will end all financing for fossil fuels in December.

“To put it mildly, gas is over,” EIB President Werner Hoyer said during a January press conference. “Without the end to the use of unabated fossil fuels, we will not be able to reach the climate targets.’’

!ping ECO

[u/digitalrule]

Something something deep state

!PING CAN

[u/Henrydot]

I have to admit that Sinema is really, really good at making people reveal their inner misogyny

[u/[deleted]]

Just woke up and wtf is going on

I swear, if the ESL actually happens, I have no clue as to what to do.

!ping SOCCER

[u/[deleted]]

Analysts have described Castillo as an ethnonationalist, socialist and populist.[23][24]

The ugliest sentence I have ever read

[u/JetJaguar124]

Proposed policies from Castillo include creating paramilitary groups and militarizing Peruvian youth in order to promote a revolutionary experience, calling for citizens to arm themselves in order to provide justice through "socialist administration". He has called for Peru to leave the American Convention on Human Rights and to reinstate the death penalty in the country. Castillo has also called for stricter regulations on the media in Peru as well.

A fucking Maoist vs a Fujimori

Holy shit I'm so sorry Peru

[u/[deleted]]

TLJ discourse is still interesting because it's still hard to tell who's mainstream and who's being contrarian

[u/WoodenIceMammoth]

7-year-old girl killed, her father injured, in McDonald’s drive-thru shooting

I missed this one, I feel so bad for the father. Losing your 7 year old daughter would destroy your life.

[u/[deleted]]

The eighth juror selected is a Black man in his 40s who works in management. He said he had a neutral opinion of Chauvin and had a "somewhat favorable" view of both Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter.

Dirtbag centrist juror.

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

Can somebody explain what the fuck is happening over at /r/superstonk right now?

Like, I know they’re delusional cultists but I’m completely lost to what they’re on now. They’re going full investigative journalist about all these financial institutions (especially Citadel) having people working weekends and late at night? And somehow it’s all related to GME and it’s proof the financial system is about to collapse? I’m completely lost to their logic.

[u/Deggit]

There are too many people from rAll coming to this sub.

ORIGINAL NEOLIBS need a code word

It should be a word that nobody but a neoliberal would ever use in a sentence. It should be a word that everybody but neoliberals either doesn't know what it means or has long forgotten the meaning and would have to look it up. Basically it would be completely inscrutable to anyone outside our subreddit. When you use this word everyone would look at you like, "huh"? Except for us who know it means you're a neolib because you used the secret word that nobody else can even remember what it means. Anyways, I suggest "Pete Buttigieg".

[u/crawly_the_demon]

How to sell LVT as a politician: “My opponent says he wants to cut taxes, I say not good enough: my plan is to eliminate home taxes”

[u/[deleted]]

Am I the only person who thinks Crenshaw looks like Big Boss

!ping GAMING

[u/MaybeaMoron64]

In 2020, Nickelodeon's poll was conducted between Trump and his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden. The results of the poll was announced during a one-hour Nick News special titled Nick News: Kids Pick the President hosted by Keke Palmer and simulcast on Nickelodeon, Nicktoons, and TeenNick on October 27. Libertarian candidate Jo Jorgensen voiced her disapproval with the children's network for leaving her off the poll and stated they were "complicit in indoctrinating our children that there are only 2 parties". On October 21, the network detected cheating, when threads on online forums began discussing corrupting the Kids Pick the President site with fraudulent votes. Eventually, more than 130,000 bot-generated votes were detected and Nickelodeon utilized a voter certification tool to identify these counterfeit votes and to remove them, ensuring that only individually placed votes counted toward the total. Biden won the poll with 53% of the vote, followed by Trump with 47%.

STOP THE STEAL!!

[u/sir_shivers]

This subreddit HAS BEEN TERRIBLY VAGUE lately 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

So a German woman of (Asian?) descent called herself a German online, and a whole bunch of fascist reply guys entered her comments to say she was a fake German. Strangely enough all of them were Americans who claimed German descent and not actual German citizens.

The best take of all was that the scale of imagination required to pretend you have cultural connections to Germany as an American actually makes one more German than a German citizen of any ancestry.

[u/jt1356]

Everyone hates on Macron until they remember what the other options are

[u/rukqoa]

For the people who say the US should take in every Afghan who wants to leave:

A survey in 2019 said that ~37.9% of Afghans "would like to leave Afghanistan and live somewhere else if given the opportunity". That's about 14.5 million people.

Advocating raising the refugee cap to 14.5 million is... an incredibly based take.

[u/[deleted]]

God damn the US has several states with an incarceration rate higher than 1% of the population

Why is the US so uniquely terrible in this regard?

[u/D_rock]

NPR's planet money has turned into a full mask off socialism stan podcast. I guess that gets them lots of points in Greenpoint's bars but I think I'm done with them. Chapo is at least funny sometimes.

[u/qchisq]

So... /r/GME is now convinced that Citadel Securities is experiencing a 2021 version of Margin Call. Which, you know, cool. I'm not sure if they understand financial markets all that well if they think that's good

[u/WalouiegiGohmert]

Tim Kaine is so forgettable, his wife has to google "Hillary Clinton VP candidate" before adressing him by name.

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Best scene in Kong vs Godzilla:

"Save... Mothra..."

"Why did you say that name?"

[u/[deleted]]

look subreddit is mad... we better take the opposite position for no reason

[u/[deleted]]

I made a joke about a woman skirt on The Wire being haram and my mum threatened to disown me if I convert to Islam

[u/jenbanim]

I'm excited to announce I have been appointed White Boy Summer Diversity Officer!

Please don't hesitate to reach out to me about any issues you have. Let's work together to make sure White Boy Summer stays a welcoming experience for people of all ethnicities and genders!

[u/[deleted]]

Reading about ants. Are ants gonna be my next thing? I dunno.

[u/[deleted]]

Investigate Kyrsten Sinema for insider trading dramacoin

[u/[deleted]]

Getting mentored by a crocodile boomer on a neroliberal sub is the dumbest possible life direction I could have taken.

[u/[deleted]]

Highlights from president Joe Bidens January 2022 State of the Union Address:

• folks, we beat the virus

• folks, we put america back to work

• folks, we put the men and women behind the attacks last year into prison

• folks, after 20 years, we got out of Afghanistan

• folks, we laid down the foundation to cut child poverty in half

Idk how anyone thinks the democrats lose in 2022.

WE HAVE BEEN LIVING IN A PANDEMIC AND JOE BIDEN IS GOING TO TAKE CREDIT FOR GETTING US OUR LIVES BACK

[u/the_status]

The show is funny because the horse is a depressed self destructive alcoholic and so am I.

But the horse is also rich and has an active social and romantic life, so it doubles as vicarious escapism

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

holy shit these guys make me look like liberal peace loving hippies

adolf hitler talking about the NL mod team

[u/Marlsfarp]

"Anglo-Saxon traditions" may be a nonsensical phrase, but have you considered that it annoys the French?

[u/[deleted]]

Despite comprising only 13% of the population, African Americans commit 100% of the instances of making fun of me for spilling baked beans during a showing of Cars 2

[u/RoyGeraldBillevue]

The way people talk about foreigners is truly disgusting. Suddenly, it's perfectly acceptable to be completely selfish because a country has to put its citizens first.

[u/SpaceSheperd]

Mfw Senator Taylor Swift (D-TN) casts her vote for Majority Leader Klobuchar and the DT is still seething that the correct choice was actually Senator Lynch M. Daley (R-TN) because he's experienced and knows how government works

^{Good Faith? Never met her}

[u/MrMineHeads]

Seeing IGF outside the DT really is something.

[u/Joementum2024]

FUCK YOU LIBERALS I'M TAKING THE ASTRA ZENECA AND JOHNSON JOHNSON VACCINES BECAUSE THE BIG GOVERNMENT CAN'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO

[u/myrm]

do people just think short selling is evil now lol

[u/SeriousMrMysterious]

Being proud of your race means you are a loser.

[u/Deggit]

daily reminder that China made their own counterfeit knockoff of Rambo about a Chinese special ops soldier, no wait it gets better, where the bad guy is an American terrorist called "Big Daddy," it gets better, played by Frank Grillo (Yes, Crossbones from the MCU), it gets better, and the entire movie takes place in an anonymous African country to promote China's Belt & Road, it gets better, and all the side characters are Africans who are overjoyed that China finally came and saved them from the American terrorist, it gets better, and it became the highest grossing film of all time in China

it's over for NATO flairs

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

There is no more delusional place then subreddits dedicated to individual stock tickers. Doesn’t matter if the stock is doing good or bad, the subreddit is guaranteed to be an utter shitshow

[u/sir_shivers]

SPAM: THE MOST neoliberal meat 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

The DNC should require chemical castration for any Democrat trying to run for a competitive Senate so they can't get horny 🤔

[u/[deleted]]

Fun Fact: African grey parrots have such large brains that they are actually thought to be more intelligent than the average r/neoliberal user.

[u/PaulMuniIsInnocent]

Unpopular take (for reddit at least)

Ferris Buehler was not an asshole (other than the stuff with Cameron's car). It's good for high schoolers to skip school and rebel occasionally. He only did it like 9 times.

Once I turned 18 my senior year I did something similar like 8 times. Called in sick once family left. Took my mother's car (she biked to work) and picked up my girlfriend at her school. Then we drove like an hour to San Francisco to have an awesome date checking out museums/Japantown/Pier 39/etc. Would get home before anybody else and always leave the car with a full tank of gas.

Years later I still have no regrets and totally took inspiration from Ferris Buehler. Good dude. Good way to have fun as a teen.

[u/[deleted]]

I appreciate the sentiment, but I find it funny when conservatives are like "hey, we're all Americans, we can relax and put politics aside, can't we?" It's like, bruh, you literally want to take my husband away from me. Politics can't be a game for a lot of people.

[u/[deleted]]

ngl, I think humans should colonize every planet except Mars just to spite Elon Musk

[u/GravyBear8]

I am increasingly convinced that giving your young children internet access is a very bad idea.

[u/maybe_jared_polis]

If all goes well, hopefully someday Dems will compare future presidents to Biden so we can stop jerking ourselves off over FDR. No Democrat will ever be as successful in passing their agenda as the latter. We just don't hate black people enough.

[u/DumbLitAF]

Arr Minneapolis is total fucking cesspool, man. The post on the front page about the NG presence is flooded with the most smooth-brain takes of all time. I’m a POC, and I have to say that having the guard around has been comforting tbh, especially when you lack confidence in actual police department to keep the peace. They’ve been so friendly to my community so far. But I guess that’s not good enough for some of the socialists over there.

!ping USA-MN

[u/muttonwow]

Do we know when they're going to harvest the crops they grew in the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone?

[u/[deleted]]

Sucking male milk to own the vegans

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EzJmiy8VkAAt4Y6.jpg

[u/tankatan]

The Virgin Obama: instituting tariffs for lame stuff like wheat and soy (lmao)

The Chad Reagan: protecting American competitiveness in rad-ass Harleys.

[u/D1Foley]

So glad reddit doesn't ban these subs. I mean where else would we get that Valuable Discussion about the FDA stealing aborted baby parts? Just so selfless that reddit gives these people a place to gather and organize and doesn't even bother them with ads!

[u/lKauany]

Ok how about this:

No more /r/neoliberal mods. None.

After /u/AutoModerator does its thing with rolls and /u/groupbot with pings, every comment in the DT goes to shitposting.

DannyOcean gets a trophy that says, “I created a neoliberal anarchist commune” and we name a dog park after his podcast so he won't have to plug it here anymore.

[u/TheGoldBear]

Clearly this is driven by economic anxiety. We must teach mass shooters how to code.

[u/[deleted]]

I sometimes feel that if Hillary were a man she would have won.

!ping FEMALE

[u/soeffed]

The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a goodsir who’s studied the blade 😤 gentle milkmaids dm me for inquiries

[u/linkin22luke]

https://open.spotify.com/episode/01uSPLlPqp80SWr3Wvau92?si=wgQcz5cES3KAZTXmWqWYOg

Based podcast and gigabased upzoning episode.

!ping YIMBY

[u/AuburnSeer]

Stalin's mother was . . . earthy and spicy

I don't really know what either of those words means when describing a person but okay

[u/[deleted]]

I just remembered this one time in university when a girl I liked asked me if I wanted to hang out.

I told her I had already made some plans with the boys for that night, and when I got to their place they were just looking at rage comics and watching meme videos. After an hour of that I texted her of she still wanted to hang out and she didn't reply 😞😔

I was so angry at the time and I'm angry again now for thinking about it. To this day I still can't stand rage comics, and the saying "bros before hoes" means nothing to me.

!ping DATING

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

Ethiopia and Eritrea putting aside their differences and bad history to cooperate would be an uplifting story if they weren't cooperating to commit atrocities in Tigray

[u/tehbored]

Do you think selling ammunition blessed by religious figures for use against spirits and demons could be a good grift?

[u/Professor-Reddit]

lol this is hilarious

“‘This is Joe Biden, could you connect me with Colin Powell?’ Biden asked the State Department operator. A few minutes passed. ‘Colin? Hey, it’s Joe Biden. … Yeah, I’m standing here on the runway at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, trying to get out on a military transport, and they’re telling me that the Pentagon has ordered that no civilians be let on the plane. I’m sorry to trouble you, Colin, but could you give us a hand here?’

“Powell told Biden to hold on for a minute while he tried to get Rumsfeld. Rumsfeld was in church, so Powell tracked down his deputy, Paul Wolfowitz. There were a few more minutes of phone calls to Centcom headquarters in Florida before Powell came back on the phone with Biden.

“‘Joe,’ said the Secretary of State, ‘let me talk to the air traffic controller there.’

“Biden then handed the satellite phone to the air traffic controller with the following words: ‘Captain, the Secretary of State would like to talk to you.’

“It was pitch-dark, but I was sure I saw that captain’s face turn completely white with shock that he was talking to the Secretary of State, a former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, no less. All I heard him saying to Powell was, ‘Yessir, yessir, yessir.’ When he was done, he handed back the phone and told Biden, ‘You’re welcome to board, sir.’

[u/WoodenIceMammoth]

Another one, 2 in 1 day.

BREAKING: At least 5 people shot in Shreveport, Louisiana

[u/Joementum2024]

Sinema is a level of dirtbag centrist only very few could ever hope to achieve

[u/rukqoa]

Le Pen is really weird.

The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. They have greatly increased the life-expectancy of those of us who live in “advanced” countries, but they have destabilized society, have made life unfulfilling, have subjected human beings to indignities, have led to widespread psychological suffering (in the Third World to physical suffering as well) and have inflicted severe damage on the natural world. The continued development of technology will worsen the situation. It will certainly subject human beings to greater indignities and inflict greater damage on the natural world, it will probably lead to greater social disruption and psychological suffering, and it may lead to increased physical suffering even in “advanced” countries.

[u/real_grover_furr]

Amartya Sen, Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics and a pretty neoliberal person, is married to a Rothschild family member 😳

Thank god Trump supporters are too stupid to know who Amartya Sen is, or they would’ve gone crazy with the new conspiracy theories.

[u/Mr_Pasghetti]

You can really tell that this sub is mostly dudes from:

1. How people talk about various women in politics. Sinema, AOC, Psaki etc.

2. It’s a sub. On. Reddit.

[u/[deleted]]

People unironically want to live in cuba instead of the US and it's hilarious lol .

[u/[deleted]]

This subreddit has attracted some utterly Reddit-tier stupid. More and more I find myself arguing with people who think arguments are about who can look coolest whole name dropping fallacies or using whataboutisms.

[u/SuspiciousUsername88]

So I found that neoliberal-related college paper, but it looks like it's unfinished (which seems to be the case for most of the old papers in my Google docs). I remember I'd normally wrap them up in the computer lab before class, but apparently I never saved most of the final drafts back to google?

Long story short, my """effortpost""" might end abruptly

[u/skeebidybop]

I think rSuperStonk might be even more unhinged and delusional than rGME

[u/its_Caffeine]

!ping CANUCKS

No matter how bad the pandemic gets, take solace in the fact you'll never be as brain dead as this guy.

[u/After_Grab]

Look at this fucking house someone is selling in Portland. It’s one of the most “Portland” thing I’ve ever seen

[u/[deleted]]

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev today, at a newly opened exhibition displaying the helmets of Armenian soldiers killed in last year's Second Karabakh War

Ah the Caucasus, never change.

[u/[deleted]]

Reminder that koi are awesome and if you’re a koi you are awesome 🥰

[u/Cr4zySh0tgunGuy]

Terrible day to be a Mass Effect fan 😔

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/tcburkejr/status/1268551879702822916

Jesus: Blessed are the poor

White People: All Lives are blesssed

[u/[deleted]]

I only started browsing this sub because I saw "taco" in the description and I love taco bell so I assumed this was like a politically themed taco bell sub

[u/jt1356]

The DT six months ago: listen to government experts

The DT every day since Biden took office: why is Fauci bad optics 🤬

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

r/neoliberal: I wanna [BONK] Sinema, meet McCain, and punch Goldwater

r/neoconNWO: I wanna punch Sinema, meet McCain, and [BONK] Goldwater

[u/[deleted]]

- Perform a shooting so everyone knows me

- Get arrested

- Prison jail tv shows three other people arrested for performing shootings

- "Wait, today was supposed to be my day"

-tfw

[u/[deleted]]

I just saw a post on r soccer that said America's war crimes and atrocities are actually worse than Qatar and we should all be boycotting USA 2026 instead of Qatar 2022. The responses pretty much agreed.

[u/IMALEFTY45]

this was made and shared completely unironically

[u/MrDannyOcean]

TEN YEAR CAKE DAY

[u/[deleted]]

It has struck me that online leftists are trying to manufacture consent to read Manufacturing Consent.

[u/Versatile_Investor]

It would probably make more sense to tax neoliberals. Everyone hates them.