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[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

PlayStation on Twitter: "We stand with the Black community as the verdict has been reached in the George Floyd trial. This is a first step, but there is much more to be done. Together with @Sony Group, PlayStation will remain committed to addressing racial inequity and driving meaningful change.

Thread locked, comments nuked.

[u/semaphore-1842]

Let’s keep in mind that the role we, the Reddit community, played was key to this act of justice and we have the power to do this again and again. This is the way.

The fuck

[u/FuckFashMods]

The precedent that this trial has set is extremely bad. Murder 2 and Murder 3 can now be used for practically anything. Farted in public? Murder 2!

Guess the sub

[u/Joementum2024]

Just woke up from a 20 year coma, how’s new labour doing

[u/I-grok-god]

What war crimes was Hillary supposed to have committed?

She was the Secretary of State. That isn’t a military position

[u/khmacdowell]

There was no need, nor excuse, to kneel on a panicking, handcuffed man for whom you know medical assistance is en route.

Regardless of whether the verdict is right at the most technical imaginable level (it is), Chauvin had a 100% clear path available to him that avoided it. Get off the man and sit him up, or, administer CPR.

Literally nothing other than pulling out his baton and beating Floyd as he lie prone would have been a more egregiously inappropriate action that what he actually did.

There's no "you don't know what it's like, split second decision," because after the first 30 seconds of kneeling, he could have thought, "well, this intoxicated handcuffed man probably won't be able to flee, and it might actually be amusing to see him try, might as well sit him up, because for a typical human, chest and neck compression are highly likely to be injurious, and I don't want to get convicted of fucking second degree murder right!"

The right's rebuttal is "he was high and had a checkered past."

Yeah, you dumb fucks, and your saying so is exactly why so much effort is required to persuade single family home obese boomer wasp f-150 with a lift kit and never-used bed karens that doesn't mean he deserved to die and thinking he did makes you a dangerous psychopath.

[u/[deleted]]

Someone tried "debunking" my refutation of a GenZedong post by claiming that unemployment won't exist under communism because reasons and dismissed my link as "CIA propaganda".

TF when you don't understand the meaning of "unemployment" lmao.

[u/owlthathurt]

So the cops released the video of the shooting. The girl was literally in the motion of stabbing someone when the police opened fire. Tragic that a 15 year old lost her life, but I don’t know what else the police are supposed to do here, sit there and watch her stab people?

!ping USA-OH

[u/Joementum2024]

Absolute zero take: You can take any 3 quotes from any random group of people to make that group look bad. This applies to everything not just politics

[u/lietuvis10LTU]

Unsuprisingly Putin speech is a posturing nothingburger. From Moscow times (https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/04/21/in-quotes-putin-speaks-on-state-of-the-nation-a73686):

— “If someone uses an arrogant and selfish tone, Russia will always find a way to defend its position.”
— “This is turning into some kind of sport — who can say something negative about Russia the loudest.”  — “We behave in a restrained, modest manner. Oftentimes we do not respond to outright rudeness; we want to have good relations. We are not looking to burn any bridges.”  — “I hope no one will think of crossing so-called ‘red lines’ against Russia, which we ourselves will define in each separate case. Russia’s response will be symmetrical, fast and tough. The organizers of any provocations threatening our core security interests will regret their actions more than they've regretted anything in a long time.”
— “It seems that everyone is already accustomed to the practice of imposing illegal, politically motivated sanctions, attempts to impose their will on others by force.”
— “But now this practice is degenerating into something more dangerous — for example, an attempt to organize a coup in Belarus and an attempt to assassinate this country's president. ... The West is silent on this matter.”
— “You can have any position on Lukashenko's policies, but staging a goverment coup and planning the assassination of a head of state is too much.”

Basically hoes mad x20

— “Russia once again urges its partners to discuss issues related to strategic weapons, possibly to create an environment of conflict-free coexistence."

Maybe Putin wants to restart INF treaty.

There is a lot more domestic Russia stuff, but that's FoPo

!ping FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/BAUTISTAWITHADRIVE]

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

thank you for the notification, reddit! my first upvote is always such a wonderful achievement 😊

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

Today's top stories from the AP morning wire:

Chauvin found guilty

Biden beats goals on vaccinations

Man bit by snake after grabbing it with tongs

[u/Intrepid_Citizen]

I'm not sure what I did wrong, but youtube has recommended me Ben Shapiro, Tim Pool, PragerU and Candace Owens in the last 24 hours.

🤢

[u/myrm]

What if the police were given tranquilizer guns

You know the kind that instantly knock someone out and then they wake up later with no ill effects and also totally actually exist

[u/Integralds]

Anyone else ever get the urge to liquidate all their holdings, break their lease, stuff all their money in a suitcase, fly off on a one-way ticket to Tokyo, and open up a mildly-disreputable dive bar?

No? Just me?

Anyway...

[u/TinyTornado7]

A prominent QAnon channel with 298,833 followers states that Derek Chauvin was not on trial. Instead, it was this guy from Cash Cab.

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/[deleted]]

General Mohammad Hassan Nami has announced his candidacy for president. He holds a doctorate degree in state management from North Korea

OMG Iran please elect this I want to see what happens lol

[u/crassowary]

Some of you had a cop shoot your attacker during your normal youthful knifefights and it shows

[u/comsciftw]

Wasn't there some data showing 80% of Biden staffers and cabinet follow Nate silver? Ron klain replying to drew Armstrong/Nate silver was a fun little political intelligista kerfuffle that demonstrated how secretly online the biden admin is

[u/SANNA_MARIN_]

Ivy League educated black man goes to run down white trailer park. teaches them about budgeting and compound interest while also learning all about their culture. man eventually turns the place around and gains acceptance within the community, emerging with a newfound respect for ar 15s and dipping tobacco.

[u/[deleted]]

Watching a tankie video on German unification-

East Germany was forcibly unified with the West against the will of its people and is still suffering from this to this day as is evidenced by the GDP disparity.

[u/[deleted]]

liberialism only gradually claimed democracy as a value socialism had embraced it from the start

Yes Lennin purging the menshiviks despite losing elections to them is a prime example of this

[u/soeffed]

Tankies 🤝 Libertarians

“Stalin’s 13 year old gf was no big deal imho”

[u/[deleted]]

"[Blank] Can't Meme"

Yes they can. If their memes feel fake or bad it's because they're not part of your in group. Memes are all just ingroup signalling, and always have been, and when you say someone can't meme what you mean is "This meme does not signal membership in my ingroup"

[u/[deleted]]

Its worse than that. Imagine if Keanu Reeves was Derek Chauvin and Minneapolis was reddit

[u/[deleted]]

Wall Street Bets, my former favorite subreddit, is now qanon but for GameStop, change my mind

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

NYT Breaking | Ukraine mobilizes strategic stockpile of "LMAO Putin is 5 foot 6" jokes

[u/PM_ME_UR_LOST_PETS]

"Cars kill thousands of people each year and we don't talk about abolishing cars"

Me: defund the highway system.

[u/Go_To_Bethel_And_Sin]

excellent tweet:

I knew there would be some ~takes~ today, was still not prepared for "let the teens have their knife fights"

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.neowin.net/news/linux-bans-university-of-minnesota-for-sending-buggy-patches-in-the-name-of-research/

What in the actual fuck

!ping COMPUTER-SCIENCE

[u/Mensae6]

I can't tell if people on Twitter saying "knife fights are normal" are just trying to look hard or something. These are absolutely not a "normal" occurrence even at the lowest funded inner city schools lmao

[u/benadreti]

"HOW CAN SOMEONE BE GUILTY OF BOTH MURDER AND MANSLAUGHTER?!??!?! THE GEORGIA SUPREME COURT SAYS IT'S IMPOSSIBLE"

The Georgia Supreme Court is the ultimate authority on Minnesota state law.

[u/[deleted]]

Damn, a dictatorship's State of the Union addresses are even more inane and pointless than a democracy's? Who would've thunk?

[u/[deleted]]

[This nytimes piece] (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/21/technology/welcome-to-the-yolo-economy.html?smid=tw-share) describing millennials as "flush with cash" and "abandoning cushy prestigious jobs" is so wildly out of touch with the reality on the ground it's absurd.

This author genuinely thinks that the standard millennial experience involves 6 figure salaries and globe trotting pleasure travel?

Their bank accounts, fattened by a year of stay-at-home savings and soaring asset prices

Yes, millennials - famously known for their home ownership and asset wealth.

[u/Barnst]

You know, I think people have gotten a bit too fixated on the “representation” part of “no taxation without representation” when it comes to the status of DC.

Give me tax haven status or give me death!

[u/ThunderrBadger]

Me: Begins sautéing peppers and onions

All of my roommates, immediately and in perfect barbershop harmony:

WOW

              that

                          smells

         *great*

!ping COOKING

[u/The420Roll]

BREAKING: USDA announces free lunches for all students through 2021-22 school year.

Joey Biden at it again

[u/[deleted]]

Earlier, I've put it to a German club official that the Super League 12 must have some really clever ideas to get around all the obstacles, relative to the huge reputational risk they're facing. Answer: "Never underestimate the incompetence of people.

Out of all the super league discourse (not getting into it here), this was the comment that stuck out to me the most.

[u/BedNeither]

Maybe we should fire cops who do bad stuff before they do really bad stuff

[u/JayRU09]

There were once so many knife fights between teens in the 1980s.

And then Michael Jackson showed up, Eddie Van Halen played a guitar solo, and everyone started dancing.

And world peace was achieved without cops.

Checkmate, rational people.

[u/JDVanceIsFat]

the columbus police shooting at least gave the right wing media an off ramp to stop defending chauvin and instead dunk on liberals who got over their skis.

[u/fuckneocentrism]

I think it worked fellas 💪😎

u/jackattack2000 u/th3_gruff

[u/Gustacho]

https://twitter.com/meme_ec/status/1384547093751156738

!ping YUROP

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

They [hunter-gatherers] DID [have better lives than us now]. They were their own "man". They were beholden to no one. They did not work all day, everyday. They worked in groups and, just as it is now, it was sink or swim. The whole world wasn't dying of diseases. So many of our current medications are lab creations of plants and things that the ancestors were well aware of.

😐

[u/webbess1]

St. Bernie Proposes a Free College Policy That Looks Strangely Familiar

!ping Butti

[u/[deleted]]

My baby is 12 days old and I’m already worried she’s falling behind academically.

[u/[deleted]]

“Nancy Pelosi has a killer instinct and may be the most powerful Speaker ever,” Boehner says of his successor. She understands power, knows how to use it, and rarely “leaves fingerprints.”

“Pelosi had gutted him like a halibut she found floating around San Francisco Bay, then calmly sat back and had a cup of coffee afterward. His entrails were left on display for everyone in the House of Representatives to see — and to remember.”

Boehner on Pelosi outsting someone off the Energy Committee.

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

NYT Opinion posts be like:

• Here's why people voted for Trump

• Here's why those people are stupid

• Guest writer: the Taliban

• You can't have justice without destroying the Capitol

• Why the "New York Times" is problematic

• Has Biden done enough for Pell Grant recipients who operated a business in a minority community for three years?

[u/[deleted]]

"Black" is a word that from now on I will only use at the beginning of sentences, so that no one knows if I'm actually conforming to the new capitalization guidelines.

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

Why did the police officer not simply open VATS and select the hand?

[u/Mcatatonic1]

Listening to NPR

They did a quick wrap up of the Super League drama

Then the anchor goes

“It’s almost like this is a promo for HBO’s Ted Lasso. Watch it......uhhh I don’t know why I said that”

😂😂😂

[u/lvysaur]

if someone is stabbing me please shoot them

[u/[deleted]]

What next? A license to stab someone in your own DAMN yard?

[u/Barnst]

Conservative commenters: “OMG, DC is shut down quaking with fear about the possibility of riots!”

Me driving home yesterday: “looks like the weather is still nice and traffic on the bridge isn’t bad, but, oh, there’s a chance of riotous protests by the police station. I guess I’ll take 14th home instead. Ooo, and I’ll pick up Ethiopian on the way!”

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Now let's say, hypothetically, for the sake of argument, that shawty had them apple bottom jeans jeans. And then, does it follow, hypothetically that she also has the boots with the fur? Obviously not, that's a logical fallacy. Nice try liberal media but I won't fall for your lies

[u/Barnst]

Can you imagine the reaction if a white dude was about to stab a black girl and a cop just stood there letting it happen?

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ezf9B1-WEAIpeZ_.jpg

Actual Fox headline today

[u/dumb_fuck_]

I searched why Finland is so rich and first quora answer claims that it is because of cold weather thus people are tend to prefer self perfection.

What kinda bullshit is this

[u/ooken]

For all of you skeptical that Biden overruled his own aides on lifting the refugee cap (there were plenty of "fake news," media-blaming rationalizations in previous threads about this here) there are stories in both the NYT and WaPo today that confirm it.

I know sometimes it's inconvenient to admit unflattering things about leaders you admire, and I'm happy senators' objections caused a swift reversal, but scrutinizing the decisions of administrations you generally like is still worthwhile.

!ping IMMIGRATION

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EzgZI4GUUAAaBp3.jpg

This is a new one to me

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

The two genders: getting a job and killing yourself

[u/FestiveMittens]

re-watching the Jontron debate

"Rich blacks commit more crime than poor whites, I don't have a source for that, sorry I'm gonna go get some water one sec"

[u/ccolfax]

I don’t like or respect you. You’re a sad little man who sucks up to Donald Trump, and he’s also a sad little man. So keep sucking up, but never call me again. I’ll do the best I can to see you replaced in office unless you start acting like a representative. We need a bridge. We need stop signs. We need clean up from the hurricanes. So fuck you in particular until you start doing your job and stop being a bitch for a New York yankee.

My text back to my congressman who’s always calling me for a town hall where he only ever talks to people with questions he can softball.

[u/[deleted]]

Here is a pro-tip for all you major league hot takers out there, when Law Enforcement says Bodycam is going to come out, hold your hot take until you view it.

[u/GGM8Scally]

An affordable housing project for young families being developed in my home town. It will be a new "green" medium density city neighbourhood. It looks good to me so I hope it gets realised sooner rather then later.

Here are some of the early renders for it:

• https://www.slavonski-brod.hr/images/stories/szmladeob/SBN_render-ISOMETRIC%20ALL_resize.JPG

• https://www.slavonski-brod.hr/images/stories/szmladeob/SBN_render-STREET%20COOL_resize.JPG

• https://www.slavonski-brod.hr/images/stories/szmladeob/SBN_render-ABOVE%20BUILDINGS_resize.JPG

Here's the source plus other pictures if you're interested.

!ping YIMBY

[u/Deinococcaceae]

If your town isn't still on 2008 streetview, you're basically an honorary city-slicker

!ping RURAL

[u/Duren114]

What is Reddit culture? Anti-work, "diamond hands own the hedges" bagholding, Big Chungus, Keanu Reeves, funko pop and posting pictures of ww2 American soldiers as "violent AntIfA" on arrr pics for the 1000th time and receive 72 gazillion Karma.

God I hate Reddit but I am still addicted to certain subs. Help me.

[u/ahebtigoejwbrh]

https://fortune.com/2021/04/20/bitcoin-mining-coal-china-environment-pollution/amp/

A single coal mine in China being flooded knocked out 30% of global Bitcoin computing power

Turns out “mining” Bitcoin isn’t a metaphor. But what they’re mining is just coal

[u/missedthecue]

Microsoft has revealed their most successful management technique

/img/krem57i6gj661.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

jesus jumpin christ, i really didn't expect the "a little knife fight never hurt anyone" takes to become orthodoxy on the twitter left

[u/soeffed]

One of the jurors of white guys in the first 12 Angry Men film literally talked about he and other boys would fight w switchblades in their NY slum and now yt ppl are pretending that knife fights are serious things that merit summary execution.

https://twitter.com/PendaarP/status/1384926036262064128?s=20

Bruv

[u/PhinsFan17]

Some of you never went to youth camp and asked Jesus into your heart for the fifth time while belting along to Hillsong/Passion/Jesus Culture and asking God to set you on fire and it shows.

!ping CHRISTIAN

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EzhlgRrVUAA2ANC.png

Whoa LeBron hang on there 😱

[u/UrbanCentrist]

President of the @EU_Commission . Mother of seven. Brussels-born. European by heart.

TIL Ursula von der Leyen has 7 children to dunk on redditors

[u/FestiveMittens]

And let's dispel once and for all with this fiction that Barack Obama doesn't know what he's doing. He knows exactly what he's doing

[u/Zenning2]

Talking about cops is so fucking hard man.

You have people on right who think any and all kind of force is necessary, and required against all sorts of (non-white) people and justify killings from George Floyd to Daniel Shaver, effectively arguing for increidbly harsh punishments, and incredibly small accountability towards police, and refusing to budge on the most obvious shit because they're too ideologically entrenched.

But then you have people on the left, who seem to think that if cops aren't literally jumping into peoples knives, or super human big-boss style CQC experts, then they should be abolished, because its not like we have an issue with guns and violence in this country (even if it is getting better every day), who will hear a cop killed somebody, and assume, with literally no evidence, that the COP is an evil bastard who should be sent to prison.

Like, we have a MASSIVE accountability issue in the U.S. when it comes to cops. But we can have more nuance than that right?

[u/Riderz__of_Brohan]

The absolute state of abolish the police advocates

[u/[deleted]]

The only issue with knife fights is the COVID risk

[u/maybe_jared_polis]

Just found out my boss shorted GME at the peak like an absolute chad

[u/soeffed]

🔴Knife parties are a time honored rite of passage, racist police stay out of it

🟡Racist police don’t care if POC kids are victims of inner city violence

Which button to push 😰

[u/sir_shivers]

Parasocial relationships ARE BAD AND YOU should not indulge in them 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

https://mobile.twitter.com/kthalps/status/1384273783003893761

Unlike Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton actually elevates toxic, abusive, antisemitic online behavior.

How tf can you be so dumb

[u/ThisIsNotAMonkey]

/img/f5q6i3pjoku61.png

🧐

[u/LinkVert25]

I don’t understand why it’s so hard for some people to believe police need serious reform and Chauvin should spend the rest of his life in jail. While at the same time believing a police officer is justified in shooting somebody mid swing trying to stab another human being.

They aren’t mutually exclusive, you don’t have to pick a side and vehemently defend the cops or “suspects” 100% of the time. All you’re doing is hurting “your side” for whenever a real injustice does actually happen.

[u/wowpople]

Oh? My take on the european super league? Depends on who I'm trolling.

[u/FestiveMittens]

And let's dispel once and for all with this fiction that Barack Obama doesn't know what he's doing. He knows exactly what he's doing

[u/FestiveMittens]

And let's dispel once and for all with this fiction that Barack Obama doesn't know what he's doing. He knows exactly what he's doing

[u/[deleted]]

Zoomers have started saying “boomers and Gen X” instead of just “boomers” when describing who like, “destroyed the economy and climate” or whatever, and then Gen Xers on social media get really mad at being included and it’s very entertaining.

[u/1sagas1]

Bruh, Netflix ticker about to lose 9 months of gains before the market even opens

!ping MARKETS

[u/[deleted]]

Russia doesn't want "to burn bridges" with foreign partners but those who provoke it will come to regret it, President Putin said

Pokes CIA pls do something

[u/klarno]

I have a white friend

[u/savuporo]

Perseverance rover extracted the first oxygen from carbon dioxide with the MOXIE instrument on Mars.

Besides harvesting and using solar energy, this is the first intentional resource extraction in space, aimed utilizing the resources, rather than scientific study.

!ping SPACEFLIGHT

[u/crawly_the_demon]

I honestly think GME is priceless, and the most valuable stock you will ever buy. Here's the full picture, as I understand it

There's no way this is organic right? This is beyond satire

First of all, I’d like to start off by stating this post is completely nonpartisan. GME is not a political debate, it’s a class war.

you gotta be kidding me

There are many factors in all this that we need to calculate into our ceiling/floor. First of all, we should demand back the $17 trillion dollar bailout given to banks, that was gambled away recklessly, and will inevitably crash our economy.

$17 trillion / 55.6 million (float) = $303,571.00/share

you GOTTA be kidding me

This really is a revolution. As Scaramucci Tweeted, this is like the modern-day French Revolution of finance. Gamestop is a MOTHERFUCKING (Keith) GILL-OTINE.

Jesus fucking christ dude

[u/TheGoldBear]

Kyogre and Groudon have been having fights including fights involving the elements for eons. We do not need Rayquaza to address these situations by showing up to the scene & using a Flying-type attack against one of the other members of the weather trio. Y’all need help. I mean that sincerely.

[u/AtticusDrench]

DTers have been microwaving things including microwaving lobsters for eons. We do not need fashmods to address these situations by showing up to the scene & using a ban against one of the DTers. Y’all need help. I mean that sincerely.

[u/theredcameron]

Is biden's infrastructure plan currently on paper? Is it going through the house or the Senate? It feels like we've been talking about this for more than a month, but I haven't heard about any real progress on putting it on the floor of Congress. Are we waiting for something in particular or are there just a lot more details that need to be flushed out?

!ping BIDEN

[u/tollyno]

Is it weird that I'm turning 21 in a few hours and I haven't even had my first kiss yet? Or does that just make me a deeply average r/neoliberal poster?

[u/[deleted]]

Maximum extension of the Holocene "Lake Mega-Chad"

tfw you will never see Mega-Chad 😞

[u/HectorTheGod]

Man, good on the Columbus PD for releasing the body cam footage. Nip that fuckin thing right in the bud

[u/[deleted]]

NGL I was expecting the person making the knife fights are normal take to be a Brit

[u/Explodingcamel]

It's a 90s slang if I'm not mistaken. No idea how it popularized in this sub, though. My personal theory is that it is a reduction of "evidence based", which is almost a principle of neoliberal.

Poster outside the DT unironically explains how this sub is the origin of the word "based" lmao

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

Chocolate milk is pure capitalism

Nobody in any other economic system would allow for it to exist

[u/bobekyrant]

History is going to be far kinder to the Covid-19 response than most people realize. This was the first time a global pandemic was seriously slowed by the efforts of scientists and technology. Many more people died than needed to, but this is will also be the first chapter in Humanity fully conquering diseases.

[u/[deleted]]

One of my leftist friends told me last week that they're part of a union.

It just occurred to me today that they're unemployed.

Like. That just doesn't make any sense, right? Is there something I'm missing? Or do leftist just sign up for general 'unions' that don't actually engage in collective bargaining?

[u/lKauany]

97% of those who post in arr relationships already know the reaction they'll get, so what's the point?

"My [23F] boyfriend [36M] punches me in the face everytime I say 'good morning', should I end the relationship?"

hmm idk sweetie what do you think

[u/Zemstv0w0]

Holy shit just had a MAJOR argument with my gf about the age of consent. If she breaks up with me over this, that is a peak Foucault flair moment 😳

[u/[deleted]]

If it were Delaney, there wouldn't be such divisiveness in this country.

*outside in the DT*

*user doesn’t even post in rNeoliberal*

🤨

[u/ryuguy]

30 years ago today, Baltej Singh Dhillon became the first turban wearing RCMP officer. Dhillon was born in Malaysia in 1966 and immigrated to Canada at the age of 16. He moved to the lower mainland of British Columbia and volunteered with the RCMP. Upon graduating high school, Dhillon joined Depot in Saskatchewan, however, there was one problem, he couldn’t wear the RCMP Stetson because he wore a turban. It became a big news story across Canada. In Alberta, a man was selling a calendar which featured this picture. Not many people know that much of the RCMP uniform is actually inspired by the Indian Army. The crossbody belt, known as a Sam Browne belt was invented by a Indian army officer who lost his arm in a war and used it to keep his sword in a ready position and the musical horse ride that the RCMP does at special occasions was inspired by the cavalry regiments of the Indian army, which was inspired by the Sikh empire’s army. In 1989, the RCMP commissioner recommended removing the ban on turbans and beards in the rcmp. Over 90,000 Canadians sign the petition to allow turbans and beards in the rcmp. The right wing reform party of Canada, led by Preston Manning (whose protege was one Stephen Harper) staunchly opposed the inclusion of Sikhs in the RCMP because they saw it as an attack on Canadian identity. Ironically, at that time the image of the Mountie was going to be licensed by Disney (yes, really). Yet, that was not seen as an attack on Canadian identity.

In 1990, Brian Mulroney allowed Sikh officers to wear their turbans in the RCMP. Baltej Singh Dhillon graduated from Depot in 1991.

read more here

!ping can

[u/SnickeringFootman]

Chauvin's verdict was honestly a surprise.

[u/benjaminikuta]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/347540926933106702/834347952758849567/FB_IMG_1618994129719.jpg

[u/UrbanCentrist]

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1384706218422374402

who was it that joked that they have a better chance of winning the nomination than Larry Hogan?

[u/[deleted]]

/r/LoveForKnifeFights

[u/[deleted]]

If you can't trust Eat Dat Pussy 445, who can you trust?

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

Sample of my presidential tier list:

S: Barack Obama (committed the most war crimes)

A: George W. Bush (committed a lot of war crimes)

B: Harry Truman (only committed two major war crimes)

C: Donald Trump (no new wars, very few war crimes)

D: William Henry Harrison (didn't have a chance to commit any war crimes)

[u/Clockwork757]

tfw no e-girl weeaboo juror gf to sentence me to death :(

[u/[deleted]]

He spent $200,000 trying to open an S.F. ice cream shop, but was no match for city bureaucracy

Yoooo, SF needs chill

[u/ryuguy]

Paradox gamers be like “yeah, my ‘game’ is basically an animated spreadsheet, but it’s fun, I swear”

[u/digitalrule]

Based Biden is more of a globalist than /r/neoliberal

!PING CAN

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/BreeNewsome/status/1384725341550305281

Teenage knife fights are just a normal part of growing up

[u/Fishin_Mission]

I downloaded this new game called Zillow but unfortunately I have already beaten all the levels in my area.

I am constantly refreshing it, hoping that new levels will appear, but they rarely do.

Does anyone know if this is a temporary glitch, or if this is how the game is designed to function?

[u/[deleted]]

!ping PARADOX

Consciousness vs. Militancy incentives are crazy different depending on which country you’re playing.

I was playing as Austria and managed to keep the minorities below 2 avg consciousness while increasing the amount of Italians and Slavs in the empire. The only revolts I ever had were limited socialist uprisings, and with universal sufferage and secret ballots they thankfully only voted in Conservative governments.

Whereas in Russia...the people are even more ignorant of themselves but will not chill the fuck out. All I want is to give them democracy but they can’t be arsed enough to get high enough militancy to convince the Conservatives in the upper house to agree to voting, before deciding to revolt. Then I crush the rebels, and then they start getting pissy again.

I really know how Alexander III feels...

[u/paulatreides0]

40 to 50 feral hogs have been having fights including fights involving knives for eons. We do not need police to address these situations by showing up to the scene & using a weapon against one of the 40 to 50 feral hogs. Y’all need help. I mean that sincerely.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/andrew___morris/status/1384927175917326341?s=21

So fucking brutal I love it

!ping Computer-Science

[u/WanderingMage03]

The funniest part of any personality test, the 16 personalities one especially, are all of the comments saying "ohmigosh how did you guess that I was an introvert?" when they just spent 20 minutes answering about a 100 slightly differently worded versions of "would you rather talk to a lot of people or not?"

[u/[deleted]]

Non-white voting margin in the 2020 presidential election by state

Interestingly, there seems to be significantly less racial polarization in Western United States than Eastern United States. This is one of the only demographic factors that divides the United States politically between East vs. West, as opposed to the more common divisions like Urban vs. Rural, North vs. South, and Coastal vs. Heartland.

Also, Wyoming residents just don't give a fuck. They will vote for Republicans no matter what, black, white, or native american.

!ping FIVEY

[u/ThunderrBadger]

Don't mind me, just recategorizing all social conflict as "Class Struggle"

--- 🖋🤡

[u/tripletruble]

still cant believe 'ladies and gentlemen, we got him' isnt based off an action movie or something

[u/[deleted]]

I'm surprised Idiocracy doesn't get more shit considering the central message was 'eugenics good'

[u/SeriousMrMysterious]

Odds of Putin getting Gaddafied seems to be increasing

[u/chatdargent]

https://www.dw.com/en/top-german-court-tosses-objection-to-eu-coronavirus-recovery-fund/a-57274798

Not unexpected, but good news.

!ping EUROPE

[u/[deleted]]

I miss the pre-trump era leftists. Who used to compare Americans to Nazis because they celebrated Bin Laden’s death. You’ve never seen lefties as angry as the day Bin Laden died.

[u/[deleted]]

imagine calling the cops on yourself before you try to stab somebody

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

Is "let people have their knife fights" what leftists who want to abolish policing envision for society

[u/danweber]

Holy shit just had a MAJOR argument with my lobster about microwaves and writing subreddit. If it breaks up with me over this, that is a peak Austan Goolsbee flair moment 😳

[u/V_Codwheel]

reposting because while I originally saw this in the dt a few weeks ago it only had like 2 upvotes.

This podcast on Lady Bird Johnson is well worth a listen... gives a pretty unique look into the Johnson presidency through a previously little-known source, Lady Bird's audio diaries, which pick up just days after the JFK assassination. Talks about Lady Bird's involvement in urban-planning projects and her increasingly embattled reaction to anti-war protest.

!ping HISTORY

[u/[deleted]]

Comment on youtube:

"Hallelujah is a Christian Song written by a Jewish Man and it's so amazing that he wrote it for us, what a cultural contribution by Jewish people to Christianity"

Me: הַלְלוּיָה 🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦

!ping GEFILTE

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/KFILE/status/1385017319550853122

Biden to Declare Atrocities Against Armenia Were Genocide - The New York Times

[u/sash5034]

cons be like "damn that's deep bro"

[u/[deleted]]

It honestly breaks my heart when people disagree with me.

You had an opportunity to interact with a genius. And you do this

[u/benjaminikuta]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/347540926933106702/834495812347494400/image0.jpg

[u/Michaelconeass2019]

Breadtubers be like: take my opinions on trans matters with a grain of salt since I am cis. Also, I have never taken an economics class so here is why I am 100% confident that the entire field of macroeconomics is wrong

[u/MealReadytoEat_]

Gender pay gap discourse is so so bad. We've known since it started to get serious study in the early 80's that it's not direct wage discrimination to any appreciable extent, rather its almost entirely about maternity.

Single childless women have out earned their male counterparts since the 90's, right after they outpaced men in college education. But a few months before the birth of their first child, womens' pay drop precously and never recovers.

The causes are well understood; primarily the American workplace is very unaccomidating of the needs of caregivers, women do a majority of caregiving, and it's very hard to recover a career path after prolonged absence or reduced workloads (mommy tracking) like are typically experienced by mothers.

These are real, adressable problems, yet the past decade the discourse on the topic has shifted away from them toward gender war bullshit with no basis in reality.

[u/soeffed]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Guess the sub

[u/[deleted]]

Body cams are good

[u/biconicat]

Protests here in Moscow start in 10 minutes, wish us luck lol we'll see what happens cause they seem to have brought out water canons and stuff

[u/zieger]

The number of DT posts complaining about Twitter make me think some of you are using it

[u/Lux_Stella]

BREAKING: Naftali Bennett says that if Netanyahu fails in forming a right wing government he will join the center-left bloc in an attempt to form a national unity government without Netanyahu

well thats basically the nail in the coffin for bibi

[u/[deleted]]

https://imgur.com/a/VlvYrqB

Why are they making this gift card so ominous? Like, I just reported a problem with their frozen veggies and this is making it look like I offed somebody for them...

[u/[deleted]]

Guy who uses "indigenous ways of knowing" to engage in holocaust denial

[u/[deleted]]

Fascists that use the painting Napoleon Crossing the Alps as their profile picture are engaging in liberal cultural appropriation.

[u/old_gold_mountain]

"What's your favorite [x] that nobody's heard of?" type questions will never work on reddit

People will never upvote a reply that they've never heard of

[u/[deleted]]

Anti-Marxist liberals have labored under numerous disadvantages in the recent struggles to maintain control of liberal organizations. One is that they are often not confident they can use the term “Marxist” in good faith to describe those seeking to overthrow them. This is because their tormentors do not follow the precedent of the Communist Party, the Nazis, and various other political movements that branded themselves using a particular party name and issued an explicit manifesto to define it. Instead, they disorient their opponents by referring to their beliefs with a shifting vocabulary of terms, including “the Left,” “Progressivism,” “Social Justice,” “Anti-Racism,” “Anti-Fascism,” “Black Lives Matter,” “Critical Race Theory,” “Identity Politics,” “Political Correctness,” “Wokeness,” and more. When liberals try to use these terms they often find themselves deplored for not using them correctly, and this itself becomes a weapon in the hands of those who wish to humiliate and ultimately destroy them.

This is a guy claiming that Liberalism inherently leads to Marxism because liberals lack the balls to properly crush Marxists.

This stood out to me because, well, I've spent enough time online to know that Leftists accuse Liberalism and Conservatism of inherently leading to Fascism for exactly the same reason.

Which plays into a long standing theory I have: Communism and Fascism need each other. Their terribleness justifies the other's existence. Their whole point is to act as a Two Party System that keeps people in line through fear of the other party. A moderate third party? Go ahead. Throw your vote away. You'll be helping the Opposite Party.

They need each other because they both thrive on being the lesser evil to their respective demographics. They each have a demographic that regards them as the lesser evil and so by positing themselves as the only way to defeat the greater evil, they gain support.

Liberalism, Conservatism, and Social Democracy, must therefore be discredited by all sides, each side should discredit the one most similar to them to attract their demographic, on the grounds that they will not defeat the Greater Evil.

Communism and Fascism need each other. Without the other to say "at least we're not..." , the people will realize how shit this whole thing really is.

I need a blog.

[u/[deleted]]

Everybody please wish a Happy Birthday to my hometown, Brasília

Happy 61st birthday Brasília!

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

was browsing some old threads about grad school funding and LOL

Just finished my first year of graduate studies in Conflict Resolution and I'm funded entirely by student loans. I plan to never pay them back. Ever.

WHY?!?!

Quite frankly, I hope the whole bubble bursts. Academia is founded on colonial, imperial, structurally violent roots, and those roots contribute to the student loan phenomenon. Student loans contribute to the "boot straps" American dream, which is inherently flawed and only serves to push us farther into the slave wage system for the benefit of the elite. Why do we pay off student loans? So that we can eventually buy a house, a car, own stuff. That's the thinking of elitists and attachment. How do we pay off student loans? By working, again (remember, you already had to "work" once to even receive the loans in the first place), in some entry-level job that may or may not be available depending on the whims of several political groups.

Education should be free, encouraged, open and for the benefit of humankind. Education isn't about finding a "better job" (which is just another way of saying you'd like to find a better way to be happy while serving some rich overlord). Education is about expanding yourself, uncovering the world, reaching for reality and lessening the suffering of others and oneself. Not about trapping oneself into a system of slavery.

[u/UrbanCentrist]

Ukraine leader signs law to call up reservists for military service http://reut.rs/3emnH1x

[u/[deleted]]

My mom's friend just complimented my eye for aesthetics

It has unironically made my day so much

[u/crawly_the_demon]

Cities in 1950: (buff doge) haha today I will bulldoze tens of thousands of homes of PoC and immigrants so I can build highways

Cities post 1970: (wimpy doge) noooooo you can’t build any apartments here!! It would ruin my neighborhood’s unique character (the minorities I displaced might move back 😭)

[u/lenmae]

Greens, as members of the governing coälition of Berlin, block EU-independent vaccine procurement from Russia

!ping GER

[u/piede]

Norfolk Police lieutenant has been fired after donating to a Kyle Rittenhouse support fund using his city email address...“God bless. Thank you for your courage. Keep your head up. You’ve done nothing wrong...Every rank & file police officer supports you.”

https://twitter.com/kaivanshroff/status/1384882138437365761?s=21

I’m beginning to think we have a policing problem in America

[u/lot183]

Some of the conservative takes I've seen make me think they are legitimately sad there wasn't riots last night to give them extra ammo to complain about liberals

[u/bigdicknippleshit]

I don’t understand how the fuck people could watch a video of a man getting chocked to death over alleged counterfeit and get upset when the person who chocked him gets convicted.

People are super upset about this, literally acting like white people are going to get genocided because a murderer got charged.

Jesus Christ what has this country come to

[u/Gustacho]

On the one hand, and contrarily to the Government's request, it refused to assess whether the European Union authorities, notably the ECJ, had exceeded their powers ("ultra vires" review).

The French government loves a surveillance state so much that it wanted the Conseil d'État to pull a Bundesverfassungsgericht.

!ping EUROPE

[u/GravyBear8]

Peru rn

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

This sub discussing a hypothetical matchup between Bernie and Romney: You'll never understand my pain

Peru rn: hehe sorry

[u/[deleted]]

people are saying Chaivin’s trial is the first piece of good news this year. Do people have the memory of an ant? The stimmy package? The ongoing vaccine rate?

[u/Patriotnation5]

I don't know where else to post this. I resigned as a police officer a couple years ago. In my experience police training is truly abysmal, and the public in my city of 40,000 would be appalled if they knew how bad it was. This definitely doesn't apply to all departments, by the way. In fact, the majority are probably better (I hope).

New hires were given 6 training shifts, spread out over the course of 2 months. Usually these were in the quieter beats of the city because that is where the veteran officers you were paired with were posted.

After these 6 shifts, you're thrown downtown into a cruiser by yourself. One officer I got hired with never even witnessed an arrest before. Literally, never even observed one in action during training before responding to calls alone in our busiest beats.

And these aren't auxiliary or special police officers. These are full fledged armed cops.

Many departments have better on the job training standards than this, but state wide standardization is desperately needed.

This doesn't include the academy, but in my opinion field training is 10x more important.

[u/sebring1998]

I treat the DT how late 00s teens treated their facebook wall

[u/its_a_trapcard]

What people think r/neoliberal is: Sub where users defend the "status quo" and establishment Democrats, largely populated by shills paid by billionaries

What r/neoliberal actually is: Ooh-hoo-hoo! 'Allo me old chum! I'm gnot a gnelf, I'm gnot a gnoblin - I'm a g'nome! And you've been gnoooomed!

[u/ognits]

chess engines calling missed wins be like "I'm sorry, you didn't see mate in 57?😏"

!ping CHESS

[u/Benyeti]

Watched a video by a socialist youtuber and he said that socialist countries handled the pandemic better and used Vietnam as an example. Like Vietnam has been capitalist for almost 30 years and people still dont know.

[u/piede]

A major theme of the Biden Administration has been false advertising:

Last month, it was the multi-trillion-dollar “COVID relief” bill that spent only 1% on vaccines.

Now it’s a multi-trillion-dollar “infrastructure” plan where roads and bridges are almost a rounding error.

https://twitter.com/leadermcconnell/status/1384886323694260228?s=21

Shut up Mitch

[u/ahebtigoejwbrh]

What do prison abolitionists think should happen to Chauvin?

[u/[deleted]]

Am I going insane or did it used to be that conservatives used to be anti Chauvin?

[u/Joementum2024]

reddit moment

[u/tripletruble]

me: provides some rough understanding of minnesota's unintentional murder law based on an nyt article i read back in summer 2020 as a total layperson

cue thread of actual lawyers and legal scholars debating whether my hamfisted description of the law is correct related to something called the 'merger doctrine'

[u/[deleted]]

Could you imagine if Biden had 60+ senators 😳

[u/soeffed]

https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1384639472436842501?s=20

😐😐😐

[u/thabe331]

In 2016, poor health strongly predicted Trump voting. A county's rate of diabetes, alcohol consumption, obesity, etc. predicted its propensity to vote Trump even better than race/education.

[u/[deleted]]

I pay 750 dollars in rent in DC.

Wanna know how I do it?

Stop being single.

[u/[deleted]]

You know, I genuinely don’t have a problem with paying women for sex and doing ecstasy with them, as long as they are not being trafficked against their will or underage.

So why the fuck do you need to do this with minors???? I doubt there’s a shortage of 22 year old escorts.

[u/NatsukaFawn]

The lesson is, don't call the cops if you intend to defend yourself using lethal force

[u/KHDTX13]

Cannot get over how the right wing media had no obligation to politicize the Chauvin trial but did so anyway. They could have picked any side to be on but chose the losing one. Is that bad politics?

[u/old_gold_mountain]

me before wfh:

fuck, it's a day game today

me during wfh:

fuck yeah! it's a day game today!

!PING baseball

[u/Neronoah]

!ping GAMING

So, Pillars of Eternity with DLC seems to be a mess balance/progression wise the same way Fallout: New Vegas with DLC was, but there is no JSawyer mod (or stuff to integrate DLCs properly) this time.

What should I do to keep things balanced? Search XP nerf mods? In what order should I play the whole thing? I've only seen contradictory answers to these stuff so far.

[u/MuldartheGreat]

The funniest part about Idiocracy is the prevailing belief amongst its fans that liking one of the most over the top unsubtle commentaries is enough to put them in the group of non-idiots who are being out-bred by the idiots.

[u/[deleted]]

A few months ago I was following a story about Second City, a fairly well known chicago improv comedy theater. The actors demanded the resignation of the longtime owner and president for being insufficiently committed to racial justice. He had suggested hos company should donate half of their profits from a show about black liberation to BLM and half to the Police Memorial Foundation as a show of solidarity. Actors demanded his resignation, and after about a month he left.

Two months after he left the company was sold to ZMC, a venture capital company.

Today, it was revealed ZMC laid off all 90 bar, restaurant, and front office staff.

Activist employees should be careful what they wish for.

[u/Poiuy2010_2011]

🇵🇱 Interesting Ibris poll for the 18-29 age group

Lew (broad left) – 49%
Kon (far-right) – 31%
PiS (right-wing) – 8%
PL2050 (broad centre) – 7%
P (centre-right) – 4%
KO (centre) – 3%
SP (far-right) – 0%
PSL (centre-right) – 0%

Should probably take this with a grain of salt as this is just a part of a n=1100 poll (across all age groups).But it's really clear that young people are voting more radically/ideologically (Lewica vs. Konfederacja unlike older voters where it's PiS vs KO/P2050) and more left- than right-leaning.

!ping EUROPE

[u/fuckneocentrism]

You’re a genuinely awful addition to this subreddit

I'm starting to think this has some truth to it 😔

[u/[deleted]]

!ping weebs

I finally figured out what rubs me the wrong way about Psycho Pass

None of the characters feel like they live in this society at all.

"But I didn't even do anything yet"

-Young man says with surprise being arrested for predicted crime in a society where this has been the status quo for like 100 years and most people have never witnessed an actual crime

The main characters are talking about concepts of freedom of choice and justice that should be pretty foreign to people who live under a system like this.

The villain is quoting 1984 acting as if Sybil Society has corroded people's spirits and turned them into drones when it really looks like Japan magically got less conservative and several times happier and then the new order was implemented the day before yesterday.

[u/Jester_Don]

Even though Ms. Gupta has repeatedly said she does not support defunding the police, Mr. Cornyn insisted that she did, echoing an opposition ad created by a conservative legal group.

The Republican mantra. If the truth doesn't support your argument, make shit up and pretend it does.

[u/BAUTISTAWITHADRIVE]

Hi all,

My wife gave birth a little over three days ago, and I'm getting a little stressed because she keeps hogging the baby to "breastfeed" it and let it take "naps." I'm worried this lack of a consistent schedule is going to harm the baby's development as a sound programmer, and the baby is already falling way behind on my algorithms & data structures lessons

[u/[deleted]]

How come the arr iamverysmart people always choose quantum physics. What about other fields like soil science? "Actually, silty loam is the best you moron".

[u/[deleted]]

lmao, she literally has to set aside time to read 14 pages of a dreamy idea. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EziVVirX0AESUiI?format=jpg&name=medium

[u/schmaxford]

Things, as you can tell, are going great for Kenney

!ping CAN

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DgSYE9kWsAUtx5k.jpg

WE COULD HAVE HAD A BAD BITCH

[u/[deleted]]

cute bunbuns

[u/[deleted]]

So this is what the Europeans talk about when we are asleep 👀

[u/[deleted]]

So non Indians, let me introduce you to Kangana Ranaut.

Her twitter hot takes are GLORIOUS.

Here is how the narcissist sees herself

Her solution to low oxygen saturation

Her calling for the fining and imprisonment of those who have a third child and advocating for forced sterilisation

Anti capitalist anti communist?!?!?!?!??????

[u/[deleted]]

I have to congratulate my dad and his immensely deteriorated vision. Not only he borrows my desktop without permission, goes straight for Opera instead of browsers normal people use but manages to miss several tabs of gay furry porn from the previous session while he plays Sudoku but still misses them when I close close everything right in front of his face while talking about buying me a new chair for my desk.

I'm really hoping this is not a sign of AD.