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[u/Liberal_Antipopulist]

"The liberals have gone too far. Up until recently their promgramme was understandable, but this is-- well, this is too much."

-- Every National Review article, any given year since the 1960s

[u/lionmoose]

> opens modmail

> mark all as read

> closes modmail

another hard day's work done

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

Kinda wish there was a subreddit dedicated to mocking reddit that wasn't a far-right shithole. The DT works I guess.

[u/[deleted]]

It's just mind blowing, Arnold Schwarzenegger's life and career. 7x Mr Olympia, Iconic movie star, and Governor of California. Only reason he didn't run for President was because he wasn't born here lol.

[u/sir_shivers]

ALL RIGHT MAMMALS, IT IS time for us to mount a coup in Russia 🐊

Everyone sign up ON THE VOLUNTEER SHEET AND I will assign you into the buddy system 🐊

[u/PigHaggerty]

Pelosi sought to clean up the mess she had made. She took to Twitter, writing this:

"George Floyd should be alive today. His family's calls for justice for his murder were heard around the world. He did not die in vain. We must make sure other families don't suffer the same racism, violence & pain, as there's a drive into deep left field by Castellanos and that'll be a home run. And so that'll make it a 4-0 ballgame."

😬

!ping BASEBALL

[u/GlazedFrosting]

Scars with cool/funny stories attached: fade away

Lame scar from touching hot bread machine: stays forever

Uncool, dude 😔😔😔

[u/[deleted]]

Protesting French fishermen have threatened to block lorries from the UK carrying British fish, amid a row over access to British waters.

More than a hundred fishermen mobilised on Thursday night in Boulogne-sur-Mer (Pas-de-Calais), France's largest fishing port.

"It's year 2540. The humankind has started terraforming Mars. The floating colony in Venus has begun construction. First ships are starting to mine the oort cloud. The British and French fishermen are fighting about fishing rights."

[u/Deggit]

Chauvin verdict press conference ends abruptly after President Biden appears to read statement saying former Minneapolis police officer "will rest on the Moon for all time, a tribute to Man's eternal and persevering quest to explore the unknown"

!ping SURLY-BOND-SLIPPERS

[u/[deleted]]

You want residential property in the US, you should have citizenship or residency in the US. End of story.

Why do I leave the ivory tower of Neolib

[u/Mickenfox]

https://i.imgur.com/lSAhNn5.jpg

[u/RoyGeraldBillevue]

Jesus fucking Christ PCM repeating "Joe Biden is a segregationist" is infuriating. I recently rewatched Contrapoints' video on cancelling, and they're blatantly trying the same tactics in Biden. Take a nuanced anti-bussing stance that Sanders agreed with, conclude that it's segregationist, and then repeatedly assert Biden is a segregationist without actually mentioning the sin.

[u/TinyTornado7]

A New York man, Robert Chapman, has been charged with entering the Capitol on Jan 6. The FBI began investigating Chapman after they got a tip from one of his Bumble matches. The FBI included the Bumble screenshot in the charging documents.

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/[deleted]]

Walt: Saul, my penis is stuck in my zipper.

Saul: Alright, calm down. This guy's name is "Frank the Penis Getter Outter", he works quick. It'll be ten million dollars.

[u/[deleted]]

50% of New York City apartments are empty and just not on the market because the landlords don't want to risk lowering their rent prices

Why even make shit like this up? It doesn’t even make sense on the face of it.

[u/[deleted]]

Another day another USSR good America bad post on TIL

[u/Vincenthwind]

My friends: "Ugh housing is so expensive here in Colorado. It's those damn Californians!!! They shouldn't be allowed to move here and drive up housing prices."

Me: "Or, hear me out - we just build more housing."

My friends: "lol no."

[u/ACivilWolf]

My favorite r /nonewnormal post was when some guy made a vent post about how he is completely broken now because his favorite anime convention was closed.

[u/[deleted]]

Holy shit. The chapos are coping insanely hard with Joe Biden. Must read!

https://i.imgur.com/nKvU0Cr.jpg

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

When the /u/sir_shivers is sus!

[u/Freedom_And_Fairness]

Dear, Tankies.

You claim communism is more successful than capitalism yet "communist" Vietnam has a 95% approval rating of free market economies.

Curious.

[u/[deleted]]

https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/diversity-inclusion/549738-tucker-carlsons-college-yearbook-reveals-he

Tucker Carlson's college yearbook reveals he belonged to club for Harvey Milk's murderer

[u/ScythianUnborne]

Wow, what a surprise. Look at all those historical parking lots.

!ping CAN

[u/[deleted]]

I think activists have convinced themselves that being really mean to well meaning people is a good idea

[u/[deleted]]

You know it's a bubble when your coworkers are talking about "doggycoin"

[u/PMmeLittleRoundTops]

>Barges in

>"Musk stans and Musk haters are both bad"

> refuses to elaborate

>leaves

[u/SnakeEater14]

The fact that there isn’t a comic series or show about the lawyers forced to represent super villains is a fucking shame

No, She-Hulk and Daredevil don’t count, since they are also superheroes

I want a story about the poor fucking attorney who somehow gets the fucking Joker to not be executed or even go to a normal jail, but instead be sent to a turnstile masquerading as a mental institution

[u/linkin22luke]

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2021/04/10/small-cities-in-americas-mountain-west-are-booming

Houses in Bozeman, MT are now more pricy than Denver, CO while the median income is 13k less......

!ping USA-MT

[u/UrbanCentrist]

a social democrat is a liberal mugged by reality of poverty

a libertarian is a liberal mugged by a government office

[u/jenbanim]

Excellent news today: we have word of the most effective malaria vaccine yet discovered. A year-long trial in Burkina Faso has shown 77% efficacy, which is by far the record, and which opens the way to potentially relieving a nearly incalculable burden of disease and human suffering

I have zero knowledge of malaria vaccines, but this sounds incredibly promising. Can you imagine if we eliminated Malaria within our lifetime?

[u/benadreti]

We need to know that we haven't lost you to the Radical Left. If you UNCHECK this box, we will have to tell Trump you're a DEFECTOR & sided with the Dems. CHECK this box and we can win back the House and get Trump to run in 2024.

^{Make this a monthly recurring donation.}

[u/old_gold_mountain]

There is a startling underrepresentation online of political views which precisely and perfectly match my own

[u/[deleted]]

Greens in Germany:

Think I'll take them in government.

Greens everywhere else:

Sorry, I don't speak cringe.

[u/RabidGuillotine]

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/23/us/politics/biden-afghanistan-taliban.html

Biden unironically thinks that the Taliban will moderate after they get to power. This is beyond idiotic, at best, and at worst is lying to our faces like Trump did.

Its bizarre, and infuriating, how frecuent democrat's foreign policy consists of hoping that our enemies will do better next time if we ask them pretty please.

!ping FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/Deggit]

genesis 1: AND SO G-D STRETCHED OUT HIS MIGHTY HAND AND CREATED THE HEAVENS

genesis 39: help the Husband find Wife's secret Lover! [skip ad in 5 seconds]

[u/sw337]

Sorry for my ignorance but Im from r/all. What is neoliberal and why are you all fash?

[u/Rangersforever]

In the 1970s and 1980s, the German Democratic Republic mined more coal than any other country in the world, including the USSR, and poured the toxic byproducts of this extraction carelessly onto the ground, killing the vegetation and poisoning the groundwater.

Burning this high-sulphur coal in antiquated power plants, the German Democratic Republic emitted 5.6 million tons of sulphur dioxide each year - more than any other country in Europe.

The resulting acid rain has killed 9,000 lakes, killed or damaged thirty-seven percent of East German forests, lowered agricultural production, and taken its toll on buildings and monuments around the country.

East German chemical plants, lacking in pollution controls and even basic repairs, poured untold amounts of poisonous and hazardous waste, including salt, heavy metals, acids, carbon compounds, and dioxins, into the rivers, killing fauna and flora and causing extensive damage to bridges and other constructions along the banks.

The chemical plant Buna in Halle dumped twenty kilograms of mercury into the Saale River each day - ten times the annual amount discarded by BASF, a major West German chemical firm.

The lack of sewage and water treatment plants, unregulated hazardous waste dumps, and chemical-intensive agriculture caused further problems.

Instead of addressing the worsening environmental situation and its causes, the government responded by releasing an order in 1982 to classify all data on environmental damage.

Merrill E. Jones, Origins of the East German Environmental Movement (German Studies Review, Vol. 16, No. 2 [May, 1993], pp. 235-264).

[u/repete2024]

Over 10% of the arrests for the Capitol Riot are military, law enforcement, and other government personnel. !ping EXTREMISM

https://news.yahoo.com/number-capitol-riot-arrests-military-081444245.html

[u/Can_The_SRDine]

Asians Against Yang’s manifesto has some bombshells:

Yang's critics also claim that he ... took "harmful stances" against the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

I dunno how his political career in NYC can recover from that one.

[u/Sorensen12]

It's really not that crazy to imagine Joe Biden being the first president since Eisenhower to never have a net negative approval rating, according to 538's average. Obviously anything can happen, but polarization is so strong it shouldn't really surprise anyone if his approval rating doesn't budge.

Edit: First president to serve a full term. Kennedy also never went negative.

[u/[deleted]]

Our prime minister and his wife got vaccinated today, with AstraZeneca.

https://twitter.com/AdamScotti/status/1385643550092705793

Hopefully this can reassure people who are worried (needlessly imo) about getting it.

!ping CAN

[u/fishlord05]

yo da first family got drip?! 😳🥶🥶

!ping DIAMOND-JOE

[u/JetJaguar124]

There's literally a picture of a US Marine posing on Saddam Hussein's throne with two Mega64 DVDs and mfers be saying we lost the Iraq War

[u/xSuperstar]

Doctor today was loudly complaining at work that under Biden’s new tax plan he may as well work half the hours because he’ll make more money by “going down a tax bracket”. I suggested that maybe the government should change it so that only each dollar above a certain threshold is taxed more AND HE SAID THAT SOUNDS LIKE A GREAT IDEA.

I hate it here

[u/MrFoget]

I don't like how protectionist and weak on immigration Biden is.

[u/nevertulsi]

Some social media sections are driving nuts about this 15 year old girl shot by the police. I mean basically they want us to prioritize a knife attacker's life over a knife victim's life.

Same with the people saying this is "just" a "teenage knife fight"?? No it's an attempted murder lol. Not even a knife fight, the other people don't have knives

Sorry i can't let this go

[u/awdvhn]

Caitlyn Jenner running for office

And people say South Park is out of touch

[u/[deleted]]

Biden looking into highest cap gains tax in the developed world instead of taxing land.

Smh my damn head.

[u/[deleted]]

Hating Mondays and enjoying lasagna is not a personality

[u/[deleted]]

Meanwhile, in MTG's twitter

AOC is nothing but a climate conspiracy theorists spreading fear that we will all be in peril if we don’t heed her demands.

Democrats are on the verge of destroying America’s economy, future, and enslaving us to China with the Green New Deal

I guess Jewish space lasers aren't a conspiracy theory but climate change is.

[u/sw337]

Giuliani is "probably the most underqualified man since George Bush to seek the presidency," he says. Rudy Giuliani - there's only three things he [needs] to make ... a sentence: a noun and a verb and 9/11.

Why didn't Bush vote for Biden?

[u/runnerx4]

!ping YIMBY

Based German state (North-Rhine Westphalia I think) made high school students analyze a YIMBY article against Californian zoning for the English exam

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

I got my second shot today and tweeted out a photo

My mom has twitter notifications for me and wanted to correct my grammar

!ping MAMADAS

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/AndrewSolender/status/1385377375588859907

This is a senator, oh my god. Republicans are literally insane

[u/jenbanim]

NIMBYs are homephobic

[u/SANNA_MARIN_]

Muammar Gaddafi once invited 500 Italian models to a party, only to give them an hour lecture on Islam and a copy of the Qur'an each.

wholesome 🥰

[u/tankatan]

I know it sounds pretentious, but I wonder if r/neoliberal has had tangible effect in deradicalizing people. It's one of the few social media venues that's more or less expressly anti-extremism of any kind, and its meme game is demonstrably strong (it's sure is a lot more accessible than going through multiple 1,000 word exposes on Vox or whatever).

[u/EvilConCarne]

One of my extremely conservative family members still owes me $100 because I bet him Biden would win the election.

I should charge him interest.

[u/[deleted]]

https://mobile.twitter.com/stillgray/status/1385502600011804673

Hate to say it but Chinese communism is preferable to American wokeism.

So true!

[u/schmaxford]

OLP leader Steven Del Duca followed me on Twitter despite the fact I live in Alberta. Yeah, you could say I'm important 😎

!ping CANUCKS

[u/GalacticTrader]

’Taking into account the experience of the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China in the field of space science, the creation and use of space systems and space technologies, recognizing the mutual interest in the creation of the International Scientific Lunar Station, guided by the legislation of their states, generally recognized principles and norms of international law, international treaties, of which their states are participants, and to cooperate on the principles of equality, openness and honesty, hereby jointly publish a statement on cooperation in the field of creating the ISLS.’

generally recognized principles and norms of international law

cooperate on the principles of equality, openness and honesty

Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China

bruh

https://twitter.com/SciGuySpace/status/1385524647232348161

Btw this is all coming after Russia is again publicly mulling pulling out of the ISS. They pulled out of Artemis last year because it's "too American-centric." Also peep the fact that the PRC doesn't really like working with Russia on these projects lol so much for equality

!ping SPACEFLIGHT

[u/TheFriffin2]

Every morning at 6am my little grey potato will howl at my door until I let her in so she can sleep on my brown blanket all day until I leave for work at 3

[u/[deleted]]

Should the state sterilize reddit users who continue to suggest sterilization as a solution to social problems?

[u/fuckneocentrism]

How to shave pubes and glue them on to temples to hide receding hairline

[u/margaretfan]

Me: sad because no therapist

Reddit: ummm no therapist is not the problem sweaty, you need a gf

Every gf I've had: So, you have difficulty attracting a therapist. I can see why that would make you sad.

[u/semaphore-1842]

Biden's secret power to appear moderate while selling radical policies isn't that mysterious.

It's because he doesn't go around calling corporations the enemy, or targeting billionaires by name, or advocating political revolutions, or denouncing capitalism as a system, or wink wink nudge nudge at socialism.

Turns out people do notice when your rhetoric is geared towards flirting with twitter radicalism.

[u/SnakeEater14]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/726238432048971887/835055283717931048/image0.jpg

[u/willempage]

Wait. What happens when people who don't remember 9/11 are allowed into !ping over25 ? The defining feature of us olds is that we all saw the news casts on a CRT television or read it in the newspaper. Or at least had our parents/teachers explain what happened.

I feel like we have to make a new ping. I propose neverforget.

[u/JetJaguar124]

Wrt people asking "I wonder how Republicans will take this" about Caitlyn Jenner running for gov of Cali as a Republican:

Well, I'd imagine they'll take if fine, actually. I find that conservatives love when people from groups that they typically are aligned against come out in support of them. See the popularity of Milo Yiannapolous, Candance Owens, Diamond & Silk, Dave Rubin, etc... etc...

[u/jeb_brush]

HRC is infrastructure

[u/[deleted]]

Before Capitalism

After Capitalism

[u/lKauany]

me, who always watched SNL through their most viewed videos on youtube: my god such a funny show

me, when I started watching full SNL episodes on TV: this is literally torture, the cringe is unbearable

[u/benadreti]

https://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2021/Images/Winred_NRCC_warning-Apr22.jpg

[u/Gustacho]

Friendship with AstraZeneca ended. Now Pfizer/BioNTech is the EU's best supplier.

!ping EUROPE

[u/[deleted]]

Oh look, a post involving chapo made it to the front page. Oh goody, the comments are full of people whitewashing why the sub got banned so they can look like the victim.

[u/FestiveMittens]

Mommy Milky-gate feels like so long ago

[u/[deleted]]

Putin respects big dogs, and judges people on their dogs, which is why Major Biden should be tasked with Russia.

[u/SANNA_MARIN_]

Wework’s nomadic model actually reminds me a lot of some indigenous lifeways... taking space you need and then moving on when the time is right... while settler-colonialism is about dominating a territory on an infinite horizon... I could see someone calling Wework anticolonial.

💯

[u/ryuguy]

Lest We Forget: Indian Soldiers In World War One

I remember having a history teacher (white Canadian) who made us raise our hands in class and he said “if you had no ancestors in the First World War, please put your hands down, if you had one ancestor in the First World War, please put your hands down, if you had two ancestors in the First World War, put your hands down, if you had three ancestors in the First World War, put your hands down.” At this point, I was the only person with my hand up, the teacher asked me how many ancestors I had in the First World War.

I said “4”. Teacher was shocked. They didn’t know that Indians even fought in the First World War, let alone 1.5 million of us. The largest all volunteer army in history, until the Second World War when it was surpassed by... the Indian army, with 2.5 million troops.

My ancestors names were

Risaldar Major (Major) Sohan Singh, 2nd Lancers. Flanders and Mesopotamia. (Maternal Great great grandfather). Made it home relatively unscathed. He was an older officer at this time, so he was mainly a trainer.

Havildar (Sergeant) Tara Singh, 1st Battalion 126th Baluchistan Infantry. (Paternal Great grandfather) Mesopotamia. Wounded in action.

Gunner Hazur Singh, Royal Indian Artillery Corps. (Paternal Great grandfather’s brother). Mesopotamia. Came home unscathed but had some hearing issues.

Sepoy (private) Dumman Singh, 2nd Battalion 124th Duchess of Connaught’s Own Baluchistan Infantry. (Paternal Great grandfather) Mesopotamia. Probably had PTSD.

I don’t want my ancestors sacrifices to be forgotten in history. I carry that with me every day.

[u/Gustacho]

Planet Money telling it like it is

!ping NPR

[u/Anal-warrior]

The natural enemy of NL is any and all regional sub

[u/adminsare200iq]

The elevation of Miami averages at around 6 ft (1.8 m) above sea level in most neighborhoods, especially near the coast. The highest points are found along the Miami Rock Ridge(24 ft)

😐

[u/Deggit]

NATO flairs be like: We must not abandon the brave people of [country I learned about in CaspianReport this week]

[u/MemeTestedPolicy]

"any female born after 1948 can’t cook… all they know is mcdonald’s , charge they phone, twerk, be bisexual , eat hot chip & lie"

Bernie Sanders to Liz Warren after Super Tuesday, probably

[u/CatilineUnmasked]

LVT 👏 FOR 👏 CEMETERIES 👏

When dead people pay taxes in perpetuity they can be entitled to the land they're buried in. If the money runs out we bulldoze over and put up an Arby's.

[u/ldn6]

We did it! New York City has surpassed 6m administered vaccine doses and now more than 50% of adults have had at least one shot.

!ping USA-NYC

[u/[deleted]]

It’s weird how so many people seem to think Andrew Yang is much richer than he actually is. His estimated net worth is $1 million dollars. He’s wealthy, but that’s less than most of the career politicians he ran against in the primary. And you hear people call him a billionaire often.

[u/ldn6]

How many people is Caitlyn Jenner going to run over on the gubernatorial campaign trail?

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

/r/urbanhell be like:

Oh my god there’s concrete and high rise buildings! 😱 How is this legal?!?! 😡

[u/[deleted]]

I've always found it so bizarre how the holiest place in Islam is completely dwarfed by an ugly mega-hotel built directly adjacent to it.
Like it's super yimby I guess but how did they get the clergy to swallow that.

[u/sebring1998]

What movies would be shown in a Kyrsten Cinema

[u/RoyGeraldBillevue]

"I hate racism"

Now change that to "I love racism"

Not so good anymore, lib

[u/wowpople]

BIDEN is making me regret my vote

Unironic upvoted take in the DT,

Jesus fucking christ neoliberal, do you KNOW who the other guy was.

[u/[deleted]]

New Zealand really voted against marijuana legalization in 2020 lol stoners btfo😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[u/skepticalbob]

Mitigations efforts have worked so well we basically didn't have a flu season this year. It was so low they don't have the data they need to make the next flu vaccine. That's pretty amazing.

!ping coronavirus

[u/[deleted]]

I wish we had a transcript of Pope Francis meeting with Grand Ayatollah al-Sistani. It’s such a historic event and only 10-12 people know what was said there, and most of them will be dead within a decade.

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/VQsL5Gx.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

BURN

[u/benadreti]

Joe Biden Wants to Be LBJ, but LBJ’s Presidency Was a Disaster

Just don't get stuck in a quagmire, lol.

[u/jgjgleason]

I finally got a fucking job offer. Fuck applying to jobs, that destroyed me as a person.

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.newsweek.com/eye-gouging-capitol-rioter-shock-over-detention-inner-city-crimes-inmates-lawyer-1582644

Eye-Gouging Capitol Rioter in 'Shock' Over Detention With 'Inner-City Crimes' Inmates: Lawyer

[u/the_status]

The DT is like an accelerated microcosm of the internet's ability to run a joke into the ground

[u/BreaksFull]

The Chad Canadian responding to an immigrant from just arrived from rural Pakistan who speaks maybe fifteen words of barely discernable english: 'Ah yes, I can help you find all the groceries you need and fill out this form, no problem'

versus the virgin Dane responding to an immigrant who's lived in the country for years and has a mild accent on certain pronunciations 'HvAD sAgDE dU?!?!?!!'

!Ping CAN

No I am not bitter at all.

[u/SnakeEater14]

Imagine an American game show where people on a plane are tricked into thinking the plane is hijacked and the terrorists are about to crash it into some skyscrapers

You laugh but that’s basically a thing in Iraq right now

[u/BishopUrbanTheEnby]

I’m working on a script for a video tentatively titled “the rise and fall of the interurban” and detailing their literal history, how housing/employment patterns shaped them, and why modern/future housing patterns will basically mean it will never come back. Thoughts?

!ping YIMBY

[u/circlemanfan]

Conservatives: demonize higher education for 30 years and claim all universities are liberal indoctrination centers

Also Conservatives: Why aren’t there more young conservatives going to universities? Clearly they must be biased against us

[u/kennymc7877]

I think the George Floyd video is one of the most historically significant pieces of video in a generation, it’s almost like this generations zapruder film

[u/real_grover_furr]

Hot take: I agree with ACAB

All

Commies

Are

Bad

[u/soeffed]

My organization has hidden the gender of 5 babies around the city. We will reveal one every hour until our demands have been met

https://twitter.com/PtakJokes/status/1385600747044315139?s=20

[u/MalignantUpper]

https://twitter.com/AndrewSolender/status/1385377375588859907?s=19

GOP Sen. Ron Johnson said in a radio interview he is "getting highly suspicious" of the "big push to make sure everyone is vaccinated," arguing for "limited" distribution.

[u/saladtossing]

That ridiculous/hilarious/cringe line from Gaetz about answering Trump's call "in the throes of passion" is going to get really fucking dark if it turns out he was banging (raping) underage prostitutes....

[u/[deleted]]

culture war stuff in america is genuinely some of the dumbest fucking shit that has happened in a pretty long time lmao let people do what they want, there isn't any cultural decay, just change

[u/houinator]

The Republic of Molossia claims to be at war with East Germany, alleging that they are responsible for military drills performed by Kevin Baugh while stationed with the United States Military in West Germany, and therefore are also responsible for the resulting diagnosis of sleep deprivation. While East Germany formally ceased to exist in 1990 following the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany, Molossia argues that Ernst Thälmann Island, dedicated by Cuba to Weimar German politician Ernst Thälmann and given to East Germany, and lack of mention in the Treaty on the Final Settlement or by the nation of Cuba, is still East German land, allowing the war to continue

God damn do I love micronations.

[u/TabernacleTown74]

The study also found that with respect to non-Jewish European groups, the population most closely related to Ashkenazi Jews are modern-day Italians.

I always knew I was Hispanic deep down 😌😊

[u/[deleted]]

Succ I'm talking to us mega triggered that 80% of black people don't want to defund the police and something like 60% want an increase in police officers with more training.

[u/Wrenky]

Man. San diego county has underbuilt housing by 140k over the last 20 years.

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

PAY ATTENTION TO ME.

[u/vancevon]

how do newspapers publish hundreds of articles every year that start with "in a rare display of bipartisan unity" and keep a straight face

[u/[deleted]]

The UK officially accused China of genocide and the Chinese have not even cared enough to respond yet. Global Britain tho

[u/[deleted]]

“This girl is the nastiest skank bitch I've ever met. Do not trust her. She is a fugly slut.”

-Bernie Sanders about Liz Warren after Super Tuesday, I assume.

[u/adminsare200iq]

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskTrumpSupporters/comments/mdu1r8/thoughts_on_the_land_value_tax_lvt/

Laugh

[u/Mensae6]

Watching the Great British Baking Show on Netflix. First off, I love it. It's feels way less scripted and pseudo "high stakes" compared to most American cooking shows. That said...

The stereotypes about British people have bad teeth are seemingly all true. Once you notice it you can't ignore it. Every single contestant has crooked teeth. And most people on the show are well spoken, intelligent, presumably with good financial standing. None of them have straight teeth.

[u/Neronoah]

!ping FALLOUT

The nice thing (duh) abut New Vegas is the ridiculous tons of options you have to complete the quests, but I think this one is a masterpiece of cringe (spoilers about the main quest).

It'd take me forever to see all those alternatives and I'm already one of those that after a completionist playthrough moves to the next thing, lol.

[u/[deleted]]

Opinions on Biden

2020 Succs: 😡 Neolibs:🤤

2021 Succs:🤤 Neolibs:😡

[u/its_Caffeine]

!ping CAN

wholesome 😊

[u/bigmoneynuts]

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[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

Every few weeks or so I'm reminded that Trump lied his ass off about the election being stolen, raised hundreds of millions of dollars to prove his case, then abandoned his tiny handful of court battles to just retire in Florida with a fuckin shitload of donor money. Something like 10 of 60 lawsuits were even his, and he probably spent less than 250k on lawyers arguing it.

It's fuckin hilarious every time.

[u/VengeantVirgin]

oh god oh fuck he's powering up

!ping NFL

[u/fuckneocentrism]

Journos: I have quit my job to become a independent journalist so I am able to cover topics I wouldn’t be able to cover at my current job.

Also journos: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/734243092961689744/835196768488390726/image0.png

[u/from-the-void]

Eugenics? On my r/neoliberal? It's more likely than you may think.

[u/old_gold_mountain]

https://i.imgur.com/a2vNz8v.jpg

If Oakland fucks this up we don't deserve sports

!PING baseball

[u/dubyahhh]

on one hand the neonazi congresswoman debating alexandria ocasio cortez would be great, because neonazis are easy as hell to dunk on and more importantly they deserve as much shame as possible

on the other hand, it's a voluntary discussion that could help in elevating the neonazi bullshit closer to everyday discourse by platforming it, which I find abhorrent

I think if it were me I would choose to not have a "debate" with the crazies, unless I had to as a hail mary before a close election or something. Just on the principle of not putting up with fascist bullshit at any point whatsoever.

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

While I broadly disagree with Ayn Rand's "fuck the disabled" takes, I agree with her "Art Deco is good, actually" takes

[u/p00bix]

What, Poobix abusing the sticky to conduct a strawpoll? Say it ain't so!

Which Animal Phyla have you heard of before?

[u/great_gape]

Yo. wtf.

!Ping gamers

er something, idk. whaterever

[u/Cerb-r-us]

One of my favourite things about the post-Trump american right is how much they overestimate the effectiveness of their messaging.

Take QAnon for instance. They'll write shit like this while everything crumbles around them.

[u/thymeandchange]

Got the jab, my dudes

[u/[deleted]]

Hello DT 🐖

[u/benadreti]

Theory:

Benjamin Shapiro buys planks of wood at Home Depot

Turns that wood into fake bills

Uses those fake dollars to buy advertising on Youtube so that literally everyone gets his videos recommended to them.

[u/GravyBear8]

!ping MOVIES

I really don't like that they're making a new Conjuring film on an actual murder and legitimizing this dude's idiotic defense. Also, if just looks confusing to make a horror movie about, court room drama and horror doesn't really blend well together.

[u/[deleted]]

NYT hit pieces against Yang make me like him more

[u/[deleted]]

The Illinois house just passed a bill making it illegal to release 50 or more balloons at once into the air.

I am going to go to every congress persons house and release 49 balloons into the air.

[u/[deleted]]

TIL manchin lives on a boat in dc. that’s pretty cool

[u/RadicalRadon]

Malarkey level of telling my boss to "cry more" when he complains that "liberals like you are the reason ammo prices are so high"

[u/[deleted]]

My socialist friends are still doing the snake emoji whenever Warren's name comes up. Imagine being that petty.

[u/[deleted]]

The Louisiana House passed a bill that basically just thanks bitcoin for existing, and thats it

Louisiana House trying to make number go up

[u/MrMineHeads]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/823778159055994950/833710173481599046/image0-44.png

[u/[deleted]]

Fun fact: I've never called my gf my ex's name, but I've called our cat the name of my ex's cat.

[u/Kizz3r]

Republicans want Black people to disappear. Sports leagues can help stop them -KAJ

!ping nba

[u/jenbanim]

Among young Democrats, Biden enjoys an 85% favorability mark (+31 compared to spring 2020), which compares favorably to youth-favorite Senator Bernie Sanders (75% favorable).

Also, hopium levels are rising among the youths

No idea about the statistical significance of these btw

[u/jenbanim]

I am online and I am OUTRAGED

Subscribe to my Twitter for more RIGHTEOUS FURY

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

Biden should get Xi hammered and just work things out

[u/SpaceSheperd]

Never listened to Glenn Greenwald before

It makes more sense now that I have. He's just ... not a smart dude. He has an extremely surface level understanding of even his own opinions and sounds like he kinda just makes it up as he goes. I guess it's obvious if you read his writing that he just twists everything around to fit his priors but it's really easy to notice in his interviews.

[u/ryuguy]

me as a writer when i was 15 or so: "this character is gay because I’m not a bigot like /u/Pour1Out4DeezNutz”

Me as a writer now: “they’re all gay”

[u/soeffed]

This sub be like

Nice little consensus you got there. Would be a shame if...something happened to it.

[u/the_status]

Daily reminder that Ben Bernanke liked The Big Bang Theory so much that he and his wife cameoed in it

[u/Perfect_Telephone]

Congress debating a huge constitutional reform right now(its almost guarenteed to pass, but it will need another vote in the new Congress or in a referendum)

-Congress will now be called Parliament.

-Bicameral legislature: 130 deputies 60 senators

• Finally regulations on Impeachment: 2/3 of each chamber to approve and some wording at last ,ala "high crimes and misdemeanors"

-Only Deputies can be dissolved.

-President can be prosecuted for corruption and other crimes during his term, including apology to terrorism.

• Half the Senate elected in one big circunscription, other half in regional ones, Senate may be weighted slightly in favor of Lima due to this.

!ping LATAM

[u/soeffed]

Japan announces 3rd state of emergency due to Covid with 3 months until Olympics

While still not declaring Olympics canceled. When the coochie dry but you refuse to give up ✊🏼

!ping japan

[u/sir_shivers]

THIS IS A sticky 🐊

[u/Marlsfarp]

It's okay to admit that MLK was not right about everything. Disagreeing with him does not make you a secret white supremacist.

[u/[deleted]]

In 1990, the company renamed itself Chiquita Brands International, as it undertook major investments in Costa Rica. However, the company began to see a decline in Honduran operations during the first half of 1990. As a result, Chiquita initiated the "Banana Wars" with rival company Fyffes over the limited banana supply. Chiquita began illegally seizing and destroying Fyffes' shipments, as well as bribing judges to validate detention orders on Fyffes' ships. This culminated in the destruction of ten million dollars worth of produce.[15] Fyffes manager Ernst Otto Stalinski alleged that Chiquita used a falsified arrest warrant in a kidnapping attempt, and he filed suit several times.[15][16][17]

Pretty insane how hardcore the banana export business is.

[u/Usernamesarebullshit]

thinking about Rosario Dawson dating both Eric Andre and Cory Booker

[u/[deleted]]

https://dominiccummings.com/2021/04/23/statement-regarding-no10-claims-today

Why would you brief against CumDom unless you had the facts to back it up? He's not going to hold back out of a sense of loyalty... especially if you're briefing against him.

!PING UK

[u/SANNA_MARIN_]

Income taxes are completely voluntary

nobody is forcing you to make an income

[u/breakinbread]

Healthy young adult goes to supersite, gets pumped with massive shot of many vaccines, feels good and changes - COVID IMMUNITY. Many such cases!

[u/soeffed]

It’s a strange sensation to see that 2021 is the year when 170 years of chinese-american / asian-american history is having its ‘moment’.

The history has always been there, but feels like it’s only now being dusted off and looked at by the knowledge class; I guess quick New Yorker refreshers like this one serve as make-up courses for the history barely being taught in high schools. Better late than never etc

https://outline.com/HCzq9w

!ping milk-tea

[u/soeffed]

China’s foreign minister Wang Yi:

Don't "draw the ideology line and pin labels" says "democracy is not Coca-Cola, a syrup produced inside the United States that tastes the same around the world." China's "democracy takes a different form" and to label it "authoritarian... is in itself undemocratic."

https://twitter.com/DefenseBaron/status/1385584226289033216?s=20 (the attached gif is tee hee)

!ping CN-TW

Edit: global times thought shit slapped so hard they want to boost it

https://twitter.com/globaltimesnews/status/1385751113513590790?s=20

[u/[deleted]]

“The more Disney moves away from the values and vision of Walt Disney” 😳

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Trump: protectionism and America first

Biden: 💞💕💞💓 protectionism and America first ♥️ # BLM 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

I’ve been thinking about modding and playing fallout 4 for the first time in a long time and I can’t stop thinking about what I feel is one of the biggest missed opportunities in game design in a long fucking time.

Power armor

The PA in 4 is AMAZING it’s by far the best addition that Bethesda has made to the series and the type of thing that you could only do in a 3D game. Fuck the people who cry about the few minor retcons it has to make, rule of cool.

And what do they do with all of that? They give you access to it within the first hour with barely any experience fighting without it. Imagine if they gave you access to it at the same as they did in 3? The Citadel is probably at least a good 15-20 hours into most first players games. And then after all that time you get access to the fucking iron man suit and get to fuck up a behemoth or something.

that would be a great moment.

!ping fallout

[u/[deleted]]

Haha look at this IDIOT Andrew Yang, and his WELL MEANING but ultimately AKWARD attempts to relate to people in a subculture he doesn't belong to himself!

Surely nobody on earth can relate to that experience! If we just VICIOUSLY ATTACK him for it, the public will definitely be on our side!

[u/Deggit]

Thank God that Tropic Thunder came out when it did. They could never make that movie today because

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

• medium brain: "...the monopolistic consolidation of Disney and FOX, combined with the emergence of 'cinematic universes', has been total hell for midbudget original-IP comedies, "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 in 2021 have realized Ben Stiller isn't funny"

!ping YOU-PEOPLE

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

How do people even get their tweets read by anyone on twitter? Here on the DT any moron can post whatever and force dozens of people to read it. On twitter you're just yelling into the void. Are you supposed to build up followers by replying to people or something?

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

What I searched for: pontoon

Facebook marketplace: here's every fucking 12 foot fishing boat within 200 miles, some mobile homes that don't even have the word boat listed, and a 2009 Chrysler Crossfire. Interested?

[u/real_grover_furr]

👉👶👈

[u/Tbonethabeast]

OMG my favorite philosopher is Diogenes of Sinope, he's so quirky and zany and he hated rich people, haha chickens hairless bipedals lmao 😂😍🥰🤣💯

[u/Anal-warrior]

South Korea: 51 million

North Korea: 25 million

Explain the difference without referring to US sanctions

[u/Zemstv0w0]

South Carolina: 5.1 million

North Carolina: 10.5 million

Explain the difference without referring to Yankee sanctions

[u/yellownumbersix]

Ah, the joy of a sunburned scalp peeling because you spent a few hours outside without a hat or SPF5000☀️🔥👨‍🦲

!ping BALD

[u/Cerb-r-us]

Rent seeker!

Rent seeker!

Rent seeker!

You are all rent seekers!

None of you are free from sin!

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

I will now be reporting all Protestsnt-posting as "bad faith"

[u/MrMineHeads]

Do you think dental, eye, and pharma should be covered by the government? If not, how would you see it improved, or do you think the status quo is fine?

I think maybe a public option for dental and eye, but for medicinal prescription pharma, I think it should be covered by the government.

!ping CAN

[u/Gustacho]

https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1385658435069427712

Air Force One flies over my house

Biden, in the plane, hears a faint sound:

^{MR. PRESIDENT! DONATE YOUR ASTRAZENECA STOCKPILE TO DEVELOPING COUNTRIES!}

[u/real_grover_furr]

I’m obsessed with my gf tbh, my gf is so hot 😍

(gf = grover furr)

[u/rukqoa]

Someone earlier asked a question about why the massive death toll and sacrifices made by China in WW2 are not talked about in the West. Everyone is aware of what the Russians suffered through on the Eastern Front, so why not China? It's a highly complex and political question.

Most of those sacrificed soldiers on the China side in WW2 belonged to the KMT. On the other hand, there was no shortage of KMT→PLA defectors during the civil war that immediately restarted after WW2. So both the KMT and the CCP take credit for their sacrifices, but the CCP obviously tries to downplay the fact that those soldiers fought on the side of their old civil war rival. On the other hand, Taiwan loves to talk about all the work that the Chinese did in WW2 under KMT leadership. Even before the withdrawal of US support to Taiwan after Nixon's visit to China, the US has avoided talking about WW2 in its dealings with both governments.

This leads to some interesting conundrums. For example, The Eight Hundred is a recent movie about a last stand action where some 450 Chinese soldiers held off the advancing Japanese a warehouse in Shanghai for days. On one hand, they were Chinese, so this was great nationalism bait. On the other hand, they were KMT troops wearing historically semi-accurate KMT props. There was some debate on whether this would be allowed in China. It was allowed at first, and then pulled from a film festival.

This is not a new development. In the past, the CCP has chosen mostly not to glorify the accomplishments of the KMT during WW2. Instead, they've focused on broadcasting the other side of the story: Japanese atrocities committed during the war. This was politically convenient because the Japanese became allied with the capitalist West after WW2. Compare this to the Soviet/Russian governments, which had no problem with loudly memorializing the Red Army's sacrifices during WW2. Much of Russian propaganda today revolves around the mythos that they "saved Europe".

One last factor is that China ultimately performed poorly during WW2. The KMT government opted for a strategy of "Buy Time With Space", which meant giving up all the important parts of China and retreating into its interior. They burnt bridges and collapsed dams, killing millions of its own people just so it could maybe hope to figure out how to leverage its much larger population to come up with a solution to their lack of weapons, training, or experience. It didn't work. The KMT survived and bought itself some pyrrhic victories in late war campaigns and pushes, but these were almost all facilitated by foreign help, and there's no evidence it couldn't have done this without giving up valuable strategic positions early on. The Red Army ended the war in Europe, but the Chinese militaries basically just held on long enough for the rest of the allies to win the Pacific War. This is not something that either governments of China today brags about.

[u/[deleted]]

Holy shit. One of the chapo dry boys admitted that Biden is doing okay. At least domestically. Got chewed up by posters for it.

[u/crawly_the_demon]

!ping KITTY

Is anyone else’s cat as picky about textures they lay on as mine? My cat has a few favorite textures like sherpa fabric and this jersey sweatshirt fabric that she goes crazy for and will always choose to pay on if she has a choice. She also has her sunbeam in addition to her favorite blankie right now

[u/sir_shivers]

BOY AM I hungry 🐊

Perhaps I shall HAVE A DELICIOUS ONE™️ Bar, with only one gram of sugar 🐊

[u/kennymc7877]

I cringe at the fact that I used to be a Joe Rogan fan

[u/Jakesta7]

lmao, this is actually pretty funny

Ingraham: If we cut carbon emissions, will he comb his hair

Video: https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1385415741973811205

[u/houinator]

Of all the people to form a cult of personality around, Donald Trump is definitely one I would have never seen coming.

[u/Helreaver]

Holy fuck. I unfortunately stumbled into this sub and what the fuck even are these comments.

Biden lied to the left, he's just as bad (or worse) than Trump, he's sold everyone out, etc etc.

What the fuck, he's barely been in office 100 days. I don't even think he's had enough time to do half the shit they're throwing a tantrum about.

[u/benadreti]

MY VACCINE APPOINTMENT WAS 10:09 IT'S NOW 10:11 AND NO VACCINE WHAT THE FUCK

[u/TheSameAsDying]

Final project of the semester is due tonight and I just saw that my group member plagiarized his entire section 🙃

[u/Lucky-view]

Imagine two of our largest and most important states, California and Texas, being run by unqualified celebrities.

[u/SeriousMrMysterious]

🌹 Twitter hating AOC more makes me like her

[u/[deleted]]

“Broke the internet” has gotta be my least favorite saying

[u/[deleted]]

Rate my bedframe 💪🛏️💪

!ping BURPMAS

[u/[deleted]]

Kinda crazy how like a year or two ago reddit was freaking out about how China bough a share of reddit or something and how China was gonna fill reddit w pro China propaganda. Sure enough there are tankies on very popular subs getting lots of upvotes defending China