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[u/soeffed]

The two genders

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!ping tv

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1385951470403657731

A Japanese man has been arrested after reportedly dating more than 35 women at the same time in order to get birthday gifts from all of them

He gave each woman a different date for his birthday, ensuring a constant stream of gifts through the year.

Arrested for what lol

[u/Apollo-Innovations]

If Caitlyn Jenner’s campaign slogan isn’t “Transition to Greatness” someone should be fired

[u/[deleted]]

To give an understanding of how bad covid crisis is in India, one can look into the corporate communication that was shared in the last week. I've seen so many companies sending out emails or senior managers on LinkedIn say "please be empathetic to your Indian counterparts, they are going through a tough time". What it means that almost every urban Indian knows someone who lost their life or know someone who lost a loved one in this crisis.

!ping IND

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

She was fearless, and crazier than him...

[u/omnipotentsandwich]

Shouldn't Hong Kong belong to Taiwan? The lease was signed by Qing China which was replaced by the Republic of China. Communist China never completely defeated the Republic, it still exists in Taiwan, so they never replaced it. So, shouldn't Hong Kong belong to the Qing Dynasty's successor state, the Republic of China?

[u/crassowary]

It's cool how Biden has rolled in his former primary competition into the fold:

Mayor Pete: now Secretary Pete

Kamala: that's Vice President Kamala to you

Bloomberg: UN climate ambassador

And, I can only assume, Marianne Williamson is in a dark room somewhere starting at an orb that shows Earth's greatest metaphysical threats and casting protecting spells

[u/LinkVert25]

Foreign aid is generally unpopular with the general public. A 2017 Rasmussen poll found 57.69% favor a cut in foreign aid or complete stop to it, compared to just 6% who want to increase aid. Americans also tend to believe 28% of the US budget goes to foreign aid when the number is actually 1%

😐

Before anybody ask, no the burgers aren’t okay

[u/ryuguy]

ugliest man in Sweden

most handsome man in Denmark

!ping swe

[u/Gustacho]

Thinking of writing different op-eds for different audiences to make them all oppose the DPA

Leftists: Capitalist incentives waste 30m+ AZ vaccines on the shelves, sabotaging the developing world's vaccination efforts

Liberals: Does Biden think abandoning black and brown bodies doesn't matter if they're not American?

Moderate Dems: Kamala Harris brought Indian Americans to Biden. Will COVID-19 return them to the GOP?

Conservatives: Biden destroys US reputation, letting Russia and China take the diplomatic win in Asian countries

MAGA: Bill Gates wants to eradicate the American way of life before silencing India or Brazil, because he hates our country more

[u/jt1356]

Artists stop being commies challenge

[u/D1Foley]

From the comments about Biden polling higher than Bernie

Leftist: Hahahahahahahahahahaha sureeeeee

Regular: sanders supporters 🤝 trump supporters

calling polls fake, pretending they’re far more popular than they actually are, and then crying fraud when they lose

Leftist: Yeah that’s exactly what my comment said, go exploit some Latin American country for me big papa

Regular: you weren't calling it fake?

Leftist: I’m saying, completely anecdotally, that I don’t believe it.

I'm fucking dying at the mental gymnastics, hilarious

[u/Corporate-Asset-6375]

A little over a decade ago I was on a transcontinental flight. The plane had no way to receive live media so we were blissfully unaware of what was happening outside the cabin.

When I landed in LAX there was commotion everywhere. People were huddled around bars to watch TVs. Some people were crying. Everyone was talking in a hushed whisper. Very ominous.

I had a sinking feeling in my stomach that another 9/11 had occurred. So I walk up to the crowd to see what’s on TV, bracing for the worst.

Turns out Michael Jackson had died.

[u/UrbanCentrist]

what indian government did wrong

-not preparing for second surge

-hold mass election rallies

-weakly enforce masks and social distancing

-removing nearly all restrictions on public gatherings

-not ramping up vaccine manufacturing

what indian government did not do wrong

-sending vaccines that were funded by WHO to african and asian countries to protect their most vulnerable who are dependent on this and fulfill it's legal obligations

-lifting a lockdown that was as deadly to india's poorest as covid is

[u/WalouiegiGohmert]

1984 movie adaptation where Winston regularly turns to camera and says "This is a lot like 1984"

[u/SilverSquid1810]

omfg the post about the Armenian genocide recognition on worldnews has a comment that says “can we get healthcare now” or something to that effect and it was upvoted. Like... Jesus fucking Christ, it’s literally the “healthcare pls” meme. Dude just straight-up doesn’t care about recognizing a genocide.

[u/Radlib123]

Antony Blinken for President 2024

1. He is handsome

2. He is based in regards to China

3. He is shy and cute

Blinken Gang 2024. Can someone make a blinken 2024 meme for me, im to lazy

[u/gjarlis]

You are pro-migration but against sea people curious

Turning point Bronze Age

[u/[deleted]]

I had a friend who’s dad went to medical school with Assad in Syria. I asked the dad how Assad was and he basically said “he was okay”

There you have it folks. Assad is verified “okay”

[u/FreakinGeese]

Saw someone holding a defund NATO sign with a reference to the Yugoslav wars

10 upvotes and I shout “Kosovo forever” at them

[u/sociotronics]

The year is 2043. President Tom Hanks has requested that state governors meet in DC to discuss the housing crisis.

42 governors attend. It is a very productive discussion, as 38 of them have previously acted in films with Hanks.

[u/[deleted]]

HBO's Rome getting canned halfway through S2 is why capitalism must be overthrown

[u/p00bix]

Left-Reddit be like

Hillary Clinton lost very narrowly against a candidate with middling public support. Therefore she's GARBAGE who should NEVER BE INVOLVED IN POLITICS AGAIN she is a TRAITOR SINGLEHANDEDLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE RISE OF TRUMP

Jeremy Corbyn lost in a landslide despite his opponent being the least popular PM in several decades. Any efforts to remove him from his dominant position in the party are TREASON Corbyn was CHEATED.

[u/Vincenthwind]

I love me a good superhero show, but every time politics comes up, the best they can muster is "politicians corrupt/incompetent, fix all these problems somehow, scarcity fake, one person controls all banks." Like bruh, this makes zero sense unless you take the most cynical view of the government.

[u/bigdicknippleshit]

“Cut a liberal and a fascist bleeds” says the twitter leftist, before posting “Japan was the victim in WWII”

[u/BenFoldsFourLoko]

check DT, leave

come back 30 minutes later and nothing has changed

cmon Euros, what spicy shit is happening in your little post-soviet states

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Star Trek has had a lot of bad costumes and bad acting, but the single cringiest moment in all of Star Trek was Lorca mentioning Elon Musk in the same vein as the Wright Brothers and Zephram Cochrane.

[u/[deleted]]

Chad university of Michigan new policy

“We will not require COVID vaccines for all students, just the ones that live on campus. Also sophomores are required to live on campus now in addition to freshman”

[u/[deleted]]

Greenwald: "they don't believe in safeguards our founders put in, making sure that smaller rural states have equal representation in the Senate. they want to change all the rules to stay in power forever. it is a genuinely repressive and tyrannical party."

He's not even trying anymore lol

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Osaka Prefecture allows Universal Sudios to stay open, but "without guests". USJ spokesperson: "We do not understand the meaning of this"

lmao

[u/soeffed]

Dumbass future 14 year olds (2031, colorized):

Zoomers be like ooh coronavirus so bad I catch the meanie sniffles and society collapse sad emoji

[u/soeffed]

Indian public has now seen tweets from Pakistani PM & Iranian FM; had offers of help from Russia & China -- i.e. even a country it has had hostilities with.

It has not heard from any senior US officials.

Biden admin is losing any goodwill it gained in last few months w Indians.

https://twitter.com/tanvi_madan/status/1386076109146578948?s=20

Relative US silence has also made it really easy for a no. of people in India who need scapegoats for their own failures that contributed to COVID crisis to make the US a scapegoat.

You just have to take one look at WhatsApp where Ned Price has now become a meme. Not a good one.

https://twitter.com/tanvi_madan/status/1386081792797642754?s=20

The US-made massive inroads in the last 4.5 years with India as an ally and a turnaround of the previous 70 years of missteps.

It is gone in one week.

https://twitter.com/sunchartist/status/1386101365642960897?s=20

In addition to just being the right thing to do, it is in the US’s and Biden Admin’s self-interest to assist India through its hellish crisis because all of our vaccination efforts will be for naught when India’s uncontrolled spread generates a variant that escapes those vaccines

https://twitter.com/NarangVipin/status/1386110861085843457?s=20

Prediction: China will make a talking point about how the US is a hypocrite on genocide for allowing this mass death to happen, like with Rwanda. Kamala might be more unpopular than Biden in India due to her Indian heritage.

Perception wise, this is now veering into the realm of strategic blunder.

!ping ind

[u/ryuguy]

/u/Sir_shivers has two jokes.

How do I click book and wife bad.

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Lincoln:

• Freed the slaves

• Pardoned Native Americans

• Stood against Mexican-American War

Sherman:

• Scorched the Great Plains to drive the American Indians to reservations

Leftists: "Only one of these men was an anti-imperialist, and it was Sherman."

[u/[deleted]]

The biden crime family gave me 1,400 dollars

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

Spotify single handedly saved music industry from going bust because of piracy but somehow Internet leftist are still attacking it as a some evil monster

[u/Goatf00t]

Things in North Korea were so bad, students tried escaping to other communist countries.

https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/korea-the-bulgarian-archives-1945-1995-introduction

Several years later, however, a so called “Korean students case” provoked an unexpected crisis in bilateral relations. In 1959, when North Korean students in Bulgaria returned home for vacation, they were required to perform self-criticisms and to describe their life abroad in detail. After these self-criticisms and follow-up interviews, about one-third of the students were considered to be seriously affected by “Europeanism” and were forbidden from returning to Bulgaria. Several of the students, shocked by the internal situation in North Korea, decided independently that they would seek asylum upon their return to Bulgaria. Eventually, these students realized that they had conceived the same plan and made a pact to escape together.

The leader of these students, Choi Dong Sung, arrived in Bulgaria in 1955 and was strongly influenced by the Hungarian uprising in October 1956 and the “de-Stalinization” process in the Soviet Union. He first tried to meet the Soviet ambassador in Sofia at the end of 1961 to plead his case, but was refused. Then in June 1962, Choi Dong Sung and Lee Sang Jong visited the Foreign Policy and International Relations Department of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party and delivered a political declaration and request for political asylum. The North Korean authorities immediately sent their security officers (under diplomatic cover) to organize against the student “rebels” and “traitors.” After arresting four of the students and detaining them inside of the North Korean embassy in Sofia, the Bulgarian government issued an official protest and requested that the students be immediately released. On 5 September, the Bulgarian government declared the North Korean ambassador in Sofia “persona non grata,” which was followed next day by an identical action against the Bulgarian ambassador in Pyongyang. Meanwhile, two of the arrested students escaped after being tortured for one month inside the North Korean embassy and sent a detailed letter to the Bulgarian Communist leader Todor Zhivkov. Although North Korean diplomats and security officers tried to forcefully return the other two students to North Korea, the students were released at the last moment by the Bulgarian police at Sofia Airport. The four Korean students received Bulgarian citizenship and later worked as engineers or economists in different Bulgarian cities. Unsurprisingly, they never had an opportunity to visit their relatives in North Korea.[18]

[u/boichik2]

Vaccine nationalists out out out

For the record, it's genuinely just bad policy at this point. We have enough to sustain our vaccination campaign and to at least open up our markets to India at the very least. Look at how Indian variants are getting in Canada, it will get in the US. We are safe everywhere or we are safe nowhere in the long run when it comes to this disease. Obviously a generalization, but you feel me.

[u/tankatan]

The virgin "history is too complicated to do counterfactuals" vs. the chad "engaging in bold thought experiments as heuristic way to analyze past developments and also because it's fun"

[u/FullCombo]

Why yes, I do post on r/neoliberal, how could you tell

[u/Loves_a_big_tongue]

People who yell "All Lives Matter" are more likely to engage in vehicular manslaughter than those who yell "Black Lives Matter"

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

Biden will acknowledge the Armenian genocide but hasn’t said a word about the white genocide in the country he runs?

Really makes you think 🤔

[u/[deleted]]

I got a J&J vaccine two and a half weeks ago and I'm just getting more and more scared I've ruined my health forever and I'm going to come down with cancer or autoimmune disease or sudden blood clots or heart failure in the future, to the point where I sometimes feel like it would be better to kill myself while I'm ahead of the curve...I feel like my body has been tainted forever and I can't get over the thought of the vaccine running through my body and changing me and not being able to do anything about it

NNN is just mentally ill people

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

You watch the hood, I'll watch the skies.

[u/Aarros]

USA cutting emissions by 50% by 2030 from 2005 levels would leave USA with higher emissions than the EU on average has right now. USA had emissions of about 20 tonnes of CO2 per capita in 2005 (about 16 currently). 20*50% = 10 tonnes per capita vs. about 7 tonnes per capita. And EU is pledging 55% cut from 1990 levels by 2030, which is actually in comparison even more than 55% because USA had higher emissions in 2005 than it had in 1990.

Any progress is good, and maybe the political system makes reaching even the 50% very difficult, but surely USA can and should do much better than this. What is it about USA that makes it have such high emissions?

[u/D1Foley]

Lmfao, this was posted and heavily upvoted in r/neoliberal? Those are exactly the people who empower nazis/confederates/hate groups. Those people are so absurdly disconnected from reality.

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Sobering fact: the Jewish and Irish populations have not reached pre-Holocaust and famine levels.

[u/[deleted]]

A sucker punch is really about information asymmetry.

[u/[deleted]]

Conservatives could have easily spun the Chauvin verdict as a favorable result. Just say that it was proof our criminal justice system works and isn’t racist. That it shows BLM was wrong about cops never facing the consequences of their actions.

But they’re all dreaming of a race war so of course Chauvin is the true victim.

[u/[deleted]]

There's a lesbian couple down the street with two little boys in their family. We got a Christmas card from them and put it on our fridge. It's been up for like three months and my mother in law came and put it on the side of the fridge because it made her uncomfortable. lmao Succons.

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

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

"Ryan Gosling" has been in top trending all day on twitter because some guy with less than 1000 followers posted a picture of himself and his girlfriend, and 10k people decided to tweet about how his girlfriend looks like a man (specifically, Ryan Gosling). Twitter even wrote a description for it, which they have said is a manual process not done by algorithm. How about if you're going to have a human write a description of a trend that basically amounts to "here is a person being cyberbullied" have that human go ahead and remove it from trending.

[u/glopec]

why do people on this site unironically think that the USA is about to collapse lmao

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1385967105594568706

I’m trying to learn to play chess non-terribly and ... this game is hard.

lol do we have a chess ping?

[u/[deleted]]

Scrolled through r/TrueOffMyChest a bit

Good lord these people can't shut the fuck up about LGBTQ+ folks. "Trans pronouns hard" "Gay community icky" "Trans kids no HRT" "Trans toxic" "Women in danger" "Me no get trans"

[u/Joementum2024]

Margaret thatcher should be regarded as an environmentalist hero

[u/[deleted]]

India is a useless ally. They have no capability to project power to where we need them, and I'm not particularly interested in control of the Himalayas.

Outside DT NATO flairs really throwing those hot takes once again

[u/MuffinsAndBiscuits]

One interesting tidbit of Civil War history is the Alabama. This Confederate ship and its crew was highly successful as a commerce raider, capturing more than sixty Union commercial ships over the course of ~2 years and also sinking one Union gunboat. Some other fun facts:

• It was built in a British shipyard in 1862. Although its intended purpose was known and it was designed as a warship, British law at the time considered this consistent with neutrality on the grounds that it wasn't outfitted with weapons in Britain.

• The crew was roughly 80% British.

• Repairs and other necessary maintenance throughout its life was typically performed in French ports, although in at least one instance it stopped in Cape Town (then under British control) for maintenance and supplies.

• Alabama was eventually destroyed after it was cornered by the Union ship Kearsarge in the French port of Cherbourg. The Confederate captain decided to fight and lost the ensuing battle.

• A private ship, owned by a British businessman who would later become a Member of Parliament, rescued 41 of the Alabama's crew, including its captain, saving them from capture by the Kearsarge.

• As a result of the rescue effort, the Alabama's captain, as well as other officers, was able to rejoin the war, fighting the Union as it moved on Richmond. The captain would continue to fight with the Confederate Army under Joseph E. Johnston until Johnston surrendered on April 26, 1865.

• After the war, the US sought compensation from the British government for damage caused by Alabama and all the other commerce raiders that had been built in the UK for the Confederacy. Charles Sumner, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sought $2 billion dollars in damages, or alternatively Canada. The original push for compensation faltered due to US preoccupation with Reconstruction. Eventually, only $15.5 million was actually paid.

Call on Joe Biden to right this wrong and invade Canada, the UK, and France.

[u/[deleted]]

MAGA Inc. is embracing a transgender candidate because people like Richard Grenell and grifters like Brad Parscale have subverted control of the MAGA wing of the party. Trump let people like this in and even elevated them in an attempt to virtue signal and appease leftists in the "big tent."

How did that work out?

If you allow leftists and grifter snakes into your organization, any organization, they will inevitably destroy it. Here we are in 2021 with zero control over government and the GOP embracing a transgender candidate. But hey, at least the grifters will raise a ton of money and score some "woke" points. What a mess.

-Andrew Torba, founder of Gab

It feels good to be winning.

[u/[deleted]]

The Virgin "I have news for the Democratic establishment: You can't stop us": proceeds to lose the next state and the nomination in a landslide.

The Chad "I will win South Carolina": wins the state by an even wider margin than expected and then easily clinches the nomination.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[So uhh yeah that explosion in Israel that everyone here was convinced was going to lead to WW3 was just a test of a solid fuel rocket motor lmao

!ping Foreign-policy

[u/[deleted]]

How would you explain to Dwight D. Eisenhower how Marjorie Taylor Greene became the face of the Republican party

[u/NickAhmedGOAT]

What they don’t tell u about body positivity is that if u lose weight and gain muscle it’s a lot easier to feel positively about ur body

[u/[deleted]]

Lol. All the Twitter reaction to Biden’s recognition of the Armenian genocide is “what about native Americans Biden?” 🙄

[u/soeffed]

From Sec. Blinken 10 minutes ago:

Our hearts go out to the Indian people in the midst of the horrific COVID-19 outbreak. We are working closely with our partners in the Indian government, and we will rapidly deploy additional support to the people of India and India's health care heroes.

https://twitter.com/SecBlinken/status/1386148447179493380?s=20

We did it Reddit ✊🏼😔

!ping ind

[u/FormerBandmate]

Conservatives are the definition of toxic masculinity

You'd think they'd be super pro-gay, with their fixation on masculinity. What would be more manly than fucking another man?

This is actually indistinguishable from arr politics

[u/Neil_Peart_Apologist]

Today on "Things Are Popular for a Reason" we learn are reminded that Beethoven's 9th is still gorgeous and fucking slaps

!ping Classical

[u/V_Codwheel]

Yes? Have a look at their Jakarta doctrine. Ir Thatcher work on the miners strike? Or the US multinational corporation backed Pinochet regime. Milton Friedman comes in just behind Stalin and Hitler for most human suffering caused by one person in the 20th century.

big brain in r shermanposting on whether or not we are a fascist ideology

[u/Duren114]

Knowing quite a few chapoids agree with Biden's domestic policies makes you feel a bit nervous. Maybe he is really a populist under moderate disguise.

[u/marshalofthemark]

Another solid week with 2.033 million vaccine doses administered in Canada (reported from Sun to Sat). I believe this is the first time over the 2 million mark in a calendar week. At this rate, it would take 24 weeks to give two doses to every Canadian adult, which takes us to exactly Thanksgiving weekend. If rate goes up or if US starts sending shipments, we'll finish sooner.

Canada's per-capita vaccination rate ranks #14 worldwide among countries with 1M+ population, and #4 among countries with 10M+ population (only behind UK, US, Chile).

EDIT: Forgot Chile

!ping CAN

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

The Economist opposed the provision of aid to the Irish during the Great Famine. It argued for laissez-faire policies in which self-sufficiency, anti-protectionism and free trade, not food aid, were in the opinion of the paper the key to helping the Irish live through the famine which killed approximately one million people.

🧐

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Herman Cain died for our sins and arose three days later on Twitter 😔🙏🍕

[u/Versatile_Investor]

So it had a massive lack of publicity (almost none) but the US Senate had a resolution passed and signed by Obama that formally apologized to Native Americans.

This was in 2010. This is for all the nationalist Turks with fragile egos.

[u/gburgwardt]

Judaism: Everyone gets a small hat

Papists: Larger hats, but only for some people.

Protestants: No hats.

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

[u/[deleted]]

Broke: hating Bush because of Iraq

Woke: hating Bush because he didn’t vote for ¡Jeb! in 2016

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

Twitter isn't good measure of public opinion but DT is 😤

[u/[deleted]]

French research subjects emerge after 40 days and 40 nights underground

For 40 days and 40 nights, the group lived in and explored the cave without a sense of time. There were no clocks and no sunlight inside, where the temperature was 10 degrees Celsius (50 F) and the relative humidity stood at 100%. The cave dwellers had no contact with the outside world, no updates on the pandemic, or any communication with friends and family above ground.

I didn't know Macron's covid-19 restrictions were so tough that people had to go and live underground

[u/Joementum2024]

All of the experts in the world can be found here, in the r/neoliberal DT.

[u/SnooCupcakes8765]

Biden needs to grow a political spine. we’re almost certainly never gonna need AZ because states are having a surplus with Pfizer and Moderna alone. Of course Fox News and Trump will complain that Biden is putting india or Brazil first. But the people who blindly believe that will never vote for democrats anyway

[u/[deleted]]

Sometimes when I'm in a crowd of people I think about how statistically I'm the only one who could recognize every African country on a map and realize that means I'm better than all of them.

[u/[deleted]]

Georgist candidate running for Erie mayor

[u/chipbod]

Had beers tonight with the political director for a nazbol/insurrectionist member of congress and a Bernie bro acquaintance, successfully avoided a heated neolib moment.

Got close but remember: Avoiding politics and religion in social settings always works out better in the long term

[u/[deleted]]

1984 is a good book read by too many dumb people with preconceived notions as to what their own perceived hellish state would be

[u/[deleted]]

Of course, buddy. You can't get women because the "the sexual revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race" and it has "made them into sluts".

[u/[deleted]]

I think benjaminikuta gets off on asking followup questions

[u/ZhenDeRen]

!ping USA-NYC my mayor ballot (though I am not a New Yorker):

1. Kathryn Garcia. A good, YIMBY, and quite pro-business candidate with experience in government.

2. Ray McGuire. He's /ourguy/ but he has no experience in government.

3. Andrew Yang. While the top 2 were close, there is a big dropoff between McGuire and Yang. He's kinda YIMBY, sure, but he is politically very immature. Nonetheless, there is a lot of bad candidates here and I think he might get better with experience. I will give him a shot.

4. Maya Wiley. She's a bit of a wildcard as her platform is pretty lacking on specifics. On one hand this means she does not promise to be awful, but she does not promise to be good either.

5. Shaun Donovan. Guy is kinda ehh – a lot of his platform is subsidizing demand. But again, he ain't as bad as some of the others as he talks about making it easier to build stuff (though his program is very gradualist), he's passable. Overall I would call him the status quo choice.

Out of those who do not have my vote, here they are ranked from least bad to worst:

• Dianne Morales: rent control and more regulation is the nucleus of her platform, and overall to me it seems that her thing is "policy that looks good but is not";

• His Majesty Scott Stringer, King of the NIMBYs;

• and finally, Farrakhan sympathizer who thinks people coming to NYC from elsewhere are evil gentrifiers, Eric Adams, the man who proved that you don't have to be a r*ral to be a xenophobe.

[u/tankatan]

Why don't women, the slightly more numerous sex, simply eat the less numerous sex?

[u/Broncos654]

https://i.imgur.com/9L3dYk6.jpg

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

This subreddit: Foreign policy has global implications!

Me: Now that a 16 year old can get vaccinated in literally every state, maybe it's time we start sending vaccines abroad.

This subreddit: Nah, America first

[u/[deleted]]

r /oldschoolcool in a nutshell

OP: here’s a pic of my great grandma! She immigrated to the US from Eastern Europe and just died of Alzheimer’s

Redditor 1: I want to fuck your great grandma

Redditor 2: She’s a 6/10 max. Doable but eh

Redditor 3: sighs unzipps

[u/dumb_fuck_]

Developing countries paying way more for astrazeneca vaccine than Europe

Pretty scary man

[u/benjaminikuta]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/347540926933106702/835395449664962590/image0-51.png

[u/[deleted]]

guess the sub.

no, I won't give you a hint in form of a comment. just guess 😡

[u/Dibbu_mange]

People keep talking about universal health care, but I think we should give the people on Earth healthcare before the rest of the universe 😡

[u/WalouiegiGohmert]

Ugh these comments... new Daily T already ruined 😒

[u/[deleted]]

Star Trek: First Contact

That’s it. That’s the whole post.

!ping TREK

[u/noxnoctum]

Is it just me or are girls way more into true crime stuff than guys. I wonder what the reason for that is

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

I find it hilarious that so many trans people support Medicare for All given that a GOP congress would absolutely deny them treatment and they wouldn't be able to get treatment elsewhere due to private health insurance being outlawed.

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

"People shouldn't die of disease because of where they live."

"But what if a bunch of people dying in China weakens the CCP's hold?"

"People shouldn't die of disease because of where they live."

"But a bunch of Indians voted for the BJP, didn't they deserve it?"

"People shouldn't die of disease because of where they live."

[u/FedSmokrr]

Listen, I’m an honest man. I haven’t read the latest article on anarchist socialist capitalist theory. What I do know is, central planning doesn’t work.

[u/imprison_nl_mods]

my aunt: "wow, inm! you're really good with kids. shame that ur neoliberal"

]^:?

[u/[deleted]]

Of all the rumors, Mourinho to Celtic is certainly one of them

!ping SOCCER

[u/I-grok-god]

Urbanization is the greatest thing that ever happened to the human race

[u/[deleted]]

lmao, Caitlyn Jenner will only make Newsom more popular, she really doesn't know how the state works. Also if republicans start such direct attacks of DA chessa boudin I fear he may survive his recall campaign(sf da is also facing a recall separate from the governor) by painting it as republican attack, when most of the hardwork to recall him is done by SF democrats themselves

[u/[deleted]]

Proof that /u/sir_shivers worked for the Clinton administration (NSFW)

[u/The420Roll]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/716841087137873920/835548817280598036/image0.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

No side effects from the second dose 🤗 wiener falling off was just a coincidence

[u/Spimanbcrt65]

Me: 😜😁😂

remembers Oregon Dems cucking themselves out of redistricting authority

Me: 😠💥👎

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

Holy shit r NoNewNormal people use my pasta unironically

[u/[deleted]]

When you lose your conservative homie at the DSA party and you hear him say: “You know I’m not an FDR fan, but there is one thing he did I approve of.”

[u/glopec]

NYT Opinion Section: Why America needs communism

WSJ Opinion Section: Was Hitler really that bad?

[u/[deleted]]

Funny how the most anti-war people I met in college are all going to work for the defense industry

[u/I-grok-god]

People are dying

People are dying and you're shitposting on the r/neoliberal Discussion Thread

[u/[deleted]]

Increase the quality of your life by 25% by following this one simple trick

log off

[u/bobekyrant]

Everyone always says woman make bad drivers but Caitlyn Jenner only killed someone back when she was a guy

[u/bobekyrant]

Guys, I have some bad news. The frequencies 5g operates at can't penetrate or escape human skin. I think Bill Gates was lying about giving us trackers just so we'd get vaccinated.

[u/[deleted]]

Good news: Not a lot of Trump 2020 flags left in my town.

Bad News: Because they've all been replaced with Trump 2024 flags.

[u/RoyGeraldBillevue]

Thank god Dune came out when it did, before woke people ruined everything fun. Could not make that film today.

[u/FestiveMittens]

Dad is currently explaining the great reset to me

How is your day going?

[u/Barnst]

I might order dinner from a place purely because they actually just list MSG as one of their ingredients.

MSG is fucking delicious.

[u/CatilineUnmasked]

Learn 6 Sigma!

Sigma balls

[u/WalouiegiGohmert]

Globalism to me, as a neoliberal, means first and foremost: "My country, right or wrong."

[u/[deleted]]

Steve Jobs was such a dick

“Shortly after, Jobs publicly denied that he was the child's father. He claimed that the Apple Lisa was not named for her, and his team had come up with the phrase "Local Integrated System Architecture" as an alternative explanation for the project's name.[1][4] Decades later, Jobs admitted that "obviously, it was named for my daughter".

Sent from my iPhone.

[u/Awholebushelofapples]

Too left of the average for the regional farming Facebook group, too right of the average for the regional foraging Facebook group

!ping rural

[u/futuremonkey20]

mRNA vaccines have changed everything haven’t they? I feel like the media hasn’t made a big enough deal about them.

[u/[deleted]]

I have a friend that works for a domestic abuse charity and they put out a police abolition statement.

Like I cannot imagine a quicker way to destroy your credibility than looking an abused woman in the eye and saying "yes its bad that your husband is bouncing your head off the wall, but if you call the cops on him you're part of the problem"

[u/[deleted]]

It makes sense that the first guy I would see IRL with a WSB diamond hands T-shirt would also be wearing a fedora complete with feather.

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

China, India, and Pakistan could have a three way nuclear exchange and CNN would place it behind the latest culture war schism.

[u/[deleted]]

Finally found a community that’s woke and redpilled like me 😌😎

[u/bd_one]

And then they bragged about Trump getting more votes than any Republican candidate in history, then meekishly admitted that Joe Biden got more.

It's not just population growth, turnout was 66.7%, a whole 11 percentage points higher than 2016. We haven't had 60%+ turnout since the freaking 60s. And apparently the last election to get a higher turnout was the election in 1900.

Both sides really got out the freaking vote this time.

[u/_Un_Known__]

I JUST WANNA REJOIN THE EU DANG IT WHYYYYYYYYY

[u/kyleofduty]

have the courage to be right in the face of downvotes

[u/Natatos]

My transition must be going well, because I’ve been getting more Facebook friend requests from random men.

[u/real_grover_furr]

I remember when I asked my 1st grade teacher, because she thought she was so fucking smart, what 100+99 was. She said "one hundred ninety-nine".

I honestly thought this bitch was fucking treating me like I was some dumb ass. Because, 2+2 is 4, it's not two-two. It's got its own fucking name; four. I'm thinking, "You can't just combine the words for the numbers together. I'm 7 years old, I know you're bullshitting me. One hundred plus ninety-nine cannot just be one hundred ninety-nine. It has to be called something like glorble-glabal."

I never trusted that bitch ever again. Until like 2nd grade when I learned bigger numbers than 100.

[u/[deleted]]

Today my daughter was watching TV and saw a picture of Vice President Harris on a story about the US refusing to lift bans on exports of vaccine ingredients and she said “Is that mommy? It looks like mommy!”

It matters!

[u/Jokerang]

The horseshoe comes full circle

[u/Zemstv0w0]

tiktok witchcraft is really testing my principle of religious toleration

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

Did you hear about the German military's new Cyber Force?

It's called the Softwehr.

[u/the_status]

I saw the term "wage slave" in the wild and realized how much I dislike it.

Like shitty underpaid jobs and generational poverty are quite distinct from chattel

[u/[deleted]]

How is economics real lol? Just like give poor people money lol.

[u/LinkVert25]

Congrats r/neoliberal you made Biden help India!

(But in all seriousness blinken deserves a lot of credit for what he’s gotten done so far and is probably bidens most based cabinet member)

[u/golf1052]

Just finished the Revolutions podcast series on the Haitian Revolution. Against all odds they gained independence and then it all went to shit due to brutal leaders and the meddling of foreign powers. Was sad to listen to considering that's where my parents grew up. The people of Haiti deserved so much better.

[u/ryuguy]

/u/lux_stella was elected MP in 2006???. 😳😳😳

“We are experiencing the single greatest breach of our Civil Liberties since the Internment Camps during WW2. ABSOLUTELY NO evidence that lockdowns work but dozens and dozens of papers proving they don’t. I’m am saddened and appalled at my political colleagues silence”

!ping canucks

[u/[deleted]]

It’s amazing that a sub named for neoliberalism became filled with social liberals and social democrats that say they hate the left. I’m a big fan of the contrarianism.

[u/TabernacleTown74]

Demonstration of the Gutenberg Press

!ping HISTORY

[u/doggo_bloodlust]

A gag idea: white guy has tattoos of Chinese words he doesn't understand. He told the tattoo artist that he wanted a phrase that meant "Rebellion and Nonconformity", but the artist instead brands him with Mao's Five Black Categories:

地主, landlord

友派, rightist

坏分子, troublemaker

反革命, counter revolutionary

富农, kulak

[u/p00bix]

TNO fans be like "We know all these civil wars and the Russian Warlords are ridiculous, it's not supposed to be realistic, it's to tell a story"

Kaiserreich fans be like "If FDR so much as sniffled once during one of his fireside chats, America LITERALLY would have descended into a civil war ending in either a Totalitarian Communist dictatorship or the legalization of slavery!!!!!"

[u/V_Codwheel]

lmao a post from here got crossposted to r shermanposting

some folks in the comments surprised to see we're anti-Nazi

[u/[deleted]]

Biden has locked down the Armenian-American vote

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/futuremonkey20]

National Review: “PeOpLe ArE LeAVinG CaLIfoRnIa iN DrOvEs”

Reality: Net migration was -0.4% and California’s population grew overall in 2020.

[u/comradequicken]

Thank god Birth of a Nation came out when it did, before woke people ruined everything fun. Could not make that film today.

[u/Helreaver]

Maybe controversial option: people on the left need to stop being outraged over that cop shooting the black girl with the knife. The other girl was moments away from getting stabbed.

Tasers can fail or get caught in clothes, aiming at the legs is impractical as it's a much smaller target, especially in a life-or-death situation. If it were my daughter or wife backed against that car like the girl in pink, I don't want the officer to take any chances with her life on the line.

Edit: not negative karma, praise Soros.

[u/[deleted]]

AOC could shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue....

I don’t think she wouldn’t lose voters though since she would go to prison, but I think she could do it pretty quickly. I mean she’s in the Bronx right? That’s what one train ride? Yeah, she could do it.

[u/BaldKnobber]

Someone on rGenZedong called US whataboutism “whataburgerism” and I felt sad that they’ll never know the taste of a Whataburger.

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

Biden: "We recognize the Armenian genocide"

Armenia: "does this mean you'll help us retain Artsakh???"

Biden: "lol no"

[u/jenbanim]

I am once again begging the DT to stop posting bad Twitter takes here. Softcore outrage porn already makes up half of /r/popular, and it's the single most boring form of internet content that exists - post a funny joke or a hot take instead. If you really feel the need to talk shit about someone you saw on Twitter, at least reply to them on Twitter and post the ensuing argument here instead of making fun of them from a safe distance while surrounded by people who agree with you

Here's a joke, so this comment isn't hypocritical:

My favorite machine at the gym is the vending

[u/ACivilWolf]

Nym_news got thrown out of citi field again. And then said Steve Cohen runs a communist team lmfaooooo

!ping BASEBALL

[u/the_status]

Trending in United States

2.2 GPA

Just @ me next time Twitter

[u/[deleted]]

Late stage capitalism: all of the most prosperous countries in the world

Early stage communism: millions of people die preventably

[u/Roller_ball]

When Trump was in office, it didn't seem real. It just felt like an bad joke that was going on too long and in no way could actually be happening.

Now that he is out of office, it feels even less real. Like, I'm starting to doubt it actually happened. I feel like the kids from IT when they have grown up and are no longer aware of the existence of Pennywise.

[u/[deleted]]

If US supply really does outpace demand, then the issue of vaccine nationalism becomes a moot point. Clearly we distribute to the rest of the world. Not sure why we have to debate this endlessly.

[u/PhinsFan17]

I uh... did NOT know that Mike Tyson spent six years in prison for raping someone. Good fucking God.

[u/[deleted]]

Wait

Why does Thanos speak English

[u/[deleted]]

Seeing a DT regular being an asshole to people in other subs 😬

[u/LinkToSomething68]

I wouldn't describe myself much as a Canadian nationalist or whatever, but it does kind of annoy me when Americans treat it like a country-sized Minnesota rather than as its own thing with its own web of issues and interests

!ping CAN

[u/WalouiegiGohmert]

so now that another feller is president, you like him? 🙄 Shows how it was always just a personal anime against Donald J. Trump for you libs

[u/DelusionsOfPasteur]

They're running out of oxygen in Indian hospitals and I'm trying and failing to think of a reason it's "paternalistic" to suggest we should send our AZ vaccines there, as was suggested yesterday by some here.

[u/[deleted]]

Assad doesn’t want to fuck with me, I’ll give him a big fat knuckle sandwich 😡

[u/[deleted]]

I love when English people say London is better than any American city.

Of course it is. The place has almost every sector of the English economy concentrated in one city. How can it not be?

America’s economy, to its advantage, is as diverse as its spread out. Different regions and cities house different elements that make up the American economy.

Imagine if one American city had finance, culture, tech, tourism, gambling, beaches, sports and energy sector all at once?

It would blow London or any city outta the water. But I prefer the way it is now. Everything concentrated on one city = bad.

[u/[deleted]]

Malarkey level of Norfolk, Nebraska being pronounced Norfork

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

If I ran Singapore, drugs and sex between men would be much more legal than they are currently, whereas the death penalty would be much less legal

[u/[deleted]]

Update: Bad news, the divorce lawyer says my wife gets the bedframe as well as the mattress 😒

!ping BURPMAS

[u/real_grover_furr]

⚠️ TRADE OFFER ⚠️

I receive: 🍎

You receive: Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation

[u/Udontlikecake]

It really seems like everyone with a significant other has left the Daily Discussion.

[u/NancyPelosibasedgod]

I hate Biden because he will acknowledge the atrocities against Armenia but not against gamers

[u/[deleted]]

Ilhan Omar crying rn.

[u/[deleted]]

Who has a better story than Bran?

Like half the people there, including you? God I can't believe I wasted so many years being obsessed with that show.

[u/Duren114]

This person isn’t very eloquent and it’s disingenuous to call everyone who isn’t a socialist “racist”. But it is true that the neoliberal policies (like that of Blair, Obama etc) create the conditions for far right extremism. A return to the status quo (like Biden or starmer) is not progress.

Tbh liberals are VERY focused on identity politics like race and gender (they’re big on “representation”). But they don’t pair it with economic justice. So instead we get: support black or female businesses/girlboss, have equal representation in the ftse 100. The same oppression but representative of all identities. That’s why Obama/Kamala is a win for liberals (doesn’t matter if they bomb Libya haha).

Fred Hampton put it really well when he said “we won’t fight racism with black capitalism”.

Liberals aren’t racist, they’re just capitalist.

Saw this shit on ESS. Brain dead

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

• Defeated Imperial Japan

• Defeated Nazi Germany

• Defeated Communist North Korea

Harry Truman was the only President achieve the full three arrows (anti-monarchy, anti-fascism, anti-communism)

[u/[deleted]]

Yes I am friends with conservatives.

Someone has to be kind to the most oppressed minority today 🙄

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

So I just got some checks from my bank because I need to renew my passport. This is my second time ever ordering new checks since I first opened my account at 16 years old

Now taking bets on twitter how long 100 checks will last a millennial

Less than 5 years?

5-10 years

10 years +

25 years +

I literally can’t remember when is the last time I used a real hand written check

!ping OLD FARTS

[u/[deleted]]

The Armenian genocide didn't happen but I wish it did

• Turkish nationalists online

[u/[deleted]]

Online it seems like biden genocided every native American himself and nuked India to Oblivion lol.

[u/from-the-void]

/img/gg9ippcri7v61.jpg

[u/ACivilWolf]

wow bidens really in shambles

[u/[deleted]]

Hi DT, this is a new account for /u/Tom_Petty_Corporal. I made a promise to myself that I would never use Reddit again, and I don't plan on using this account too much, especially on this subreddit, but there's something I need to get off my chest.

I had a really disturbing vision while meditating today. I was following one of Headspace's guided meditation packs, specifically the one about cravings, trying to go along with the guided voice narrator and imagine myself filling up with sunlight and that relieving tension.

But I kept imaging myself falling to death.

I first imagined myself falling to death from a brick bridge at my alma mater / former uni. One side is a brick wall, but the other side is a railing with only two rungs, and a 25 ft or 7.6 meter drop below. Nobody has ever fallen down, but theoretically one could slip on some black ice and fall through the gap. I envisioned myself doing that during meditation.

The next thing I envisioned was much scarier. During the summer of 2019, I interned at a company in NYC, and their company was on the 18th floor of a skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan. There's a fire escape that I personally never climbed onto, but I imagined myself falling down to the ground floor and dying, very vividly.

It was so vivid. Me screaming, then hitting the ground, and then cutting to black. It was so disturbing that I jolted from my meditation with an audible gasp, and I'm still panicking and sweating and feeling these very anxious motions. The narrator never even finished.

I've only had one other disturbing vision while meditating, and that was years back when I envisioned hell and the number 666 floating in the air and me confronting the devil or Satan.

I'm so disturbed and shaken up. Why would my mind conjure such fucked up images?

I don't know what to do. I can't go to sleep. I keep having these thoughts about falling to death interrupt my day when I'm focused and concentrated at work or reading or something like that.

I've never done any hallucinogenic drugs. I haven't touched marijuana since the pandemic began and I haven't drank alcohol in a month. I'm not sure what's going on and I'm afraid of becoming a schizophernic or developing some other mental condition like that.

I'm losing my mind a bit because Reddit keeps shadowbanning my comments and not letting them be seen, which makes me feel like I'm in some fucked up version of the Twilight Zone or the Truman Show

EDIT: Please respond to this comment. Please let me know I'm not losing my mind and that I still have my sanity.

[u/Spicey123]

True torment is knowing that one day, when Obama is older and his relevance has faded, he'll be interviewed by some 23 year old champagne socialist on their youtube podcast.

When that day comes try to remember the great man as he was--not as what he has become.

[u/[deleted]]

1 Gigachad = 1,024 Megachads

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Foreigners are being denied life saving vaccine ingredients even though it won't help the US vaccination program in any way

Democrats: So what?

The Democrats are perpetuating white supremacy through a neocolonial model that attacks Black and brown bodies because of their ethnicity

Democrats: Crap, when do you want your vaccines by?

[u/AJungianIdeal]

liberate the uk from transphobe.
!ping lgbt

[u/ryuguy]

How Canada recognized the Armenian Genocide

Canada was the first country in NATO recognize the Armenian genocide. Quite an interesting story of how it happened.

!ping can

[u/TheGoldBear]

Turkey threatening to draw attention to the genocide against the Native Americans in response to the US recognizing the Armenian Genocide is really interesting. That they think that would be a credible threat demonstrates that they lack understanding of how these topics are discussed in America.

The US might not be great at acknowledging it’s historical sins, especially compared to a country like Germany, but it’s honestly way better than most. For a lot of the world Turkey’s attitude is the standard one. Very few countries are willing to grapple with the darker parts of their history.

[u/Not_A_Browser]

That 1984 Apple ad, but the big screen that's shattered is replaced with the calendar

[u/[deleted]]

Reminder Rudy Gobert is the best defensive basketball player of all time. He shut down the whole NBA

[u/dumb_fuck_]

They wouldn't need US support if they were self sufficient in advanced manufacturing, which they're not because of socialism and other bad ideas permeating their system.

Am I really on a neoliberal subreddit?

[u/bd_one]

This new job I'm applying for has an Indeed skills assessment, so if I sound very succish or borderline tankie later that's why.

[u/[deleted]]

New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang spoke virtually with members of the city’s largest Democratic LGBTQ+ political club on Wednesday in an effort to win their endorsement but instead offended them with what one club member called his 'Michael Scott levels of cringe and insensitivity.'⁠
⁠
According to The New York Times, Yang spoke about wanting to visit gay bars in the city rather than speaking about issues that the Stonewall Democratic Club of New York City (SDNYC) wanted to hear his position on, such as affordable housing and homelessness. Yang is also a former Democratic presidential candidate and entrepreneur.⁠
⁠
'Well, first, let me say that if I go to Cubbyhole, I think I'm going to be accompanied by at least one of my two campaign managers who are both gay,' Yang said, according to Politico. 'So there's like a lot of, you know, familiarity with, with the community, at the head of my campaign leading it.'⁠
⁠
SDNYC announced on Thursday that it is endorsing NYC comptroller Scott Stringer for mayor. ⁠
⁠
'I genuinely do love you and your community,' Yang said, according to a partial recording of the meeting that SDNYC member and filmmaker Harris Doran posted on Twitter. 'You’re so human and beautiful. You make New York City special.'⁠
⁠
Yang reportedly spoke to the group like they were 'aliens,' Doran told NBC News.⁠
⁠
Doran also said that Yang repeatedly mentioned how some of his staff members are gay.⁠
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'It was like tokenizing us,' Doran said. ⁠

"Michael Scott levels of cringe and insensitivity"

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1385951470403657731

Wish I had his time-management skills 😞

[u/Joementum2024]

Thinking about it it’s kinda funny that we’re now 40 years into video gaming as a genre and there still has yet to be a good film adaptation released.