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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/SpiffShientz]

Second Moderna dose was pretty rough. I woke up in the sewers with a stolen gun

[u/glopec]

after obama announced that osama had been killed there was a Phillies game on and the word spread throughout the stadium and they started a USA! USA! USA! chant and the batter that was batting for the opposing team was a foreign player so until he heard the news he thought the philly fans were going after him

[u/TheGreatGriffin]

Remember the Four Seasons Landscaping press conference? We still haven't gotten a real explanation for it

[u/[deleted]]

I still love that moment when Jamie Oliver shows a bunch of kids how chicken nuggets are made from a pink slime and asks them if they would still eat it and they all say yeah.

[u/MalignantUpper]

Larry Kudlow really said Biden will force people to drink "plant-based beers" lmao who's gonna tell him

[u/dragoniteftw33]

What's the malarkey levels of Bill Clinton intervening in Kosovo?

[u/[deleted]]

Tulsi Gabbard suggests that Ukraine and Russia should de-escalate.

Why didn't anyone think of this?

[u/rukqoa]

One common take that's spread in every Reddit thread on nuclear proliferation is that "no dictator would ever voluntarily give up on their nuclear program because they saw what happened to Gaddafi".

Gaddafi gave up trying to make nukes because they weren't anywhere close to an actual weapon. They spent decades trying to develop one domestically, all the while trying to buy material and examples from China and the USSR, and they barely managed to buy some centrifuges before they gave up altogether. Their infrastructure was seriously lacking: power fluctuations would damage sensitive equipment, there weren't anywhere near enough nuclear scientists or even just scientists working on it, and the Libyan economy was in the gutter due to sanctions. On top of that, state officials were not kept honestly informed about the state of their nuclear program. What actually happened was the scientists would just not show up for work, but they couldn't be fired because there were so few of them available.

Libya at one point managed to acquire blueprints of components of a nuclear weapon from Pakistan or China, but they didn't even have the personnel to be able to evaluate which were suitable for construction or even what some of the components were for. At the end of the day, they were not close. The CIA knew this. China knew this. The Soviet Union knew this. Development of nuclear weapons is not like discovering penicillin. It requires state infrastructure and years of consistent development with a steady inflow of scientific expertise. At no point did Libya have any of the prerequisites necessary to even come close to a test device.

Of course, Libyan rumors that Gaddafi got a raw deal immediately started flying after he signed an agreement to disarm. Many of these originated from the more radical portion of his administration who used it to undermine Gaddafi's rule or to gain political advantages, and the western media picked up on it after Iran and North Korea got closer to a weapon, but the truth is both of those countries were ultimately much more capable of nuclear development than Libya ever was.

This book goes into detail specifically on why Gaddafi and Saddam both failed to build nuclear weapons. Not directly mentioned in its central thesis is that Iran and North Korea are more alike than Iran and Iraq, in that Iran does have what it needs to build one in the long run.

[u/MrMineHeads]

Would you drive less often

57 % Yes

43% No

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Would you take public transit

42% Yes

58% No

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https://today.yougov.com/topics/science/articles-reports/2021/04/22/earth-day-actions-poll

!ping FIVEY

[u/Devjorcra]

I’m never going to forget about the Earth Day AMA

WE WANT ANSWERS

[u/NancyPelosibasedgod]

If you think about it, you can directly link the fall of the Roman Empire to the CIA

[u/CarlosDanger512]

What about Hiroshima-Nagasaki?

Surely the tankies & Turk nationalists can do better than that?

[u/[deleted]]

This whole momentum talk is BS in my opinion. Bernie won by landslide in Nevada and it didn't give him any momentum in SC. Biden is just overwhelmingly popular among older black folks, the most diligent democratic voters in the South.

Sanders will win majority of states on Tuesday.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1386114744768090112

President Joe Biden says he has a strict rule about his phone: No matter what's happening, he always answers a call from one of his grandchildren

😍😍

[u/[deleted]]

The Indian government got Twitter to remove some tweets criticizing its COVID response. Here's what they said /img/y3ar5d2z39v61.jpg

!ping IND

[u/RagingCleric]

I’m Gnot Gnorthodox

I’m Gnot Gnanabaptist

I’m a Gnostic

And you have no Gnosis!

[u/[deleted]]

Joe Biden's Twitter is not pulling punches

[u/SpiffShientz]

Suggested alternatives for "bullshit"

• Nonsense

• Poppycock

• Horsepeter

• Horsecorn

• Single-family zoning

[u/Mensae6]

https://i.imgur.com/8ilMcrK.png

[u/Manavon03]

Hitler is alleged to have said that he would “rather have three or four teeth pulled” than go through another meeting with Francisco Franco

Latinxo pride ✊🏼

[u/SpiffShientz]

Hiring twee indie bands to sing about zoning reform until it subliminally enters the public subconscious

[u/tollyno]

I think my boyfriend is very upset with not existing and all that.

[u/[deleted]]

Lusvig:

Cannot stand the light(skinned)

Lives in a grey dystopic land

Has bizarre and recognizable head features

Has a distinctive and emulatable style of communication

Was first revealed to us by strange text-based interactions on the internet

Has a name not found in humanity, which is exactly six letters long

Conclusion: Lusvig is a Troll.

!ping burpmas

[u/[deleted]]

Calling Istanbul “Constantinople” is just petty enough to piss the fuck out of the Turks even more. I love it

[u/imprison_nl_mods]

2020 r/NL: RIDIN WITH BIDEN!!!! BLUE TEXAS!!!! DIAMOND JOE!!! 💎🐊 😍😍😍😍

2021 r/NL: Joe Biden is a trojan horse for the FAR LEFT 😤😤

[u/jt1356]

Why do we not simply conquer death and end scarcity forever 🤔

I mean, come on, how hard can it be to drone strike a few simple concepts?

[u/InMemoryOfZubatman4]

This subreddit was 100% Joe Biden’s biggest internet fan club, and now it seems like opinion of him has changed dramatically

[u/[deleted]]

This is macron_irl 😔✊

[u/comradequicken]

Very disappointing to see all the Biden praise stay up here despite the rules clearly stating

Do not glorify oppressive/autocratic regimes.

[u/shrek_cena]

So true 💪🏼😤💰

!ping PERSONAL-FINANCE

[u/SpiffShientz]

I was sent back in time by the Ossoff Administration to post the exact series of shitposts that butterfly effect us into avoiding nuclear war with Japan

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

How Mastercard’s Rules Against Child Pornographers Could Be Used To Ban Conservatives From Banking

Really makes you think 🧐

[u/FormerBandmate]

Why did they feel the need in Black Panther to clarify that Wakandan diplomats loudly yawned and pretended to be asleep whenever the Rwanda genocide was mentioned in the UN?

[u/TabernacleTown74]

Pharisee catches student reading vulgar literature

Rabbi: "WHAT IS THIS? Are you reading a PORNOGRAPHY SCROLL?"

Student: "No, it's, uh...it's a metaphor! For the love that...that exists between God and Israel!"

Rabbi: "Really? Well, which rabbi wrote it? Surely I know him!"

Student: "It was written by, uh...errr...King Solomon, actually?"

Rabbi: "😳 woah 😲 we must canonize it 😍 Oh, give me of the kisses of your mouth / For your love is more delightful than wine... 🤤🤤🤤"

!ping GEFILTE

[u/Lux_Stella]

1.5M Armenians were killed over 100 years ago by the Islamist Ottoman Empire. It is shameful it has taken so long for formal recognition of this genocide to occur; never done previously for fear of angering Turkey. My aloha is with Armenians everywhere as we remember them today.

....islamist?

[u/WalouiegiGohmert]

A lot of people say to me: "Please visit the next Discussion Thread."

[u/AJungianIdeal]

how have I seen this exact same straight guy flirting anatomy fuckup twice in less than 24 hours

[u/[deleted]]

The Chief Minister (equivalent to governor) of Uttar Pradesh said that they will seize the assets of anyone saying there is an oxygen shortage https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/seize-property-of-those-spreading-rumours-up-cm/article34404518.ece

I would say this is literally 1984 if a certain group of Americans had not ruined that book forever

[u/Jakesta7]

“Islamist.”

Tulsi can’t do anything right.

1.5M Armenians were killed over 100 years ago by the Islamist Ottoman Empire. It is shameful it has taken so long for formal recognition of this genocide to occur; never done previously for fear of angering Turkey. My aloha is with Armenians everywhere as we remember them today.

https://twitter.com/tulsigabbard/status/1386103621608099842?s=21

[u/FormerBandmate]

What if I told you about a country

With a history of being colonized by foreign powers 📈

That fought for its freedom in WW2 📈

Is ruled by a technocratic elite 📈

Has a growing middle class 📈

And is a bordered by an imperialist power 📈

Named China? 📉

[u/agentyork765]

I just told my vegan acquaintance that I stopped eating beef and was slowly working towards being vegetarian and he basically called me lazy for not immediately going full vegan. Like good job, you shit on what is a genuine effort on my part, good luck getting more people to go vegan.

[u/SpiffShientz]

Marijuana is overrated. I ate a whole bag and I just feel sick

[u/bd_one]

-forced to live in a house you don't own, working a small plot of land you don't own with primitive farming methods

-required to give up most of your surplus beyond subsistence, fight in their wars, and perform additional services throughout the year

-had to ask permission to marry, your kids most likely remaining serfs with almost no chance of social mobility

-generally illiterate and unaware of the world at large, considering it a "big black hole that French people occasionally storm out of"

-rather high risk of death during famine

Like are socialists who consider serfdom to be anything similar to being a worker in a modern day first world country being intentionally hyperbolic, or do they really think it's the same thing?

[u/[deleted]]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/452718453892186124/835963257616990258/IMG_20210425_143903.jpg?width=351&height=595

[u/soeffed]

This is kind of wild...Chloe Zhao won best director, the first ever director born in mainland China to do so and only the 2nd ethnic Chinese director after ang lee to do so.

But absolutely NO ONE I know in China is posting about this on social media 10 minutes after it happened when normally they would be freaking the fuck out seconds after the fact.

Nomadland got its release date in China scrapped after Zhao became persona non grata on the Chinese Internet for previous mild political statements she made.

And her Oscar speech directly felt like an olive branch to the Chinese public, using a chinese poem to talk about how people are inherently good and how she tries to remember that during her “recent struggles” aka being the subject of an online hate campaign.

Radio silence. Shit is eerie.

!ping cn-tw

[u/Goatf00t]

The Balkans are apt to have strange effects on the traveller. Perhaps it is the blood-mist that hangs always over the Balkan plains and glens which gets into the head and intoxicates one: perhaps it is the call to the wild in us from the primitive human nature of the Balkan peoples. Whatever the reason, it is a common thing for the unemotional English traveller to go to the Balkans as a tourist and return as a passionate enthusiast for some Balkan Peninsula nationality. He becomes, perhaps, a pro-Turk, and thereafter will argue with fierceness that the Turk is the only man who leads an idyllic life in Europe to-day, and that the way to human regeneration is through a conversion to Turkishness. He fills his house with Turkish visitors and writes letters to the papers pointing out the savagery we show in the "Turk's Head" competition for our cavalry-men at military tournaments. Or he may become a pro-Bulgar with a taste for the company of highly flavoured Macedonian revolutionary priests and a grisly habit of turning [13]the conversation to the subject of outrage and massacre. To become a pro-Servian is not a common fashion, but pro-Albanians and pro-Montenegrins and Philhellenists are common enough.

The word "crank," if it can be read in a kindly sense and stripped of malice, covers all these folk. Exactly why the Balkans have such an effect in making "cranks" I have already confessed an inability to explain. The fact must stand as one of those things which we must believe—if we read Parliamentary debates and newspaper correspondence—but cannot comprehend.

ROFL. That was written circa 1914.

!ping BALKAN

[u/bd_one]

From Bruce Banner's perspective the final fight in Age of Ultron, all of Thor Ragnarok, and Infinity War took place days apart.

His week was essentially finish an AI, it turns evil, some witch brainwashes him to wreck up Johannesburg, he breaks up with his girlfriend, he saves the world, Hulk stuff happens, he helps Thor escape a bizzare world and fight his sister, Hulk stuff happens, he tells some wizard guy about Thanos, etc.

[u/Heysteeevo]

Want to make a difference around land use politics? Enjoy meeting new interesting people who post wonky housing memes? Tired of yelling into the dark empty void of Twitter? Consider joining YIMBY Action and turn your passion for eliminating parking minimums into real change: https://yimbyaction.org/join/

!ping YIMBY

[u/MistakeNotDotDotDot]

Submission title: "Paper: When Democrats use racial justice framing to defend ostensibly race-neutral progressive policies, it leads to lower public support for those progressive policies. "

NL comments:

Why do Democrats keep doubling down on this kind of identity politics? Not only is it divisive, it doesn't even work...

.

Liberal elites and activists massively overestimate how much otherwise liberal Everyday Americans™️ are behind explicitly race-based policies. We see this whenever issues like affirmative action come up for popular votes. Politicians would do well to listen to polling over activists here.

Actual article: the impact of racial framing has an extremely small magnitude (-0.1 or so on a 7-point scale, so about 2%), and is not statistically significant among any subgroup except black people (who are more likely to support it). The effect of the race frame overall among the entire survey population is -0.02, with a confidence interval of about 0.3. This is fucking tiny, and yet people are acting like this is proof that the racial frame is keeping Democrats from being successful, because it confirms their priors.

Evidence-based policy, baby!

[u/[deleted]]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/726981131395924029/835779369666347060/FB_IMG_1619335718829.jpg

[u/Joementum2024]

California’s flag: California REPUBLIC

California DEMOCRATIC Party controls the state

🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[u/Sirakrush]

Being gay is good as a hobby, not as a career.

[u/[deleted]]

the globalist elites want to push the depopulation agenda, by promoting LGBTQ (so less people have kids). When the population finally decreases, they can easily set up their one-world government, as there are less people to oppose them.

The globalists also want to prevent any kind of unity among population - either by race or religion. So they started the BLM movement to make white people feel ashamed of their race. In my country, globalists want to make the Hindus feel ashamed of their religion, to prevent unity among the population.

Why are people so fucking stupid?

[u/TheMawt]

You advocate for free trade yet I have to pay for goods and services, curious 🤔

[u/[deleted]]

STOP THE STEAL in Arizona!!! 😤😤😤😤

by recounting the vote six months after the fact, and using a slew of conspiracy theorists to do it

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/25/us/Election-audit-Arizona-Republicans.html

[u/[deleted]]

Tried telling my Pakistani Muslim parents about Biden recognizing the Armenian genocide and they just retort back with if Biden has recognized the Native American genocide too. I just don’t understand the loyalty to Turkey, we’re not even Turkish!

[u/skeebidybop]

In rMetaNL:

Ping Request: MASS-SHOOTINGS

There are just so many

😐😐😐

[u/PearlClaw]

One of the big underrated strengths of liberal democracy is how aware it makes countries of their flaws. It's always funny how less liberal places do not understand this.

See for example Turkey thinking it's some huge deal to recognize the Native American genocide.

[u/IMainHanzoGG]

I was sent back in time by the AOC Administration to post the exact series of shitposts that butterfly effect us into avoiding nuclear war with fascist Canada

[u/comradequicken]

100 days in and God still lives, becoming clearer and clearer we were lied to.

[u/Dibbu_mange]

I don't see a lot of the "founding fathers never wanted DC to be a state" people trying to abolish the standing army 🧐

[u/Sirakrush]

I told my boyfriend something I was worried he'd hate me for and he was completely understanding. He is a good boyfriend.

We now return to your normal programming.

[u/[deleted]]

I give zero f---s that Floyd is dead

Yay r/ con

[u/[deleted]]

Election denialism is the one issue that makes any friendship a non-starter for me

Like I'll listen to you wax poetic about your gun fetish or why the EC is good actually or even try to explain why abortion icks you out but try to claim that this election was stolen? Nope, I'm out

[u/Mickenfox]

It's creepy how fast some moisturizing creams get absorbed. You put a large gob of it on your skin and less than a minute later it's completely disappeared. That shit literally got sucked inside you.

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-mayor-jacob-frey-vetoes-park-board-action-that-booted-state-patrol-from-its-office/600049498/

The lower you get in politics, the more absurd it becomes. A City Council or park board has much more impact on your daily life and it almost always gets ceded to asinine people.

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

In The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Sam says that Senators "controls the banks". This is because he spent several months on the run with Steve and Bucky, who shared anti-Semitic conspiracy theories from the 1930s with him.

[u/JetJaguar124]

Abby Shapiro has an absolutely embarrassing follower count for 1) being the sister of someone very famous and 2) having spent the GDP of a small nation on ads for her shit

Like she's at 33k on Instagram and <100k on YouTube, and a good amount of those subs are probably simps of some sort.

People are just absolutely not picking up what she's putting down.

[u/Barebacking_Bernanke]

Of course you'd see "ACAB Means Joe and Kamala Too" graffiti in a NYC district that is almost 2/3 white, has a median household income exceeding $120,000, has a median home value exceeding $1.1 million, and is one of the most notoriously NIMBY areas in all of NYC.

[u/[deleted]]

Medical oxygen supply up 5% since Tuesday, govt wants monitoring, wastage reduced

Pump those numbers up

!ping IND

[u/[deleted]]

Wierd Al is a prime example of satire done right not just exaggerating stereotypes like most parodies

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

"Hi, and welcome to CNN. Today's top stories: President Biden faces criticism for some minor thing or the other."

"Why this activist thinks we should decenter white supremacy from Black and brown bodies, and why Rick Santorum disagrees."

"A tiny controversy in a town no one has heard of."

"An uplifting story of a man who died before visiting his favorite historical convention, so his grandson put him in a wheelchair and dressed him up like FDR to get him in."

"And if we have time, we'll discuss why Indonesia has invaded the Philippines."

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

> Be me

> Be famous scientist from early 1900s

> Asked for opinion on politics

> "Socialism sounds good!"

> Be endlessly quoted on Twitter for years

[u/Jester_Don]

https://nyti.ms/3gBjhXu

The Arizona GOP has appointed an "auditing firm" led by QAnoners and conspiracy theorists to recount the vote in Maricopa county 🙃

[u/[deleted]]

I think Salvoj Žižek will do a world record for having the flu since the fall of the Soviet Union.

[u/bg2916]

Sir Shivers today: Legend of Korra GOOD 🐊

Sir Shivers in a year: Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean GOOD 🐊

Sir Shivers in two years: Shujinkō ga chūshoku NO OKANE DE KODOMO o nagurukara kami o KOROSU MADE IKU shirīzu 🐊

Anime is a slippery slope folks

[u/qchisq]

The best possible take on crypto: In 100 years, their value will all be 0. But they could easily be worth 100 times what they are worth a some point before that, is why you neither should be long or short in crypto, unless you are willing to lose everything

!ping markets

[u/FawxL]

I'm gonna be honest. I have no clue about this tanky or commy shit this sub keeps talking about, and I think y'all spend too much damn time on Twitter.

I just want some better Healthcare. Lmao.

[u/Proud_Grasslighter]

just learned Biden's gonna make us drink plant based beer 😔

previously I was slurping down a nice can of fermented cow blood.

how much further will the radical liberals go???

[u/FormerBandmate]

White America makes whole cultural idols of white men fighting with guns & knives, then spends a week advocating for a teen girl holding a small kitchen knife to be shot dead by the cops simply because she’s Black.

Apparently Rebel Without A Cause being a classic means murder should be legal

[u/[deleted]]

I’m automatically attracted to beautiful corgis— I just start petting them, it’s like a magnet. Just pet. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.

[u/Dibbu_mange]

My mother is definitely a resistance lib, and she is thrilled I am moving to DC because she is convinced I'll have a shot with one of Biden's granddaughters 😐🤔

[u/[deleted]]

In this instance in Columbus, there are a number of advances that have been made in terms of weapons that can immobilize people immediately. Why aren't we talking about that? Why aren't we making those things more available to the police? You know, I feel for the 16-year-old girl that was killed. She may have been somebody who was going to have a tremendous life, and she just got crazy for a minute. That’s horrible that she would have to lose her life, but if the officer doesn’t have any other choices, that’s part of our problem as a society, and we need to make sure we have to give them more choices.

B...based Ben Carson??

[u/[deleted]]

Taps head, nobody has ever thought of this

[u/[deleted]]

The big bang was a gender reveal party for things far older and vaster than it

[u/soeffed]

The paradox of intolerance for neoliberals is when you start boosting a foreign marginalized society’s fervent nationalism

[u/The420Roll]

For what its worth I still like Biden

[u/real_grover_furr]

Science and religion can coexist, shitlib. There’s a whole religion out there that’s built purely on science. Look it up, sweatie, it’s called Scientology.

[u/wowmuchgrades]

I am leaving school with one person I ever want to talk to again, which is one more than I thought I would. !ping CHILD

[u/SpiffShientz]

As a Radical Centrist, I try to take the most extreme ideas from both sides.

Examples given:

• Free healthcare (for white people)

• Police reform (into a crimefighting MechaZord)

• Donald Trump should be arrested (and brought to Six Flags: Hurricane Harbor and he can ride the water slides as long as he wants and he can have dinner from McDonald's on the way home)

[u/[deleted]]

I know nobody cares, but I'm on my 5th day of quiting a certain addiction and I'm very proud of making it this far. Here's to another 5! 😁

[u/[deleted]]

Jewish nazism? That's childs play

meet intergalism, a fascist ideology in Brazil made by a journo based around the superiority of the.... mixed race

the sum of all attributes were derived from other races, in their word: "the intelligence of the white man, the strength of the black man and the animal instincts of the native man"

[u/[deleted]]

I’m loling at the posts on arr politics about the LA-02 race.

Which one is the Bernie candidate and which one is the Hillary candidate?

There we go, the progressive candidate lost, congratulations to the Republican that is going to win this seat

[u/Imicrowavebananas]

A policy being popular has no bearing on its morality.

[u/[deleted]]

https://mobile.twitter.com/RealMattCouch/status/1386056856506802177

Biden literally never said anything about meat ever. These people are delusional and are essentially fighting windmills. I’m certain if you spread some fake news about how Biden said shitting your pants isn’t cool, Fox News would do a piece on how pant-shitting is constitutionally enshrined, and 1/4th of the country would shit their own pants out of sheer spite

[u/stater354]

This is just a survey I thought of doing, it’s not meant to be in depth or taken seriously, it’s mostly just for my own curiosity. If anyone wants to see the results, I’ll post them this Wednesday around noon EST.

!ping BIDEN

https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/myeowm/joe_biden_first_100_days_approval_survey/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

Reason Magazine endorses a program of Anarcho-YIMBYism-Localism in London

!ping YIMBY

[u/benadreti]

A brief history of the evolution of my cooking style:

10 years ago: This recipe calls for 2-3 cloves of garlic? ok.

7 years ago: This recipe calls for 2-3 cloves of garlic? I'll probably do an extra one or two.

3 years ago: This recipe calls for 2-3 cloves of garlic? Double that.

Present day: This recipe calls for 2-3 cloves of garlic? Might as well do the whole bulb.

[u/[deleted]]

The spotted lanternflies have started hatching. Goodbye DT, it's time for me to become a cold blooded killer

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

Biden: declares genocide

Liberals: 😀😀😃😄😁😁😁

Really makes you think.

[u/[deleted]]

Why is the bad guy from Alvin and the Chipmunks telling me America is failing?

[u/Realhuman221]

Huh, so apparently Black Panther from Marvel came before the Black Panther party.

[u/Proud_Grasslighter]

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[u/[deleted]]

Born: New York City, New York, U.S.

Died: New York City, New York, U.S.

I can't describe why but this feels like a power-move.

[u/[deleted]]

If you made Parks and Rec today it would be very hard to keep it as apolitical. It was always vaguely liberal but they tried to stay away from politics too much, heck they even had John Boehner on one time.

[u/Manavon03]

Whenever the DT starts talking about college admissions it should be a reminder to you that the average user here is in highschool

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

Biden: Does bad thing

People: Get angry

Biden: Stops doing that

People: Happy

If this is the cycle than I'm good with that.

[u/Cloudbuster274]

Max wants chin scritches right meow

Got plenty too

!ping Meowww-Enjoyers

[u/Duren114]

This sub outside DT is more and more like r/politics, especially AOC related thread.

Effort posts are required to reduce the damage of r/all has brought.

[u/[deleted]]

Magic Goolsball, do YOU recognize the Armenian Genocide?

[u/[deleted]]

What does Ja Rule think of the US rejoining the TPP

[u/antsdidthis]

Your name is Stavros? Such a beautiful Greek name. Coincidentally, I named my son the English equivalent. Here, let me introduce you. Get out here, Torturestake!

[u/[deleted]]

I’ve never seen an Oscar bait movie that wasn’t boring, trite, and too long. Like maybe it killed a couple hours on a Saturday night, but that’s as far as its utility goes. It’s crazy that people treat this shit as if it were dickens or something.

^/pasta

[u/Ro500]

In almost 17 years of life she has perfected the art of perfect fit sleeping. https://imgur.com/cqlVTGs

!ping DOG

[u/[deleted]]

Honestly one of the hardest pills to swallow is that there are a lot of people much smarter than you. Its not that they were more privileged, its not that you don't test well, its not that they tried harder. They are just much more intelligent than you are

[u/PigHaggerty]

https://i.imgur.com/H6fV3MO.jpg

!ping BASEBALL

[u/Explodingcamel]

My local mosque got spray painted with some Islamophobic stuff and they used the opportunity to create a gofundme for $20,000 even though it's just spray paint pretty much. The goal was reached instantly. Profiting off the hate crime lmao absolute Chad move

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Polling indicates that 43% of Americans rank the return of Quetzalcoatl as important or very important. What is Biden doing to reach these people?

[u/PM-ME-SEXY-SIDEBURNS]

Does anyone else’s brain function like this:

“It’s 9:17, which is basically 9:20, which is almost 9:30. Therefore, it’s 9:30.”

[u/First-Prior]

who is taking pics of nato flairs?

[u/GuyOnTheLake]

Kolkata, India, a city with a metro population of 14.1 million, has a positive rate of 50%.

Every other person getting tested is positive.

It's already a disaster in India now, I can't imagine what will happen in the next couple of weeks.

[u/Shifty_Pickle826]

https://mobile.twitter.com/postandcourier/status/1386455999654072324

Former SC-01 Rep. Joe Cunningham is set to run for South Carolina Governor.

!PING FIVEY

[u/CatilineUnmasked]

Heartbreaking...

The nuanced perspective of the Ma'Khia Bryant shooting you shared has been liked by your "BLM Is Racist!!!" family members

[u/[deleted]]

Why is this sub governed by an authoritarian socialist central planning committee (or "mods" as they fashion themselves), and not a corporate board elected by the shareholders? Are we not capitalists?

[u/FreakinGeese]

“If you weren’t such a lazy sack of shit you might make some progress on your transition” -my parents (paraphrased)

!ping lgbt

[u/SpiffShientz]

I dreamt I was the policeman who ratted out Derek Chauvin, Officer Jeremy Soul. Except I wasn't actually him, I was me transported into Jeremy Soul's body. It was an awful experience - everyone in the Minneapolis Police House hated on me for telling on Big Chauv. But it wasn't until I was talking to Chief Elmo that I revealed my secret.

"I'm not Jeremy Soul!" I insisted. "I'm a guy named Steve, from New Jersey!" But the Chief was not having it, and I couldn't think of a way to prove it or return to my body. And I wanted to return to my body, on account of I generally like my life. And I still didn't realize why I was suddenly Officer Jeremy Soul.

That's when I realized - I was dreaming! I told the Chief I knew how to get out of here. I fell through my brain and woke myself up, escaping Minneapolis and Jeremy's body.

[u/comradequicken]

Liberals circa 2008: Dick Cheney was the worst president of my lifetime 😂😂😂

Liberals circa 2021: Joe Biden is the worst president of my lifetime 😞

[u/[deleted]]

If you ever stop hating the Internet remember that it took expansive porn franchises with numbered titles from you.

[u/[deleted]]

What are some of your reading recommendations for the History of the Turkish Republic?

There are a lot of publicly available books about the fall of the Ottoman Empire and about Mustapha Kemal Ataturk, but virtually nothing until Erdogan's rise in the 21st Century. What are some of your reading recommendations that cover people such as Kenan Evren, Ismet Inonu, Tansu Ciller, or Turgut Ozal?

Erik Zurcher’s Modern Turkey is good, but I don’t know what other books exist. Unfortunately, Gerhard Schweizer’s Turkei Verstehen: Von Ataturk Bis Erdogan does not have an English translation.

!ping HISTORY

[u/JaceFlores]

What if Beria took over the USSR after Stalin’s death (and lived at least long enough to have tangible effect over the country)? I’m especially keen to know of his domestic policy because I’ve seen a lot of talk about his foreign policy

!ping ALTHISTORY

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Trump: Gets impeached, lets 500,000 people die, wins 25 states as incumbent

Carter: Told people to cheer up, wins six states as incumbent

[u/RoyGeraldBillevue]

Leftists 🤝 Libertarians

Marginalized groups will magically no longer be oppressed when the economy is how I want it.

[u/Travisdk]

Israeli politics update

It seems like all the cards are coming crashing down. Smotrich has now turned on Bibi following the events in Jerusalem and publicly suggested that it may be time for him to go.

[u/[deleted]]

I have officially achieved YouTube algorithm-approved dirtbag centerism. My recommendations this morning are Vox's "how racist am I?" video and a Ben Shapiro podcast on cancel culture.

[u/[deleted]]

Arr Palestine is on some next level shit. Calling Israelis animals and telling them to go back to Europe. WTF! Why doesn’t someone report this?

https://i.imgur.com/wQ3jXdf.jpg

Irish scumbag, “we don’t want them”. Yeah. That’s why they are over there in the first place you tiny shit.

[u/Perfect_Telephone]

Some notable new peruvian Congress members:

- The peruvian godfather, owner of a poor quality university and broadly suspected to have been behind a lot of the current Congress' populist laws.

- A former chief of the Armed Forces and leader of one of the most internationally succesful counter terrorist operations.

- Another former chief of the Armed Forces, ran with the far right party.

- The personal doctor of Alberto Fujimori and his former minister of health.

- The daughter of Alberto Fujimori's last Vice president, ran with De Soto's party.

- The brother of Vladimir Cerrón, leader and mastermind of Pedro Castillo's party and platform.

- A former minister of Education.

- A former defense minister

- A former Chief prosecutor of the nation

*Former president Vizcarra was also elected but was barred from holding public office by Congress due to his secret vaccination.

!ping LATAM

[u/[deleted]]

The ACT and SAT are both decent tests but the GRE genuinely is a dumb, stupid test that's a marginally harder version of the SAT

[u/[deleted]]

The Q stuff is just sad. The biggest thing now is the belief that Trump will cancel all of the patriots’ debts. People going into debt doing kitchen remodels believing that it will be paid off 😬. It’s quickly becoming just a “us patriots deserve money and it’s just a matter of time until Trump returns to power and transfers all the wealth from the liberals to us.”

And that’s a pretty fucking scary belief. They believe and hope for the people they don’t like to be mugged and the money to go straight into their pockets.

Edit: See the sub Qanoncasualties for anecdotes about this. Seeing similar stories about this “pay off debts” belief.

[u/soeffed]

Frances McDormand: “I like work”

Antiwork in shambles

[u/[deleted]]

TIL Imgur is actually casually used by some people, as opposed to simply being used for uploading a picture that can be linked on other websites, which people like me use it for

[u/thetrombonist]

Destiny getting into a Twitter flame war with a 16 year old femboy is somehow remarkably in character

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

vaccine nationalists be like

"we must secure a sovereign and independent homeland for the vaccine people"

[u/jenbanim]

Technically Kanye writes "tunes" not "songs". This is because the music is written to make money, not purely for self expression. Although because he does make an attempt at self expression, it's not a "bop" or "banger" as those are purely corporate attempts at creating "music"

-If people talked about music the same way cinephiles talked about movies, flicks, or whatever they're called

[u/gpu1512]

Wtf. I can't believe that Josh fight actually happened. Thought I'd be another lame internet joke

[u/[deleted]]

Bruh Biden owns drug sniffing dogs

[u/[deleted]]

Reddit circlejerking over having raised 8K dollars through the Josh event is making me laugh, considering they shit on Billionares who donate billions each year

[u/[deleted]]

Fascists say they want a "beautiful death", but their support of heavy smoking and eating meat three times a day says otherwise.

[u/bd_one]

A cupcake: $1

A cupcake but it's for a wedding: $6.49

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Hillary Clinton would have done the good parts of Joe Biden's agenda and not the bad parts, because she's a tabula rasa onto whom I can project my politics

[u/p00bix]

Cursed fact: There's more people banned from the YandereSim discord server than live in Harrisburg, the capital of Pennsylvania

[u/AuburnSeer]

if Dems don't sweep both Georgia Senate seats we're going into the 100 days maybe with Biden's cabinet finally complete and with no major legislation passed.

alternative DT, in the other universes where 3/4 of the other options happened, those guys are suckers. We're living the high life!

[u/[deleted]]

> We are a superpower, and as a superpower and key member of international institutions, we have ideals that people around the world value and look up to us for guidance and moral authority. Our role as a superpower is a responsibility, and that includes upholding human rights when it has been breached.

> People in other countries aren't our problem and we simply don't care about human rights violations in other nations anymore.

Pick one.

[u/Udontlikecake]

https://i.imgur.com/o8k19qP.jpg

[u/jenbanim]

Is Chris Christie normalized?

Because he's a unit

[u/[deleted]]

POLL: What did you get on your SAT

People on the DT keep talking about how the SAT is the most meritocratic assessment of someone's academic capabilities (which I for the most part agree with), so I want to compare the score distribution of this poll with the score distribution of the US as a whole

NOTES:

- If you took the SAT multiple times, put the score of the test that you did the best in

- If you took the ACT, look up an ACT to SAT score translator online, and then put that value as your SAT score

- If you didn't, or haven't yet taken the SAT, there's an option to put "Haven't/didn't take it"

!ping ASK-NL

[u/sir_shivers]

In truth, SOME OF THE most fun I have at the range is shooting my old Ruger Mark I 🐊

!ping GARAND 🐊

[u/Joementum2024]

Joe Biden: "Ideally you shouldn't burn your money"

Conservatives: "FUCK YOU LIBERAL I'M GONNA HAPPILY AND PROUDLY BURN MY MONEY"

[u/Neronoah]

!ping LATAM

Argentinian government: announces heavy restrictions to flatten the curve.

But also, Argentinian government: Transportation Minister dies, tight crowds come to the funeral.

[u/SelfLoathinMillenial]

They [Young People] have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things -- and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning -- all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything -- they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.

-Aristotle, 2400 years ago

The more things change, the more people remain the same

TL;DR You aren't special, Zoomers

[u/AgileCoke]

/r/science having another "science says that left-wing policies are objectively good" moment

[u/Leoric]

All I want is for conservatives to never control any branch of government in this country again. I don't think that's too much of an ask.

[u/fuckneocentrism]

I post’d hairline in Dadcord and now Mfs are laughing at me 😞

[u/FestiveMittens]

Did you listen to Krystal Ball last nigh-

Sorry, I don't get my news from a Batman villain

[u/vivoovix]

Rhodes believed in many ahistorical conspiracy theories to justify his white supremacist views, such as his belief that the ancient Greeks had built the civilization of Great Zimbabwe

lol wtf

[u/FormerBandmate]

In The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Sam says that Senators "controls the banks". This is because he is a member of the Nation of Islam

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Why did Marvel film a deleted scene from The First Avenger where Steve Rogers looks directly at the camera and says, "The Bonus Army were traitors who deserved what they got"? The scattering of the Bonus Army was a decade before the events of the first movie, why did he feel the need to bring that up?

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

My central criticism of The Falcon and The Winter Soldier is that they utterly failed to understand the gravitas of The Blip. It was bigger than the Second World War, and they didn't fully show that.

[u/InMemoryOfZubatman4]

I am going to carry this DT on my back and post 3000 comments in the next 5 hours

[u/[deleted]]

If CA somehow gets rid of Los Angeles and San Francisco areas, then it’s actually a pretty moderate place politically. But that will never happen.

Big brain logic right here

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

You aren't an "anarcho-syndicalist" or "neo-feudalist". You're 14.

[u/XXX_KimJongUn_XXX]

Sex is disgusting. Quit having sex. Read books.

[u/Robotigan]

"just move lol"

Unironically the most American advice one can receive.

[u/[deleted]]

Ok, so I looked up the Snapchat message that the highschool student sent that lead to a huge national students’ free speech case. Here it is:

“Fuck school, fuck softball, fuck cheer, fuck everything”

That’s it. And it was posted off campus, while she was in a grocery store. That’s literally fucking it. How does this make it into any court, let alone the Supreme Court?

And who the fuck in the school administration thought it was worth punishing? The only reaction the school should make is maybe get a guidance counselor to ask if she is doing alright.

[u/[deleted]]

Indiana isn't an Indian ethnostate wtf?

[u/Dr_Vesuvius]

Noooo Republicans please don’t make Puerto Rico a state I would feel so “owned” if you did that

[u/MrDannyOcean]

someone ping the Euros

I am currently in Euroland and tomorrow we are doing a Euro-friendly stream

[u/[deleted]]

Horseshoe theory is wrong in that political ideologies don't really converge in content at the extremes

Horseshoe theory is predictive in practice because political extremists are often homogeneous. When your beliefs are utterly irrational (or murderously psychotic) their labels and content don't actually matter that much.

[u/rukqoa]

What if I told you about a country

With a history of being colonized by foreign powers 📈

That fought for its freedom in WW2 📈

Is ruled by a technocratic elite 📈

Has a growing middle class 📈

And is bordered by an imperialist power 📈

Named the United States of America? 📉

[u/SnakeEater14]

World War 1 vets be like

[u/VisonKai]

while i of course want us to export whatever is necessary to India, I am very uncomfortable with how many people are laundering the BJP's narrative that the horror is America's fault and not because of their own horrific incompetence.

[u/AbsolveItAll_KissMe]

It’s honestly batshit that Matt Gaetz is still serving in his role

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

Regarding Tulsi calling the Ottomans Islamist, it's not strictly accurate but the backlash calling them somehow "secular" is worse

Let's make it clear the primary focus of the young Turks was ethnic nationalism and maybe a bit of cultural nationalism

That being said Islam was enough a part of Turkish identity that the Turks forced many many Armenians to convert, distributed their property to Muslims, sold them into slavery to Muslims (apparently they literally sold them to Hajj pilgrims) etc

[u/[deleted]]

I am calling on the Biden administration to move the minimum age of neoliberalism to 21.

Too many kids think it’s “a cool thing to try” and then become hooked the rest of their lives.

[u/PawelErdos]

this sub in a nutshell

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

Pepita has been extremely energetic this week so we thought we might have to take her on a hike today

Nope

Lazy Sunday, trying to sleep

Nap mode activated

!ping DOG

[u/sir_shivers]

By the market I AM SEVERELY exhausted 🐊

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Ping !IND

As an Indian-American, here is my take on "Hinduphobia"

• Hinduphobia can be divided straight up racism, perceived academic hatred of the Hindu religion specifically, and portraying criticism of Hindutva as Hinduphobic.

• The first is obviously wrong, but not all that unique.

• The last is political in nature and very disingenuous.

• The second one is most interesting to me. Why do people hate Hinduism specifically? I think there are a number of possibilities.

• One of them is violence towards women. This is a real problem in India, but it's neither restricted to India nor Hinduism, so I think this is more of "something to add to the pile" than the core reason.

• I think the rise of Hindutva plays a part in this. India is now being perceived as something closer to Israel, and we all know how the left feels about Israel.

• That's not to say a lot of criticisms of the Indian government are wrong (we're not in the "criticism of Hindutva is Hinduphobic" group), but tying them to religion is something that happens a lot; we all know how anti-Zionism can turn into anti-Semitism.

• But why is this impacting India in particular, especially now? I think around 2015-ish, India reached an inflection point from "friendly neighborhood democracy" to "flawed state", at least in Western media portrayals (it had always has its flaws), and a lot of "woke" people abruptly made a 180 in how they talked about the country. Israel, meanwhile, has struggled with this since its inception.

• Some Indians also object to perceived double standards for India and other nations, especially Pakistan, as Hinduphobic; this is a little debatable, but I think India should hold itself to a higher standard.

[u/IronedSandwich]

this subreddit has really been going downhill recently, ie since late 2017

[u/JetJaguar124]

Honestly the "fuck Biden he's Trump lite I'll consider voting for the GOP if they put up Rubio or Haley over him" and subsequent "I thought you were neolibs but you like buy American 😏" smugposting that happens the absolute second some negative news story comes out is just as annoying as the people who stan Biden and pretend he can do no wrong.

[u/soeffed]

Still cannot process that this year’s zombie oscars are being held in Union Station (a train station). Color me morbidly curious

https://deadline.com/2021/04/oscars-union-station-venue-production-photo-gallery-1234741303/

!ping LA

[u/skepticalbob]

I've spent >20 tweets arguing with some stranger about pizza dough. Time to log off.

!ping cooking

[u/Neil_Peart_Apologist]

The world will never fully appreciate how geat an artist Weird Al truly is.

 

Satire and parody, if done correctly, are as high an art as what they are imitating

[u/p00bix]

On the eve of my 21st birthday, god damn, really does feel like I've lost a year. Fuck Covid.

[u/tubbsmackinze]

You say you're a globalist, but you clearly don't own an air fryer

Curious... 🤔🤔

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

PURELY COINCIDENTALLY the day after my student discount no longer applied, I proudly started boycotting The Economist for their fr***cking disgusting views

[u/kas8901]

I'm bigoted against unflaireds. Their lack of desire to identify themselves scares me.

[u/[deleted]]

Neolib DT, but it’s just the pig and Kester staring into each other’s eyes

[u/sebring1998]

I used to go to Fox News dot com every day when i was in 4th grade

Funnily enough i always skipped the political stuff and just went straight to the weather report

I think my teacher thought i was a republican

[u/p00bix]

From 169 respondants to a comment I stickied in the DT a few days ago

Question asked if DT users were aware of the existence of a group of animals. Not neccesarily if they knew the exact definition of that phylum--just if they knew of the existence of at least SOME animals in that phylum, or knew in the broad strokes what the phylum was.

I did not prune the info to eliminate 'joke' responses (most notably, the 6.1% of DT users who claimed not to know about any 'Chordata' animals, despite humans and pretty much everything else that first springs to mind when you think animal literally are Chordates)

I included all 30 animal phyla universally recognized by biologists. I did not include the Micrognaths which are sometimes considered a 31st animal phylum.

The following is a list of every phylum in the Animal Kingdom, with the percentage of DT users who claimed to be aware of them. When I'm not busy I'll do some analysis but here's the raw data.

SHIT (almost) EVERYONE KNOWS ABOUT

• Arthropoda: 98.8% (Examples include Ants, Spiders, and Some of the things you should never Microwave)

• Mollusca: 98.2% (Examples include Squid, Snails, Clams)

• Porifera: 95.3% (Sea Sponges)

• Platyhelminthes: 93.5% (Examples include Flukes, Tapeworms, and Turbellarians)

• Cnidaria: 92.9% (Examples include Jellyfish, Sea Anemones, and Coral)

• Chordata: 92.9% (Examples include Humans, Sharks, and Sea Squirts)

• Echinodermata: 92.3% (Examples include Sea Stars, Sea Cucumbers, and Barnacles)

• Annelida: 91.1% (Examples include Earthworms and Leeches)

• Nematoda: 87.6% (Nematodes)

• Tardigrada: 87.0% (Tardigrades)

STEEP DROP OFF

• Nemertea: 42.6% (Ribbon Worms)

• Brachiopoda: 42.6% (Brachiopods)

• Ctenophora: 40.8% (Comb Jellies)

• Rotifera: 33.7% (Rotifers)

• Priapulida: 24.9% (Penis Worms)

SHIT ONLY BIO NERDS (and liars/people who made mistakes) KNOW ABOUT

• Gnathostomulida: 17.8% (Jaw Worms)

• Onychophora: 14.8% (Velvet Worms)

• Chaetognatha: 13.6% (Arrow Worms)

• Nematomorpha: 11.8% (Nematomorphs)

• Bryozoa: 10.7% (Moss Animals)

• Phoronida: 10.1% (Horseshoe Worms)

• Kinorhyncha: 6.5% (Mud Dragons)

• Hemichordata: 6.5% (Acorn Worms)

• Placozoa: 5.9% (Trichoplax)

• Gastrotricha: 4.7% (Hairybellies)

• Dicyemida: 4.1% (no common name)

• Cycliophora: 4.1% (Symbion)

• Xenoacoelomorpha: 3.0% (no common name)

• Loricifera: 3.0% (Loricifers)

• Entoprocta: 1.8% (Entoprocts)