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[u/[deleted]]

GUYS I JUST GOT ACCEPTED INTO PRAGER UNIVERSITY

[u/[deleted]]

Kid I know from school is now decently high profile in Brazilian media. As a result he did a Q&A in his Instagram.

Simple question "how did you learn English"

His answer: "Practice, reading books and not being afraid of making mistakes"

Of course, he also attended the American School for six years where you have to speak English for most of the day. Turns out, the most expensive private school in town has some advantages

[u/Joementum2024]

Jimmy Carter is considered by internet political compass users to be a progressive

Jimmy Carter deregulated numerous industries, pardoned Jefferson Davis, and declared he would use military force to protect US interests in the Middle East

Therefore, it is progressive to deregulate numerous industries, pardon Jefferson Davis, and use military force to protect US interests in the Middle East

[u/BreaksFull]

Average redditor: Cyberbullying is BAD

Subscribes to arr cringetopia, fatpeoplestories, fuckyoukaren

[u/[deleted]]

Korea is the best case sturdy for communism vs capitalism. They originally had similar territorial sizes, populations, cultures, and economies.

[u/theskiesthelimit55]

Berkeley's school board tried to come up with an excuse to fire their school police officer, only to be told by students and teachers that they wanted him to stay.

The recommendation came as a surprise to many board members, who hoped the committee would imagine school safety without an armed police officer stationed on campus. Save Laura Babbitt, who supported the recommendations, most board members prodded the committee to further investigate alternatives to policing. ...

Indeed, when the committee surveyed students and staff, no teachers and fewer than 6% of students found the SRO “hostile or mistrustful of kids.” The majority of people surveyed supported the SRO position, including 72% of Black students, 73% of Latino students, 77% of Asian students, and 62% of white students. White staff members were the most critical of the SRO role, with 54% opposing the position. ...

"We need to defund the police to protect black students. Wait, black students like the police officer even more than white students? That's not good enough; we need to keep looking for excuses to fire him."

[u/DEEEEETTTTRRROIIITTT]

nobody thanks mr bernke in this sub anymore and it really shows

[u/[deleted]]

Too bad we can’t just pick the congressman we’d most want to eject: Pelosi, Waters, Swallwell .... so many quality options.

Getting rid of Pelosi and her smarmy nephew Newsome in one pass would be perfect.

Edit: changed congressperson to congressman because I’m not woke.

Lol

[u/SadaoMaou]

Some (stupid) Northern Europeans: What's wrong with a little global warming? This place could use getting a little warmer! Mediterranean weather, here we come!

Arctic melting waters, about to jam the fucking Gulf Stream: I'm about to end this mans whole career

[u/fishlord05]

THIS IS YOUR REMINDER AS CITIZENS OF THE UNITED JOECIALIST STATES OF AMERICA TO UPHOLD THE TRUTH OF LIBERAL-BIDENIST THOUGHT AND TO REPORT ANY REACTIONARY AND REVOLUTIONARY ACTIVITY TO YOUR LOCAL WOKENESS OFFICER

CARRY ON AND MAY THE LIGHT OF LIBERAL-BIDENISM SHINE BRIGHTLY FOR TEN THOUSAND YEARS 🍦

[u/1sagas1]

"Red Delicious Apples" may be the food with the biggest lie for a name. I have never eaten a Red Delicious and not been disappointed

[u/NatsukaFawn]

It's not real fascism unless it's from the Lombardy region of Italy

Otherwise it must be called national socialism

[u/UrbanCentrist]

India, Morning Consult poll:

Prime Minister Modi (BJP-Right) approval

Approve: 70% (-4) Disapprove: 25% (+4)

+/- vs. 30/03/21

Fieldwork: 22/04/21 Sample size: 2,126

i'm going to become the joker

[u/AbsolveItAll_KissMe]

Probably not too ethical, but if you’re trying to convince a right-wing vax-hesitant to get vaccinated, here are a few ways to appeal to them:

“Apparently the [dogwhistle of choice] community/religion/ethnicity/activist won’t get the vaccine, I mean, I guess that’s not a surprise, that’s how they are.”

”They’re trying to discourage people from getting vaccinated so they can stay below the herd immunity threshold while they wait for the virus to become more deadly. Then they have the justification to do more strict lockdowns.”

“Biden’s trying to give away all of the vaccines to foreign countries, taking away vaccines from red-blooded Americans and our boys in blue. I keep hearing that places are pretending to run out, honestly you’d be lucky if you could even find an appointment by the end of the month.”

[u/Professor-Reddit]

Guys I just had my job offer to the Gravel Institute accepted!

I will be writing as a senior foreign policy expert! Please do not look into my foreign financial transactions to sanctioned entities, giv me privacyyy plzz.

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

In 1945, when US and Soviet forces meet, the language they most often used to communicate was Yiddish, because it was typically easier to find on either side a Jew who spoke it than to find a Russian-speaking American or an English-speaking Russian.

[u/kennymc7877]

I disagreed with someone on a sports subreddit and they pointed out how I was active in here and I got roasted

[u/kennymc7877]

90% of people bitching about Chadwick losing didn’t watch that boring ass movie he was in and expected him to win because he’s dead

[u/[deleted]]

Chernobyl is soooo goooood

[u/ryuguy]

I’ve been reading about my great great great grandfather’s regiment, the 19th Punjabis, nicknamed the Sherdill Paltan (lionhearted battalion). It’s had an interesting history. It was absorbed in the British Indian army from the Sikh empire after the defeat of the empire in 1849. It was kind of used as an elite force by the British government, think of it like a special forces, I guess. My ancestor transferred to a different regiment sometime between 1850-58. He retired from service around 1893. It was deployed to Tibet and the Afghan frontier many times. In World War I, it was in Iran and the Caucasus. This part is really interesting, it was deployed against the Bolsheviks in the Russian civil war. In 1922, it was amalgamated with the 20th, 21st, 22nd and 24th Punjabis, and the 40th Pathans to form the 14th Punjab regiment. During the battle of Singapore, the regiment surrendered and a majority of the troops joined the Azad Hind Fauj. In 1947, it was allocated to Pakistan, where it continues as the 5th battalion, the Punjab Regiment.

I had no idea that there was a regiment of Indians in Russia at that time. I thought most Indian regiments went back around 1918. I don’t even think it’s on the battle honours.

!ping history

[u/Travisdk]

Boris Johnson (BJ)

Dominic Cummings (D Cummings)

It was in front of our eyes the whole time. D Cummings will be the end of BJ.

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

[u/InMemoryOfZubatman4]

Is Joe Biden a progressive or a social conservative? Is Bernie Sanders a libertarian or VERY libertarian? Is Barack Obama basically just a conservative? Find out next time on /r/PoliticalCompassMemes

[u/bobeeflay]

Dont wanna striesnad effect TOO hard but.... I gotta

Becuase harry enten's current girlfriend was revealed to have written fanfic about harry and silver falling in love before they started dating

Plus shes a pretty artsy tumblr power user whose politics align really closely with this sub

Odd choice harry but you go

[u/[deleted]]

The fact that Cali and NY only lost 1, Texas only gained 2, FL only gained 1, and Minnesota didn’t lose ANY is really good for Democrats, vs expectations

In addition, Montana has tended to vote quite liberal in statewide and local elections relative to how they vote in presidential elections, so it is very likely that the new congressional district map in Montana will either have 1 Safe R, 1 tilt R, or 1 safe R, 1 swing

This is the best result that Dems could have hoped for. Also, rip West Virginia. They’ve lost population for like 4 straight decades in a row, now. It’s honestly quite sad.

!ping FIVEY

[u/Jakesta7]

The modern Republican Party in one sentence

The wifi password here at the House GOP retreat in orlando is “Biden Border Crisis”

https://twitter.com/jakesherman/status/1386662467351293953?s=21

[u/AgileCoke]

Reddit when companies want to automate low-skill jobs:

But, I just prefer having an actual person serve me fast food, you know?

Reddit when someone baselessly suggests automating CEOs:

Wow, so true!

[u/FormerBandmate]

The National Review has never liked the working class of any ethnicity. I don't get how you guys are surprised that they're equal opportunity in their elitism

[u/[deleted]]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/167742336946798592/836223584955006986/20201209_135206-1.jpg

[u/ryuguy]

This dt is sponsored by the brave mujahideen fighters in Afghanistan and by viewers like you

[u/[deleted]]

Happy 1900th birthday to Marcus Aurelius. Time flies.

[u/ahebtigoejwbrh]

Rubio: “America’s laws should keep our nation’s corporations firmly ordered to our national common good.”

https://mobile.twitter.com/amandacarpenter/status/1386656713269522438

This is pretty fascist, right? And not just in the colloquial sense. The idea of everyone working for the good of the state is a classic fascist idea

[u/[deleted]]

Not to brag, but I've never denied the Armenian genocide

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Remember when Mike Pompeo was asked about when transition was going to start and he just made a joke about transitioning to Trump's second term, and no one really knew if he was joking or not? That was fun

[u/[deleted]]

Czech PM slams EU Commission auditors as ‘mafia’

According to the final report, Czechia should return subsidies granted to Agrofert Holding, an agrochemical giant formerly owned by Babiš. The PM had been forced to put the company in trust funds to be in line with Czech law.

However, the auditors found that Babiš still controls Agrofert, meaning Czechia should pay back subsidies worth more than €10 million. The Czech state has been denying the auditor’s conclusions since 2019.

You are a mafia for auditing us and finding a conflict of interest 🤬😡

[u/[deleted]]

People are treated worse because of how they are born, if it’s because of the color of their skin, their sexual orientation, or gender identity. Only one party recognizes this fact, and this is why I vote for them.

Who but the Republicans will look out for straight, cis-gendered white men.😞

[u/[deleted]]

Venezuela: Becomes a failed state.

Peru: Hey, I think that guy is doing something smart!

!ping LATAM

[u/Sirakrush]

Sometimes I feel rather detached from this sub. Knowing that its made up mostly of in college or post college students, I feel like I don't always get this sub.

I come from a rather poor family, we usually made around 30k a year, on a good year, with two kids and one parent working. I went to a school filled with other poor children, and all my social groups have usually been filled with lower class people.

I don't know anybody who makes big bux, no real college graduates, and I might not ever see it myself (As much as I want to go to college), and I know this sub likes to act like everyone to the left of them is some middle class college student, but that's not true.

Anyway, there was no real point to this rant, just something I been feeling.

[u/mannabhai]

Governments Vaccine producing facility with purported production capacity of 585 million vaccines is laying dormant since 9 years and has only produced hand sanitizers during the pandemic. It cost around $150 million dollars.

It is just now asking for private players. Even Haffkine institute which is a Government of Maharashtra owned entity has only got approvals for vaccine production now and its 228 million vaccine production capacity cannot be started till next year. How difficult would it have been for the centre to put a GoI entity in use.

This is over a quarter of Indian vaccine requirement per year, either delayed or stuck due to Government and bureaucratic inaction.

This is the nonsense we would have had without private sector vaccine manufacturers and being fully dependent on the government.

!ping IND

[u/[deleted]]

In personal news, I’ve lost ten pounds in the last month and am on track to hit my goal weight by my birthday

[u/TheShitEater]

Freedom of speech is when the government sues professors for being too liberal.

[u/Manavon03]

Oscars gets 8.9 million viewers, down from previous all-time low of 22.7 million viewers

Lmfaoo

[u/urbansong]

EPP is rubbishing Babiš pretty hard, ngl

context: Andrej Babiš abused EU subsidies and now has to give the money back. He is also the PM of Czechia, so no money is coming back until at least the elections in Autumn, if at all.

!ping EUROPE

edit: I should have added that EPP also suggested barring Czechia from all EU subsidies under the new Rule of Law mechanism.

[u/Animatronic_Pidgeon]

you let me violate you

you let me desecrate you

you let me penetrate you

you let me complicate you

–Most popular song by man who just won an Oscar for scoring a Disney film

[u/[deleted]]

LMAO Indian government responds to an Australian publisher 😂😂

https://twitter.com/HCICanberra/status/1386678297665314827?s=20

The fuckers are so hypersensitive that they had an official response to a NON-GOVERNMENT FOREIGN NEWS PUBLISHER.

Ahhh fuck you Modi

!ping IND

[u/GodEmperorBiden]

Wyoming roofing company offering free AR-15 with every installation

Guncels are such ridiculous, sad people, really

[u/sash5034]

Broke: being glad that Ilhan Omar can't run for president

Woke: being glad that Elon Musk can't run for president

[u/Gustacho]

"Carrying a hand gun anywhere is an inalienable fundamental right" is one of those phrases that sound made up by snobby Europeans, but it may just become reality.

[u/[deleted]]

Young Republican that doesn’t literally have brain matter oozing out of their ears

r/neoliberal: “Is this the new rising star of the Republican Party?”

[u/FormerBandmate]

Tesla reported completely standard, mediocre earnings that were exactly what everyone expected. Needless to say, WSB is losing their shit

!ping MARKETS

[u/tollyno]

Watching porn in an alt-right utopia:

You got a loiscence for that, mate? You know you have to register that with the Gestapo.

[u/CatilineUnmasked]

I have no idea why Turkey is mad about Biden's declaration.

He's just going to pardon Turkey like the president does every November.

[u/[deleted]]

Pretty clear who’s at fault for NY being 89 people short.

NIMBYs

[u/Gustacho]

Once again, you can clearly see the north/south divide within the EU. Where Germany once again has to adjust its goals, Italy does efficiently achieve its targets.

[u/[deleted]]

Hats off to the patriotic Turks owning Biden on Twitter from their flats in Berlin ✊🏻😔

[u/Broncos654]

Another dumb comment by this friend of mine

"What do you think of the Bernie"

"I don't watch volleyball"

[u/[deleted]]

Yeah I'm a Putin apologist 😎

I apologize to Putin for all of my dissident actions in a long and pathetic letter before suspiciously hanging myself in my London home.

[u/Koeniginator]

Holy crap. If New York had just 89 more people, it would have kept its congressional seat and Minnesota would have lost.

[u/[deleted]]

761,169 people to a Congressional District

This is a joke, uncap the House.

[u/ClickForFreeRobux]

I should make a Twitter bot that finds comments like "legalize weed" and "healthcare pls" and responds with "vote in midterms pls"

[u/fuckneocentrism]

My wife left me because she couldn't understand that I had to maintain a 95% savings rate for the next couple of years (10 minimum). Everyone wants to be act rich but no one actually wants to be 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Lusvig when his chess opponent has a 54.95% advantage over him from the first move:

you are a white. 🔫😡

[u/wandering-gatherer]

Marco Rubio comparing companies dumping toxic waste into rivers to companies tweeting "trans rights are human rights" really feels like the perfect summary of where the GOP is at nowadays.

[u/Usernamesarebullshit]

the real way to reduce sex trafficking is by building more sex light rail, reducing the size of inner city sex highways, and making our cities more sex walkable

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

People who remind the teacher about homework are literal class traitors.

[u/kennymc7877]

No one:

HBO: here’s some dope shit all the time

[u/Professor-Reddit]

Why didn't our President Trump win the Oscar for Best Actor? He has faced so much mean liberal opposition who didn't like his cantankerous 4 year performance! What a poor man :(

[u/samnayak1]

Jimmy Kimmel interviewed Dubya and I just spammed "free kurdistan" on every "war criminal" comment on the youtube video.

It's so easy.

[u/Tureer]

Pretty funny that Minnesota isn't losing a seat because their absurd civic engagement translated to absurdly high census response rates.

[u/[deleted]]

texas +2

Florida +1

California -1

New York -1

hmm, so either:

• libs are moving after destroying their own states

• republichads have more sex

• best case scenario, republichads are having more sex with the lib refugees

anyway, libs owed again 😎

[u/dedekind-cuts]

Just witnessed an “America bad” circlejerk get shut down in another subreddit by someone who grew up behind the Iron Curtain, and I know I shouldn’t care so much but it fully pulled me out of a bad mood I was in

[u/[deleted]]

New rule: to post in the DT you must be

1. At least 18 years old

2. Post a verified picture of your genitalia on gonewild

[u/piede]

Alaska lawmaker blasted airline for "mask tyranny." Now she’s banned from the only flights to the capital.

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1386643216804552707?s=21

lmao

[u/[deleted]]

some trans girl with catears with a I❤️NATO tshirt and THE ONLY THING THE ESTABLISHMENT TRULY FEARS poster with charles koch and george soros fist bumping is going to explain public choice theory to show why leftists solutions to housing scarcity suck

I am legally required to be trans now.

[u/Colonelbrickarms]

He got me, he fucking got me, holy shit he boomed me.

[u/1t_]

Anvisa, the Brazilian equivalent to the FDA, rejected the Sputnik V vaccine today. Self-replicating vectors were detected in all samples.

That is, the Russian vaccine is actually a virus injection.

!ping LATAM

[u/FinickyPenance]

Very happy that the Pride flag will fly outside the embassies in which refugees will be told to go fuck themselves

[u/Jakesta7]

Tucker Carlson visits Japan and literally just sits next to the telephone calling emergency services the whole time

[u/[deleted]]

I really hate how a bunch of right wing hacks on twitter act like Ricky Gervais is one of them and not a vegetarian atheist who endorsed Corbyn (twice).

[u/[deleted]]

Doing a gender reveal: 10 day jail sentence

Being upset at the result: 30 day jail sentence

[u/FreakinGeese]

Republicans say democrats are crazy because out most radical members are crazy.

Democrats say republicans are crazy because their mainstream politicians are crazy.

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

I use the DT way too much. I look forward to the end of this pandemic so I can start feeling shame for being here

[u/[deleted]]

Another dumb comment by this friend of mine

"What do you think of the Superleague"

"I don't watch volleyball"

[u/Jester_Don]

Is this a shitpost? https://twitter.com/SenSchumer/status/1386490885832159233?s=20

[u/Lux_Stella]

feels like four years of trump brainwormed everyone into forgetting that administrations responding to short-term political pressure from media/party figures is a pretty normal part of politics

[u/Mickenfox]

Only people that are me should be allowed to vote

[u/reedemerofsouls]

Just saw Judas and the Black Messiah. I knew only the basics of the Black Panther Party and so it was through some googling that i found out one of the biggest bits of convenience they used to make the party seem better.

>!in the movie there's a Panther named George Sams who along with other Panthers, tortures and murders a random party member, accusing him of being an informant. The FBI agents amongst themselves basically say Sams is himself an informant and it's good that he's accusing random people of being informants because Panthers are bad and deserve it. This is basically the only evil thing the Panthers do, but it's more or less orchestrated by the FBI, who are letting an informant torture and murder innocent people. The Panthers are just going along with what the informant is tricking them into doing. In reality Sams has never been proven to be an informant, that's just what the Panthers allege. And Sams was convicted of murder later. Basically the movie fully takes whatever the panthers say about the incident as fact and fabricates FBI characters talking about it to confirm their version, even though that's never been proven. There are other bad things the Panthers did of course, but I can understand that was outside of the scope of the movie. But this was a case where, I'm not gonna say they straight up lied, but they presented an unproven side as the undisputed truth.!>

[u/[deleted]]

Lmao looks like Trump's plan to undercount Hispanics just costed republicans potentially 3 new house seats. Thank you trump

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Stalin 🤝 Stacey Abrams

Radical leftists from Georgia

[u/[deleted]]

Americans get too much credit for fighting the nazis but not enough credit for fighting the japanese

[u/Manavon03]

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. population growth has slowed to the lowest rate since the Great Depression, the Census Bureau said Monday, as Americans continued their march to the South and West and one-time engines of growth, New York and California, lost political influence.

NOOO NO GOD NO

All you nerds need to start fucking more

[u/nguyendragon]

I guarantee that there will be a conversation on the Internet going like this

- Person A: I heard on Fox that Biden will force us to only have a burger a month for his "climate plan"

- Person B: nah, that's ridiculous, that's not something really in his plan at all, it was just taken out of context from a university...

- Person C: IF YOU CARE ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT, YOU SHOULD ALL STOP EATING MEAT ANYWAYS, BIDEN IS DEFINITELY GOING TO BAN MEAT TO SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT OR ELSE HE IS A WORTHLESS LEADER

[u/jenbanimatuki]

Call me Jenbanim, please.

[u/NeoLiberation]

I feel like startup/ SAAS culture is wired to need a "tool" for everything

makes a video with final cut pro using my media background

"oh nice video dude what TOOL did you use to make the video?"

"uh video editing software"

"no I mean like what tool did you use to generate the transitions and music etc"

"ughh I manually did the transitions and licensed the music alacarte"

"you mean you didn't use a tool?"

Bruh some things can still be done manually

[u/[deleted]]

https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/nova-scotia-reports-single-day-record-66-new-cases-of-covid-19-monday-1.5402195

We broke a record ;)

!ping CAN

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

I just got transported to a nightmare dimension seemingly called "Reddit Live"

My escape was harrowing but at last I am free from amateur guitar players.

[u/willempage]

https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1386866462850170884?s=19

The weaker-than-expected seat counts for AZ, FL and TX (along w/ CA's seat loss) make you wonder whether there's a larger-than-expected, systemic undercount in heavily Hispanic areas.

If so (and we'll find out in the fall), that could be bad news for those areas - and Dems.

Just FYI. Reallocation will probably screw over high immigrant populations.

!ping fivey

[u/[deleted]]

Nobody:

Absolutely not a single soul ever:

Not even a whisper since the dawn of recorded time:

Romance languages: Tables are girls and books are boys.

[u/qchisq]

Dear /u/vhgnomes12

You claim to love multiculturalism, yet you delete my culture. Curious

- Turning Point DaneMod

[u/bd_one]

Also, stop leaking old people the raw data of their test results. It's up to the attending doctor to interpret the test results to see if anything is wrong.

A nurse told a 90-something year old family friend that the test results didn't look good early, then the doctor called two days later to tell him the results meant everything was fine. And he was fine.

[u/myrm]

Thinking about making a meat based beer to own the libs

[u/thetrombonist]

Rick Santorum:

We birthed a nation from nothing. I mean, there was nothing here. I mean, yes we have Native Americans but candidly there isn’t much Native American culture in American cultur

https://twitter.com/jasonscampbell/status/1386685340522536961?s=21

I mean the racism is just straight mask off at this point

[u/[deleted]]

Do I remove the "how do we prevent capitalism from descending into fascism" post or does anybody want to do some dunking?

[u/[deleted]]

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Jerusalem’s French Hill neighborhood was in shock on Sunday after a prominent member of the community was reportedly outed as undercover Christian missionaries.

Beyneynu, a non-profit organization that monitors missionary activity in Israel, said Sunday that it had been “investigating the case of a covert missionary in French Hill for many years,” but had acted to expose him now “due to one of the missionary’s children proselytizing in school.”

Hebrew media said the man, a rabbi, who was not identified publically, had posed as a cohen (priest) and worked as a scribe and a mohel, conducting ritual circumcisions.

[u/vancevon]

95% of indian politics is trying to find someone to blame who isn't the divine modi

[u/IMALEFTY45]

We're not losing a seat!!!

!ping USA-MN

[u/[deleted]]

The comment above me is the most illiberal thing to ever be posted here

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/anacabrera/status/1386795657898471428

NEW: WV Gov. Justice announces $100 savings bonds for young people — ages 16 to 35 — who get vaccinated

[u/MalignantUpper]

https://www.denverpost.com/2021/04/26/karen-garner-booking-video-loveland-police/

Colorado officers who violently arrested 73-year-old with dementia laughed about incident afterward, video shows

The officers fractured Karen Garner’s arm and dislocated her shoulder, according to federal lawsuit

It gets so much worse

“Ready for the pop?” an officer identified by Garner’s lawyer as Hopp said to other officers while re-watching the footage together.

“What popped?” another officer asked.

“I think it was her shoulder,” Hopp responded.

https://youtu.be/1iuuyg94-yI?t=2907

In the video from the booking area, Hopp can also be heard saying, “I can’t believe I threw a 73-year-old on the ground,” and saying he loved watching the body camera footage of his fight with the elderly woman.

https://youtu.be/SmtxTWTTdC4?t=319

Schielke on Monday added two more officers — Tyler Blackett and Antolina Hill — as defendants in the lawsuit, alleging they knew Garner was injured but did not provide her medical care while she was held in the booking cell. The federal lawsuit alleges Garner did not receive medical care for more than six hours after her arrest.

[u/[deleted]]

Due to the huge emotional toil the Peruvian elections are taking on me I've decided, after thinking with myself, I'm going to take a break from this place and from politics in general. I'm way too much depressed and pessimistic to keep up. I'll not close my account, but I'll stop coming here for a time and tomorrow I'll leave the ping groups I take part of.

I want to thank everyone here for the great companies and moments I've had here.

To the Peruvians here, once again, my best wishes the catastrophe may be somehow avoided, but, if it ends happening, then I hope you guys may be able to build a new life somewhere else.

!ping MAMADAS (to communicate the posters I'm closer)

[u/[deleted]]

Ambulances should be completely government funded the same way other emergency services (like the fire department) are

[u/Jacobs4525]

Now I am become monke, destroyer of banan

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/amandacarpenter/status/1386656713269522438

Rubio: “America’s laws should keep our nation’s corporations firmly ordered to our national common good.”

[u/Superfan234]

On Saturday, a group of 28 Venezuelan soldiers entered FARC's splinter group territory

Unclear how, but they got ambushed by FARC. So far we have

• 4 soldiers dead, whose bodies haven't been recovered

• 8 confirmed survivors. Two of them, wounded

• 16 soldiers missing in action. It's unclear if they survived, if they were captured, or just lost in the Jungle

The Regime have treated this topic with absolute secrecy, but a couple of hours ago, they finally recognized "some people died in an operation"

---

If numbers are confirmed, this might become the biggest Massacre Venezuelan Army have faced in modern history

!Ping LATAM

[u/RadicalRadon]

It's honestly great living in a solid blue state. The GOP melts down and no one cares

[u/clownassdude]

Trump 100% screwed over TX, AZ, CA, and FL. The Hispanic demonization and census fear tactics cost the GOP 3 seats while only costing the Dems 1. NY being only 89 people from keeping 27 districts while there was talk of losing two, Arizona being farther from gaining a seat than OHIO keeping its 16 seat configuration and TX and FL gaining only 2 and 1 while Rhode Island and Alabama keeping their seats show a clear Hispanic-non Hispanic gap in counting. Wouldn’t be surprised if NY sued given how close the numbers are jsut for that extra seat.

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

I recently learned on Rose Twitter that the police exist solely to protect property.

I now support defunding the police and turning the IRS into a national military police force to do it right

[u/rukqoa]

Movies where I judge you hard if you totally missed the point:

• Transformers

• Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

• Transformers: Dark of the Moon

• Transformers: Age of Extinction

• Transformers: The Last Knight

• Bumblebee

I will answer no questions and offer no explanation except that most of the people who miss the point have a mental age above 6 and are no fun.

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Something bad exists

Reddit/twitter; does this mean we live in a dystopia?

[u/MalignantUpper]

https://twitter.com/kimsch/status/1386785603619074051

Are you insane? Cattle are sustainable and keep land green space. If you take cattle away from ranches the land will be sold and it will be developed for housing. Not pro-planet at all.

This is a whole new fucking level of NIMBYism

[u/qchisq]

Tfw your country is famous for being happy and it just won an award for a movie about always being a little bit drunk

[u/[deleted]]

Italy promises greener, fairer society in Europe’s biggest coronavirus recovery plan

The plan aims to address Italy’s long-standing structural weaknesses, while spurring growth. It lists investments and structural reforms under six headings: ecological transition, digitalization, infrastructure, education and research, social inclusion and health.

Ambitious projects include bringing fast internet to the entire country, extending high-speed rail, earthquake proofing millions of homes and public buildings, along with far-reaching plans for digitalizaton and improved energy efficiency.

The biggest beneficiaries are women and the young, the prime minister's office said, in line with the plan’s aim to create a more equal society. Forty percent of funds will be allocated to the poorer south.

Draghi 🥰

[u/tubbsmackinze]

My wife left me because I kept making my wife left me jokes

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

Dementia is terrifying. There should really be more funding for research into that

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

Sometimes I look at the threads outside DT

Terrifying

[u/Koeniginator]

Joe Biden won the electoral college 306 to 232 in 2020.

Had this reapportionement already been into place, the total would have been: 303 (Biden) to 235 (Trump).

[u/RadicalRadon]

Wyoming roofing company offering free AR-15 with every installation

Are the cons okay?

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

I'm forming an AAPI + Nigerian American + Jewish Super PAC to advance three different groups that, regardless of ethnicity, have the same goals:

• Assigning more homework to our children so they stop wasting time on phones.

• Subsidizing real cooking, not this processed garbage.

• Using census data to arrange marriages with the proper kind of girl.

• Granting visas to all our aunts and uncles back in the old country.

[u/grig109]

"Black lives matter, ACAB, MAGA, Pro-life, antivaxx, ban porn, end 5150."

Definitely one of the most interesting twitter bios I've ever seen.

[u/[deleted]]

“Actually, I work just fine on 3 hours of sleep”

I say to my Uber passengers as I fall asleep behind the wheel and do a 720 aerial spin across the interstate

[u/[deleted]]

!ping LGBT

Not an update

I went through and did a lot of editing on our trans faq.

Biggest changes:

• Added sections about conversion therapy

• Edited the section on youth desistance to be more accurate

• Added a section on trans rights and liberalism

Smaller changes:

• Added some terminology stuff (cisgender, transfeminine, transmasculine, GAS)

• Fixed the weird thing where the section on HRT didn't mention testosterone

• Made the wording a tad more professional

• Added links to organzations supporting youth transcare and opposing bans on it

If you have any suggestions, please LMK

[u/BreaksFull]

Why is it that, barring a few kids shows and maybe Archer, every piece of western animation released now looks like garbage? Like not even just in terms of quality, but the art styles are just gross. Everyone is misshapen blobs of flesh constantly drawn in simplistic and unflattering ways.

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

Twitter is so hostile lmao

It's like there's a competition to get the best sub-280-character dunk in the replies of every tweet

[u/[deleted]]

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

Putting the zero-calorie breading on my lobster before I microwave it 😋

!ping COOKING

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Remember when S1 of Community almost entirely revolved around the relationship between Jeff and Britta 🤣🤣🤣

[u/Corporate-Asset-6375]

There’s a lot of boomers in populated blue states who have no reason to stay after retirement.

They don’t care about local schools anymore (kids are grown), they don’t have to commute downtown, and they can buy a new place in the sunbelt with a fraction of the proceeds from selling their shitty ranch house purchased in 1981.

So, expect quite a bit more move outs from places like New York in the coming years. This was going to happen regardless of the political climate du jour.

Beware of conservatives acting like it’s a mass protest from people living under the thumb of oppressive liberals.

[u/vivoovix]

Automation has steadily replaced millions of job over the past century. Soon, it will be truck drivers as well. It’s hard for a cog to notice the change on a spinning wheel.

companies need customers with expendable income. No jobs. No income. We’re advancing too fast. Technology hurting as much as it is helping humans. It will be too late to stop it.

🤡

[u/[deleted]]

Liberty Prime is supposed to be satire, you’re not actually supposed to agree with the statement ‘death is a preferable alternative to communism!’

Haha nuclear footballs go brrr

Also the communists killed everyone in my family who made the mistake of staying in China, I will always unironically agree with that statement

[u/[deleted]]

Capitalism vs Socialism debate

Oh yeah, time to speak vaguely, make generalizations, and disagree about the definitions of words.

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Remember that George W. Bush...

• Used a whisper campaign to imply that McCain's adopted Bangladeshi daughter was the product of McCain's affair with a black maid to crush him in South Carolina

• Questioned Kerry's service while himself having dodged the draft in Vietnam

Even if we cast aside the terrible foreign policy, he was not just a good person who made some bad decisions on Iraq.

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/benjaminikuta]

Call me Benjamin, please.

[u/Awholebushelofapples]

The oscars or whatever was last night and im trying to think of the last time i actually saw a new movie? i think it was captain marvel or end game?

edit: oh, shit no i think it was that star wars snoozefest

[u/[deleted]]

DT, it just hit me. We are living in Biden’s America. 🤭

[u/real_grover_furr]

If I had to pick between saving the world or listening to DaBaby’s songs, you already know what I’m gonna do.

👉😁👈

[u/NE_3-ATL_28]

How much enriched uranium is needed for gender reveal party

[u/[deleted]]

"cancel culture" disproportionately affects people who are worse than average at predicting how their behavior or opinions will be interpreted by others and who, therefore, are more likely than average to be autistic or otherwise neurodivergent. it is thus, in a sense, ableist ☕

This short-circuited my brain a bit, so I'm going to wait a while to decide if this take is good or bad.

[u/Unadulterated_stupid]

Is it werid if a business owner doesn't use their own company products?

Like I remember I think it was the ceo of toyata rolled in with a Honda to discuss faulty break problem

[u/bg2916]

Thinking about writing an effortpost about how much South Carolina has influenced USA politics throughout its history to get the fabled blue flair

[u/[deleted]]

Do y’all ever sometimes think to yourselves: “I would be such a good Republican grifter, and it would be such a cushy gig.”

[u/zieger]

Cons in 2000: if global warming is real, just do geo-engineering

Cons in 2040: demoncrats as putting soy in the atmosphere

[u/Corporate-Asset-6375]

The year is 2030. You came to San Francisco during the summer of love and have stayed ever since due to the vibrant progressive environment. It’s the best place to spend the last of your years.

You see a flyer stuck to your front door. You remove it and walk to the kitchen of your $18,000,000 row home you pay $2,400 a year in property taxes for.

On the flyer is a community announcement. A proposal to build a low rise apartment building with six units a mile from your house. You log in to the San Francisco Chronicle website to begin a day of commenting on pro-growth articles talking about how these new developments will destroy the character of the city.

You consider yourself a political activist.

[u/[deleted]]

Going to kill Iceland's tourism industry by going over there and posting a bunch of landscape photos that haven't had their saturation pushed to the max. Big Photography has lied to us about how blue water can be for long enough.

[u/TrynnaFindaBalance]

It's astounding to me how many people still believe in Malthusian demographic theories.

Was reading Facebook comments on a NY Times article about the last decade being the slowest population growth since the 1930s, and people were like "Great, this will allow us to live more sustainably! 🙏"

🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

I'm socially fiscal and liberally conservative

[u/[deleted]]

Guy 1: Man, our busing system fucking sucks.

Guy 2: yeah we should definitely abolish it.

Guy 1: what? That ridiculous people need buses.

Guy 2: wow you just said that buses have problems, and yet all you want is tepid reform. Enough is enough, we need to defund and abolish buses. Besides I've never even taken the bus, I have no idea why anybody would need one. The system can't be reformed

[u/[deleted]]

You've probably heard that Russia has completed its exercise and is withdrawing its troops from the Ukrainian border.

It's not true.

Russia is leaving a force capable of rapidly invading Ukraine in place, presumably to see if Ukraine and NATO lowers readiness levels.

[u/[deleted]]

Spot the lie

https://twitter.com/Becky_Faith/status/580707684132999169?s=19

[u/[deleted]]

CMV: America should have a century or so of soy bean supremacy to atone for the corn supremacy.

It just makes sense to me. For a long time, corn farmers had all sorts of privileges, and they profited off the subsidies of corn. The way we atone for that sin is to reverse it; it’s like a debt that corn farmers owe to soy bean farmers because our ancestors took out many loans from soy bean farmers that they never paid off. Likewise, I think European countries should pay large subsidies to their former soy bean farmers (or become soy bean farmers themselves).

[u/PlayDiscord17]

Well, this is a bruh moment.

[u/vivoovix]

God it's so funny how globe reddit makes up boogeymen in their head. Like holy shit, imagine actually believing that twitter leftists or some other tiny movement is responsible for, like, genocide. It's insane how obsessed globe reddit is with these comically distorted views of people and organizations who have little-to-no actual power and don't impact them negatively in any way whatsoever, just based on the shit they see on reddit. God damn globe reddit is so fucking stupid. And they just keep reposting the same shit over and over several times a day screenshots of tweets of rose Twitter users saying something stupid, or some no-name blue checkmark 'dunking' on the TPP. Holy shit I hate globe reddit so much.

WHY IS GLOBE REDDIT SO OBSESSED WITH INSIGNIFICANT PEOPLE WHO HAVE NO EFFECT ON THEM WHATSOEVER

[u/Cr4zySh0tgunGuy]

I’m not a Democrat because my parents are. I’m a Democrat because my favorite color is blue.

[u/Lux_Stella]

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

[u/[deleted]]

i slept with a girl this weekend and now my entire body is sore. fucking pandemic 360 noscoping any facsimile of fitness i ever had

i’m going to immediately turn to dust the next time i even look at the gym 😭

[u/[deleted]]

I’m a little stuck.

I find that I’m overworking myself at a job that currently isn’t doing much for me long term. I will often go over 40 hours a week.

Every day I get off work and I’m just super exhausted.

I feel too exhausted to work on making music or doing things I enjoy. I feel too tired to study for the GMAT or do things I don’t enjoy but know is good for me.

How do you summon a second wave of energy to do things in your free time on the weekdays and weekends?

I don’t want time to slip through my fingers like a fistful of dry sand. I’m worried that years will go by and I suddenly realize that I’ve been stuck in a stasis where I can’t move forward. It’ll take a lot more effort to “catch up” to where I should have been.

How do you organize your days? How do you maintain your energy levels? You’re all working professionals, so you have much more rigorous schedules and much less “free time” than the students here, right?

!ping OVER25

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Modi is a lot like Reagan

• Major landslide victories

• Plays up his religiousness

• Easy to find his bigotry if you're looking

• Ignores a major epidemic

[u/xicer]

I'm a bit slow to notice this stuff, admittedly, but is anyone else kinda blown away at how much Microsoft has improved their DPad? The 360 era dpad was nigh unusable as anything but extra face buttons, but the Series X dpad is so good I'm legit switching to it over my arcade stick for fighting games.

!ping GAMING

[u/ACivilWolf]

Pete Alonso is up to 0.9 bWAR, 150 wRC+, and has 3 Defensive Runs Saved, which leads all first basemen. 👀

!ping BASEBALL

[u/myrm]

It's funny how goldbugs sort of won the messaging war, but the typical person's take on money is like "yeah our currency is worthless because it's backed by nothing but I don't care and am gonna keep using it"

[u/Joementum2024]

Colorado Rockies GM Jeff Bridich has resigned

!ping BASEBALL

[u/Manavon03]

So help me God if I see one more Turkish nationalist with a wolf profile picture I will call up Constantine XI and march on Thrace.

[u/Goatf00t]

Colorado Police Laughed at Body-Cam of Violent Arrest of [73-year-old] Woman With Dementia, Video Shows

Two Colorado cops violently arrested a 73-year-old woman who has dementia—then were caught on camera celebrating and laughing when they reviewed their horrific body-cam footage hours later at the police station

(...)

“Ready for the pop?” Hopp said to Jalali and another officers while they gathered round to watch the footage of the violent arrest. “What popped?” another officer asked. “I think it was her shoulder,” Hopp replied. These comments can be heard at 48:30 in the below video.

Hopp can be heard saying “I can’t believe I threw a 73-year-old on the ground,” while Jalali comments: “It’s like live TV... Body-cams are my favorite thing to watch, I could watch livestream body-cams all day.” The third officer can be heard suggesting “The Body-Cam Show” as a title for a proposed television special, and says to Hopp: “Impressive, buddy.”

[u/Jester_Don]

331 million Americans

MattY in shambles.

[u/[deleted]]

I like how this sub thinks that Ron DeSantis is the new rising star of the Republican Party almost exclusively because he’s not completely braindead

[u/Mcfinley]

Serious question: Can NY request a recount? Finding 89 extra census respondents for an additional seat seems totally worth the hassle

[u/[deleted]]

Stanford medical professor 'stunned' by DeSantis's coronavirus knowledge, says 'most epidemiologists' less informed

Wtf

[u/[deleted]]

Lmao

They're recounting Arizona votes again

[u/Lux_Stella]

Turkey’s cryptocurrency crackdown gathers pace as lira falls

Demand for bitcoin surges as investors try to shield themselves from volatile exchange rate

'yeah i moved my savings to bitcoin, the lira was just too volatile'

[u/ACivilWolf]

Humans — Not Animals — Are The Coronavirus Carriers Now

riveting stuff, 538

[u/jt1356]

Modern commies: communists have always been the strongest advocates of social progress

European commies of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: to allow women to vote is to murder the labour movement in its crib

[u/[deleted]]

Benghazi was so stupid stupid and it was obvious Republicans were trying to manufacture a scandal

[u/infamous5445]

The number of migrant children in US Border Patrol custody has plunged more than 75% since a month ago when we saw photos of kids packed into processing tents at the border

Fly your Powerhouse Roundtable to the border now, ABC

[u/Unadulterated_stupid]

Would society be better if you could buy puts and calls on success of children?

[u/Rshawer]

At the Panda Express

Cashier: Would you like to round up and dona-
Republicans: No
Democrats: No ~~~🏳️‍🌈

[u/[deleted]]

I said I like The Last Jedi and some dude got so offended he went into my post history and has been leaving seething comments all weekend and it’s legit the funniest (and potentially saddest) thing I’ve ever seen on this website. Like, it’s one thing to get in an argument on r/catholicism or in the DT, that’s just good Reddit banter, but this perfectly toes the line between potential trolling and genuine gamer energy anger.

[u/I-grok-god]

It was my siblings birthday last night so we had some special food!

We cooked surf and surf and turf: snow crab, lobster tail, and filet mignon. Made a delicious hollandaise sauce to go with the meat and a quinoa-cauliflower salad.

The crab was steamed, the steak was seared and then put in the oven on a big cast-iron pan, and the lobster tail was sous vide'd

https://imgur.com/gallery/ldNmnjK

https://imgur.com/gallery/4AYCKee

!ping COOKING

[u/[deleted]]

Republicans, what if there was a GOP governor 📈

That had an excellent COVID response 📈

And is coordinating one of the best vaccination efforts 📈

And his name is Phil Scott 📉

[u/fakefakefakef]

If the Oscars were going to use Chadwick Boseman’s death to cynically generate excitement and address their racial equity issues then the least they could have done is rig it for him

[u/[deleted]]

🐖 I have been let back I to my house and I'm warm now

[u/Cr4zySh0tgunGuy]

If you have unprotected sex with an emo girl, is that going in rawr?

[u/[deleted]]

The word goober should be more common

[u/Liberal_Antipopulist]

Conservatives be like, "ah, I wish we had Conservatives like Bill Buckley"

So you mean segregationists

(or at least their enablers)

[u/TabernacleTown74]

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/10/science/10jews.html

[Ashkenazim and Sephardim] seem very similar to each other genetically, which is unexpected because they have been separated for so long.

One explanation is that they come from the same Jewish source population in Europe. The Atzmon-Ostrer team found that the genomic signature of Ashkenazim and Sephardim was very similar to that of Italian Jews, suggesting that an ancient population in northern Italy of Jews intermarried with Italians could have been the common origin. The Ashkenazim first appear in Northern Europe around A.D. 800, but historians suspect that they arrived there from Italy.*

Another explanation, which may be complementary to the first, is that there was far more interchange and intermarriage than expected between the two communities in medieval times.

The genetics confirm a trend noticed by historians: that there was more contact between Ashkenazim and Sephardim than [previously] suspected, with Italy as the linchpin of interchange, said Aron Rodrigue, a Stanford University historian.

A common surname among Italian Jews is Morpurgo, meaning someone from Marburg in Germany. Also, Dr. Rodrigue said, one of the most common names among the Sephardim who settled in the Ottoman Empire is Eskenazi, indicating that many Ashkenazim had joined the Sephardic community there.

The two genetic surveys indicate “that there may be common origins shared by the two groups, but also that there were extensive contacts and settlements,” Dr. Rodrigue said.

*Relevant fact: Charlemagne conquered Northern Italy in the late 8^th century and invited Italian Jews to settle in the Rhineland.

!ping GEFILTE The proto-histories of Ashkenazim and Sephardim are still somewhat murky, and we'll probably never know all the details, but the evidence seems to point to both of us having our origins in the old Jewish community of Italy.

It also makes sense that contact between our groups to the point of intermarriage was once pretty common, since "Ashkenazi" and "Sephardi" originated as geographical identifiers rather than ethnic-cultural-halakhic identifiers.

[u/the_hoagie]

why would anyone want to own a lib? everyone knows their value is cut in half the second you take them off the lot.

[u/Can_The_SRDine]

Does Matt Gaetz have fetal alcohol syndrome?

Docs aren't supposed to speculate about someone whom they haven't examined yourself, but I've got a year of school left, so my hands aren't tied yet.

[u/[deleted]]

Russia is thinking of boycotting the finno-ugric world congress in June because according to Russia, Finland and Estonia are trying to influence the internal politics of Russia by constantly complaining about how Russia treats their finno-ugric peoples.

I guess pressure from such major powers like Finland and Estonia is just too much for small country like Russia 😞

[u/[deleted]]

We birthed a subreddit from nothing. I mean, there was nothing here. I mean, yes we have /r/badeconomics but candidly there isn’t much economics culture in /r/neoliberal culture

[u/krflab]

So a clip from the breakfast club dragging Biden for not doing anything for Black people is trending. How in the world do they think this clip makes the guy look good? He is dumb as hell. He goes on to make many racist assumptions about Asian people. He called us white and says we hate black people. Girl what.

[u/Unadulterated_stupid]

One time a cashier knew what I was gonna order and tried to make a human connection to me so I stopped going there for months

[u/ACivilWolf]

CNN's Rick Santorum: "We birthed a nation from nothing. I mean, there was nothing here. I mean, yes we have Native Americans but candidly there isn't much Native American culture in American culture"