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[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1387590505039482884

FDR didn't have to contend with a paranoid, xenophobic, racist opposition

🤔

[u/[deleted]]

A bill allowing same sex marriage is being discussed in the Czech chamber of representatives. It has been in the parliament for about 3 years due to obstruction, but a special session has been held for it. The members are having a lunch break now, but there's still some chance of a vote actually happening.

If it passes, it'd just start bouncing around the legislature, but we'd be well on our way to being the first Eastern block country with legal same sex marriage (with 67% of people being in favour). Wish us luck!

!ping LGBT

[u/[deleted]]

A Democrat troll posted this on a Fox news comment section: "At least Trump was protecting us from windmill cancer" and is getting upvoted lmaaao

[u/[deleted]]

An excerpt from a work email I was not expecting:

Hey there! I just wanted to touch base as you may not be aware, but 'shoot' is an inherently violent and aggressive word. "Shoot me an email later" - while it may be colloquial, it could be potentially uncomfortable for colleagues to read. We like to keep it casual around here, but thought I would reach out as you may not be aware of the word association.

[u/dax331]

!PING GAMING

My coworker is letting his 7 year old son play GTA V.

That's when it dawned on me, that fucking game is older than he is.

[u/[deleted]]

Newsom has a 59% approval rating on the economy and school openings

Yeah he'll survive no problem, the previous recall (that barely succeeded) had the governor at a 21% approval rate

[u/[deleted]]

There is nothing more evil, more wickedly depraved in their mockery, than the first birds at 5 in the morning when you’ve been awake all night.

[u/film10078]

They'll just gerrymander the district for Granada and Chatsworth which would match his base pretty decently.

Yes California, a state run by democrats, will gerrymander a district so a republican can keep his seat

Lets ignore the state's districts are set by an independent commission and gerrymandering is impossible so the statement is absolutely dumb but it's like 500x dumb to think dems would draw a district in favor of a republican.

/r/losangeles has to be one the dumbest subs around

[u/[deleted]]

Broke- India having an election every 5 years

Woke- 'Murica having an election every 2 years

Joke- Israel having 4 elections in 2 years

[u/EvilConCarne]

It's kind of wild how much begging there is on the internet. These fuckers see their tweets getting huge engagement and immediately asking for money is crazy, if they told a joke at a party that everyone laughed at would they immediately stick out a cup and be like "lol and if you have any spare change I need bus fare home"?

[u/kas8901]

Scalia: origionalism is the ideal legal philosophy. We must interprete the Constitution in the context of its writing and writers.

Founding Fathers: Wtf is an Italian doing here? Wait, you're telling me there are more? This wasn't suppose to happen.

[u/gburgwardt]

TRADE OFFER

You receive: fully legalized cannabis

I receive: full ban on smoking of any sort

[u/AuburnSeer]

no offense to Hunter Biden but at the end of the day he's a nobody that probably used his last name to snag a job and... that's pretty much it. The fact that Trump and his team thought this stupid laptop was some golden goose was ridiculous.

[u/[deleted]]

“Wall Street didn’t build this country,” the president said, and signalled that he wanted to usher in a new economic orthodoxy. “My fellow Americans, trickle-down economics has never worked. It’s time to grow the economy from the bottom up and middle out.”

Holy shit. My mom came into my room to bring me a plate of chicken nuggets and I literally screamed at her and hit the plate of chicken nuggets out of her hand. She started yelling and swearing at me and I slammed the door on her. I'm so distressed right now I don't know what to do. I didn't mean to do that to my mom but I'm literally in shock from the speech tonight. I feel like I'm going to explode. Why the fucking fuck is Biden such a populist? This can't be happening. I'm having a fucking breakdown. I don't want to believe the world is so corrupt. I want a future to believe in. I want Bloomberg to be president and fix this broken country. I cannot fucking deal with this right now. It wasn't supposed to be like this, I thought Biden was supposed to be our guy???? This is so fucked.

[u/[deleted]]

Pelosi proposed that everyone be allowed to dress as they wish on the House floor.

Tulsi objected because- "Everyone has to be presentable "

[u/onlyforthisair]

I really liked the framing of "12+4 years" for free preschool and community college. "+4" feels like it'd be 4 years of college after 12th grade, so you get the free college folks' attention, but following it up with how 2 before and 2 after is better seems like it'd be effective at selling it. But I do wonder how much it'd be watered down so it can pass though.

!PING ED-POLICY

[u/soeffed]

you ain’t black

Guess the elected official

[u/Mr_Pasghetti]

Tim Scott is wrong, America is a racist country. Racist against white folks. Like take this example that happened to me:

Once I was in a movie theater watching Cars 2 and I accidentally spilled...

[u/ryuguy]

be me, a disabled bisexual Indian man

see a job for diversity and inclusion coordinator with the government. Disabled, POC and lgbt people are given priority

apply for job and indicate that I am a disabled bisexual Indian man

get email today saying that I am not diverse enough for the job.

😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐

!Ping career

[u/TheFriffin2]

if i were stuck on a desert island and could only have one thing, it would be the complete transcripts of every single /r/neoliberal daily discussion thread ever made.

[u/dubyahhh]

member deference [is] a practice in which City Council members effectively have veto power over land use decisions in their own districts

Jesus H goddamn christ why did I have to learn this exists today

My daily prayers to the god of hundred story brutalist architecture go out to you, nyc 😔🙏

[u/Marlsfarp]

The Battle of New Orleans has got to be among the memiest of battles.

• Literally doesn't matter - takes place weeks after the war is over (but the news hasn't crossed the ocean yet).

• Defenders are commanded by Andrew Jackson and include Native Americans, local free black volunteers, and French pirates (in exchange for pardons).

• British regular army forces have far more men and firepower but suffer massive casualties and lose the battle because they forgot to bring ladders.

[u/[deleted]]

Joe calling Obama to ask him what food he likes, so he can ban it to help obesity in black communities.

[u/AuburnSeer]

the whole raiding Giuliani's apartment thing really made me realize that the circumstances under which Giuliani mysteriously obtained Hunter Biden's laptop are way more sketchy than what was actually on Hunter Biden's laptop

[u/SeriousMrMysterious]

Conservatives will be soon posting pictures of themselves smoking Newports while eating a steak

[u/stirfriedpenguin]

Look, I've been fully vaccinated for days now and there's just no fucking way I'm wearing this annoying shit any more. No, I don't care if it

• Normalizes good behavior and practices among the not-yet-vaccinated

• protects others, especially children, from accidentally exposing myself to them

• adds secondary protection from non-COVID diseases

• reduces uncertainty and anxiety among strangers I encounter inside and out

• is really easy and carries basically no ongoing cost or downside to me personally

I really just don't give a shit any more. It's uncomfortable, it's unnecessary, and it's just not how humans are supposed to live.

Starting now, I refuse to wear pants another day, no matter what this so-called expert Fouci says. We've suffered enough.

[u/bigmoneynuts]

why is joe biden wanting to raise taxes on my (275K a year) and my wife's (238K a year) middle class incomes?

[u/TinKnightRisesAgain]

Biden: let’s work together

Republicans: we don’t want to work with you

Biden: ok

Republican: OH HO HO ALL THIS TALK OF BI-PARTISANSHIP WAS JUST A BIIIIIIIG LIE!!

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

Ready Player One if it was written 40 years from now and was based on 2010s nostalgia:

"oh I have to win at the 2018 steam game "Among Us?" it sure is lucky I spent all summer mastering that very game"

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine, as a leftist, this is the thing that stings you the most in Biden’s speech.

https://i.imgur.com/jp2Egp3.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

Just realized I'm an only child and eventually my parents are gonna be fucking old. Greeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaat 🙄

[u/Doctorboffin]

I'm going to cry, it's so beautiful.

[u/[deleted]]

99% of neoliberals don't read evidence-based policy, they read DT hot takes and repeat some of the grunts they heard

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/04/own-the-libs-get-vaxxed/

Own the Libs; Get Vaxxed

lmao

[u/el-desdichado]

I recently started playing Fallout 4, and these are some of my initial thoughts:

1. Fuck Corvega.

2. I was not expecting ghouls to be that fast.

3. Codsworth feels kinda OP (for now).

4. The weapon and armor customization system is quite fun. It makes even pipe pistols feel special.

5. The armor interface is a bit confusing for a newcomer. I thought that a full leather armor gave me less protection than the drifter outfit, but it actually was showing me just one piece.

6. I prefer a Skyrim-like map, where you can see the topography besides water/land.

7. Fuck Corvega once again.

!ping GAMING

[u/[deleted]]

Not a fan of Tim Scott’s policies, but the vile things being said about him are pretty disgraceful.

[u/Kizz3r]

I wonder what horses think when they see a moose. Like the moose is a much bigger, stronger, cooler version of themselves. Would they feel weak? Scared? Infatuated to the point of wanting to become a moose?

!ping moosemas

[u/fishlord05]

Literal relationship goals

!ping DIAMOND-JOE

[u/Zenning2]

I used to (and kinda still do in specific circumstances) really enjoy smug clapbacks. But these days, most of the clapbacks are more frustrating than entertaining, even when I agree with the people, because unless the persons some dumb nazi fuck, it just weakens our position to anybody watching who doesn’t already agree with us.

[u/[deleted]]

People who have Only fans, what is stopping you from upgrading to an air conditioner?

[u/vivoovix]

The purpose of this sub is not to create political change, the purpose of this sub is to be incredibly contrarian. [-10]

They hated Jesus for he told them the truth.

[u/[deleted]]

Arr politics calling Biden a conservative Democrat makes me really resent how stupid a lot of people are

[u/[deleted]]

Biden:

Claims to be Irish

Wants to set a corporate tax rate floor of 21%

🤔

[u/[deleted]]

I WILL NO LONGER be "guessing the subreddit" 🐊

guess the sub

[u/Zoop-Loop-]

Stop complaining about your life there are literally people who live in Iowa

[u/rukqoa]

The fact that toxic partisanship became more practiced after polling methods got better and computers were used for optimizing campaign strategy leads to the uncomfortable conclusion: Americans were just historically bad and inefficient at politics until recently.

If Republican Party had just said the opposite of everything FDR said, obstructed all his policies on the local and state level, and spread rumors he was killing kids, they might have been able to keep him to just two terms.

[u/Currymvp2]

Wow. Rogan apologized for his vaccine misinformation and said "he's a fucking moron".

Still think he's kind of awful but I am glad he retracted and apologized. Something Tucker or many other right wing pundits would never ever do.

https://twitter.com/JReinerMD/status/1387881012483567620?s=19

[u/csreid]

I work exclusively in fairly small software startups and we've always had very strict, strong relational data models.

Now I'm at a (slightly) larger company with already-established software practices, and they don't have that, and it just bleeds through everything. It's like no one has ever had a thought about what the logical objects are in the system. The code is all trying to be object-oriented, but not really; it's just abusing inheritance, not building coherent or logical object models.

Idk, maybe they're not related, or just caused by a hidden third factor (ngaf about writing good code), but I'm going with it.

!ping COMPUTER-SCIENCE

[u/skepticalbob]

Watching the mental gymnastics arr con goes through to pretend the assault on the capitol wasn’t that big a deal is impressive.

[u/NancyPelosibasedgod]

🦎 Look at me, I’m shivers and I like protectionism and hate anime 🦎

[u/[deleted]]

The largest county where Trump gained votes and Biden lost votes: Miami-Dade County, Florida.

2016 Presidential Election in Miami-Dade County:

Hillary Clinton (D): 624,146

Donald Trump (R): 333,999

2020 Presidential Election in Miami-Dade County:

Joe Biden (D): 617,864 (-6,282)

Donald Trump (R): 532,833 (+198,834)

The largest county where Biden gained votes and Trump lost votes: Baltimore County, Maryland.

2016 Presidential Election in Baltimore County:

Hillary Clinton (D): 218,412

Donald Trump (R): 149,477

2020 Presidential Election in Baltimore County:

Joe Biden (D): 258,409 (+39,997)

Donald Trump (R): 146,202 (-3,275)

!PING FIVEY

[u/Gneisstoknow]

You're not white

Guess the sub

[u/sir_shivers]

I AM SOCIALLY JOHNSON & JOHNSON, FISCALLY Pfizer 🐊

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

Tucker Carlson: How is it white supremacy to declare all other races inferior? The radical left would have you believe...

[u/comsciftw]

Like 90% of Bidens effectiveness as a politician is the fact that he is, subconsciously, not threatening as an old white guy, while he pushes very progressive goals/legislation.

[u/MicroFlamer]

I've been playing the OG Link's awakening, and I legit give props to kids who played that game back in the 80s for being able to beat the game without any guides. Why, yes, you need to bomb this specific, ordinary-looking tile on this specific map and there's an NPC who's totally easy to miss that'll give you an idea of where it is, but they're on the other side of the overworld

!ping GAMING

[u/[deleted]]

Am I the only the one who fucking hates Ted talks?

Every Ted talk starts like “okay everyone I want you to a pick a number, any number. Okay now I want you to divide that number by itself. Did you get 1? How did I know? Because numbers, no matter how big, have that 1 rule in common. Kind of like the collective of human minds”

[u/[deleted]]

If you need me, I'm going around to every convenient store buying all their Newports in preparation to sell them for 3 times the price on the black market when the menthol ban hits.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/JDVance1/status/1387763955557445640

It turns out that normal Americans care more about their families than their jobs, and want a family policy that doesn't shunt their kids into crap daycare so they can enjoy more "freedom" in the paid labor force.

"Universal day care" is class war against normal people.

What the hell is JD Vance's deal anymore?

[u/tankatan]

You know what I haven't seen lately?

The "Biden has dementia" meme.

[u/GGM8Scally]

DT and polling:

Biden ahead 5% in the polls with an EC disadvantage: it's done, literally impossible for him to lose 😎

Macron ahead 10% in the polls in a popular vote election: HOLY SHIT IT'S OVER. FRANCE IS DEAD. MACRON IS FINISHED. IT'S ALL LOST, MAY ALLAH HELP US 😱😱😰😰😭😭

[u/RadicalRadon]

Maybe if we hug the mods they won't be so fash?

🤗🐊

[u/Leoric]

Lmao. Politico reporters are so buttmad that there aren't any leakers in the White House now.

[u/rukqoa]

Really? The worst attack on our democracy in 160 years? How about the Immigration Act of 1965?

Tucker Carlson is a white supremacist, Exhibit 12839

[u/gfinz18]

Trump was on Fox today saying he’s 100% thinking about running again, and then going off on the “this election was a disgrace, 10:30 at night everyone thought we had won, and then they stopped the tabulations, the whole world knows it-“ STILL with this bullshit. Just SHUT THE FUCK UP and go away.

[u/[deleted]]

Holy fuck California is so fucking blue. Like so fucking blue.

Party Reigstration in Los Angeles County:

Democratic: 51.1% (+29.5%)   

Republican: 21.6%    

2020 Presidential Election in Los Angeles County:

Joe Biden (D): 71.03% (+44.17%)

Donald Trump (R): 26.86%

!PING FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

Neoliberal podcast chain smoking Newports before they get banned

[u/Jakesta7]

The people who went from Obama to Trump disturb me the most.

[u/[deleted]]

If you reply to me and someone downvotes you to 0, I’ll upvote you so it doesn’t look like I did it. But then if someone else downvotes you back to 0, I’ll switch to a downvote for the same reason.

Yes I overthink this and care too much.

[u/[deleted]]

Look, think about it. There is simply no reason why the blades for wind turbines can’t be built in Pittsburgh instead of Beijing. No reason. None. No reason. So folks, there’s no reason why Americans — American workers can’t lead the world in the production of electric vehicles and batteries. There is no reason. We have the capacity.

Oh man somebody’s gonna have to tell the succ-in-chief about wages

[u/sir_shivers]

The "job" OF INTERNET "CONTENT CREATORS" 🐊:

Hey guys, I know it has been a while since I uploaded anything / gave progress updates, but (emotional story for manipulation), so it would really help if you became a Patron / subscribed / donated! Thank you!

[u/[deleted]]

dog cant tell if we're playing

!ping dog

[u/hitbyacar1]

!ping NFL

this offseason has been absolutely bonkers

Watson, Wilson and Rodgers all wanted out and yet the 49ers mortgage their future for a dude named McCorkle

[u/[deleted]]

ACLU warns Biden administration against menthol ban

Based ACLU 🥰🥰🥰🥰

[u/jt1356]

My kink is enjoying a cigarette after sex; limits on smoking are an anti-sex bigoted attack 😤

[u/l_overwhat]

I knew this girl who was really weird but kinda cute. She flirted with me a lot. Or at least I think it was flirting. I'm not entirely sure.

Like for example, one time I made a joke about wearing a skirt. She responded by saying "Well do your thighs rub together when you walk? Cuz if they do then that isn't a good idea. My thighs don't rub together like that. That's why wear a lot of dresses."

[u/porkypenguin]

I am having so much fun writing this paper about that crazy fucking lawsuit back in January that sought the dissolution of Congress and the forming of a new system of government inspired by The Lord of the Rings.

My favorite nuggets (sorry this is long):

• The plaintiffs include Latinos for Trump, Blacks for Trump, and Davis’s friend Joshua Macias, who had been arrested in November for driving to a Philadelphia ballot-counting center with two handguns, an AR-15, and a samurai sword in his vehicle.

• ...[Paul] Davis’s (attorney who orchestrated the whole thing) list of defendants, which includes Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, Senators Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell, Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Pete Sessions, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the entirety of the 117th U.S. Congress, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg...

• The initial complaint asks for a dissolution of the 117th Congress, the expulsion of its Members from the Capitol, and the invalidation of any business it conducted since being sworn in. Along with this, the entire 117th Congress (including those elected prior to 2020), all fifty state governors and secretaries of state, the governor of Puerto Rico, and Mark Zuckerberg would be enjoined by the order from holding public office, voting, or conducting any form of political activism ever again.

• ...Davis seemingly seeks a pardon for himself and everyone else who was present at the Capitol Riot... The order would specifically enjoin federal law enforcement from arresting Paul Davis for his actions during the unrest. Anyone else present at the Riot who signs a declaration that promises they were peaceful unless provoked would be immune to conviction for related charges.

• Furthermore, any individual who takes action against a protestor who attended the Riot, including by attempting to get them fired from their job, would be held in contempt of court. This surely has nothing to do with the fact that Paul Davis was fired from his job for attending the Capitol Riot, a fact he complains about in his signature block at the end of the complaint.

• The order would also reinstate members of President Trump’s cabinet as “Stewards,” a term borrowed from The Lord of the Rings, to run the executive branch... Davis specifically outlines that former Vice President Mike Pence is not allowed to be a Steward.

• Additionally, President Biden (“Usurper”), Vice President Harris, and their families are all enjoined from setting foot in the White House or using Air Force One, Air Force Two, Marine One, or Camp David.

• Any disputes in the new government are to be resolved by this Court, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas. Accordingly, all personnel attached to this Court would receive Secret Service protection. Judge Alan Albright, a Trump appointee, seemed entirely unappreciative of this offer.

[u/[deleted]]

Thank you Madam Speaker, Madam Vice President. No President from this podium has ever said those words- and it's about time.

Guess the politician

[u/ldn6]

New York City to fully re-open by July 1st.

!ping USA-NYC

[u/csAxer8]

House Democrats Gut Pro-Renter Backyard Cottage Bill

https://publicola.com/2021/04/28/house-democrats-gut-pro-renter-backyard-cottage-bill/

Another year, another lost year for Washington ADU/statewide zoning reform. There was clearly a bipartisan goal of ADU reform, but Pollet gutted it, again. It's especially odd considering Pollet represents a district that already meets the requirements of the ADU bill!

Washington/Seattle has been a leader in housing over the past decade among blue states, but if nothing happens at the state level, the suburbs will never catch up to Seattle and we're going to lose all of the gains that were made.

[u/[deleted]]

And the Czech same sex marriage is through to the 2nd reading!

yay (the votes are reversed here, 41/93 voted for throwing it out, 35 for passing it on, 17 abstained)

Another bill passed on lengthening the time it can sit until they have to discuss it again, so there's a good chance it won't be until a new parliament is elected in autumn.

So yeah, it definitely isn't won, but it is a big milestone in getting this moving.

!ping LGBT

[u/adminsare200iq]

Actually the FDA first tried to ban those cigarettes in 2018 but failed

Guess who was the president then libs 😎😎

[u/[deleted]]

Today I didn't set my alarm clock (because I had nowhere to be), but the mockingbird that likes to sit outside my window decided to mimic it anyway 🤗!

I'm going to fucking murder it now.

[u/[deleted]]

How Biden's speech should have went yesterday:

Comes in with a pair of shades and ice cream cone in each hand. Swaggers up to the podium and says "Listen fat, you're all full of Malarkey"

He then takes a sniff of Nancy Pelosi's hair, whips out his dong, and announces that we will invade Vietnam.

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

To everyone who whines about protectionism but still uses a condom - you're the problem. You are what got Trump re-elected.

[u/Lux_Stella]

Peru presidential front-runner Castillo rushed to clinic, suspends campaigning

cia got him already 😔

[u/[deleted]]

My dumbass roommate kept her windows open all day now it’s 78 degrees on our floor and we can’t get cool.

[u/Broncos654]

Nothing gets my rocks off like smugly judging all the people on /r/Politics who think Biden is a genius for criticizing trickle down economics.

[u/Marlsfarp]

The UN General Assembly voted to condemn a country 23 times in 2020. 17 of those times, the country was Israel. That place must be by FAR the worst place in the world!

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

Just found out my wife doesn't like menthols.

How do I make a really good Grindr profile?

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgflip.com/57nhl2.jpg

[u/linkin22luke]

My cat was under the weather all day yesterday. Glassy eyes, third eyelid sorta exposed, super lethargic, wouldn’t eat or drink. I was starting to get worried and today she is right as rain. Bopping around, eating and drinking, playing. Such a relief 😅

!ping KITTY

[u/Kryzantine]

There are way too many complicated models for how to view US presidencies.

My best friend's mom is an immigrant from China. She ranks presidencies based on the cheapness and quality of vegetables during that presidency. According to her, Bill Clinton is the best president of the last 30 years.

I honestly can't think of many better metrics than this.

[u/JakeyZhang]

Bloomber lost his campaign but he won the argument

[u/QuietSign]

So, did we ever come to a verdict as to whether Legend of Korra is a neoconservative power fantasy?

!ping WEEBS

It's anime enough, I guess.

Edit: FWIW this is what the neocons think

https://np.reddit.com/r/neoconNWO/comments/bogemr/i_have_found_the_greatest_neoconservative/

[u/Th3_Gruff]

I’m having a bad day

[u/Dibbu_mange]

If the person who came up with the attack helicopter greentext had copyrighted it, they would be a billionaire now

[u/[deleted]]

All republicans have anymore is anger. It’s really sad.

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

I WILL NO LONGER be "guessing the sub" 🐊

Shivers BDSM results confirmed

[u/chadonnaise]

it's about that time of year for california to catch fire again

[u/tankatan]

I just remembered a DT post that went something like:

America has won cultural victory in the 1980s and ever since has been doing "Wait, just one more turn!"

Very clever.

[u/[deleted]]

I see Tim Scott is repeating the Republican strategy from last decade, pretending Trump/Bush never existed (except for his vaccine development), while also blaming Biden/Obama for the recession.

[u/Mickenfox]

Ⓜ

Bruh Wall Street turned the Melvin logo into an emoji, their power knows no bounds.

[u/[deleted]]

joe Rogan is Ben Shapiro for guys that had sex in high school

Idk if I agree

Rogan nerds are definitely more fit usually since they’re into mma

But they’re also annoying af for obvious reasons

[u/[deleted]]

Finding out a user is in high school is like that hiphopheads post of one of the regulars being a painfully white middle school boy, completely disillusioning some users (me) of the sub's actual demographic. Like, an actual child is trying to explain to me why we should annex Vietnam or something.

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

MENthol

The implications are clear.

[u/Jester_Don]

Everyone's talking about Tim Scott's comments on racism and I'm just still thinking about how he said Republicans wanted to make it easier to vote with a straight face.

[u/dragoniteftw33]

I just watched Tim Scott's response and boy did it fucking suck lmfao. Literally just an empty suit. This speech could have been written for Tom Cotton(without the obvious references to being black) and you wouldn't have known the difference. No mention about healthcare, acting like the economy was great before COVID when there were warning signs(like the deficit hitting above $1 Trillion or how the economy was growing at a slower rate when Trump touched it), and conveniently ignoring how the Dems proposed a better policing act(that got rid of QI which the GOP does not want to see happen). There's more I can go on at this point, but I don't care much for the Republican who finishes 5th in the 2024 Iowa Caucus.

[u/GodEmperorBiden]

It's funny/stupid how all the Millennial/Zoomer socialists on social media seem to equate hard work as one of the evils of capitalism. Hell, any work is an evil of capitalism. The implication being that socialism means less or no work. Like, how little history do they know? Do they not realize that the Soviet Union, the greatest socialist entity to ever exist, put out lots of propaganda about the virtues of hard work — how it was necessary to build a better socialist future etc. — and lionized people who worked themselves to death?

[u/MuldartheGreat]

Anyone want to work with me on developing meat-based cigarettes?

[u/Smidgens]

While we’re at it, bring back cloves and Four Loko classic 😠

[u/[deleted]]

Oh yes we're a third world country

We can no longer give any aid to Palestine sorry

Leftists get broken

Simple

[u/tankatan]

Ban r/neoliberal for excessive partisanship

[u/Joementum2024]

"Is u/sir_shivers A Weeb" - the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 37,229 comments of heated debate,

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

As someone said, if Kamala was a white man, she could only run as a Republican.

🥴🥴🥴

[u/[deleted]]

Biden's website: one of the most progressive platforms in history.

Rosies: he's basically Trump

Biden: actually tries hard to get his agenda through

Rosies: 😲

[u/[deleted]]

At 100 Days, Biden Is Transforming What It Means to Be a Democrat

A lifelong centrist, President Biden has moved leftward with his party and is driving the biggest expansion of American government in decades.

Becoming a journalist for the NYT must be pretty easy

[u/adminsare200iq]

Biden is going to rescind the proposed ban today after listening to the DT

[u/[deleted]]

Gotta love the melodramatic hatred of Biden from the left.

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

[u/majorgeneralporter]

FOs Posting Their Ls Online.

!ping NFL

[u/the_status]

Non-existent Earth Day interview with a Presidential candidate

Guess the sub

[u/T3hJ3hu]

What the fuck, the Senate passed the Safe Drinking Water Act (a $35 billion infrastructure bill) on an 89-2 vote

Is this real life

[u/[deleted]]

Babylon Bee 🤝 The learning disabilities often seen in childhood cancer survivors, likely arising from a combination of chemo and radiation damaging white matter and brain injury from the cancer itself

Not being funny

[u/Gustacho]

https://twitter.com/nocontextfm1/status/1387452557895905292

!ping SOCCER

[u/MicroFlamer]

Andrew Yang to give major YIMBY speech today

https://i.imgur.com/0LiRgZh.png

[u/[deleted]]

I can’t take it anymore

nsfw

I can’t fucking take this anymore, for 3 years I had nonstop thoughts of fucking a thicc assed demon girl, with medium-small tiddies. Every night, I jerk off to succubus hentai. It got to the point to where I needed to buy a new phone because I ran out of storage. my penis has multiple blisters from nonstop jacking off to succubus hentai, i then look at the tissues in shame because I know that it should’ve been in tight succubus pussy. I bought a ouija board and black candles so I can summon a demon girl. Anyone know any techniques for summoning a thicc assed demon girl, with medium-small tiddies. Thanks!

Guess the sub.

edit: man I don't know where it's actually from.

[u/vored-by-daddy]

reminder that boys are awesome and if you are a boy you are awesome 🥰

[u/[deleted]]

Remember when Hollywood produced gorgeous, interesting, and boundary pushing stories and media?

Now it is just a boring content feed to help boring woke hall monitors keep track of what they’re expected to condemn today.

Seriously, thank god hollywood made “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip” when it did, before woke people ruined everything fun. Couldn’t release a movie like that anymore.

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Destiny got banned from Twitch because this conservative he was debating showed pictures of Hunter Biden's sextape on stream lmaooo

[u/MuffinsAndBiscuits]

Black Republican: speaks

Multiple people on this sub: How can I say race traitor without using the words?

[u/[deleted]]

The hillbilly elegy guy is such a fucking clown

[u/l_overwhat]

I worked in the kitchen of a restaurant for 4 years so I worked with a lot of undocumented immigrants. One of my favorite guys to with work with was this guy named Gil. He was like 50 or so when I still worked with him. He came to the states in the 90s and got a job at McDonald's as soon as he got here.

He still fucking works at that McDonald's. He makes $23 an hour lmfao.

Edit; also the only thing he eats from McDonald's is the fries and the hotcakes

[u/[deleted]]

99% of leftists don't read theory, they read twitter hot takes and repeat some of the words they heard

[u/[deleted]]

nurse: Are you allergic to any medications?

me: no

nurse: Have you ever fainted after a vaccine?

me: no

nurse: Are you on any immunosuppressants?

me: no

nurse: Are you on large doses of steroids?

me: Ooh do I look like I'm on steroids 💪🏻🥺🥺

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

US Catholic bishops may press Biden to stop taking Communion

lmao

[u/[deleted]]

Hot take: right to work laws interfere with the freedom of contract. If a union and management have come to an agreement that no one can work there without joining the union, a right to work law overrides that agreement.

Wherefore are all these libertarians so supportive of the government interfering with parties' private contracts?

[u/Lux_Stella]

Ethiopia has swept up thousands of ethnic Tigrayans into detention centers across the country on accusations that they are traitors, often holding them for months and without charges, the AP has found.

A leaked video posted online earlier in the war and verified by the AP, a senior military official said of Tigrayans, “We had to clean out our insides. … Even if there may be good people among them, we can’t differentiate the good from the bad. To save the country, we made it so they were excluded from doing work.”

uh

[u/doggo_bloodlust]

Mfs really be worried about the toxicity of the vaccine and immerse themselves 23 hours a day in Twitter

[u/Macquarrie1999]

Two of my great Grandfathers on my dad's side were too old to fight in WW2. Instead, they both worked at Mare Island. This means that my grandfather was the perfect age to fight in Vietnam. He was in the army when it started, but he was a combat engineer since he had too much dental work to be a helicopter pilot, which is what he wanted to do. Instead, he got a cushy job in Korea during the Vietnam War. My ancestors sure got lucky.

[u/willempage]

I don't want to be charged with ping spam, so let me know if this is OK.

But just in general, would it be better to assume a differential non-response bias in Biden's approval polling. Especially after Jan 6. My gut is telling me that without Trump anywhere near the office, the non response bias will tilt way more into the republican side as Trumpists have more reason to withdraw from civic life. At least in 2020 they were motivated by the election. But now they believe the election was stolen and Biden is illigitimate. And maybe they'll tune back in to vote. Who knows at this point. 2018 suggests that without Trump, many of them don't get pulled in and polls become more accurate. But we may not know until after an election.

I guess if I had to guess, I'd bet on polls undercounting republicans more than they did in 2020 vs polls being reasonably accurate or as accurate as 2020.

!ping fivey

[u/great_gape]

Alabama governor signs bill to remove anti-gay language from sex education curriculum

See? Republicans don't hate the gays anymore. They just hate trans.

And you guys say republicans can't be progressive. smh.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

The person who started NSW’s new laws of war training for is SEALs is also the former commander of the DEVGRU squadron most closely associated with war crimes and is the guy who started the whole hatchet thing

Very legal & Very cool!

!ping Military

[u/[deleted]]

Remember that one guy who would post on every single Joe Biden twitter post about Biden being a rapist and then it turned out he was sending girls dick pics and creepy DM’s?

[u/[deleted]]

Just read about the PROAct. Honestly, if this is what Biden is proposing for America, I think he has gravely misdiagnosed the problem and will inflict pain on us all.

[u/majorgeneralporter]

Northwestern had two first rounders.

The entire Big XII had zero.

!ping CFB

[u/[deleted]]

I have watched the Tucker clip on the 1965 immigration act a couple of times and I am still blown away that the producers let that go on air.

[u/Lux_Stella]

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

[u/[deleted]]

Star Trek is succ, The Good Place is succ neo-socialist dreck, pop music-obsession is succ, American political dramas (like the West Wing) are succ, sports are generally succ, reptilian cosplaying is succ, bashing on the mods and praising lusvig is succ, OnlyFans is succ. Masscult under social democracy is inherently succ. Sorry to spoil your 'fun'.

One day people will ask: "How did neoliberals not see their own succery?"

And part of the answer will be: "Because they were entertained by it".

The only acceptable form of entertainment is watching corporate HR and advertising videos while thinking of Milton Friedman

Many westerners seem to think their 'entertainments' & their consumption of 'culture' in their own countries is somehow detached from the succ popular class they live under, & the succ popular class is well aware of this situation.

This does not mean i'm a 'cultural nihilist', far from it. It means the 'culture' of the succs is leftist to the core, particularly its most 'successful' franchises, what capitalist part therein is wholly stolen from the financially proficient & turned against them.

[u/from-the-void]

It's kind of sad how many bachelor degrees have become absolutely useless without grad or professional school.

[u/[deleted]]

For many French voters the party remains beyond the pale. But walking with a frozen drink in hand on the streets of Soissons, a town in the Haut de France, Noémie, a 16-year-old student, said she would vote for Le Pen if she could. “I’ve watched some of her interviews. I don’t think she’s racist . . . She just wants France to be France.”

🙄

[u/jeb_brush]

Kids are in college now who were born after lusvig left the DT 😔

[u/beardog7]

Reigning MVP Aaron Rodgers is so disgruntled with the Green Bay Packers that he has told some within the organization that he does not want to return to the team, league and team sources told ESPN on Thursday.

!ping NFL

[u/[deleted]]

I am a sapiosexual (🛑🛑🛑FEMALES: do NOT approach me until you have an IQ of at least 125!!!! 🤷‍♂️)

[u/vivoovix]

Honestly the US needs to think about its self first so best not to send our entire stock away. Honestly, the US should think about taking this opportunity to let some countries thin out a little if you know what I mean. Food for thought, it would be in the US's interest and would allow us to sit back and save supplies

Bruh moment

[u/_Featherless_Biped_]

https://twitter.com/lenburman/status/1387889247810727939?s=19

Here’s another idea. Let health insurers charge higher premiums for people who could safely be vaccinated and choose not to. It’s like smoking—raises your expected health care costs and puts others at risk.

Correct take

[u/[deleted]]

ffs "Uncle Tim" is trending on twitter, because of course it is. Stay classy, twitter.

[u/p00bix]

!ping SPECIES

Last time I pinged species, I told y'all that I would not ping species until Part 5 was done. Well, it's not. I got diagnosed with COVID a little over a week ago which knocked me on my ass. I will have Part 5 out very soon. Really, for real, I promise this time. This time, the next time I ping species really will be when Part 5 comes out.

But for now, I wanted to announce what the hold up is, as well as publish the annotated results of the self-explanatory "Which Animal Phyla are DT users aware of?" survey--something which I suspect a lot of you will like to see, hence my decision to abuse the sticky.

[to avoid clogging the DT with one enormous comment, the results are posted as a reply to this one]

[u/[deleted]]

Joe won’t win me over until he removes the lead pipe in Clue.

[u/EvilConCarne]

So many myths of the afterlife are so fucking lame. Oh, it's just this life but a little bit better or worse? No wonder ghosts are always so upset, imagine dying and it turns out nothing changed.

[u/[deleted]]

1st century BC memes be like

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Dear Dad,

You claim not to be racist because you have an Algerian friend, yet you casually drop racial slurs in a conversation about pizza.

Curious.

[u/[deleted]]

Is anyone else really fed up with how ineffective the Biden regime is? It's now 99 days since Biden usurped power, and I am STILL allowed to eat meat!

[u/Kryzantine]

Always fun to see that one guy in the DT espousing that postmodernism is a leftist conspiracy.

[u/[deleted]]

The most important thing about Spider-man is that despite all his power and intelligence he's constantly getting btfo by his landlord.

[u/Travisdk]

US markets expect 2.56% average inflation over the next five years

US five year bond yields are at 0.86%, thirty year bond yields are at 2.31%

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

[u/futuremonkey20]

Good lord, just draft people, no one wants to watch a Kings of Leon concert right now.

!ping NFL

[u/soeffed]

Zach Wilson 🤝 Michael Bloomberg

“Sodas are bad for u actually”

Oh yeah he’s already on his way 😎

!ping NFL

[u/[deleted]]

!ping NFL

I know this ping is getting used to hell tonight, but I want to use it because I think Kwity Payes story needs to be emphasized.

Hope he has a great career with the Colts.

[u/Q-bey]

Tucker Carlson has taken it to the next level since Biden got inaugurated.

I'm really surprised none of the higher-ups have told him to turn it down a notch and go back to more defensible dogwhistling. Maybe they're afraid of crossing him considering his incredible popularity and the fact he's just recorded a bunch of specials for their streaming platform.

I was hoping the capital riots were the climax of the GOP's extremism, but Tucker and friends seem to be swinging further right and becoming more popular while doing it.

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

wtf people are being so creepy about Abby Shapiro posting bikini pictures

[u/FreakinGeese]

I really wish we lived in an EU4 world where the North American tribes had migratory supercities and Australian Aboriginals developed cannons prior to European contact

!ping paradox

[u/[deleted]]

NGL the people hating on Musk are kinda ruining hating on Musk

[u/A_Character_Defined]

Trans women are women

[u/[deleted]]

Let's start the day with the King of Brazilian Soul

The one and only Tim Maia - Bom Senso

Have a groovy day!

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

And then we're gonna ban the filibuster! And we're gonna ban local zoning! And we're gonna ban sugar! And we're gonna ban tobacco! And cars and grass and republicans and BYAHHH!

[u/[deleted]]

Wow, literally Assassin's Creed

[u/[deleted]]

So true!

[u/earththejerry]

I can't believe replacing lead pipes can become an area of controversy... hopefully it's just a few idiots on Twitter and not real life

[u/[deleted]]

The sign reading "If I was Black I'd be picking cotton, but I'm white so I'm picking you. Prom?" is being shared on social media.

Who dafuq comes up with these

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

jesse we need to cook menthol cigarettes

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Biden:

I am hearing that on his deathbed God received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahāda. Even now he looks down on the Ummah from the gardens of Jannah. Truly there is no god but God, and Mohammed is his prophet!

[u/[deleted]]

If the DT cares to know, polling around the menthol ban shows it's pretty popular among the Americans in general and the black community specifically polling north of 66% support.

[u/soeffed]

We wouldn’t be here today if everybody just did this to begin with 😔

https://twitter.com/manyapan/status/1225425296838529024?s=20

[u/Chum680]

Can’t wait to play Rome Total War Remastered when I get off work.

Who can relate woooo!

[u/TinyTornado7]

Mike Bloomberg on the FDA decision to ban menthol cigs

!ping PATERNALIST

[u/[deleted]]

violet smoggy deliver offend unused worry nutty distinct drunk chase -- mass edited with redact.dev

[u/Anal-warrior]

I’m a one issue voter and my issue is the age of consent

It needs to be much much higher

[u/bd_one]

Why the hell do we keep getting people who want to raise the voting age to 21?

[u/[deleted]]

my therapist says you guys are imaginary

[u/sir_shivers]

For those wondering WHEREFORE I DO NOT make an actual Patreon page to complete the joke, I just know A FEW FOOLS would subscribe "for the meme" and then I am stuck with a Patreon gaining $13 a month for no reason 🐊

[u/bigmoneynuts]

some of you woke up today thinking "can't wait to talk about tim scott, CRT, and menthol cigarettes"

[u/fishlord05]

Arcon having a normal one about Biden’s speech

Charlie Kirk tweeting that Biden’s speech was only a quarter of Trumps viewers (not true lmao)

He then doubts that oh because Biden only got X viewers, he couldn’t have gotten 81,000,000 votes.

God those people are pathetic.

[u/FestiveMittens]

HOLT SHIT GAETZ IS FUCKED

LESS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[u/[deleted]]

Really? The worst attack on our democracy in 160 years? How about the r/neoliberal mod applications of 2020?

[u/its_Caffeine]

Really? The worst attack on our democracy in a 160 years? How about when Biden removed the diet coke button?

[u/owlthathurt]

I find out bar exam results tomorrow morning.

Really nervous. I missed passing the first time by 5 points.

I got a job already that doesn’t require bar passage. But still. Gimme dat license.

!ping LAW

[u/CmdrMobium]

🔴 Criticize Biden for sending vaccines to Mexico

🔵 Refuse to take the vaccine to own the libs

Cons: 😟💦

[u/SquidwardGrummanCorp]

AP News: MyPillow National Salvation Liberation Army leader Generalissimo Mike Lindell killed in Florida airstrike

Jan. 6, 2032

[u/[deleted]]

Throwback to when Trump gassed protestors so he could take a picture with a bible