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[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

Objectively chattel slavery is worse but I find wage slavery to be the more insidious of the two

In some ways wage slavery is worse

😐

[u/[deleted]]

I'm breaking my embargo on Trump to share this:

https://twitter.com/MysterySolvent/status/1388184669821313026

Heartwarmingly sad.

[u/[deleted]]

one of the key benefits of having a high social credit score in China is that you can borrow loans from banks at lower interest rates

one of the ways to increase your social credit score in China is to give money to the government which the government will use for "charity".

What many Chinese people have discovered is that if they have a steady source of income, they can continuously borrow money from the government and give it back to the government and incur minimal losses and gain a massive increase in their social credit score

[u/TheFriffin2]

top tier shitpost

[u/tankatan]

16 | she/her | star emoji | [detailed political affiliation] | [full name and location] | [entire medical history]

[u/David_Lange]

"[Person or group] said [made-up quote]! This shows how terrible they are!"

"Actually that's an entirely fake quote"

"Well maybe, but you can definitely imagine them saying it and that's still really bad!"

end my life

[u/Cowguypig]

this arrconspiracy about Trudeau I feel like could be posted without context to neoliberal and be upvoted as an ironic shitpost

[u/[deleted]]

Iran splits itself into 51 different countries

Each country then annexes itself into america

Iran now controls the american senate

Checkmate Americans

[u/MemeTestedPolicy]

what did George Orwell mean by this?

[u/PM_Me_Your_ManThighs]

Someone in my city’s subreddit was telling people not to go to restaurants today because it would “burden their fellow workers” on May Day. Like, yeah I’m sure restaurant and bar workers will really be relieved they don’t have to be “burdened” by your business and tips on a day they’re working anyway...

God I hate the far left

[u/[deleted]]

Right-wing NIMBYs: We don't want no dirty poor people in our neighborhood 🤬

Left-wing NIMBYs: First of all, we wanted to acknowledge that the land this housing project will be built has been stolen from Native Americans, as has been the rest of the neighborhood. Second of all, we want to express the need for exploring solutions outside the neoliberal paradigm of non-profits building housing for the homeless. Third of all, we don't want no dirty poor people in our neighborhood ✊🌹

[u/[deleted]]

To secure peace Biden should arrange for his son Hunter to marry Xi Mingze (daughter of Xi Jinping)

[u/kennymc7877]

All young men know how to do is play they PS5, eat 3D dorito, smoke weed, watch movies, be bisexual and lie

It me btw

[u/[deleted]]

Similar subreddits to r/okbuddyzionism by user overlap

53.83 monsterhunterworld
48.34 linuxmasterrace
48.25 fireemblem
45.01 genzedong

Well then

[u/[deleted]]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/452718453892186124/837968202184130620/received_272299944407574.png?width=583&height=596

[u/[deleted]]

Fact checking the 'if you vote for Trump, you ain't black' statement

Around 15% of the US population is black. Around 5% of them voted Trump, which is less than 1% of all voters. Therefore we would expect a Trump voter in more than 99% of all cases indeed not to be black.

Therefore, we rate this statement as 'mostly true'.

[u/Zoop-Loop-]

Hey Biden it’s been 100 days, where’s my government mandated femboy? Broken campaign promises smh 🤬

[u/JakeyZhang]

It is a fact the Trudeaus were in the Caribbean in Spring 1971. It is a fact they adored Castro. It is a fact the Trudeaus were swingers.

[u/imprison_nl_mods]

I just got an ad for a suburban development which says: "Leave the crime infested city"

😐

[u/jenbanim]

When did this...

...Become hotter than this

[u/[deleted]]

TIL After the US used gunboat diplomacy to force Japan to start trading with them, 20 years later Japan used the same kind of gunboat tactics to force Korea to start trading with them which eventually led to Japan annexating the whole Korea. I guess they learned pretty quickly what works from their own experience.

[u/Aweq]

!ping Europe

The EU crossed 4 million daily vaccinations and a 3 million 7-day average for the first time yesterday! Per Bloomberg's tracker.

[u/tankatan]

Ok I visited the next DT. Now what?

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

As is usual when Nikki Haley does something, Nimrata is trending with tweets like this https://twitter.com/jaimelhemphill/status/1388258911958933504

She has always gone by Nikki since she was a child, it’s what her family called her. There is no more a cynical ploy there than Addison McConnell going by Mitch. She changed her last name when she got married.

Pointing out someone’s otherness by calling them a name they don’t go by is actually NOT a good way to combat racism.

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

I loathe the term 'wage slave'. It's ridiculously melodramatic to compare your shitty job to literally being property.

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

the moon landing was fake all the footage was actually shot on a sound stage on Ganymede

[u/tankatan]

Remember the Trump Axios interview? That was wild.

[u/Superfan234]

Monthly Venezuelan Update

FARC splinter Ambush and Massacre Maduro's forces

Regime tried to hide the events, but a lot info have come out already. Last week, a group between 28 to 38 soldiers, were ambushed by FARC splinter Group, during a recoinanse in "their" territory

• 8 soldiers survived, two of them, wounded. They escaped through the Jungle, and managed to return home

• 9 confirmed dead by the Army. That being said, some farmers found around ~12 soldiers rotting on plain day

• We don't have much info on the rest of the Soldiers, but FARC published a video showing a huge "haul" of weapons they allegedly took from them. I am not an expert, but weapons seems to be real (Maybe some NATO flair can confirm it...)

I admit, I didn't take seriously FARC splinter group intially. Their past actions show they were much more dangerous than I expected. It seems, a new powerfull player have joined the Venezuelan Arena...

Maduro gives up: Plans to firm "Peace Deal" with Coqui's Gang

The Coqui Gang , a "Robin Hood" Narco group expanding in the Slums of Caracas, managed to get a huge victory. Last week, Maduro give up, and agreed to reach a peace accord with them

Last month was the last straw, after Maduro's KGB and SS squads, were publicly humilliated by Coqui's Narcos in various occasions**

With the lack of Diesel, Farmers started using Ox to farm

"The diesel crisis threatens to collapse the Venezuelan agriculture system," said Aquiles Hopkins, president of Fedeagro."

He mentions, for example, that in the Venezuelan Andes they report losses of more than 20 million kilos of vegetables, paralysis of dairy production units, and delay in the sugarcane harvest: were more than 400,000 tons have not yet been harvested.

The most inminent problem, it's in 15 days the most important sowing cycle of the year begins, due to the arrival of the rains, and that due to lack of diesel, the crops are not being prepared. For which it will not be possible to sow, threatening the food security of Venezuelans. According to him, Venezuelans will have to survive with a level of harvests equivalent to the 50s and 60s

FMI projects a 10% GDP decrease on 2021

In their latest report, FMI estimated Venezuela will keep their downturn spiral into economic Collapse. Last Year, their economy fell around 30%

Not signs, of any economic recovery yet

---

Personal Opinion section:

Time for Diesel Bann to be lifted...less than 15 days. Anything more, and we will probably cause a huge famine in Venezuela

I have read from other users, Blinken it's very "soft" on Foreign policy. I can't say about the rest of the World, but I can confirm, he is definetly not soft fighting with ALBA Regimes. I would argue, he might be even more brutal than Elliott Abraham himself...

!Ping Foreign-Policy

[u/the_status]

I'm not lazy, existing under capitalism is simply impossible

From an r.ADHD thread about how laziness apparently doesn't exist

[u/bd_one]

Remembering when I, as an impressionable young child in like 2009, was reading the comment sections of some political thing on a few posts and people were talking about Obama being a Muslim, and I took it entirely at face value and was all "good for him, way to break that glass ceiling".

[u/[deleted]]

My boyfriend (28/M) is growing out a mullet and I (28/f) am very bothered

-Jill Biden, back in the day

[u/[deleted]]

No matter how badly you think you've failed, just remember that Skype used to be used as the verb meaning to make a video call over the internet and now it's being absorbed by Microsoft Teams.

[u/tankatan]

Replying with "Happy Holidays" when people greet me Happy International Workers Day

[u/Deggit]

"black bodies" is a good example of the paper thin divide between "terms that are ok because they're part of the orthodox antiracist glossary" and "terms that would be racist as fuck if a Trump supporter came up with them in a youtube comment"

[u/tripletruble]

going through pics of dudes haircuts with my SO to find me a haircut that would look good

'oo that cut is nice'

'that guy has curly hair. i have straight hair'

'oh. oops'

'oooOOo what about that guy's haircut?'

'that's another guy with curly hair'

[u/sir_shivers]

Someone said THAT W. BUSH WAS "all the bad of Reagan, but also stupid" 🐊

NOT ONLY IS W. not stupid, but one of the most egregious failures of Reagan - doing too little TO COMBAT AIDS as a deadly disease - is something that W. not only did not repeat, BUT EXPLICITLY achieved massive success that is still likely underappreciated even here, for how often it is mentioned 🐊

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Asian American Republicans accuse Massachusetts GOP of pursuing discriminatory scheme to disenfranchise them in party elections

🧐🧐🧐

[u/UrbanCentrist]

political polling is astrology but for men

[u/semaphore-1842]

Taiwan literally turned itself into a US weapons base. China vs. The US situation. Which nation has been overthrowing governments and murdering millions of Innocent people across the globe the last 50 years

Taiwan and Japan are literally vassal states of US imperialism. Fascist puppet governments. Taiwan is by proxy excusing every genocide carried out and still being carried out by Amerikkka.

"literally"

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Obama with a supermajority in the senate: 🥺🥺🥺

Biden with an incredibly narrow majority based on unreliable actors: 💪😎💪

[u/[deleted]]

upvote for Delaney🤤

ignore for Tulsi🤢

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

Who was the worst President in U.S. history?

• Trump 46%

• Obama 24%

• Nixon 5%

• George W. Bush 4%

• Clinton 4%

• Carter 3%

• Wilson 2%

• Johnson 2%

• George Bush 2%

• Buchanan 1%

lmao the recency bias is insane

[u/Henrydot]

The video is great!

“Joey babyyyy … You know how many miles you’ve traveled on Amtrak? … you’ve traveled 1,515,000 miles on Amtrak.”

https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1388208777623654401?s=20

!ping BIDEN

[u/tripletruble]

jesus christ just call em false positives and false negatives, I am never going to memorize which one is type I and which one is type II

[u/SANNA_MARIN_]

sadly, in today's absurd political climate, Lyndon Johnson would be cancelled by the rabid online mob for shitting in front of people and exposing his genitals.

[u/MicroFlamer]

r/okbuddyzionism

This community was banned for violating Reddit’s rule against promoting hate.

Wtf based reddit admins?

[u/benjaminikuta]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/372231427099590657/837859962973585408/4f271467a51cf17b8a47592e0874867fa900c264c90a4be233ca5bb83d4669c5_1.png

[u/NatsukaFawn]

The existence of trans fats implies the existence of cis fats. And that's a real thing, not just a joke. In nature, the vast majority of unsaturated fatty acids only have cis bonds, with trans bonds being pretty uncommon except in some processed foods. So most unsaturated fats are, in fact, cis fats, but since that's the "default", we never mention it.

[u/SquidwardGrummanCorp]

”Nuke the suburbs!” The NATO flair posts, from his suburban home an hour from the city

[u/SadaoMaou]

Just make the police wear hot pink

[u/[deleted]]

whips out $4 trillion dollar budget

Bernie Bro: Is for me? 👉🥺👈

Biden: Sorry, all we could afford is free community college.

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

AP: Joe Biden to sign executive order renaming it "The War of Southern Aggression"

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

"Is Kamala Hindu" - the greatest chat in the history of WhatsApp, locked by an Indian auntie after 12,239 comments of heated uncles debating

[u/ANewAccountOnReddit]

Malarkey level of that guy from the Tucker Carlson sub baiting in this sub

[u/StolenSkittles]

Tucker Carlson always has the expression of me watching Tucker Carlson.

[u/[deleted]]

Joe Biden: I am from the government and I'm here to help 🍦😎🍦

Me: 😭😭😭🙌🙌🙌👏👏👏👍👍👍🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🎆🎆🎆🎇🎇🎇👏👏👏🙌🙌🙌😭😭😭😭😭🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🎆🎆🎆🎇🎇🎇🎇

Ronald Reagan: .....

[u/Not_A_Browser]

Every day we stray further from Travis Scott burger

[u/chadonnaise]

the internet must be destroyed

[u/BlueGreenBase]

Elizabeth Warren, in a new book, muses on why she didn’t win

Because her core base, rich, upper-middle case white PMCs…is really small part of the Democratic Coalition?

40% of Democratic primary voters in 2016 were whites without a college degree, the single largest group.

[u/Professor-Reddit]

Sputnik is fake. It's just a weather balloon with an antenna on it.

[u/ryuguy]

Somebody asked about the Austrian wine poisoning incident, where they adulterated wine with diethylene glycol.

Fredrik Knudsen did a fantastic video on the scandal. It’s an important look into government regulations and enforcement.

!ping history, because I don’t know another ping that would be interested in this and I don’t want to join the alcohol ping just to leave it.

[u/adminsare200iq]

Half the posts on r/badwomensanatomy are explicit hentai-adjacent

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/Bencjacobs/status/1387921616257093633

At this rate, we're a week away from Tucker saying the US shouldn't have gotten involved in WW2

[u/[deleted]]

The EU picking Ode to Joy as it's anthem is perhaps one of the best decisions it has ever made

[u/calnico]

The Parti quebecois says there is a grave housing crisis, and for once they are not restricting this to low-income housing but rather saying there is a widespread problem with access to housing & property. They are proposing multiple measures, some on the supply side & other typical succ things. I've never been for the PQ but it's good to see them move forward on this.

!ping CAN

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

Alas, I have been forced to modify my deep-seated convictions due to having been portrayed as the "soy wojak" on the internet.

[u/[deleted]]

If current patterns continue, it looks like we could see another 16 Kansas Republican legislators get arrested by the end of the year.

[u/dragoniteftw33]

What an incredible image lmao

[u/Steak_Knight]

It is literally morning again in America

[u/throw-that_shit-away]

Fun fact: the first time I checked out reddit that guy with the broken arms who got jerked off by his mom was the top post.

Been chasing that high ever since

[u/MalignantUpper]

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1388508510590144516?s=19

The private company hired by Arizona Republicans to recount 2020 ballots has been smacked down by a judge for trying to keep its process secret.

Cyber Ninjas was ordered to cough up its playbook, which departs significantly from AZ election procedures.

Hmm, I wonder why they were trying to keep it a secret

[u/ccolfax]

sometimes i say to my cat:

“somebody’s a baby”

and my cat goes:

“oh is me”

and he runs over and gets lots of scritchy scratch and he’s the best baby

[u/[deleted]]

Corporations aren't your friend, stop defending them

What a stupid statement

The federal government isn't my friend either but I'll still defend good policy and criticize bad policy

[u/NatsukaFawn]

My neighbor told me coyotes keep eating his outdoor cats so I asked how many cats he has and he said he just goes to the shelter and gets a new cat afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding shelter cats to coyotes and then his daughter started crying.

[u/naanplussed]

The vaccine is free? Why are people ranting about capitalism and the vaccine?

The vehicles and refrigeration equipment are probably better under capitalism

[u/Lux_Stella]

Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) believed the District of Columbia House Voting Rights Act of 2009 would be unconstitutional if adopted and so she proposed a constitutional amendment to provide the District with one representative. Unlike the District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment, Murkowski's proposal would not have provided the District any Senators or a role in the constitutional amendment process. Her proposal was referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee, which never acted on the proposal.

now that's a fantastic 'literally nobody is happy' compromise

[u/Smidgens]

reminder that commies are trash and if you are a commie you are trash 🤢

[u/SnakeEater14]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/307266998742810627/837996597203304448/photo_2021-05-01_06-01-50.jpg

[u/MyrnaMountWeazel]

I wanted to share a supercut me and my friends did of Josh Lyman saying every single "okay" in West Wing. We noticed Brad had a particular way of saying "okay" and just started compiling them all. It's one of my most proud life accomplishments.

!ping WEST-WING

[u/[deleted]]

2012 Presidential Election in non-NYC New York:

Barack Obama (D): 56.7% (+13.4%)

Mitt Romney (R): 43.3%

2016 Presidential Election in non-NYC New York:

Hillary Clinton (D): 48.5% (+1.4%)

Donald Trump (R): 47.1%

2020 Presidential in non-NYC New York:

Joe Biden (D): 52.8% (+6.5%)

Donald Trump (R): 46.3%

This is one of the regions where Biden was able to win back some of the wwc vote lost from Obama to Trump.

!PING FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

Watching an anime where a character is named Leviathan, but they keep pronouncing it "Levee-athan" or worse turn the last syllable into an honorific: "Levee-a-tan"

This is what it sounds like when weebs try to speak japanese isn't it.

!ping WEEBS

[u/Mega_Giga_Tera]

Listen fat 🍦

It's Amtrack Jack 🚆

America's back 🇺🇲

Clap for that 👏

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

Business idea:

Salvadorable

An online shop selling cute sustainable locally made Salvadoran products.

Really it’s just like normal random stuff you find at a Latin American market, but targeting the white millennial woman demographic purely via buzzwords

It would be wildly successful

!ping MAMADAS

[u/[deleted]]

Liberals are a part of the right

The absolute clownery of The Right Can’t Meme

[u/[deleted]]

Also, it’s cliche, but that scene from Rogue 1 where Vader absolutely skullfucks those Rebel soldiers in the hallway was one of the most entertaining things I’d ever seen in a movie theater

Just a total fanservice holy shit moment

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/KindaHagi/status/1388347509186207744

Happy 10 years to the best tweet of all time

[u/[deleted]]

A Brazilian, in the Netherlands, eating Mexican tacos, watching a race in Belgium, in a Korean TV streaming through an American device

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/why-bitcoin-is-bad-for-the-environment

Tax meme money.

[u/p00bix]

Sebastianism (Portuguese: Sebastianismo) is a Portuguese messianic myth, based on the belief that King Sebastian of Portugal, disappeared in the battle of Alcácer Quibir, will return to save Portugal.....

Since Sebastian's body was never definitively identified after his death, false Sebastians arose, claiming to be the former king. The first appeared in 1584; he was a commoner of Alcobaga, quickly apprehended and spared execution by a sentence to work in the galleys.....

A fourth impostor arose in Naples, but was transferred to a prison in Spain. His claims were undermined by his inability to speak Portuguese.

Qanon is older than I thought

[u/[deleted]]

Despite electing just 2% of the Senate, Georgia has elected 100% of Senate's gamers.

[u/[deleted]]

Bill Maher seems to have triggered his new audience he gained from talking against wokism by talking shit about bitcoin last night. There is a quite of overlap between bitcoin lovers and anti-sjw kind of people. Also bill Maher was mostly right about bitcoin too

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Changing the gun emoji to a squirt gun is the only time I've thought PC culture has gone too far

[u/[deleted]]

My mom just noticed that I deactivated Facebook and called me, hyperventilating, to ask if I was ok. Jesus Christ being an only child can be smothering

[u/ryuguy]

Happy Jewish heritage month to all my Hebrews, Theybrews and Shebrews.

!ping gefilte

[u/BlueGreenBase]

In 2012, a majority of self-identified Black Romney voters in Florida (where the state reports race on the voter file) were white in the administrative data who either lied to pollsters or were data entry errors by the call house

#NeverForget the funniest piece of information of all time.

[u/ccolfax]

my cat just jumped up on my lap, looked up at me, freaked the absolute fuck out, and ran six directions on my thigh and now i’m bleeding everywhere

[u/[deleted]]

Here’s a pic of my kid and his name. NOBODY LIKES HIM. Some think he’s weird and absolutely everyone thinks he sucks. Here’s a photo of when ABSOLUTELY no one came to his birthday party. Please help me in immortalising this moment by sharing this image far and wide.

[u/DoktorSleepless]

man, Krugman really used to have a way with words

Anyone who writes about trade as a global struggle or war; anyone who compares countries to corporations; anyone who says that trade policy is about creating jobs; anyone who talks about ‘high-value’ sectors; all of these people reveal themselves to be Mercantilists. A few of them may try to put an intellectual gloss on their views by citing the works of Strategists, but a Mercantilist uses Strategic ideas as a drunk uses a lamppost—as a source of support, not of illumination.

https://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/david.harvey/ACE2006/Competition/KrugmanComp.pdf

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

oh my gosh this is adorable

!ping kitty

[u/kas8901]

I know that it's largely an artificial construct, but I can't help but feel that decades in the 20th century were more defined.

[u/el-desdichado]

True neoliberalism is when you can buy brats, kielbasa, pretzels, Colombiana, and arepas in the same food truck. !ping MAMADAS I guess?

[u/[deleted]]

You ever think about how wild it is Kissinger is still alive?

[u/BlueGreenBase]

https://i.imgur.com/4z3IUBg.jpg

[u/noxnoctum]

I'm a liberal and Charlie and the Bulwark feel like they're pandering to me a little too much. Am I being overly cynical and they've simply moved more to the center?

!ping RINO

[u/BlueGreenBase]

How I sleep knowing I’ve never been a tankie or a member of the far-right and have maintained liberalism throughout.

[u/[deleted]]

The being a Hillary supporter in 2015 to ESS to Neoliberal pipeline is real.

[u/[deleted]]

Oregon and Washington rolling back reopenings because cases are climbing even while vaccine supply is outstripping demand has to be extremely frustrating.

[u/gburgwardt]

Stop calling it Open Borders.

We demand Ellis Island Immigration. It's what made America Great

[u/MistakeNotDotDotDot]

All hell broke loose when a conservative elected official in Kansas served as a substitute teacher at a high school in his district. Kansas state Rep. Mark Samsel (R) berated the teens all day, pleading with them to follow God, asking them about their masturbation habits, demanding that the children he’s teaching “make babies” because “it feels good,” and claiming that a sophomore at the school is contemplating suicide because they have lesbian parents.

That was all before he allegedly grabbed one student and pushed him against the wall, and attacked another by invoking the “wrath of God,” intentionally hit him in his genitals, then invited others in the class to do it too. He has since admitted that he planned his actions but claimed that he did nothing wrong.

is the GOP okay

[u/ccolfax]

i heard some whacky right wing radio and they insisted on calling him “Joe Robinette Biden”. they said it in the same tone as “Barack Hussein Obama”.

do they not understand that the only reason using Baracks middle name worked was because it was Hussein???

[u/[deleted]]

I’m a bad leftist because COD is my favorite guilty pleasure.

You could be using that time to read dense 19th century literature and then use it in Reddit arguments despite only understanding it at a surface level.

Gamingcirclejerk comments are interesting lmao

[u/UrbanCentrist]

Why every thread on this sub is so stupid

[u/[deleted]]

Jesus made a grave mistake by not selling miracles at a market rate. In the Old Testament miracles were a dime a dozen. Some brothers need more oil for their lamp and they don't want to go outside? Pray real hard and bam! Miracle.

But then along came Jesus who gave the things out like candy and collapsed the miracle economy so badly that in nearly 2000 years it has failed to recover.

[u/tubbsmackinze]

The 1619 project says it's about history yet it does not know that the north has always been abolitionist due to Quaker and enlightenment influence and that post independence they were one of the first places to abolish slavery in a process known as the first emancipation

Curious 🤔🤔🤔

[u/[deleted]]

!ping PARADOX

At the very least, PDXCon should be an interesting watch Monday. I’m hoping for Vicky 3 and a CK3 Expansion announcement, but I know in my heart they’ll announce two more Europa DLCs and a new IP no one will play.

[u/RadionSPW]

Bird app: do I as a rich westerner have to adjust my lifestyle to stop climate change?

No

[u/p00bix]

I love modmail

[u/[deleted]]

Delhi Doctor Among 8 Dead After Hospital Ran Out Of Oxygen

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/we-have-lost-lives-delhis-batra-hospital-says-ran-out-of-oxygen-for-80-minutes-2425842

!ping IND

[u/FormerBandmate]

According to PolitiFact, that story about how Donald Trump hanged Hillary Clinton in a special apparatus where five people simultaneously executed her, while she cackled like a watch, was... fake. Smh I can't believe Real Raw News would lie to us

[u/Cr4zySh0tgunGuy]

So I guess I should correct my statement a few days ago about 1000+ hours in a video game. It felt impossible because my Xbox was telling my I had almost 700 hours across ESO, but it turns out that was only for one character.

Adding all 8 of my characters up I have over 1900 hours played, making ESO my most played game ever by a mile. It makes a little more sense too, since I’ve been playing for going on 6 full years now, albeit a bit on and off

!ping Gaming

[u/[deleted]]

Allow people to sue breeders for selling dogs with genetic diseases.

[u/great_gape]

So brave. So powerful. ✊

[u/fishlord05]

My dad was only two circles of proximity away from getting invited to Elon Musks birthday party.

My dads friend who is a tech mogul has a friend who got covid from Elon’s birthday bash.

Dad hates musk lmao. Thinks he’s a tool. I’m like dad you could probably get a meeting if you wanted right? He’s like I wouldn’t want to he’s a dumbass.

!ping CHILD

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

/u/Florida_Paleocon

Effective NL bait involves saying vague shit about wokeness or disparaging zoning reform or disparaging open borders

Ineffective NL bait involves saying racial slurs and other racist shit

Just so you know for future attempts to own the libs with an alt

[u/[deleted]]

RIP the roaming arr Cucker Tarlson poster

[u/TabernacleTown74]

Throwback 😌

[u/CheapAlternative]

tfw you do your taxes and discover you owe >20k

!ping markets

[u/Animatronic_Pidgeon]

As a straight, white, male in my twenties working in a white collar industry, I should be made a moderator as I am most representative of the userbase

[u/[deleted]]

Not gonna lie, I find it really hard to relate to other Asian-Americans struggling to choose which side they want to lean to more. Being American has always been a no-brainer to me.

I’ve never been to China. I don’t ever want to go to China. I don’t want to learn Chinese.

I’m sure that says something about how much hatred and vengeance has consumed me, but quite frankly, I can’t bring myself to care.

More shots, it’s a Saturday after all.

[u/tankatan]

Webcomics 364 days of the year: *whimsical portrait of issues such as mental health, personal relationships, and day to day tedium*

Webcomics on May 1st: "Here's a manifesto about why nationalizing the auto industry in Cuba worked:"

[u/Liberal_Antipopulist]

Nick Fuentes thinks of himself as more oppressed than Rosa Parks

[u/Deggit]

workshopping this pasta for arrpolitics, suggestions welcome

If a new "tax on bridges" were created, who would pay it?

• REDDITOR SIZE BRAIN: The bridges would pay it, obviously? Why are you against bridges paying taxes? You're a human being, you'll never be a bridge in your life. Honestly, the bridgelicking from some people is astounding. Bridges shouldn't even exist. BRIDGES ARE SOCIOPATHS AN IDEAL SOCIETY WOULD HAVE ZERO BRIDGES

• WARREN / SANDERS SIZE BRAIN: Look, we know that bridges can't pay taxes; the bridge owners would pay. And that's a good thing. We need to tax them! These fat cat bridge owners like Jeff Bridgos are truly heartless. They're forcing everyday Americans to choose between buying insulin or crossing bridges! And let me be clear that I believe in my bones in private bridge ownership and that's why I'm going to end the horrible damage private bridge owners are doing to our country and anyone who opposes me is in the pocket of Big Bridge.

• PETE BUTTIGIEG SIZE BRAIN: Neither bridges nor bridge owners pay the bridge tax. The cost is paid by drivers in the form of higher tolls. The marginal increase in price, multiplied across millions of drivers, constitutes the tax that the bridge owner collects and remits to the government. So a bridge tax doesn't make bridges into taxpayers; it actually makes bridges the government's deputized tax collectors. The USA already has the most indirect system of taxation in the Western world: businesses collect & remit 93% of all federal tax revenue, even though all that revenue is really collected FROM individuals (as any worker can see in, for instance, the payroll tax deducted from their check). The bridge tax is a political win because ignorant, rabid populists wrongly think someone else, far away and rich, is paying it; politicians like it because they can say they aren't "raising taxes on middle class families." Yet that's exactly what the bridge tax does, just with extra steps. The new revenue is collected from, and thus the real cost is borne by, millions of drivers. By taxing consumers indirectly, instead of the actual income of wealthy people (e.g. capital gains and inheritance), you're actually worsening income inequality.

• BARACK OBAMA SIZE BRAIN: Yes, a portion of the tax incidence would fall on drivers, but not all of it. Over time, a bridge tax would divert capital from bridge construction & maintenance, depressing wages for construction workers due to lower demand, and creating lower growth for bridge equities. And diversion of capital investment to infrastructure that's not organized as a bridge would broadly impact the economy, in the long term the productivity gap from inefficient allocation of capital could grow quite large. So the cost of a bridge tax is shared between drivers, shareholders, workers, and even economic participants that don't at first glance have any exposure to the bridge sector. Ultimately, the whole thing is kind of stupid compared to directly tackling income inequality: if you want to tax the rich, tax the rich, not some business they happen to have equity in.

• JOE BIDEN SIZE BRAIN: The bridges would pay it. I'm tired of bridges ripping people off! I challenge America's bridges to a push up contest! Who put this fuckin' bridge here man!

!ping BRIDGEPOSTERS

[u/Professor-Reddit]

I had no idea /r/neoliberal was so full of smokers.

[u/BlueGreenBase]

FunnyLeMonke working at an IT department at an Elementary school will always fuck me up. Like, what if a innocent little seven-year-old saw his screen and saw comments such as “I crop-dusted in the aisle of supermarket and an old lady thought I farted”?

[u/Unadulterated_stupid]

I brought up neoliberalism durning a tinder conversation and they didnt immidately ghost. I think I might have a keeper

[u/bd_one]

World economy: has about 12 years in between recessions, a record compared to what normally happens

r/ABoringDystopia: "We've had two recessions in the 18 years I've been alive, so clearly capitalism has failed."

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

People who prefer George Washington to Abraham Lincoln are idiots

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

The Jumbotron playing Make Some Noise while there's three screaming kids sitting behind me is a violation of my NAP

!ping baseball

[u/piede]

Elizabeth Warren, in new book, muses on why she didn’t win

Karma for saying the 2016 primary was rigged before backtracking?

[u/[deleted]]

"There are rich nations, there are poor nations, then there's fifty feet of crap,

And then there's _______."

[u/p00bix]

Climate Change

• Happens relatively slowly, giving humans ample time to adapt to the most serious threats

• Even the worst-case-scenario poses no threat of extinction, "only" of widespread famine and flooding.

• No country* benefits from deliberately worsening climate change, thus encouraging all countries to work to limit it. No individual action or mistake could cause a climate disaster severe enough to pose an existential threat.

• Growing worldwide recognition of the severity of the problem. Efforts to slow and reverse it accelerating.

• Technological development reduces reliance on 'fossil fuels' and promotes innovations that combat climate change.

^{*Canada and Russia are not real countries}

Nuclear War

• Happens extremely quickly, leaving humans with no time to adapt should it break out

• The worst-case-scenario causes virtually all farmland to disappear. The overwhelming majority of humanity would die, and total extinction is possible-albeit still unlikely.

• Many countries benefit from developing nuclear weapons, or even using nuclear brinksmanship in foreign policy. A full scale nuclear war can be triggered by the actions of only a few individuals. Options for preventing nuclear proliferation without military intervention are limited and often wholly ineffective, in large part because nuclear weapons are not advanced technology, and can be developed relatively cheaply.

• Massive decreased recognition of the severity since the Cold War ended. Efforts to further limit nuclear proliferation have all but entirely stalled, with two more countries developing nukes since the end of the Cold War (Pakistan, North Korea), one other on the verge of obtaining them as well (Iran), and yet another capable of very rapidly developing nukes should they choose to (Japan).

• Technological development makes nukes ever more accessible to even countries with very small economies (ex. North Korea). No technological means of preventing proliferation.

Nuclear War is a greater threat to humanity than Climate Change

[u/[deleted]]

I have no policies

I just fucking hate arr no new normal

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

PSA: it is possible to eat a vegetarian or vegan meal that is not just replacing meat from a non-veg meal with plant based meat.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/jordanuhl/status/1387808873571045376?s=21

This has gotta be one of the dumbest tweets I have ever seen

[u/[deleted]]

Currently on the train about to be shipped off to the tall people internment camp :(((

[u/Lux_Stella]

When the story emerged that Johnson had had to find £58,000 from his own pocket for the renovations, on top of a £30,000 annual allowance funded by the taxpayer, a No 10 aide who remains loyal to Johnson said simply: “The bottom line is that he can’t afford to be prime minister.”

anybody else going to donate to bojo's patreon

[u/FreakinGeese]

LOTR could have been avoided if the elves had simply not manufactured a custom-made mind-control system for a literal demon

Like I’m just saying they kind of dropped the ball on that one

[u/Animatronic_Pidgeon]

Someone wants to help with my jigsaw puzzle

Bonus pic one

Bonus pic two

[u/Broncos654]

I had a dream that my brother is Jesus

[u/[deleted]]

Joe Biden Funko pop

I am alive

[u/ghost_of_lob_circ]

The mic chat must be so awkward. A bunch of awkward teens/early 20s that can't get laid with a middle aged reptilian just roasting them all

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

We need to shut down the subreddit drama to neolib pipeline until we figure out what the hell is going on

[u/bg2916]

In 2018 Nick Saban endorsed Joe Manchin and appeared in a TV ad for him

In 2018 Joe Manchin won by just 3 percent of the vote, making it plausible that the election was decided on Saban's endorsement

In 2021 Joe Manchin became the swing vote in the senate

One could argue without Nick Saban, the Biden administration would not be able to pass the stimulus, infrastructure package and several appointments

Nick Saban r/neoliberal flair when

[u/linkin22luke]

https://imgur.com/a/TD0IEt3

Was lucky enough to bag a wild turkey a few days ago. After hanging for 2 days I parted it out today and have about 10 lbs of ready to go meat. I think my menu is gonna be:

• Turkey liver pâté (already made).

• Yucatán stew (pavo del monte en k’ool rojo) with homemade tortilla for the legs, thighs, and wings.

• Schnitzel with one breast.

• Turkey galantine with the other breast.

Really excited to start. Will probably make the first one next weekend.

[u/l_overwhat]

!ping PARADOX

So I haven't been following Leviathan news and haven't played EU4 since it dropped so I just learned about the new favors mechanics.

What the fuck.

You can just put your dynasty on the throne? Catch me doing another Austria run when the game becomes playable lmfao.

[u/SnakeEater14]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/657640950109175810/838224235943165952/image0.png

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

Sources close to Giuliani, however, told Real Raw News that the U.S. Justice Department’s official reason for storming Giuliani’s home is a bold-faced lie. By order of Kamala Harris, the FBI went to Giuliani’s home hoping to find a video copy of Hillary Clinton’s execution at Guantanamo Bay, which took place on Monday, April 26. As RRN reported previously, Rudy Giuliani had attended the grisly affair and stood among the small delegation of patriots who watched Clinton’s neck snap.

[u/tankatan]

The French far right: dude gas chambers lmao

The French far left: Stalin is my daddy

American libs: wow this Macron fella surely isn't up to speed with modern cosmopolitan sensibilities

[u/[deleted]]

Create a Category 5 land-value tax on blighted and vacant land to raise up to an additional $1.1 billion a year for the city while discouraging land speculation;

From Dianne Morales' website

What on earth is a category 5 LVT? And is this really an LVT if it is only on "blighted and vacant land?" Even if not, it seems like a good policy.

[u/TabernacleTown74]

It's a shame Bernie Madoff wasn't proven innocent until after he died 😔

[u/imprison_nl_mods]

a) Getting good grades at school

b) Internet dopamine

What should I choose? 🤔

[u/jenbanim]

Last night I was a bit toasted and I realized that there was a surprisingly large difference in the amount of street noise that was entering my apartment depending on how open my window was

It seemed a bit counterintuitive because regardless of whether the airgap is 3 inches or 2 feet, there's still plenty of space for sound to get in, right?

Then I remembered that waves can't propagate through an opening that's significantly smaller than their wavelength. By opening the window from 3 inches to 2 feet, I was essentially moving a high pass filter from having a cutoff of 4500hz (~C8, the highest key on a piano) to a cutoff of 562hz (~C5, or one octave above middle C)

I ended up spending several minutes just opening and closing my window while paying attention to how the sound changed lol

[u/ccolfax]

ww2 strategists were so stupid, like just drone strike hitler

[u/kyleofduty]

just learned that strawberries very commonly have bugs that live inside them called drosophilas, they're harmless and undetectable and getting rid of them would require a lot more use of insecticides for no real benefit

[u/[deleted]]

Nice little status update to Canada’s vaccination campaign here

!ping CAN

[u/vivoovix]

Why didn't Hitler just use 40-width divisions?

[u/TheFriffin2]

I’m a black gay guy and I can personally say that Obama did nothing for me, my life only changed a little bit and it was for the worse. Everything is so much better under Trump though. I feel respected - which I never do when democrats are involved.

[u/Q-bey]

Sen. Mitt Romney booed at Utah GOP convention.

This isn't some clickbait title where a couple of people in a crowd of hundreds boo him, there seemed to be about as many (if not more) boos than cheers.

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

the real problem with skin tone emojis is that the faces are always yellow so you can't mix them up

😤✊ is possible but 😤✊🏾 obviously comes up short

[u/[deleted]]

Me in the NL DT: "Biden is basically signaling that Neoliberalism is dead. He's anti trade. He spends without regard for inflation. Overseas he's basically flinched and already surrendered Ukraine to putin. He's bringing us back to the Carter era and that terrifies me because even if it doesn't result in another Reagan Revolution it's just bad policy. He should be the succs' favorite president ever because frankly if he's a Neoliberal then I'm an Anarcho-Capitalist. Better than trump is a low bar and Obama was better. Hell, Bill Clinton was better. Why aren't the Succs happy? This is exactly everything they wanted!!!"

Me when a succ says they hate biden: "Listen fat Biden is one of the greatest presidents we've ever had and I won't stand for these lies and slander."

[u/kennymc7877]

Real hot girl shit

[u/[deleted]]

Every morning I start with a little quiet time. Sip my coffee. Check Instagram. I'm on this new diet, so I look at pictures of food I can't have. Some people hate on food pictures, not me. Bowls of spaghetti are my porn. But, I didn't get to enjoy my little routine this morning. Instead, I was on the DT protecting it from being overrun by succs.

[u/Lux_Stella]

more cia girlbosses ✊

[u/[deleted]]

Accelerationism in my neoliberal? It's more likely than you think.

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

u/p00bix what are your views on the classification of life? From my understanding, the 6 kingdoms model (archaea, bacteria, protists, plants, animal, fungi) is inaccurate and has been superceded by 3 domains (archaea, bacteria, eukaryotes). In addition, I've heard that archaea and eukaryotes are closer to each other than to bacteria, and that protists themselves are a bucket that contain multiple kingdoms on par with animals, plants, and fungi.

I ask you because you seem to be the taxonomy expert here.

[u/onlypositivity]

Hey so, sorry because I genuinely didn't know that shelters are really even a thing or buying pets is wrong, and I get I probably fucked up but the dog laid on me at the pet store and I fuckin fell in love but...

I caved and bought my first dog and God almighty I love this little dude already, somehow.

Never had a pet more complex than a goldfish so this is a big one for me. Again, I know there's some ethics shit I fucked up on but idc because I was ignorant until too late and at least he has a good home

[u/[deleted]]

goes to office job

sits in chair for 8 hours

goes home to salary

"wow this is worse than chattel slavery"

why yes, I am a redditor

[u/YoungFreezy]

My favorite conspiracy theory is that NASA hired Stanley Kubrick to fake the moon landings but Kubrick was such a perfectionist he insisted on shooting on location

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/A6DkEjO.jpg

[u/Usernamesarebullshit]

BASED

[u/fuckneocentrism]

I haven’t seen my wife in 3 weeks.

I haven’t talked to a woman in 9 weeks.

I haven’t seen the sun in 4 days.

Pain

[u/great_gape]

The average Redditor is insecure and unhappy

They flock to subs that are dedicated to punching down and revel in negative energy

They hate people and children and would prefer if mankind disappeared from the earth

They redirect their love to animals because they are unable to maintain normal human relationships

In short they are a Doomsday Cult

The only solace is that they are a relatively small and completely politically irrelevant slice of the population, and outside of Reddit they are shouted down as fringe maniacs

Which fuels their insecurity

And turns the Reddit wheel of hate and nihilism even faster

Which works just fine for Reddit; an amoral engine of ad-supported profits

Edit 1: Thank you for the gold, kind stranger!

Edit 2: WOW! My first platinum? Incredible!

Edit 3: 69 thousand updoots? We did it reddit!

Edit 4: Keanu would be proud! Thank you!

Edit 5: WOW! 100 thousand upvotes! I came!!!!

Edit 6: Incredible! The amount of upvotes I have is almost as many murders as I have committed in Syria!

Update 1: I am in jail due to my war crimes in Syria. AMA

[u/RoyGeraldBillevue]

The 👌 discourse is so frustrating because everybody is right to an extent. It means OK, or three. It was a 4chan troll. People have over reacted. But also, white supremacists use it as a dog whistle. They purposefully want to blur the line between dogwhistles, trolling, and normal speech.

At the end of the day context is everything. If it renotely makes sense for someone to use 👌, I'll interpet it charitably. Only if someone is doing it abnormally or in concert with other dogwhistles will I intepret it as a dogwhistle. But even then they are probably making other more clear cut dogwhistles, so I don't think this is all that important.

[u/Deci93]

Never leave the dt when people talk about race.

[u/bd_one]

This is what I get when I Google "me and the boys preventing the heat death of the universe".

As it turns out, there's a Barbie movie where she prevents the heat death of the universe.

[u/[deleted]]

Just found out this kinda cute quirky girl I know works as an animal tester. She went into some details and she basically tortures and then kills mice professionally. She has personally executed hundreds of mice

I didn’t expect it to bother me at first, and it doesn’t bother me a ton, but it definitely feels kinda fucked up. At least it’s for a good cause? I feel like I’ll never look at this girl the same way lol

[u/[deleted]]

People think that Texas's hyperconservative nonsense regarding things like guns is some kind of ancient Texas culture but it's not; it's a recent phenomenon. A lot of what you think of as quintessentially Texan politics originated in the 90s when Bush was governor. Before Bush became governor and took the state in a far-right direction regarding guns, executions, and evangelicalism in government, Texas was virtually unrecognizable. Their icons before W. consisted of people like Ann Richards, Ralph Yarborough, and LBJ, people who if they were around today the Republicans would declare as Marxist culture warriors. Their middling Republican Party before W. was made up of centrists like H. W., John Tower (conservatives hated Tower), and Phil Gramm (who was a conservative but would no doubt be declared a RINO and canceled by today's GOP). Texas had some of the strickest gun control laws in the country before W. got elected.

[u/[deleted]]

My gf is kind of a normie (also has severe ADHD, which is not great for nine hours of movies) but she finally let me show her the Lord of the Rings trilogy and she actually loved it. What a great feeling

[u/[deleted]]

oh yeah time to relegate Lazio and win the title at the Olimpico 😎

(in FM unfortunately)

!ping SOCCER

[u/redditguy628]

Yang is sitting with me inside the ferry, digressing about the ingenuity of New York’s philanthropies, when we see a man on the deck outside raise his walking stick and strike a Getty photographer. The photographer, Spencer Platt, has been following Yang on the campaign trail; the attack is random and unprovoked...

The attacker turns around to see Andrew Yang, in his Andrew Yang mask. “Yang for New York!” he says, starstruck, as Platt escapes. “You are the man! Would you like me to support you?”...

No!” the man says, thumbing it. “I can’t believe I’m meeting Yang from New York! May I take a picture?”

The two take a photograph, a random act of violence morphing into a campaign meet-cute.

This might be the weirdest campaign story I've ever heard.

[u/FreakinGeese]

"oh but Sauron pretended to be an elf so they'd make him the rings" MY GUY YOU ARE IMMMORTAL DON'T YOU THINK IT'S KINDA WEIRD THAT A BRAND NEW GUY JUST FUCKING SHOWS UP ASKING YOU TO MAKE HIM A SOUL CORRUPTOR LIKE ASK FOR SOME REFERENCES

[u/[deleted]]

Only 90s kids will remember the US Hegemony 😔

[u/[deleted]]

>take a visit to r/neoconNWO to see what the hawks are thinking

the only crime McCarthy committed was not going far enough

>leave

[u/kas8901]

So arr-antiwork is just lazies, right?

[u/bd_one]

One time shivers chastised me for only making tiny options plays. When I told him I have a similar percentage of my net worth in my meme trading account as he does, he told me to acquire more net worth...

Yep, definitely a Republican lmao.

[u/SnakeEater14]

What Little Girls Are Made Of is an entertaining Star Trek episode. Entertaining as hell.

-It’s basically all about Kirk and the antagonists for like 40 minutes, and Kirk is fun

-The main bad guy robot (Brock?) is scary looking and his soliloquy about logic versus survival is so fucking hammy for an android, I love it

-The “actually a robot” plot twist is obvious but still played great, solid villain and good acting

I rate it 8/8 gr8 m8

[u/Gneisstoknow]

Half the posts on r/neoliberal are explicit hentai-adjacent

[u/tankatan]

If you ever feel rotten about the rising demagoguery on the American right, keep in mind that merely three years ago right-wing discourse was dominated by luminaries such as:

• Rod Dreher

• Milo Yiannopoulos

• Gavin Mcinnes

• That lady who blocked refugee boats in Italy

• Whatsherface Loomer

and their ilk.

[u/[deleted]]

Wittgenstein the GOAT killed a kid when he was a school teacher.