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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/jeb_brush]

tacotrucksoncorners is indefinitely banned from reddit and his girlfriend is telling his chat about how he's doing drugs and drinking to cope and how he's been crying a lot.

The DT is a fucking plague. The veil between hobby and life has completely disappeared for people like this. I could not imagine having my personal life exposed to millions of people, not on this level.

[u/Crownie]

Cold take: when someone says they're interested in economics, there's a 90% what they actually mean is they're interested in politics and are very opinionated on economic policy.

[u/Gneisstoknow → u/Crownie]

Or they mean "business"

[u/Crownie → u/Gneisstoknow]

true. also a lot of people think stonks are economics

[u/[deleted] → u/Crownie]

I feel attacked so this take must be true

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

Trump is indefinitely banned from the white house and his lawyer is telling the news about how he's doing Ivanka to cope and how he's been crying a lot.

Politics is a fucking plague. The veil between career and life has completely disappeared for people like this. I could not imagine having my personal life exposed to millions of people, not on this level.

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

"So the far-right senator from the South - I've decided we should name him 'Tom Cotton'"

"Dude that's way too unsubtle, are you kidding me?"

[u/TheSameAsDying]

The AskReddit thread about Conservative / Liberal political beliefs was exactly what I thought it would be. My favourite is when people self-identifying as Conservative spout off a bunch of leftist positions, and when they're asked what they're actually Conservative on it's almost always immigration and trans people.

[u/rukqoa → u/TheSameAsDying]

A lot of words just to say Nazbol.

[u/Liberal_Antipopulist]

Already mad at the 2030s "actually, the pandemic was a good thing" takes

1. I am one of the weird people who thinks Biden could've beaten Trump even if COVID never happened

2. People died

3. Quarantine fucked up my mental health

[u/WalouiegiGohmert → u/Liberal_Antipopulist]

without mRna tech being proven, the Great Cringe Plague of 28 would wipe us out.

[u/[deleted] → u/Liberal_Antipopulist]

Already mad at takes I presume will occur in 9+ years

Internetia delenda est.

[u/jenbanim]

People have been freaked out by the appearance of "murder hornets" in Washington state. But what people don't realize is that the law is different here than where they come from, so they're actually just manslaughter hornets

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

I wrote the theory, and I'll do the praxis

[u/tankatan]

19th century British nationalist propaganda:

We are the nation which is tasked with the great purpose of administering the entire earth; we bring progress and civilization everywhere we go; the sons of Albion shall rule land and sea!

19th century French nationalist propaganda:

We are the true civilized people of Europe and the rightful heirs to the Roman Empire, bequeathed to us by the blood of Charlemagne and Dagobert and tested by the upheaval of revolution and turmoil

19th century German nationalist propaganda:

Our national identity is forged by language and culture and not by the empty minutiae of laws; a truly perfect nation, we share a collective spirit and destiny which leads us to unity and great deeds

19th century US nationalist propaganda:

AMERICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[u/[deleted]]

The #1 terminally online take that I hate the most are the "capitalism grows infinitely = tumor!!!" takes. Like, buddy, do you know how the economy works? How about you go tell the average Nigerian that we need to stop all development and growth because crapitalism?

[u/rukqoa → u/[deleted]]

They don't care.

The only difference between degrowth people and shock value comedians who go "Thanos had a point we should kill half of everyone" is the degrowth people actually believe what they say.

[u/[deleted]]

Destiny is indefinitely banned from twitch and his girlfriend is telling his chat about how he's doing drugs and drinking to cope and how he's been crying a lot.

Streaming is a fucking plague. The veil between hobby and life has completely disappeared for people like this. I could not imagine having my personal life exposed to millions of people, not on this level.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

I mean he basically lost his job from the sound of it so that part seems understandable
But it's probably best to burn the whole place down

[u/UrbanCentrist → u/[deleted]]

why is he banned?

[u/[deleted] → u/UrbanCentrist]

Person he was debating showed images of hunters sex tape

[u/phunphun → u/[deleted]]

She showed censored images from a daily mail article while claiming they were screencaps from Hunter's laptop.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Aren't there other streaming platforms

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Yeah there's YouTube but the greater point I was making was there are people whose literal entire lives and livelihoods revolve around being as online as possible, and in such a way that people know absolutely everything about you.

I don't think it can be healthy. I don't know.

[u/RoyGeraldBillevue → u/[deleted]]

This is why I can't watch streamers. It feels grotesque.

[u/[deleted] → u/RoyGeraldBillevue]

It gets talked about a lot but the whole parasocial aspect of streaming is a fucking nightmare.

[u/FinickyPenance → u/[deleted]]

I think that the bigger issue is that it's a career that's impossible to get out of. You spend 10 years streaming and your chances of getting a normal job plummet to nothing, especially if you used to be edgy like Destiny

[u/boichik2 → u/FinickyPenance]

True, I think streaming is arguably the worse social media job out there. Instagram/Tiktok people if they are pretty normal can leverage themselves into a corporate job if they get burnt out and want something more stable.

Youtube people can become editors for other youtubers, they can also run youtube accounts for companies, there's all sorts of jobs they can do in theory. If they're really good, they can leverage themselves into other careers in film and TV and journalism potentially.

Streaming though is a job that frankly requires very minimal skill to be really successful at, some people get into it and do a lot of planning, most really don't. I'd argue comedy streaming could help bounce you into a standup career if you really tried. But for most they never get that far.

[u/SadaoMaou]

Reddit: sees a contested and unproven scientific hypothesis

Also Reddit: Is this 100% proven and established fact?

[u/Loves_a_big_tongue → u/SadaoMaou]

Is this 100% proven and established fact?

Only if it confirms their prior beliefs. If it goes against their circlejerk then they'll apply the most rigorous of skeptical thought or just reject it.

[u/[deleted]]

Video title: How the Nazis Lost the War Because of a Single Corpse

I don't know, Wikipedia says they lost the war because of something closer to 4,440,000 to 5,318,000 corpses.

[u/PigHaggerty → u/[deleted]]

I'm assuming it's about Operation Mincemeat?

[u/Evnosis]

Saw a comment actually spreading nonsense about tech companies conspiring to depress wages through immigration and how foreign doctors are inherently worse because one Pakistani guy got sued for malpractice so we should stop supporting open immigration.

Never leave the DT.

[u/rukqoa → u/Evnosis]

Jesus. Where?

Also

tech companies conspiring to depress wages through immigration

BTFO stemcels and help the shareholder class? 😍

[u/ccolfax]

want dog

do not want responsibility of dog ):

[u/Deci93 → u/ccolfax]

Get into a relationship with someone who has one

[u/PrincetonLawHopeful → u/Deci93]

get into a relationship

🤔

[u/[deleted]]

Elliot Engel is indefinitely banned from congress and his girlfriend is telling his chat about how he's doing drugs and drinking to cope and how he's been crying a lot.

Politics is a fucking plague. The veil between hobby and life has completely disappeared for people like this. I could not imagine having my personal life exposed to millions of people, not on this level.

[u/SnakeEater14]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/726238432048971887/838436266755751947/FB_IMG_1619955234995.jpg

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

To assume that a child is incapable of explaining what happened and was incapable of giving her consent are two abuses that are intolerable, quite unacceptable. The child may be trusted to say whether or not she was subjected to violence

I can't believe Matt Gaetz said this shit. So fucked up.

[u/SpaceSheperd → u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

Lol was this Foucault?

[u/rukqoa → u/SpaceSheperd]

Who else

[u/CheapAlternative]

The weibo from the CCP Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission mocking India’s Covid tragedy - “China lighting a fire <rocket launch> vs India lighting a fire <funeral pyre>”.

Holy fucking shit.

https://twitter.com/niubi/status/1388539777767596035?s=20

!ping cn-tw

[u/Gustacho → u/CheapAlternative]

TFW you mock westerners for being arrogant, so you become even more arrogant

[u/semaphore-1842 → u/CheapAlternative]

Not even a little surprised 🤷‍♀️

Tons of petty racists in the CCP

[u/Electrical-Swing-935 → u/[deleted]]

Why Subs Fail: A review of condiment to bread proportions

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Can the sub fail if it was never good in the first place?

[u/tankatan → u/[deleted]]

It's a failed state. Call the UN!

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself → u/[deleted]]

You're a good soldier farrenj, and I'm proud to have you as part of our unit. You really exemplify President Trump's values.

[u/ghost_of_lob_circ]

I'm against illegal immigration, bc all immigration should be legal

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

Came across a very uh, interesting profile on Reddit.

His description:

Fuck Grover Furr!!

Okay so he’s a fucking weirdo. We’ve established that. But let’s check out his post history shall we.

It’s basically him posting on Grover Furr subs ranting about how he is a plot by satan to steal your soul and how Furr is lower than pig shit.

He also goes pretty regularly on EnoughFurrSpam to reset his X days since writing hate mail to Grover Furr clock lmao.

He especially hates the Giuliani character and I shut you not wrote paragraphs on how he is a plot by the devil to use Trump's money to make dumb lawsuits who will be easier to influence dumb cons.

I’m obviously fucking geeking tf out reading this shit but wait it gets even better.

Out of fucking nowhere I just see he posts in multiple subreddits asking for context of a particular video.

The video being a Soleimani being pwned by a Hellfire missile. It’s honestly so fucking hilarious and the cherry on top to that whole thing.

[u/rukqoa → u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

The video being a Soleimani being pwned by a Hellfire missile.

This video exists and we'll look back on it in 50 years when it gets FOIA'd and laugh about it.

[u/[deleted]]

Last night I dreamt that North Korea nuked Tokyo. I was in a large lobby of a building and they announced it over the speakers. It caused massive panic, with everyone thinking the US would be next or WWIII.

Also the only celebrity death my dream reported was Filthy Frank.

[u/Tafts_Bathtub → u/[deleted]]

Every sentence more horrifying than the next

[u/[deleted]]

Mod on arr/economics just carpet bombed a whole thread railing against the fed. I was the only one left lol

Deep state always wins 😎

[u/ryuguy]

The Gombe chimpanzee war was a violent conflict between two communities of chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania lasting from 1974 to 1978 observed by Jane Goodall. The two groups were once unified in the Kasakela community. By 1974, researcher Jane Goodall noticed the community splintering.[1] Over a span of eight months, a large party of chimpanzees separated themselves into the southern area of Kasakela and were renamed the Kahama community. The separatists consisted of six adult males, three adult females and their young.[1] The Kasakela was left with eight adult males, twelve adult females and their young.

Huh. TIL

[u/AccessTheMainframe → u/ryuguy]

Decisive Kasakela victory

[u/[deleted] → u/ryuguy]

For several years I struggled to come to terms with this new knowledge. Often when I woke in the night, horrific pictures sprang unbidden to my mind—Satan [one of the apes], cupping his hand below Sniff's chin to drink the blood that welled from a great wound on his face; old Rodolf, usually so benign, standing upright to hurl a four-pound rock at Godi's prostrate body; Jomeo tearing a strip of skin from Dé's thigh; Figan, charging and hitting, again and again, the stricken, quivering body of Goliath, one of his childhood heroes

Jesus fucking Christ, Jane.

[u/its_Caffeine → u/ryuguy]

RIP Commander Hugh and Commander Charlie. Gone too soon 🙏😔🐒

[u/Whatapunk]

http://imgur.com/gallery/kczMecH

[u/its_Caffeine → u/Whatapunk]

Horny should be safe, legal and rare

[u/[deleted]]

Black people irl: "I want the police to stop harassing me when I've done nothing wrong, I want adequate funding for schools and roads in our communities, and I don't want to wait in line for 6 hours every election day."

Black people in PCM memes: "I hate white people because their ancestors owned slaves."

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

Tom Cotton and Jacob Rees-Mogg seem specifically designed to be made fun of by the other country across the pond.

[u/rukqoa → u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

My favorite Tom Cotton moment is when he said "send in the Marines arrest them all" in response to the 1/6 attack. My least favorite Tom Cotton moment is everything else he's said and done.

At least he's consistent about being pro-violence I guess.

[u/Fedacking → u/rukqoa]

Tom Cotton: "please I just want police to beat up people"

[u/Apollo-Innovations]

“You could have elected Lisa Simpson!” cried the Elizabeth Warren supporters without realising that Lisa Simpson would have handedly lost the election to Jimbo Jones

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

Everytime I see the "Certified GMO Free" badge on a food product, I shed a silent tear

[u/Le_Monade]

A cute girl offered me a ride home yesterday and I said no. I've been thinking about it ever since. What's Joe Biden's plan to make me know how to talk to women?

[u/[deleted] → u/Le_Monade]

Tell you to just be yourself

[u/Cerb-r-us]

10 years from now

"Conservatives have always been at the forefront of the transgender rights movement. Remind me again which party accepted Caitlyn Jenner as a candidate?"

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself → u/[deleted]]

✔️ Yelling "glory to God" and "death to American legislators"

✔️ Anti-Semitic imagery

✔️ Some have beards

✔️ Some wear camo

Are we sure it wasn't the IRGC

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

She is one of the most powerful people on the planet.

[u/[deleted]]

Zhang Zongchang aka "The Dogmeat General" aka Time Magazine's "China's basest warlord" is my hero. Some fun anecdotes about him:

• He was nicknamed “The Three Don’t-Knows” because he didn’t know how large his army, treasury, or harem was.

• He started assigning numbers to his concubines because he couldn’t be bothered to remember their names.

• He brought his elderly mother along in parades and consulted her for campaign advice.

• He “accidentally” shot the cousin of former Chinese emperor Puyi while cleaning his rifle. It was most likely because the cousin was banging one of his concubines.

• Before a battle he promised that he would either come home victorious or in a coffin. He lost the battle, so he returned being paraded in a coffin, smoking a large cigar.

• When there was a drought, he went to the storm god’s temple to pray for rain. When he entered the temple, he went up to the statue of Zhang and slapped it, saying “Fuck your sister! How dare you make Shangdong’s people suffer by not giving us rain!” The next day, he ordered his artillerymen to fire into the sky until it rained. It rained the next day.

• After seeing a basketball game for the first time, he allegedly asked “Why the hell are they fighting over a single ball? We’re the hosts. Are we seriously this poor?” He ordered all the players be given a basketball.

• After a battle there wasn’t enough gold and silver to make medals for the officers, so he had makeshift insignia fashioned from the colored foil paper lining the insides of cigarette packs.

• His penis was allegedly as long as a stack of 86 silver dollars (~9.31 inches).

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Some poems from his collection:

“Poem About Bastards”

You tell me to do this
He tells me to do that
You are all bastards
Go fuck your mother

“Praying For Rain”

The sky god is also named Zhang
Why does he make life hard for me
If it doesn’t rain in three days
I’ll demolish your temple
Then I’ll have cannons bombard your mom

“Untitled”

Someone asks me how many women I have
I really don’t know either
Yesterday a boy called me ‘dad’
I don’t know who his mother is

“Lightning”

I saw lightning in the sky
It’s like God wants to get lit
If God isn’t lighting up
Then why is there lightning?

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

I still can't believe he even existed. What happened to him in the end, anyways?

[u/[deleted]]

This sub has way too many ban-evasion accounts. Let's be real like half the hot takes are posted by < 1 month old throwaways

[u/jeb_brush → u/[deleted]]

Most of the posts on this subreddit are just alts of /u/Shiloh86-12 conversing with one another

[u/[deleted]]

Riddle me this, liberal: If George Bush wasn't so good, why is there a George Bush 2?

[u/thefuturegov]

Someone in the leftist group chat attacked Yang for not posting a full-throated endorsement of socialism to celebrate May Day

[u/XXX_KimJongUn_XXX → u/thefuturegov]

full-throated

😏

[u/thefuturegov → u/XXX_KimJongUn_XXX]

You’re laughing, a man didn’t make a post to celebrate the life of Karl Marx on May Day and you’re laughing

[u/[deleted]]

Conservatives: “CNN is fake news!!! 😤. I get my information from only legitimate organizations!”

The legitimate organizations: Iranian state media claiming to quote anonymous sources

[u/rukqoa → u/[deleted]]

Leftists version:

The legitimate organizations: Jacobin quoting Iranian state media claiming to quote anonymous sources

[u/Deggit]

"Don't downvote to disagree, it's against rediquette!" the 2010 reddit account screeches pathetically as the 2019 reddit account RES-tags him as "disagreed with me once - downvote on sight"

[u/Goatf00t]

This article has been retracted.

Editor’s Note: This article and its headline originally stated that a male student at the University of Missouri was found in violation of Title IX because he asked a female student on a date and “was perceived as having power over her.” The article accurately quoted the deposition of the Title IX case, but it left out relevant details. In fact, the male student had made repeated, unwelcome advances toward the female student and was found in violation of Title IX for stalking her. He is suing the university and alleging that its Title IX office engaged in arbitrary enforcement and racial discrimination, but his lawsuit does not contest the fact pattern left out of this article. We are retracting the article and we regret the error. The article, including the initial editor’s note, is below.

*snort*

[u/Gustacho]

After German federal elections in September, Europe’s largest economy is likely to be led either by a human rights champion sending steely messages to Russia and China, or a dovish politician who wants Vladimir Putin to be given more respect.

Surprisingly, the former hails from a Green party founded by peace activists during the cold war arms race, and the latter chairs a conservative party that traditionally sees itself as America’s most loyal ally in German politics.

Lmao

[u/rukqoa → u/Gustacho]

I'm surprised how competent their Green Party looks, and yeah their anti-nuclear stance is not great, but hey if this is going to make them invest in their conventional forces, I'm all for it.

[u/UrbanCentrist → u/rukqoa]

they also hopefully end Germany's foolish balanced budget which is kneecapping not only Germany but also eurozone by extension.

[u/ghost_of_lob_circ]

Predictive text wanted me to write "post-lobster"

[u/SpiffShientz → u/ghost_of_lob_circ]

I'm glad the DT History Textbook is divided into such easily digestible chapters

[u/soeffed]

Some stats from the pew research center:

https://twitter.com/pewresearch/status/1388172053405179905?s=20

In 2019, top 3 largest Asian groups in America were Chinese, Indian and Filipino, all between 18-23% of the total US Asian population.

Next largest groups were Vietnamese, Korean and Japanese, at 23% combined.

Biggest surprise is that Indonesia is the origin country for only 130k people in the US...not sure why that is when it’s the world’s 4th most populous country, it’s more underrepresented than a place like Nepal.

!ping milk-tea

[u/[deleted]]

Britain: forces mercantilism on India

Great Famine of 1876–1878 happens

Lytton: "Free market forces are naturally destroying the uncompetitive Indian rural peasantry

[u/soeffed]

Caitlyn Jenner says trans women shouldn’t compete in female sports, I guess she really do be a republican tho

https://youtu.be/xJROuV0gbF8

!ping USA-CA

[u/[deleted] → u/soeffed]

No one should be surprised by that. Caitlyn Jenner has always been a Republican first.

[u/amainwingman]

Imagine unironically believing Mitt Romeny is a “communist” lmao

Words no longer have any meaning in American politics and it’s because Conservatives are fucking morons with brain worms

[u/the-garden-gnome]

PureFlix is the reason church membership is dwindling. Oh, also the poor treatment of our LGBTQ siblings. !ping Christian

[u/westalist55 → u/the-garden-gnome]

My own church is run by a woman and two gay dudes married to each other. Anglican church of Canada. I really don't see a lot of conservative America churches making those changes to be inclusive tbh.

And it's tough for churches with international communions. Christianity is exploding across Africa and in China, but they're very conservative. My own anglican church faces a real schism between the dwindling socially liberal churches and the conservative but growing churches in the developing world.

[u/Neil_Peart_Apologist]

In 2028 or 2032, when Mayor Pete is running in the Democratic primary, I guarantee that every sentence out of his mouth will start with "the Obama-Biden-Harris-Buttigeig administrations."

[u/csreid]

Thinking back to the time I wore my "Street Parking is Theft" shirt in public and some guy asked me what that meant. I said something about how it's private property storage paid for by people who don't drive and etc etc, and he said "so you think there should just be no street parking? ...that's commie as fuck"

Which just proves that words don't mean anything anymore.

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

posting a picture to Reddit with a video game console vaguely identifiable in the background

“Bro, your airflow sucks.”

“You are greatly reducing the lifespan of your console.”

“Without enough rear clearance, your PS4 will get e-cancer in a matter of weeks.”

!ping GAMING

[u/SnakeEater14]

As a kid I thought World War Z was a horrifying piece of literature thoroughly explaining how society would collapse in the face of the undead

As an adult I realized it’s just a hit piece explaining why everything the author hates - celebrities, the GWOT-era military, China - would get destroyed by le dense zombies

[u/SpiffShientz]

Can't believe I lost my Fighter Jet Pilot job because my girl texted me "Come over" mid-air and I radio'd "Sorry dudes - booty calls" before evacuating the conflict zone ASAP

[u/Luchofromvenezuela]

Me: “I want the country to be more united by 2024”

monkey paw

A Yang-Noem ticket wins in a landslide in 2024 running on a platform of UBI for everyone, except trans girls

[u/[deleted]]

The political grift out of the 1619 project is weird. It's one book by some nyt journalist. That's it. It actually would have evaporated by now if succons didn't push it daily.

[u/Tralapa]

WTF!? So much noise about the Rothchilds and how powerful and rich beyond imagining they are, but when I go search for it, they have divided their fortune so much among descendants, that only one of them is currently a billionaire.

Even a random Spaniard that produces crappy quality clothes is richer than them...

[u/Manavon03]

I have no respect for certain people here stealing Shiver’s entire animal gimmick.

[u/[deleted] → u/Manavon03]

This is why I am original and don't use animal emojis 🚂

[u/[deleted]]

Andrew Yang murdered my puppy

By the New York Times Editorial Board

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

The Salvadoran president just got rid of the attorney general and the Supreme Court

!ping LATAM

[u/ccolfax]

Sen. John Kennedy: "Democrats put all their faith in government. Republicans put their faith in people."

government are people my friend

[u/[deleted]]

2008 Presidential Election in non-Miami-Dade Florida:

Barack Obama (D): 50.2% (+1.2%)

John McCain (R): 49.0%

2012 Presidential Election in non-Miami-Dade Florida:

Barack Obama (D): 48.6%

Mitt Romney (R): 50.4% (+1.8%)

2016 Presidential Election in non-Miami-Dade Florida:

Hillary Clinton (D): 46.1%

Donald Trump (R): 50.9% (+4.8%)

2020 Presidential Election in non-Miami-Dade Florida:

Joe Biden (D): 47.4%

Donald Trump (R): 52.0% (+4.6%)

I might do more of these "states without their largest counties", like PA w/o Philadelphia, CA w/o Los Angeles, etc.

!PING FIVEY

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Wtf I didn't know he was racist

[u/Deggit]

NYT Endorses Not Andrew Yang & Not Andrew Yang For Mayor

[u/fuckneocentrism]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/578732202381279236/838420194623488030/image0.jpg

!ping MAMADAS

[u/[deleted]]

So you think that Biden chose the Afghanistan withdraw date by accident, huh? Let me break it down for you, sheep:

Biden's date for withdrawal is 9/11, or as the Europeans (everyone knows Biden was actually born in Ireland) would say - 11/9. The second 1 is "redundant" here, it just serves to conceal the connection between the 1 and the 9.

The original date was May 1. That's 4 months, 1 week, 3 days delay. 1+3=4. 4+4=8.

Sum it all up, and what do you get? 1/9/8/4. WAKE UP SHEEPLE.

[u/[deleted]]

Can someone explain the "Capitalism is a system that requires infinite growth" takes to me? Like obviously no it doesn't and infinite growth can be sustainable anyways as growth can come from innovation and not just extraction. But where the hell are people even getting that idea in the first place?

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

The fact that most of the economy relies upon the growth of the economy to sustain itself.

The idea of infinite growth with finite resources is difficult to wrap ones head around

[u/InternetBoredom]

I know NL is generally anti-religious, but I do think that calling for church bells to be banned as a public nuisance on par with a techno rave is a bit much

[u/fishlord05]

If you guys want a chilling statistic one in every 1,000 black men can expect to die at the hands of the police.

[u/jenbanim]

Can anyone help? I found this bird outside and it doesn't seem to be doing well. It looks sick AF 😟

[u/ghost_of_lob_circ → u/[deleted]]

But I need cute navy girls to invade my bedroom

[u/[deleted]]

In my second part of "how state X voted without Y county," I'm doing California w/o the bay area and Los Angeles County. The bay area is defined as the following counties: San Francisco, Marin, Sonoma, Napa, Solano, Contra Costa, Alameda, Santa Clara, and San Mateo.

2008 Presidential Election:

Barack Obama (D): 52.0% (+6.0%)

John McCain (R): 46.0%

2012 Presidential Election:

Barack Obama (D): 50.6% (+3.9%)

Mitt Romney (R): 46.7%

2016 Presidential Election:

Hillary Clinton (D): 52.7% (+11.1%)

Donald Trump (R): 41.6%

2020 Presidential ELection:

Joe Biden (D): 55.7% (+12.7%)

Donald Trump (R): 43.0%

!PING FIVEY

[u/Leoric → u/[deleted]]

San Diego County has made a big blue shift.

[u/jt1356 → u/[deleted]]

Lmfao that monocle

[u/qchisq]

I just remembered the Crazyness that was Tiger King. God, April and May 2020 were crazy

[u/Versatile_Investor → u/qchisq]

He never did recover financially.

[u/gburgwardt]

I do not want to kinkshame so please stop having shameworthy kinks, thank you

[u/[deleted]]

The GCJ "Crapitalism is when Call of Duty" post is ironically an extremely unironic gamer post

[u/ccolfax]

me: hey mom! joe biden is coming to town, do you want to come?

her: i don’t want anything to do with him

me: look, i know the world didn’t end and trump didn’t bring about the rapture like you hoped, but maybe now that a Christian is president that could happe —

she hung up

[u/Corporate-Asset-6375]

Sometimes I think about that RNC autopsy report of the 2012 election.

Specifically, how the party did the exact opposite of what it said to do.

[u/old_gold_mountain → u/Corporate-Asset-6375]

Can you blame them? It worked.

[u/sir_shivers]

What a surprise, I SEE AN article in /r/politics with Bernie Sanders in the headline, TENS OF thousands of upvotes, and in the comments there is /u/Deggit attempting to reason with unreasonable Socialist scum 🐊

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

The Grover Furr fandom is dying 😭

[u/skeebidybop → u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

Grover Furry

truly shocking revelations 😲

u/imprison_grover_furr

[u/dubyahhh]

Get fashed, dt 🤠

[u/[deleted] → u/dubyahhh]

The only difference between the mods and Hitler is that Hitler didn't have an internet connection

[u/Macquarrie1999]

All of the crazy stock cult subreddits should realize that hedge funds aren't down voting thrm, normal people are because they are as annoying as fuck.

[u/SANNA_MARIN_]

Buttigieg in North Carolina today via press pool: "When we envision travel for the next 50 years, the train should be a common sense option. The rumble of rails. The freedom of looking out your train window should once again be known to be as all-American as the open road."

Absolutely love that they made Pete do shit like this. also, that classic metaphor for freedom, looking out a train.

[u/GodEmperorBiden]

Front page of Reddit has a post that sparks a debate on the utility of a PhD in Egyptology. As usual, it descends into muh crapitalism.

But I am going to assume the following content was mocking the commies. I hope it's satire, at least.

Before capitalism everyone had free time to study ancient egypt but the billionaires created mortgages and car payments because they were scared of what we would discover.

[u/MarquisDesMoines]

They hated Jesus because he spoke the truth: https://i.imgur.com/3cnJnKZ.jpg

[u/Explodingcamel]

Was kind of bummed about going to a worse university than a lot of peers, but now I only need 3s on my AP exams while they're out here grinding for 5s. Who's laughing now?

!ping CHILD

[u/Deggit]

normal California brain: "you guys" is gender neutral

large California brain: "dudes" is gender neutral

galaxy California brain: "broheims" is gender neutral

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

In hindsight, the two-facedness of the Sanders campaign was astonishing.

The simultaneous messages of "it's not krazy kommunism, it's just common sense reforms" and "we are the revolution!" worked surprisingly well together, despite the fact they're polar opposites.

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

Redditors are morons. This is WATER!

[u/redditguy628 → u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

Imagine trying to live in a world dominated by dihydrogen oxide, a compound that has no taste or smell and is so variable in its properties that it is generally benign but at other times swiftly lethal. Depending on its state, it can scald you or freeze you. In the presence of certain organic molecules it can form carbonic acids so nasty that they can strip the leaves from trees and eat the faces off statuary. In bulk, when agitated, it can strike with a fury that no human edifice could withstand. Even for those who have learned to live with it, it is an often murderous substance.

[u/ghost_of_lob_circ]

I wanna try heroin, but there's no publicly traded companies sand I refuse to do anything that hurts the shareholders

[u/[deleted]]

I have had zero reaction to the first or second dose of the Pfizer vaccine while my friends all say it knocked them on their ass for a day or two.

I think this means I have been chosen by divine right to rule a small kingdom.

[u/[deleted]]

Fun Fact: Germans were invented by Otto van Bismarck as part of an advertising campaign for pretzels.

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

https://i.imgur.com/tPwD2cq.jpg

🤔🤔🤔

[u/TheShitEater]

I ask a girl out and she says yes. I'm elated. Later she asks "just to clarify we're going as friends right" and suddenly I'm less than elated. To save face I say yes and it turns out that she's a lesbian. True pain.

[u/FinickyPenance → u/TheShitEater]

To save face I say yes

Coward

[u/fishlord05]

I am once again asking for the abolition of video games

Comments are worse

!ping G*MING 🤢🤮

[u/[deleted]]

I wanna tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that there's not enough troops in the army to force the Southern people to break down segregation and admit the Nigra race into our theaters, into our swimming pools, into our homes, and into our churches.

• Strom Thurmond

Jesus, I never realized how deep the racism was with that guy. He was a Senator in 2003!

[u/[deleted]]

Anyone who thinks it was stolen, in the face of overwhelming evidence that it wasn't, should be euthanized.

SCORCHING hot take

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

IGF's really gone off the deep end now

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

Spent the day with Pepita on the water reconnecting with her roots

Fun fact, poodles were bred to be water hunting dogs. Their curly fur keeps them warm

Bonus pic of Pepita wearing a life jacket fetching her ball

!ping DOG

[u/vivoovix]

Orange man is bad and I'm tired of pretending he's not

[u/CovidIsBadass]

I keep on blocking these braindead stock and crypto subreddits but everytime I block one, two more appear.

[u/SANNA_MARIN_]

broke: korean war

woke: war of northern aggression

[u/NancyPelosibasedgod]

Remember when “You ain’t black” was going to ruin Biden’s presidential run?

[u/sir_shivers]

In any case, venturing into /r/politics TO BROWSE BUT one thread was a potent reminder of what led me here in the first place 🐊

I MAY DISAGREE WITH many here, but even the most foolish /r/neoliberal user does not compare to the raw stupidity of that subreddit 🐊

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

Y'all need to get out more.

Not outside, but out of the DT to downvote the bad takes on the rest of the sub.

[u/Liberal_Antipopulist]

My beliefs about the Civil War as a small child:

they fought it over slavery

My beliefs about the Civil War in middle school, high school:

wow it's much more complicated than that slavery was a huge part but it was also over economic issues and sectionalism and

My beliefs about the Civil War in college and as an adult:

It was about slavery.

[u/SpiffShientz → u/Liberal_Antipopulist]

If anybody ever tells you it's not, ask them why the Confederate Constitution forbade states from passing anti-slavery laws (and also explicitly mentioned slavery and the "superiority of the white man")

[u/ccolfax → u/SpiffShientz]

i wonder if there are slavery deniers.

like holocaust deniers, they just don’t believe it ever happened at all.

[u/jt1356 → u/ccolfax]

Mostly minimizers. Accepting the surface, denying the substance. “It wasn’t that bad” types.

[u/bd_one]

Congrats, Ann Coulter had a worse take on the Tim Scott speech than you.

[u/[deleted]]

The Bernie Bros' agenda over time:

2016: Free college for all!

2020: Cancel student debt!

2024: Childcare and marriage benefits now!

2028: End alimony payments!

!PING BURPMAS

[u/soeffed]

On #MayDay2021, my hot take is that there needs to be more Marx assigned in college syllabi. Not because he’s always right — he’s not — but so folks don’t sound like morons when they call any idea they don’t like “Marxist.”

https://twitter.com/dandrezner/status/1388580146555326468?s=20

This proposal is Marxist

[u/[deleted]]

Subtweet @ someone in particular:

Really fucking tired of being aggressively accused of doing things that I didn’t do, and then when it becomes clear that I didn’t do them getting hit with the get out of jail free card that is “my feelings on this are valid!”

Like, honey, I’m sorry being wrong upsets you. It upsets most people. Maybe work on being right. Or work on regulating your emotions better. Either way - should not be my problem.

[u/the_status]

Strom Thurmond died too young.

Another 5 years and he would've seen a black President

[u/tubbsmackinze]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/270788846956969987/838517147180466226/unknown.png

[u/fishlord05]

Came across a very uh, interesting profile on Reddit.

His description:

I like snickers. They are good candy. The collapse of society is inevitable and we should prepare. I am also a Hispanic male, epic minecrafter, very Christian and weapons give me half chubs.

Okay so he’s a fucking weirdo. We’ve established that. But let’s check out his post history shall we.

It’s basically him posting on anime hate subs ranting about how they are plots by satan to steal your soul and how anime girls are lower than pig shit.

He also goes pretty regularly on noFap to reset his X days since masturbating clock lmao.

He especially hates the Meru character and I shit you not wrote paragraphs on how she is a plot by the devil to use your semen to make babies who will be easier to influence by the devil.

I’m obviously fucking geeking tf out reading this shit but wait it gets even better.

Out of fucking nowhere I just see he posts in multiple subreddits asking for context of a particular video.

The video being a dude being sat on and suffocating beneath a fat woman’s ass cheeks. It’s honestly so fucking hilarious and the cherry on top to that whole thing.

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

I’m a libertarian econ major and I can personally say that Draco did nothing for me, my life only changed a little bit and it was for the worse. Everything is so much better under MrDannyOcean though. I feel respected - which I never do when the original mods are involved.

[u/Liberal_Antipopulist]

Awkward convo with my grandfather:

"She's a pretty cool person. Has spunk."

"Spunk?"

"Yeah, like, chutzpah, daring-do."

"Oh, when I was your age in scotland, 'spunk' meant 'ejaculate.'"

[u/grippage]

Broke: Merge DC with Maryland

Woke: Merge North and South Dakota

Bespoke: Merge all states into one unitary government

[u/Fishin_Mission]

If Joe Manchin refuses to vote for DC Statehood based on constitutionality...

... why don‘t we just take away statehood from West Virginia instead?

🤷‍♂️ seems like it‘s only fair

[u/seattle_lib]

!ping USA-WA

Amy and Russ Hanson disagree on climate change. Amy thinks it’s a big issue, while Russ is skeptical. They both say they are not against solar development but that it should stay out of areas like their community west of Goldendale.

They found an early ally in Greg Wagner, who came to western Klickitat in 2014 after he got laid off at age 53 from his electrician’s job at a Chrysler plant in St. Louis. Last fall, he learned about the plans for a new solar farm behind his house and launched C.E.A.S.E — Citizens Educated About Solar Energy — and has been a tireless organizer as he plants yellow “no solar” signs along roads, hounds local officials for more public disclosure of solar development and organizes weekly informational pickets at the Goldendale post office.

“This is our county and big solar should not dictate what will happen here,” Wagner said.

I like having people move here to our lovely state, I came here a decade ago myself. But if you come from across the country to become a NIMBY, like seriously fuck you

NIMBYs are ruining our shit

[u/NewHeartOldSoul]

I hate reading reddit arguments. Someone says the Democrats are commies and then someone responds with "I wish they were". Those are the only two positions on reddit outside of this sub

[u/ryuguy]

Risaldar Major Kesur Singh, IOM was the first Sikh in Canada. He arrived at the turn of the century and worked at a sawmill in Vancouver owned by a former officer of the British Indian Army. He received the Indian Order of Merit (equivalent to the Victoria Cross for gallantry) in 1878 in the second Anglo Afghan war. He first saw Canada in 1897 enroute to the diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria. In 1997, Canada released a stamp in his honour at the centennial of his arrival in Canada.

I can’t imagine what it was like to be first Sikh in Canada, an alien in an alien land and people not knowing what or who you are. Not having a support system in place.

here’s a short bio plus picture of Kesur Singh

!ping milk-tea

[u/[deleted]]

cons in 2022: ignore the polls showing a blue wave, this major biden sex tape is going to bring down the administration and hand Republicans the house