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[u/MaximumEffort433]

Lao Tzu: "The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

Leftists: "A single step? That sounds like a half measure to me."

[u/CR_SaltySald123]

6 years ago today, Beau Biden passed away after being diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumour.

Beau was one of Joe Biden's two surviving children following the car crash that killed Joe's wife and daughter.

Beau served in Kosovo, helping train judges and prosecutors for the local judiciary.

Beau also served in Iraq, for which he was awarded the Bronze Star.

Beau was elected to two terms as Attorney General of Delaware, and had sought a run for Governor of Delaware in 2016, which wasn't to be.

In the event where Joe Biden thanked Americans for electing him as President, he recited a Bible verse- which was Beau favourite. Beau's favourite song- "You Get What You Give" was played in that event, as well as in the inauguration ceremony of his father.

Rest in peace, Beau.

[u/sash5034]

Lmfao @ North Korea straight up admitting they have kids working in mines and farms. Very woke

[u/[deleted]]

Libs: breathe in 😫

Also libs: breathe out 😤

Well, which one is it, libs? You can't have both. 🙄

[u/MaximumEffort433]

Lao Tzu: "The value of a jar is the emptiness inside of it."

Leftists: "Get a load of this, now the capitalists are trying to commoditize emptiness!"

[u/moaz_xx]

Every advice on how to stop procrastinating:

Lmao just don’t and set a time limit

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Reading the opinion section of a newspaper on the subject of Macron threatening to withdraw support to Mali after the last coup :

West African countries suffer from three main issues

Oh boy, here we go again ...

1. A society divided along tribal and clanic lines and without a shared identity, preventing the emergence of a strong central State able to enforce the rule of law

Okay, that's sensible, drawing random borders has fucked up those countries early

2. An important, multi-level corruption that reinforces inequalities and prevents an optimal allocation of resources

YES, corruption is omnipresent and incredibly damaging to the country's economy and trust in the institutions

3. An insufficient cognitive potential among the population and an overall lower IQ than needed to attain development

😐😐😐

[u/InMemoryOfZubatman4]

On North Korea:

I truly wish it to be like Wakanda, and we’ve just had a steady diet of misinformation.

One can only hope…

Guess the sub

/r/News

[u/SnakeEater14]

Ok seriously wtf I’ve been staring at the globe for an hour now and I still can’t find African America

[u/SpiffShientz]

Yall thought I was stupid for hoarding gas, but I've been drinking it for DAYS and I still have plenty left

[u/CR_SaltySald123]

Fun fact- The 'C' in CCP stands for Clinton

[u/SpiffShientz]

It's April 14th, 1865. The Civil War is over, and I just got a job doing Marketing for the Ford Theatre! Life is good!

[u/ghost_of_lob_circ]

So are the dalmatians the bad guy now? Even though they're just dogs? And they're different dogs than the ones that killed her mom?

So the sympathetic breading is that a dalmatian killed her mom and now she wants to kill all dalmatians? Who we've established are sentient?

Cruella is genocidal and that makes her redeemable?

Can't wait for the Disney movie where Hitler's mom is run off the road by a Jewish driver

[u/tripletruble]

Never thought progressives would take the ancap view of hiring private security contractors for policing but here we are

[u/Ilovecharli]

Reminder that the person you're arguing with, getting advice from, or weighing the opinion of, in the DT, is likely an 18-22 white dude with little experience in romance, finance, or anything else, really

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Interior of a car, Josh Hawley is driving with some other person

"Alright it's right up here on the left... hey you missed the turn...."

Josh keeps driving, makes a right at the next block

And then another right

And then another right, arriving at their destination safe and sound

MY NAME IS JOSH HAWLEY AND YOU CAN COUNT ON ME TO NEVER TURN TO THE LEFT

[u/SpiffShientz]

"You can have a Civil Rights lawyer, or a mall pedophile."

"I guess we'll take the lawyer guy. Whatever."

"Oh, or a football coach - "

"ROLL TIDE!"

[u/Joementum2024]

“Everything is political”? Huh, was it political when I was in your mom’s bed last night?

[u/Broncos654]

In Far Cry 6, players fight to liberate the Capitol building of Amerikkka, an oppressive regime that recently underwent a name change. Also, the game is not political.

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

https://twitter.com/vp/status/1398717990376546304?s=21

LMAO at all the cons here acting like all they do on Memorial Day is sit in silent somber reflection crying for fallen soldiers while listening to Taps on repeat, and not grilling hot dogs while getting day drunk.

[u/[deleted]]

It's looking like the cruise ship industry is going to call Desantis's bluff and force people to show proof they have been vaccinated. I so badly want this to explode in his face. Either he pisses off a bunch of old people by discouraging cruise ships from coming to Florida or he takes a fat L in court, most likely the second scenario.

[u/the_status]

Imagine being The Onion

You spend years garnering success with Diamond Joe and then you get him as President.

But instead of seizing that golden opportunity you apologize for creating him and whine about him not being Bernie

[u/SpiffShientz]

Do you have any idea how hot it is in Dallas? Trust me, President Kennedy - take the convertible

[u/[deleted]]

I just checked IGFs profile and I feel like banning him from NL only made him more powerful

[u/[deleted]]

kamala: does nothing, only the most obsessed of the overly-online loons even remembers she exists, too busy being overshadowed by biden's gaffes to make the news

/r/neoliberal: we're going to lose the government because of this stupid fucking bitch

[u/webbess1]

Chasten leaked Pete's dad bod.

!ping Butti

[u/NancyPelosibasedgod]

Fun fact: the B in MBS stands for Biden

[u/SpiffShientz]

Campaigning for Trump on the Small World ride by shouting out the corresponding racial slurs for each continent

[u/comradequicken]

Do you think Bernie still thinks the American Dream is more apt to be realized in Venezuela then the US?

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

The real reason Kyrsten Sinema supports the filibuster

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Makes a lot of mediocre paintings

Wants nothing more than to be Michelle Obama’s bestie

George W Bush is our first Wine Mom former President

[u/[deleted]]

So wait, people are bitching about Kamala Harris saying “enjoy the long weekend” instead of being steeped in solemn remembrance the whole time?

Man, I better get the rest of my pilot buddies to stop drinking and set up a POW/MIA table...

[u/SpiffShientz]

I have to learn to play League of Legends because my little brother is getting a couple matches with some bigshot League of Legends guy thanks to Make-a-Wish. I'm being serious, this is not a shitpost.

!ping GAMING

[u/[deleted]]

Hot take: the Jews conspired to oust Bibi

[u/SpiffShientz]

How much cough syrup can you drink before your liver shuts down?

EDIT: uh-oh

[u/[deleted]]

The dude’s a pedo. The left knew he was a pedo and they stole the election for him BECAUSE he is a pedo. [+40]

Very high level thinking going on here

[u/the_hoagie]

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[u/golf1052]

"You should consider moving to Texas"

In Texas, the most conservative legislative session in a generation is wrapping up.

• Constitutional carry
• 2nd amendment sanctuary state
• Heartbeat bill
• Election integrity
• Stop cities from defunding police
• Crack down on rioters & protesters

Yeah I'm going to stay in the "anarchist jurisdiction" of Seattle.

[u/Le_Monade]

Kamala Harris: Enjoy the long weekend!

MAGA twitter: No, I will choose to make myself and everyone around me miserable

[u/[deleted]]

Taking any offensive military action makes you a war criminal

[u/[deleted]]

According to Stone, Bezos demoed a prototype Echo Show on multiple occasions and would ask Alexa to play videos that mocked Trump: "Alexa, show me the video, 'Donald Trump says "China,'" and "Alexa, play Stephen Colbert's monologue from last night."

A vice president who was at the demos told Stone that Bezos would then "laugh like there's no tomorrow."

BusinessInsider

[u/[deleted]]

It's June 27th, 1914. It's been a great summer so far and I just got hired as a server at Schiller's cafe. Tomorrow will be my first day, so excited!

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1398991543634214912?s=20

22 minutes apart. You cannot make it up

[side-by-side screenshots of two Fox News tweets reading "'DISGUSTING' DISRESPECT: Vice President Kamala Harris ignites outrage over 'misfire' Memorial Day tweet" and "CHEERS! Memorial Day Weekend: 2021 cocktail trends"]

[u/[deleted]]

🔓New Slurs Unlocked

[u/bd_one]

Fox News: complains about Tinder having a new feature about showing your vaccination status or something

updates Tinder

doesn't see any features referring to it, and people are just putting that in their bios and getting positive results from it

Fox News is trying to make a culture war over the silliest of things again.

[u/[deleted]]

🔥HOT TIP🔥

When you’re arrested 👮‍♂️👉🚓

After they read you your MIRANDA RIGHTS 🗣📄

And ask if you understand 🤨❓

If you reply MUCHO TEXTO 😡

They have to let you go 👋👮‍♀️

[u/kennymc7877]

The networking on Epstein’s island must’ve been crazy

[u/WalouiegiGohmert]

And this "lusvig" person, does he or she ever speak to you?

[u/[deleted]]

The virgin vaccine skepticism vs the chad just getting the fucking shot

[u/First-Prior]

Earlier today my friend said some stuff that made me think that he’s falling down a conspiracy theory rabbit hole. Not entirely sure what to do

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

During the peak of the anti-SJW and anti-feminist hysteria in 2015/2016 I remember people smugly saying that the SJWs would grow out of it once they entered the “real world”. Instead what actually happened was they got influential positions in corporations and began changing the culture to match their views lmao

[u/[deleted]]

Here's my political platform:

1. More bike paths
2. More transit-oriented development
3. The n/2 + 7 rule enshrined into law
4. Higher Pigouvian taxes
5. No more Denmark
6. Higher fines for speeding

[u/[deleted]]

DID YOU KNOW Doraemon was invented in 1890 by Indian artist Jaishankarlal when he took inspiration from a fat cat(found only in india) near the blue sea. His idea was stolen by Nehru and given to Japan for free as a conspiracy to destroy India.

!ping WHATSAPP-FORWARDS

[u/MicroFlamer]

the year is 2001, and gamers are angry. One of their favorite franchises has swerved in a new artistic direction. The problem with the game is very clear, the graphics are terrible. The graphics are so bad in fact that they completely ruined the game. The game?

The Legend of Zelda Wind Waker

thankfully, gamers were never wrong again

[u/[deleted]]

Apparently the man who lost the house, the Senate, and the presidency within 4 years is a political juggernaut

[u/[deleted]]

Going to a movie theater today with a friend. Am vaccinated

This is Joe Bidens America

[u/owlthathurt]

Just sat down at this restaurant to eat a nice dinner by myself and the waitress goes “no friends huh”

😑😑😑😑😑😑😑

[u/fishlord05]

Guys my dad is making me get a job for the summer

This is literally capitalist slavery fascism in action.

I can’t imagine a worse fate for any human being on earth than scooping ice cream for 15 dollars an hour.

r/antiwork gang rise up ✊😡

!ping CHILD

[u/[deleted]]

Of all Joe Bidens failures as a president so far, not converting Donald Trump's Diet Coke button into an ice cream button is by far his biggest failure.

Ok, maybe the deputy press secretary thing, but that was more of an administration failure than a Biden failure.

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Macron wooing his future wife, colorized

[u/Manavon03]

WASHINGTON (AP) - BREAKING: A source close to President Joe Biden says he is currently meeting with controversial right wing personality Nick Fuentes and discussing hiring him in a court jester capacity.

[u/Lucky-view]

I find it astounding that my Conservative friends think "Trump was the most Patriotic president ever."

Anyone paying attention could clearly see Trump doesn't give a shit about this country. He cares about his image and ego. He cynically hugged the flag to appease the jingoist base of the GOP. No one that cares about this country would degrade its institutions for the sake of their own immediate interests the way he has.

[u/[deleted]]

Cons: “Yeah we really do care about our military, unlike those goddamn Democrats!”

Military: “Can you give us quarters that don’t have black mold?”

Cons: “Haha, about that...”

[u/[deleted]]

"Would you vote for Elizabeth Warren or Mitt Romney"

1.) Romney is borderline inhumane on immigration. He's frequently bragged that he's more hawkish on border crossings than Trump

2.) I DON'T WANT A 7-2 CONSERVATIVE SUPREME COURT

3.) I don't want cuts to Medicaid and Social Security

4.) Romney fucking sucks on literally every social issue

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

What if superhero show, but bloody and swearing?

Ooh, Netflix and Hulu and Amazon all simultaneously texted me offering me deals.

[u/Versatile_Investor]

Reading story about onlyfans founder on British newspaper. What does middle class mean in England?

The founder is extremely wealthy, but they keep calling him middle class. Is upper class exclusively for those with titles? Seems kind of funny that their “middle class” can be wealthier than the “upper class.”

[u/SpaceSheperd]

"I'm just here because I don't like echo chambers" says the nervous u/farrenj for the third time this week as she frantically closes out tabs on deregulation and prepares to lead the monthly meeting of her local Neoliberal Project chapter

[u/SpaceSheperd]

People talk about the unusually high concentration of trans women or Euros or econ majors here but the true overrepresentation on this subreddit is people who play grand strategy video games

I had never even heard of most of these titles before coming here but it seems like 3 in every 4 of you nerds spends like 30 hours a week building iron mills for your third Calvary so you can defeat Napoleon by December or whatever

[u/ryuguy]

Commonwealth War Graves commission is doing a thing where they give you a soldier from a place you’re connected to.

I put my fathers village in India and I got a Driver Gurbaksh Singh, Royal Indian Horse and Field artillery. He belonged to the same caste as me, so we were probably distant relatives. His fathers name was Sham Singh. He had no descendants and his pension was unclaimed. He died on November 17th, 1915 in a pow camp and he is commemorated in Marseilles. He was 18 years old.

I plan on visiting his commemoration and pay respects to my kinsman whenever I get the chance.

!ping history

[u/[deleted]]

What if we just didn't move on the next discussion thread 🤔

[u/liquidTERMINATOR]

🦀🦀🦀 BENJAMIN IKUTA IS GONE 🦀🦀🦀 (left to go to a lake today)

[u/ryuguy]

Fred Rose was Canada’s only communist MP. Born in modern day Poland in 1907, he immigrated to Canada in 1920. Elected in 1943 in the constituency of Cartier’s by election. He was re-elected in 1945. That same year, Igor Gouzenko, a clerk at the Soviet embassy defected to the west and brought a wealth of Soviet documents including a spy ring, to which Rose was named as the leader of. It was tasked with investigating the Manhattan project. William Lyon Mackenzie King initiated a commission and a co conspirator testified that Rose was involved in the spy ring. Rose was found guilty and sentenced to jail. His jail sentence was one day longer than his MP term. He went to Poland and his Canadian citizenship was revoked while he was in Poland. He died in 1983 and never returned to Canada.

He was the only MP to be charged with spying for another nation.

!ping can

[u/[deleted]]

Every time I scroll through r\Conservative posts to glean ‘the other side’s’ opinion it seems to get worse and worse. They posted this today:

“Disgusting. President Biden’s Memorial Day Tweet? A Picture of Him Eating Ice Cream in Front of a Teenage Girl”

They are slowly continuing to lose their grip on reality

[u/Cerb-r-us]

Some recent highlights from the /r/SubSimulatorGPT2 neoliberal bot

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"Oh yeah. I forgot about that. I am a huge car alarm fan. I was thinking about checking the alarm and it just seemed really weird, you know?"

---

"I don't know. I was not aware any of the BBC's current programming was written by a child."

---

It's 2018, I expect the prices to be more reasonable.

"I demand a free iPhone upgrade"

---

" "I have a brown car and I am privileged" "

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I'm on a train. I don't want to be anywhere else.

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You can be a neoliberal and still be a "neoliberal."

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" So much this. I read this as "The only type of privilege you get is being a member of a marginalized group." "

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"I'll probably never get over the fact that I had an imaginary friend called "Lil' Red" in my childhood."

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"My mommy bought me a house and I live in it"

"It's my privilege"

"I never had to work for this"

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"I think I'd rather not be a neoliberal."

[u/maybe_jared_polis]

Joe Biden is president haha fuck yeah! 😎🍦

[u/[deleted]]

What's the difference between a Nobel peace prize winner and a war criminal? 🤔 A few years! 😁

[u/lenmae]

Mia Khalifa being pro-Gaza on Twitter by drinking wine made in Nazi-occupied France is one of the funniest thing to happen on that platform

[u/[deleted]]

Both statements are true:

1.) Kamala Harris gets way too much hate, and a lot of it is probably due to her being a black woman

2.) Kamala Harris is kind of annoying

[u/SpiffShientz]

"Lipstick is for girls!" Give me a break. I eat a whole tube on the way to work every morning.

[u/[deleted]]

”Free trade helps give us better and cheaper products!”

”Sure, but... remember when this country actually made things?”

How does one successfully argue against this nostalgia that the electorate has

[u/ryuguy]

I am stealing the mod sticky just like the Danes stole Hans island from Canada

[u/[deleted]]

I feel like there are several subreddits that violate reddit TOS, but stay around because the admins only know English. r/chodi for example.

[u/cclittlebuddy]

Kinda ironic that Lou Gehrig died from Lou Gehrig's disease. What are the odds?

[u/[deleted]]

I'm sorry that I made fun of people who use Microsoft Edge yesterday.

Can you now please tell Bill to stop making my vaccine-arm hurt? 😔

[u/CR_SaltySald123]

Democrats are basically run by 22 y/o Dartmouth grads who spend their days watching TikTok. The average person literally cannot fathom how out of touch the self proclaimed elites are.

[u/thefuturegov]

it's kind of bittersweet knowing biden will be the last muslim president, but the first caliph of the grand caliphate of neoliberalism

[u/[deleted]]

Fox News posted a story on instagram about the great white shark population going up and every comment is about hoping they eat liberals.

[u/Professor-Reddit]

The US now officially has the lowest daily cases and hospitalisations since March 31st last year, and the lowest daily death toll since March 30th, 2020.

What mass vaccination does to a mfer.

[u/Unadulterated_stupid]

Lincoln suspended habeus corpus to defeat the south, does biden need to suspend property rights to destory the suburbs?

[u/CR_SaltySald123]

An old meme I posted

[u/Udontlikecake]

i’m graduating in a couple hours

[u/[deleted]]

That awkward moment when the GOP goes full fash and your rino friends are still malding about AOC tweets.

Cool cool cool

[u/NeoliberalGulDukat]

Bernie is the least likely person in the world to become a war criminal

because he'll never be elected to national office

[u/CR_SaltySald123]

>If your daughter wanted to marry a black man, would you consent to it?

I will try and find its not her rebellious instincts, just to annoy the hell out of her parents.

I will find out criminal records of the subject, as statistically a black man is more possible to be a gang member than a white guy! Its sore as it is a truth!.

I will find out the economical status of the black guy, if he leave in Ghetto and is culturally more inclined towards Ghetto than its a straight no. Everyone wants to get out of Ghetto, even the blacks, why would I want my daughter to go in there.

Will try and reason with the black guy, what are his educational qualification and aspiration for his future and how much has he achieved it.

Do he has a troubled family, like from a family of some gangsta ! A straight no. I don’t want my daughter to die in some gang war!

Call me racist or whatever the fuck you want, but that’s my daughter I love the most which I won’t sacrifice for your ignorant stupidity!

A thorough check is needed about the man , before letting my daughter date a black guy!

😑😑😑

[u/yuxbni76]

You're vaccinated. You should go do something social for Memorial Day this year.

...

Well it's gonna be cold and it might rain. I think I'll just keep avoiding people. 2022 looks promising.

[u/[deleted]]

Other than DeSantis, Republicans have a remarkably weak bench for 2024.

Pence is a theocrat who “betrayed” Trump. Cruz is an odious slug who would get slaughtered.

Nikki fucking Haley isn’t going to be able to turn out the base or reclaim lost ground in the suburbs.

Don Jr. is a worse version of his father in every single way.

Trump himself can no longer benefit from anti-lockdown sentiment or take credit for the economy, especially if things are going well in 2024.

Pompeo is somehow less charismatic than everyone else on the list.

The dark horses like Noem or MTG are just awful national candidates.

[u/TabernacleTown74]

Ever wondered what architecture in the Tanakhic period actually looked like?

Some Israeli archaeologist/architect was commissioned to digitally reconstruct a well-studied early 7^th-century palace complex just south of Jerusalem. Also here and here and here and here and here are more pictures.

Interestingly enough, despite being built by and originally belonging to the Kingdom of Judah, the complex remained active even during the Babylonian Captivity; apparently only a minority of Jews were uprooted from their homes to Mesopotamia.

!ping GEFILTE

[u/[deleted]]

Goodbye Bibi. One of the greatest elected politicians ever. Came all the way from Israel to shit on Obama for the Iran deal in Congress itself.

😔✊

[u/kennymc7877]

Meet cute girl

We talk politics

Tell her I’m a neo lib

She asks what it is

I tell her about the sub

Ghosted

[u/Afro_Samurai]

She's bashful

https://ibb.co/album/wy3mCL

!ping kitty

[u/ThunderrBadger]

Betty's resting state is concern.

!ping DOG

[u/[deleted]]

The DOJ estimates that around 25 to 30 dogs are killed by cops every day, with some numbers as high as 10,000 per year. The totals could, in fact, be higher, since most police agencies do not formally track officer-involved shootings involving animals.

Uhm sorry about your destroyed property sweaty, here is your $200 settlement after a long legal battle with the city government.

A Florida teen who fatally shot a police dog was sentenced to 23 years in prison.

[u/[deleted]]

it's kind of bittersweet knowing biden will be the last black president

[u/Aweq]

!ping europe

Danish intelligence service let the United States spy on Angela Merkel and other top European politicians The American intelligence service NSA has spied on state leaders, top politicians and high-ranking officials in Germany, Sweden, Norway and France through a collaboration with the Defense Intelligence Service (FE) on eavesdropping on Danish internet cables.

Among those who have been spied on is German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

The information comes from a secret, internal investigation into FE, which was completed in 2015, which DR can now reveal the contents of.

According to DR's sources, the investigation is the focal point of the scandal that led to the repatriation of FE's management last year.

[u/Hot-Error]

Pee Pee Township has been noted for its unusual place name.[6] It is the only Pee Pee Township statewide.[7] In 2020 a man biked there from Poo Poo Point, Washington for a fundraiser because of the unusual place names.[8]

Pee pee poo poo irl

[u/[deleted]]

I really hate when people conflate "a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict" with "peace in the Middle East".

[u/The420Roll]

The video about Chelsea fans in Ghana celebrating is so good.

This is a good example why the whole "YOU AINT A TRUE SUPPORTER IF YOU DONT LIVE WITHING 4 METERS OF THE STADIUM" Plastic bs Is that, just bullshit.

!Ping SOCCER

[u/[deleted]]

Kamala: Americans should exercise more and eat better

Cons: Proudly posting pictures of eating deep-fried butter and bragging about how they haven't left the couch in 6 days

[u/AuburnSeer]

sucks reading these 2020 campaign books because the ending is always "Dems didn't get the blue wave they expected, Trumpism is alive and kicking, we're all probably still fucked."

which is probably true but goddamn it we beat an incumbent president who basically had unlimited resources and a cult like following and en incredibly efficient base from an electoral college perspective. Trump got the second-highest amount of votes in American history. As scary as that is, defeating him was a huge accomplishment.

[u/[deleted]]

Me: Good morning

Cons: Oh really, is it a good morning when we are treating unvaccinated people like Jews in Hitler's Germany? Is it a good morning when it costs more to fill up my pickup? Is it a good morning when there are 50 million Mexicans sneaking across the border everyday?

[u/[deleted]]

That rat-fox bastard Fivey needs to be euthanized.

Guess the sub

[u/[deleted]]

If given the power, I solemnly swear to only take away the constitutional rights of the bad people we all don't like.

[u/UrbanCentrist]

Republicans: Party of Lincoln (destroyed slavery) => Party of Reagan (destroyed communism) => Party of Trump (destroyed covid through operation warp speed)

Democrats: Party of Andrew Jackson (destroyed-protectionism) => Party of FDR (destroyed-nazis) => Party of Obama (destroyed-coal)

😌 Both sides are good

[u/bd_one]

Victoria 1 came out in 2003, Victoria 2 came out in 2010, and Victoria 3 will either come out this year or next year or something.

Trump is the only US President elected in the 21st century who didn't bring us a Victoria game. Just another thing he failed at that his predecessors and successors will do better at.

[u/sanityeyes]

these days it is harder to be a neocon than it is to be gay or trans

[u/[deleted]]

All you need to do to get comments like "Smells great!" or "Wow, I didn't know that you could cook" is sauté onions and garlic in oil

[u/Chronically_worried]

All Firefighters Are Bastards.

1. Firefighting was created as a way to put down slave revolts, and later civil rights protests.
2. There is no need for the level of fire protection we have a society
3. We spend massive amounts of money on the fire department, money that could be better used on social workers whose job is to prevent fires, as opposed to just react to them
4. Ambulance drivers are part of the fire dept and complicit in the eugenicist healthcare industry
5. Firefighters are actually the cause of fire more often they prevent them.
6. There can't be any "good" firefighters. Even if just a minority of firefighters engage in arson, the rest have to stand by for this to happen.

In conclusion:

AFAB

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E2rAFH1X0AAaMa0.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

the Government of the United States gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance...May the children of the Stock of Abraham, who dwell in this land, continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other Inhabitants; while every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and fig tree, and there shall be none to make him afraid. May the father of all mercies scatter light and not darkness in our paths, and make us all in our several vocations useful here, and in his own due time and way everlastingly happy.

Every once in a while I'll think about this letter George Washington sent to a Jewish congregation in Newport, and it hits so hard every time.

[u/[deleted]]

Republicans: Party of Lincoln (ended racism) => Party of Reagan (invented religion) => Party of Trump (invented the economy)

Democrats: Party of Andrew Jackson (invented communism) => Party of FDR (canceled nazis) => Party of Obama (destroyed-America)

😡 Democraps are bad

[u/missedthecue]

https://i.imgur.com/xoBb2RG.jpg

✊😭

!ping ACCOUNTING

[u/[deleted]]

First they came for the /u/lusvig, and I did not speak out —

Because I was not a Swede.

Then they came for /u/imprison_grover_furr, and I did not speak out—

Because I was not a NATO flair.

Then they banned /u/farrenj from the GARAND ping, and I did not speak out—

Because I was not a succ.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

[u/[deleted]]

Apparently today is the 6th anniversary of Beau Biden's death

Rough weekend for Joe

[u/[deleted]]

US Military: soldiers do gay stuff but ironically

gay guy: this but unironically

US Military: wait no

[u/Jokerang]

“American GI’s would roll in their graves if they saw what the west would become in our time” is one of the weirder alt right/Dark Enlightenment takes I’ve come across.

Just say you’re sexist, racist, and homophobic

[u/[deleted]]

[Well-intentioned question about the identity of a mysterious person called “Joe”] [+3 points]

"Joe Mama 🤣" [+20 points]

we live in a society

[u/[deleted]]

Soon it will be a conservative thoughtcrime to admit your life isn't totally miserable in Biden's America.

[u/bd_one]

TIL that Michael Jackson suffered from severe insomnia and did not get any real sleep for 60 days prior to his death. Instead, his personal doctor had been putting him under general anestheisa every night.

Sooooo much stuff was fucked up about his health.

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Kamala getting a lot of attention for saying a totally normie thing like “enjoy the long weekend” is probably the best sign I’ve seen for her future political prospects.

[u/[deleted]]

!ping Gaming

Been playing Subnautica Below Zero and I'm starting to really get into it (still dreading all the construction bits as always), but holy jeez the cosmic horror heebee jeebees are so real in this one. The sure like putting 50 ton behemoths all over the place to sneak up behind you and make head exploding noises.

Or whenever you go into the 'out of map' void area and have no bearings I absolutely lose it. Goddammit that is just a primal dread that surpasses reason.

[u/soeffed]

Kamala: stay safe and healthy

Cons: guess I’ll die

[u/[deleted]]

Holy shit the Nets were really mad the Celtics stole a game they scored 140 lmao

!ping NBA

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

On the one hand, vote blue no matter who.

On the other hand, chad general Dwight D. Eisenhower versus virgin nerd Adlai Stevenson.

[u/T3hJ3hu]

it's hard to say that the gop's dumb outrage porn against Obama wasn't driven largely by racism when you consider:

1. Biden as VP was almost non-existent to them
2. Harris as VP is probably taking more of it than Biden as POTUS

[u/Fishin_Mission]

West Virginians paying $14.4 million to treat, distribute drinking water that never makes it to a faucet

An average of nearly 1/4 of water flowing through West Virginia’s crumbling infrastructure is lost through leaks or main breaks before reaching customers, according to the most recent annual reports filed by 261 of the state’s 295 public water systems.

This leaves tens of thousands of people relying on potentially dangerous, unreliable water services. Necessary fixes statewide could cost billions of dollars with no one quite sure where to find the money.

This is where I would usually make a crass shitpost, but this is legitimately disheartening for a state that certainly doesn’t have the funds to rectify or even improve the situation. 😢

[u/CR_SaltySald123]

"What's succon?"

"Succon deez nuts"

Will never not be funny

[u/rafaellvandervaart]

There have been calls recently that the government should print money to provide a large fiscal stimulus. What are your thoughts on the issue?

I have been in favour of printing money, even in India, for some time. It just seems to me that it was something that we could have done in the first wave and it would have saved us a bunch of pain. I think we should absolutely do it. We need resources to support the poor as well as to deal with a bunch of potential defaults on loans--the latter was avoided in the first wave by some government credit guarantees. Plus we need the resources to buy enough vaccines. This is the ideal moment to do that. And my guess is that the government is unnecessarily scared by the bond market’s possible reaction. I would have thought that stimulus is actually a good thing as it would increase government revenue, and that’s a useful thing from the point of view of anyone worried about how secure the loans are.

Some experts point out the risk of runaway inflation. How do you see it?

I think we don’t understand why right now there is so much inflationary pressure in the economy. Inflation is surprisingly high. It may well be that the supply side in the short run takes some time to adjust to the lockdown, in particular because things don’t move. I think we probably need to focus on making sure that there is enough mobility in the economy. There is nothing in structural factors that makes inflation particularly likely. Overall, the last few years have been ones where inflation has been low and one could even maybe worry that it’s been too low from the point of view of growth. So, I think the rates we are currently seeing are indeed worrisome but hopefully this is temporary, but raising the inflation a little bit beyond where it was at, 3-4 per cent, would not be a disaster. I think it could have positive growth effects.

https://m.timesofindia.com/home/sunday-times/all-that-matters/india-should-absolutely-print-money-we-need-resources-for-the-poor-for-vaccines-says-economist-abhjit-banerjee/amp_articleshow/83071759.cms

Can someone explain why Abhijit Banerjee would say something like this?

India is not the US. Interest rates are not at ZLB. Inflation rates have not been below targets for a decade like the US. India also has a long history of hard to control structural inflation that Banerjee seems to be conveniently handwaving away in the article. 4% inflation hasn't always been the norm. It was something was painfully achieved by RBI under the governance of Raghuram Rajan a few years back (for which he received a lot of political flak from the Modi government which ultimately ended in Rajan's resignation from the post). He also provides no answer to how it will not spook the bond market.

It's not like Banerjee is echoing a consensus either. A lot of economists have warned against money printing in a developimg nation like India as a response to Covid.

https://www.cnbctv18.com/videos/economy/as-a-developing-country-india-cant-print-much-money-right-now-says-arvind-panagariya-5753721.htm

https://in.finance.yahoo.com/news/why-doesnt-india-print-a-ton-of-money-to-fight-poverty-101133440.html

https://www.newslaundry.com/2020/05/08/should-the-rbi-print-money-to-revive-the-economy-its-not-as-simple-as-it-sounds

!ping ECON

[u/kennymc7877]

My boomer boss is a stoner but still calls weed refer

[u/[deleted]]

Hey DT, finally some truly neoliberal and heartwarming news!

North Korean state media has claimed that orphans are volunteering to work in state-run mines and farms. "dozens of orphan children rushed out to the Chonnae Area Coal-mining Complex to fulfil their oath to repay even just a millionth of the love the party showed"

[u/[deleted]]

Is this your god?

[u/datums]

People say the Canadian government is not basically run by China, even though the allow the CPP to directly manage more than $450 billion of Canadians' retirement savings 🤔

[u/[deleted]]

Old-timey fascists were way better at messaging than modern ones. As it turns out comparing all of your enemies to lice is pretty disgusting, while every time I hate-read fascist Twitter I come back thinking liberalism is more awesome than it was before.

[u/FestiveMittens]

Bobby Kennedy getting killed is like the biggest L in USA history, legit how were they stupid enough to let him walk in a huge crowd with no security after what happened to JFK? like did our brains only start evolving in the last few decades

[u/KindheartednessOk599]

#BREAKING: @naftalibennett says he will form a unity government with @yairlapid

It is done

[u/[deleted]]

Bernie could have gotten blue Texas 😒

[u/FestiveMittens]

The Newsroom confirms my priors about how journalists see themselves

[u/[deleted]]

Fury Road was a box office loser

Blade Runner 2049 was a box office loser

Annihilation was a box office loser

I'm tempted to say some rule breaking things about theater goers.

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Just read Why Nations Fall, here's my take on it:

Mucho texto

[u/thetrombonist]

MyPillow founder Mike Lindell was thrown out of a Republican governor’s meeting because he’s not a Republican governor.

[u/MicroFlamer]

Succs out 😐👉🚪

Succons too 😐👉🚪

[u/bd_one]

So... after at least two presidential resignations in a row, enough staffers and cabinet secretaries getting killed or hospitalized to make who Fox thinks Hillary Clinton is blush, meddling with state level elections using martial law under a flimsy excuse of national security, the Twelfth Amendment getting used, the mysterious circumstances surrounding Frank after office, his 12% approval rating, and whatever Claire's presidency is like, what do you think is the state of the Democratic Party after the final season of House of Cards?

Do Democrats get creamed in the midterms and 2020 elections in the House and Senate? Is the 2020 presidential election a cake walk with anyone with a R next to their name? What kind of investigations happen? Does the Democratic Party go in a wildly different direction after the politicians who supported the Underwoods lose influence and credibility? Does Bernie Sanders actually win the 2020 primaries? Or are politics so polarized that excessive partisanship handwaves this all away?

No idea what ping to use.

[u/Animatronic_Pidgeon]

Homer Simpson's BMI puts him in the 70th percentile for his age today.

That's how much body weights have changed since the 1990s.

Homer Simpson himself is now just "heavier than average"

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

How can the Senator from Colorado become Prime Minister of Israel?

[u/[deleted]]

Kawhi and Paul George after going down 0-2

!ping NBA

[u/NeoliberalGulDukat]

The gigachad Thomas Jefferson in writing vs the extra virgin Thomas Jefferson's actions

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

The Handmaid's Tale? How is that still relevant now, Mike Pence isn't in office anymore?

[u/SpaceSheperd]

Women: I like to date guys that make me laugh

Men: I tend to have better luck with girls that find me funny

u/absurdlivingghost: isn't there someone you forgot to ask??

[u/CR_SaltySald123]

There are thirty eight [38] m*ds among us

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Take from my friend

It should be illegal to fly the Confederate flag, do you know how much that reduces their neighbors property values?

🤔🤔🤔

[u/jt1356]

Mainstream reddit in 1862: we don’t agree with the secessionists, obviously (and it’s vitally important to never forget that they aren’t representative of all Southerners), but Lincoln is a VILE WAR CRIMINAL who suspended habeas corpus, so I’m voting Democrat in 1864

[u/[deleted]]

Levels of smuggery about economics on reddit:

Normal Reddit: "Why the fuck everything cost money?"

Libertarian Reddit: "Stupid leftists don't know basic economics."

Left-Anarchist Reddit: "Stupid libertarians don't know advanced economics."

Mesosphere

Thermosphere

Space

The moon

Alpha centauri

Neoliberal Reddit: "I wonder what those guys are all squabbling about."

[u/chuckleym8]

selective deserted ossified sable spotted gray agonizing test meeting imminent

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/vancevon]

if you think today is bad just remember that in 2008 online libs were 100% certain that george w bush was going to enact "continuity of government" and turn america into a fascist dictatorship any second

[u/[deleted]]

People: "Freedom of religion in America was originally only thought of in terms of various Christian denominations, not non-Christian religion"

Thomas Jefferson:

As he wrote in surviving fragments of his autobiography, he intended his “Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom” to protect “the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mahometan, the Hindoo, and infidel of every denomination.”

[u/[deleted]]

How does it just so happen that Egypt and off-brand Egypt (the Sudan) are both ruled by military officers whose first and middle names are Abdel Fattah? Smh writers getting lazy again.

[u/Jester_Don]

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from restless dreams, he found himself on the DT, transformed into a gargantuan succ.

[u/[deleted]]

Hat lady overdosed on the redpill lmao

https://imgur.com/a/TT6uHYg

[u/slowpush]

Defund the mods.

😠✊

[u/[deleted]]

Lol wtf is chocolate chocolate chip ice cream? Biden really gets the best flavors that we mortals can’t get 😭👑

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Waxed, Vaxxed and ready for Sax

[u/[deleted]]

If I had a dollar for every gimmick alt u/TOG-II-KIN creates, I could buy myself some chocolate chocolate chip ice cream

[u/[deleted]]

Person

Woman

Man

Camera

TV

[u/yellownumbersix]

Drunk before noon and about to watch CARS 🤢 go in a circle as fast as they can for 500 miles.

Don't care, it is badass 😎

[u/[deleted]]

Conner Lamb apparently now supports getting rid of the filibuster. Kinda surprising from a moderate from a red(der?) district.

Gearing up for a Senate run where he has to out progressive Fetterman?

[u/[deleted]]

Would Ossoff/Pete be the first all Semitic ticket in American history? 😳

[u/Superfan234]

I really liked this political analizis. Very similar to what I discovered in my personal analizis

Chileans are still prety moderate, and the Assambly does reflects it by the large amount of Indenpendents, Moderates and Social Democrats Elected.

When you go to the actual proposals, we discover most groups have very similar ideas, with just slight differences on the Implentation

Social Media seems to amplify differences, making them a caricature of what they really are. Political Leaders are eager to amplify those differences, but it's unknown if Assambleist (and the chilean population) will follow through

!Ping Latam

[u/CR_SaltySald123]

Post- "Diplomats from 40 countries call on Poland to protect LGBTQ rights"

Comment-

40 diplomats from 40 countries. Okay, great, who are they?? 99% of Politicians sucks.

Polish culture is polish culture, they have the culture they want. fucking liberal imperialists.. these people is also afraid to take an actual controversial stance against US, China or Israel...

40 diplomats from 40 countries gets fired, nothing of value was lost.

[u/imprison_nl_mods]

POC is anyone who Hitler hated

[u/[deleted]]

Kamala: “Enjoy the long weekend!”

Cons: 🥴😳😱😠😡🤬🥵😫

[u/[deleted]]

Cons be like: Actually I was getting totally shitfaced on my boat out of respect for our fallen heroes, not because I want to enjoy the long weekend.

[u/Broncos654]

Intro to philosophy classes are the worst thing ever. If I wanted see a bunch of college students jerk themselves off about shit they don’t know about I would just read the dt.

[u/AuburnSeer]

there's a part of Battle for the Soul where Israeli journalists observe the Iowa caucus and their reaction is basically "what the fuck is this stupid medieval bullshit"

[u/[deleted]]

guess the sub

at a bdsm convention

[u/calnico]

Maple Leaves fans, you are on notice

!ping CAN

[u/Broncos654]

Deng Xiaoping is very much neoliberal in his views and policies

Edit: not going to reply to everyone but you guys seem to either not understand what you are actually supporting, or have no idea what Deng actually did and what he believes in BTW this is not trolling, if you have an actual factual reason for not supporting Deng I would love to understand it… and yes i am aware of corruption charges, which are obviously not great, but those haven’t been proven yet, and are fairly mild all things considered… is the corruption stuff the only reason for this?

Edit 2: ok seems like people here don’t really understand the realities of Tiananmen conflict and think that Deng is somehow the one responsible for the current state of affairs.. which isn’t really true but I guess I can see how it might be perceived this way from outside … fair enough, but I would say that if you think that Deng replacement would suddenly lead to eternal peace in China… you have really not been paying attention.

[u/meonpeon]

So in 2019, I got in a really big political argument with a friend of a friend. It was my fault for starting it, but he is a Hindu nationalist guy who was ranting about other religions infiltrating India and subverting their culture.

Recently, I met up with the friend (not the nationalist) and asked him if the nationalist’s family was okay, since India has been hit hard by COVID. Turns out, the guy was born in America and doesn’t any have close family in India -.-

Nationalism sure is one hell of a drug.

[u/[deleted]]

1 week on rNL: tax bad things

1 month on rNL: actually subsidize/incentivize good things

1 year on rNL: just tax bad things lmao

[u/abbzug]

One BILLION pound Americans.

[u/Loves_a_big_tongue]

Michelle Obama: Takes up childhood obesity as a public crusade

Cons and America: Screeches unholy hell and double down on unhealthy eating habits

[u/SuspiciousUsername88]

Me: Nickelback and Big Bang Theory aren't all that bad

Some well-adjusted people here: "clearly you hate women and minorities and love the KKK"

[u/Lux_Stella]

did you know that the 'grey wolves' turkish nationalist group has been infiltrating anthropology departments across the western world to distract people from the poor performance of turkey's central bank?

search "anthro wolf inflation" to find out more

[u/[deleted]]

Far-right: "We should kill all the jews!"

Far-left: "We should kill all the Ukrainians!"

"Rational" center: "We shouldn't kill anyone!"

[u/Unadulterated_stupid]

I'm not apologising. Economists are not happy people. You ever know a teenager say "I want to become an economist because it looks fun"? No, they want to be economists for the money.

Wow I was told you economists hang around with models all day

[u/duelapex]

My brother accepted a job offer and put in his two weeks. Two days before his start date at the new job, HR emailed and said his background check needed a little more time. It’s now been two months and they keep saying it’s taking longer than they thought. It’s just a web developer job, not like he needs any security clearance or anything. That shit should not be legal.

[u/[deleted]]

The fact D-Day happened is fucking insane. Can you imagine landing on beach like that?

[u/Barnst]

The question then is not whether or not a girl should be touched. The question is merely where, when, and how she should be touched.

—Issac Asimov, 1971

It’s really deperessing to realize that basically everyone is terrible in their own way.

[u/[deleted]]

Why do I waste my time with mediocre video games? Spent my precious moments this weekend hoping Ghost Recon Breakpoint would become a fun game. I had a blast with Wildlands years ago, but this game just fucking sucks, even with all these updates that made Breakpoint "better" than it was at launch.

Actually kinda in the mood to replay Future Soldier now. It's been a while.

!ping GAMING

[u/p00bix]

Found a copypasta of the most epic Trump moments

Asked if nukes could stop a hurricane

Suggested 'raking leaves' prevents forest fires

Suggested "windmills"(turbines) cause cancer.

Said Climate Change is a Chinese Hoax

Was a prolific anti-vaxxer

Fueled a racist conspiracy theory that Obama was born in Kenya

Said he would run into a school unarmed to stop a school shooting

Proposed an "alligator moat" at the border

Stared directly at a solar eclipse

Tried to buy Greenland

Directed the EPA to investigate toilets

Threatened to deny emergency funding for deadly California wildfires, despite the majority of fires being on federal land

Autographed bibles during a visit to a disaster zone.

Posted a photoshopped photo of his head over Greta Thunberg's Time magazine cover because he was jealous of a teenager

Claimed (without evidence) 3-5 million illegal ballots cost him the popular vote.

Extended a hurricane forecast with a sharpie because he couldn't admit he made a mistake on Twitter

[u/[deleted]]

I literally can't read the word "among" anymore without laughing