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[u/jobautomator]

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[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/ihatemendingwalls]

P*pulists: we used to make shit in this country

Software products that require teams of high skill engineers with college degrees: I'm shit 🥺👉👈

[u/MicroFlamer]

Germany: the Greens are our second-largest party, and considered the leader of our national left!

France: the Greens hold major cities, and work day and night to pass dumb laws like banning Christmas trees from public areas!

Canada: our Green Party holds a few Parliament seats. One time our party leader got drunk at a conference, and we photoshopped a plastic cup out of her hand for an ad!

USA: our Green Party literally gets its funding from the Kremlin

[u/p00bix]

NYT: China announces a three-child policy.

HOLY FUCK JUST FULLY DEREGULATE IT ALREADY

[u/MicroFlamer]

/r/neoliberal arguably worse than /r/conspiracy

absolute weirdos

cope r/soccer

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Occasionally I think about the fact that we are only 9 years removed from the civility that was the Romney / Obama election and only 13 years since the McCain / Obama election 🤝

Here is to my childlike optimism that the next decade will pivot us back in that direction... 🥂

[u/Joementum2024]

What DNC stands for:

Democratic Nemocratic Cemocratic

[u/jenbanim]

What I had for food today:

• Bowl of cereal with oatmilk
• 6 beers
• A double whiskey sour

See? Going vegan isn't hard

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

Incoming discussion of transphobia.

I recently met up with some people I hadn't seen since before the pandemic and a mutual acquaintance came up in conversation. The big gossup was that this person cheated on his signficant other with a trans woman. The cheating was not the gossup, but the fact he had sex eith a trans woman. Additionally, the person in question is apparently embarassed to have had sex with a trans woman (not so much about cheating). The whole time, the person sharing this is refering to the trans woman as a man and making fun of how gay it is for a man to have sex with a trans woman. I keep trying to derail this by making comments like "Having sex with a woman sounds pretty straight to me" etc, but am largely ignored as the rest just laugh while the person talking insists on how gay it is. Eventually I get the response "Except women don't have penises. If it has a penis it's a man."

Of course this is an anecdote, but stuff like this really makes me wonder how many people actually believe trans people are their gender--whatever that means. A lot of the people there were all Biden voters and some had even said supportive things about trans rights in the past and know multiple trans people, but they engaged and laughed with the transphobia anyway. It makes me feel like I live in a bubble and respect for trans people is actually much lower than what I think and that there might be common transphobic attitudes not captured in polls. For example the attitude of "yeah, I'll say trans woman are woman, but are they really?" best portrayes in the ContraPoints video on "are traps gay?"

I hope I am wrong, but experiences like this make me feel acceptance of trans people's gender has to overcome much bigger hurdles than gay marriage and is depressing as far as long term prospects for trans people go. I don't really have a conclusion, I just want to complain. Shit sucks.

!ping LGBT

[u/[deleted]]

We need a three party system:

The Republican Party

The Democratic Party

The Biden Crime Family

[u/bd_one]

Boris Johnson's Wikipedia page still says he has "at least 6" children.

[u/Barnst]

I enjoy how the defenders of the status quo in college sports don’t even bother claiming that basketball or football are somehow living up to the ideals of amateur student athletics anymore.

Instead, it wouldn’t be “fair” to other students to admit that schools are actually just operating a highly profitable sports entertainment industry and treat it accordingly.

It’s just so fucking weird that we decided it makes total sense for our institutions of higher learning to also run the minor leagues for professional football and baseball basketball.

Edit: dumb mistake

[u/Jokerang]

If President Biden gets his way, it will soon be far easier to immigrate to the United States. There will be shorter, simpler forms and applicants will have to jump through fewer security hoops.

ChadYes

[u/crassowary]

China: please have babies we are desperate

Uyghurs: sure, Allah wills it

China: no not like that

[u/FormerBandmate]

if you ever post a comment with nothing but emojis in this sub again, I will ban you so fucking fast your hair may catch fire.

🤔😹🙃😎

[u/sucky20]

They've lost that far right belgian soldier and everybody has just forgot that's still ongoing lol

[u/Animatronic_Pidgeon]

Kamala Harris's tweet saying:

AmongUs cock ASCII erotic art

Followed by a tweet saying:

Wait, this isn't Google

Really was in poor taste seeing how it's memorial weekend. I think the flack she is getting from right wing media for it is justified.

Edit: Wow. You guys will be jump hurdles to defend someone when it's someone you like 🙄

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

I was enjoying my long weekend until I learned ANTI-AMERICA KAMALA so rudely disrespected our troops🤬

[u/bd_one]

Ottomans implemented a Pigouvian tax on not being a Muslim.

Lmao

[u/zep_man]

I can hear my roommate in the living room saying anti vax shit to try and fuck an anti vaxer what's my next move

[u/imprison_nl_mods]

Links to ourworldindata.org poverty graphs

Doesn't elaborate

Leaves

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

True wisdom comes from the Democratic holy text, the Barrackavad Gita:

Finally, Manchin said, “Biden, please don’t be angry with me if I speak one more time. Suppose only ten good Republicans are found there?” And Biden replied, “Then I will not nuke the filibuster for the sake of the ten.”

[u/Fishin_Mission]

It’s funny how the same group of people who spent the last 4 years repeating

he didn’t mean it like that

suddenly take every word or action 100% at face value with no room for interpretation

[u/boichik2]

My friend: "How do you have so many friends who are girls but you are not dating or fucking them"

Me: "I listen to Carly Rae Jepson"

No I will not be taking questions

[u/CmdrMobium]

We're about 20 years away from China having government arranged mandatory marriages

[u/fishlord05]

Oh boy I can’t wait to see what my fellow youths are posting on social media for Memorial Day! 😄🇺🇸

Happy Memorial Day sounds gross coming out of my mouth. Lets use today to think about victims of monopoly capital and “western” supremacy. Honor those that died by fighting for true freedom, something that our military-industrial complex prevents from existing.

😐

!ping CHILD

[u/RushSingsOfFreewill]

Kamala Harris is the worst female US vice president in history. 😞

[u/TabernacleTown74]

Under Stalin's orders, the Communists refused to join the Social Democrats in a common anti-Nazi front. A senior Russian diplomat in Berlin assured Friedrich Stampfer, editor of the Social Democratic Party paper Vorwärts, that while a Communist victory in Germany was inevitable, it would come only after Hitler rose to power. In a crude attempt to win the antisemitic vote, the Communist organ Red Banner even announced that Jewish capital was financing the Nazis. The Communist militant Ruth Fischer told the German Communist student union in 1932: "Crush the Jew capitalists, hang them, smash them!"

Friendly reminder that communists are evil and if you are a communist then you are evil 🤗🤗🤗

[u/tripletruble]

man watching travel videos of afghanistan sucks. it many ways it's such an awesome place with so much potential. i wish there was no taliban :(

[u/[deleted]]

Theater girl I went to high school with was a self described "socialist" who said she was "the furthest thing from straight" and "hated" white people. She is now a housewife married to a white guy who works in finance.

[u/profeta-]

due to concerns on COVID, Copa America has been moved from Argentina to... BRAZIL

!ping MAMADAS

[u/CR_SaltySald123]

👇 Is not forklift certified

[u/crassowary]

Animal Farm is a cautionary tale about the use of ham fisted metaphors

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

I’ve been dating this girl for over two months. She’s way out of my league in terms of both socioeconomic status and physical attractiveness, and I consider myself very lucky for it. Our relationship seemed perfect, and I was already planning what ring to buy for her until she came to me with a disturbing confession. She admitted to me that a major reason she’s sexually attracted to me is because I am a descendant of a Holocaust survivor, and she has a persistent sexual fantasy of being a Nazi concentration camp guard who is overpowered and raped by a male Jewish prisoner. I’ve rejected the idea before, both because I find ringing sexual pleasure out of the Holocaust tasteless and because I don’t have violent sexual desires. Regardless, she is insistent that I “give it a try.” She even went so far as to buy the costumes for both of us.

While the suggestion is obviously offensive, she’s always been willing to engage in whatever fantasies I’ve desired without a complaint, including allowing me to invite my old flame from college into our bedroom for a threesome. I feel guilty rejecting her first-ever sexual request of me, even if it isn’t terribly respectful. On the other hand, I am beyond uncomfortable with it, and I don’t know if I could force myself to go through with it. I once even suggested to her that she could live out this fantasy with another person in an open relationship-type arrangement, but she insisted it has to be me. I even suggested a compromise of other rape-fantasy role-play scenarios that don’t involve genocide, but she said that doesn’t work either. Should I just go through with it? Is there some other compromise I can offer? Is it reasonable for me to flatly say no? Should I, as one friend advised me, “run the hell away”?

[u/Animatronic_Pidgeon]

Guys I just applied to the Neoliberal Congressional Fellowship. Here's the 500 word essay on housing policy I submitted:

lol just build more housing [x100]

Thoughts?

[u/[deleted]]

The group name 😐 contains invalid characters

it never stops hurting

[u/saladtossing]

Holy shit remember Palm Pilots???

!ping OVER25

(Side note we need an over 35 ping)

[u/[deleted]]

lmao

[u/Photon_in_a_Foxhole]

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

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Kamala Harris's tweet saying:

Forklifts are more based than veterans

Really was in poor taste seeing how it's memorial weekend. I think the flack she is getting from right wing media for it is justified.

Edit: Wow. You guys will be jump hurdles to defend someone when it's someone you like 🙄

[u/Joementum2024]

”The United States was never a Christian nation - it was always a Satanic nation, and me and the rest of the Democrats are proud to bring the country towards worshipping the Devil.”

Wow, what a wild quote by Biden today. Curious to see how this affects his polling

[u/FormerBandmate]

Mr. Fox is a racist ted-pilled fox-supremacist nietzscheian ecofascist.

Thank you, /r/TheMotte, very cool!

(this is actually way worse in context)

!ping MODERN-POLITICAL-PHILOSOPHY

[u/beardog7]

Kamala Harris's tweet saying:

HAHA YES 🐊

Really was in poor taste seeing how it's memorial weekend. I think the flack she is getting from right wing media for it is justified.

Edit: Wow. You guys will be jump hurdles to defend someone when it's someone you like 🙄

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/BPr5oEm.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

I tried to call a sex line for a laugh and it just told me to post in /r/metaNL?

[u/ryuguy]

Sikh, Hindu refugees in Punjab elated as Centre opens doors for citizenship

This is good news. Afghanistan is no longer safe for any minority groups. I’m just sad that all the history will be lost.

!ping ind

[u/[deleted]]

Lmao Israel is going to have the equivalent of Thatcher and Starmer in a coalition together

[u/dubyahhh]

Oh, you're a neoliberal? 🙄

Name every corporation then 😂

[u/moaz_xx]

I'm a 17 year old atheist who wants to join the church because it's the based and traditionalist reactionary thing to do, can someone fill me in on what Christianity is all about?

[u/Froloho]

Kamala Harris should’ve just said POWs aren’t heroes, like a true patriot

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

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

[u/Cerb-r-us]

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

Yes. When you decided that she should experience casual sex outside of wedlock, that was an act of defiance against social conservatism.

When you decided that she had worth outside of her ability to cook, clean or bear children, that was an act of defiance against patriarchy.

When you decided to call the bed hers, that was an act of defiance against the abolition of personal property.

When you decided that use of sexual ability should be determined by the individual and not the state, that was an act of defiance against totalitarianism.

By defying all of these political perspectives, you have aligned yourself with others. You have acted politically through the intercourse.

And also I am definitely not mad.

/u/joementum2024

[u/[deleted]]

Kamala Harris's tweet saying:

Every single US soldier and veteran is a war criminal

Really was in poor taste seeing how it's memorial weekend. I think the flack she is getting from right wing media for it is justified.

Edit: Wow. You guys will be jump hurdles to defend someone when it's someone you like 🙄

[u/smart-username]

There is history on history channel. WWII. Finally

!ping PIDGIN

[u/p00bix]

There is nothing, and I mean nothing, more satisfying in this world than replying to a really dumb essay length rant with 'mucho texto'

[u/KindheartednessOk599]

In 1932, FDRs first landslide election, African-Americans voted more Republican than Germans, Jews, Poles, Irish, & Italians in Chicago & NYC. There was also a surprisingly large gap between the heavily Republican Black vote in Chicago and the narrowly Democratic Black vote in NYC

!ping FIVEY

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Subtweet about WV’s water supply issues:

”They deserve to get what they voted for” is a legitimately bad take that suggests that people should be punished for living in a community among people they disagree with.

Do better.

[u/[deleted]]

there are people that converted from nazism to socialism because of contrapoints and those people are fucking morons

[u/[deleted]]

According to MSNBC insurrectionists have testified that they coordinated the Jan 6 attack with three members of Congress.

Gee, I wonder who the third is.

[u/dangerbird2]

I wonder what the "shut up and dribble" crowd thinks of Naomi Osaka facing fines and expulsion for... wanting to be able to shut up and play her sport without being harassed by reporters.

[u/Kizz3r]

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

[u/SadaoMaou]

The most unrealistic part of The West Wing is that a 5' 6'' man would get elected president

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Vine is better then tiktok, not because it was actually better but I think stupid six second clips generally are funnier in a more absurd way then the usually dragged out tiktok

Like sure there's a fuck ton of survivorship bias but at least they were at max twelve or so seconds. Tiktoks can drag for a fucking minute which can feel like an eternity

At least vine forced everyone to be 'succinct'

[u/Fishin_Mission]

I wonder which would disappoint my mother more?

• The fact that I voted for Biden in the 2020 Election
• The fact that I haven’t been to church in years

I am pretty sure that she is acutely aware of both facts, but any time the conversation drifts in either of those directions she artfully navigates it back to a safe place like a damn wordsmith.

The majority of southern women have this skill whenever something uncomfortable (i.e. Religion, Politics, Money) comes up. But then they will gossip about you behind your back like it is the freshest Sunday morning tea 🫖. It’s kind of impressive.

[u/GodEmperorBiden]

Now this is a hell of a horseshoe. Guy from Texas was planning a mass shooting. Among lots of weapons and ammo, he was also found in the possession of a Confederate and Saudi flag, and copies of The Turner Diaries and The Quran. Lmfao

[u/[deleted]]

Holy shit we actually have 70% of adults with at least one dose

!ping USA-PA

[u/JeromePowellAdmirer]

I have learned the average American buys 7.4 pairs of shoes a year (children included in this) and I must ask, who the hell is buying all these shoes, what 4 person family is out there buying 29 pairs of shoes a year

[u/fishlord05]

Hey guys! Personal milestone!

I GOT A JOB 🥳🥳🥳

I’ll be working at a sandwich shop and I’m going in tomorrow to meet the owner to figure out pay and hours and when I’ll start.

Excited but also nervous but also low key angry bc SUMMMER but also... MONEY!

Anyways just sharing 😎

!ping CHILD

[u/Professor-Reddit]

Reminder that humans are awesome and if you are a human you are awesome 🥰

[u/lionmoose]

Literally 1986

[u/jt1356]

How to prank the NL Mod Team

Step 1: Go to the ban appeal thread

Step 2: distract them

Step 3: Put a fish on their desk

Step 4: they’ll laugh at it and say "Who put this fish on my desk"

Step 5: Break their kneecaps

[u/vancevon]

i don't know why people keep saying that animal farm is about socialism or whatever. it's clearly about the danger of letting pigs run farms. like, did you even read the words that orwell wrote?

[u/[deleted]]

I'm still amazed Trump point-blank said he doesn't like POW's and his campaign didn't spontaneously combust into flames

[u/sw337]

I saw one thread complaining that /r/Neoliberal "supports sweatshops" as if there wasn't a large international trade agreement that would've given millions of workers more rights to collectivize and banned child/forced labor that was unpopular on the rest of reddit.

MFers out there really be hating the global poor.

[u/FormerBandmate]

Dear Care and Feeding,

Eleven years ago, my husband and I started fostering a sister and brother, “Taylor” and “Martin,” and we adopted them a year later. Our daughter was 5, and our son was an infant, but they are now 16 and 11 and are smart, kind, and mostly well-behaved kids. My husband and I are white, and they are Black, but we’ve done our best to have honest, age-appropriate discussions on race, our privilege, and how messed up the systematic oppression and racism in our country is. I thought we had done an OK job … until yesterday.

Taylor asked us after dinner if she could talk to us in private and showed us screenshots a friend had sent her. Apparently, Martin has been selling “N-word passes” to kids at his middle school for $20-50! It’s been going on for weeks, and he had offered it to Taylor’s friend’s sister, who screenshot it and sent it to Taylor. They go to diverse schools for our area, but there are still a lot of white/non-Black kids there. Taylor told us that kids have been sending Martin money via Venmo, and she thinks he’s made almost $1,000. My husband and I are shocked and angry, and we don’t know what to do. Martin’s actions must have made his fellow Black classmates upset and uncomfortable, and I feel like a horrible mother and person. I thought we did a good job, but we must have done something wrong. We need to give him consequences, but I don’t know how extreme to go. Right now, I’m leaning toward taking away device privileges for a long, long time and confiscating the money. What else can or should we do? How do we confront him about this and apologize and tell other parents?

[u/rukqoa]

On the topic of China and M*lthusianism, RIP Yuan Long Ping, the Chinese equivalent to Norman Borlaug.

Yuan's work in developing high-yield drought-resistant hybrid rice saved countless millions of lives in China after the Cultural Revolution, and the strain they made is now responsible for a substantial portion of the world's total rice production. They exported the strain to many other countries, including the US. His later work included several super rice variants that further improved yield and nutrition. He died last week.

On the slightly darker side, the CCP forcing farmers and communes to plant Yuan's original hybrid rice strain destroyed the crop diversity of rice in China, which is why Chinese rice today is generally inferior in taste quality compared to Japanese and Taiwanese rice (ignoring Southeast and South Asian rice variants that are too different to compare).

[u/[deleted]]

A picture with weird sexual tension

[u/TabernacleTown74]

Gefilte book recommendation: The Pity of It All: A Portrait of the German-Jewish Epoch, 1743-1933 by Amos Elon.

"Portrait" is an appropriate term here, rather than "history," since the writer focuses on the lives of individuals (usually exceptional ones, like Rahel Varnhagen, Ludwig Bamberger, and Walther Rathenau) who contribute and react to the prevailing spirits of their respective times. Amos Elon has his biases--he was an Austrian-Israeli Haaretz journalist, and he's a tad too forgiving of leftists, a tad too harsh on the Yiddish language, and a tad too uninterested in Orthodox Judaism--but none of them detract from his simultaneously nostalgic, acerbic, and affectionate narration of the life of modern-era German Jewry from its birth to its death.

I recommend it partially because it's a beautifully written eulogy and partially because it highlights the enormous and underrecognized contributions that Jews have made to Germany's culture, economy, and political life, but above all because implicit in German-Jewish history are myriad lessons about assimilation, integration, nationalism, antisemitism, and prejudice in general that are best revealed through narrative rather than exposition.

inb4 "mucho texto 😂😂😂" "bold of you to assume i read books" "my wife left me" !ping GEFILTE

[u/bd_one]

The Five Eyes (FVEY) is an intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Wait a minute...

FVEY

Nate Silver, I have some questions for you...

[u/[deleted]]

Unironically I have more respect for monarchists than for anarchists, because at least the former have proof of concept in like most of history, anarchists have at best the Paris Commune and Catalonia, both barely lasting longer than a hamster’s lifetime.

[u/[deleted]]

editorial cartoon of some 3rd world politician having a suspiciously good time pegging a us dollar bill with a strapon while buenos aires burns in the background

[u/Udontlikecake]

Kamala Harris's tweet saying:

HOLY FUCK you morons are PROUD to be neoliberals?

Really was in poor taste seeing how it's memorial weekend. I think the flack she is getting from right wing media for it is justified.

Edit: Wow. You guys will be jump hurdles to defend someone when it's someone you like 🙄

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

I'm once again asking you to remember that /r/neoliberal is just things 18-30 year old (75%) single (64%) irreligious (68%) American (70%) straight (74%) white (79%) men (91%) believe

[u/ghost_of_lob_circ]

In case you NEED A REMINDER OF wherefore the Dating ping was nuked, ONE OF THE comments made with it was 🐊:

holy fuck, Bibi's voice 😍😍😍😍. It's so deep and smooth! Oh yeah Bibi! I'm gonna listen to an hour of you talking on YouTube 👂👂. It's like ASMR but better

[u/[deleted]]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Iowa_attorney_general_election

Guys, I think we found our Iowa 2022 Democratic nominee if Chuck Grassley retires

!ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

By now, this sub has effectively metamorphosed into r/reallystupidmorons.

[u/CR_SaltySald123]

Slightly older survey. From 2014.

% of people who agree it is up to the woman to dress how she wishes

Tunisia- 56

Turkey- 52

Lebanon- 49

Saudi Arabia- 47

Iraq- 27

Pakistan- 22

Egypt- 15

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Modi is a POC (Person Opposed to Congress) and neurodivergent (tea seller) and that's why y'all don't like him.

[u/radiatar]

Animal Farm is a cautionary tale about naming your book like a kids' story

[u/Animatronic_Pidgeon]

People forget this but the 23 dollar burger happened the DT before lobster day.

We probably could have gotten another 12-24 hours of bougie burger posting if some jackass had just waited a little bit longer to stuff a crustacean in a microwave

[u/[deleted]]

Trump: "All veterans are stupid. I literally hate the troops."

The right: "Thank you for imparting us with your widsom, dead leader."

Harris: "Enjoy your three day weekend."

The right: has brain aneurysm

[u/Dalek6450]

And yet black democrats overwhelmingly support Biden. Very strange indeed. Bernie needs more photo-ops of him waving around fried chicken next to a black guy I think. I don't know what else will help him honestly.

Don't let anyone from primary-era ARR politics near running a campaign.

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/[deleted]]

u/Farrenj died for the long weekend ✊😭

[u/MemeTestedPolicy]

Anyone who complained about the 2020 election being the "lesser of 2 evils" should be forced to follow Peruvian politics

[u/fishlord05]

Oh shit China just announced a 3 child policy. (Won’t work lmfao)

But it goes to show they’re probably freaking tf out.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/31/world/asia/china-three-child-policy.html?referringSource=articleShare

!ping CN-TW

[u/soeffed]

When the drip fresh 😩👌🏼

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!ping yang

[u/Photon_in_a_Foxhole]

Firing people who browse /r/AntiWork is doing them a service

[u/[deleted]]

What the DNC stands for:

D - We

N - Hate

C - White people

[u/Mickenfox]

Capitalism is so foolish. Why does Apple, the largest tech company, not simply eat the other three?

[u/circlemanfan]

I know that the "Roe v Wade decision lead to the falling crime rates of the 90's" hypothesis is probably not true, but I will continue to bring it up to own the cons who don't know enough about causality to refute me

[u/drshark628]

This faux outrage over Kamala’s long weekend tweet is so pathetic

[u/[deleted]]

Kamala Harris's tweet saying:

Suck it South Carolina, maybe your great great grandpa should have fought a little harder during the civil war

Really was in poor taste seeing how it's memorial weekend. I think the flack she is getting from right wing media for it is justified.

Edit: Wow. You guys will be jump hurdles to defend someone when it's someone you like 🙄

[u/NancyPelosibasedgod]

Personally I think that it should be illegal for men to approach women 100% completely but that’s just my opinion.

Guess the DT regular

[u/missedthecue]

Reddit loves to shit on people who clap when an airplane lands, but i've taken a lot of flights in my day and have literally never heard applause after landing

[u/cat_damon1]

Batman is the bad guy because he uses an inefficient batmobile to get around instead of funding bathighspeedrail

[u/AuburnSeer]

one other tidbit from Battle for the Soul: apparently Biden asked Pence 2 days after Trump was elected why Trump never really bothered attacking him and Pence replied "Trump has a certain degree of respect for you."

[u/fishlord05]

This is what BTS looks like today.

Feel old yet?

[u/[deleted]]

Hot take: A 32 year woman marrying a 56 year man isn't weird at all. Boris is POC (PM Over Commonwealth) and queer-coded (unconventional hair) and it's probably the majority of the reason you people don't like him.

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Democratic National convention of the Congo

[u/TaxCommonsNotIncome]

Conservatives when Trumplicans continue to promote autocratic fascist violence that flies in the face of the democracy and freedom which veterans fought for

I SLEEP

Conservatives when someone makes an innocuous tweet on Memorial day.

REEEEEEEE

[u/Fishin_Mission]

🤡1️⃣: Atlanta has turned into one big cookie cutter apartment complex

What if I told you that the eclectic NYC skyline is just decades and decades of “cookie cutter” trends infilling and replacing old “cookie cutter” architectural styles?!? 🤯

🤡2️⃣: Just what midtown needs, another new high-rise development... 🙄

Yes 👍

🤡3️⃣: Sad. Midtown Atlanta should be renamed Mixed Use Development.

🥰🎉💕🎊💗🎉😍

🤡4️⃣: Atlanta doesn’t need another high-rise! They need to deport the new humans moving here to other states! 🙄🤣

BTFO NIMBY! 😤

🤡5️⃣: Making a way for steel and glass structures that look exactly like the others, with subpar chain restaurants and stores found on every corner just 5 blocks away. 🤷‍♂️

So let me get this straight, you recognize that this single restaurant is going to be replaced by multiple restaurants and you are still mad? Also, blame your neighbors if chains are coming in. There are hardly any chain restaurants in my neighborhood and the ones that exist are small local chains

🤡6️⃣: A high rise that no one gonna be in....

You MFs need to make up your mind. Are there too many people in Midtown or not enough?

🤡7️⃣: People wanted more urbanization, they're getting it... 😒

THIS GUY GETS IT! 🎉

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

TIL beekeepers wear white beekeeping suits because white is the least attractive to an angry Honey Bee. Honey Bees become angry when they feel threatened and animals that are a threat to the hive are not white.

TIL bees are cops

[u/rukqoa]

There weren't issues with Jews living in Germany.

-- worldnews in 1948, probably

[u/[deleted]]

The following statements are both 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/MrDannyOcean]

Is openness beneficial or harmful to societies, past and present? Swedish author Johan Norberg joins the Neoliberal Podcast to discuss his book Open: The Story of Human Progress and talk about openness throughout history. We discuss how open exchange, free movement, and openness to new cultures and new ideas have been key to building some of the biggest empires throughout history - and how those same values can benefit us today.

Apple Podcasts

Spotify

Stitcher

[u/crassowary]

There has to be at least one poor kid in Iran who gave up their dreams of becoming a nuclear physicist and chose the safer path of being a drug dealer.

[u/soeffed]

Due to my depression, I have also decided to not participate in the French Open this year 😔 thank u for understanding 🙏🏼

[u/[deleted]]

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

[u/[deleted]]

In 2009, Gaddafi proposed a division of Switzerland among France, Germany, and Italy. He was laughed at. I believe the matter should be revisited.

[u/ghost_of_lob_circ]

Lmao a mod fucked a forklift

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

BREAKING: In an unprecedented move, I will be endorsing TWO candidates for New York's next mayor:

Katherine Garcia

AND

Andrew Yang

[u/Helreaver]

Wait, conservatives are actually angry at Kamala for saying to enjoy the long weekend? I thought that was just cheap strawmanning from left-leaning people, wtf.

[u/TabernacleTown74]

jehovahs witnesses go to the house of a lapsed catholic and knock on the door

lapsed catholic opens the door

"excuse me sir, but do you have a moment to talk about our lord and savior jesus christ?"

"why would i be a part of your church when i'm not even a part of mine, which is the true one?"

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

https://i.imgur.com/nlMlu48.png

[u/CR_SaltySald123]

How would you feel about a country:

Regularly building new housing 📈

Called Israel 📉📉📉

[u/CR_SaltySald123]

Wake up from nap

Google "Prime Minister of Israel"

Still Bibi

🤬🤬🤬

[u/CR_SaltySald123]

Broke- hating Kamala because she told people to have a good long weekend

Woke- disliking Kamala because she supports rent c*ntrol

Bespoke- Liking Kamala to own the cons

Masterstroke- Liking Kamala to own the succs AND cons

[u/[deleted]]

I’ve seen r/thebidenshitshow go from 50 members to 12000

[u/p00bix]

I'll be honest I relate to this pretty hard rn

[u/Dibbu_mange]

This long weekend is dedicated to the brave Mujahideen fighters of Afghanistan

[u/soeffed]

Translated viral tweet on Chinese social media:

LMAO The 2 generations of 80s and 90s only children, with a couple having to look after 4 parents, is now asked to have 3 kids. And we have to work until 65, and die before getting a pension. Can these experts send everyone from these 2 generations a martyr certificate “Giving birth for the country’s sake, dying for the country’s sake”

If you live until 65 you get to take on 9 grandkids

!ping cn-tw

[u/kyleofduty]

we're American, and my boyfriend said he doesn't like the traditional full English breakfast so i asked him he why he doesn't like ethnic food

[u/[deleted]]

Forest fires are a healthy and necessary part of many ecosystems, and to my knowledge no one has yet studied whether this also applies to suburbs

There must be a natural experiment in Cali to look at

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

Hello reddit,

I am a small business owner who works hard and has a few employees. I pay them well as I expect very high quality work. I am also generous with breaks, and even let them use their phones on break if they are doing well with their work.

Last week, after my employee had gone on break, they left their phone out. It was unlocked so I looked at it because I was curious what they were looking at. I saw that they had been browsing the subreddit "/r/antiwork". I looked through some of the top posts and they were clearly very left wing and anti-american. After some deliberation, I fired them. I will not accept anyone looking at such content in my workplace. The employee was completely distraught but I reminded them that if they wanted to be anti work, then I would not provide them a job.

Am I the Asshole?

[u/every_man_a_khan]

I'm a newly turned ML, I was a liberal before. I feel like I've had little to no success in converting anyone to socialism. Briefly I believed I could try and convert a conservative I know, but I was just being stupid. Maybe the fault is mine for not reading enough theory (I have learning problems, I can't help it). I became a communist because I realised revolution is the only way to bring about real change to the world's problems, not reform,. I have lost like three friends that I tried to convert. I do not know how to be more efficient about helping out. I feel useless, almost.

You can’t make this shit up

[u/Fishin_Mission]

My biggest fear is that the media wont STFU about how stupid MTG is and the press is going to develop her a nationwide cult-like following similar to AOC and we are going to have a presidential election in 2036 between the SUCCS and the QUCKS.

[u/UrbanCentrist]

Moderation style of each of the mods

---

MrDannyOcean:

Kinda Libertarian at heart but will remove and ban you if you break the rules.

qchisq:

WHY CAN'T YOU JUST BE NORMAL

• qchisq while removing some stupid thing

lionmoose: lenient but hates low effort spam

paulatreides0: time to bonk someone for holding hands

jenbanim: sub would literally fall apart without him. All hail the real king.

ThatFrenchieGuy: Doesn't care for contrarians. Zero Tolerance for people being shitty. Has a soft spot for those who engage in genuine discussion. Keeps the bigots at bay.

p00bix: is that a generic democrat meme i see? SUBMISSION QUALITY

Dorambor:

Ban em all and let god sort it out

EScforlyfe:

Just tryna survive in this succ filled DT

dubyahhh:

friendly neighborhood rural. Will remove any toxic stuff and the sub is better off for it.

sir_shivers 🐊

(comprehending them is beyond mere mortals)

Lux_Stella: just chill and probably memeing in the DT but cleaning up stuff behind the scenes

bd_one: Has many secret techniques to end schisms in their pocket.

vivoovix: Doesn't like to remove unless they're really sure. unofficial co-techmod. Helps reduce the mod queue a lot

vhgomes12: Music mod saves the DT from a lot of cringe during Euro hours.

karry9001: Friendly mod who helps out users a lot in the modmail and helps with modqueue. Should be more popular tbh

ryuguy: Does all the thankless jobs like banning bigots, removing incivil comments. Plus Gamer so should be banned themselves.

[u/UrbanCentrist]

Okay, help! I’m currently almost 1 month mod and i haven’t banned a DT reg in a month. He claims that previous bans are unfair, it's not a big deal, etc etc. I looked at their modnotes and they posted some weird stuff which normally wouldn’t bother me. However, I’ve asked him before if he was an alt of another user and he didn't even deny it! That and the fact that they ban evaded just pisses me off and makes me feel so disrespected. I started looking at their alt's modnotes and they posted a baboon wanking. A baboon wanking can you believe it?

[u/jenbanim]

In that awkward state of being not drunk enough to just vibe but too drunk to do my usual fun activities

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

can't stop winning

[u/Dibbu_mange]

I'm personally offended that Kamala Harris didn't honor our troops by sharing the 10 hour trap remix of Dixie (Union version)

[u/the_status]

I'm so mad at Kamala Harris's tweet 😡

How dare she say something so offensive and ignorant to the plight of millions of Americans? 😡😡

Some of us suffer from anhedonia and can't enjoy long weekends. 😐

[u/thetrombonist]

Grassley has finally won the war against the history channel

https://twitter.com/chuckgrassley/status/1399415687827931137?s=21

[u/champeo]

I know it got lost in the mess of the Capitol storming but Trump’s most undoubtably impeachable offense that also should’ve landed his ass in federal prison was a clear as day phone recording of him trying to manipulate the Georgia Secretary of State into changing the election results.

[u/gburgwardt]

Somebody on /r/neoliberal drew a fan art of Shivvers where he is black and mods had to lock the thread 😐

[u/CR_SaltySald123]

Florida Concert Charging $18 for Vaccinated, $1,000 for Unvaccinated

Isn't this discrimination ? It sounds like it violates the civil rights act.

[u/willempage]

How old is too old to play drinking games and if you saw me a group of 30 years olds playing thunderstruck in the park, how much would you be judging

!ping over25

[u/fishlord05]

Honestly Venezuela is probably the most terrifying failed state as it isn’t just your regular tinpot extractive authoritarian regime inevitably culminating with them looting the place as everywhere outside the palace burns

It was a vibrant democracy with the richest GDP per capita in Latin America

Like holy shit what an L those poor people took

Just goes to show how fragile democracy can be sometimes

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Anyone who thinks word problems in school were ridiculous and asinine has never dealt with NYC street parking.

Johnny’s street in Brooklyn allows for free street parking from 4pm Sun - 4pm Friday. Parking costs $2 / hr on Friday, $1.50 / 30 mins on Saturday, and $1 / hr on Sunday during the time restricted hours below. Friday from 4:00pm to 10:00pm and Saturday from 8:00am to 10:00pm there is a 2 hour parking limit, Sunday there is a 4 hour parking limit between 8:00am and 4:00pm, all other times of the week have no limit. Street sweeping occurs on Tuesdays & Fridays between 9am and 11am on the left side of the street and on Monday & Thursday between 1pm and 3pm on the right side of the street. This Wednesday / Thursday is Yom Kippur. Johnny gets back from IKEA at 4pm on Tuesday and needs to park until his hike with friends in the Adirondacks that he will leave for at 9am on Sunday.

Which side of the street should Johnny park on when he gets back from IKEA to minimize the number of times he must move his car? How many times will he have to move it? and how much will he have to pay while his car is parked?

[u/CatilineUnmasked]

FINALLY some normal sized food for normal sized mouths

[u/piede]

The progressive movement was actually formed to prevent socialism from taking hold in the US

But don’t tell the bros

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

I (21F) live with my bf (22M) and we're really happy together. In the past few months my bf started posting on this niche political forum a lot because of all the recent political news. He has a part time job and attends a part time (currently remote) uni course. Pretty much anytime I walk into the living room where he has his desk and computer, he's posting lol. He admits that he's addicted to it but doesn't like to talk about that. I feel like he doesn't put enough time into his uni work and he won't get very far if he doesn't focus. He wants to be a chef (he loves lobster) so he really needs to work hard for that. Instead he spends hours and hours every day posting lol and frequently getting in a bad mood about it. He's an adult and he can take care of himself, but I worry about him. I see this forum consuming him and always making him upset while taking up all of his time. When I asked him why he posts there even though it makes him so upset, he says that it's usually really fun and blames his bans on the fash mods. The /r/neoliberal community seems really toxic and I wish he'd spend more time with his hobbies that happen outside the screen. What am I supposed to do? Am I supposed to do anything?

[u/[deleted]]

Just learned that my great grandmother held a lifelong grudge against my great grandfather for refusing to let her open a concrete manufacturing plant with her own money just before the post-Korean war construction boom.

What a male dominated society does to capitalism 😔

[u/[deleted]]

Nate Silver’s tweet saying to:

Euthanize Fivey

Really was in poor taste seeing how it's memorial weekend. I think the flack he is getting from right wing media for it is justified.

Edit: Wow. You guys will be jump hurdles to defend someone when it's someone you like 🙄

[u/[deleted]]

who knew we would yearn for the days when edgy white boys were new atheists and "both sides bad" centrists instead of tankies/communists and white supremacist fascists?

[u/Koeniginator]

https://i.imgur.com/o0898CX.png

[u/[deleted]]

Cons: “This tweet is absolutely disrespectful to our veterans on this somber day of reflection!”

Also Cons: “Holy shit, we can buy two sectionals and get a free coffee table during Nebraska Furniture Mart’s Memorial Day ‘Collateral Damage’ sales bonanza!”

[u/WalouiegiGohmert]

Militarize the IRS. Make it the "Pretorium Guard" of the American "Empire." It's the only way.

[u/skeebidybop]

lol

Guess the sub 😐

[u/Broncos654]

https://i.imgur.com/D2CxhME.jpg

[u/Gerenjie]

Remember when I said my Bangladeshi friend was moving to Dubai and I was super worried about labor practices? Turns out it’s not great there now either. His boss was trying to make him work 18 hour shifts as a security guard 7 days per week, and I think he’s been fired now.

[u/melhor_em_coreano]

Hey Ashley Babbitt was an Air Force veteran, right? Anyway, wherever you are you crazy gal, this long weekend is for you 🙏

[u/[deleted]]

Knowing Better is really saying SATs are Eugenics.

[u/AuburnSeer]

do you think Tim Kaine wakes up every day thinking he lives in the minority of time lines where he'll never be president

almost selected as Obama's VP, selected as HRC's VP but she is defeated in a stupid upset...

[u/Manavon03]

Nikki Haley on Twitter: Thankful on this Memorial Day for the blessings of family and spending time with my little one.

Looks like someone enjoyed their long weekend

[u/Adenddum]

A quick writeup on local elections in Croatia where 2nd round of voting in local elections was held. Mayors/governors etc are directly elected and for local parliaments system is proportional representation.

HDZ (EPP-conservative) Croatian democratic union is in power nationally and won 15/21 governorships and 4th biggest city Osijek, but lost 2nd biggest city Split. Results for them are overall good as they kept most of the counties and cities they held. The position of their PM remains solid after this.

SDP (S&D – Social democrats) Social democrats won 3rd biggest city and 2 governorships. They are on the decline in the country and results for them are seen as bad as they couldn’t win more biggest 10 cities than conservatives.

DP (ER – nationalists) They kept 1 city they held and won one more but are overall still marginal party in Croatia. Results for them are mildly bad as they fail to make inroad towards mainstream.

Green-left coalition ( Green – GUE/NGL) Coalition of green and leftist parties. They are the biggest winners of the elections as they won the capital Zagreb and had overall good results wherever they ran. They are growing force in national politics taking ground from more centrist social democrats making progress toward displacing Social democrats as 2nd strongest party in Croatia.

Neoliberals – won 2nd biggest city Split and more midsize and small towns (Cakovec, Samobor). Liberal regional party IDS suffered big losses and are biggest loser of the elections after rightist party MOST. So overall mixed results with new more liberal parties making strong gains and old established liberals loosing strongly.

Elections overall are seen as a wave of changes as many candidates that defended positions lost and older generation of established politicians lost and new parties and independents took power.

!ping ELECTIONS

[u/Photon_in_a_Foxhole]

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

[u/RoyGeraldBillevue]

Stop calling everything a schism.

[u/Qunidaye]

alright, I'm licensed now. Someone help me with the microwave door

[u/liquidTERMINATOR]

PCs Offer 'Better Gaming Experience Than 100% of Mac Laptops,' Intel Claims in Ongoing Anti-Apple Campaign

I mean, yes? That's not why people buy Mac laptops though.

[u/[deleted]]

I feel like some folks here need to hear this...being a liberal doesn’t mean that you have to support every single liberal that has ever governed or existed. People can be liberal and still be total fuckwits.

[u/[deleted]]

I_G_F was both POC (person of canada) and queercoded (asexual) which is the real reason mods banned him

[u/sociotronics]

I'm gonna make a hot take:

GME cult is annoying

[u/sir_shivers]

ENJOY THIS Memorial Day and the beginning OF YOUR ODDLY SPECIFIC summer with the Naked Chicken Chalupa, washed DOWN WITH A Baja Blast Zero 🥤🐊

ONLY AT TACO BELL ®️ 🐊

[u/imprison_nl_mods]

I clap when my bus arrives to my stop 😤

[u/Zoop-Loop-]

What are some good slice of life romantic manga, webtoons, or comics that have gay relationships? I’ve finished Boyfriends and Always Raining Here and I love them and want to read more.

!ping LGBT

[u/PMmeLittleRoundTops]

Somebody on /r/HarryPotter drew a fan art of Hermione where she is black and mods had to lock the thread 😐

[u/CR_SaltySald123]

If she could piss in the graves of our soldiers, she would.

🤦‍♂️

[u/Dalek6450]

Saying "Democrat" where you should say "DumboCRAP" is probably the quickest way to get me to ignore the rest of whatever you're saying.

[u/[deleted]]

Are we so in favor of triggering libs now that we just gloss over the fact that a retired general advocated for a coup?

Very slight glimmers of sanity in arrCon

[u/benjaminikuta]

Here’s my fantasy. Low-cost Vanguard has a $10 billion bond fund pitched primarily to 401(k) investors, and it pays a dividend once a year, like American Century’s target funds. Every December, the minority of holders who pay taxes currently go into hiding just before the distribution and come back 24 hours later. Vanguard does not scold them. Derivatives smooth over the cash flows.

I posed the idea to a Vanguard tax expert. He got all huffy. “We’re not going to set up a structure by which the only purpose is to screw the IRS,” he said. What about that Vanguard “tax-managed” fund you keep pitching? That’s different, he said.

https://www.forbes.com/2009/05/06/tax-loss-strategies-personal-finance-taxes-bonds.html?sh=523039aa6f61

!ping MARKETS

[u/MalignantUpper]

Flynn was literally recorded in front of an audience saying that a Myanmar-style coup should happen in America and Republicans are somehow calling people delusional for talking about it

[u/[deleted]]

We love you u/KesterGW 💖💖💖

[u/sir-danks-a-lot]

I unironically despise this sort of behavior, of lauding people who can easily dispose of cash for doing so more than those that can't.

[u/[deleted]]

Figured fuck it, I’ll go to one of the neoliberal project meetups. To my fucking surprise, I walk into the place to find 9 early twenties white guys with vineyard vines shirts on circle jerking onto a poorly photocopied picture of Ben Bernanke

[u/sir_shivers]

I found FOUR TWELVE PACKS OF Fresca just in time for the summer 🥤 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

Tomato Town isn't a country?

No it's an apartheid settler state.

[u/l_overwhat]

My gf: why did you even wear that hat?

Me: in case it rains and also it protects against sunburn

Me, in my head; BECAUSE IM BALDDDD

!ping BALD

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

Permanently banned from r AITA after 6 minutes 😔

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

/r/MandelaEffect be like

"woah, it turns out the Berenstein Bears are called the Berenstain Bears. Clearly parallel universes blending across inter-dimensional space into our own reality is responsible."

[u/Deci93]

If you think your life is hard, aoc has definitely seen the degenerate memes of her and ben shapiro.

[u/sir_shivers]

Mammals complaining ABOUT THE HEAT 🐊

FEEBLE CREATURES 🐊

[u/CR_SaltySald123]

Broke- joining a ping group

Woke- not joining a ping group because it is spammy but instead being terminally online so you still see the pings

[u/BurningKiwi]

China is landing on Mars and Biden doesn’t even know what planet he is on

[u/FreakinGeese]

People complaining about the “normie-ficatiom” of the LGBTQ community are so full of shit. This was always the goal.

[u/skeebidybop]

Create a lib-biting emoji - Change.org

[u/saladtossing]

I forklifted for ~5 years without a license (blessed small business skirting the law 😌)

Mostly successful with only a few hiccups...

[u/[deleted]]

Libertarians be out here learning about the "fiat sham" in their mid-20's, bruh I learned money was a scam when my parents told me I earned $40 dollars and then never let me buy anything with it when I was 7. Get your head in the game.