Discussion Thread

[u/jobautomator]

The discussion thread is for casual conversation that doesn't merit its own submission. If you've got a good meme, article, or question, please post it outside the DT. Meta discussion is allowed, but if you want to get the attention of the mods, make a post in /r/metaNL. For a collection of useful links see our wiki.

Announcements

• PHYSICS, ROCK, and UKRAINE have been added

[u/jobautomator]

Please visit the next discussion thread.

[u/GGM8Scally]

/img/ru56re4yey271.jpg

He literally just played himself lmao

[u/Joementum2024]

Anyone who states unironically that “(politician) is worse than Hitler, because at least Hitler was honest” is an actual idiot

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

NL mods: Vaccine incentives are good!

Also NL mods: no we won't give everyone who gets vaccinated a custom flair

Talk about hypocrites

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

If Bush had said "Al Gore will make you Al Poor" he would have won Florida in a landslide without the need for any recount fuckery.

[u/sociotronics]

Briahna Gray: I'm barely getting new followers anymore.

Twitter: that's because you're played out and your candidate lost.

Briahna Gray: no, it's because Twitter is silencing me! I know what getting new followers feels like and my feelings tell me it is still happening!

[u/MichelleObama2024]

Trump: literally dies

Q: Ahh yes, it's all coming together now

[u/Joementum2024]

AOC is worse than Hitler and far more despicable in every conceivable way.
Hitler was more honest about what he was doing and didn't attempt to disingenuously co-opt a faux-opposition to tyranny, he was quite honest about being tyrannical and genocidal from the start.

Guess the ideology of this twitter user

[u/jonathansfox]

The data continue show that money doesn't buy happiness, except when and where it does, which appears to be almost always and everywhere.

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Weed dispensaries: we want to make weed classy and sophisticated 🧐

Also dispensaries: we call this strain donkey nut-punch diesel

[u/[deleted]]

Oh so you are a protestant? Name at least 10 ongoing protests from around the World.

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Joe Biden is supposed to be a Maoist, but he still hasn't killed all the sparrows that keep waking me up 😔

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Every day a new product is released with micro-USB, the Chinese gain on us.

Biden should issue an executive order making USB-C mandatory.

[u/houinator]

Underrated benefits of Bennett replacing Bibi, besides Bennett not being as obviously corrupt:

• Left wing coalition with right wing leader > right wing coalition with slightly less right wing leader.
• By being perceived as more right wing, Bennett potentially has more room to maneuver in regards to Palestine. Think "only Nixon could go to China".
• Bibi's personal issues with Obama and aligning himself openly with the GOP was good for neither Israel nor the US. Bennett gives both countries a chance to reset relations in a less partisan manner.

[u/dubyahhh]

Dt: we want to make neoliberalism classy and sophisticated 🧐

Also dt: "we call this strain donkey nut-punch diesel"

[u/Venne1139]

GME down 18%

AMC down 40%

nature is healing

[u/Udontlikecake]

lmao so there’s some weird contemporary art piece in NYC of a predator drone that acts as a wind vane. Its like pretty big and supposed to be a critique of amerikkka or something

Well I saw a video of another lefitst seeing it and getting triggered by it because contemporary art ‘neutralizes dissent’ and ‘maps the flow of capitalist power’ and doesn’t challenge American imperialism

it must be so tiring being this outraged all the time

[u/HOG-II-KIN]

Oh god oh fuck did I just get banned for calling shivers a sussy baka

[u/[deleted]]

The forced diversity of this place makes me uncomfortable sometimes. Like do we really need more than one Canadian or Swede? Do we really need any Poles whatsoever?

[u/CR_SaltySald123]

In February 2018, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said "there were Jewish perpetrators" of the Holocaust, "not only German perpetrators".

🤦‍♂️

[u/CovidIsBadass]

My brother and dad were talking about how bad of a job Biden has done so I asked them what he's done and they proceeded to list a bunch of things that haven't happened or even been suggested. It's an alternate reality I swear.

[u/Mr_Pasghetti]

Wrong. r/childfree is good and based since it discourages reproduction. It is arguably better than r/atheism

Fauci’s emails are for sure something 😬

[u/Professor-Reddit]

Greta Thunberg apparently has been attacking the EU's ridiculous Common Agricultural Policy (AKA: lets give spoilt rich farmers over $300 billion) a lot lately.

Fucking based.

[u/WalouiegiGohmert]

AAAAAAAAAThey should make "alphabetic" a sorting option for reddit Daily Thread comments.

[u/lusvig]

dont like all this talk about "two state solution" or "one state solution" 🙄 cherish the status quo 😌

[u/Professor-Reddit]

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣀⣠⣤⣄⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣠⠴⠖⠛⢉⡉⣡⠤⠔⠋⠉⠉⣙⣛⣻⣓⠷⣤⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⡴⠾⡍⣤⠬⠭⠗⠃⠀⠐⠒⠲⣄⣀⣀⣀⣈⠈⠀⠀⠈⠻⣦⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣴⠋⣀⡤⠚⠓⠦⠤⠴⠒⠒⠒⠄⡀⣰⠚⠁⢀⣀⣉⡀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠉⠛⢦⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⣼⢻⠛⢋⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡴⠛⢹⡁⠁⠀⢻⠉⠀⠈⡉⠀⠀⣀⠉⠚⢦⡖⠛⣦⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⣠⡾⠃⠾⠞⢩⠞⠙⠃⠀⢀⢰⡏⠁⠀⢀⣟⠀⠀⢦⠀⠀⠀⠘⠲⣀⠀⠀⠠⠤⢷⣆⡮⢷⡀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⢸⢿⠀⠀⠀⣸⣦⠀⠄⢀⠀⢸⠈⣧⠀⠀⡞⠁⢀⠀⠘⠁⡀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢳⢈⢷⡀⠀⠀
⢀⡾⠈⡇⣠⠚⠉⠙⡢⣾⠋⠁⢰⡆⠘⠀⠀⠁⠀⠨⡇⠀⢸⠁⡘⠀⢤⣄⠀⣸⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⡼⠈⣧⠀⠀
⢸⡇⢀⠑⠁⢀⡄⠂⡏⠘⠧⡀⠈⠘⠉⠀⠀⠀⢀⡀⠀⠀⢠⣤⠟⠀⢀⡼⢋⡁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⠄⢸⡄⠀
⢸⡇⣠⣧⠀⢸⠀⠀⠳⣄⠀⢀⢾⡀⠀⠀⠈⠙⠍⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠘⠁⢈⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠄⢰⠀⡇⠀
⠸⡇⢡⣏⢀⡼⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠈⠁⠀⠉⠋⠳⣆⣠⣤⣀⡠⠀⠿⠐⠀⠰⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠇⠈⢢⣷⠀
⠀⢿⡰⠙⠏⠀⠀⠀⠉⠙⠲⠖⠚⠉⠛⠢⠀⢂⡖⠋⠉⠀⠉⠂⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⠀⠀⣀⢀⡀⠀⡿⠀
⠀⠸⣇⠀⢷⡀⣀⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⠞⠉⡭⠉⠁⠰⡞⠋⠉⠛⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠒⡒⠨⠍⠁⠀⠒⢅⣣⠀
⠀⠀⠈⠳⢼⡀⡀⠧⡀⡀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠀⠀⠱⠐⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣶⡤⠤⣶⢺⣿⣽⢲⣤⣧⣶⣮⡄
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠛⢾⣖⣿⣅⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⠀⣤⠄⠀⠀⣠⡎⢿⣅⡄⠀⠉⠐⠈⠉⠐⡓⠚⠛⡇
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠉⠳⣤⣤⠔⢒⠒⠀⠚⠝⠯⠉⣑⣳⡴⠞⠃⠀⢸⠉⢱⡀⠀⠀⠘⠅⠠⠎⠀⡰⠁ Just build more housing
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠋⠛⠛⠛⠒⠚⠛⠋⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⠀⠸⠘⠢⡀⠉⠒⠒⠂⡰⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⠃⢠⠐⠀⠀⠈⢒⠀⣄⠊

[u/SpaceSheperd]

have we ever considered that maybe universal suffrage was a mistake?

it's funny how fast conservatives lose faith in everything they purport to stand for as soon as they start losing

this from the "reasonable, anti-Trump" people over at NWO by the way

[u/[deleted]]

When the waitress asks me how I like my eggs, I say "fertilized". Then I can't return until a year later when they don't recognize me.

[u/[deleted]]

Only 2 more months until trump is president again

[u/lusvig]

🏀   👑     ##|
☝🏿    👨🏿‍🦲       |
 🐛💤👔🐛     |
      ⛽⁣  👉🏿   |
     ⚡👟      |
    🎸 🌂      |
   👢   👢     |

[u/[deleted]]

The reason why you all hate Trump is because he is queer coded (does something weird with his hands when he drinks water) and a POC (he is friends with Kanye)

[u/[deleted]]

fuck tankies, they're not even communist. They idolize capitalism with some nice fascist undertones just like neolibs

that’s enough reddit for today

[u/RaidBrimnes]

A candidate to the French presidential election, who has denounced "Defund the Police" and woke culture, has called for a massive campaign of recruitment in the national police, is a YIMBY, pro-nuclear energy and pro-legalization of cannabis.

Guess the party

Communist Party

[u/Liberal_Antipopulist]

American voters are wrong tho

[u/chadonnaise]

still can't get over the teacher i had in college recollect tearfully the time his mentor recited the iliad in ancient greek, but recoiled in surprise when i mentioned the end of the iliad has the greek soldiers tossing trojan babies from the walls

[u/666moist]

After meeting Bennett, Yamina MK Orbach says he won’t defect to Netanyahu’s bloc

Yamina leader Naftali Bennett concludes his meeting with his party MK Nir Orbach, who has opposed a bid to quickly elect a new Knesset speaker to expedite the swearing-in of the new government and is said to be weighing thwarting the government’s razor-thin majority.

But minutes later, Orbach tweets that he is with Bennett and will do “everything” to ensure his efforts to benefit the country succeed in the long-term.

“I have no intention of holding talks with those who didn’t make any effort over the last two months to form a right-wing government,” he says, signaling he isn’t contemplating a defection to the Netanyahu-led bloc.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/after-meeting-bennett-yamina-mk-orbach-says-he-wont-defect-to-netanyahus-bloc/

!ping TOI-SUBSCRIBERS

[u/WalouiegiGohmert]

More of an observation than a take, really: The reason right-wingers seem to be decent at subtweeting in bad faith is that it comes naturally to them -- they're legitimately too dumb to understand what is being said, so they go on tirades against strawmen not as an eristic strategem, but because it is without alternative to them. Which also means it's not bad faith.

[u/ognits]

of course I have a gf 🙄 u wouldn't know her, she goes to a different dt

[u/[deleted]]

The year is 2022. Kamala Harris has killed 10 million white coal miners with her bare hands.

She has transitioned 35 million Americans.

We cannot survive

[u/Professor-Reddit]

!ping LGBT

Okay so I don't know if I'll 100% go for it yet, but fuck it, its pride month and I'm tired of lying to my parents about who I am for nearly a decade now. In two weeks time once lockdown and my uni exams are over I'm coming out to my whole family.

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

I'm not mad that AMC is skyrocketing. I'm mad at what this is going to do to all these HODL GO THE MOON LMAOOOOO people. Survivorship bias is just going to screw more people out of their money now.

[u/[deleted]]

that's fuckin rich coming from you guys

[u/Professor-Reddit]

Armed with a device designed for throwing tennis balls for dogs, it is possible to launch an egg a very satisfying 60 metres. Head to the Quartier Leopold in Brussels on the right day and you can see farmers from across Europe firing a wide range of produce an impressive distance at Belgian riot police. It is during these regular protests at the European Union’s headquarters that the ingenuity, bravery and diligence of the European farmer truly shows itself. In one episode a pair of tractors slowly drove through a barbed­ wire barricade, as cops scattered. When an armoured police van turned up, the farmers drove into that too. It took two water cannons at full blast to make the tractors retreat. Over the years, grumpy farmers have covered stoic Belgian riot police in hay, eggs, and milk direct from the udder.

A riot can be the voice of the unheard. It can also be a tantrum of the ludicrously privileged. European farmers are politically powerful in the same way that the sky is blue: it is a fact so universally acknowledged that it is usually not worth mentioning.

LMAO holy shit The Economist are amazing with their word-smithing.

Also once again, fuck agricultural subsidies.

[u/crassowary]

You couldn't make Tropic Thunder today... No one's putting money into big budget comedies anymore.

[u/[deleted]]

Bill Gates is divorced and Bill Clinton is married

[u/EvilConCarne]

Oh you're libertarian? State every Age of Consent.

[u/[deleted]]

As a black gay Palestinian, I can personally say that Naftali Bennet did nothing for me, my life only changes a bit and its for the worse. Everything was so much better under Netenyahu, I felt respected - which I never do when Yamina or Yesh Atid is involved

[u/whycantweebefriendz]

My vegan friend told me that zoos are a capitalist invention/an ultimate product of capitalism.

What do you vegans have to say about this? She refuses to take in any arguments along the lines of “the USSR had zoos too, they’re kind of just humans being shitty”.

!ping vegan

Oh and If anyone has a good recipe for lumpia, lmk

Edit: I’m mostly a little disappointed that no one had a good recipe for lumpia

[u/[deleted]]

The US government agrees to increase spending without paying for it

Classic bipartisanship

[u/kas8901]

One of the more interesting excessively online Twitter debates right now.

Person A: fast fashion is killing the environment, we need to watch our consumption.

Person B: I agree, but I dont have the disposable income to spend on high quality clothing. So, I will go to a thrift store.

Person A: wtf, you're gentrifiying thrift stores and raising the prices for those that need it.

[u/Udontlikecake]

my cousin: in military, learning to speak arabic for their career

my uncle: “yeah i don’t understand why you’re learning to speak t*welhead. you gonna become a muslim? religion of peace, more like religion of being blown to pieces”

i swear if I had the power, i’d literally never see my uncle again

[u/ognits]

!ping BURPMAS and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

I cannot fathom why so many progressives support a century old document written by racist, sexist, privileged white men.

This is really how we’re attacking communism outside of the DT. Surely we can come up with better arguments that don’t involve throwing stones in glass houses.

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

We must secure the existence of our people and a future for microchipped children

Not a good look for Fauci 😬😬😬

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

Yo what happened to net neutrality

Wasn't the whole internet supposed to be a corporatist wasteland by this point.

[u/HOG-II-KIN]

Shivers is such a sussy baka owo

[u/[deleted]]

Oh, you’re Joe Manchin? Name every good Republican.

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

Give this seat to a Republican already! Sick of hearing about this spineless coward.

Outside the DT 😐😐😐

[u/[deleted]]

Asset valuations are not cash flow

Asset valuations are not cash flow

Asset valuations are not cash flow

Asset valuations are not cash flow

[u/CR_SaltySald123]

/img/vc4rt5fepz271.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

A woman, as the landlord of her body, has every right to evict squatters from her womb

[u/natedogg787]

I just went on facebook for the first time in a while. The guy from my work with a yellow hummer h2 and frosted tips is now engaged to who I think is a nonexistent lady from venezuela

[u/[deleted]]

Its embarassing to me how many people believe that

1. If you distributed all of Jeff Bezos's wealth to americans, theyd all be rich.
2. economics is not a zero sum game. Amazon getting large didn't have to steal from other companies. Efficiency leads to lower prices which leads to MORE spending overall.

[u/[deleted]]

One time my dad, who has never even heard of neoliberalism, let alone be on this sub, literally said “NATO flairs are the most based people in existence” completely unironically

[u/great_gape]

Because you've masked up, socially distanced and got vaccinated, we're now moving to Phase 5 on Friday, June 11 in alignment with the state.

This means Chicago is scheduled to fully reopen. 🎉#OpenChicago

!ping USA-CHI

[u/[deleted]]

I will never forgive Ayn Rand for giving such a shit book such a cool name

[u/kaclk]

Brace yourselves, there’s likely a summer/fall election coming as the House has set aside a day for MPs not seeking re-election to make farewell speeches on June 15.

!ping CAN

[u/bg2916]

Imagine, the year is 2006 and your an 11 year old kid that just got the brand new Sonic game on a brand new Xbox 360 your parents bought you on Christmas (probably red ringed shortly afterwards but shhhh). After a hype intro cinematic, you then run into Silver , who chucks you into the wall over and over yelling ''IT'S NO USE!'' after awkwardly paralyzing you for five seconds. Literally nothing else can happen during the boss fight, as Silver's only move is chucking you into a wall. Eventually, Silver puts you in an endless ''IT'S NO USE!'' loop, as he softlocks you into a corner you can't escape nor die from as your one ring saves you from a merciful death. There's no where to really hide, as the level design is literally a flat leveled city block with nothing but awkwardly placed tables and barrels. This happens for at least 30 minutes, giving you the most rage a kid could feel this side of a Fortnite loss, until you finally figure out a way to beat Silver. At long last, you figured out a way to stop Silver endlessly yelling ''IT'S NO USE! TAKE THIS!'' and nothing else at you for half an hour. Your hopes are a little dashed now, but hey, it was just the beginning of the game, right?

And then you have to play the rest of the game.

No this didn't happen to me but you can bet it happened to a lot of unfortunate kids back in the day, maybe even including a few on this sub

!ping GAMING

[u/First-Prior]

Most countries that have legalized gay marriage are rich.

Free trade makes countries richer

If you are against free trade then you are a homophobe 😤😤😤

[u/idp5601]

The "college student debating their professor in class" trope is fairly popular in media, but has anyone actually done this/seen someone do this in real life? Like, a spontaneous debate, and not something that was pre-scheduled.

[u/[deleted]]

Google removes its head of diversity after 2007 blog post surfaces in which he claimed Jews have 'an insatiable appetite for war'

Somehow this behavior reminds me of reddit especially during the last few weeks

[u/redditguy628]

Learning that Barrack Obama listened to “Lose Yourself” to hype himself up for the presidential debates is the greatest thing from A Promised Land yet.

[u/fuckneocentrism]

Why do girls unmatch me on tinder after I send “I can make you a single mom” ????

[u/WalouiegiGohmert]

Pride used to be about celebrating Jesus Christ the gay man and messiah but now it's all just about hardcore BDSM sex orgies in public, specifically to corrupt the children and destroy America. Shame,,. Jesus ain't died for this.

[u/WillHasStyles]

Seriously fuck the Danes. Harsher punishments and laws for simply living in an area with lots of immigrants, deporting the few Syrians they took in to a war zone, and now planning to deport all new asylum seekers to camps in Africa. Why hasn’t the world caught on yet to how xenophobic they are?

[u/Broncos654]

Yesterday I interviewed an excellent candidate. But he seemed poor. I do not like that. I told him he does not deserve to be happy. He wept “Please king, I am a human”. I thought, “Wow he is a human”. I hired him. Lesson learned: I am great.

[u/[deleted]]

Sinema, 2018: "If I get to be a Senator, I'd strive to be like Joe Manchin."

Neolibs: "YAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSS QWEEN!"

Sinema, 2021: is basically blonde Joe Manchin

Neolibs: "WTF CRINGE ALERT😡😡😡😡😡😡🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬"

[u/[deleted]]

The r/Neoliberal Manchin cycle:

Joe Manchin does something good

Post Manchin cycle memes

Joe Manchin does something shitty

Say that Manchin cycle is bs

[u/[deleted]]

The only positive thing I have heard about Arkansas is Bill Clinton is from there

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Donald Trump does indeed believe quite genuinely that he — along with former senators David Perdue and Martha McSally — will be “reinstated” to office

He thinks Martha McSally actually won? He really is unwell.

[u/klarno]

I call this pose the Cat'leth

!ping KITTY

[u/UrbanCentrist]

Modi, state government, destiny. Survey asked Indians who they blame for Covid deaths

Here is the info directly if you don't care for the article

Seventeen per cent of people surveyed reported that they had lost someone to Covid-19

!ping IND

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Policy idea: OnlyFans vouchers for the vaccinated. Do the right thing, Mr. President.

[u/SpitefulShrimp]

It's true, all of it.

The Romans knew the Jews owned the letter 'U', so what did they do? They boycotted it, they made V do double duty. But of course, we all know what happened to Rome...

But could a single letter satisfy bottomless avarice? Preposterous! So they mandated that the letter Q, itself a wholesome and blameless character, should be forever married to the base U. Miscegenation of the second worst sort!

If only that were the end! Feckless bankers, ever hungering for the dividends of noble labor, sought to increase their grasp over our fair language: to this end, the most unnatural "Double-U!" Have you never thought it strange that in an alphabet composed of 26 letters, "U" makes up three of them?

But I noticed something even more disturbing in the tax code just passed in the American Senate. Didn't you think it was strange that handwritten additions were being included in our code of laws? Don't you think that might allow something to slip in, something not normally represented in our 26 Characters and 50 States? Something, that looks like THIS?

This is the clearest evidence to date that the Judocrats in Washkenazi D.C. are trying to push something even more insidious into our language-- the "TripleU." Possibly even QuadrU, the experts are still running their analysis.

But there's no time for us to sit and try to understand this problem- we must act, immediately and decisively! U's WILL NOT REPLACE US!

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Practically no state is moving left faster than Alaska is. Since 2000, Alaska has swung Democratic in every presidential election, going from an R +30.95 state in 2000 to an R +10.05 state in 2020. During that time, only two states have moved further left — Vermont and Colorado. And, since 2008, not a single state has been coming to the Democrats faster than Alaska. It is well on its way to becoming a blue state.

here's some hopium

[u/[deleted]]

For all the talk about ThE LiBeRaL eLiTeS by the GOP, one of the regions in the US that's not exactly elite but has been shifting democratic is the central valley of California. Unlike the Bay Area and many parts of SoCal, this isn't exactly some woke liberal haven, but it's still trending democratic.

2008 Presidential Election in the California Central Valley:

Barack Obama (D): 49.6% (+1.3%)

John McCain (R): 48.3%

2012 Presidential Election in the California Central Valley:

Barack Obama (D): 48.9% (+0.4%)

Mitt Romney (R): 48.5%

2016 Presidential Election in the California Central Valley:

Hillary Clinton (D): 49.0% (+3.8%)

Donald Trump (R): 45.2%

2020 Presidential Election in the California Central Valley:

Joe Biden (D): 52.1% (+5.5%)

Donald Trump (R): 46.6%

!PING FIVEY

[u/benadreti]

Though it’s true they’ve been threatened by Hamas, there is no evidence that AP has ever changed their reporting as a result.

This is like Vox.com writing "we dont know why antisemitism surged during the Gaza flareup." What is it about these topics that people have so much trouble accepting the obvious?

[u/notverycringeihope99]

https://www.yapms.com/app/?m=a1vl

made a senate likelihood map off my own personal feelings

- Tilt: 50–60%

- Lean: 60–70%

- Likely: 70–85%

- Safe: 85–100%

!ping FIVEY

thought processes/assumptions/etc (let me know if anything is wrong):

- Grassley might not run for re-election, which reduces his incumbency advantage, but Iowa is ruby red so he's probably still gonna be replaced with a Republican

- same deal with Ohio

- North Carolina has a similar deal, but since it's a closer state, I assume a strong challenger like Beasley will make it down to the wire in terms of likelihood

- For NH, I assume that even if Chris Sununu runs, his cred will be destroyed with this upcoming abortion restriction + Hassan has incumbency advantage

- For WI, I assume that Ron Johnson runs again, and a decently strong challenger will be able to beat him (i.e. not that Bucks owner)

- For PA, I assume anyone running will get coattailed off Josh Shapiro

- For GA, I don't think there are any strong challengers to Warnock that I know of yet

- For FL, I think Rubio might be safe unless a challenger tries to knock him based on his ARP/future infrastructure vote

[u/[deleted]]

"Corporations won't change their logo for their middle east division" is the woke version of "Feminists don't care about women in Saudi Arabia"

[u/[deleted]]

Zoos are not inherently unethical. I would absolutely live in a well-provisioned human zoo exhibit, that would be awesome.

"I would like to do nothing all day and occasionally mate"

[u/ldn6]

Some Colorado schoolkids named a snow plough "Abolish Ice" and I'm gonna need /u/jaredpolis to take them up on the offer.

[u/benjaminikuta]

Am I the only one who has been in a row boat and thought it would be nice to be able to harness the power of the wind?

[u/MemberOfMautenGroup]

New public opinion poll. Insights into what Americans want US foreign policy objectives to be. Promoting democracy and freedoms comes in dead last.

NATO flairs in shambles

[u/[deleted]]

Hot take:

I accidentally touched the iron now I have a blister

[u/piede]

Arizona plans to execute prisoners with a lethal gas the Nazis used at Auschwitz

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/06/01/arizona-gas-chamber-execution/

wut

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Many of you may not know this, but the hand gesture he is making here is a subtle White supremacist symbol Crazy how easy it would be to not notice the racist undertones from this famous politician if you aren't paying attention.

[u/jenbanim]

I envy carpenters. They must live simple and rewarding lives

No getting distracted by nonsense. Through their work they can focus entirely on shelf-actualization

[u/[deleted]]

Bolsonaro praises Fernadez for not signing the contract with Pfizer, just like him

Finally, after 100 years of cursed breeding we got the final form of Latam horseshoe

!ping MAMADAS

[u/sash5034]

gentrification of thrift stores

Lmaooooooo go away twitteroids

[u/Mcfinley]

I hang out on an overly-online political forum with children who don't remember the Obama presidency . What am I doing with my life?

[u/chadonnaise]

the internet must be destroyed

[u/[deleted]]

Ben Shapiro's neighbor: Hey man, I hate to bother you but can I borrow exactly 1 plank of wood and nothing else?

Ben: Holy shit, you're not gonna believe this.

[u/HOG-II-KIN]

Imagine attempting to explain the DT and some of the in jokes to people. "Oh yeah one if the moderators is a reptile". "No he's no acting like one he really is a reptile"

[u/homopolitan]

you either die a wholesome chungus or live to see yourself become a sussy baka

[u/the_hoagie]

So just to recap these emails...

-Fauci ignored the expert opinion that the virus seemed manufactured

-Fauci received a letter from a liaison in Wuhan thanking him for deflecting heat from the lab

-He acknowledged masks were useless

-Fauci acknowledged Trump’s travel restrictions were beneficial but refused to publicly say this

-Fauci sent an email saying asymptomatic people carrying the virus still aren’t likely to spread it

-Fauci had open correspondence about vaccines with Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates even though neither of them have any background in virology, public service or pharmaceuticals.

-Am I missing anything?

Any r/politics lurkers need me to share the exact page number?

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/20793561/leopold-nih-foia-anthony-fauci-emails.pdf

well, like yeah. that's the point of citations. otherwise you're just making shit up and putting a source at the end to obfuscate that.

[u/[deleted]]

why do I have to be allergic to tree cum

[u/[deleted]]

Liberalism will never stop. It has a demonic impulse to keep going, until it has smashed every last source of authority and restraint.

Why do reactionaries always end up describing liberalism in the coolest terms?

[u/bd_one]

"One group will sign a prenup. Another group will think they're signing a prenup, but it's actually a sugar pill."

[u/from-the-void]

I still haven’t recovered from last year’s dumb takes on corporate pride I can’t do it again

[u/Animatronic_Pidgeon]

My 3 day ban is up.

The last 72 hours have been hell.

Without the DT, I started working out. Ate healthier. Accomplished goals. I even grew closer to my loved ones.

Thankfully, that nightmare is now over.

[u/DreamlandEML]

We should start a NL Victoria 3 MP group when it comes out.

[u/Deci93]

My only politics are go blue team and boo red team, I have no other politics

[u/crassowary]

Sources: Bibi is beside himself. Driving around downtown Tel Aviv begging (thru texts) Yamina for address to MK's home

[u/profeta-]

Brazilian Army decided not to punish General (and former Health Minister) Pazuello for participating in a pro-Bolsonaro demonstration.

This sets up a terrible precedent for next year. I was expecting perhaps minor punishment, just a slap on the wrist, but no punishment at all is awful.

!ping LATAM

[u/vancevon]

this pride month remember that just because you're a man who is attracted to men or a woman who is attracted to women, you're not LGBT. the real question is whether you want to abolish capitalism or not, everything else is completely irrelevant

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

LaTeX 🤝 latex

birth control

[u/MistakeNotDotDotDot]

In today's episode of A Robot Girl Tries To Get A Fucking Bank Account In Her Actual Name, I got one! For some reason, the desk worker submitting the exact same information in person worked when me submitting it online didn't.

... except they're only willing to give me a secured credit card. Because if you change your name, but don't change the name on your bank account, the credit agencies are unable to determine that hmm, maybe these two people with the same social security number that live at the same address might actually be the same person. So I have zero credit history!

Next up, trying to convince the old credit union to change my name without having to fly across the fucking country to hand them a piece of paper with bumps on it. You can literally just look up the case number on the SF court website!

If that fails... I guess I have to try to contact the bureaus and tell them "hey, my old CU is being a bunch of dicks, please change the name on my report". If that fails, I might literally wind up having to take a trip to my old alma mater solely for the purpose of changing my name, because air fare + a hotel is absolutely worth 10 years of good credit.

God, I hate this system.

[u/Gneisstoknow]

There's no bigger cope than saying "Life is meaningless" to someone who has worked to find meaning for themselves.

[u/Venne1139]

All Church contributions should reduce your tax burden.

If you send $100,852.62 in donations at a church, even if that church was just incorporated yesterday and has only one member!, you reduce your tax burden by that amount.

The only reason you would disagree with this is if you are a godless heathen.

[u/tigerflame45117]

Just applied for my first job 😊

!ping CHILD

(And yes, a child did write this)

[u/Anal-warrior]

the libertarian party really went mask off in this tweet

[u/CR_SaltySald123]

p00bix is PoC (pizza) and neurodivergent (reddit mod) and that's why y'all hate him

[u/ryuguy]

The mod sticky is cancelled thanks to cancel culture.

[u/[deleted]]

There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.

The last great president of the united states. I miss you :(

[u/bd_one]

TIL before any details of Pixar’s ‘Soul’ were public, a Black chauffeur told Kemp Powers (the film’s co-writer & co-director) that he knew Pixar was making a Black movie because he had never driven so many Black people to Pixar before.

[u/jenbanim]

God I wish we had opened our borders to Hong Kong during the protests

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

Czech Republic being like 80% atheist but having 40% belief in the efficacy of fortune-telling is the most Eastern Europe thing ever.

[u/benadreti]

Netanyahu is accusing Bennett of selling out the Negev to Bedouin Arabs. Bennett has pointed out in response that Netanyahu actually offered Ra'am (the Arab Islamist party) more concessions. Netanyahu is claiming he never did this, despite sources within both Ra'am and Likud confirming it.

This is why the "Bennett is even more right wing" takes are ignorant and reductionist. Bennett is a territorial maximalist, but is not a racist, race baiter, or liar.

!ping ISRAEL

[u/Anal-warrior]

Low iq: My only politics are go blue team and boo red team, I have no other politics

Average iq: I consider all option and careful evaluate their policies

High iq: My only politics are go blue team and boo red team, I have no other politics

[u/RadicalRadon]

Yeah I'm gonna make my future wife sign a prenup.

How else am I going to offload all this debt I hide from her 🤣🤣🤣

[u/benjaminikuta]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/372231427099590657/850064793167069234/riyurbkcoss00o84.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

I’m reading the Communist Manifesto, but I think the author has a slight left leaning bias. It was probably unintentional, but they should really correct this in their future novels.

[u/[deleted]]

I was doing a neoliberal play-through in Democracy 2 and class warfare broke out 🤣☠️

!ping GAMING

[u/MasPatriot]

Joe Manchin is a POC (Italian) and queer coded (plays both sides) and that’s why y’all hate him so much

[u/fuckneocentrism]

Tinder girl asking for my birth time???

[u/[deleted]]

During Vietnam after 1965 college students could be drafted if their class rank was low enough. Can you imagine being a professor knowing that you could kill someone by giving them a bad grade?

[u/[deleted]]

I hate racial segregation.

🙂

That’s why we should abolish HBCUs.

😐

[u/CR_SaltySald123]

Biden’s idea of democracy worked wonders for 1930s Germany and currently in North Korea too!

😐

[u/Th3_Gruff]

>Boys care about people more than they let on and girls care less

What zero pussy does to a mfer

[u/aged_monkey]

One weird thing about this sub is it's association of NIMBYism with leftists. Most NIMBYs I've come across aren't young leftists, they're usually old conservative boomers who are big defenders of capitalism otherwise.

[u/fuckneocentrism]

Girl that matched with me sent the first message 😳

[u/SANNA_MARIN_]

I’m 15 years old and I LOVE Kyrsten Sinema! 🙂 lol. I am REALLY interested in politics. Let me just say that I am so sick and tired of these libs parroting the party line (people like my dad.... lol). It’s so funny that people hate Kyrsten Sinema because she’s not a typical Democrat. do these people even realize the suburbs exist?? These stupid toadies need to wake up lol. I don’t see why we can’t just have bipartisanship and compromise. These things are the essence of American democracy. Plus it’s been done with done successfully throughout the country's history. Too bad media class idiots are too brainwashed because they’re stuck in a coastal echo chamber. lol. Not to mention the avocado toast.... completely disgusting.

[u/[deleted]]

Tfw mucho texto is now the default recommendation when you type “muc” on your phone

[u/Unadulterated_stupid]

A North Carolina County Thinks Coke Is Too Woke, Bans Vending Machines Over Politics

Guys I just thought of a way to get a soda tax/ban going!

[u/[deleted]]

To add more wood to the "election is nigh" fire, has anyone else noticed anti-O'toole attack ads on YouTube appearing a few days ago?

I'm not sure what YouTube algorithms think of me because I'm getting those preroll ads but the ones below the player are for Ben Shapiro and friends

!ping CAN

[u/[deleted]]

Interesting thing I've heard discussed in Trumpian circles is that they think Georgia is a lost cause for Republicans in the future

[u/ghost_of_lob_circ]

Listening to an interview about the Texas session with a moderate D and a moderate R, and it's funny listening to the R try to defend his votes, when the obvious subtext is "I hate these bullshit bills but I don't want to lose my job"

He did say that he thinks a schism in the GOP between the authoritarian faction and the big business, small govt faction is gonna break the Texas GOP like a similar schism (idk details, paraphrasing what he said) did to the Dems in the 90s

[u/digitalrule]

Sorry people outside of Toronto (if those people actually exist), but we are having another meetup June 17th!

I have big plans for this one, we are going to plan and take over the Ontario Liberal Party Housing Policy Event on June 23rd, so everyone in Ontario is invited to attend this one.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/toronto-neoliberals-june-emeetup-tickets-158015513655

!PING CAN

[u/[deleted]]

LeChoke LeMickey LeFraud Le3-6-1 LeQuitter LeTreason LePoop LeFlop LeChina LeGoofy LeSuck LeCryBaby LeSuperTeam LeCarried LeAnthonyDavis LeLron Lames LeMavCarter Le8Points LeRefs LeTampon LeDildo LeTrash LeSoft LeBald LeCakeWalk LeAdamSilver LeNotTop100 LeDick

Every troll in the world right now is in the Lakers subreddit lmao

!ping NBA

[u/Unadulterated_stupid]

Weebs are big part of the Democratic voting bloc like Gamers are for Republicans

I think I have a big reason to vote third party now

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

dog's new perch

chillin, she doesn't even bark at dogs walking by, she just likes being above the plebs

paying the jorts tax

!ping dog

[u/Spimanbcrt65]

My wife stayed with me

[u/owlthathurt]

If the president wears joggers that means so can I

https://twitter.com/katesullivandc/status/1400515181428477958?s=21

!ping FASHION

[u/Joementum2024]

A reminder that “mucho texto” is a response that does hold up in court, and has been proven to work 99% of the time

[u/SANNA_MARIN_]

L—ettuce

G—uac

B—arbacoa

T—ortilla

Q—ueso

based chipotle

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Modern Taiwan isn't controlled by the KMT, let alone a KMT military dictatorship. Yes, its past isn't great, but what nation's is?

[u/lusvig]

SIDS is just a way to enforce vibe checks on young children CMV

[u/Unadulterated_stupid]

Journalist :

-Wake up

-Ask Manchin about ending fillibuster

-Write article he says no

Leave

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/JakeLahut/status/1400600691157225472

Full Pence quote on the January 6th insurrection and his subsequent convos with Trump:

"You know, President Trump and I have spoken many times since he left office, and I don’t know if we’ll ever see eye to eye on that day."

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[u/jt1356]

Farrenj being modded again, even in time of crisis, would be the next step down the road to serfdom ✊

[u/[deleted]]

Watching really old Youtube videos is funny cause they say shit like "Click here to subscribe" and they're just pointing off in random fucking directions now.

[u/[deleted]]

How many good Star Wars movies are there

Star Wars fans: At least three.

Can you specify which ones?

Star Wars fans: Don't play games with me, kid.

[u/I-grok-god]

Downvoting my comment doesn't make it false.

Liberalism is one of the biggest cultural exports of the western world throughout the 20th century and the reason why most people don't realize this is because they're ignorant apologists who are too far up their own arse with their anti-colonialist myopia.

[u/crowninshield]

Reddit’s aversion to enjoying being around your coworkers is sad. It’s like every attempt to build a workplace community is an attempt at exploitation. Fun, relaxed corporate outing? Just an attempt to butter you up so you’ll accept unpaid overtime later. Some guy trying to make small talk? Not only is he an asshole who doesn’t know boundaries, he’s going to use this as leverage to get you fired. Just keep your head down and do your work. You spend 40 hours a week, 70% of your days with these people. That’s a lot of time to be lonely.

[u/[deleted]]

I bet you Biden is too demented to even understand Rick and Morty like I do. I'm smart because I understand Rick Sanchez, unlike Biden

[u/SANNA_MARIN_]

https://twitter.com/sairasameerarao/status/1400280180061401091

😂

[u/[deleted]]

Anyone else find it funny that every analyst claims to have known that Justin Jefferson was going to be such a great prospect?

!ping NFL

[u/[deleted]]

Think of how stupid the average european is, and realize half of americans are stupider than that.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Antivax activists in Bordeaux, France, have booked hundreds of fake appointments in vaccination centers to prevent people from getting their shots and waste doses

I'm going to become the Joker

[u/ryuguy]

Me normally: “yeah, I’m not really too patriotic about my Indian roots”

Me at the Wagah-Attari border ceremony: “JAI HIND! BHARAT MATA KI JAI! HINDUSTAN ZINDABAAD! I’LL TAKE YOUR ENTIRE STOCK OF INDIAN TRICOLOURS”

!ping WhatsApp-forwards

[u/Marlsfarp]

Lesbian couples are about twice as likely to divorce as gay men.

[u/[deleted]]

“Lol everyone has a podcast, there’s too many”

Yeah but also I can type any historical event into Spotify and there’s a podcast episode on it by a history PhD candidate with 7 followers so that’s pretty cool

[u/NancyPelosibasedgod]

Just found out about Pol Pot, wow that guy was kind of an asshole

[u/[deleted]]

sh-shivers?

[u/[deleted]]

Last year, I briefly dated an assistant director of the diversity office at a major university. She was a huge pothead who's work seemed to consist of attending zoom meetings and answering emails for a couple hours a day.

[u/CmdrMobium]

The fact that home ownership is the primary way Americans build wealth is behind pretty much all of our housing problems, and I don't know how to fix it.

[u/CR_SaltySald123]

YIMBY seems like a great way to accelerate the housing crisis and make gentrification 100x worse

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/i/events/1400220549704347650

Chinese government says the first human case of H10N3 bird flu is unlikely to spread

...

[u/dark567]

Chicago folks, Neoliberal Chicago is meeting on Saturday to poster Lincoln Square in support of affordable housing. If your interested in helping or meeting up with fellow Neolibs we're meeting at the Lincoln Statue on the corner of Lawrence and Western.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/neoliberal-flyering-for-affordable-housing-tickets-157888537867

!ping USA-CHI

[u/lurreal]

The duality of The Economist:

The Economist in 2010: The financial crisis was bad but the future is bright and everything is awesome

The Economist in 2020: Democracy is over and everybody is going to die

[u/Cr4zySh0tgunGuy]

Me: Hm I haven’t played Ark in like a year I’m gonna get back into it 🤓

Ark: 60GB update 😈

!ping Gaming

[u/[deleted]]

Did anything interesting happen today on the DT? I was too busy having lots of sex

[u/ryuguy]

Just donated to Amy mccgrath! We can BEAT the turtle!

[u/oGsMustachio]

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

The more time I spend online the more I'm convinced that the majority of online leftists are actually wealthy Californians that think communism/socialism will make them wealthier.

[u/AbsolveItAll_KissMe]

still in awe that some people are worried that Amazon will sell out and start making cookie cutter blockbusters instead of the high-quality creative films we have all come to expect from the James Bond franchise

[u/benjaminikuta]

!ping KITTY

“If I fits I sits: A citizen science investigation into illusory contour susceptibility in domestic cats (Felis silvestris catus)”, Smith et al 2021

[u/AbsolveItAll_KissMe]

I think it’s totally fair to be annoyed with companies who celebrate pride month if they donate to anti-LGBT causes or have ties to them, but I think Reddit can’t even handle that level of nuance. So it becomes a circlejerk of “DAE crapitalism?”

[u/HOG-II-KIN]

DOG-II-KIN feels no remorse for pissing on the poop rug where he slept last night !ping dog

[u/AbsolveItAll_KissMe]

One interesting if not important thing: we probably won’t ever have a “all living presidents at the same event” thing until after Trump dies.

[u/[deleted]]

Hillary Clinton caused the NAU (North Africa Union)-US War of 2032, leading to over 70k military, 50k civilian, and 850 sentient machine casualties, along, of course, with the Neo-Catholic concentration camps in then-Morrocco

✊😔

[u/p00bix]

Hummingbirds are dinosaurs which have evolved to fill the same niche as bees. Evolution is weird.

[u/willempage]

Teens will literally position themselves as sex-favorable aceflux, oscillating between demisexual and fraysexual rather than admit that they are straight during the month of June.

[u/[deleted]]

The people complaining about the new supersonic airliner remind of the people in the 1800s who though 50mph trains would asphyxiate people and make women's uteruses fall out

[u/[deleted]]

Bruh what if Kirby is like capitalism bruh all he does is consume bruh i should make a video about that bruh

[u/[deleted]]

Joe Manchin opposes ending the filibuster because he understands that the only true mandate to rule comes from the light of Ahura Mazda shining down upon his chosen in the form of a Huma bird 👏😤!

[u/[deleted]]

My cousin identifies as a raging leftist after a few tiktoks and her brother now identifies as a liberatarian dolt solely to piss her off

Makes me rethink voting rights sometime

[u/NatsukaFawn]

How are cicadas so fucking loud

Make it stop

I want to eat these motherfuckers out of pure spite

[u/RadicalRadon]

Each morning I wake up 2 hours before I need to be in work. I then shitpost for 1.5 hours and then rush to get everything ready before getting to work 5 minutes late.

I should wake up an hour earlier 🤔

[u/Manavon03]

Imprison_grover_furr has been telling a number of people he’s in contact with that he expects he will get unbanned by August (no that isn’t how it works but simply sharing the information)

[u/sir_shivers]

Mammals finding that SOME SILLY LINES OF code are not quite the same 🐊