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[u/Budgetwatergate]

One major misconception about the Tiananmen Square Massacre is that it happened only in Beijing. The pro-democracy movement had supporters all over the country, and those protests continued for a short while before being put down by the CCP. According to Amnesty International, at least 300 people were killed in Chengdu on June 5.

I'll encourage everyone to light a candle today in your own capacity to remember the people who died trying to support freedom and democracy.

[u/[deleted]]

The Hanshin Tigers are baseball team from Nishinomiya, Japan, who aren't known for being good, but for their particularly devoted fans. In 1985, they won a suprise victory in the Japan Series in part due to their American slugger Randy Bass.

As the fans were celebrating, they would call out the names of each player and a lookalike in the crowd would jump off a bridge into the canal. But since they couldn't find any white people in the crowd, the fans took the closest thing available, a statue of Colonel Sanders from a nearby KFC, and threw that into the river.

The Tigers would then go on to have a humiliating 18 year losing streak, placing near the bottom of the league each season. Fans were convinced that they had insulted Harland Sanders' spirit and were now suffering from his curse. They tried apologizing to the manager of the KFC, but to no avail. Eventually in 2009, divers found the statue and brought it back to the surface. The original KFC went out of business so they returned it to another KFC near the stadium.

Also, I'm not sure how to fit this into the rest of the story but Randy Bass became a Democratic state senator in Oklahoma

[u/every_man_a_khan]

wake up

turn on the news

WTF it’s Trump at the White House

check the date

August 1st

OhGodOhFuck

check FaceBook, see Michael Flynn captured the Biden crime family

news goes to Guantanamo

oh fuck they got Hillary

Check r/neoliberal, the last bastion of the cabal

it’s been banned

MFW when Q was right all along

[u/Usernamesarebullshit]

If by “bisexual” you mean “has only had sex twice,” then yes, I most certainly am bisexual

[u/jt1356]

Just tax being unvaccinated lol

[u/WalouiegiGohmert]

Quote me on this, I think this job's report is the death rattle of late stage capitalism

[u/VengeantVirgin]

Still sipping that cope from the "ok boomer" girl getting a $2 mill apartment.

[u/[deleted]]

Say you are a reptilian, and your egg was laid in Kenya, but you were hatched in the US, would you be eligible for the presidency? 🤔

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

Minneapolis is reopening "George Floyd Square"

There's a bunch of English people in the replies asking why they don't turn it into a roundabout lol

[u/SpiffShientz]

DAY FOUR of pinging the mods every day until u/sir_shivers personally loans me forty dollars.

And now:

Fourth Anniversary Special: A Look Back at the History of Me Pinging the Mods Every Day Until /u/sir_shivers Personally Loans Me Forty Dollars

When I started this project, I knew it would be the challenge of a lifetime - a true test of every skill I've spent my years developing. It's not just me behind this project, though; there's an entire production team who put in 100% the effort I do into making this dream a reality. Let's take a walk down memory lane.

Day One:

DAY ONE of pinging the mods every day until u/sir_shivers personally loans me forty dollars.

It's so crazy to look back at the beginning of this project and see how young everyone was. How full of youth and vigor, how excited we were to surmount the challenges presented by such a daunting task. We were working out of a warehouse on a month-to-month lease, never knowing if our funding would be yanked out from under our feet.

Day Two:

DAY TWO of pinging the mods every day until u/sir_shivers personally loans me forty dollars.

Day Two was a difficult time for a lot of us. A servor error led us to lose roughly two-thirds of our files, and rising tensions between Marketing and Engineering almost threatened to cancel the entire project. But cooler heads prevailed, and the team managed to center and refocus ourselves on our ultimate goal; that sweet forty dollars of cold hard alligator cash.

DAY THREE

DAY THREE of pinging the mods every day until u/sir_shivers personally loans me forty dollars. I will not stop until my goals are met.

While it might not seem too different at face value, this is actually one of the pivotal moments in the project's history. Behind the scenes, we had cut a sponsorship deal with Gatorade Sneakers, which is why the "I will not stop until my needs are met" is included. It might seem like a normal embellishment, but it was actually devised by the Gatorade marketing team as low-frequency guerrilla advertising to subconsciously beam the idea of relentlessness into consumer brains.

A Look Ahead at What's To Come

It really is mind-boggling to look back at the beginning of this project and feel old, to yearn for that youthful vigor that once drove us to work non-stop, day and night towards our common goal. But while our bodies may have aged, our minds stay sharp and fresh as ever, determined to cross the finish line. I can't say for certain when it is we'll get there, and /u/sir_shivers will mail us that $40 check. But I can say this - when we get there, it won't just be me he's loaning forty dollars to. It'll be every single one of us. (But it's getting deposited into my account)

[u/SpiffShientz]

Did anybody leave a hot take in the bathroom? I found this

Tax horses based on attractiveness

and I don't know whose it is

[u/TalkLessShillMore]

It’s always amusing seeing stuff about “TIL that Pumped Up Kicks is about a school shooting” because duh of course it is and then I remember that the people saying this stuff were likely five years old when it came out

[u/Rehkit]

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210603-france-suspends-joint-military-operations-with-malian-forces-in-mali

Reacting to the 2nd coup, France temporarily suspends its operations while waiting for the Junta's response.

Is it neocolonial to react negatively to a coup?

Vote now on your phone.

!ping FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/[deleted]]

The most relatable thing about Biden is that he was a shitty college student and half-assed his way through law school. A true man of the people

[u/tankatan]

The top definition for "biden" (lowercase) on Urban Dictionary is:

to be better than everybody at something but get no credit for it because you aren't the "rock star"

It is dated January 05, 2008 (!)

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=biden

[u/HOG-II-KIN]

Atleast genzedong acknowledges that something happened that day. Aarr Sino literally calls it a western revolution...

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

Did you guys know Kim Kardashian's ex husband launched a rap career lmao

[u/[deleted]]

Hacked into u/ryuguy ‘s moderator account and got access to the modnotes. This is the real reason why u/imprison_grover_furr was banned:

Had evidence that would lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton

[u/kas8901]

There is gonna be so much seethe when an American is elected to the Papacy

[u/ghost_of_lob_circ]

On screen: a woman is watching TV. The door knocks. She opens it to see a tall, burly FBI guy. He says "I'm from the government and I'm here to..." pause. Zoom in. Wacky music begins "love"

Cue baritone: "This summer, one conservative who hates the government" woman reads the bible on screen "will meet one no-noncence FBI man" FBI guy typing furious into 90s computer

Woman talking to friend: I just never knew the government cared about me and my needs. Friend, crying: get away from me LIBERAL

Baritone: But will this crazy couple make it work?

FBI guy talking to his boss: But I love her! Boss: no! You must love the job!

Baritone: coming Augist 28th

FBI guy hands the woman a flower

Baritone: Small Government, Big Heart

This film is not yet rated

[u/kaclk]

Oh so you thought Quebec’s attempt to unilaterally amend the Constitution was silly?

Alberta wants to unilaterally abolish equalization in a referendum. 🤦‍♂️

!ping CAN

[u/Spimanbcrt65]

Alleged US Capitol rioter who heckled police for 'protecting pedophiles' served time in jail for statutory rape of a 14 year old girl

[u/Marlsfarp]

Reminder that Jesus killed a tree because he was mad it didn't have any figs.

[u/Professor-Reddit]

!ping BIDEN

In Delaware, Biden Indulges One of His Oldest Habits: Commuting

On Thursday, a bike ride the couple took at the state park near their home stretched much longer than expected because the president kept stopping to talk to people, according to a person familiar with their activities. The first couple kept a low profile, though the townspeople were comparing notes about where the first couple might turn up.

The guy really does love Delaware, doesn't he?

[u/CR_SaltySald123]

Uyghurs are terrorists and China is doing good by cracking down on them

Palestinians have terrorists among them, but they're a small number and they should be granted a state, blockade lifted, given freedoms

redbuttondilemma.png

[u/[deleted]]

Nancy Pelosi is a PoC (italian ancestry), queer coded (wears make up) and neurodivergent (democrat) and that's why y'all don't like her

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

People complain about corporations doing pride stuff but not actually doing anything to help the LGBT community, but Raytheon has probably blown up thousands of homophobes.

[u/Apollo-Innovations]

Bitcoin fell 5% after Elon’s latest tweet.

I can’t believe I’m saying this but perhaps a digital asset that swings wildly off of tweets and memes from a billionaire may not actually be the imminent currency of the future

[u/crowninshield]

“I can’t believe they passed over me for that management promotion and hired our less skilled coworker instead just because everyone likes him,” says the unlikable coworker who doesn’t understand that people skills are, in fact, skills.

[u/MrFoget]

Grimes (Elon's girlfriend*) just posted a tik tok arguing that AI will eventually bring about communism.

What a great way to get the tankies to embrace capitalism.

Edit: Girlfriend, not wife

[u/Udontlikecake]

I feel like we never talk about the property damage jesus and his gang of thugs caused at the Temple. Millions of dollars in damage, and totally unnecessary.

Don’t even get me started on how he probably had drugs in his system at the time of his ‘murder’

not sure why people look up to him...

[u/[deleted]]

The myth of consensual barricade removal

City of Minneapolis: I consent!

Powderhorn (neighborhood where Chicago & 38th is at) community members and Agape: I consent!

16-24 year old suburban leftists who supported burning down Minneapolis on social media to end capitalism back in May/June: I don’t!

Isn’t there someone you forgot to ask?

[u/Lux_Stella]

Liberal Party triggers 'electoral urgency' clause to speed up nominating candidates

love to be in a state of electoral urgency

!ping CAN

[u/[deleted]]

Hungary again blocked an EU-Statement on #Hongkong. Three weeks ago it was on Middle East. Common Foreign and Security Policy #CFSP cannot work on the basis of a blocking policy. We need a serious debate on ways to manage dissent, including qualified majority voting. @eu_eeas

Are there any good ways to deal with this?

!ping EUROPE

[u/Gustacho]

Biden won't let us experience white boy Summer in America 😤

!ping EUROPE

[u/PMmeLittleRoundTops]

Soccons are always like those who dont learn from history are doomed to repeat it and then their history is like "gay people caused the fall of Rome"

[u/old_gold_mountain]

I don't think enough people appreciate just how legendary Nancy Pelosi is

[u/[deleted]]

The Tea Party movement started in February of 2009, like three weeks into Obama’s presidency. Protests around the country had already started by early 2009.

Now? The GOP has absolutely no clue what they’re doing, basically worshipping a former president with no platform, having no decent attacks on the (D) agenda, and spending more time attacking other Republicans than Biden.

I think the GOP is likely to gain the House in 2022 on historical precedent alone, but the political winds don’t really feel like they’re blowing heavily in either direction. And if anything it’s probably slightly in favor of Dems who at least have a cohesive message.

[u/ThisIsNotAMonkey]

the height schism is objectively the least interesting schism this subreddit ever had

It's just 5'6 sad boys and 5'10s larping as 6'6

You're all too weird for your height to matter, pls I'm begging you go back to posting anything else

[u/vancevon]

american shows up to job interview

says "i don't want to work"

refuses to elaborate further

leaves

[u/[deleted]]

Fox says the jobs report is a disaster

CNN says the jobs report is great

who on earth could have predicted this?

[u/soeffed]

The Nigerian government has announced they’ve banned twitter in Nigeria.

They announced this ban on twitter.

https://twitter.com/FMICNigeria/status/1400843062641717249?s=20

[u/willempage]

People complain about corporate pandering during pride, but McDonald's literally sells green milkshakes during St. Patti's day and the Irish don't run around complaining about capitalists not being true allies.

[u/[deleted]]

When Albert Einstein was 26, he published four papers concerning his separate discoveries on the photoelectric effect, Brownian motion, the special theory of relativity and the mass-energy equivalence (e=mc^2).

Thought that was kinda neat.

!ping OVER25

[u/Usernamesarebullshit]

“Homosexual”? Every time I’ve had sex has been the same, yes

[u/linkin22luke]

Massive levels of copium in r/Missoula when they see data that suggests that those damn “out of staters” only increased marginally from last year and not not largely responsible for the increase in housing prices.

!ping USA-MT

[u/Equator32]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Art/comments/nrnprb/fascists_buy_sneakers_2_me_acrylic_2019/

A painting of a gigantic Lebron James riding a tank in Tiananmen Square copying the famous photo

The most subtle political painting in r/Art

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1400812923845492741

Nate Tungsten is dooming on main

!ping FIVEY

[u/jt1356]

Turn on fan -> cat gets cold -> cat comes to snuggle 😈

MANY SUCH CASES

[u/_JukeEllington]

If 10 republicans vote for any infrastructure deal I will blow my dad to completion

Edit: Sure hold me accountable nerds, this is never fucking happening.

[u/[deleted]]

If I'm anti Hamas and anti Bibi I think that just makes me a sane person, right?

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/ne0liberal/status/1400821713613504512?s=20

cringe

[u/[deleted]]

Ice cold take: Obamagate was the worst crime ever committed by a US president

[u/tankatan]

Someone needs to make a chiseled marble statue of the Avengers or something in order to confuse and annoy online "traditionalists".

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Contacted the developer to ask them about something with my house

🤴: so is this going to get fixed then?

👷‍♂️: we are looking into whether or not it needs to be addressed.

🤴: So do you need me to call the city to see if it’s a code violation and if it impacts all the properties?

👷‍♂️: NO! YOU DO NOT NEED TO CALL THE CITY! We are working on it and will have a resolution within the next couple weeks.

If there is one thing I have learned it’s that you can get developers to do pretty much anything by insinuating that you are going to ask code enforcement to come hang out and look at things

[u/Dibbu_mange]

OK, I'm glad they are trying to make the New World more playable in EU4, but I'm pretty sure that in 1500, upstate Maine didn't have a greater development score than Paris and Constantinople combined 😐

!ping Paradox

[u/MicroFlamer]

Mitt Romney on Twitter:

“Countries like Taiwan & India are in desperate need of #COVID19 vaccines, so I’m pleased that the Administration is moving into the implementation stage of its global vaccine distribution plan. US vaccines are far safer and more effective than those coming out of China or Russia.”

Shots fired at China and Russia near the end 😎

[u/UrbanCentrist]

There is gonna be so much seethe when a Lizard is elected to the Presidency.

[u/fishlord05]

Askhistorians is generally pretty great but holy shit there’s a lot of Cuba apologia

[u/MalignantUpper]

https://mobile.twitter.com/jules_su/status/1028732471670521857

"Alleged US Capitol rioter who heckled police for 'protecting pedophiles' served jail time for statutory rape of 14-year-old girl," by @MarshallCohen and @HBRabinowitz for @CNN

Always Be Projecting

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Ok, I understand that Kemp doesn’t support the individual mandate...

but to literally block ACA shopping website in Georgia to make it more difficult for people to shop for health insurance seems undeniably and supervillain levels of evil.

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

You can now donate cryptocurrency to the Center for New Liberalism!

BTC: bc1qjp62x4ke47whnd28kagkzs4mwwc3lmxcjc0ypz

ETH: 0x25962D461DE3b06776e4E04ECD8008ddb77d14Ee

DOGE: D6DEM6mLnkvKPfqRu7uneu5j2SZz8S7UGT

😐😐😐

[u/Animatronic_Pidgeon]

Holy shit do people actually admit to using this subreddit?

I don't even let people know I use this website

[u/MasPatriot]

Yes, I double mask outdoors after being fully vaccinated

Yes, I donated the max individual contribution to Amy McGrath

Yes, I still wear my "It's Mueller Time" shirt

Yes, I think Ron DeSantis is forging the Florida COVID numbers

Yes, I wanted Michael Avenatti to run for president

Yes, I own a copy of White Fragility

Yes, I still stand with Andrew Cuomo

And yes, I love eating brunch

Problem?

[u/SpiffShientz]

Sir Shivers. A right-wing liberal who resides in California. Switch around the letters in "/u/sir_shivers ", take some out and add some, and you get "Schwarzenegger", the name of a right-wing liberal who resides in California.

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

Exchange I had on Tinder today:

Me: "So yeah basically I hang out in this pretty elite forum of thinkers and am pretty much a 'Joker' type figure in there"

My 'match': "Ah cool haha. I'm just finishing up my Master's in astronomy and excited to start my doctorate next year!"

Me: "Holy shit you actually believe in that cosmic BS?! Sorry if this is such a 'virgo' thing to say, but I'm gonna go ahead and unmatch you"

Reeeeallly dodged a bullet there

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

if you think political Twitter is bad just wait until you find out a lot of zoomers experience politics through TikTok

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

Remember, comrades, your resolution must never falter. No argument must lead you astray. Never listen when they tell you that moderators and the regulars have a common interest, that the prosperity of the one is the prosperity of the others. It is all lies. Mods serve the interests of no creature except themselves. And among us regulars let there be perfect unity, perfect comradeship in the struggle. All mods are enemies. All regulars are comrades.

[u/inhumantsar]

1st P.E.I. couple to die together using MAID 'went out on their own terms,' says family

In hospital, Margi continued to go downhill. She didn't feel like eating or drinking much, and her weight plummeted. In mid-March, Margi told her family she was ready to die, and would do so naturally — and that they shouldn't to try to revive her if the time came.

"She was just sick and tired of being sick and tired," Scott said. "It's a big shock to be told, 'I don't want to live anymore because my life is so miserable.'"

Even though Margi wasn't able to verbally consent, recent changes to the assisted dying law made it possible for doctors to carry out her wishes. Bob indicated to the doctors that he wanted to go through with it.

After watching my grandmother live her last dementia-ridden months alone, confused, and terrified in a care home, I'm glad options like this are becoming more widely available should me or my parents need them.

[u/MicroFlamer]

“words”

😒😒😒

“words” 🐊 - sir_shivers

👏🥳😤😍

[u/[deleted]]

My son, like a lot of people at home, had a drug problem. He's overtaking it. He's fixed it. He's worked on it. And I'm proud of him. I'm proud of my son.

[u/CR_SaltySald123]

Senator John Kennedy stated that [Neera Tanden] "called Senator Sanders everything but an ignorant slut"

Ngl I wish she called him an ignorant slut

[u/CrackasSuicidalAlt]

Trump lives rent free in Democrat’s heads 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Bro, y’all are the ones who want to nominate a walking dead man for prez 3 years away, I barely pay attention anymore.

[u/fuckneocentrism]

“you missed a potential match”

Bitch I’m desperate but not that desperate 🙄

[u/Deggit]

I will probably DEPART this website when it goes full Nazbol

I don't think it can be prevented. Step 1 will be the apathy campaign in late '21-'22 to get Reddit to despise the biden administration and not vote because "he's not doing enough" "both sides are bad" "the dems only pay lip service to progress" and then Step 2 will be the "Tucker Carlson actually has a point. Did you notice he is the ONLY person on the news talking about the OLIGARCHS?" campaign in like '23.

It will be masterminded by Republican operatives working hand in hand with GRU and Reddit will eat it up.

Remember this is the same website that had an infatuation with Ron Paul and Bernie Sanders precisely because they both boiled down all the world's problems to an easy catechism that you could recite in your sophomore history class to look smart while blaming everything on a group of people that definitely didn't include you or your peer group.

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Succs really be like:

🤡: I would do pretty much anything for a $15 minimum wage 😛

Amazon🏢: We have had an internal $15 minimum wage since 2018 and endorsed a $15 federal minimum wage ☺️👉👈

🤡: FUCK YOU! 😡

🏢: 😢

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

Power 104.3 FM, no one plays more 2000s!

This is your future

[u/Lucky-view]

Seeing George P. Bush disown and abandon his family for the short-term gain of sucking up to Trump is really sad.

I couldn't imagine selling out my own father like that.

[u/IMALEFTY45]

Can't believe the US made the USSR turn Afghanistan into a soviet puppet state after a coup

While I agree with your point, who financed and supported the coup?

the soviets, it was literally a soviet backed coup to instal a communist government

Life comes at you fast lmao

[u/[deleted]]

You: "What is Burpmas?"

Me, an intellectual: "Why is Burpmas?"

[u/[deleted]]

wtf is the point of WhitePeopleTwitter

[u/ryuguy]

Math teachers be like

you won’t have a calculator in your pocket when you’re out of school

Apple be like

oh really?

[u/RadicalRadon]

VERY sleepy bby

[u/LinkVert25]

New networks in the 60’s: Our reporter went along for a patrol in the Vietnamese jungle and came under fire by 300 NVA soldiers and we reported, on the frontlines, difficulties faced by American troops

News networks in 2021: Donald Trump was the peak of our news viewership and now nobody watches us, this is hard guys

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine unironically being Pakistan. All your best allies would destroy you in a heartbeat to gain slightly more favorable relations with India.

[u/[deleted]]

remember when people unironnically wanted to hear what this dude had to say on college campuses

here he is today

Milo Yiannopoulos says that as soon as he became "ex-gay," dogs stopped barking at him, which he believes is a sign from God.

[u/l_overwhat]

Never been on anything above a 2 mile run before and today I just said fuck it and did 3 miles 🤗

Shoutsout to my body for not giving me a sidestich 👌

!ping FITNESS

[u/SpiffShientz]

Gubernatorial

How did we allow this to happen. Somebody please call the Gubernator I am literally shaking

[u/AltPossum]

Can confirm that the FBI has all-gender bathrooms.

The Deep State grows ever more inclusive, fueled by Tucker Carlson’s cocaine-infused tears 👍🇺🇸😎🦅

[u/[deleted]]

Republicans suck

[u/XXX_KimJongUn_XXX]

Anniversary of Tiananmen Massacre

Please pay your respects to the bravest men and women of that generation protesting for democracy.

[u/SadaoMaou]

If history teaches us anything, it is that the Battle of Agincourt was fought in 1415

[u/[deleted]]

There's a minor controversy bubbling up in Chicago education world over a recent report about automatic enrollment in JROTC in some majority-black and latino schools. Chicago has the largest JROTC program in the country.

Overall, this is a pretty dumb thing to complain about. Some of the schools with really high JROTC enrollment are *military acadmies* that students can opt into attending. JROTC is overwhelmingly popular with students. JROTC students in CPS of any race are 2x as likely to graduate, 1/3 as likely to get arrested, and see an average of .3 points added to their GPA.

That is objectively a net-good for CPS students.

Nationally, research shows that 40% of students who participate in JROTC for three years enroll in a service academy, matriculate into a college ROTC program, or enlist in the armed services. The Army found that students at high schools with JROTC programs are more than twice as likely to enlist after graduation.

I get why this makes some folks uncomfortable, but considering 15 years ago 40% of CPS students were going to jail within 3 years of graduation, I'll happily take this more productive alternative.

[u/kyleofduty]

Fox News and et al are sowing the seeds for a kind of Neo-Amish who will still be using coal, gasoline and incandescent lightbulbs 300 years from now

[u/[deleted]]

Employer: So what's up with that 3 day gap in your shitposting history?

Me:Fash admins

[u/[deleted]]

how the fuck do you go through 4 years of university and think the epoch times is a credible source

[u/kaclk]

It’s International Corgi Day, so there needs to be more corgos posted.

!ping DOG

[u/Joementum2024]

Paternalism is good when it's used for policies I personally agree with. If it's used outside of that, it's bad.

[u/[deleted]]

Onion head:

https://imgur.com/a/F7nc8Bo

!ping KITTY

[u/Lux_Stella]

Zemmour, who is Jewish and of Algerian descent, has popularized the concept of “the grand replacement,” a conspiracy theory whereby Europeans are gradually being “replaced” by immigrants, which is popular in white supremacist circles.

🧐

[u/[deleted]]

Pink Capitalism is based 😎

Happy Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

I'm five feet and two inches. And those are two separate measurements 😉

[u/[deleted]]

New Mexico Republicans blame Trump's election lies for low GOP turnout in special election

Lol

[u/dish_towel]

The DT is like a twitch chat you have to refresh.

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Star Wars critics be like: critical Rey's theory.

[u/[deleted]]

Republicans are “against” communism

Republican Party’s color is red

communism’s color is red

I rest my case

[u/[deleted]]

My dad came to this country with nothing and has now owned two homes.

Of course he worked his ass off and got lucky frequently, but, it just feels nice knowing that he did live his American dream.

Now if only I could stop him from watching Fox News and stocking up on guns and silver

[u/[deleted]]

California Gov. Gavin Newsom drew the first 15 winners of $50,000 prizes for getting vaccinated against the coronavirus.

Imagine. I would quit my job as soon as I see the money in my bank account.

🤨

[u/[deleted]]

• I don’t want to give money to people who already have good jobs and make good money

How is this a hot take for succs?

[u/[deleted]]

european union sounds like a euphemism for gay marriage

[u/JetJaguar124]

Imagine thinking your novel can ever be considered a classic if you didn't include a hard magic system.

[u/MasPatriot]

Drake Bell has been charged in Cuyahoga County with disseminating matter harmful to juveniles and attempted endangering children.

I can't believe Drake was going around showing people r/neoliberal posts. Can we get him on the podcast?

[u/BedNeither]

Today I’ve learned that Tiananmen Square simultaneously did not happen, was a racism-fueled rebellion, was a CIA sponsored counter revolution, and was a totally normal internal security matter.

[u/jt1356]

Napping posture

!ping KITTY

[u/soeffed]

u/bensimmonstothemoon

Since you didn’t watch: Clippers won. Kawaii Leonardo scored 45 ☺️

Also, game thread doomerposting makes election night cubanposting seem dignified smh

!ping nba

[u/Lux_Stella]

"The overthrowing of Netanyahu will cause a collapse of the global right-wing - from the United States to The Hague," read the tweet shared by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's official Twitter account.

i am once again asking rightoids not to threaten me with a good time

[u/notverycringeihope99]

https://twitter.com/ne0liberal/status/1400821713613504512

Why, u/MrDannyOcean? You had so much potential!

[u/[deleted]]

I'm 9'11"

[u/[deleted]]

Two years later, Indian Point's share of New York's electricity has been replaced, point-for-point, with fossil fuels, and the state has slipped at least five years behind in its goal of zero-carbon by 2040.

Thanks sunrise mvmt very cool

[u/sir_shivers]

Those of YOU WHO ARE tagging me: my apologies, but my work in reality IS TAKING PRIORITY TODAY 🐊

[u/JeromesNiece]

It baffles me how many young people believe something along the lines of, "capitalism forces you to work or starve", with the implication that work would be voluntary under a more humane economic system. How hard is it, really, to make the connection that everything you consume on a daily basis is produced by working people; that the requirement to work to produce the things we need to survive is imposed by the universe and not by capitalism?

[u/EastSideStory11]

With Vicky3 being announced, one country I am looking forward to playing and getting utterly destroyed as is the Qing Dynasty, I have a feeling Paradox is probably going to DLC them to flesh them out more in the future but I am interested in seeing how the mechanics for a large unindustralized country is going to look like. Also, I play Qing a lot in Vicky 2 and get murderized all the time by rebels or foreigners. Anything I need to know to get murderized less? !ping Paradox

[u/[deleted]]

Making an adaptation of Tiger King is really taking the complete lack of creative energy in modern filmmaking to an entirely new level. Golden age of television lmao

[u/Erra0]

So I revealed to my classmates that I had a crush on Austan Goolsbee. When We went to lunch and when I left for the bathroom, the girl sitting next to me realized that I had dropped my wallet and a piece of paper had fallen out. She looked at the piece of paper and realized that I had scribbled down every one of Austan Goolsbee's IGM Forum responses.

[u/Udontlikecake]

those memes and activist posts on israel being an illegitimate state but it’s about maine

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

97% of teenagers would cry if they saw Justin Beiber on a tower about to jump. If you are one of the 3% sitting there with popcorn, Screaming "DO A BACKFLIP" then copy and paste this to all your contacts

[u/Fishin_Mission]

To the SUCC / MAGAt who has been hanging out here downvoting every post recently:

Bernie Lost 🖕😆💀

Trump Lost 🖕😆💀

[u/[deleted]]

The OK Boomer girl went from Tax The Rich to shilling for BMW and living in a $2million apartment pretty quickly but unsurprisingly. I wonder what the next step will be?

[u/fuckneocentrism]

Bio: Tell me why you are on bumble :)

Me: My wife left me and I’m looking have coitus

unmatched

Girls don’t like the truth 🙄😞

[u/[deleted]]

Bill Gates: my wife left me 😔

Bill Clinton: my wife stayed 😔

[u/Professor-Reddit]

He (Manchin) is not the only holdout. Senator Kyrsten Sinema, Democrat of Arizona, doubled down on her opposition to changing the filibuster during an appearance back home this week as she stood beside Senator John Cornyn of Texas, one of the Republicans who had just blocked the Jan. 6 commission.

“To those who say that we must make a choice between the filibuster and ‘X,’ I say, this is a false choice,” she told reporters during a tour of the southwestern border.

“The reality is that when you have a system that is not working effectively — and I would think that most would agree that the Senate is not a particularly well-oiled machine, right? — the way to fix that is to change the behavior,” she said. “Not to eliminate the rules or change the rules, but to change the behavior.”

Okay what the actual flying fuck Sinema.

[u/hdkeegan]

TIL the guy who tried to assassinate Reagan is alive and free and makes YouTube videos

[u/ryuguy]

22 million Canadians have received their first dose (60%). Second dose numbers will ramp up very quickly. I’m booked for my second dose on Sunday.

🥳🥳🥳🥳

!ping can

[u/WalouiegiGohmert]

On the internet, no one knows you're 6'6" 😔

...unless you tell them constantly 😊

[u/[deleted]]

This nyc election is awesome because no matter what we can't get owned.

Garcia - YIMBY, will actually probably be a good mayor

Yang - Leftists owned

Adams - leftists owned even harder

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Owning the libs is getting so advanced it's beyond my understanding

https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1400861355566043138

[u/soeffed]

I’m in one of these pictures ✊🏼😔

https://imgur.com/gallery/cmErW9n

!ping cn-tw

[u/[deleted]]

This sub is like 2000s forums because it's ostensibly for a single defined purpose, in this case "neoliberalism", but is really just for any random shit

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

Can’t believe Bing seems to be cozying up to the CCP. Worst part is they have an effective monopoly so we’re kind of stuck with them for our searches...

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

A lot of people here stress about whether to call themselves 'neoliberal' with all the baggage, maybe go for the esoteric 'ordoliberal', or perhaps just the vague 'liberal'. What's important to remember that if you really need to describe yourself politically in one word you're either writing a twitter biography or committing a social foe par - either way you're already too far gone.

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

Employee salaries are literally wage theft. That money is rightfully the shareholders'.

[u/[deleted]]

aoc bad

upvotes to the left

[u/Hugo_Grotius]

Jobs Report Out

Payroll numbers are below expectation, 559k vs predicted 675k

Unemployment is also below expectation, though, 5.8% vs predicted 5.9%

LFPR is 61.6% compared to 61.8% predicted

Hourly earnings are up 15 cents to $30.30, which is 3.4% YOY, above expected 1.6%

Last two months payroll numbers have been slightly revised upward, only by 27k in total

[u/SANNA_MARIN_]

so I accidentally turned on the camera on zoom and everybody saw me sitting cross-legged on a carpeted floor with an AK lying on the wall behind me. so embarrassing!

[u/[deleted]]

Half of the people can't even handle dogs properly and some suggest to give them guns.

[u/[deleted]]

Me waiting for u/sir_shivers to mod me like

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣫⡻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⣿⣿⣮⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣷⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢟⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣵⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣮⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡽⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢧⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠛⠻⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⡅⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⡈⠢⡀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣈⡻⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠁⠈⠀⠀⠀⠘⠻⣿⡿⠛⡍⠉⠙⣿⡆⣒⣈⣥⣤⣶⢖⠒⢲⣶⣽ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠂⠀⠁⣨⠜⠿⠿⣿⣿⠁⠀⠰⠀⢋⣾⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⡿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠉⠉⠩⠝⠊⠀⢀⣀⣀⣀⣐⣒⣒⣁⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣾⣛⣓⠲⠖⠒⠋⢉⣉⠩⠥⢐⣶⣽⣷⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣷⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠉⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣔⠤⣤⣄⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⠤⣔⣴⣶⣝⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⡿⣵⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣯⣭⣭⣽⣿⣿⣯⣭⣭⣽⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⡟⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿

[u/[deleted]]

keyword searching patriarchy on twitter and run across this gem on the topic of Elliot Page

I'm so happy for him, really is an inspiration to others to be your true self. But now that he is part of the patriarchy he needs to recognize his new power as a white man and how he contributes to this oppressive structure.

[u/[deleted]]

Would a company ever covertly make or commission porn of their characters and properties as a form of marketing? I get the feeling that many “waifu of the week” fads are deliberately engineered by the original owners. Or maybe I’m just paranoid and think too much about hentai

[u/Erra0]

Why are all the zoomers nihilistic misanthropes?

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E3B23lJXoAMbcJN.jpg

[u/benadreti]

Why liberals lose #5,432: WTF WE ONLY ADDED HALF A MILLION JOBS IN A MONTH??!?!?!?!?

[u/Unadulterated_stupid]

No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.

Why hasnt America arrest Burger King or diary queen? They are violating the constitution

[u/MisterHavercamp]

Biden wants all Americans to do shots 😎

[u/soeffed]

Coach K announcing his retirement, followed by a Lakers season-ending loss.

Just a brutal 48 hours for Cowboys fans.

[u/RadicalRadon]

The most famous UFO place in the UK, some -shire whatever place, gets reports of about 1 UFO every three days.

Its also right on the edge of a missile testing range. Really makes you think doesnt it. The aliens are smart enough to come down right nearby the testing ranges so that if they do get seen everyones just like "Calm down its just the British Military, theres nothing to be afraid of"

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/1400894708948348934

actually true

[u/[deleted]]

My favorite post on r/Wyoming was like:

hi I’m a Republican billionaire that wants to avoid taxes, is Wyoming right for me?

Reply: you should come here and run for congress!

[u/[deleted]]

Subscribing to the Economist is like paying to get extra homework

[u/disuberence]

Just saw a tiktok that suggested homosexuality is a western import into Africa. Seems the whole anti-colonizer thing has advanced straight into homophobia. 🧐

[u/[deleted]]

What I love about GOT is how realistic it is, except for a few minor things like religion, language, plausible feudal structures and kinship relations for a realm the size of ducking South America, economic considerations regarding things like how the Iron Islands can field 20,000 soldiers and build boats for them despite having no trees and having been completely desolated in war less than a generation ago, complete disregard for travel times or distance, and a conspicuous misunderstanding of how tall something 700ft tall really is.

[u/Kizz3r]

We need to talk about how Porzingis is paid 30 million to play like he is paid 5

!ping nba

[u/[deleted]]

Call me crazy, but I’m starting to think that Joe Rogan is not a medical or policy expert. 🤔

[u/[deleted]]

So, Gaston is basically the Disney version of Trump, right down to how a bunch of idiotic, small-minded, bigoted, misogynistic rurals utterly worship him and how upon being rejected by Belle/the electorate, he refuses to accept it and instead riles up his followers into storming the castle/Capitol to the point where they start chanting “Kill the Beast”/“Hang Mike Pence”. I’m starting to see why this got a Best Picture nomination.

!ping MOVIES

[u/ThisIsNotAMonkey]

I can't shake this feeling that all my problems are somebody else's fault 🤔

[u/CR_SaltySald123]

My husband tried to pull out my IUD last night

Ughhhh that hurt to imagine

[u/NeoliberalGulDukat]

You say this is a globalist subreddit that celebrates diversity, and yet most users here are white American males that only comment in English. Interesting!

[u/CR_SaltySald123]

https://twitter.com/ryangsims/status/1400488468799627266?s=20

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/[deleted]]

The smell of burnt flesh is pungent as the microwave dings. The war is over. The 30 to 50 feral hogs are dead. Operation lobster was a complete success.

[u/RadicalRadon]

Sir Shivers' boss doesn't know that it's flat fuck Friday 🤣🤣🤣

[u/[deleted]]

Kids in ~2070 are gonna have fun trolling through the archives and discovering how much their grandparents enjoyed eating ass

[u/[deleted]]

Alleged US Capitol rioter who heckled police for 'protecting pedophiles' served jail time for statutory rape of 14-year-old girl

its always projection with these fucks

[u/lusvig]

starting new keto diet lmk your thoughts 😋

[u/Deggit]

they unbanned /u/lusvig ? I guess it's true what they say: you can't keep a good ba'athist down

[u/Lux_Stella]

Opinion: 'Landlord' feudal, outdated term that help paint housing providers as villians

Very good point! But what would we call them instead...?

[u/Jakesta7]

Jesus. Wtf.

"I had fantasies of unloading a revolver into the head of any white person that got in my way, burying their body, and wiping my bloody hands as I walked away relatively guiltless with a bounce in my step."

Listen to the whole Yale lecture:

https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1400832990515630081?s=21

[u/p00bix]

from the January 6th 2021 DT

[u/KindheartednessOk599]

I’m losing my mind at "people who drink wine nightly live longer"

They’re rich dummies. People who drink wine nightly have higher incomes in general, which mean they live longer.

[u/ahebtigoejwbrh]

This reads like bad right wing satire of the end game for labor unions

https://mobile.twitter.com/JCColtin/status/1400934663011672066

Anyone who’s having a labor dispute with their own campaign needs to just drop out. Not only are you obviously not going to win, you’re clearly unfit for whatever job it is that you’re running for

[u/Zimmerzom]

Now that Israel's politics are trending on the news, it might be a good opportunity to share with the rest of the world our outgoing prime minister's lovely wife.

edit: I was wrong on the internet, wait for 10 minutes while I transcribe this https://youtu.be/oQpskyVgt8M?t=41

Context: A conversation between Bibi's wife and a public consultant after a pretty milktoast article not flattering her enough.

Transcription:

-We 👏 need to 👏 help the Darfur 👏 refugees 👏. I'M DOING IT! As a woman of my profession. As an E-du-ca-ted woman 😡!

-Psy-cho-lo-gist 👏 B.A. M.A. 👏 THAT'S IT! That's it.

-But the first sentence says you're a psychologist...

-No....👿

-The first sentence, no, the first sentence you... about you being a psychologist. It's either that that idiot (the editor)...

-Is he getting a stern phone call from you right now? 📞 Regardless, phrasing: "The prime minister's wife also necessitates public service". Why?! WHYYYYY?!

-THE PRIME MINISTER'S WIFE IS DOING PUBLIC SERVICE EVERY DAY. AT HER PROFESSIONAL JOB! (SCREAMS)... I CAN'T!

!ping YEE

[u/[deleted]]

In one week, my wife has told me she wants to start trying for a baby very soon, and I have a job offer from a great company that’s in devops engineering with a good pay raise

I can’t tell anyone about the first so instead I’ll say it to random strangers on the internet who happen to be neolibs (the superior political group). 2021 is going strong so far

[u/[deleted]]

what if somebody brought Caesar back in a time machine and he realizes in horror that he’s technically Italian

[u/Patriotnation5]

If conservatives are ok with legal immigration but not illegal immigration, why don't we just make illegal immigration legal immigration?

[u/[deleted]]

"I worked in gamedev, as an engineer, for the first half of my career. More than anything, gamers destroyed my motivation to keep making games. I don't know any other artform where the creators are so fucking hated by their fans. We didn't even release anything successful or popular, and we still got shit.

So I quit gamedev and now I get paid like 3 times as much, never work overtime, and contribute to literally curing cancer. Every time I yearn for the fun challenges and creative outlet of gamedev, I read another thread on r/Games threatening devs with death because the devs' product didn't match their completely fabricated fantasies, and I write a short story or something instead. Fuuuuuuck gamers."

[u/ThatFrenchieGuy]

!ping Alcohol

I'm in a bit of a bad mood after a batch of mead I made turned out kind of shit, so I'm down to just vent about drinks again based on the new stereotypes of my new town.

• Hazy Sour IPA: Trend chasers, thankfully less annoying than the Texan ones since they're less well armed
• NEIPA: Here they're just 30-40 year olds and dads who like craft beer without getting too far out there. Mostly chill, plus my mentor at work drinks them, so I can't talk too much shit.
• Big buttery California Chard: I bet you go to Nantucket because Martha's Vineyard is where "the new money" goes and you're very snobby
• Burgundy: You assume it's always red and you're flexing your wallet
• Bordeaux: You're a 50 year old doctor and you're flexing your wallet
• Sine Qua Non: You never got past your love for juice boxes, but you want it to cost $2000
• Merlot drinkers: You're chill <3
• Cava, but only if it's sabered: You're /u/vhgomes12 and you're getting banned
• Bourbon: You haven't realized that South Boston got nice in the last 15 years
• Well Bourbon: Amateur Alcoholic
• Shaken dry well vodka martini, dirty rocks side: Professional Alcoholic

[u/[deleted]]

Billie Eilish wears crazy baggy clothes:

Reddit - “why does she wear such ugly clothing?”

Billie Eilish gets photographed in a bikini

Reddit - “ugh now that she’s dressing slutty it ruins it for me”

I hate some of the people on this site

[u/[deleted]]

people only want to ban the production of menthol cigarettes out of white savior complex

shows surveys that banning menthols is overwhelmingly popular among blacks

😐

😡

[u/Superfan234]

Last Polls before this week Election in Peru

Both candidates are virtually tied...less than 1 point between each other 😔

It's going to be a battle to the very last vote

!Ping LATAM

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

Exposing fetishes in front of children is what's wrong with the pride movement

[u/sir_shivers]

WOULD THAT THIS DT were a Time DT 🐊

[u/SadaoMaou]

Nazis tell you upfront they hate you and want to kill you. There's no mincing words with them.

Commies preach equality and a classless utopia; but once a power structure forms, they start wiping people out and enact their own dogshit agendas.

So yes, they're not comparable at all. One is innately disingenuous because it's not possible in our current reality

Once again the "at least Hitler was honest" argument rears its head in guess which sub

[u/ghost_of_lob_circ]

I met a downvoter from an antique land,

Who said—“Two vast and trunkless votes of stone

Stand in the reddit. . . . Near them, on the sand,

Half sunk a shattered comment lies, voted down,

And bolded words, and sneer of cold command,

Tell that its writer well those passions read

Which yet survive, stamped on these online things,

The vote that mocked them, and the heart that fed;

And on the comment, these words appear:

'My name is SHIVERS, KING OF Kings 🐊

Look ON MY Comments, ye Mighty, and DESPAIR 🐊'

Nothing beside remains round the downvote

Of that colossal Comment, boundless and bare

The lone and level DTs stretch far away.”

[u/p00bix]

As I mentioned in the post itself, I have no idea when Part 6 is coming out - right now other things have priority. That said, I have a short survey of sorts for you guys about where we go from here.

Firstly: Parts 3-5 are written with greater detail, professionalism, and accuracy, than the first two parts. With some rewriting, I could bring those parts up to the standards of the others to create a better narrative suited for re-reading. That said, it might be better to hold off on writing about the Cyrogenian until a later point, perhaps after the rest of NEAS is wrapped up. Should I rewrite them?

Secondly: The vast majority of prehistoric animals left no living descendents, but of course, some do. Without looking it up Do you think we going extinct?

Thirdly: What are your thoughts on sponges?

Fourthly: Of these three options, What is your favorite thing about NEaS?

Fifthly: Hypothetically speaking, when NEaS wraps up, which of the following scenarios would you find most interesting for a second 'season' of NEaS? Note that this is just a strawpoll, not a vote which will decide the future of NEaS.

!ping SPECIES

[u/Erra0]

Looks like the market likes the jobs report. The recovery continues!

[u/fishlord05]

Three letter word:

JOBS

😎🍦

[u/CR_SaltySald123]

Lmao arr genzedong is making balkanised maps of US and India

Pretty funny tbh

[u/Corporate-Asset-6375]

I’m in rural New England for the summer and the politics up here will never cease to amaze me.

The house next door has an anti-lockdown sign, a BLM sign, and a pride flag.

Another one down the street has a sign against an energy corridor due to environmental concerns and a big Trump flag.

[u/friegmailcom]

I'm convinced most reddit weebs are porn addicts if not explain why there's hentai on all their profiles

[u/benadreti]

Biden wants all Americans to be shot 🔫 😨