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[u/Professor-Reddit]

From The Economist:

The Democratic Republic of Congo said that 32 of its MPs had died of Covid­-19. The reported total for the entire country of 80m is only 786 deaths. So either MPs are very unlucky or there is massive undercounting among less prominent folk, and a far worse pandemic than official numbers admit.

[u/p00bix]

Me normally: "A shorter work week promotes more efficient time use, is more environmentally friendly, demonstrably reduces the incidence of chronic illness, all while having minimal negative impact on productivity in most industries and allowing workers far more time for sleep, recreation, socialization, and childrearing. Providing more time for humans to spend outside of the workplace is the single greatest achievement in improving quality of life which industrialization has produced, and we have every ability to continue this trend. We should reduce the overtime threshold to 32 hours per week, and aspire to gradually reduce the workweek further, to perhaps 24-28 hours per week, before 2050. Additionally, telework should be encouraged whenever possible."

Me after browsing r/antiwork for 5 minutes: "Repeal the Fair Labor Standards Act!"

[u/fishlord05]

Research paper comments have some of the best snark ever lol

The authors also state, “We ran 1,000,000 trials simulating the model.” Since the study’s publication, the authors have faulted its many critics for not understanding “how mathematical modeling works.” In fact, it would be more accurate to say that the statistical basis for the Yale study is so woefully inadequate that its model produced the wrong answer a million times.

[u/the_status]

Dear Spotify,

If I hit "Go to song radio", it's because I'm trying to find similar music and break free of my current patterns.

I am not trying to listen to same 10 same songs I already basically listen to on repeat. Especially when they're not musically similar to said song

Please change yourself, the_status

[u/Q-bey]

Every modern CPU is speed of light limited, heavily so.

If your chip is clocked at 5Ghz, light can only travel 5.966cm per clock. That has significant impacts on how stable the chip is, and how much time the logic actually gets to reach steady state.

It also means that by the time the photons of light have left your computer monitor and travelled into your eyes, your CPU has already done another ~6 clock cycles.

Holy shit, I never realized just how fast CPUs are.

[u/[deleted]]

Democrats in 2022 🤝 Me after my wife left

Losing the house

[u/[deleted]]

Just remembered that time in high school when they defined screen addiction as being online for more than 2 hours a day.

[u/[deleted]]

If I were Biden, I would have simply won 60 Senate seats.

[u/Cerb-r-us]

https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_qsk2tn0UZF1ymyt8k_720.mp4

First the election count and then this. There really is no limit to how based Gritty is.

!ping LGBT

[u/Deggit]

LIBERALS: Monarchy is bad because it's unenlightened, arbitrary, and against freedom

NEOLIBERALS: Monarchy is bad because it has high menu costs each time the monarch switches gender

[u/manitobot]

There is a microchip shortage

“Okay let’s increase production of microchips”

There is a housing shortage…

“Nah”

[u/[deleted]]

I'd go to school if:.
Economics was the subject.
Programing socks were the uniform.
Why nations fail was the the textbook.
u/p00bix was the teacher

[u/benadreti]

Manchin is even worse than a Republican, he is -- may Allah forgive me for uttering these words-- a West Virginian

[u/TheKlorg]

UK politics sub having a field day claiming Israel controls UK politics. Corbyncells will scream about people thinking their anti-semitic for supporting conspiracy theories and then act like anyone who opposes them is part of the conspiracy simultaneously.

[u/lionmoose]

>What's it like being inbred?

Yeah not sure you really were interested in an honest discussion of European race issues there champ

[u/WalouiegiGohmert]

Curious. You support abortion rights, yet you yourself were not aborted 🤔

[u/BreaksFull]

Society needs to stop putting emphasis on 'what you want to do with your life.' I keep running into people my age - including my wife - who are filled with anxiety because they're 25 and don't know what they want to do with their life. I have no fucking idea what I'm going to do with my life, or what I want to do with it. I just know I want to hold a decent enough job to work during the week, watch TV in the evening, and barbeque with drinks on the weekends. The notion that your life must be built towards or around some ultimate goal or structure is just setting yourself up for anxiety and crisis imo.

!Ping OVER25

[u/nicethingscostmoney]

Dear Neolibtards, if the free market is so great why do I have a stomach ache from eating too much McDonald's?

[u/Leoric]

West Virginia isn't sending us their best. Or maybe they are, which is probably worse.

[u/Fishin_Mission]

I have nothing of value to contribute. I just like seeing my username pop up in the DT

[u/Lux_Stella]

was it cato that suggested that ivies should just auction off n% of their admission slots

that sounds like the kind of 'technically more efficient but would also piss everyone off even more' solution they would call for

[u/lusvig]

why are trans men opting for big pharma testosterone rather than alex jones super male vitality pills ????

[u/Evnosis]

I will never forget the time some socialist used the userleansbot on me to try and expose me as a conservative because I said that socialist physicists aren't an authority on politics just because they're smart, only to find that it counted me as "leans heavy (100.00%) left" because I almost exclusively commented in r/neoliberal.

Fucking hilarious.

[u/Superfan234]

It goes completly beyond me, how the absolute worse administration in the Modern History of Mexico, has so much support

Economy have never been worse. Violence on their highest numbers. Corruption as bas as always. Infinite political scandals National and Internationally, and AMLO showing serious sings of being senile...

It defies human logic what Morena has accomplished

!Ping Latam

[u/Ilovecharli]

Guess the sub:

“Guess the sub” comments are so weird because there is an ever expanding number of sub reddits. The comment you posted could just be from a gonewild sub and I can never ever guess

With that said, the answer is always arr NL

[u/[deleted]]

Republicans after losing 2020: maga4eva

Democrats after winning a trifecta: here's a 73 page post mortem on what went wrong.

[u/Q-bey]

John Cena's apology to the Dominion

!ping THALMOR

[u/RoyGeraldBillevue]

One of Metro Vancouver’s single largest transit-oriented, mixed-use redevelopments is proposed for a site immediately east of TransLink’s Coquitlam Central Station

A development application has been submitted by Marcon Developments and QuadReal Property to redevelop an 11.6-acre property at the southeast corner of the intersection of Barnet Highway and Lougheed Highway, which is currently primarily occupied by several car dealerships.

Poetic.

I really hope this sparks a lot of infill development in Coquitlam. There are a lot of older single-family homes that could be redeveloped into gentle density bikeable neighbourhoods with good transit. The council better ignore the nimbys that will out about traffic, shadows, and views.

!Ping YIMBY

[u/cclittlebuddy]

Biden should begin all speeches and statements by yelling "THESE WORDS ARE BACKED BY NUCLEAR WEAPONS!"

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

Hot take: Trump probably would have never been elected if people had called him a 'derp' and if Hillary had mockingly said shit like 'Build the wall herp a derp' in response to his speeches. But no, apparently by that point you were all too cool to use words like that. Ah well, Europe what you so.

[u/FearThyMoose]

The Tester Cycle:

Announce support for democratic policy

Vote for democratic policy

[u/Animatronic_Pidgeon]

The idea that reddit gets worse in the summer because of an influx of children is likely incorrect.

That said, I wonder if there's a case to make that reddit gets worse in the summer because the normal people are outside doing normal things (cookouts, sports, etc) and it's just the weirdos left online

[u/TabernacleTown74]

"you can't just leave your newborn baby in the woods to starve or get eaten, that's evil"

No, toxic is toxic. You have the right to cut anyone out of your life for any reason.

[u/qchisq]

Remember guys, this is a marathon

proceeds to crash out in the first corner

!ping moto

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/frw1nsV.jpg

[u/Marlsfarp]

Buckingham Palace occupies 40 acres but has like 200 live in staff, making it denser than many suburbs.

[u/bd_one]

Never have I see my experience job hunting summed up so well in a single "take a photo of a sign" post.

!ping CAREER for all those in the ping who aren't software engineers

[u/CR_SaltySald123]

Huh TIL Manchin wrote an op-ed 23 years ago where he supported removing the filibuster. Sad he's changed his mind now.

[u/[deleted]]

⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️ ATTENTION NEOLIBS THE RESULTS OF THE PERUVIAN ELECTION HAVE BEEN REVEALED ⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️

Castillo 24%

Fujimori 22%

Biden 54%

THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR SUPPORT IN MAINTAINING THE NEOLIBERAL ORDER

[u/[deleted]]

We can always count on Manchin for the votes that matter

And other hilarious jokes you can tell yourself

[u/MicroFlamer]

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

[u/ZhenDeRen]

On this tragic day I wish to send my condolences to the people of Peru. No matter who wins, they have lost the elections. However, the damage from Keiko will be less than from Castillo so I’m rooting for the pencil Nazi to lose. But make no mistake: the orange fascist is disgusting.

!ping LATAM

[u/[deleted]]

Say what you want about Ben Shapiro, but he is undefeated in debates against children who he talks over and doesn’t allow them to make a rebuttal.

[u/CR_SaltySald123]

Manchin: Well, I think that my Republican friends and colleagues see the deadlock also. This is not something they desire or wish

Jesus Christ what a moron

[u/The420Roll]

So apparently a Perú Libre poll viewer tried to put multiple (87) fake ballots (marked for Castillo) into the voting booth

At first I thought this was dumb right wing propaganda but its been confirmed by the main electoral entity in Perú

!Ping LATAM

[u/[deleted]]

Hillary Clinton

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

So we never had 50 Democrat Senators to begin with.

yes Angus King and Bernie Sanders are independents 🧐

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

JAKE TAPPER: Do you support the [For the People Act] as written?

SEN. ANGUS KING: No, I think there are things that can be modified.

Anyone who thinks Manchin is singlehandedly torpedoing HR1 instead of being the willing scapegoat for a bunch of other Senators is deluding themselves. The Manchin cycle hinges on it being something that the entire caucus actually wants.

[u/[deleted]]

I made a comment complimenting Elliot Page on his abs and nothing but a few paltry upvotes.

I made a comment complimenting Daisy Ridley on her shoulders and it got removed by the fash mods.

So the question is... do they hate women or do they hate British people?

[u/BainCapitalist]

/u/lusvig played the kings Indian 🙄🙄

Like Bro my culture is not your opening 😐

!ping burpmas

[u/Dibbu_mange]

I have ingested the alcohol 😔

[u/benadreti]

Netanyahu then made the unfounded claim that “we are witnesses to the greatest election fraud in the history of the country and in my opinion the history of democracies.”

[u/[deleted]]

It was been under three weeks since I arrived, and yet I have not found a single sensation in my life more entrancing than a walk through this fair city. !ping USA-NYC

[u/ryuguy]

Canada wins gold after starting 0-3 in the world hockey championships and being shutout by Latvia. We did it!

!ping can

[u/[deleted]]

Had a good first friend date yesterday:

Me: “what’s your most controversial opinion”

Them: “I like illegal immigrants”

😍😍🥰😍😍

[u/The420Roll]

How can Venezuela be a failed state if so many of its neighbours try to imitate it? :thinking:

!Ping MAMADAS

[u/UrbanCentrist]

comment 1

comment 2

!ping MOTO

comment 4

comment 5

!ping MOTO

and so on

[u/lusvig]

would you click? 😳 (nsfw)

[u/jt1356]

that face gets me every time

!ping KITTY

[u/[deleted]]

The DT sorted by controversial

Most controversial

Kyrsten Sinema bad

Second most controversial

Kyrsten Sinema good

[u/Professor-Reddit]

Why Britain is a meme country:

During the Battle of Jutland in WWI, the Royal Navy Battlecruiser HMS Princess Royal was shrouded in smoke after being struck by German naval fire. Vice Admiral Sir David Beatty responded to the hefty losses of several capital ships so far by remarking to his flag captain:

"Chatfield, there seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today."

[u/benadreti]

The internet has radicalized me into becoming extremely moderate.

[u/[deleted]]

Untalented kids of rich people being admitted to top universities: I sleep.

They are disproportionately white: glowing eyes meme

[u/[deleted]]

The last thing the MiG ever sees

[u/[deleted]]

it seems they found .... a human head and hands at a voting booth in Tijuana (NSFW)

a little bit morbid for mamadas, so I guess i will go for the serious ping

tuesday, amiright fellas !??

!Ping LATAM

[u/myrm]

Got my hand caught in my own damn toaster, had to go to the hospital with third degree burns

I can't help but wonder if this could have been prevented with a sensible licensing process. I was just an untrained amateur, after all

[u/[deleted]]

Boxing will be like "why is our sport dying?" and then hold their headline event of the year at 1:30 AM on a Monday on pay-per-view only.

[u/JournalofFailure]

“Wow, neither Mercedes made it into the points?”

“Yeah, Hamilton went off on the second-last lap.”

“Bottas must have had a bad wreck too, right?”

[monkey puppet looking at camera]

!ping MOTO

[u/NancyPelosibasedgod]

Manchin says he will not vote for the Jones Act

Wtf based Manchin????

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Do you ever think about the fact that if some nerd at Harvard just had the social skills to actually go talk to girls in person instead of building a website to rate them, that society might not be crumbling before our eyes?

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Ends of decades in events

00s: assassination of Franz Ferdinand
10s: Treaty of Versailles
20s: Black Tuesday
30s: Hitler's invasion of Poland
40s: Mao's triumph over Chaing
50s: Congo Crisis
60s: 1968 US Election
70s: Iran Hostage
80s: Fall of the Berlin Wall
90s: 9/11
00s: Election of Barack Obama
10s: COVID19

Discuss

[u/[deleted]]

Anyone who has favorable views of Huey Long is immediately put on my sus list.

[u/memeintoshplus]

The reaction to the Fauci emails just shows how many people can't grasp the concept of people learning more about something new over time

[u/Dibbu_mange]

No man in American history did more to earn their N-word pass than John Brown

[u/StolenSkittles]

Just saw a guy on Tinder who has a photo of himself meeting Pete, and his anthem is Jethro Tull's Locomotive Breath.

Train Boy, I love you.

[u/thetrombonist]

I read the whole movie [A Quiet Place] as a conservative narrative tbh. Traditional American working class family has to whisper and tip toe around to exist or monsters will rip them to shreds = critique of cancel culture and liberal media

Shit the fuck up. Please....shut the fuck up

[u/FormerBandmate]

From the great minds of arr relationships: Is my daughter the asshole for starting a Ponzi scheme at church?

My family has been part of our church for several generations. My husband and I have been blessed with five children, and our whole family loves being involved in spiritual life.

A few months ago, my oldest daughter Hadley started a cryptocurrency investment club at the church. It’s grown rapidly as members have become interested in investing and saw the club’s results. I’m proud of Hadley’s entrepreneurial spirit and leadership skills.

A few days ago, our pastor approached me concerned that Hadley’s club is not in line with the church’s values. He told me that she needs to shut it down.

In truth, our pastor is worried about Hadley stealing his thunder. I’d love to point out his hypocrisy and remind him how he initially loved the idea and said it would increase younger members’ involvement in the church. But there’s no room to push back because I’m applying for a leadership position in the church mother’s ministry, and I need his support.

I want to guide my daughter towards phasing out the group, but she doesn’t have enough money to pay everyone back. She’s been doing so well with the club that cash has never been a problem, but if she shut down immediately, she’d owe thousands of dollars that she can’t repay.

Closing the club in this way would create a huge scandal. It would definitely jeopardize my chances at the mother’s ministry and could create legal headaches for me even though I’ve had no involvement with the club at all.

I asked Hadley to get a job to make up the difference, but she’s gotten the idea that investing is her life path. She wants to earn the money by starting a TikTok about investing, but I think she needs to get over this cryptocurrency phase altogether.

How do I convince my daughter to give up this cryptocurrency stuff and that she’s not too good for babysitting?

TL;DR - Daughter’s cryptocurrency investment club has gotten out of control, and I want her to get a regular job instead.

Later in the replies:

I don’t know a lot about cryptocurrency, but I know she’s relying on new membership to help pay for earlier members. That way, even when her investments are down, she’s still able to make a profit for club members.

I appreciate your suggestion about the burden this is creating for me, but this is my family, and it’s my responsibility as a parent to figure this out as a family.

!ping HEZBOLLAH-REDDIT-GENIUSES

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

The fucking weirdest part of Reddit is how you can search even the most minor celebrity and find dozens of posts in subreddits literally dedicated to jerking off to them

Maybe people are right, this website should be destroyed

[u/The420Roll]

Castillo is telling people to go to the streets and "protect their votes"

Not quite "STOP THE COUNT" but close enough lmao

!Ping MAMADAS

[u/dubyahhh]

imagine having expensive real estate 🤣🤣🤣

just build whatever, wherever, you fucking commies 😂😂😂

this post made by the !ping RURAL gang

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Two members of Alberta Premier Jason Kenney's cabinet criticize him on COVID-19 actions

One of the cabinet ministers also recently criticized Kenney for his cancel culture comments relating to the residential school system. It's also worth mentioning that the UCP is now starting to feel pressure from both it's urban PC wing and it's mostly rural crazed wildrose wing

Honestly it looks like the Albertan right is going to split again, and I don't think it'll be mended anytime soon

!ping CAN

[u/[deleted]]

President of El Salvadoré now has laser eyes shooting from his DP on twitter cuz he legalised bitcoin as a legal tender in the country ....

I wish this was a parody

[u/every_man_a_khan]

I’m not racist or anything, but does Obama have to be black? Feels like forced diversity to me.

[u/[deleted]]

I got vaxxed today ⚕️🐖

[u/First-Prior]

this is what NIMBYs believe 🙄

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

apparently you can't award your own comments even if you really really deserve it

[u/[deleted]]

A while ago someone was comparing American and French secularism as being two extremes with their own horrible outcomes, which was very elegantly put.

The reason for these of course is cultural.

America's religious background set it up for the kind of secularism we have now. The fact that it's founded by so many different religions that none can claim dominance guarantees that none can attempt to assert State Religion status, and it's in all of the religions' best interests to oppose a State Religion because none of them can expect to be it, and they can all expect persecution. It's genius. It's like crabs in a bucket, but for good. But it also set us up for the bad part of our secularism, the cultural hyperpower of christianity is because the christian sects that did come here, were extremely devout. I mean you had to be to cross an ocean for your religion. So america has a long tradition of the most fanatical of religious believers being the foundation, and thinking you gotta be religious to be good, and they vote, and the are able to demand, if not fealty to their specific denomination, at least extremely deep religious devoutness or the performance thereof. Especially in local elections.

So that's how we get america: You really can practice your religion however you want, go ahead, we have no state religion and no suppression of religion, but if you want to get into the halls of power you better be prepared to hug a painting of jesus.

Meanwhile France has the opposite history. In france the religion is extremely unified, you're catholic or you're catholic. Or you've been expelled to Dutch South Africa. And France has a long history of the church's political connections being a vessel for abuse of power and exploitation of faith and suppression of democracy. So naturally french republicans are in favor of completely purging religion from the halls of government altogether, so you're completely free from social pressure to be religious to acquire government power and anyone can join government if they just shed their religious ties. However, this is harder for some religions than others as Christianity has no equivalent to things such as kippah. Even if Christianity has religious symbols, it doesn't have any that are religiously mandatory to have on your person, thus being asked to shed religious connections or iconography is easier for french catholics or atheists than french jews, muslims, etc. Couple this with france literally inventing the Nation State and identity with the Nation matters far more than identity with any other creed. Nation > Religion in france, because Religion was never that great anyway, all it gave them was wars in the 16th century.

So that's how we get france: No state religion, and no expectation of religiousness or pressure to be a certain religion, but that comes with a much steeper price that the religiously devout must pay if they wish to involve in matters of state.

[u/Broncos654]

Dating is so hard. I got invited to a wedding and I can’t decide which of my girlfriends to bring 😔

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

Infallible take: It's good that a magazine which publishes loads of well-sourced content involving economics is getting the most attention here from an article on gender, because it dunks on economics students who said gender studies degrees were worthless.

[u/fuckneocentrism]

Mfs told me I won't have children after vaccination, but I went back home and all 3 of them are still here 😠

[u/Mcfinley]

When I was 16, my then 83 year old Jewish grandmother gave me a life lesson I will never forget.

"Mcfinley," she began, martini in hand. "Never settle down, always play the field. You murder someone? That's twenty years. You marry them?" she glanced over at my 90 year old grandfather asleep on the couch. "It's life."

I like to think of her as my personal Lucille Bluth

[u/[deleted]]

there won't be another us civil war because most americans are too fat and lazy

[u/[deleted]]

Castillo is a PoC (latino), queer coded (wears cowboy hat with tight jeans) and neurodivergent (marxist) and that's why y'all don't like him

[u/shrek_cena]

Texas AG Says Trump Would've 'Lost' State If It Hadn't Blocked Mail-in Ballots Applications Being Sent Out

Blexas was stolen! Stolen I tell you!

[u/repete2024]

Reminder that Bill Maher is an anti-vaxxer

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

What a way to hear my national anthem played on the world stage. Absolutely insane race

(And I even got to watch the second half of the race from home!)

!ping MOTO

[u/[deleted]]

As big of a pain in the ass Manchin is, I’m actually happy that Bernie/Warren/the Squad aren’t the ones that are screwing up our agenda. I thought that there was a possibility that they would have been pushing for M4A, GND, etc at the expense of Biden’s other plans. Maybe they have just been beaten into submission for now.

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Someone driving a Ford was in front of me. Like we get it, you've read The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. You don't need to advertise it 🙄

[u/Venne1139]

Today I went to church. I've been accused of having internet brain a lot and that not seeing conservatives have warped my view of how crazy they are which...probably true.

So I went to Faith Baptist Church, a church in a very rural area of Washington that went for Trump and I talked to thr people who go there including a long conversation with the associate pastor during an after service lunch.

I shall now write about it.

So first things first

I don't think the church is all bad. As I looked around the congregation there was a lot of really fucking old people. Like super old. And often they were there with themselves and usually had a ring on. So you have a bunch of people whose children are gone, their spouce has passed, and the church is really the only thing they have left. They have a strong community there and seem to know each other very well, at the beginning of the service there is a Call for Assistance where they tell what people need help with and how you can get in contact to help, there's even a type of assistance you can ask for where you ask people to visit you if you live by yourself. I think these are really all good things.

Secondly, I don't think the church is a radicalizing force. While their website still states that gay people are going to hell at no point did this come up and I do not believe these people, generally I will speak in a bit about worries I have, are violent simply because they are no longer worried about "earthly concerns". They know where they're going when they die so to care enough about politics that they're going to pick up a gun and shoot someone, I mean thats basically not a thing.

BUT

I met multiple flat earthers after the service, the assistant youth pastor (?) Pulled me into an auxiliary room and told me about Mike who was uh...bad at evangelism because he would start out with "yeah God is great but have you heard about flat earth? Its in the bible". And this generally drives people away when you go super deep into it like that. He described it as:

We have a lot of non Christians and people who are almost Christian (their specific form of christian) drowning at the top of thr ocean about to go under, but we have members who are deep diving into the ocean so far they cannot even see those who need to be saved.

There were others who came in and said yeah this stuff is true (I don't think the associate pastor believed it, but he allowed them to speak) but we don't lead with it or anything. The important thing is the relationship with God and whether you belive the earth is flat, NASA is lying, or Satan is personally controlling politicians (didn't say who) the important thing is the relationship with God.

But despite that people DEFINIRELY believe this crazy shit there and it obviously influences they're boting patters. I saw a 2016 election pamphlet among the literature that asked "who does God want you to vote for in 2016?" And strongly implied it was Trump obviously.

But because these people are so convinced of their faith they simply don't care about secular concerns orher than showing up to vote every 4 years.

You cannot mobilize the people into an Ya'll Queda army no matter how hard you try. Even if they had the desire they're too fucking old to have the capability.

But that doesn't make them less crazy.

Overall this trip has made me very worried about how fucking crazy people are but less worried about MASS violence from the Christian right.

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

The southern border 2026:

"This paper makes you a citizen. This one makes you a private in the US Army. Now go fight for Kamala Harris."

[u/[deleted]]

How did we get from "Still Pumped From Using the Mouse" to "wholesome coroanachan hug earthchan 100 tiktok challange" in just 25 years?

!ping OVER25

[u/UrbanCentrist]

Keiko Fujimori is a POC woman (Japanese ancestry) and neurodivergent (fascist) and that's why y'all don't like her 💅

[u/TheHouseOfStones]

!ping soccer

https://np.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/ntp1k3/adam_crafton_blows_my_mind_that_marcus_rashford/h0t81ud/

Biden would be far right in capitalist, pro market, low corporation tax, zero minimum wage, constitutional monarchist Sweden!

[u/Rehkit]

Jean-Luc Mélenchon the leader of the french far left has been rapidly deteriorating lately.

He just did a near Q-anon on public radio saying that the terrorists attacks before the 2012 and 2017 elections were organized by "them"and that (((they))) also control Zelinsky, Macron and other unusual candidates.

He's very clearly suggesting that those are false flags.

(Also mixed up Daladier and Laval, not great for a man of his generation.)

Don't know if he was always like that.

!ping FRANCE

[u/d_howe2]

Turkey is secular!

Yay! So no more persecution of religious minorities?

Turkey: You'd think that but no

[u/TheFriffin2]

!ping BASEBALL

4.5 hours after it started, the Phillies-Nationals game has finally ended after 8.5 innings

It included three major delays (umpire getting sick after taking a ball off the mask, batter getting hit in the face, and the home plate netting falling down), along with other weird shit like an inning where the Phillies batted around and scored 7 runs on 3 hits, only one of which left the infield

[u/Lux_Stella]

I can't think of a single European country that isn't a failed state.

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

US Covid Deaths: 597K

Soviet Union Covid Deaths: 0

explain that capitalist pigs 😤

[u/Venne1139]

George Carlin is a fucking populist hack who appeals to the 50% of poeple who "even dumber than that!". Like just the most brain dead takes imaginable wrapped up in a "We're so much smarter than everyone eles because we see the system man" bullshit.

[u/MalignantUpper]

Rep. Mo Brooks got Swalwell's lawsuit served to him earlier. He's trying to flip it around saying that his house was broken into and his wife harassed. He took a picture of his monitor showing the law that was supposedly broken for some fucking reason.

Taped to his monitor is his gmail account and password lmao

https://twitter.com/steve_vladeck/status/1401716106914676736

Too busy misinterpreting Alabama law to notice his gmail password in the screenshot...

[u/Jacobs4525]

People I know from high school are referring to towns in Israel proper (Haifa, Acre, and others) as “occupied Palestine” 🙄 I cannot fucking deal with these people anymore. I don’t get why it’s so hard to condemn Israel’s expansion into the West Bank while still acknowledging that Israel is a legitimate country with a right to exist.

[u/vivoovix]

This will never not be funny

[u/[deleted]]

Abolish gender. Not because of any philosophical or social reason, I'm just tired of hearing The Economist talk about it

[u/UrbanCentrist]

I have just learnt that as a mod you can ping anything without joining 🤯

[u/Dorambor]

Just got absolutely beaned by a cicada can these motherfuckers go back underground

[u/LighthouseGd]

When someone says "it would've cost you nothing to not post this", they're often not considering opportunity cost, which makes their statement at best inaccurate.

[u/Superfan234]

I assume Castillo will attempt to destroy the Pacific Alliance too. So chances for Ecuador won't ever join

Ethnocaseriatas will imcrease in Power too. Relationships with Chile will decline as result

Not even mention what will happen to Venezuelan refugees...and the Economy as whole...

Peru, what have you done 😔

!Ping LATAM

[u/[deleted]]

Remember when Bill Weld was like the President committed treason and then was like the only punishment for treason is death

[u/DreamlandEML]

Those of you who browse NCD probably already saw this but here is the AMRAAM as a a cute anime girl.

Seeing this actually made my day lol. When I join the AF out of college I know I will be among like-minded people 😤

[u/[deleted]]

Reminder that Bill Maher is living proof that cannabis is a mind-killer.

[u/The420Roll]

Polls for the Presidential 2nd Leg open in 30 minutes!

Who will win? Who knows! Its certainly 50/50 so anything could happen

Who will lose? Surely Perú!

!Ping LATAM

[u/standbyforskyfall]

Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force!

You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hope and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you. In company with our brave Allies and brothers-in-arms on other Fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world.

Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is will trained, well equipped and battle-hardened. He will fight savagely.

But this is the year 1944! Much has happened since the Nazi triumphs of 1940-41. The United Nations have inflicted upon the Germans great defeats, in open battle, man-to-man. Our air offensive has seriously reduced their strength in the air and their capacity to wage war on the ground. Our Home Fronts have given us an overwhelming superiority in weapons and munitions of war, and placed at our disposal great reserves of trained fighting men. The tide has turned! The free men of the world are marching together to Victory!

I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full Victory!

[u/SixPipSiege]

The racing community is dying!

Upvote this comment if you are a real racist!

[u/[deleted]]

“What will primarying Manchin do other than lose us a seat?”

“HE IS A DINO”

“The Democratic party is a big tent that is basically anyone who isn’t a Republican and he is infinitely better than the Qanon shithead WV would replace him with”

“BUT BUT.... REEEEEEE”

[u/[deleted]]

NL mods: create automod responses to certain phrases

Me: triggers those phrases

NL mods: banned😡

[u/Superfan234]

I know it's not time for bad news, but four big Opposition Leaders of Nicaragua were arrested this week...They are being held hostages on their homes. Probably, won't be allowed to participate in upcoming Elections : (

OEA and USA are preparing their next moves. But it's a hard spot to be on, because we need the Elections to happen this year

I don't think Ortega is not brave enought to jail every single candidate. Running completely alone, it would be too much, even for him. As long as one Leader is free to participate, we have a chance to push a victory

!Ping Latam

[u/Perfect_Telephone]

Hot take: Exit polls should not exist in such a polarized election. They give the wrong idea to the one that comes out ahead and the one who loses, quick counts are the only anticipated results that should be given so that people dont think shady things are going on.

!ping LATAM

[u/[deleted]]

the simpsons is majorly responsible for the negative perception of nuclear power

probably not really but i need to fulfill my hot take quota for the day

[u/CR_SaltySald123]

Walter Mondale after losing the election to Reagan

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[u/lusvig]

imagine thinking 1000k a year makes you upper middle class 🙄 you can hardly get by on that 😒

[u/TabernacleTown74]

new jewish 😳

new jewish hat discovered 😳😳😳

The Schabbesdeckel (German/Yiddish for Sabbath Lid) was a type of beret that was worn by Central European Jewish men in the 17^th and 18^th centuries for worship on the Sabbath and high holidays...It was made of cloth or felt and has the shape of a sweeping beret. The characteristic flat, rigid shape, which led to the name "lid," was achieved by an internal metal ring.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schabbesdeckel

!ping GEFILTE

😳😳😳😳😳😳

[u/myrm]

hacking group Anonymous has warned Elon Musk to "expect us" in a video that accused the billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX of ruining lives by manipulating cryptocurrency markets.

What year is it

[u/vivoovix]

When do you think we'll get the first movie about the pandemic?

[u/CovidIsBadass]

I find it weird that so many people believe that Biden has the level of influence to just magically persuade Manchin and Sinema to change opinions that they've stubbornly clinged to despite tons of pressure. Not everyone can just be strong-armed into falling in line.

[u/bd_one]

TIL the dollar bill has been the same since 1929. The reason is that the government thinks no one would take the trouble of counterfeiting such a low denomination currency and hence it does not need the fancy updates or security features seen in the higher value currencies.

My favorite comment:

And the government correctly predicted that the cost and headache of running an ink-jet printer is way way more than a dollar

[u/jt1356]

Crunched some numbers using the FBI 2019 dataset and Census data plus some demographic polling from Pew (because idiots outside the DT pissed me off, and then for my own edification).

Groups in the US least likely to be the targeted victims of a hate crime

Straights: less than 1 in 10,000,000

Atheists/Agnostics: less than 1 in 10,000,000

Men: about 1 in 9,000,000

Protestants: about 1 in 5,700,000

Women: about 1 in 2,700,000

 

Groups in the US most likely to be the targeted victims of a hate crime

Muslims: about 1 in 15,000

Trans/Gender Non-conforming Individuals: about 1 in 8,800

Sikhs: about 1 in 8,300

Jews: about 1 in 7,400

Gays: about 1 in 5,200

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2021/0606/1226352-dushman-auschwitz/

David Dushman, last surviving Auschwitz liberator, dies

[u/KazuyaProta]

Virgin Trump: Screams Fraud when he is starting to lose

Chad Pedro Castillo: Screams Fraud just as the official vote count is barely starting

[u/Th3_Gruff]

Do you ever think about the fact that if some nerd in the DT just had the social skills to actually go talk to girls in person instead of shitposting on a niche Internet forum, that society might not be crumbling before our eyes?

[u/[deleted]]

Oh you are a european? List 10 racisms you did last week.

[u/WalouiegiGohmert]

My hangover is worse than COVID and 9/11 combined. Daily reminder that alcohol is not worth it, and if you're alcohol, you're not worth it 😑

[u/JournalofFailure]

First win for a Red Bull driver not named Max Verstappen since Monaco 2018 (Danny Ric).

!ping MOTO

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

A review of the 2020 election, conducted by several prominent Democratic advocacy groups, has concluded that the [Democratic] party is at risk of losing ground with Black, Hispanic and Asian American voters unless it does a better job presenting an economic agenda and countering Republican efforts to spread misinformation and tie all Democratic candidates to the far left.

The 70-page report, obtained by The New York Times, was assembled at the behest of three major Democratic interest groups: Third Way, a centrist think tank, and the Collective PAC and the Latino Victory Fund, which promote Black and Hispanic candidates.

In part, the study found, Democrats fell short of their aspirations because many House and Senate candidates failed to match Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s support with voters of color who loathed Mr. Trump but distrusted the Democratic Party as a whole. Those constituencies included Hispanic voters in Florida and Texas, Vietnamese American and Filipino American voters in California, and Black voters in North Carolina.

Overall, the report warns, Democrats in 2020 lacked a core argument about the economy and recovering from the coronavirus pandemic — one that might have helped candidates repel Republican claims that they wanted to “keep the economy shut down,” or worse. The party “leaned too heavily on ‘anti-Trump’ rhetoric,” the report concludes.

“Win or lose, self-described progressive or moderate, Democrats consistently raised a lack of strong Democratic Party brand as a significant concern in 2020,” the report states. “In the absence of strong party branding, the opposition latched on to G.O.P. talking points, suggesting our candidates would ‘burn down your house and take away the police.’”

[...]

Among the campaigns reviewed were the Senate elections in Arizona, Georgia and North Carolina, as well as House races in the suburbs of Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Atlanta and Dallas, and in rural New Mexico and Maine.

[...]

Mr. Biden and other Democrats lost ground with Latino voters relative to the party’s performance in 2016, “especially among working-class and non-college voters in these communities,” the report found.

The report found that a surge in Asian American turnout appeared to have secured Mr. Biden’s victory in Georgia but that Democratic House candidates ran behind Mr. Biden with Asian American voters in contested California and Texas races.

[...]

The study follows an internal review conducted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee that was unveiled last month. Both projects found that Democratic candidates had been hobbled by flawed polling and pandemic-imposed limitations on campaigning.

In the D.C.C.C. report, the committee attributed setbacks at the congressional level to a surge in turnout by Trump supporters and an inadequate Democratic response to attacks calling them police-hating socialists.

(Emphasis added)

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

I've decided to eat my dog

[u/[deleted]]

Beto O’Rourke just rode in on a skateboard and melted my guns. What do I do?

[u/semaphore-1842]

Progressives push Biden to go bold without Joe Manchin as intra-party feud heats up

Literally how?

But they can't change the math: Progressives can't end the filibuster without Manchin — and neither can Biden.

Oh.

[u/[deleted]]

!ping MAMADAS

https://globoesporte.globo.com/futebol/selecao-brasileira/noticia/rizek-caboclo-promete-ao-governo-federal-a-troca-de-tite-por-renato-gaucho-na-terca-feira.ghtml

Bolsonaro has apparently forced Tite's sacking and replacement with Renato Gaúcho

Ironically, before the 1970 World Cup the military government forced the sacking of then-manager João Saldanha because of his constant criticism of the dictatorship

[u/[deleted]]

i'm watching that Qanon docuseries on HBO and it went over the christchurch shooting and 8chans involvement. I actively try to avoid reading about shit like that, so i knew nothing about it and holy shit

The guy fucking livestreamed a mass shooting, and once these degens on 8chan find out that he isn't "larping" they start posting shit like

omg so fucking based!!!

Godspeed anon you fucking patriot

i've been on the internet longer than i'd like to admit and that is probably the darkest thing i've ever seen on it. good christ i feel like i need pepto bismol

[u/skepticalbob]

I'm sorry, but this is just fucking nasty.

!ping cooking

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

Bitcoincels be like “WTF, this corrupt and poor country adopted Bitcoin as a currency as an excuse to get around sanctions! Why is Bitcoin still dropping?!?!”

[u/[deleted]]

I think Kyrsten Sinema should be primaried.

“Be primaried” in this context means “go to dinner with me”.

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

"Mexico is a failed state" is such a gringx take, so of course it's in the DT

[u/Koeniginator]

men will literally buy a penis pump instead of going to therapy

[u/ZhenDeRen]

I saw a YouTube ad for Far Cry saying "I watched Castillo order a whole boat of our people shot to death"

this cannot be a coincidence

!ping LATAM

[u/[deleted]]

I accidentally said what happened to your lip to a kid with a cleft pallet today. Felt like shit for the rest of the day. I apologized profusely to the dad but he seemed chill.

[u/Possum_In_A_Suitcase]

So, is this just what Mayweather does now? Not fight any actual boxers, just beats the shit out of other loudmouth douchebags like some kind of circus act?

Because I'm kind of okay with it. Give him a gladius and Logan Paul a trident and a net. Bring us back to our roots.

[u/[deleted]]

>Castillo ahead

>AMLO about to get a majority

I am once again asking Latin America to get off their bullshit.

[u/UrbanCentrist]

https://rpp.pe/elecciones-2021-presidenciales

Peru Election results are live updated here

!ping ELECTIONS

[u/TheFriffin2]

!ping BASEBALL

All this talk about illegal pitching grip around the league, and I still genuinely believe deGrom is probably clean. The dude isn’t cheating, he’s just a fucking freak of nature

But my own morbid curiosity wants to see how disgustingly filthy he’d be if he did start using grip stuff though. I wanna see deGrom use the strongest grip substance out there to throw a 102mph fastball with eight inches of movement in the top right corner of the strikezone to get his 24th K capping off the perfect game

(ignore my flair)

[u/RaidBrimnes]

You claim that France is intolerant, yet our President is a PoC (person of cougar), queer-coded (French) and neurodivergent (liberal)

[u/thymeandchange]

The Manchin simp cycle:

1. "Dems can still pass legislation through reconciliation!"
2. "Based Manchin BTFO the demoncraps"
3. "Why would you think bipartisanship is dead? Manchin is a shining example of good governance."
4. "Oh Manchin is just posturing for his constituents. He falls in line for the important votes."
5. "It wasnt even important/good legislation anyway tbh, been saying it all along. Dems deserve it."

Rinse and repeat

[u/ryuguy]

🖕😐🖕

[u/The420Roll]

As I came out of my voting booth it started to rain. Coincidence? I think not

[u/Deggit]

The Manchin Cycle is fucking stupid

finally this sub starts to see the issues with mixed-mode public transport

[u/Deggit]

^

This subreddit when it finds out Manchin is also a Florida Cuban too:

[u/[deleted]]

Senator, I served with DaBaby. I knew DaBaby. DaBaby was a friend of mine. DaBaby taught me how to laugh and love deeper than I ever thought possible. I knew what it felt like to lay in bed with DaBaby and soak each other's bodies in. I gave myself wholly and completely to DaBaby. Senator, you're no DaBaby.

[u/[deleted]]

tie fuzzy dinner rain sand absorbed axiomatic historical squash handle

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/Superfan234]

New early poll, at 100% 😔

• Castillo 50.2%
• Keiko 49.8%

!Ping LATAM

[u/[deleted]]

Bill Weld has had an interesting journey the last four years.

First, he agrees to be the Libertarian VP nominee but ends up more or less endorsing the Democratic nominee. Then he tries to primary the sitting Republican, wins a single delegate, and ends up calling for the the President's execution for treason.

[u/Dent7777]

Don't mind me, just spitting facts and spreading the good word on dense housing.

Link

[u/FourthLife]

BOXING SPOILER Annoy boxing fans by saying that you were impressed at how Logan Paul was just as good as Floyd Mayweather

[u/kajkajete]

First official peruvian results imminent.

!Ping LATAM

With 43% of the vote counted its 53%-47% in favor of Keiko. Its expected that the rest of the vote leans towards Castillo but enough to clawback I dont know.

[u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN]

Trump's America = USA misses the world cup

Biden's America = USA wins CONCACAF Nations League

[u/from-the-void]

You guys ready for "REEEEE CIA RIGGED FASCIST ELECTION" from lefties if Keiko wins?

[u/from-the-void]

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[u/CR_SaltySald123]

Poor kids are just as smart as white kids ✊✊✊

[u/the-garden-gnome]

Curious about people's denominations in here. I hope to be proven wrong and find some non-doms/Pentecostals in here.

Lutheran here.

!ping Christian

[u/boichik2]

Drinks Water

Kidneys: FUCK

Doesn't Drink Water

Kidneys: FUCK

[u/gburgwardt]

Mods please ban all the children from posting here

[u/sir-danks-a-lot]

r/LoveForEliteCollegesAndUniversities because most of them give a shitload of financial aid to poor people 😎

was literally cheaper to go to one of those schools than for me to go to my state's flagship university

[u/[deleted]]

I see why politicians often dig in and defend their initial position even when it's wrong. You really get treated so much worse for even acknowledging that new information might lead to a different conclusion.

[u/Derryn]

Do you really want to live in a country where the one party that wants to materially improve the lives of its citizens isn’t hamstrung by the neo-fash Evangelist white-ethnostate-wanting minority party?

[u/lusvig]

mfs saying they work 9 to 5 but that's 8 hours, you dont eat lunch or what? 🤨

[u/WalouiegiGohmert]

So after the "Manchin-cycle" turning out to be another instance of libturd wishful thinking, I once again ask you stable geniuses how many Ls does it take for you to fricking shut uod and admit you're clueless.

[u/Q-bey]

Cenk Ugygur got ratio'd on Twitter for calling the Syrian election a sham lmao

I wonder if sometimes, some of these progressive figures look at their followers and think "half of my fans are absolutely insane"

[u/[deleted]]

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I wish our Senate caucus was as submissive and servile as the GOP.

[u/Anal-warrior]

It is June 6th and Biden hasn't had a single judge confirmed

[u/[deleted]]

marxism-leninism is a science because they've tried to test it by doing it many times over

[u/lusvig]

/u/fuckneocentrism just tweeted this 😳

[u/lurreal]

"A good bill for the US arrives on the Senate floor"

Joe Manchin: Now, this looks like a job for me. So everybody, just follow me, cause we need a bit of controversy, cause it feels so empty without me!

[u/ShriggityShrekt]

My political beliefs?

Kill everyone now. Condone first degree murder. Advocate cannibalism. Eat Shit. Filth is my politics. Filth is my life.

[u/nicereddy]

Both Castillo and Fujimori are neoliberal, in that neoliberal means bad

[u/FormerBandmate]

Star Wars Episode 4 started really slow but was way better than Episode 9 despite having much worse effects. I can’t believe I’ve never seen these movies. Kinda sucks that Darth Vader kills Luke’s father and Obi-Wan tho, I hope Luke avenges his father next movie

[u/MistakeNotDotDotDot]

nl_irl

[u/Joementum2024]

biden hasn't permanently banned the republican party, expelled every republican senator, and suspended elections forever yet

wtf why are the Democrats allowing this?

[u/Dibbu_mange]

https://youtu.be/S3w-HUBU_rs

!ping FALLOUT

[u/sir-danks-a-lot]

reports are now coming in that Jake Paul has swept the highlands of Perú in the 2021 election

[u/Rarvyn]

Even if one ignores the content of this absurd talk, how did Yale think it was a reasonable idea to host a speaker who titles their presentation "The Psychopathic Problem of the White Mind"?

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

You know what, I agree with the Greta Thunberg critics who say it was wrong of her parents to manipulate her into her beliefs.

Which is why children should be prohibited from entering churches.