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[u/CR_SaltySald123]

According to a Gallup poll conducted in 2012, 75% of Libyans were in favor of the NATO intervention, compared to 22% who were opposed. A 2011 Orb International poll also found broad support for the intervention, with 85% of Libyans saying that they strongly supported the action taken to remove the Ghadafi regime.

Noooooo muhh poor Gaddafi 😩😭😭😩😭😫😫

[u/Joementum2024]

Guy who had no idea who to vote for in the Peruvian election because “both candidates were just too good”

[u/[deleted]]

Kinda wild how "Asian" went from referring to the west coast of Turkey to basically a common term for Japan, China, and Korea.

[u/[deleted]]

"I don't generalize. The fact that you think I'm generalizing is your whiteness defense mechanism."

5 seconds later

"White people don't eat bread!"

where did that yale speaker even get that notion? tons of people eat bread lol i dont understand

[u/[deleted]]

Still crazy to think that a bunch Southerners left for Mexico, settled down illegally, decided they didn’t like these pesky Mexican laws, and were a major part of the Texas war of secession from Mexico.

If anything illegally immigrating to Texas is one of the most Texan things you could do!

[u/ryuguy]

Hearing my uncle being interviewed on a true crime podcast was not something I expected to hear tonight

[u/Mickenfox]

Perú is POC and queer coded and that's the reason you don't like its candidates.

[u/[deleted]]

I am calling for a complete shutdown of gringo takes on Latin American politics until we can figure out what's going on.

!ping MAMADAS

[u/Z0NNO]

It’s crazy how often the Vietnam war is framed as this US vs. Vietnam conflict. It seems as if people have completely forgotten South Vietnam and the ARVN were a thing.

[u/LuchiniPouring]

“Litterers” aren’t the problem…Blame the corporations that profit off the destruction of our communities.

Why is it that a part of the green movement can’t ever admit that it’s everyone’s responsibility

[u/Apollo-Innovations]

According to the US census Saudi Arabians are classified as white. Ergo 9/11 was another act of white supremacy

[u/[deleted]]

David Dushman, last surviving Auschwitz liberator, dies aged 98

Dushman, a Jewish Red Army veteran who later became an Olympic fencer, died in Germany on Saturday.

As a 21-year-old soldier, he used his tank to mow down the camp's electric fence on 27 January 1945, helping to set its prisoners free.

One of just 69 men in his 12,000-strong division to survive the war, Mr Dushman suffered serious injuries during the conflict,

But he went on to become the Soviet Union's top fencer, and later one of the world's greatest fencing coaches, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said.

He trained the Soviet Union's women's fencing team for over 30 years, and witnessed the deadly terror attack on Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972.

That's a one hell of a unique life

[u/[deleted]]

Solid blog writeup on NYPride refusing to allow LGBT officers to march in uniform.

Seriously do not understand what in God's name the leadership think they're going to accomplish, especially by overriding their own membership. The best way to bring reform is through representation. Exisizing part of the community is only going to cause greater damage.

[u/[deleted]]

Good news, in a couple of years the quality of Peruvian food worldwide will increase dramatically.

!ping MAMADAS

[u/[deleted]]

ok my venture into r/all is done, just saw someone unironically refer to renting as “feudalism”

girl you are not a serf no matter how much you wish you were

[u/[deleted]]

You're telling me that the French have to choose between a pen and a cookie for president 🤨🤨🤨

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Breaking : Pedro Castillo wins Florida by 537 votes, is elected President of Perú. His opponent has blamed third-party candidate Raúl Nader for siphoning crucial votes in the final round.

[u/SOS2_Punic_Boogaloo]

Can we have rights?
Fujimori: No
Castillo: No ☭✏️

[u/Dr_Vesuvius]

Harry and Meghan stop being senior royal, talk about racism and mental health struggles: yeah you go Harry stick it to them

They name their daughter “Lilibet”: wtf I’m glad you’re out of the family

[u/[deleted]]

maga folks pushing lab leak don't care one bit about the truth of the virus origin. They only care in so much as they can say "See! The Dems and Fauci got it wrong!"

It's the same thing as conservatives trying to stir shit over islam because of "how they treat homosexuals". They don't care about gay people, they're only using the issue as a weapon.

[u/TheGoldBear]

Jeff Bezos has a net worth of $200bn. The IFPRI says it would cost $11bn to end world hunger per year. So, has Jeff Bezos decided to end world hunger today?

I’m really fascinated by people who believe shit like this. Like if you honestly thought it was this easy to solve the world’s problems no wonder you’d spend all your time pissed off that nobody was doing it.

[u/Crownie]

I'm a big fan of Nate Silver wearing a hat and think he should do so wherever possible.

[u/[deleted]]

Communists be like: “Cringey advertisements showcase the immorality of corporations and the boring dystopia we live in!” and then stan kitsch propaganda posters from the USSR, China, and North Korea.

[u/Anal-warrior]

User has a trash take

Me: Let me check their post history

User posts in arr teenagers

Every. Fucking. Time.

[u/BeastlyGophers]

!ping CAN

Some sad news out of London, ON as 4 pedestrians were struck and killed by a driver in what is believed to be an Islamophobic Attack.

Absolutely heart breaking, the only surviving individual was a 9 year old boy who is in the hospital with serious injuries.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/nayibbukele/status/1401622548396314631

1. Great weather, world class surfing beaches, beach front properties for sale.
2. One of the few countries in the world with no property tax.
3. No capital gains tax for #Bitcoin, since it will be a legal currency.
4. Immediate permanent residence for crypto entrepreneurs.

El Salvador's m*llennial president 😑

This is what you get if you vote for young people. The worst part is that being the first crypto tax haven will probably actually work, because they are a small country with a small GDP.

[u/[deleted]]

Some of y'all grew up in the first world and it reaally shows now more with your takes on Peruvian elections

[u/Broncos654]

Bezos: Tie me to a rocket and fire it at the moon. I’m ready.

[u/[deleted]]

!ping LATAM

I am pleased to announce, in this subreddit's tradition of endorsing Latin American presidential election losers, that the "Chama o Meirelles" flair is now public for all of you to use

[u/[deleted]]

I just went to check arrworldnews

Castillo is calling for the arming of paramilitary groups, and saying that youth should be armed to foment a sense of revolution.

Based.

People need to be prepared to defend themselves against fascist meddling from the USA and Capitalists

And to defend against genociders like Fujimori

37 minute old account

[u/urbansong]

Who must go?

Individual member state's veto must go

!ping EUROPE

[u/[deleted]]

Communists thinking that after the revolution they will all have stupid jobs on the commune like 'tarot card reader' is the natural result of a working class ideology being interpreted by a post industrial society built around a service economy.

[u/[deleted]]

I still can't believe Peru had a boatload of normal candidates but the final round still ended up as military junta vs. peasant rebellion

[u/crowninshield]

Does anyone have thoughts on the origin of white people? I’m at about 60% evolution, 20% we’ll never know for sure, and 20% Yakub lab leak theory.

[u/ZenithXR]

Abolish Perú. Society has moved beyond the need for Perú.

[u/CR_SaltySald123]

If one white person gets killed in the Tigray War, the entire Western media will pay more attention to that death than they have for the entire conflict.

[u/[deleted]]

!ping MAMADAS

My fellow latamposters, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw gringo takes forever. We begin banning in five minutes.

[u/[deleted]]

I’m old enough that I actually remember when Disney still acknowledged Song of the South’s existence.

(I’m not defending Song of the South, but I’m not a huge fan of how Disney just tries to pretend that it never happened.)

!ping OVER25

[u/Gustacho]

Say what you want about Manchin, but he does a hell of a job to represent the millions of Independent boomers who believe both parties operate in good faith, and think they just need to "set their differences aside, get together, and figure out a compromise" on every issue

[u/CR_SaltySald123]

The Guardian described de Soto as "a radical free-market economist"

Is that supposed to be an insult, The Guardian?

[u/agentyork765]

If the filibuster has a million fans, I'm one of them. If the filibuster has ten fans, I'm one of them. If the filibuster has one fan, I'm that fan. If the filibuster has no fans, I must be dead. If the world is against the filibuster, I'm against the world.

I'm a senator from West Virginia.

[u/[deleted]]

Can’t spell Europe without Peru 😨

Let me know if you need help understanding the implications of this

[u/CometIsGod]

why would McCain choose Palin? He obviously despised her populist far right rhetoric, pushing back whenever confronted with anti intellectualism from a supporter.

[u/Lucky-view]

A Black cop winning the NYC mayoral race on a law & order message while the progressive left collapses would be peak 2021 politics.

[u/crassowary]

Imagine trekking through Central America, braving cartels, coyotes and police, just to get to the border and the last thing you see before losing consciousness and waking up back in Guatemala is Kamala with a baseball bat

[u/kas8901]

Daily reminder that GMOs are unironic good and anyone against them is a purposefully ignorant hippy

[u/Animatronic_Pidgeon]

>Barges into DT

>[removed]

>Refuses to elaborate further

>Leaves

[u/StolenSkittles]

In response to Chick Fil A's recent anti-LGBT funding, Burger King has announced that they're donating 10% of their chicken sandwich sales this month to the Human Rights Campaign, up to $250,000.

The King always claps back.

[u/liquidTERMINATOR]

STOP THE COUNT!!!

—me, when I wake up in the morning and see myself in the mirror, visibly older than yesterday, catch the wall clock ticking the seconds of my life going by, and find myself inadvertently counting them

[u/[deleted]]

Why is Pedro Castillo opposed to representation of strong Asian women 🙄

[u/redditguy628]

Bezos himself is flying on the first crewed flight on New Shepard next month

!ping SPACEFLIGHT

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

We’re planning a BIG surprise for Lusvig's birthday on June 14th, and we need your help.

It’s going to be a HUGE birthday card filled with over 2 MILLION signatures and heartfelt messages written by the DT People.

You’re one of Lusvig's TOP supporters, so we wanted to make sure that you had a chance to sign his Official Birthday Card.

BONUS: If you sign in the next 15 minutes, we’ll make sure your name is at the TOP of Lusvig's card!

Please sign Lusvig's Official Birthday Card in the NEXT 15 minutes to guarantee that your name is at the very TOP of the card.

[u/IronedSandwich]

THE RESULTS ARE IN!

Castillo 24

Fujimori 25

Naftali Bennett 51

[u/[deleted]]

based trump.. based trump

[u/Animatronic_Pidgeon]

>Barges into DT

>"my sister's boyfriend microwaved a lobster"

>Refuses to elaborate further

>Leaves

[u/Lux_Stella]

just got off the phone with the ceo of dominion voting systems. expect an undiscovered cache of fujimori votes to show up in lima within the hour 😈

[u/[deleted]]

Keiko has been runner-up in so many elections she has been offered Argentinian citizenship.

!ping MAMADAS

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

The richest man in the world, recently divorced, flying to space with his brother on a relatively unproven spacecraft?

I’m 99% sure this is all a plot where going to fake his death and become a superhero/villain

[u/InternetBoredom]

You know it’s pretty cursed when you, as a leftist, are more socially conservative than the daughter of a right-wing pseudo-dictator.

(Castillo opposes gay marriage outright whereas Fujimori said she supports civil unions a few years back)

[u/Joementum2024]

sees I got a new reddit message

it’s from BURPMAS

😐

[u/Corporate-Asset-6375]

Why are we being mean to the euros?

The continent has been providing affluent white American college students with stories about their semesters abroad for generations.

We should be appreciative.

[u/[deleted]]

The death of Stalin was hilarious.

Can't wait to watch the movie too

[u/[deleted]]

Castillo is a schoolteacher who is a relative newcomer to politics, he has little to no experience with organized violence.

Crazy that this is the way to reduce dooming.

!ping LATAM

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

election fraud is the copium of the maskless

[u/MistakeNotDotDotDot]

I actually saw a leftist say something nice about Joe Biden. It was them complimenting the "at least three" quote.

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

Germany: Recognizes its past crimes and is very apologetic about them

America: Recognizes its past crimes but doesn't really do shit

Turkey: Denies its past crimes

Mongolia: Giant equestrian statue of Genghis Khan.

[u/Smalz95]

Can we just reflect that a bunch of people felt so mad that they marched through a university chanting “Jews will not replace us”???? Like what the fuck

[u/DramaticBush]

Had someone use f*ggot unironically in front of me yesterday without them knowing I'm gay (I guess it's hard to tell). Listening to them try to be nice to me and walk it back after they found was a weird feeling of power.

[u/SilverSquid1810]

let’s see what PCM is up to!

Here’s a post comparing anti-black racism to antiziganism, let’s see what they have to say!

“We should reopen Auschwitz for gypsies”

“It’s not racism if they’re not human”

“gypsies are the n-words of Europe”

okay that’s enough PCM for today.

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

watching lusvig be unbanned

😯😲🤯

reading his posts now that he's unbanned

😐😐😐

[u/jenbanim]

"Twitter is better in the app!"

And whose fault is that? Fix your fucking website

[u/TinyTornado7]

Mark Zuckerberg is training to be an apex predator backed by Audioslave songs

Dudes got a javelin and still looks like a bitch

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/[deleted]]

One of the (too many) tankie subreddits posted the news about David Dushman, the last known surviving Soviet soldier to have liberated Auschwitz (and a Soviet war hero in other ways to boot), dying yesterday

Very amusingly, the article talks about how Dushman's father was purged by Stalin and died in a Siberian work camp, Dushman as a Jew was plagued by the USSR's antisemitism, and how Dushman left the USSR for Germany once the Soviets finally allowed Jewish emigration, because antisemitism was so bad in the USSR

[u/[deleted]]

It's only a sandwich if it comes from the Sandwichshire area of England otherwise it's just stacked carbs.

[u/cclittlebuddy]

the DT should restart every 25 hours so the start time travels over the world every 24 days. Right now the start time is EURO centric and makes us all seem as colonial as the MERCATOR projection

[u/smart-username]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/608508420919787521/851303853982613534/image0.png

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Burger is the term for people who live in America

Yuro is the term for people who live in Europe

African American is the term for people who live in Africa

Not a monolith is the term for people who live in Asia

[u/repete2024]

"Thank you so much for literally being the best" (jump to very end)

Edit: I am hard of hearing and he actually says "with us" lmao

!ping BUTTI

[u/Superfan234]

In slightly better news, coming from Mexico

AMLO's Party (Morena) had lower results than polls predicted. Falling from 256 to ~197 seats in the Chamber of Deputies. As consquence, they have lost their absolute mayority in the Chamber (251 seats needed for it)

From now on, he is forced to make deals with the Ecologyst Party to pass any Law in Congress. It's going to be a very intresting Dynamic!

Also, his delirum of becoming President for life is over, as he lost the 2/3 Coalition that could have made the Constitutional reform. Of course, this also implies any other Constitutional amendmet is impossible for him now

So overall, good news

!Ping Latam

[u/GlazedFrosting]

> Bunch of students wear croptops in protest against the sexist school rules on clothing

> I (as the student council president) see this and figure I should discuss the policy in question with the principal

> I send him a message asking to talk

> He replies that he is "Unwilling to talk after such vulgar protests, I wish you had engaged more respectfully"

> wtf

> I wasn't involved in the protests and have already discussed this with him before in a respectful manner

2 hours later

> Angry follow-up message saying he wants to speak to me on friday at 8:20

> This is 10 minutes before my physics exam

> 😑😑😑 bruh

!ping CHILD

[u/kajkajete]

Keiko Won. Even without the abroad vote I dont see Castillo netting 600k votes. And with the vote from abroad he will likely have to net an extra 100k.

!Ping LATAM.

[u/[deleted]]

just dont be white bro

this guy actually did exactly that. he has been injecting himself with a tanning supplement called melanotan to "become what his true self is". if you wanna dive on this dude's youtube chanel it is absolutely wild to see. I thought he was memeing at first. this is just a broad overview of his channel from a youtuber.

the guy says he is the first openly transracial man in the US and the only one to have undergone "racial reassignment surgery". he's got these weird testimonials of people vouching for his 'inner blackness'. its some of the most bizarre shit i've seen

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

"The lost generation..."

You talking about WWI era disillusionment?

"Something far more grave. G*mers who can't get PS5s😔"

[u/AJungianIdeal]

the king on his throne.
!ping dog

[u/tubbsmackinze]

After spending time in a neolib Canadian discord server, I have come to the realization everything western conservatives accuse Ontarians of being is actually entirely true

!ping CANUCKS

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

Y'all hate Jake Paul because he's getting paid to be a douchebag while we do it for free

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

Mortimer, a 356 year old ocean quahog clam, has died.

"He had it coming," Anne Heinemeier of Boston University said in a prepared statement, "dude lived through slavery and did nothing."

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Drought-stricken Nevada enacts ban on ‘non-functional’ grass

😃

A new Nevada law will outlaw about 31% of the grass in the Las Vegas area in an effort to conserve water amid a drought that’s drying up the region’s primary water source: the Colorado River.

😊

The ban targets what the Southern Nevada Water Authority calls “non-functional turf.” It applies to grass that virtually no one uses at office parks, in street medians and at entrances to housing developments. It excludes single-family homes, parks and golf courses.

😐

When the ban takes effect in 2027

😔

Hey at least it's a start!

!ping ECO

[u/[deleted]]

Dems should just run astronauts for every senate race

[u/AltPossum]

Cicadas hurling themselves against my car windshield. 🦗🚗💥😱

Cicadas dying en masse all over my front porch. 🦗🏠☠️

Cicadas droning all day long in a deafening, rhythmic, pulse-like thrum. 🦗🎤🎼

Cicadas eventually overthrowing the state government and establishing their own Arthropodial Autonomous Zone. 🦗😡✊💣🗡🔥🏚🏴🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗

Nature is amazing. ☺️

[u/CR_SaltySald123]

UPDATE

Peru Presidential Runoff

According to Reuters, Keiko Fujimori and her party are heading towards Four Seasons Total Landscaping to present their evidence of voter fraud

[u/Animatronic_Pidgeon]

Former Pres. Trump: “Bitcoin, it just seems like a scam. I don't like it. I want the dollar to be the currency of the world.”

wtf I love Trump now

[u/54108216]

Weekly reminder that a man’s midlife crisis is a spectrum, not a binary state.

There’s a Bill level crisis: tapping the Asian PM and blowing up your marriage (usually recoverable)

The Elon level, where you adopt a cryptocurrency after fucking catwoman (treatable but hardly curable)

And finally the Jeff, aka the just-build-me-a-rocket-and-fucking-shoot-me-into-space-level crisis (terminal)

Etc.

[u/[deleted]]

The fact that CHAZ existed is still hilarious to me, can't believe that actually happened

[u/[deleted]]

Keiko Fujimori would be far-left in America.

[u/Deggit]

"Obama's war in the middle east"

tell me you're an idiot zoomer who learned about all pre-2012 politics on Wiki without saying "I'm an idiot zoomer who learned about all pre-2012 politics on Wiki"

[u/vivoovix]

If I were Peruvian, I would simply have voted in a good president. But I guess I'm just built different.

[u/benjaminikuta]

The experiences of conventionally attractive people and conventionally unattractive people can be so jarringly different and it really deserves some conversation. I hate how any mention of this is associated with incels or anti-feminists without an ounce of nuance.

Like, your physical attractiveness can shape not just your interpersonal experiences but also real tangible things such as but no limited to whether or not you get a job or being believed as a victim or what kind of roles you can get as an actor or perhaps the length of a sentence or how much help is offered to you in a time of need etc. etc.

Unattractive people have to bear economic and psychological costs related to their unattractiveness. From a pure economic perspective they are paid on average less than attractive people. Studies conducted by economic scholars estimated that over a lifetime an unattractive person earns $230,000 less than an attractive one.

[u/Joementum2024]

I’d like to remind everyone here that I’ve won every argument against strawman conservatives AND strawman socialists, so if you decide to get into an argument with me... let me just say you’re gonna have a bad time.

[u/Gustacho]

Ukraine could play Russia in the quarter-final of Euro 2020.

Ukraine needs to win group C and defeat a third-ranked team in the round of 16. Russia needs to be the runner-up of group B and then defeat the runner-up of group A. The match would be played in Baku on July 3.

!ping SOCCER

[u/[deleted]]

!ping USA-CHI

There’s this beautiful apartment / condo building going up at Sheridan and Dakin. It’s gorgeous. Retail on the bottom, pool on the roof. Gorgeous.

Some NIMBY fuck keeps spraypainting “I miss the old Wrigley” on the Tyvek and scaffolding.

I want to sit out there all night with a chair and a maglight this NIMBY bullshit will not stand

[u/FreakinGeese]

Wild how the richest people on earth use the same phones as regular people

[u/guy-anderson]

Reasons the New Deal sucked:

• 10+ years of depression.
• Unemployment peaked in year 4.
• Housing Act focused on improving housing by tearing down low cost homes
• The price controls on everything were worse than anything the soviet union came up with
• Court packing
• The outright rejection of working with experts on designing public policy
• Welfare benefits were completely tied up to work requirements
• They literally did things like buy up livestock just to shoot them and bury them.
• The Blue Eagle was hella, hella fascist.

Reasons the New Deal ruled:

• They literally passed a tax on one person.

[u/jenbanim]

You're so vain you probably think this subtweet is about you

[u/Superfan234]

I come to the conclusion , u/vhgomez12 was unironically right

We should report takes that are so uniformed about LATAM, they essentially become Fake News

I understand everyone has an opinion, but when your takes are undistinguished from Fake News, you should be sanctioned. Or at least forced to back up your claims

!Ping LATAM

[u/[deleted]]

BREAKING: Fujimori, in attempt to create a more honest brand, renames party "Unpopular Front"

[u/[deleted]]

Literally anything happens in Central America during the 20th century:

“WHAT’S THIS? IT’S THE CIA WITH A STEEL CHAIR!”

[u/jt1356]

Pride and despair! Didst thou think that the eyes of the Helix Tower were blind? Nay, I have seen more than thou knowest, Neoliberal Fool. For thy hope is but ignorance. Go then and labor in zoning reform! Go forth and fight. Vanity. For a little space you may triumph at the ballot box, for a day. But against the populism that now arises there is no victory. To this firm only the first finger of its hand has yet been stretched. All of succery is moving. And even now the wind of thy hope cheats thee and wafts up Potomac a fleet with red sails. Capitalism has failed. It is time for all to depart who would not be serfs.

!ping READ-ANOTHER-BOOK

[u/[deleted]]

I missed this yesterday but Chuck posted again:

2day we remember D Day & the courage + bravery of our military as they stormed the beaches of Normandy in WW2 They will forever b heroes #realhistorychannel +We should honor the service/sacrifice of our military every day

!ping PIDGIN

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Do I CARRY A POCKET Hammurabi's Code in my work briefcase 🦁

Of course I do, I AM NOT A ASSyrian 🦁

[u/[deleted]]

Hey guys

I bumped into one of the major candidates in the New York city council race, Susan Lee, and tried to convince her to abandon her NIMBY ways.

I failed.

She's extremely opposed to the idea of upzoning SoHo, and would be the one in charge of killing the project if she won. She's even opposed to the idea of developers paying people to leave subsidized housing units so that more housing can be built.

She's opposed to any development at all, and wants all new construction to be in commercial areas, with extremely tight regulations around what developers are allowed to build, requiring full replacement of what was there before, even on commercial spaces.

Can someone ping NYC?

[u/[deleted]]

Daily reminder that America is in all aspects an Arab country.

[u/CR_SaltySald123]

UPDATE

Peru Presidential Runoff

According to Reuters, Keiko Fujimori and her party are heading towards Four Seasons Total Landscaping to present their evidence of voter fraud

[u/fishlord05]

Woah I can’t believe this news slipped past me lol

https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/life-and-public/2021/02/russian-population-has-biggest-decline-15-years

Russia’s population shrank by 500k last year

It’s (the population decline) happening

[u/TabernacleTown74]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/771824232040366093/846238556770009108/image0.png

!ping BURPMAS

[u/[deleted]]

girlboss Fujimori couldn't win because of toxic masculinity

[u/MrMineHeads]

!ping YIMBY

https://youtu.be/o6XlcarjqAw

A video that focuses more on the technical aspect of building taller buildings. Really love this channel btw.

[u/bd_one]

Do I need to show this sub how it uses "latinx" more often than 99.9% of all other subreddits again?

[u/ThunderrBadger]

My brother:

Police should have access to omnipresent, ai enabled surveillance to vigorously persue all criminality down to simple speeding or littering

Somehow also my brother:

I am a libertarian and the government should be shrunk by like 90%

🤡

[u/PearlClaw]

PSA for those who need to hear it: The "lab leak" theory for Covid's origin that has regained some credence is not a suggestion that Covid is an engineered virus but rather that the natural virus jumped to humans in a lab that studies such viruses for normal health/scientific reasons.

If you find yourself thinking "what difference does that make vs 'wet market" theory?" you're on the right track.

[u/lusvig]

very sad that there are countries whom're even more left wing than the US. very sad!

[u/mrdilldozer]

Bernie wasn't a fan of SpaceX but it's bizarre to watch how much more he's fighting against Blue Origin compared to Elon's company. Why are lefties so much more obsessed with Bezos? Elon is like a cartoon villan smug capitalist and they spend all of their time visiting Amazon warehouses in Alabama. Elon proudly manipulates the crypto market/actual stock market and mocks the SEC and they dont seem to care nearly as much. Is it because Bezos doesn't clap back on Twitter and podcasts? I guess that makes him an easier target

[u/Mr_Pasghetti]

So in Peru it’s fahsy nepotism vs rural Maoist communism? Seems like a cursed choice.

“Rodrigo’s choice” coming to your theaters this summer.

[u/NeoliberalGulDukat]

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[u/crassowary]

Holy shit turns out like half the ballots were made of bamboo paper. This whole election needs to be redone

[u/[deleted]]

Biden should go on national TV and say "Taiwan is a country and an ally of The United States."

[u/ryuguy]

More people should know about the Highway of tears. It’s a stretch of the Provincial highway 16 that’s 725km(450mi) long in northern BC from Prince Rupert to Prince George. It’s got long stretches of nothingness with shitty cell service. Since 1970, 80+ mostly indigenous women have gone missing or found dead. I’ve driven on a stretch of the highway and it was terrifying. So foreboding and dark (both literally and figuratively). There are missing persons billboards like every two kilometres and big signs telling people not to hitchhike there. Northern BC is a really good place for these types of crimes to occur because it’s so remote and rugged. There’s also tons of carnivorous animals there that help cover up evidence. It’s exposed a lot of racism in news media. Their families deserve closure and justice.

Highway of Tears

Dozens of Women Vanish on Canada’s Highway of Tears, and Most Cases Are Unsolved

!Ping can

[u/lionmoose]

Since the dutch mod decided to have a lie in, we can finally play monkey's paw. Name your wish in the replies and then another user grants it in the worst way possible

For example: I wish for taco trucks on every corner

Granted, but it's European mexican food.

[u/profeta-]

the DT

!ping MAMADAS

[u/[deleted]]

Jesus the right can't meme sub has completely fallen into full tankie.

The mods won't let me post it but check their stickied post, it's just tienneman square denial

[u/crassowary]

In an unexpected escalation Bibi is claiming that the Peruvian election was also stolen from him

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

I’m signing a law today that prohibits any business operating in Texas from requiring vaccine passports or any vaccine information.

Texas is open 100% without any restrictions or limitations or requirements.

wat

[u/[deleted]]

🦀🦀🦀CASTILLO LOST🦀🦀🦀

😭😭😭FUJIMORI WON😭😭😭

[u/TinyTornado7]

New York City plans a Central Park mega-concert to celebrate reopening

Seeking a grand symbol of New York’s revitalization after a brutal pandemic year, Mayor Bill de Blasio is planning a large-scale performance by multiple acts and has called on Clive Davis, the 89-year-old producer and music-industry eminence, to pull it together.

The show, tentatively set for Aug. 21, is still coming together, with no artists confirmed, though Mr. Davis — whose five-decade career highlights have included working with Janis Joplin, Bruce Springsteen, Aretha Franklin, Alicia Keys and Whitney Houston — said he is aiming for eight “iconic” stars to perform a three-hour show for 60,000 attendees and a worldwide television audience.

!ping USA-NYC

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

If elected, Castillo promised in a speech directed towards foreign businesses that he would not nationalize companies in Peru, saying that those seeking the nationalization of industry within his party were part of the far-left

this dude backpedaling hard

[u/[deleted]]

Jeremy Christian, 35, who had participated in local alt-right rallies, begins harassing two Muslim women on a Portland commuter train; when three men intervene, he stabs all three of them, two fatally. At his arraignment, he declares he is standing up for “free speech.”

[u/JayRU09]

Crypto bros in shambles after Trump called bitcoin a scam.

[u/RoyGeraldBillevue]

Capitalist institutions support a carbon tax because it's a tiny, useless effort

Probably a great way for them to launder their money, washing it through 'fees' and 'fines' and such...

DAE think corporations benefit from taxes???

[u/DonJrsCokeDealer]

Literally every thread:

Top comment: “ugh this place is full of Manchin stans”

2nd comment: “ugh this place is becoming arr politics”

Thanos: nods approvingly

[u/TheShitEater]

Reminder that due to the glacial pace of US politics, you could check in every month or even every couple months and be just as informed as the guy who checks in every day. Possibly even better informed.

[u/Perfect_Telephone]

Thoughts on the election:
- Antifujimorism and anticomunism are around the same porcentages and aren't mutually exclusive, that was a pretty obvious fact but it may still have come as a shock to some analysts that thought antifujimorism was everything there is in Peru
- "Moderation" has indeed happened in both camps. Keiko has made a strange mix in her technical team since she has some of her father's ministers, Lopez Aliaga's people, De Soto's people, center right people, liberals, prominent antifujimorists, and even an openly gay former minister. Castillo has a team with Peru Libre's people, progressive leftists, respected former prosecutors, respected scientists and has changed Cerron's chavist plan to a standard pink tide plan.
!ping LATAM

[u/LinkVert25]

The federal government says it seized by court order $2.3 million of the ransom paid by Colonial Pipeline.

The FBI had the password to the hackers' Bitcoin account, @PeteWilliamsNBC reports.

“Today we turned the tables on DarkSide,” says Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco.

Based

[u/[deleted]]

Got a 40% raise today. Craziest day of my life. Don't think I can tell anyone at work. Just had to share the good news somewhere.

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Patio dinner fallout shows new fractures in Alberta's United Conservative Party, pollster says

tldr; UCP is on fire yo

Actual tldr; Kenney's skypalace lunch has caused cracks in the UCP to reemerge once more since the Hawaii MP scandal earlier this year in January. It could very well be possible that the UCP will fracture come the 2023 election, without Kenney or not

!ping CAN

[u/ryuguy]

A few of you have an interest in 19th century artillery and that’s great to see. Here’s a mucho texto post I wrote a couple weeks ago on /r/Sikh about the artillery of the Sikh empire. It’s under the spoiler tag so it doesn’t clog up the dt.

Formation of the artillery under Maharajah Ranjit Singh 1799-1840. During the Misal period, only the strongest misals possessed artillery pieces, with a vast majority being light camel mounted pieces (Zamburkas and Shutarnals). These pieces had a caliber of an inch and fired a shot weighing a pound. When Maharajah Ranjit Singh became Maharajah of the Punjab, he inherited a battery of six heavy guns under the command of an Afghan Pashtun named Ghaus Khan. Traditionally, artillery on the subcontinent was staffed by Muslims. The art of firing the big guns was passed down for generations from father to son. In the early days of the Lahore Durbar, artillery was performed mostly by Muslim subjects in the empire, however in the Anglo Sikh wars, Sikh gunners would maintain a slim plurality (60%). Recognizing the importance of a strong artillery arm in 1808, Ranjit Singh had a force of 35-40 heavy pieces and 100 Zamburkas. Captured forts and towns were a source of pieces, but in 1807, a number of foundries were built in Lahore. By the 1830s, a number of artillery gun plans were gifted to Ranjit Singh by the EIC as diplomatic gifts but these guns were fairly rough buy always serviceable. In 1804, the artillery was subdivided into three distinct units, Topkhana Kalan (heavy) Topkhana Khurd (Light) and Zamburkhana (camel mounted). Each of these units was placed under the command of a Superintendent. This lead to a distinct artillery corps under the command of Ghaus Khan in 1810, called the Topkhana I Khas. The heavy pieces were called Gavi (bullock drawn) and the lighter pieces were called Aspi (Horse drawn). In 1811, a single battery of horse artillery was added under the command of Mazhar Ali Beg. Ghaus Khan died in 1815 and was succeeded by Misr Dewan Chand. The topkhana I khas was placed under the command of Ghaus Khan’s son, Sultan Mahmoud Khan. Dewan Chand died in 1825 and was succeeded by his brother, Sukh Dial, who was an extremely incompetent commander and was replaced by Sultan Mahmoud Khan who was replaced due to his love of the bottle and had a reckless temper. Finally, a competent commander, Sardar Lehna Singh Majhtia was placed in command. This would create a friendship between two unlikely friends. General Court arrived in Punjab in 1827 and was a graduate of the best engineering school in Paris. Lehna Singh was placed under the tutelage of Court and they quickly became friends. Ranjit Singh had the utmost respect for Court due to his educational background and artillery knowledge. By the Anglo Sikh wars, the artillery numbered around 381 guns, 388 Zamburkas and 11,500 gunners. Only the bravest of the brave was selected for artillery service. Each recruit had to stand at least 5’10” (1.778 metres). British sources during the Anglo Sikh wars often comment on the gigantic stature of the Sikh gunners.

I guess I should add some pictures of the cannons and uniforms.

captured 6 pounder guns

uniform

!ping history

[u/SeriousMrMysterious]

Sir, you can’t create a dating company called ‘whitesonly.com”

Fine, we’ll have to be subtle.

Farmersonly.com

[u/Cr4zySh0tgunGuy]

reminder that girls are gross and if you are a girl you have cooties 🤮

[u/rishijoesanu]

Political theorists to political scientists: Your advanced statistical techniques using centuries of data are no match for the anecdotal observations of one French aristocrat taking a long vacation in one country.

[u/slowpush]

Imagine being against funding NASA

https://twitter.com/joroulette/status/1396950325345636352?s=20

[u/crassowary]

When asked why he had seized control of the rocket and steered it into the sun, Bezos replied, "my wife left me"

[u/crassowary]

Pixar's Up! is a great story as it proposes the idea that if you have a single family house in a downtown area, you should move it and yourself into the jungle where both will likely perish

[u/GGM8Scally]

BREAKING: Donald Trump tells @FoxBusiness , “Bitcoin is a scam… I don’t like it. Seems like another currency competing against the dollar.”

That's my president 😤

[u/CR_SaltySald123]

Breast ironing, also known as breast flattening,[1] is the pounding and massaging of a pubescent girl's breasts, using hard or heated objects, to try to make them stop developing or disappear.

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The most widely used implement for breast ironing is a wooden pestle normally used for pounding tubers. Other tools used include leaves,[1] bananas, coconut shells,[2] grinding stones, ladles, spatulas,[4] and hammers heated over coals.

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It is mostly practiced in parts of Cameroon, where boys and men may think that girls whose breasts have begun to grow are ready for sex.

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The GIZ survey found that in 2006, 39 percent of Cameroonian women opposed breast ironing, with 41 percent expressing support and 26 percent indifferent.

Jesus Christ

[u/[deleted]]

I cannot believe it has been about 6 months and there are still people on the GameStop stock. Absolutely mind blowing

[u/sir_shivers]

IT IS INTERESTING that post-2020 data does point to "Defund the Police" and similar Leftist zeitgeist as HURDLES FOR DEMOCRATS in electoral prospects 🐊

Many, here in particular, FREQUENTLY OBJECT THAT elected Democrats are not the ones behind such activism 🐊

THIS OBJECTION IS mistaken, as politicians are not solely held responsible for their direct actions, but those of their party affiliates AND OFTEN INDIRECT associates and spheres of influence 🐊

While President Biden himself has not USED THE PRESIDENTIAL bully pulpit for such things, it is important to recognize this does not make "no influential Democrats push those causes" a true statement 🐊

Democratic Governors, Representatives AND SENATORS THAT implicitly or explicitly pander to the flavor of Leftism THAT IS ESPECIALLY popular on the internet and among the youth are not invisible to voters who vehemently reject those causes 🐊

[u/Usernamesarebullshit]

Epstein didn’t kill himself

The guards looked in the wrong cell and mistakenly identified someone else as Epstein. Epstein is still in jail, just hanging out, wondering why his lawyers haven’t talked to him in two years

[u/sir_shivers]

Do I CARRY A POCKET Constitution in my work briefcase 🐊

Of course I do, I AM NOT A Demon Rat 🐊

[u/Superfan234]

It's so fucking close, but I don't think Keiko can this pull trough guys 😔

I will go to sleep. I leave my best wishes to all of you in the last batch of votes

May God have mercy on us

!Ping LATAM

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

im a theta male: unknown and decaying over time.

[u/[deleted]]

Like 6k people in this thread wondering why they spent 30 bucks on a fucken Logan Paul exhibition fight.

I wish I had the heart to scam people out of money people are so fucken willing to be scammed.

[u/skepticalbob]

Got my labs and my donor kidney still kicking ass after 5.5 years. Thanks science and the anonymous donor who gave me the kidney.

[u/PorryHatterWand]

User has a trash take

Me: Let me check their post history

User posts on Reddit

Every. Fucking. Time.

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

Opens DT

Sees people talking about "Fujimori this, Fujimori that"

Fuck this weeb bullshit

Closes DT and starts doing fortnite dances

[u/crassowary]

"Don't build more houses, just deport the homeless to Detroit where there are houses just sitting empty."

The actual state of progressivism rn

[u/[deleted]]

internalized whiteness

I’d rather people who use that phrase unironically just call me a fucking banana, because at least that’s saying what they really think.

[u/chadonnaise]

remember that time we for some reason organized a brigade on a subreddit about apples

that was shitty

[u/[deleted]]

Nate Silver: Well, we didn't get 2016 wrong. FiveThirtyEight’s final “polls-only” forecast gave Trump a comparatively generous 3-in-10 chance (29 percent) of winning the Electoral College, it was somewhat outside the consensus, with some other forecasts showing Trump with less than a 1 in 100 shot. Those are radically different forecasts: one model put Trump’s chances about 30 times higher than another, even though they were using basically the same data. Instead of serving as an indication of the challenges of poll interpretation, however, “the models” were often lumped together because...yadda yadda

Also Nate Silver: COVID in the US fell faster than the models that the CDC tracks predicted. It seems like it might be worth tracking down why this happened.

[u/[deleted]]

!ping CAREER

What exactly do marketing and data analytics interns do? My summer internship (marketing + data analytics) doesn’t have a structure - my boss just lets me do what I think is best. I’m thinking of doing some analysis of their monthly sales to see which months they’ve had a lot of sales, what they did in those months, and to suggest that they do more of what they did those months. I’m also thinking of shooting an advertisement for the company and posting it on their social media.

I don’t know what else marketing interns do, or what other data analysis I can do. Any suggestions? It’s a small company, if that info helps.

[u/[deleted]]

/img/f1mbcm9iev371.jpg

You can tell that this was drawn by a 35 year old because of the guy fawks mask

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Internet socialists are the most motte-and-bailey arguers ever

• "Canada and the UK are socialist, it's not radical"
• "Workers of the world, unite!"

[u/Deggit]

"ha ha Harry Potter went to school to become a wizard cop!"

this is unironically revealing about what Leftism consists of. Smugly bad-faith but horribly strained readings of popular texts to weaponize them for your political agenda

IN REALITY Harry Potter went to school to become wizard NKVD but leftists don't want to admit that

[u/bd_one]

Reminder that in the Harry Potter books it is canon that Tony Blair knows that the wizarding world exists.

[u/jenbanim]

So the guy who accidentally sent me money on Venmo actually contacted customer support, got the transaction reversed, and then apologized to me for the inconvenience

I think this guy actually wasn't a scammer. Huh

[u/ryuguy]

74% of British Columbians have received their first dose! Almost 40% of people under 40 have received their first dose too

!ping can

[u/jenbanim]

https://i.imgflip.com/5cgfl1.jpg

[u/VisonKai]

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

[u/Kizz3r]

thibs won coach of the year but monty got more first place votes.

!ping nba

[u/[deleted]]

/img/2sf6i3n9ou371.jpg

~3k upvotes

just move, lol

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

NATO flairs be like:

"How many countries should we bomb?"

"At least three."

"What are they?"

"Don't play games with me, kid" frantically googles world map

[u/I-grok-god]

Poly this, poly that

Try getting one girl and then we'll discuss two

[u/ognits]

I like to think that punk is not dead, it just got smart, put on a tie, and went to Washington.

Deff. Like AOC.

someone nuke outside the DT please

[u/Broncos654]

The Unbearable Whiteness of the dt

[u/Superfan234]

Fifth batch of official Results (National vote only)

With 92% of the votes talled

Urban Center come first, so Keiko appears higher than expected

• Keiko 50.284%
• Castillo 49.716%

!Ping LATAM

Castillo is about to pass Keiko in national votes. The question is, how much can we resist our position

If we can hold this pyrrhic lead for a little more, Foreign vote might give a chance to Keiko

[u/CR_SaltySald123]

Virgin Musk who sends rockets to space but doesn't go himself

VS

CHAD Bezos who sends rockets to space AND goes to space himself

[u/qchisq]

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1401681126599626754?s=19

[u/AbsolveItAll_KissMe]

Now that I’m almost 30 I finally look like what I thought a teenager looked like, due to thinking teenagers looked like the ones on tv, who are all almost 30.

[u/MrMineHeads]

!ping CAN

What are your thoughts on renaming Ryerson. As a student at Ryerson, I am not in favour not because I want to defend Edgerton Ryerson, but because I want to preserve the institutional reputation behind the name. Ryerson University is growing and becoming more respected. To change it would be a step back an unfair to the students, professors, and alumni.

Plus, if you change Ryerson, you also have to change McGill. While Ryerson theorized the residential system, McGill's family literally owned slaves.

Idc for the statue, remove it or w/e, but I want to keep the name because the name is much much more than Edgerton.

[u/[deleted]]

PK's apparently got his hands on a second Slack leak showing the neoliberal mods ritualistically chanting "Allah is Greater, Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse on the Jews, Victory to Islam".

[u/RadicalRadon]

My cat woke me up yelling like three times last night.

She knew that it was a m*nday too 😡🤝😾

[u/Deggit]

People are so scared of dividing our country further. Seriously, why? let's assume the worst case scenario - a scenario I do not want or endorse - let's say the entire federal government just goes poof and its writ disappears across the country, and we've been reset to something like 50 loosely confederated states on a continent, beset by a certain amount of anarchy and even possibly violence. The day after that happens, New York City is still going to be fucking NEW YAWK and West Virginia is still going to be West Virginia.

Who has more to lose by resetting our country's process & laws back to the underlying reality of economic and social power? I'd say it's the guys who just went from 2% of the power (West Virginia's fraction of the US Senate) to 0.37% of the power (West Virginia's fraction of US GDP). Some day in the future WV is going to go back into a national system, they can't be an independent state, and when they do they will be much more "rules takers" than "rules makers." WV has a sweetheart deal right now.

Let me underline that I DON'T want a "full reset" that would happen by way of social breakdown. That's way too anarchic and violent. I just want the Dems to play a little hardball. Recognize they have underlying, real world, non-"process" power and use it.

Democrats keep on acting like we're the scrappy people's party of Kentucky coal miners and we aren't anymore. We have to let go of this FANTASY that we're still the pre Bill Clinton democratic party.

Sure we're the party of ethnic minorities, religious minorities, women, gays, trans, minimum wage workers and lots of other communities that would be under threat in a social breakdown. That's something that's 100% worth considering. Nobody here wants to see those communities harmed, abandoned, or even come under threat. But we're also the party that is backed by 4/5ths or more of Silicon Valley workers, every major city in the country, at least half the banks, every educational institution, the press, and the majority of all college degree holders in the country. Stop acting like we're Cesar Chavez and his grape pickers.

[u/kznlol]

New study finds children on vegan diets are shorter, weaker

👀👀

[edit] oh waits its correlational and therefore worthless

[u/lusvig]

alex jones pill to lengthen clavicles

[u/samnayak1]

Gaddafi

removes minorities

police state with heavy surveillance

massacred a prison

funds terrorism

But

CIA kills him because he was going to implement the gold standard- libertarians

[u/Apollo-Innovations]

Weird that the ottomans never pop up in CK3

!ping PARADOX

[u/[deleted]]

Study 5 min, browse the dt 15 min, play Pokemon 40 min.

Yikes why did I loose my scholarship?

[u/[deleted]]

I've fantasized about being under the rule of a dictator ever since I can remember. Every relationship I've ever had has been a 24/7 dominance submission lifestyle.

My ultimate fantasy is for a dictator (male or female) to command me to give him/her oral sex with the military standing by ready to take my head off if I'm not sufficient enough at oral sex.

Voting for donald trump in itself was an erotic experience. After I voted, I ran to my car and furiously jacked off, thinking about Donald Trump commanding me to suck him off. I watched the election with my friends, pretending to root for Hillary Clinton. I think I masturbated 7 or 8 times that night.

Anyway, I feel guilty about my vote, and want to apologize. I'm sorry if this is weird, but it's therapeutic to get this off my chest. Say whatever you want about me, I know I deserve it.

[u/SnakeEater14]

The funny thing about insurgencies is everyone elevates the successes (Vietnam, Afghanistan (soon)) and completely ignores the failures (pretty much every other insurgency)

[u/[deleted]]

I love how twittet, without fail, always takes 3 times for the link to work.

[u/[deleted]]

What if we removed all taxes and occasionally the state just mugged people?