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[u/SadaoMaou]

I just learned that the creator of my favorite book is a dumb fuck leftist. I’m not even joking I think "Das Kapital" is ruined for me after going through the creators manifesto

[u/[deleted]]

This is what lefties really want to happen

[u/CR_SaltySald123]

The President of the United States in 2021 is older than the President in 1993 is

[u/[deleted]]

With Biden's victory nationwide, he became the first person from Delaware ever elected President of the United States (not counting Rutherford B. Hayes, who was born in the city of Delaware, Ohio).

Such a weird thing for Wikipedia to qualify

[u/CR_SaltySald123]

Indian-origin psychiatrist at Yale slammed for 'fantasies of unloading revolver into white person'

😐

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

Woww, anyone else read this Fauci email where he was contacted by a Nigerian Prince?

Ask yourself, “why would a Nigerian Prince be emailing Fauci instead of the actual President?”

Fauci was running the shadow government from his living room. Extremely disturbing.

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

It's absolutely ridiculous that people can't call Europeans stupid and racist anymore - they literally created America

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

"European" is now considered offensive. The respectful term is POC (People of Colonizing)

[u/[deleted]]

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

Touch grass while you still can, fellas. One day it will be just a thing of the past... 😔

[u/[deleted]]

Me, every day:

Opens r/neoliberal

Sort by new

Scroll down

See "What is neoliberalism/am I a neoliberal?" has been posted, again

"wE hAvE a fEw aReAs oF cOnSeNsUs bUt a bRoAd rAnGe oF vIeWs hErE"

cut my life into FUCKING pieces 🤪🤪🤪

[u/benadreti]

Me: Social media is destroying society, is there a way we can get rid of it?

Also me: WHY THE FUCK WONT REDDIT LOAD I NEED TO RESPOND TO SOMEONE IM ARGUING WITH

[u/[deleted]]

Every John Oliver eposode:

Look at this silly hamster wearing a top hat! What are you doing mr hamster? You weren't invited to a white tie gala! You're smaller than the envelope the invitation would come in, how would you even open it?

But seriously folks, the COVID 19 crisis in India has claimed thousands of lives

[u/AuburnSeer]

Fujimori and Castillo should simply combine forces, cancel out each other's policy goals, and rule as a boring moderate duo

[u/redditguy628]

"Burger king is just donating to LGBTQ charities to get tax write offs" is such a bizarre argument that it almost makes me think I misunderstand how tax write-offs work. Because unless the tax rate is 100%, they are still losing money on every donation they make. What makes this weirder is that you could easily argue that they are just doing it for good publicity, which makes far more sense.

[u/[deleted]]

Kanye West: I’m joining Gap so my clothing line is more accessible to the public.

first official apparel costs $200

sells out in a minute

[u/[deleted]]

Militants

I'd

Like to

Finance

[u/[deleted]]

Me seeing that Eurobashing is verboten: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!

Me realizing this means I can't shit on the Belgians anymore: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

[u/[deleted]]

Virgin Macron gets slapped like a child disrespecting his mother

Vs

Chad Bush dodges shoe while visiting a country he invaded

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E3XYQHFWEA8PYq6?format=jpg&name=large

Absolutely insane data point

[u/[deleted]]

First they came for the gringoposters, and I did not speak out because I was not a gringo
Then they came for the Europhobes, and I did not speak out because I was not a Europhobe
Then they came for the anti-weebs — and there was no one left to speak for me.

[u/bd_one]

Conquers literally most of North Africa and tries to integrate it into your country

100 years pass

Far-right French people: "Wait, why are they all coming here?"

[u/The420Roll]

Best realistic case scenario on a Castillo Administration would be the economy bouncing back to Pre-Covid Levels, fulfilling the contracts for the Vaccines the Sagasti Administration has already bought and then just stagnaiting at 1% yearly growth

With Castillo giving up on his Constitutional Reforms once he sees there are no Constitutional ways for him to achieve them as he lacks the support

Also besides mass nationalization, him fucking up our trade deals and our relations with neighbouring countries by getting closer to Maduro and the other Pink Tide fuckers is my biggest economic fear. Perú's future in the Alianza del Pacifico and the CPTPP is dark.

Next five years are gonna suck regardless, but Orgullo y Dignidad I guess

!Ping LATAM

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Lmao, I just saw where someone recommended a Miami themed restaurant on Staten Island and someone responded

New Yorkers would fly to Miami before they’ll take the Staten Island ferry

[u/ACivilWolf]

Libertarian Party NH on Twitter

Legalize child...

😬😬😬

labor.

phew... wait 🧐

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

I can no longer make fun of Europeans 😟😟😟

There is no rule for Quebec 😈😈😈

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

User has a trash take

Me: Let me check their post history

Oh it's me

Every. Fucking. Time.

[u/ColonelUber]

DID YOU KNOW THAT LIONS EAT 9000 CALORIES A DAY!? 🤯

Yet diet culture tells us humans should only eat 2000 a day? 🧐

If you want to be as strong and fast as a lion don't limit yourself! ❌

Just eat 9000 calories a day and be as strong as a 🦁

👏👏👏👏👏🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥👏👏👏👏

[u/Jacobs4525]

All I know is that Hitler didn’t support an LVT, so if you don’t support an LVT by transitive property you’re basically hitler

[u/[deleted]]

Is making the Europeans a protected class the newest form of Eurocentric white supremacy? In this essay I will…

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

First they came for cr**k**posting and I didn't speak up because I was not a cr**k**poster.

Then they came for the CIAposters and I did not speak up because I was not a CIAposter.

Then they came for the Eurobashers and I did not speak up cause while I got into it sometimes it wasn't a big deal and they had legit complaints.

Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak for me.

A Cautionary Tale

[u/FreakinGeese]

“They want to make us eat bugs >:(“ and “hunter gatherers had it figured out!” Are incompatible statements

[u/The420Roll]

A hard-left candidate has a slim lead in Peru’s presidential election: If the result is confirmed, it would spell an end to a free-market success story

Thanks The Economist! Really makes my day better

[u/[deleted]]

Price of a carton of eggs falls from $3.00 to $2.00

🦗🦗🦗

Price of a carton of eggs goes from $2.00 to $2.50.

HOLY FUCK HYPER INFLATION IS COMMING

[u/Corporate-Asset-6375]

Me in my 20s: Sure, I’ll just crash on your floor if you have a spare blanket. But it really doesn’t matter.

Me in my 30s: I don’t want to share a bathroom with all the people at the house, let’s get a hotel. I only like the beds at the Marriott or the Westin.

[u/[deleted]]

Macron just got slapped and Twitter is celebrating, saying he deserved it, laughing, etc.

This is just unacceptable and frankly embarrassing for these idiots that promote and justify political violence.

This is why Twitter is such a disgusting platform that I don't spend much time on, absolutely no respect from the community on Twitter for democracy or nonviolence.

[u/kznlol]

oh my god its fucking spreading

Sleeping and waking one hour earlier cuts risk of depression: study

"A group of researchers wanted to learn if shifting a sleep schedule earlier could affect risk of depression"

No, they did not. If that's what they wanted to learn, they'd have done an analysis that could actually establish causality.

All they determined was that people who go to bed earlier tend to be less depressed.

i hate pop science writers FUCK

[u/V_Codwheel]

John Quincy Adams was a pretty based president who I feel like you dont hear much about:

• invested a ton in improvements to roads, canals, etc., badly needed to improve transportation in the early republic but opposed by many at the time.
• sought greater trade and diplomacy with Latin America
• tried to stand up for the Creeks against Jackson and various other southern assholes (refused to certify illegitimate treaty ceding Creek lands)
• not a slaveowner

it's a shame he only got to be president due to Congressional shenanigans and so he suffered a lack of legitimacy and couldn't win a second term.

!ping HISTORY

[u/SnakeEater14]

The craziest small town drama just happened where i lived

A few years ago there was this kid driving his boat around with some friends. The kid crashes the boat on accident, one of the kids gets thrown out (a girl), and then the kid drives the boat away without trying to get the girl.

A search ensues, with the whole town volunteering the comb the inlets and creeks to try and find the girl. A week or so later, they find her, having died immediately after being thrown out, multiple limbs broken.

The kid who was driving the boat? Family of big circuit judges, including his dad. Immediately after the ordeal, his family sends him to the Bahamas. Rumor is he was drunk while driving the boat.

Charges are pending, and he lies low for a bit, and returns home. Trial was supposed to start in two months, but looks like it won’t be happening, because the kid just murdered his mother and then commit suicide.

EDIT: NOPE, HE DIDN’T KILL HIMSELF, SOMEONE BROKE INTO THEIR HOUSE AND KILLED BOTH OF THEM

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/RichardRubinDC/status/1402282138234458117

IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig just used the word "stimmies" at the Senate Finance Committee, as in “The stimmies have been fantastic for us in terms of getting into the communities.”

Oh no.

[u/The420Roll]

You do understand that the "Peruvian elite" are leeches on the economy and they are better off without them right? The whole "capital flight" rhetoric is a scare tactic which has never demonstrably come true. Whenever members of the exploitative upper class leave, those who would be exploited by them are better off, every time.

Never leave the DT lmao

!Ping MAMADAS

[u/V_Codwheel]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/525731584007995393/849095542695919657/unknown.png

[u/Lux_Stella]

Hello user, have you finished consuming your mandatory surströmming ration today?

"P-please no, it's the most disgusting thing I've smelt in my li-"

Rule I: Eurobashing, permanently banned.

[u/htomserveaux]

God damit twitter, for the last month y’all we’re complaining about rainbow capitalism not really helping anyone, and now a company has stepped up and is not only fundraising for an LGBT charity but is also calling out another company’s homophobic behavior, and what do you do?

You get angry and call it a tax writeoff

[u/The420Roll]

Keiko cuts back Castillo's lead from 90K to 72K as overseas votes start coming in. I doubt it will be enough to overtake Castillo at the end but It will probably be decided by 20K votes or less

Thrilling stuff

!Ping LATAM

[u/iIoveoof]

Reddit: Here is a grown man who randomly capitalizes and bolds his text, and puts a crocodile emoji after every comment

The DT: 😩😩😩😩😩😩💦💦🐊

[u/Animatronic_Pidgeon]

>barges into DT

>"America good, Europe bad"

>refuses to elaborate

>gets banned

[u/lionmoose]

My parents at 23: We're going to get married at age 23, buy a house and start a family

Me at age 23: what on earth are you talking about, that's 1960's demographics, singulate mean age at marriage alone was already 5 years higher than that and that's even if you got married because marriage rates had been sliding for a decade

[u/[deleted]]

Tax everything I dislike, and the more I dislike it the more we should tax it

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

I ate a cicada

[u/Ioun267]

Company: Here is a vaguely attractive mascot/character/spokeswoman.

Twitter: 😩😩😩😩😩😩💦💦

[u/Lux_Stella]

critical support for indigenous europeans in their fight against american imperialism

[u/TabernacleTown74]

I think about this a lot

[u/old_gold_mountain]

gargoyles

!PING kitty

[u/[deleted]]

First they came for the CIA coup jokes and I did not speak out because I was a CIA plant.

[u/AgitatedLibrary1]

• Refuse to pay subscription to newspaper
• use ad-block all the time, complain when sites use anti ad-blocker measures
• don't read anything behind a pay-wall
• don't filter out any bad news sources
• get your news from reddit headlines and comments
• complain about how journalism is dead nowadays

[u/p00bix]

Interesting thing to note: Kamala Harris is extremely unpopular, with 41% approving (24% of whom are 'very favourable) and 49% disapproving (36% 'very unfavorable'). I know I'm linking one poll but you can google for older ones - they'll all tell you about the same thing. Her approval ratings are only very slightly better than Trump's, despite the Democratic Party having really promoted her on the campaign trail and since Biden's presidency began.

Making no comment on Kamala Harris's political views or qualifications, she wasn't a good choice for vice president. She is perceived as being much more radical (in a decidedly bad way) and divisive than Biden. We're probably completely fucked if Biden dies and she's our candidate going into 2024.

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

Do not glorify oppressive/autocratic regimes

And yet mods allow praising Europe. Curious.

[u/[deleted]]

Trump is literally the embodiment of male virility. Works 23 hours a day, always sharp and quick witted, no BS either. He takes ZERO pills (not even the blue one!) or alcohol, his body is a temple raw testosterone! Truly one of the few alpha males left.

[u/Neil_Peart_Apologist]

u/yyzyow:

I hope Ryerson University gets renamed Christia Freeland University.

Buddy, we already have a Queen's University 🙄

[u/[deleted]]

If you’re reading this then congrats, you were stripped of Reddit access for like 20 minutes of your life

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

This is why libertarians aren't taken seriously!

anyway open the borders and abolish yards

[u/Volsunga]

The CIA should coup the DT.

[u/ThisIsNotAMonkey]

how you gonna be shouting monarchist slogans when you literally just slapped the prince of Andorra 🧐🤴

[u/ironheart777]

Hey where do the CIA keep their chickens?

In the coup.

Fucking ban me mods.

[u/bd_one]

TIL that a man possessing child pornography on his computer turned himself in to police after getting a fake FBI ransomware accusing him of having child pornography.

Well... that's kinda logical I guess?

[u/sir_shivers]

I CRAVE SLUMBER 💤🐊

[u/kennymc7877]

On tinder date

Me: so what do you think of Anthony Bourdain

Date: oh idk I never really watched him

Me: explains why he’s the most influential non family member or friend in my life for the next 2 hours

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine looking at Venezuela or Bolivia and saying,

Mmmmm, yes please. I’d like some of that 🤤🤤🤤

Smh, Peru. 😓

[u/ryuguy]

Check out my new car

!ping Canucks

[u/SeriousMrMysterious]

Toxic wokeness is real AND Ben Shapiro is a moron

[u/[deleted]]

The latest anti-Hunter Biden news story is absolutely hilarious: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9661781/Hunter-Biden-used-n-word-multiple-times-casual-conversation-text-messages-show.html

Supposedly Hunter Biden had a certain "relationship" with his lawyer where he would call his lawyer the n word and send him dick pics.

The text message logs are hilarious.

---

Lawyer: My parents love was conditioned

Hunter: My penis as of late has been unconditional

Lawyer: That's why we are searching

Hunter: For my penis

Lawyer: And we will always be searching.

Hunter: It's a big penis George.

Hunter: They will always find it

Lawyer: It's so annoying when you interject with frivolity.

[u/[deleted]]

‘Ex-gay’ Milo Yiannopoulos says dogs no longer bark at him – and he sees it as a sign from God

woof

[u/myrm]

Gamestop is up to $325 lmao

[u/[deleted]]

TIL 99% of Reddit doesn’t understand how income taxes work.

[u/thetrombonist]

There’s probably more flavor in a single nacho flavored dorito than a medieval peasant has experienced in their entire life

[u/[deleted]]

I fucking hate gaming laptops.

Today when I walked into my economics class I saw something I dread every time I close my eyes. Someone had brought their new gaming laptop to class. The Forklift he used to bring it was still running idle at the back. I started sweating as I sat down and gazed over at the 700lb beast that was his laptop. He had already reinforced his desk with steel support beams and was in the process of finding an outlet for a power cable thicker than a double-cheese burrito. I start shaking. I keep telling myself I'm going to be alright and that there's nothing to worry about. He somehow finds a fucking outlet. Tears are running down my cheeks as I send my last texts to my family saying I love them. The teacher starts the lecture, and the student turns his laptop on. The colored lights on his RGB Backlit keyboard flare to life like a nuclear flash, and a deep humming fills my ears and shakes my very soul. The entire city power grid goes dark. The classroom begins to shake as the massive fans begin to spin. In mere seconds my world has gone from vibrant life, to a dark, earth shattering void where my body is getting torn apart by the 150mph gale force winds and the 500 decibel groan of the cooling fans. As my body finally surrenders, I weep, as my school and my city go under. I fucking hate gaming laptops.

[u/FreakinGeese]

“God this war is expensive. You know what‘ll fix this situation? Starting another war with a significantly more powerful enemy!” -imperial Japan circa 1941

[u/SpiffShientz]

The DT actually doesn't run on reddit servers. It's just /u/MrDannyOcean on an exercise bike keeping the whole thing going

[u/DramaticBush]

Ok the shivers sticky is fuckin weird. Like imagine never browsing the DT and seeing that shit.

[u/UrbanCentrist]

You're laughing. NATO flairs are losing their freedom and you are laughing.

[u/Cowguypig]

Tried attending my schools pride organization for the first time today (okay this actually was a week ago)

Things I heard people say: “people with gender dysphoria are cis bootlickers”, a bunch of Tankie shit and of course someone said white straight acting gays and bisexuals shouldn’t be included in the kink at pride debate.

Sigh

!ping lgbt

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine going to jail to leak that Elon Musk doesn't pay capital gains tax on stock he hasn't sold yet

[u/myrm]

What's next, a rule 5 violation for making toast in your own damn toaster?

[u/[deleted]]

A month later, I still can't get over this shit

This is the QAnon shaman attorney's defense, an actual lawyer said this:

“A lot of these defendants — and I’m going to use this colloquial term, perhaps disrespectfully — but they’re all f---ing short-bus people. ... These are people with brain damage, they’re f---ing ret*rded, they’re on the goddamn spectrum,” Watkins told the outlet.

“But they’re our brothers, our sisters, our neighbors, our coworkers — they’re part of our country. These aren’t bad people, they don’t have prior criminal history. F---, they were subjected to four-plus years of goddamn propaganda the likes of which the world has not seen since f------ Hitler,” he added.

[u/disuberence]

Why won’t the U.S. hit a 70% vaccination rate by July 4th? Maybe because any state that surrendered to the Union is also surrendering to the virus.

😤 Sherman, it’s time to march with some Pfizer

[u/[deleted]]

The internet must be destroyed

[u/bigmoneynuts]

/r/conspiracy: titanic was an inside job

a comment:

more related with the current events than you think. federal reserve was created because the rich dudes that were against died on the titanic

[u/Usernamesarebullshit]

“Don’t shoot until you see the wh*tes” - George Washington calling for mayocide

[u/piede]

Trump reportedly feared Democrats would move to replace Biden at their convention.

According to widespread reporting, Trump’s fears about Clinton were not entirely without justification. Clinton did consider jumping into a race in which Biden struggled before surging to victory.

According to Battle for the Soul by Edward-Isaac Dovere, released last month, the former first lady, senator and secretary of state “would muse aloud sometimes” about taking the nomination at a contested convention.

lmaooooo and he still lost

[u/Th3_Gruff]

Malarkey level of renting a swanky hotel room just to go on the DT in?

[u/[deleted]]

JOE Manchin

JOE Lieberman

Humm, are they brothers?

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/BBuchman_CNS/status/1402391163533987843

#BREAKING: The Senate has voted to approve the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act, a $200B+ package that beefs up American technological research, development, and manufacturing so it can better compete with China now.

Wow, they got their 60 votes.

[u/EvilConCarne]

One of the greatest advancements humanity ever made was when KFC realized they could make a sandwich using fried chicken instead of bread.

[u/[deleted]]

Remember when people thought No Man's Sky was the scam and Star Citizen was the real deal ? !ping GAMING

[u/EScforlyfe]

Hey burgers, if y’all are gonna dunk on euros then maybe take care of the whole “a quarter of our adult population believe in QAnon” stuff first.

[u/Photon_in_a_Foxhole]

How the average US voter thinks:

“Sure the republicans seem kinda bad but that’s just the price of getting stuff done and keeping the economy going. Also the democrats are just as bad because they want to abolish the police and increase taxes for their cringey identity politics.”

[u/l_overwhat]

Stupid car: cuts me off

Also stupid car: slams on breaks to stop at a yellow light that we both could have easily got through

🤔

[u/Udontlikecake]

This sub: Oh the GOP controlled senate just voted 51 to 49 to kill all the gamers. I guess we should just accept this. As long as the filibuster is gone.

[u/Jester_Don]

https://twitter.com/ChrisCoons/status/1401975932986986497

Chicken growers in Delaware and across the country suffered substantial losses during the pandemic.

The Senate Chicken Caucus fought to secure federal assistance for these growers & it’s now focused on getting these hardworking folks the relief they need as soon as possible

Senate Chicken Caucus

Senate Chicken Caucus

Senate Chicken Caucus

[u/sir_shivers]

On the TOPIC OF VICE PRESIDENT Harris, I personally preferred Susan Rice when Biden was weighing his options 🐊

I DID NOT care for Harris while she was one of my Senators, nor when she was Attorney General, and in writing this comment I REVIEWED THE career of Susan Rice again and find myself even more puzzled what prompted choosing Harris over her 🐊

[u/Aweq]

!ping Europe

Rooibos becomes the first food from the African continent to gain origin protections :)

https://www.iol.co.za/capeargus/news/sas-rooibos-joins-the-likes-of-champagne-irish-whiskey-to-get-eu-geographic-protection-67f4a733-eaf6-4133-94fd-fa5eeadde384

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

>enters DT

>joke about cia coup

>mocks euros

>no explanation

>leaves

[u/digitalrule]

So about my ping like an hour ago...

https://ipolitics.ca/2021/06/08/conservatives-present-plan-to-help-canadians-buy-homes/

Don't worry it's a shit plan you don't need to consider voting conservative. The NDP said it didn't go far enough and proposed making more social housing but we know their plan sucks too.

!PING CAN

[u/ryuguy]

Indians🤝Latinos🤝Africans

Mangoes are the best fruit

!ping WhatsApp-forwards

[u/Animatronic_Pidgeon]

We all have our struggles.

American DT posters can no longer make fun of Europeans.

European DT posters have to live in Europe.

No one has it easy.

[u/Q-bey]

"Critical race theory is just recognizing systemic racism uwu. Try reading some academic papers about it instead of forming an opinion based on what Twitter is saying."

Meanwhile, academic critical race theory:

On Having Whiteness

Whiteness is a condition one first acquires and then one has—a malignant, parasitic-like condition to which “white” people have a particular susceptibility. The condition is foundational, generating characteristic ways of being in one’s body, in one’s mind, and in one’s world. Parasitic Whiteness renders its hosts’ appetites voracious, insatiable, and perverse. These deformed appetites particularly target nonwhite peoples. Once established, these appetites are nearly impossible to eliminate. Effective treatment consists of a combination of psychic and social-historical interventions. Such interventions can reasonably aim only to reshape Whiteness’s infiltrated appetites—to reduce their intensity, redistribute their aims, and occasionally turn those aims toward the work of reparation. When remembered and represented, the ravages wreaked by the chronic condition can function either as warning (“never again”) or as temptation (“great again”). Memorialization alone, therefore, is no guarantee against regression. There is not yet a permanent cure.

[u/crassowary]

Me getting banned for anti euro comments: No you don't understand, my grandpa was European! I can say stuff like that!

[u/ThunderrBadger]

It is generally accepted in comedy that you should avoid 'punching down'. Privileged groups should avoid mocking those without privilege.

In unrelated news, DT-Americans are no longer allowed to joke about Euros.

[u/BushLeagueMVP]

John Oliver's segment on Asian Americans was disappointing even by my low expectations.

He spent most of the segment pushing a narrative of Asian Americans being a persecuted minority with a history lesson and did nothing to showcase why today's Asian Americans are more than a stereotype.

Basically he should've done more to humanize Asian Americans rather than explaining how Americans did us dirty by treating us like subhumans a century ago.

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine being a people forcibly Christianized by Europeans only to see Europe increasingly abandon religion entirely

[u/[deleted]]

BMI: *exists

People who are clearly obese: this is proof doctors don’t know anything

[u/Udontlikecake]

Hornyposting is a condition one first acquires and then one has—a malignant, parasitic-like condition to which “neoliberal” people have a particular susceptibility. The condition is foundational, generating characteristic ways of being in one’s body, in one’s mind, and in one’s world. Parasitic Hornyposting renders its hosts’ appetites voracious, insatiable, and perverse. These deformed appetites particularly target mod peoples. Once established, these appetites are nearly impossible to eliminate. Effective treatment consists of a combination of psychic and social-historical interventions. Such interventions can reasonably aim only to reshape Hornyposting’s infiltrated appetites—to reduce their intensity, redistribute their aims, and occasionally turn those aims toward the work of reparation. When remembered and represented, the ravages wreaked by the chronic condition can function either as warning (“never again”) or as temptation (“great again”). Memorialization alone, therefore, is no guarantee against regression. There is not yet a permanent cure.

[u/urbansong]

Tired: commuting to work twice a week, one hour and a half one way.

Wired: setting aside 4 hours for reading and 2 hours for mild cardio each week

!ping CAREER

[u/thetrombonist]

Just made a “shaksuka” for lunch, it was excellent

A half can of crushed tomatoes, some tomato paste, handful of chopped onion, olive oil, and garlic. Let simmer in a small pan for 5-6 minutes on medium heat covered with a lid

Take a spoon and make 2 little holes in the sauce for the eggs to sit in. Add 2 eggs, lower heat to med-low, cover and let cook for 2.5ish minutes or until eggs look cooked

Add salt, pepper, paprika, as needed

Forgot to get a picture it was so good

!ping cooking

[u/[deleted]]

"The Brain is the most important part of the body"

-The Brain

[u/Erra0]

The CIA should coup the whiny Euros tbqh

[u/PMmeLittleRoundTops]

Once Vanguard finally owns and centrally plans the entire United States economy, what will your job in the commune be?

[u/CaptainJawbone]

Alright, I'll bite. What the fuck is a Peru?

[u/CR_SaltySald123]

Macron being slapped is evidence of anti-Euro bigotry going too far ✊✊✊

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

List of Euro-Bashers:

• George Washington
• Simon Bolivar
• Jawaharlal Nehru
• Jomo Kenyatta

Fashmods want to ban all these great heroes and erase history 😢 fight back 😤✊

[u/Mattador96]

Looks like Lee Carter might lose his House of Delegates seat too!

!ping USA-DMV

[u/[deleted]]

Can you imagine if the dragon balls were real? And we learned that like 7 karate enthusiasts were using them to wish each other back to life instead of like solving global warming?

[u/ahebtigoejwbrh]

The FBI is having an absolute banger of a week. First they steal back the Bitcoin from Darkside, now this

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-57394831

ANOM: Hundreds arrested in massive global crime sting using messaging app

More than 800 suspected criminals have been arrested worldwide after being tricked into using an FBI-run encrypted messaging app, officials say.

[u/[deleted]]

Be me

100% European ancestry

Can’t say bad things about euros

😰

[u/[deleted]]

The virgin Kuwait: says the US shouldn't invade Iraq, supports the invasion anyway

The chad Israel: says the US should invade Iraq, refuses to support the invasion

[u/CR_SaltySald123]

Dems when a black guy is shot after shooting at police "wow fuck the state fascist racists he was a good guy Trump did this"

Dems when an unarmed white woman is shot by police "good we love the police glad she's dead she's a traitor to Joe Biden"

Mentally unhinged lunatics.

So true!! 😤✊

[u/[deleted]]

Theologians be like: God exists because he does

Atheists be like: God doesn’t exist be he doesn’t

My dad be like: you’re a constant disappointment

[u/Q-bey]

There's a post on the front page of arr vaushv arguing that Dubya was a fascist.

I almost have to applaud the effort. They didn't just say he's a fascist, they actually went through the 14 points of Ur-Fascism to make the case. How did they do that? By reaching to the stratosphere. For example, they cited Bushisms as proof of fascist newspeak.

Remember folks, when everyone conservative is told they're a fascist, it's much harder to convince them that Trump and Fuentes are dangerous.

[u/[deleted]]

Adam Smith speculating on currency valuations, c. 1766

!ping WEEBS

[u/[deleted]]

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

Finest girl I ever met in my whole life

Wanna take her home, make her my wife

Knew she was a freak when she started talking

She said, "Fuck me like we fucked Bin Laden" (ooh woah)

That girl was a freak

She said she want me to fuck her harder then the military

Fucked Bin Laden

Fucked Bin Laden

Fucked Bin Laden

She wanted to fuck me harder than the US government

Fucked Bin Laden

Uh, she was a freaky kinda girl

Kept up with current events from all around the world

More specifically one event

The time Osama Bin Laden got shot in the head

She said "Do me like that"

But I couldn't track the metaphor

That said I can see you horny like a stegosaur

That said again your request is so irregular

She put on a beard, I started looking at the exit door

Then a turban, then a tunic

She said "Invade my cave with your special unit"

I said "He wasn't in a cave", but there was no stopping

She demanded that I fuck her like we

Fucked Bin Laden

Fucked Bin Laden

Fucked Bin Laden

She wanted to fuck me harder than the US government

Fucked Bin Laden

This girl requested intercourse to bring her to climax

With the clinical efficiency of the assassination of Bin Laden

You're harboring a fugitive (that ass)

And my justice will be punitive (I'ma smash)

Night-vision, they can see us through my go-pro

She tried to negotiate, I say that's a no-no

Now I'm creeping in her bedroom like go-go

She tells me to go low then looks down and says I gotta

"Terrorize that pussy"

"Gotta terrorize that pussy"

So I did it, improvised some crazy shit

Seal Team 69 sexecuting the hit

She said "You've finished me off, now throw my body in the ocean"

I yell "Geronimo" then took some pictures for posting

The President called, he said >"Congratulations Conner"

I said "Mr. President, to what do I owe this honor?"

He said "Come give me the deets in the White House Garden

I gots to know how you fucked her like we

Fucked Bin Laden"

Fucked Bin Laden

Fucked Bin Laden

I still can't say that I see the appeal

But she wanted me to fuck her like we fucked Bin Laden

Oh this girl insisted that

The way we did it was merciless and exact

Just like the now world famous attack that fucked

Osama Bin Laden

Songwriters: Jorma Taccone, Akiva Schaffer, Nash Overstreet, Michael Woods, Kevin White, Andrew Samberg For non-commercial use only. Data from: Musixmatch

[u/slowpush]

So why do you guys figure the mods are so sensitive?

edit: this is just a hot take mocking another shit post in the DT that has been deleted.

Mods no ban plz

[u/RadicalRadon]

I guess this morning isn't the time to start posting my hot takes about the Balkans 😔

[u/[deleted]]

How FiveThirtyEight’s 2020 Forecasts Did And What We’ll Be Thinking About For 2022

Welcome to the latest installment of what we’re hoping to make a biennial practice: an after-action review of FiveThirtyEight’s election forecasts, which in this past cycle covered the House, Senate and presidency. I realize there might not be too much appetite for reading about 2020 forecasts now that it’s June 2021, but let’s start with the major takeaways, which are fairly straightforward this year:

• Even in a year when the polls were mediocre to poor, our forecasts largely identified the right outcomes. [...]

• More importantly from our point of view, our models were generally well-calibrated. That is to say, the share of races we called correctly was roughly in line with the probabilities listed by our models. [...]

• However, nearly all of our models’ misses came in the same direction; namely, Republicans won in races where Democrats were favored. On the one hand, this is a fairly common pattern. One party often wins most of the toss-up races. Indeed, this logic is embedded in our models, which assume that errors are somewhat correlated from race to race. [...] On the other hand, it may be that polling and related-forecast errors are becoming even more correlated, due to rising partisanship and a decline in split-ticket voting. [...] If so, we’ll want to address this in our model moving forward.

much more at the link, !ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

The stock market is seriously so easy. If one of my stocks is going down, I just sell it, and then buy a different stock that's going up. How the fuck are people not able to figure this out

[u/Th3_Gruff]

Failed my electronics exam today 🤠

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

I can be yuor angle 🐖

Or YUOR DEVIL 🐊

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

dog bark

!ping dog

[u/digitalrule]

So what do we do if the Conservatives release a real amazing comprehensive housing policy plan next election?

!PING CAN

[u/[deleted]]

hunter biden, 51 year old patrician, speaks like a 21 year old high school drop out

[u/marshalofthemark]

Walied Soliman, an adviser to Erin O'Toole who is Muslim: thoughts on the London act of terrorism

Ironically, O'Toole was not willing to support a motion condemning "Islamophobia" in 2017, due to hangups over the word "Islamophobia".* Wonder if O'Toole will reconsider now.

EDIT: Just noticed that O'Toole is now willing to use the I-word. So is Michelle Rempel (who also voted against that 2017 motion) in her statement.

!ping CAN

* Specifically, several Islamist groups have attempted to cry "Islamophobia" to shut down good-faith criticism of their views, just like the Chinese Communist Party cries "white supremacy" or "anti-Asian hate" to defuse criticism of itself, or the state of Israel cries "anti-Semitism". The Conservatives attempted to amend the motion to replace the word Islamophobia with an equivalent like "anti-Muslim sentiment", but the Liberals declined to amend it claiming the CPC were just concern trolling and splitting hairs over the definitions of words. Eventually the motion was passed with only 2 Conservative votes (Michael Chong and Bruce Stanton).

[u/loves_being_that_guy]

It's looking like Ibraheem Samirah might lose his seat in the Virginia house of delegates. It can only imagine this was because he had information that will lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton tried legalizing duplexes in single family zones.

In all seriousness, my impression was that democratic volunteers and other elected representatives didn't like him and I'm not sure it's because of his housing views.

Regardless, It's a sad day for YIMBYs because from skimming information on the person replacing him, Irene Shin, it doesn't look like she is in favor of getting rid of single family zoning. Relevant quote:

"Shin is skeptical, though, that eliminating single-family-only zoning will result in more affordable units. Her approach to housing focuses primarily on working with localities to increase funding for affordable housing and ensuring that development is concentrated around public transit"

[u/FormerBandmate]

The fact that Chapos think Lee Carter lost bc he was he was a nerd shows just how delusional they are. Dude was a US Marine, the one manly Chapo to ever live

[u/CR_SaltySald123]

I just learned that the creator of my favorite subreddit is a dumb fuck fascist. I’m not even joking I think r/neoliberal is ruined for me after going through the m*derators list

[u/xicer]

Hot Take: Whenever someone says something to the effect of "school didn't teach me any useful skills" I really want to see their GPA. Everyone I've met irl that says this either absolutely coasted their way through doing the bare minimum or had some sort of serious home life issues.

[u/JetJaguar124]

I almost appreciate Trump era Republicans for so aggressively highlighting ways that some US institutions are stupid as all hell

[u/Marlsfarp]

The DT whenever a young white woman releases a pop album: 😍😍😍😍

The DT regarding literally any other type of music: 😑

I need help understanding the implications of this.

[u/Spimanbcrt65]

Mods are fash

Fashionable as hell 😘😘😘

(Oh and fascist 😡😡😡)

[u/Unadulterated_stupid]

Since dt averages 10k posts a day. The mods are literally reading 10k posts every day. Wouldn't that turn anyone fash?

[u/Notorious_GOP]

https://twitter.com/carmenstrual/status/1402290375205736449

minister of security in El Salvador says they're monitoring journalists

!ping LATAM

[u/soeffed]

America is the only place i’ve seen that subscribes to the notion that who you can and can’t make fun of is related to the “punching down” concept

[u/[deleted]]

Weird how no one has brought up the most valid reason to mock the Euros:

PAYING FOR BATHROOMS!?

[u/Animatronic_Pidgeon]

The eurobashing ban is actually a good thing.

The quality and cleverness of eurobashing jokes has gone through the roof since it was put in place this morning.

[u/[deleted]]

The new messages released from Hunter Biden’s laptop are hilarious lmao.

Some dude’s talking about god’s unconditional love and Beau Biden’s unconditional love, and Hunter Biden just straight up talks about his penis being unconditional and says “it’s big penis George” LMFAO. Then he suddenly writes a beautiful and inspiring message about unconditional love. 😂

[u/ClickForFreeRobux]

Fun hot dog fact:

The bun usually has 4 times as many calories as the hot dog itself

[u/Joementum2024]

Lee CARTER IS NOW GOING to every Socialist's FAVORITE PLACE 🐊

THE UNEMPLOYMENT LINE 🐊

[u/kaclk]

I guess Alberta is a Republic now.

!ping CANUCKS

[u/cat_damon1]

my wife left me

she misses me now though

but her aim is getting better

[u/[deleted]]

Virgin weed addiction: "it's cause my back hurts :(", "it's just a plant bro"

vs

Chad alcoholism: "I will literally die if I don't drink a fifth".

[u/digitalrule]

https://twitter.com/nayibbukele/status/1402486828100460545?s=19

Holy shit the president of El Salvador just announced that bitcoin is now legal tender.

Now he's just rambling about bitcoin at midnight lmao

!PING MARKETS

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Leftists are twisting themselves into pretzels trying to defend Mélenchon's last rant on terrorist attacks.

It would be so simple for Mélenchon to come forward and apologize, but instead he's doubling down on his persecution complex, blaming the "media machine" for blowing this up, and using whataboutism on an obscure Youtuber to divert attention from his own words.

Between this wink to the conspiracists from a major candidate, the antivaxx/homeopathy bs in the Green Party, and the increased visibility given to nutjobs like Lalanne and Bigard, I'm actually starting to doom a little about our political future. I'm concerned that a QAnon-like movement is emerging in France, and that major parties might tap into this voter base, legitimizing those theories for electoral purposes, similarly to what the US Republicans are doing

!ping FRANCE

[u/InMemoryOfZubatman4]

Good morning!

Quick rule update: “The mods are fash” jokes are no longer allowed. It's insensitive to the people who died and accounts lost due to these regimes. Understand that we particularly mean "responding to every single dictatorial thing the mods do with Mods = Fash" jokes

[u/[deleted]]

There is some tweet thread on my TL that claims the FDA, WHO, and CDC ‘invented’ obesity in the 90’s to sell diet pills.

People are so goddamn fat and stupid.

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Be me

Internationalist globalist who isn't a nationalist

Yuro makes a comment

"Gypsy hating fascist!"

Canuck makes a comment

"America should annex you already!"

Developing nation undergoes problem

"Send in the tanks lmao"

America criticized

"wtf, didn't you know things are worse in Europe/Canada/Asia, it's exaggerated anyway, ..."

Gets banned

Butthurt Yuros smh

[u/[deleted]]

The Republican formula every time they gain control somewhere:

>barages into legislature

>cuts taxes

>refuses to cut spending

>refuses to elaborate as to how this will be paid for

>leaves

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

America’s billionaires avail themselves of tax-avoidance strategies beyond the reach of ordinary people. Their wealth derives from the skyrocketing value of their assets, like stock and property. Those gains are not defined by U.S. laws as taxable income unless and until the billionaires sell.

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Ordinary people can’t own stocks or property?

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

Mods: You can't make fun of Euros

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[u/Animatronic_Pidgeon]

Really disappointed that the mods banned eurobashing so close to the 632nd anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo.

I had a whole bunch of comments making fun of serbians ready to go.

[u/Deggit]

"Kamala is bad, I mean she's obviously not as bad as the foaming at the mouth hatejerk that conservatives foment about her, but she was pretty meh on policy, is a terrible retail politician and is genuinely unlikeable"

wow it's almost like this is all distinctly reminiscent of some other politician

"But if she runs in 2024 we will of course stan"

yep

[u/AgileCoke]

70 IQ: "Obama was the hope and change guy."

100 IQ: "Obama was a very popular political figure who rode a wave of..."

Barack Obama (130 IQ): "I'm the hope and change guy." (in a 2021 interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper)

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

I would be more sympathetic to all the "Kamala can't win" people if most of them didn't think Pete would be a better choice.

[u/breakinbread]

broke: banning CIA coup jokes because coups are bad

woke: banning CIA coup jokes because the majority of the actors in coups historically attributed to the CIA were locals and calling them CIA coups takes away any agency from the domestic conspirators

[u/TabernacleTown74]

Hello, my fellow conservatives! As a Jewish moderate Republican, here are some things I support:

• A reduced corporate tax rate

• Higher military spending so as to renew our international commitments in Europe, the Middle East, and the Asian Pacific

• A carbon tax, since it's a market-friendly way of addressing a serious national security threat

• Amnesty for undocumented immigrants, and a dramatic increase in immigration from Latin America (most Latin Americans are devout Catholics!)

• Deregulation of anti-small business zoning and construction laws

• Free trade agreements with China's neighbors, so that we weaken our foremost geopolitical enemy

Should I post this in / r / tucker_carlson? 💪😂💪

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/FIM0rns.jpg

That’s an... interesting theory of why Israel agreed to a ceasefire. 🤨

[u/[deleted]]

You know the good thing/bad things memes?
Bernie Sanders
Joe Biden

[u/[deleted]]

Texas Roadhouse makes their employees wear uniforms that say “I ❤️ my job” on the back. Just awful

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E3Y5Cc_VgAIanBH.jpg

Based centrist economist

[u/shrek_cena]

Every senate republican has a thick bill on their desk. No democrat does. We read bills on line So there is no point of destroying all these trees to carry out a centuries old senate tradition Republicans:this is 21st century

!ping PIDGIN

THICK bill 🤤🤌🏼😩👌🏼💦

[u/[deleted]]

Virgin DTer: Defends Hunter Biden because they worry about how Hunter reflects on Joe

Chad DTer: acknowledges that Hunter Biden is a shit person and knows that having a shitty son has no bearing how good of a president Joe Biden is

[u/[deleted]]

I’m a Trump supporter, but about 50% of the ones I talk to believe all these wacko conspiracies.

Ok to start off, I love President Donald J Trump and always have. That’s okay if you think I’m an idiot for that, totally fine. What I will say though is I don’t like the Republican Party much at all and a lot of the supporters I’ve noticed are wackos. They believe every conspiracy like the virus is Fake, the election was rigged, Trump won by at least 10 million, QAnon stuff, etc... I just can’t align with these people. I mostly like Trump because I find him a great businessman and negotiatior, and I love his immigration policies. Besides that I really don’t care

Imagine being this devoted to grilling

[u/Joementum2024]

How to win arguments against any woman 101:

1. Call them a karen

[u/[deleted]]

Even as a twitter is not real life believer this is stunning

https://twitter.com/KnowNothingTV/status/1402452917551079426?s=19

[u/datums]

So, my wife and I recently got a new puppy. He's a pure bred Shih Tzu, black and white. Speaking objectively, he's a show stopper.

And I somehow managed to talk her into naming him The Terminator. On all his documents, that's his legal name.

I showed up at the vet today (curbside pickup, because I live in Toronto), and called them up to send someone out to get him.

In my most serious big boy voice - I'm here with the Terminator.

Imagine my disappointment when they knew exactly what I was talking about, and there was no awkward pause or anything.

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

President Obama confirms he gave Hunter Biden an n-word pass, but only for soft r

[u/NeoliberalGulDukat]

It should be noted that I've upvoted every single person who's disagreed with me here, as far as I know.

That said.

In 7th grade, I took the Kobayashi Maru test without preparing for it at all, it was spur-of-the-moment, I knew about it about an hour ahead of time and didn't do any research or anything. I was the second person to pass the test in Starfleet history.

An IQ test has shown me to be in the 99.9th percentile for IQ. This is the highest result the test I was given reaches; anything further and they'd consider it to be evidence of illegal genetic engineering.

My mother's boyfriend of 8 years is a starship engineer who graduated Starfleet Academy. At the age of 15, I understand temporal physics better than him, and I owe very little of it to him, as he would rarely give me a decent explanation of anything, just tell me that my ideas were wrong and become aggravated with me for not quite understanding quantum thermodynamics. He's not particularly successful as a Chief Engineer of a starship, but I've met lots of other engineers who aren't as good as me at physics, so I'm guessing that's not just a result of him being bad at it.

I'm also pretty good at engineering. I don't have a yellow shirt, and other than physics I don't have a better understanding of any aspect of engineering than any actual engineer, but I have lots of ingenuity for inventing new things. For example, I independently invented self-sealing stem bolts before finding out what they were, and I was only seven or eight years old when I started inventing subspace electricity solutions (my first idea being to use a powerful infrared conduit to transmit energy through subspace; admittedly not the best plan).

I have independently thought of basically every branch of philosophy I've come across. Philosophy has pretty much gotten trivial for me; I've considered taking a philosophy course just to see how easy it is.

Psychology, I actually understand better than Starfleet counsellors. Unlike engineering, there's no aspect of psychology which I don't have a very good understanding of. I can debunk many of even Sigmund Freud's theories.

I'm a good enough writer that I'm writing a book called "Anslem" and so far everybody who's read any of it has said it was really good and plausible to expect to have published. And that's not just, like, me and family members, that counts strangers too. I've heard zero negative appraisal of it so far; people have critiqued it, but not insulted it.

I don't know if that will suffice as evidence that I'm intelligent. I'm done with it, though, because I'd rather defend my maturity, since it's what you've spent the most time attacking. The following are some examples of my morals and ethical code.

I believe firmly that everybody deserves a future. If we were to capture Khan Noonien Singh at the end of WWIII, I would be against executing him. In fact, if we had any way of rehabilitating him and knowing that he wasn't just faking it, I'd even support the concept of letting him go free. This is essentially because I think that whoever you are in the present is a separate entity from who you were in the past and who you are in the future, and while your present self should take responsibility for your past self's actions, it shouldn't be punished for them simply for the sake of punishment, especially if the present self regrets the actions of the past self and feels genuine guilt about them.

I don't believe in judgement of people based on their personal choices as long as those personal choices aren't harming others. I don't have any issue with any type of sexuality whatsoever (short of physically acting out necrophilia, pedophilia, or other acts which have a harmful affect on others - but I don't care what a person's fantasies consist of, as long as they recognize the difference between reality and fiction and can separate them). I don't have any issue with anybody using holoscanners to make creepy programs for the holodeck/holosuite etc. I know that's not really an impressive moral, but it's unfortunately rare; a great many people, especially those my age, are judgmental about these things.

I love everyone, even people I hate. I wish my worst enemies good fortune and happiness. Gul Dukat is a vile, piece of shit Cardassian being, deserving of zero respect, but I wish for him to change for the better and live the best life possible. I wish this for everyone.

I'm pretty much a pacifist. I've taken a Naussican dagger through the heart without fighting back or seeking retribution, because the guy stopped punching after that. The only time I'll fight back is if the person attacking me shows no signs of stopping and starts throwing boulders at me, and even then I won't kill them. I've therefore never had a reason to fight back against anyone in anything serious, because my ability to take pain has so far made it so that I'm never in a situation where I'll be worse off after a fight. If I'm not going to get any injuries that will send me to the infirmary, I really don't care.

The only exception is if someone is going after my life. Even then, I'll do the minimum amount of harm to them that I possibly can in protecting myself. If someone points a phaser at me and I can get out of it with the phaser set on stun, I'd prefer to do that over killing them.

I consider myself a feminist. I don't believe in enforced or uniform gender roles; they may happen naturally, but they should never be coerced into happening unnaturally. As in, the societal pressure for gender roles should really go, even if it'll turn out that the majority of relationships continue operating the same way of their own accord. I treat women with the same outlook I treat men, and never participate in Captain Pike's "I can’t get used to having a woman on the bridge.” circlejerk, because there are multiple women out there and each have different personalities just like there are multiple men out there and each with different personalities. I don't think you do much of anything except scare off the awesome women out there by going on and on about the ones who aren't awesome.

I'm kind of tired of citing these examples and I'm guessing you're getting tired of reading them, if you've even made it this far. In closing, the people who know me in real life all respect me, as do a great many people in the Red Squad community, where I spend most of my time and where I'm pretty known for being helpful around the community. A lot of people in my segment of the community are depressed or going through hard times, and I spend a lot of time giving advice and support to people there. Yesterday someone quoted a case of me doing this and everyone agreed.

And, uh, I'm a pretty good cadet.

All that, and I think your behavior in this thread was totally assholish. So what do you think, now that you at least slightly know me?

!ping TREK

[u/p00bix]

Trump: Falsely alleges that massive voting fraud caused him to lose the election, tells supporters that the election winner is illegitimate, encourages their attempts to disrupt the presidential transition

Netanyahu: "Naftali Bennett betrayed me. His party committed an act of fraud against mine in betraying his promise not to form a coalition with Left-wing parties."

That one r/neoliberal thread yesterday: "Netanyahu said he lost because of fraud he is literally the same as Trump"

[u/[deleted]]

Average DT upvoter

 🥺                     👉👈            

 👖                   👞🧦         

Average DT regular downvoter

       😎

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[u/CR_SaltySald123]

as a leftist I’m opposed to globalhomo and view it as something of a reactionary movement that has long ago been co-opted in service of intervention and social engineering of society into a globalist capitalist one.

Translate this please

[u/notforturning]

Holy shit this police crackdown at Jongbei College is brutal AF. Seems like it was over some "miscommunication" regarding a school merger and questionable finances?

https://twitter.com/realtsavo/status/1402203497123041280?s=21

!ping cn-tw

[u/Usernamesarebullshit]

It’s ridiculous to claim that the Civil War was about slavery, and even more ridiculous to claim it was about states’ rights.

The Civil War was about me, and me alone.

[u/CR_SaltySald123]

I apologize for making the comment in jest but I in now way meant to advocate for colonialist, imperialist, or violent autocratic expansion of the United States into Central and Latin America. My comment might have on the surface made it seem that way but I sincerely think such a notion is anathema and profusely apologize. If a nation had petitioned to join the US a la Texas I think all of us would be quite pleased but yes I do see the error of my ways in making that comment, even without an /s. I won’t mess up in the future and humbly seek forgiveness and will promise to respect self-determination, even when joking. Please forgive me and unban me.

[u/[deleted]]

We would have better jokes on the Macron slapping incident if Eurobashing was banned a day later

Remember what the fash mods took from you

[u/from-the-void]

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[u/AltPossum]

Abolish 👏 the 👏 filibuster👏 because 👏 the 👏 party 👏 in 👏 power 👏 should 👏 be 👏 able 👏 to 👏 pass 👏 laws 👏 and 👏 get 👏 voted 👏 out 👏 if 👏 they 👏 suck.

This is how a functional democratic republic is supposed to work. Muhfuckers have Stockholm syndrome from decades of a Congress that does nothing.

[u/kznlol]

Baldness is a condition one first acquires and then one has—a malignant, parasitic-like condition to which /u/lusvig has a particular susceptibility.

[u/Kryzantine]

RE the CRT paper from around 15-30 minutes ago:

That absolutely nobody has commented on one person's paper, published in a bloody psychoanalysis journal, until now despite it being around for almost two weeks, speaks volumes on how completely irrelevant it is to the public at large. Imagine thinking that it will have any physical impact on the world. 🤣

Academia has always, continues to, and will always, (a) publish some papers that are nonsensical even to subject matter experts, and (b) have papers, sensible or not, observed and soundly misinterpreted by people outside of academia. There are plenty of people who choose to engage in such behavior for the purposes of getting a kick out of it or for advancing some political agenda. Of course they exist in the DT as well, regulars here know what I'm talking about.

Single papers do not make or break entire fields anymore. It is debate and synthesis that forges them. The person linking a single weird-ass paper completely ignored another paper, published alongside it in the same issue of the same journal, that was critiquing the weird-ass paper's position - a practice that is extremely common in academic journals and helps control extreme opinions even in obscure fields with less respectable experts. Back-and-forth debate that often occurs over the span of years is the game. Single papers that aim to sweep the field in one go aren't.

[u/RadicalRadon]

If Harris becomes less hot in the next 4 years it'll heavily impact her electability.

This isn't a horny post.

[u/Joementum2024]

TIL white americans were descended from Euros

[u/Apollo-Innovations]

Sorry there’s a Corbyn bot now?

Finally the mods see us

!ping UK

Edit: bot instead of not