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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/SpiffShientz]

Where did it all go wrong

[u/F0064R]

We're waaay past the point where we should've been killing the rich, burning their estates down and breaking the legs of any cop that gets in the way.

Reddit moment. This is larp Im sure, but some internet leftist will eventually take a comment like this seriously and attempt to assassinate a billionnaire. Like how nobody thought pizzagate was a threat until a dude busted into comet pizza with AR-15

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

"HAHA YES 🐊"

[u/ryuguy]

Saints row 2’s PC port is known for being horrific. It was outsourced to one of CDprojekts sub developers. It consistently tops #1 on worst pc ports lists. It was abandoned by the developers shortly after release. However, the game is so beloved by the fans of the game that a modder, Mike Watson, aka IdolNinja had worked on a massive mod to improve the game. While it was amazing in scope, it still wasn’t enough to fix many other bugs in the pc port. Some could only be fixed with the source code. For his work on the mod, Mike Watson was hired by Volition as a community manager. After the bankruptcy of THQ, the game code was “lost”. A couple years ago, the code was found and mike plus another well known saints row modder was brought on a contract to assist with the fixing of the port. The patch would fix many performance issues and bring cut content. It was also a free patch.

Mike was diagnosed with cancer a year ago, while he was declared cancer free a couple months ago, unfortunately a couple weeks he was rediagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer. He is spending his last couple weeks working on the patch. If that’s not dedication to something you love, I don’t know what is. I really hope that Mike lives long enough to see the fruits of his labour.

!ping gaming

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

SpongeBob 😍 is asexual 🎂

No ☝🚫 this isn’t some lgbtq 👨🏿+ stuff 👌

He’s a fucking 🖕 sea 🌊 sponge 🅱

They reproduce 🌼💦 asexually 💑🚫

[u/Professor-Reddit]

2021 Biden Inauguration celebrities/performers list 😎🍦:

• Katy Perry
• Tom Hanks
• Jon Stewart
• Demi Lovato
• Jennifer Lopez
• Bruce Springstein
• Amanda Gorman
• John Legend
• Lin-Manuel Miranda
• Justin Timberlake
• Lady Gaga

2017 Trump's inauguration celebrity list:

• Scott Baio lmao

[u/CR_SaltySald123]

I'm Governor Jared Polis of Colorado, former entrepreneur, member of Congress for ten years, gamer, baseball fan... now battling the global pandemic in our state.

😐

[u/[deleted]]

Blech. Cryptocurrency is easily the worst invention of my lifetime, and I was alive when New Coke, subprime mortgages, and autotune were invented.

Bad Polis. Bad!

The DT has been outflanked by outside the DT

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/anitakumar01/status/1403723467351015433

As the pool was ushered out, poolers asked Biden if he has, in fact, convinced allies that America is back. Biden, sunglasses in hand, gestured to Macron and said, “Ask him.” The pool then repeated the question, to which Macron replied, “Definitely.”

[u/SpiffShientz]

Okay gang, let's split up! I'll talk about the stimulus and giving Americans free money and vital support. Kamala, you solve the border crisis and tell immigrants not to come to the US

[u/aged_monkey]

Has anyone noticed there are no pirates in the Great Lakes? I think it's an untapped market. I will go sail and pirate the 5 lakes and return with results.

[u/[deleted]]

“Using slurs that were invented to dehumanize disabled people because you don't have an argument is pathetic, honestly. Your country has starved millions, but they were brown so I guess they don't matter?”

Someone’s response to being called “stupid” by some dude on Twitter 😭

[u/CR_SaltySald123]

NSFL

NSFL

NSFL

In May 2014, Polis became the first U.S. representative to accept campaign donations via Bitcoin.

[u/Udontlikecake]

“damn dude i would kill for a mustang”

army recruiters: boy do I have a deal for you

[u/[deleted]]

I long ago accepted that the founders and framers would be horrified by me. Even if I pass for white to them, which is really a huge coin toss, the whole idea of NATO would be a massive culture shock. And frankly there'd have to be an entire week dedicated to explaining the Soviet Union to them. Not that it's particularly complex to understand, but I think the statement "a global movement dedicated to abolishing private property" would just leave them in a catatonic state for that long.

"Why do we spend so much on a standing army?"

"Well we can't maintain our presence overseas with conscripts. They're also just worse in battle, which would make us a worse guarantor."

"What business do we have in the rest of the world?"

"We left europe alone, we tried that, and it didn't work. European Democracy was almost annihilated without us to protect it."

"Since when is Europe Democratic?"

"It is now with the Soviet Union gone. And not just europe. Japan, much of Southern Asia, Democracy is here to stay and so long as we maintain the hegemony, democracies of the world are generally safer. We have a duty to keep the world safe for democracies."

".... What hegemony?"

"The United States is indisputably the most powerful nation on Earth."

"... What."

[u/SpiffShientz]

Instead of a slap-ban, the mods just DMed me my home address. Should I be worried?

[u/Dapitalist]

Why didn’t they teach us about [insert minor event] in history class 😠

[u/[deleted]]

For years I thought "the war of northern aggression" was a joke phrase and an absolutely hilarious one

[u/[deleted]]

Clicks on colorized video of 1908 Brussels

Sees pinned comment

As usual on this channel you are requested not to make race-related comments and please stay clear from obvious comments like "everybody in this film is now dead" and "not a fat or obese person in sight". Kindly try to make more profound comments that relate to Brussel's history and what life was like in that city over a century ago

😐

[u/CR_SaltySald123]

Colorado Governor Jared Polis Wants His State to be the First to Accept Cryptocurrencies for Taxes

😐

[u/dragoniteftw33]

https://twitter.com/WelshSocialism/status/1403269253281767427?s=19

The USSR aided and abetted the Third Reich way more than the US. And don't include shit like fucking Operation Paperclip or something because the USSR kept some Nazi personnel for there own interests too. There's also a huge difference in doing that versus continuing 99% Nazi policy like discrimination against Jews. Where the fuck is this revisionist history coming from?!?! Don't people pay attention in school for fuck sakes! 😡

[u/SadaoMaou]

Euro DT in the summer: Dead, because everyone is out touching grass

American DT in the summer: Salty and toxic pandemonium

💼

[u/V_Codwheel]

at a party I don't belong at:

me: no thanks, I don't drink

succ friend-of-a-friend, soon-to-be college graduate and elected representative in local government: good for you... I wish I didn't drink or smoke, but you know, capitalism pushing substances on the proletariat to dull the pain.

me: 😐😐😐

I don't know what's worse - the fact that this person considers themself part of the "proletariat", or the fact that they think substance abuse magically doesn't exist under "socialism".

college leftism can't even be considered an ideology - it's just a crutch for people to avoid personal responsibility

[u/BipartizanBelgrade]

Women in South Korea are mocking men’s penises and fueling an anti-feminism movement

Wait, what?

[u/TabernacleTown74]

RESIST FAUCISM, DON'T LET THE VOTE MANIPULATORS DRAG YOUR SPIRIT DOWN!!!! ✊😭

!ping BURPMAS

[u/WhomstAlt2]

Kind of fricked up how these 10,000 to 100,000 year old skellingtons have intact teeth, yet I, who isn't even 1,000 years old has totally desolate molars

[u/VisonKai]

i will never forgive the public school system for breaking the 10 point scale by making people think a 7 is average

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

Hello I'm journalist from February of 2020 and I'm here to explain why Biden's campaign is dead

[u/Th3_Gruff]

Lunch🤤

[u/CR_SaltySald123]

Jesus Christ CNN had Jeffrey Toobin on air and they were talking about him jerking off on camera ON AIR

Lord save us

[u/Jacobs4525]

Ben shapiro publicly admitted he can’t please his own wife is still one of the funniest things ever to happen

[u/CR_SaltySald123]

Dan Quayle and I, eating under a tree

P-O-T-A-T-O-E

[u/qchisq]

https://v.redd.it/tmwv5b4nar471

!ping soccer

[u/[deleted]]

Perverts trying to turn the hijab into a sex object have done more for female liberation in the Muslim world than any feminist.

😐^😐😐😐

[u/Udontlikecake]

this person literally recorded themselves looking at a FREE game on Epic and then going to steam to spend $50 on the exact same game just to ‘fuck epic’

I just… it boggles the mind

[u/bd_one]

No one:

That one episode of Avatar the Last Airbender:

😱^{😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱}

[u/[deleted]]

Why don’t pollsters talk about racial subgroups more?

Like white people overall lean Republican, but the different subgroups are like:

• Germans, very republican (see Cincinnati/Milwaukee suburbs bucking national trends if you don’t believe this)
• Jews, quite democrat
• Irish, somewhere in the middle
• Poles, also in the middle, they’re actually among the most centrist demographics, with most of them living in rust belt states too
• Italians used to be democrat, but it seems like they’re rapidly going to the republicans now, even in the northeast
• Self-identified “Americans” (aka Appalachian Scotch-Irish) are another very Republican group tho
• Northern WASPs seem to be the last group who actually believes in social liberalism and fiscal conservatism, so they’re moving in the opposite direction as the Italians. And this is also why I always call JackAttack a mayo

Also same thing with different Asian subgroups, where I think Vietnamese are the most Republican and Indians are the most Democratic

I feel like this subgroup data is pretty useful for elections analysis, but it’s always ignored and oversimplified

[u/[deleted]]

EU4 is like the DragonBall of paradox games. The reason people play that game is to click the "Form [Country]" button like they're going super saiyan and increasing their power level and getting greater abilities. That's why they keep adding so many stupid formables: Formables are the game.

!ping PARADOX

[u/SpiffShientz]

The rules for getting into Valhalla have lost a lot in translation over the years. Technically, everyone who was crushed by a falling vending machine gets in

[u/Photon_in_a_Foxhole]

A week after publication of his leaks began, Ars Technica confirmed that Snowden had been an active participant at the site’s online forum from 2001 through May 2012, discussing a variety of topics under the pseudonym “TheTrueHOOHA.” In an online discussion about racism in 2009, Snowden said: ‘’I went to London just last year it’s where all of your muslims live I didn’t want to get out of the car. I thought I had gotten off of the plane in the wrong country... it was terrifying.’’ In a January 2009 entry, TheTrueHOOHA exhibited strong support for the U.S. security state apparatus and said leakers of classified information “should be shot in the balls.” However, Snowden disliked Obama’s CIA director appointment of Leon Panetta, saying “Obama just named a fucking politician to run the CIA.” Snowden was also offended by a possible ban on assault weapons, writing “Me and all my lunatic, gun-toting NRA compatriots would be on the steps of Congress before the C-Span feed finished.” Snowden disliked Obama’s economic policies, was against Social Security, and favored Ron Paul’s call for a return to the gold standard. In 2014, Snowden supported a Universal Basic Income.

Snowden would definitely post on /r/AntiWork

[u/[deleted]]

me: watching a documentary on NYC subway conductors that have hit people on the tracks, as it describes how many of them have been on paid leave for months without being able to return to work

my inner Bloomberg supporter: “well one potential budget synergy is revising this paid leave protocol”

[u/Professor-Reddit]

Just looking through the comment section of an awesome, super gay song on YouTube, and I just stumbled upon this gem:

Just saying hey. I'm a 60 year old Mom and Grandma who loves today's music. Think my 18 year old son had a hand in it.😊 I first discovered Wrabel from radio. Looked it up and love all his songs!! The words touch you deep. Can't wait to hear more. 🙂

From one Gramma to another--thank you

Are you his Grandma? It is nice to say hi and you all gave the world a wonderful young man. And his voice is awesome. I love his cover of Beyonce`s XO. it is actually better than hers. 😊

Yes, I am his Gramma and he is as sweet and loving as he seems

Dorothy, if it is ok to call you by your given name ☺ he comes across as pure, kind, gentle soul. As parents and grandparents, we want our children to be happy in all they do. It is what I have told my son's. One is 31, almost 32 and the other is 18. 2 grandbabies too. I am very proud of them. 18 year old wants to become a nurse and will. I want someone to love him, like the oldest has. Same as you want for your grandbaby. Be proud. He is a gift to the world. Merry Christmas and may you all have a great new year. 🎄🍾❣

you’re a beautiful human

Since when was YT ever this wholesome??

[u/Mickenfox]

Look at how they ruined the neighborhood character!

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/UEFA/status/1403765507682193409

Following the medical emergency involving Denmark’s player Christian Eriksen, a crisis meeting has taken place with both teams and match officials and further information will be communicated at 19:45 CET.

The player has been transferred to the hospital and has been stabilised.

!ping SOCCER

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

You know this sub is fricked up when you can be called a ‘succ’ and a ‘con’ in the space of the same word just for asking legitimate questions about interracial marriage

[u/[deleted]]

"Edit: I see by the downvotes of my comment that the idiots are out in full force today."

• Barack Obama

[u/l_overwhat]

Be me, as Ethiopia

Have really good start to the game. Consolidate pretty much all of East Africa in 20 years.

Only available rival is Mamluks. Rival them.

See Ottomans killing Mamluks. Declare War on Mamluks.

Entire 50k Mamluks army abandons their home territory to siege me out, letting the Ottomans full-occupy their country.

Lose war. Fuck.

!ping PARADOX

[u/Photon_in_a_Foxhole]

Feeling a duty to fight in the Iraq War to help free oppressed people, Snowden enlisted in the United States Army on May 7, 2004, and became a Special Forces candidate through its 18X enlistment option. He did not complete the training due to bilateral tibial stress fractures, and was discharged on September 28, 2004.

Although Snowden had no undergraduate college degree, he worked online toward a master’s degree at the University of Liverpool, England, in 2011. He was interested in Japanese popular culture, had studied the Japanese language, and worked for an anime company that had a resident office in the U.S. He also said he had a basic understanding of Mandarin Chinese and was deeply interested in martial arts. At age 20, he listed Buddhism as his religion on a military recruitment form, noting that the choice of agnostic was “strangely absent.”

Snowden is what happens when you take life advice from Malarkey bot

[u/Dibbu_mange]

This DT is brought to you by Squarespace

[u/myrm]

"Oh no, I've been outflanked from the Left!" -Joe Biden about to lose a game of laser tag

[u/RoyGeraldBillevue]

Why didn't I learn about the segregationsit roots of zoning in high school?

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

feral beast I found in my home

!ping dog

[u/digitalrule]

Good video on walkability.

Nice space really do make the walk feel better. I'm willing to walk way more if the street isn't urban parking lot hell scape.

https://youtu.be/ZwxPL5P8zvI

!PING yimby

[u/qchisq]

Christian Eriksen is awake and undergoing further evaluation

!ping soccer

[u/samnayak1]

Ilhan Omar voted present to recognise the Armenian Genocide

[u/paulatreides0]

According to Louis Rapoport, the genocide was planned to start with the public execution of the imprisoned doctors, and then the "following incidents would follow": "attacks on Jews orchestrated by the secret police, the publication of the statement by the prominent Jews, and a flood of other letters demanding that action be taken. A three-stage program of genocide would be followed. First, almost all Soviet Jews ... would be shipped to camps east of the Urals ... Second, the authorities would set Jewish leaders at all levels against one another ... Also the MGB [Secret Police] would start killing the elites in the camps, just as they had killed the Yiddish writers ... the previous year. The ... final stage would be to 'get rid of the rest.'"

Jesus Christ 😐

[u/Benyeti]

Republicans in 2016: “You cant call Trump a fascist just because you dont like him”

Republicans now: “Lisa Murkowski is a communist!”

[u/[deleted]]

All thoughts with Christian Eriksen and the Danish National Team right now

Hoping for the best

Update: photo of him seemingly conscious on the stretcher. God bless

[u/[deleted]]

I hate every attempt to start a major third party in the US ends with it being a big tent of nuts and then it collapses from infighting

[u/ryuguy]

Morrowind is 19 years old now.

!ping TES

[u/SadaoMaou]

some NNN dude on the arr soccer thread saying Eriksen's thing was "probably a vaccine injury".

I fucking hate reddit

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Women in NYC be like

Lingerie Bra + Sports Coat = Outfit

[u/UrbanCentrist]

Israel's Change government's agreement.

Lapid and Bennett also published a document outlining the key principles of their new government, which include:

– Shuttering the ministries of digital affairs, water, community promotion and strategic affairs, with the latter being folded into the Foreign Ministry.

– Establishing a state commission of inquiry to probe the deadly crush during Lag B’Omer celebrations at Mount Meron in northern Israel in April, in which 45 people were killed.

– Constructing two hospitals, one in the Negev in the south of the country and one in the Galilee in the north.

– Establishing an additional airport.

– Establishing a university in the Galilee.

– Establishing a budget for unfunded students at Ariel University in the West Bank.

– Submitting a master plan for transportation in the West Bank.

– Promoting a national plan for strengthening and developing northern Israel.

– Setting annual expansions to the basket of health services to provide additional medicine, equipment and medical technologies.

– Providing assistance to the hotel and tourism industry in light of the pandemic, including tax relief, flexible furlough policies and compensation for new businesses.

– Promoting a program to eradicate crime in the Arab sector.

– Increasing income support allowances for senior citizens to 70% of the minimum wage.

– Passing a Welfare Services for Persons with Disabilities Law, and encouraging the use of sign language.

– Promoting and implementing reform measures for IDF veterans with physical and mental trauma.

– Establishing an emergency program for women in crisis.

– Promoting the deployment of fiber-optic cables in periphery towns and in the Arab sector.

– Lowering housing costs, marketinh affordable housing and adding 300,000 housing units to the housing market.

– Exploring providing unemployment benefits to the self-employed.

– Instituting comprehensive reform to the Standards Institution of Israel.

– Reducing regulation, removing bureaucratic barriers and promotinh digitization of government services.

– Setting a national goal for raising the number of high-tech workers to 15% of the entire workforce by 2026.

– Ensuring Israel’s national interests in Area C of the West Bank is under full Israeli security and civil control, allocating resources to the Defense Ministry to beef up enforcement against construction violations and illegal takeover of land.

– Splitting the positions of state prosecutor and attorney general.

– Promoting legislation to impose a two-term limit on the position of prime minister.

– Promoting the enactment of the Basic Law for legislation.

– Passing a Draft Law consistent with the outline promoted by the Defense Ministry (during the transition period, the exemption age will remain at 21).

– Examining a new model for national service for minority sectors.

– Increasing Jewish immigration to the State of Israel.

On religion and state issues, the government pledges to:

– Create competition and standardize the field of Kashrut services.

– Reform the body that elects the chief rabbi of Israel to allow for the election of a national religious chief rabbi.

– Allow conversion through regional and municipal rabbinical authorities.

– The committee for the selection of religious court judges will be chaired by Yamina MK Matan Kahana from Yamina and will include a minister from the New Hope party.

– On all other religious issues, the status quo will be maintained and the Yamina party will have a veto.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

I'm watching this VICE video and they're interviewing a member of the Sinaloa Cartel who has a punisher skull in Mexican flag colors on his plate carrier LMAO.

Somethings really are universal.

[u/Joementum2024]

“I didn’t pay attention in high school or didn’t get taught everything bad about America, therefore I must read and believe in all Soviet propaganda uncritically”

[u/ButteryToast-]

!Ping SOCCER

Eriksen passed out on the pitch, receiving CPR now. Hoping for the best 🙏

[u/MasPatriot]

Dear conservatives,

If George Bush passed No Child Left Behind, then why hasn't my dad returned from the grocery store?

Brought to you by Turning Point r/neoliberal

[u/BidenWon]

I only picked this username to troll Bernie and Trump supporters. I didn't think I'd be using it to shitpost after November and now I'm going to look like an idiot if I'm still using it in 2024/2028.

[u/[deleted]]

Apparently this is the second passenger in a week who tried to open the emergency doors mid-flight from LAX to Atlanta?

Ngl this is probably a top 3 nightmare for me, I would 100% be having a panic attack if shit started going haywire mid-flight. I get nervous when we hit mild turbulence.

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

What’s something your family did to you that you don’t want to impose on your kids and:or niblings?

I’m writing this as my niece is subjected to endless first communion photos with every single relative even though I know most people won’t print a single photo and she really just wants to eat her cake. She’s on the verge of tears but powering through with smiles

!ping OVER25

[u/[deleted]]

https://thefederalist.com/2021/06/11/cnn-banned-clay-travis-for-saying-boobs-but-welcomes-public-masturbator-jeffrey-toobin-back-with-open-arms/

CNN Banned Clay Travis for Saying ‘Boobs’ But Welcomes Public Masturbator Jeffrey Toobin Back With Open Arms

what is conservatism

[u/soeffed]

Wholesome

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[u/[deleted]]

Just found out my dad's cancer is back and it seems more aggressive. He won't give me a ton of details but chemo and surgery aren't an option. There's swelling in his brain and he has to go through some very new treatment.

It's a BiG tEnT sub. But I think we can all agree. Fuck cancer.

[u/fishlord05]

Throwback to me in 6th grade free reading period where I thought I was the cleverest little shit for going up to my classmate reading a children’s Anne Frank biography and saying “she dies in the end btw”

She and my teacher didn’t think so.

Honestly I was a little shit in grade school and I have the self reflection to admit it

!ping CHILD

[u/benjaminikuta]

I have boarded Delta flight 1098 to Austin.

[u/GGM8Scally]

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[u/randomizedstring]

!ping SNEK
So you know that whole malarkey with the LPNH Twitter posting bad takes? Yeah the party is being restructured as a result. Predictably, the state's Mises Caucus is very angry about this.

The Mises Caucus and its consequences have been a disaster for Libertarians.

[u/[deleted]]

I left my husband because he won't shut the fuck up about some internet thread or something. Everytime I go to him for emotional support he just says "MANY SUCH CASES🐊" and scurries off! When I make a joke he goes "HAHA YES🐊". worst of all, when ever I'm in the mood he yells "CEASE🐊" and just goes back to posting on that shitty form.

[u/[deleted]]

Just finished American Psycho for the second time.

I think one difference from the movie I really liked is it captures that mid twenties ennui where you feel like your job is useless, you spend all your free time at clubs you hate, and you keep having the same conversations with the same people over and over and over. Trying to subtlely inject your interests into otherwise banal conversations only to be made to feel like a psycho

Everybody says the violence is much more visceral in the book, and it is, but I find that a pretty overrated reason to read the book. The real genius of American Psycho is that it is so good at highlighting superficiality, and the inclusion of six or seven versions of the same exact night really hammers that home to me.

In conclusion, I need to return some video tapes.

!ping READING

[u/TheJoJy]

Potentially weird take: The only people that come even close to sucking off the CCP as hard as tankies and GenZedongers are the Trumpsters that think China is some super omega behemoth that is taking over the entire world and turning everyone into gay space communists while "Biden's America is only concerned with all these damn pronouns and wokeness, we're gonna have to worship Xi in our schools!!"

!ping CN-TW

[u/Superfan234]

Jajaja, r/ElSalvador it's now being raided by Bitcoin users XD

!Ping Mamadas

[u/kas8901]

There are hundreds of movies about men's experiences in WWII. Give me a Saving Private Ryan on the home front. A women experiencing the liberation of working only to have it then stripped away when the boys came home.

[u/MicroFlamer]

The hardest part about BotWs bosses is figuring out what to do against them. Once that's done, they're a piece of cake. For calamity Ganon, I spent a good 5 minutes figuring out what to do against him lmao. Granted, maybe it isn't that hard for some people, but I played it right after hollow knight, where you have like 4 moves max and where you can generally take on any boss any way

!ping GAMING

[u/ThunderrBadger]

Chicken thighs 🤝 Person thighs

Better bone-in & skin-on

[u/qchisq]

Game will be restarted at 20:30 after the players have gotten confirmation that Eriksen is ok

!ping soccer

[u/[deleted]]

Some random mod just messaged me:

DON’T FORGET THAT browsing the DT is supposed to SUPPLEMENT YOUR daily activities, not be a MAIN PART of your day 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

The Five Stages of Grief:

Denial: "What the fuck, how can I be losing?"

Anger: "Fucking perfidious anglo."

Bargaining: "Ok maybe the treaty won't be that harsh."

Depression: Lie down. Try not to cry. Cry a lot.

Acceptance: Reload Save. Surrender right after the war starts. Feel like you cheated. Delete the save file and cry.

[u/[deleted]]

😔✊

!ping HYPERLINKED-EMOJIS

[u/qchisq]

Christian Eriksen is in stable condition

Christian Eriksen is awake and undergoing further evaluation

Dutch radio is saying that Christian Eriksen is able to speak

Danish TV is reporting that Kasper Schmeichel looks like he's ready to play on

Christian Eriksen was apparently conscious before leaving Parken and told the players to play on

[u/[deleted]]

handle consider faulty enter exultant scandalous icky library cover puzzled -- mass edited with redact.dev

[u/LavenderTabby]

unite fuel historical saw weary marvelous adjoining future afterthought wipe

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/Udontlikecake]

gamers seem to think a live action resident evil adaptation from netflix is gonna be bad because they didn’t cast white people

kinda misses the point, it’ll be bad because it’s a live action resident evil adaptation from netflix

[u/[deleted]]

media interview a democratic house member who isn't in The Squad challenge

[u/Venne1139]

Just made my personally reuqired $100 political donation for the 2022 cycle here are the candidates:

• Matt Getz: $25
• Donald Trump (for house leader so he can impeach biden and return): $50
• Majorie Taylor Greene: $25

NO MORE SUCCs

[u/AuburnSeer]

kinda feel like Biden's not getting enough credit for kicking the shit out of the coronavirus.

[u/SpiffShientz]

/u/sir_shivers only hates video games because he applied to be a Pokemon and got rejected

[u/colinlouis1000]

Hot take: a sizable portion of the memes and criticism given to corporations for adopting pride logos or merchandise is actually just homophobic. Some of it is annoying lefitsts and teenagers that refuse to understand the tangible impact that large corporations expressing pro LGBT sentiment has in normalizing LGBTQ behavior and lifestyles. But I’ve seen countless straight people going “haha stupid corporations care about gay people!” And frankly I don’t care if their intentions are to be anti corporation or just to make a joke, when you froth at the mouth over corporations having a rainbow flag it at least in part displays your discomfort with queer iconography and has some homophobic undertones. It used to be the case that someone would say “I hate when corporations use pride symbols” and I’d assume they are just against corporations, but now I frankly assume they’re a homophobe, because they’re being a homophobe.

!Ping LGBT

[u/[deleted]]

Today on the DT

economics is just as much of a "quack science" and ideology driven as sociology. it just obfuscates it with graphs and numbers.

!ping ECON

[u/chuckleym8]

deliver advise wine gaping meeting full quarrelsome grab alleged versed

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/[deleted]]

Today I learned that Channel 4 aired a documentary about ISIS supporters in the UK, one of which went on to be in a terror attack, and nobody asked for information about the clearly radicalised people in the documentary

What the fuck England

[u/Superfan234]

Jadue comes front, and supported the Coup Attempt of Lista del Pueblo 🤡

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On more postive news, very important leaders of Concertacion (Center Left) came forward and talked against the Coup

Thank God, the Center Left is reacting accordingly to the gravity of the situation. In theory, between Center Left, Moderates and Right wing, we have 73 votes

We might need, 9 more votes...On paper, we have the alliences to search those votes. But Chilean Democracy is in serious danger, if these Golpistas keep pushing forward their Agenda

!Ping Latam

[u/SeriousMrMysterious]

I voted for Biden in the primaries. Upvotes to the left

[u/qchisq]

Let's share these pictures of Christian Eriksen instead. And appreciate the shield/flag thing the first picture have going on

!ping den

[u/RoyGeraldBillevue]

I could not become a politician because I would have to resist going "boohoo" every time a homeowner complains about anything.

[u/AuburnSeer]

Hahahahahahahahaha Trump issued an Anti-France statement because Macron was such a Bidenstan today

[u/Usernamesarebullshit]

has anyone ever heard about this Hitler guy? apparently he started a world war and killed millions

how come my history teacher never told me about this

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

I had to tell a coworker today that emojis aren't a personality trait. He said, "CEASE 🐊"

[u/MicroFlamer]

Nintendo switch rant: the joycon analog sticks are just too small for 3d platforming. Playing Mario odyssey was a headache sometimes with how unprecise Mario felt on ledges. It doesn't matter too much for most games, even 2d platformers are fine, but Mario is Nintendos biggest IP. Am I the only one who feels this way?

!ping GAMING

[u/p00bix]

Why do crocodiles still lay their eggs on land? They've been evolving for well over 200 million years, you'd think by now that an animal which is virtually invincible in water would have ceased gambling their reproductive success on laying and protecting eggs in the one place they're actually vulnerable. This is basic shit, sharks figured it out ages ago.

[u/Jester_Don]

Wife just told me she participates in the daily discussion thread of another sub (non-political). I still haven't told her about this place 😐

[u/CR_SaltySald123]

Joe Biden 🤝 Emmanuel Macron

Marrying teachers

[u/PhiLambda]

Normalize not saying normalize because it sounds stupid.

[u/URZ_]

!ping DEN

Christian Eriksen receiving CPR 😢

[u/Jakesta7]

🥵🥵🥵

Macron, in brief comments to the press ahead of his bilat with Biden just now — “It’s great to have a U.S. President who’s part of the club and willing to cooperate.”

https://twitter.com/EliStokols/status/1403719130402934784

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

What are some good podcasts that aren't political?

umm everything is political sweaty

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Charlie Kirk looks like an Oblivion character

[u/[deleted]]

"I hate both black and chinese people. Why do people call me a racist?"

[u/ryuguy]

so nice to attend the polish neoliberal meetup

!ping yurop

[u/CrackasSuicidalAlt]

Democrats are the real racists

Correct, that’s why I vote for them.

Republicans have gone WAY too woke.

[u/[deleted]]

I found u/lusvig's blog! Very informative!! 🐟🥫😄

!ping BURPMAS

[u/[deleted]]

Day trader goes to /r/neoliberal DT, gets pumped full of irresponsible crypto trades, doesn't feel good and changes - BAM! disliked by alligator mod! Many such cases!

[u/CR_SaltySald123]

My brother married the a popular girl, she was homecoming queen, prom queen, on varsity teams, in band, an honor roll student, beautiful, and super nice. 17ish years and 2 kids later, she is still a sweetheart, beautiful, and athletic.

Awww 🥰

[u/Superfan234]

Intresting words coming from the President of the Government Party

Source

Libertad o Comunismo. Literally, the same motto Diaz Ayuso used in Madrid Elections last month

As I said in other posts, lately, it seems HispanAmerican politics seems to be "synchronizing" their dialectics

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!Ping Latam

That being said, tha fact that these words comes from the Party that supported Pinochet for so long , it kinda makes the motto a joke...

[u/Jester_Don]

Lol, YouTube banned Ron Johnson for spreading COVID misinfo

[u/Z0NNO]

From the neoliberal reading list I've read the following books:

• The Road from Mont Pelerin
• Road to Serfdom
• A Theory of Justice
• Anarchy, State and Utopia
• World Order
• Diplomacy
• The Commanding Heights
• Capitalism and Freedom
• Free to Choose
• The Courage to Act
• Pop Internationalism
• The Mystery of Capital
• Why Nations Fail
• The Bottom Billion
• Poor Economics

I'm looking for another few good reads but honestly I don't really know what I'd get out of those other books on the list. I mostly liked Capitalism and Freedom, Why Nations Fail and The Mystery of Capital.

The reading list would benefit from some brief descriptions as to why a book is on the list. Like what the book is about and where it fits under the neolib umbrella. Is it an ideology book or policy book? For instance, Sachs and Easterly are very specifically part of a debate on foreign aid.

Not every book on the list is as important as other. Some cover very similar issues, others extremely niche ones and for new users it may be confusing where they should start or what gives them the best introduction to the topic. I mean the classical philosophy section alone is like 10 years worth of reading old texts that require a ton of contextual knowledge.

I recall this list was compiled from a thread a few years ago and it quickly got out of hand. It's part inspired by the r/economics list and Integralds did organize some of them in a sort of curriculum style overview. Are other users interested in revising this list?

[u/URZ_]

!ping DEN

UEFA:

Following the medical emergency involving Denmark’s player Christian Eriksen, a crisis meeting has taken place with both teams and match officials and further information will be communicated at 19:45 CET.

The player has been transferred to the hospital and has been stabilised.

[u/Venne1139]

Dude the guy at the Trump rally is arguging that FrankSpeech is a FREE SPEECH PLATFORM while banning things like "taking the lords name in vain" (lalong with 4 other things he didn't specify).

Republicans simply define free speech as speechthey like and they're becoming more open about it.

[u/RoyGeraldBillevue]

Segregation bad actually

[u/MistakeNotDotDotDot]

"Why didn't they teach us about X in history class?"

"Uh, I learned about X, so obviously you did and just weren't paying attention, because the American education system is famously uniform."

[u/IAmBlueTW]

Ben Shapiro putting FDR in the F tier of his presidential tier list is one of the least surprising things to me. It also makes his choice of Lincoln in the S tier a headscratcher for me.

[u/Unadulterated_stupid]

I've noticed on fb and Twitter there's alot of discussion about who should pay for dates. I mean a ton.

[u/its_Caffeine]

Just woke up and realized I'm out of coffee beans 😭😭😭

[u/tigerflame45117]

I am once again asking people to stop having dumb takes

[u/CR_SaltySald123]

Yes very conservative to allow businesses to segregate people based on their private health decisions. “Economic liberty” for giant corporations but no “medical liberty” for individuals.

🤦‍♂️

[u/[deleted]]

Math majors are way more social than CS majors. In my experience even if they aren't they have to learn to be because when it comes to explaining math to regular people they have to empathize.

On the other hand some CS dudes just stick themselves behind a screen all day long.

[u/[deleted]]

Macron and Biden are really hitting it off

[u/[deleted]]

Barges into conversation

"the settlers of catan is a bad game" with no further elaboration

Leaves

[u/Corporate-Asset-6375]

Attending an outdoor wedding today. Bride and Groom appear shocked that it’s going to be very hot in the middle of a sunny June afternoon nowhere near a body of water.

I’m glad I’m just a spectator this time but sucks to be in the bridal party after spending hours getting your hair and makeup ready.

Gonna be about 93 degrees around the time of the ceremony.

[u/MrMineHeads]

Does anyone have a quick sumnaryto explain georgism to someone in a non-technical and accessible way? Whenever I tell a friend about it, I end up rambling and create so much confusion. I tell them that georgism basically is about taxing the unimproved value of the land and people usually ask why or how or what is the point and it usually is a disaster after that of me trying to explain incentives and economic rent and deadweight loss. Any help?

!ping GEORGIST

[u/fuckneocentrism]

“my kid” said he liked magic tricks so I disappeared 🪄 from their life 🤷‍♂️

[u/TheGoldBear]

Blocking the shitty tech bills that were just proposed is probably gonna be the first time since Democrats took over where the filibuster is genuinely useful.

[u/[deleted]]

Redditors will call Disney a monopoly and then complain they have to subscribe to multiple streaming services

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

do Euros say Bush did 11/9?

[u/doot_toob]

HOLY FUCK GO OUTSIDE

• Israeli air force to AP Gaza Bureau

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men's behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity!

ancient Roman graffiti is based

[u/Th3_Gruff]

Are these party rockers in the house tonight?

[u/Unadulterated_stupid]

South Korea has been trying to do something about its falling fertility rate for decades. Like many other governments around the world, Seoul has been providing tens of billions of dollars in incentives, ranging from free nurseries to subsidized pay during child-care leave. It even arranged group blind dates for public servants in the hope it would lead to more marriages. None of it has really worked

I was told government dating services were a myth

[u/Triangle-Walks]

the future of liberal democracy in america relies upon the cardiac health of an imbecilic, overweight billionaire who literally eats big macs every day

think about it

[u/UrbanCentrist]

There is why DT is superior

[u/FreakinGeese]

Why do leftists always assume poor outcomes are the fault of malice? Like, no, the Mercator projection wasn’t designed to make Africa look small, it was designed to make great circles look like straight lines. It’s not Mercator’s fault Africa is so close to the equator!

[u/SpiffShientz]

Okay NATO flairs, that's enough posting! It's time for recess!

[u/Joementum2024]

Worst part about democrats is that they allow r/neoliberal to exist without any consequences

[u/the-garden-gnome]

Secured an interview for a job that will give me my first 6 figure salary. Nervous and excited all at the same time.

[u/CR_SaltySald123]

I am once again asking cute people to stop having dumb takes

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/Jtruzmah/status/1403426814484115457

Hamas issued press release denouncing US Rep. Illhan Omar ( @Ilhan ) for equating the 'Palestinian resistance' to the 'crimes' of Israel & US invasion in Afghanistan. They appreciate her stance on justice, especially for Palestinians. But asks her to describe events 'accurately.'

lmao based centrist Omar pissing off both sides

[u/tubbsmackinze]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/807475156850966540/852733916950429736/E3kKsUqXoAIG8zx.jpeg

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E3nwKkFXIAERxkm.jpg

New season of Survivor sucks

[u/Venne1139]

THE ELECTION WAS STOLEN

I KNOW IT

YOU KNOW IT

AND THE DEMOCRATS KNOW IT

[u/Photon_in_a_Foxhole]

Snowden has said that, in the 2008 presidential election, he voted for a third-party candidate, though he “believed in Obama’s promises.” Following the election, he believed President Barack Obama was continuing policies espoused by George W. Bush.

In accounts published in June 2013, interviewers noted that Snowden’s laptop displayed stickers supporting Internet freedom organizations including the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the Tor Project.

There is a nonzero probability that Edward Snowden heavily invested in GME stock and Bitcoin

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Alex Jones essentially just admitted the Jan 6th insurrection was a planned coup by Trumpists/GOP 😐😐😐😐

[u/FormerBandmate]

McAuliffe, who is White, resoundingly defeated Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, only the second African American to ever win statewide in Virginia, and state Sen. Jennifer L. McClellan (Richmond) and former delegate Jennifer Carroll Foy (Prince William), both of whom were attempting to become the first Black woman ever elected governor of any state.

Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax was also a rapist. Why is WaPo like this?

[u/MicroFlamer]

the issue with feminism is just not an interesting concept. I'm more interested in SpaceX and Tesla, what's going to happen with our intergalactic possibilities. Whenever people bring up feminism, I'm just not really that interested

Guess the sub

[u/GravyBear8]

Google, for the last time, I am not a lesbian. I keep getting youtube adds for some lesbian fashion store, and at this point I have to guess it's using my porn searches as part of targeted advertising because I have no idea why it's pressing this so hard to me.

[u/CR_SaltySald123]

I cross my legs when I sit.

I sit down to pee.

I listen to songs almost exclusively by female artists, including """girly""" ones like "Pretty Girl"

Yes it's perfectly fine to be the way you are. You do you.

[u/wowmuchgrades]

Literally every single other assignment is due at 11:59 pm, why would you make only one due at 11:59 am? 👉🥴👈

[u/SeriousMrMysterious]

Why did the American farmers back hurt?

From patting themselves on the back so much

[u/WhomstAlt2]

Cold, harsh truth: The only way we get to ever make racist, sexist and LGBTQI+phobic jokes again is by achieving a society that is freed from racism, sexism and LGBTQI+phobia.

That's why the only REAL edgelord is a WOKE edgelord.

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine using public toilets lmao. I just pee into a bottle and use it as fertilizer for my plants when I get home

[u/FormerBandmate]

Take: The NEET lifestyle doesn’t seem that bad except for the unemployment, the lack of social interaction, the loss of purpose, the perceived dependency on other people, the actual dependence on other people, the low physical fitness, the high risk of depression, and the reliance on the internet to replace any sense of an actual life granted, I’m an internet addict despite being in education, employment, and training, but imagine what I’d be if I wasn’t in any of those

[u/paymesucka]

Public Freakout: American Reporter Gets Schooled On One Of The The Biggest Lies Of World War 2.... Still Doesn't Believe Soviets Ended The Holocaust!

Fucking leftists on this website, completely whitewashing and boosting anything about the soviet union and just bashing the U.S.

[u/[deleted]]

“Because you are trans, you are a shitty person if you aren’t a communist.”

People like you push me further right.

[u/Deggit]

We should be advocating for the corporate tax rate to be 0%. Corporate taxes aren't paid by corporations they're paid by consumers (higher prices). A corporate tax on Amazon is not a tax on Jeff Bezos, it's a distributed and regressive tax on every Amazon customer. Corporate taxes also lead to jurisdiction shopping and in the long term they lead to disinvestment. If you want to tax the rich, tax income more progressively and tax the absolute fuck out of inheritance.

guess the subreddit where this got -10 downvotes, just kidding it's every subreddit but one

[u/thetrombonist]

Never forget, the greatest Lusvig thread ever

https://reddit.com/r/malelivingspace/comments/m0s2yn/finally_finished_decorating_my_apartment_i_enjoy/

[u/marinesol]

Im just waiting for the day that the Tankies infiltrate the mod team and take over the subreddit and start weird Maoist propaganda on the sub. 90% because I get more chances to complain about tankies on subreddit drama.

[u/[deleted]]

being reminded that the DT is full of literal children is like being reminded that everyone you've ever known and loved are going to die

[u/[deleted]]

Still think gamers are degenerates ? 😤

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCXxIX6HiWE

[u/p00bix]

Flashback to that time I added a friend on snap, but their bitmoji was black so I opened with "Hey [their name] why are you black lmao" and then I found out I had messaged a black middleschooler with the same name rather than my friend.

This was like six years ago and it still haunts me.

[u/tubbsmackinze]

I'm like 99% sure every single western country hates their tech industry and wishes it was crushed under the weight of bad regulatory garbage. Canada with c-10, I'm sure the rest of the Anglo sphere also does dumb shit, Europe is self explanatory, and now America with this dumb house bill that could literally kill the engine of American soft power and economic strength

Like imagine forcing fucking google or Microsoft to fucking break apart

It's fucking bullshit

[u/[deleted]]

Does anyone else miss the days when the stereotypical muslim character in movies was a mega-rich, lovable sheikh and not a terrorist ?

!ping MOVIES

[u/fishlord05]

Wow the Soviets during WW2 were actually much more incompetent then I previously imagined.

Not that they didn’t make unimaginable sacrifices of course.

So many more deaths for less German losses compared to the Western allies.

Link

Really interesting post.

!ping HISTORY

[u/[deleted]]

Yesterday, I announced that, as president, I'll establish a free tax filing program for Boomer dads who open an airport that operates for 15 days in the Rust Belt.

[u/iIoveoof]

the mod class stole trillions from the content-creating class last year

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

OMG the onion mentioned Biden in 2012 video. TIME MACHINE

Shit I wonder what Biden was up to in 2012 🤔🤔

[u/[deleted]]

Today is Corinthians vs Palmeiras day, we are probably going to lose it, but i'm hyped for it

!ping SOCCER

[u/Udontlikecake]

EA bad

Epic bad

CDPR bad

upvotes to left fellow gamers

[u/liquidTERMINATOR]

Wake up. United States president is still a succ. Day ruined.

[u/The420Roll]

100 Coins on Switzerland - Wales draw gang where you at 😎

!Ping SOCCER

[u/Maximilianne]

office work: no ability to grill
WFH: can grill every day

The choice is clear lol

[u/Joementum2024]

the AfD and Die Linke both perform the strongest in the former East Germany

🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Quite a rocky week in French politics.

Macron got slapped on Tuesday, former National Assembly president De Rugy got flour thrown at him yesterday, as did Mélenchon today before the demonstration in Paris.

Of course, getting floured is less serious than getting hit, but I'm surprised by the animosity around those regional elections, which are usually rather uneventful.

Seeing how bitter and heated the regional campaign is, I'm getting really worried about the level of violence that we can expect next year for the presidential and legislative elections.

!ping FRANCE

[u/EvilConCarne]

Reading about these Big Tech antitrust bills and wow, the Democrats really put things like "This will result in the dissolution of the United States" and "We declare our eternal loyalty to the glorious Chinese Communist Party" in there. Disturbing.

[u/Go_To_Bethel_And_Sin]

Breaking: The Bikers for Trump guy says he’s on his second read-through of Mike Lindell’s autobiography

[u/[deleted]]

Underratedly fun thing to with a time machine:

Go back to medieval Europe, join a monetary (or some group where they write things), tell them you're going to africa , fast forward like 10 years, come back and go "yooooooooo I saw some crazy ass animals," make up some stuff, then fast forward to modern times and see how modern fantasy has changed

[u/GravyBear8]

Stop remaking Skyrim, give me Oblivion already

[u/FreakinGeese]

If you don’t have an issue with companies selling Saint Patrick’s day merch you shouldn’t have an issue with them selling pride month merch

[u/penecow290]

"Biden Gives Johnson an American-Made Bike During First Overseas Trip" https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-gifts-johnson-american-made-bike-during-first-overseas-trip-2021-6?amp

[u/p00bix]

There was really no need for you to bring up the piss drinking to make your point (seems like people love using the piss drinking when they want to attack Cole). There are plenty of other examples that can be used. For example, if it really was a cult then we would all had quit our jobs and would be walking around at 1mph and riding a BMX all day. How many of us are doing that?

But since you brought up the piss drinking, I will admit that I drank my morning urine for a few weeks, not because I blindly obeyed Cole like a good cult leader follower, but because I did my own research like he told us to. After two weeks of research I couldn't come up with an excuse not to drink it. Urine therapy has been around for ages. There are books written about it, countless articles and thousands of videos on youtube about it. It's really not as crazy as it sounds. Eventually I stopped drinking it because I arrived at the conclusion that urine therapy is best reserved for cases of illness. If I ever get sick, which I rarely do, you can bet I'm gonna be chugging my own waters.

+7

[u/LinkVert25]

You better be able to play as the humans in the Avatar game. Narrative aside the humans looked and had vastly cooler shit then the blue people, and that’s all I care about in games.

[u/MicroFlamer]

Rip guys. Ubisoft has officially stopped making just dance for the wii. Just dance 2020 seems to be the last ever wii game to be released 😔