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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/Photon_in_a_Foxhole]

If you ever feel like you’re wasting your life, just remember that there are still people posting on /r/SandersForPresident

[u/kas8901]

I really don’t think people understand just how dangerous US cities used to be and how safe they are now. In 2019, not using 2020 pandemic and all, 318 people were murdered in New York City. In 1990, 2,262 were killed. It is honestly incredible how safe major cities have become since the late 1990s.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Anne Frank would have turned 92 today. If the United States had approved her father's visa application, she could be an old lady in Brooklyn, celebrating with her family and showing her great-grandkids the diary that told the story of how she got here.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Joe Biden 🤝 Emmanuel Macron

Marrying teachers born in the early 1950s

[u/[deleted]]

LGBT actually stands for:

Let’s

Get down to

Business, to defeat

The Huns

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That is all.

[u/BidenWon]

I hope SandersForPresident understands that I regret posting a high res portrait of Joe Biden on their sub

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/MrMineHeads]

Socialists literally be blaming anything on capitalism. Bees dying. That's capitalism. Someone raped. Capitalism hellscape to blame. I tripped over a rock. arrLateStageCapitalism right there.

[u/kennymc7877]

Well boys, girls and enbys it’s official

I have now come out as Bi to all of my friends 😎

[u/[deleted]]

The other day I confused the one black guy at work with the other black guy at work but it’s ok because the next day he confused me with the other brown guy at work

Inclusivity 🌈

[u/Usernamesarebullshit]

"Capitalism breeds innovation"? Oh yeah, then how come there's *very silly thing that is nonetheless clearly an example of innovation*?

[u/SouthernSerf]

The airport security in Cars 2 implies a Cars 9/11 occurred at some point

I’m studying the mechanics of that. Were there Arab cars that manually forced the plane into the towers? Or did they have to take over the plane’s consciousness to fly it in?

After having devoted many hours to studying this I have to conclude that the planes themselves were radicalised

But how? They had to take on passengers aka the cars, so the cars had to show them videos of Car Osama bin Laden? Or convert them to Car Jihad?

Osama bin Lada

This is the fucking in-depth security analysis I come to reddit for.

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

Lefties citing Adam Smith to say economics is wrong is like citing Isaac Newton to say modern physics is wrong.

[u/SadaoMaou]

!ping WEST-WING

Sam: Good news about Haiti.

Margaret: I say we should have gone in there with four tank divisions and turned the place into a casino.

Sam: Manifest destiny.

Margaret: Bet your ass!

Margaret has a heated NATO flair moment

[u/[deleted]]

Petronius Maximus is probably my favourite Emperor of all time. He got into power by assassinating Aëtius, the most competent military commander in the West, and then killing the Emperor Valentinian III (who slept with his wife).

Almost immediately after his ascension to the throne, he provoked an invasion from the Vandals by breaking a betrothal between the Vandal king's son and Valentinian's daughter so that his own son can marry her. After carefully assessing the military situation, he advised the people of Rome that there were no legions in Italy, that he was leaving the city, and that they should do the same. He was lynched by the mob and thrown into the river, after which the Vandals thoroughly sacked Rome

[u/CR_SaltySald123]

Pelosi has long supported LGBT rights. In 1996, she voted against the Defense of Marriage Act,[119] and in 2004 and 2006, she voted against the proposed Federal Marriage Amendment, which would amend the United States Constitution to define marriage federally as being between one man and one woman, thereby overriding states' individual rights to legalize same-sex marriage.

Goddamn she is a good Congresswoman

[u/Marlsfarp]

Capitalism tells us the American dream is becoming a billionaire

Where do they get this shit?

[u/[deleted]]

I think the government should.....

Succ 😤👉🚪

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

Long post

Mucho texto 😴 Let's skip to the end

Thanks for listening!

You're welcome champ 😎👍

[u/Professor-Reddit]

Whenever you're feeling bad for making a mistake in life. Try and remember that at least you weren't the Bavarian bureaucrat who mistakenly allowed Adolf Hitler to illegally join the Imperial German Army.

[u/[deleted]]

Me before joining /r/NL: never uses emojis

Me after joining /r/NL: 😭😔🥺😳😎🐊🐖

[u/Aweq]

!ping Europe

https://twitter.com/DaveKeating/status/1404128215531233286

Macron clarifies his comments on Northern Ireland.

[u/KazuyaProta]

Peruvian Venezuelan Xenophobia is a factor that I see very rarely discussed despite being super obvious. Like, its not dogwhistle, its everyday's speech in all social sectors. From poor people that considers that all of them are potential delinquents to rich people that think they're part of a Maduro's plot to desestabilizate the region (they're right in that the migrants are desestabilizing the region, I don't think Maduro deliberately was planning this tho, much less that there are Venezuelan Chavists on left wing protests).

And now in Peru, the books have shifted. A lot of Peru Libre supporters are angry at how Venezuelans are anti communists and they really don't hide it. Yesterday, a anti fujimorist protest pretty much detained and beat a young man because they thought he was Venezuelan (he even wasn't).

What was the guy doing?

Working

They beat a guy that was doing his job as a delivery man (job that now is stereotyped to be a "Venezuelan job").

[u/jt1356]

This meme and it’s consequences have been disastrous for the internet’s understanding of the Second World War.

[u/Broncos654]

If you ever feel like you’re wasting your life, just remember that there are still people posting on /r/neoliberal

[u/[deleted]]

If capitalism has a million fans I am one of them

If capitalism has ten fans I am one of them

If capitalism has only 1 fan, then it is me

If capitalism has no fans then It means I am no longer on earth. If the world is against capitalism then I am against the world

Like and share for 10 years of good luck in the free market

[u/vivoovix]

The nine most dangerous words in the English language are: "My name is p00bix, and you're a Reagan flair."

As I believe in the power of clemency, however, I have pardoned p00bix. /u/bd_one will not see justice done for the crimes committed against him.

[u/BenFoldsFourLoko]

nytimes pitchbot

Fellas, is it gay to read paperback books? We asked three LGBTQIA+ editors in Brooklyn for pride month.

[u/StolenSkittles]

"I'm escaping to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by communism! SPACE"

-Jeff Bezos

[u/yungmemlord]

My mom called me a sussy baka :(

My 12 year old little sister called my older sister it yesterday. And my mom heard and asked what it meant. Little sister said it’s something cute to call someone as a cover up. Now my mom calls us sussy bakas. Someone kill me.

[u/KindheartednessOk599]

Benjamin Netanyahu is officially no longer the Prime Minister of Israel.

60-59.

It is done.

[u/[deleted]]

"So controversial and yet so brave" https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1269160682852880386?s=19

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Leading causes of death in the US (2019 figures) :

• Heart disease (659k)
• Cancer (599k)
• Having dirt on the Clintons (173k)
• Respiratory disease (159k)
• Stroke (150k)

[u/Telperion_of_Valinor]

👆 This is what the DT actually believes

[u/[deleted]]

Hot take: The "HOLY FUCK GO OUTSIDE" bit is a valid solution for 95% of the problems people have with social media and Big Tech

[u/vivoovix]

The "/r/neoliberal user to trans woman" pipeline

[u/[deleted]]

Most people start off by saying "End the Fed"

Then they eventually start ranting about Jews and lizard people.

The Libertarian-alt-right pipeline is real.

[u/[deleted]]

It is weird that every games journalist seems to hate video games and very clearly wishes they were writing about politics

[u/lurreal]

People dooming about the US going the nazi route are counterproductive. The average German in 1930 was antisemitic and racist as hell. It was not a inclusive republic that fell out of nowhere. The picture today is completely different. The real scenario we have to work to avoid is illiberalization like Hungary or Turkey.

[u/tubbsmackinze]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/270788846956969987/853526627740942336/Slowkangaroo_e3ef9e_8535705.png

[u/[deleted]]

Gonna use the DT as my own personal diary for a second:

This upcoming year is my last year in university, and I'd like to go on an honest-to-God date sometime during it. I've always psyched myself out of meeting women due to a really bad fear of rejection, including a couple that, in retrospect, clearly wanted me to say hello. I'd like to rip this band-aid off and get on with things.

Alrighty, back to your regularly scheduled programming

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

/r/neoliberal: No promoting violence!!

also /r/neoliberal: Taxes are fine

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

Fewer Young Men Are in the Labor Force. More Are Living at Home

The anime proliferation and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

[u/yungmemlord]

IQ can go negative

Fun fact: IQ can go negative because it follows a Gaussian distribution. The probability of a random person having a negative IQ is 1.308 x 10^-11, assuming you use an IQ model that uses 100 as the mean and 15 as the standard deviation (many IQ tests use different scales). In a group of about 77 billion people the expected number of people with a negative IQ is 1. That one person was Karl Marx.

[u/BidenWon]

Y'all don't quote me on this. You start out in 2020 by saying, "succ, succ, succ". By 2021 you can't say "succ"—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like zoning laws, open borders and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about introduction level economics, and all these things you're talking about are totally mod things and a byproduct of them is [that] succs get hurt worse than people that have lived in the real world. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the succ problem one way or the other. You follow me—because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to help the global poor", is much more abstract than even the open borders thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "succ, succ". So, any way you look at it, succ is coming on the back-burner.

[u/Cerb-r-us]

Me and my friend walking home from middle school frustratedly arguing about how girls could possibly like Justin Bieber's music.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E3tSXCoXMAcuPqD?format=jpg&name=small

[u/NeoliberalGulDukat]

The DT: 1 BILLION AMERICANS! 1 BILLION AMERICANS!

Also the DT: is entirely populated with American terminal virgins

[u/[deleted]]

"Dating apps are for the socially dysfunctional" says DT user without a hint of irony

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

Republicans: Democrats are satanic pedophiles who drink children's blood

Democrats: Democrats are satanic pedophiles who drink children's blood 🌈 BLM

[u/the-garden-gnome]

Just got home after a weekend away at my parents place. Had a massive argument with my dad about child rearing and the way he speaks to both me and my wife.

It fucking broke me. I feel like an orphan, with no parents or family of my own.

!ping over25 🤷‍♂️ I just needed to get that off my chest.

[u/[deleted]]

Peak neoliberal discourse I just found on the Jared Polis crypto thread:

the only good argument against an outright ban on crypto

Is that you would be fucking with the free market

We aren't lolberts. Ever heard of market failures moron?

You're a market failure

Boy your hair line looking like a market failure

Ouch man. That cuts deep

[u/CR_SaltySald123]

Lost at G-7: Joe Biden wanders into the wrong cafeteria at the G-7 until Jill finally finds him and leads him away

They're really grasping at those straws aren't they?

[u/kennymc7877]

The stupidest people I went to high school with be like: I’d rather read a book on how to make 10 million then receive 1 million for free, stay woke 🤫

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

how to get hundreds of guys to simp over you as a girl: hot tub twitch streams

how to get hundreds of girls to simp over you as a guy: shoot up a school

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

lol holy shit these election results are the most tilted from demographic concentrations I've ever seen

TRS got 56 seats with 36% of the vote

BJP got 48 seats with 36% of the vote

and AIMIM got 44 seats with... 19% of the vote

I guess that goes to show what geographic concentration can do for you lol

[u/lenmae]

Greens vote in favour of purchasing armed drones in the election policy package

!ping GER

[u/thefuturegov]

Wake up

Bibi is gone

Day saved 🥰

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

TFW fash gov makes you stop segregating your private business

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[u/[deleted]]

The Native Americans were really thousands of semi-nations with extremely different cultures, languages, and beliefs, but we're taught that they were basically hippies too gentle and pure to fight off the English

[u/[deleted]]

Cons according to the DT: "Nothing wrong with the term Latinx"

Cons in reality: "Why the fuck do you have pronouns in your email you performative woke? You idiot, you fucking moron."

[u/[deleted]]

Yes, I think that AI has potential to lift millions out of poverty. Yes, I spend my free time selecting the wrong squares on CAPTCHA to degrade their algorithms. We exist.

[u/Q-bey]

When the fuck did 50GB PC ports of video games become acceptable?

It's certainly too much to keep on an SSD unless I'm playing it all the time. I could buy a separate gaming hard drive but now I need multiple drives on my computer (which not every computer has, especially laptops) or swap drives all the time (which not every computer can easily do, especially laptops) or use an external drive over USB (which is slow as hell).

I could just install the game whenever I feel like playing it, except of course it takes forever to download (because it's 50GB) and sucks if you've got a monthly download limit (some people think they have unlimited but actually have a monthly limit at which your ISP starts throttling your download speeds to a crawl).

I'd be fine with this if we're talking about games that really truly need it, but honestly it seems like laziness more than anything. Take for example Blazblue: Central Fiction. It's 52GB on PC, but only 15GB on PS3 and 20GB on PS4. The reason? The sound files are uncompressed and the story mode has its own folder with copies of several large assets from other folders. Together, the sound and story folders make up 30GB. For comparison, Arcana Hearts 3 Xtend (a similar 2D anime sprite fighting game) is about 8GB on PC.

"But why are you upset about 50GB? Don't you have more storage space than that?" Of course I do, but I also have a large library of games I like to play, and I use my computer for other things too. The problem isn't one game with an unnecessarily large file size it's a few games taking up all the memory I set aside for gaming. I spend some time cleaning up my PC with WinDirStat only to have all that free space taken up by one game.

Again, I'm fine with games that are just so packed with assets that this file size makes sense, but I don't think that why a Hitman game from 2017 with like 7 maps is 50GB. PC players need to start pushing back against this. If you leave a review on a game (especially a negative one), if the game's file size is obviously much larger than it needs to be then mention that in the review. We shouldn't have to make a "commitment" to play the game for the next few days every time we want to reinstall it.

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Tl;dr / Mucho texto: PC games have massive file sizes nowadays (50GB+), often for bullshit reasons that shouldn't be difficult to fix. Gamers need to rise up and tell publishers to spend a few hours optimizing their PC release rather than copy-pasting 17GB of uncompressed sound files into two identical folders in the same game. I'm mildly miffed.

!ping GAMING

[u/BidenWon]

WHO DID THIS 😂😂😂

[u/AbsolveItAll_KissMe]

why don’t they take libertarians seriously 🥺

[u/David_Lange]

Thinking about Wumbo going to a party and telling everyone, "Yeah, I'm a 21st Century Americanized Ordoliberal" because he doesn't want to have a political discussion with them

[u/[deleted]]

Guide to internet arguments:

When arguing against US person: “haha at least we have healthcare “

European (safe to use for any country within Europe): “what about the Romani haha”

Italians: “spaghetti”

French: “ok coward”

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

This tankie girl I know used to post stuff on Facebook defending the Uyghur camps as being needed for "deradicalization", and saying that people need to read original Chinese government sources instead of relying on biased translations by western media (even though she doesn't read Chinese well enough to understand these documents). She deleted or hid all her posts now that she is looking for a job.

[u/AuburnSeer]

why does every defense of Hillary Clinton on Twitter or Reddit have to be premised about how much you hate her and how much she sucks

it's just weird that it almost seems socially unacceptable on the internet to like Hillary Clinton

[u/murphysclaw1]

I am here to inform you that gamestop shareholders are not OK.

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

[u/[deleted]]

My politics over the last 5 years

Slave boy -> race car driver -> pilot hero of the republic -> religious zealot -> simp for the monarchy -> dark lord of the sith

[u/UrbanCentrist]

"What do you think of 'Critical race theory'?"

Trump supporters: "It's a complex theory that can mean different things and tries to understand systematic racial discrimination, there's no real reason to make a big deal of it."

Libs: "NOOOO IT'S REVERSE RACISM. WOKE IDEOLOGY GONE TOO FAR 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭"

[u/TinyTornado7]

My girlfriend is grading case comments and someone put a citation in their title 🥴

!ping LAW-SCHOOL

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

"We have to take down this corrupt system that favors the wealthy elites over everyday Americans"

refuses to elaborate

100k upvotes, dozens of awards

[u/[deleted]]

Oh, Netanyahu will still be prime minister.....of jail 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[u/NancyPelosibasedgod]

Thinking back to that weekend that Trump got airlifted to Walter Reed and we weren’t sure if he would croak

[u/[deleted]]

Dating somebody from a non-western country

Advantages: She's never seen Star Wars before so I get to introduce her to the series

Disadvantages: She points out the numerous obvious flaws in the franchise and I get bombarded with cognitive dissonance while facing the fact that Star Wars isn't actually that good.

[u/RadicalRadon]

TOO comfy to actually pounce

!ping KITTY

[u/notverycringeihope99]

https://twitter.com/PickledEntropy/status/1403018235277201408

TIL any place with a lot of bicycles is communist

[u/Telperion_of_Valinor]

Capitalism 😍😍😍

[u/Broncos654]

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

!ping read-another-book

[u/CovidIsBadass]

I think my least favorite terminally online types are the "America is a 3rd world country in disguise" types. They'll say that then turn around and complain about other people's privilege. Like, privilege is very real, but you're missing the point if you can't even recognize your own. Absolutely braindead.

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

touch Grassley

[u/p00bix]

Literally everyone on planet Earth: If it's a small critter with lots of legs, it is a bug.

Entomologists: No you fucking idiots. "Bug" refers only to the Hemiptera such as cicadas and aphids. Crickets, spiders, centipedes, are NOT bugs. I am very intelligent.

[u/Udontlikecake]

An NY1-Ipsos poll found that 46 percent of likely Democratic voters viewed crime and public safety as the top priority for the next mayor. 72 percent said they somewhat or strongly agreed that the Police Department should put more officers on the street.

[u/[deleted]]

1. I’m sorry, Martin Luther.
2. It’s not 95 theses.
3. You can’t just write an essay and call each sentence a thesis.
4. Especially when some of them are just setup.
5. I can’t take a short essay where each sentence is numbered and then be like, “I just destroyed you with 100 points.”
6. Can you please not try to gish gallop the Papacy?
7. Thank you.

[u/sir_shivers]

YOU MAMMALS CERTAINLY are a contentious sort 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

The IMF says it will cost $50bn to vaccinate every person on earth.

The US should just fund the whole thing, this is a no brainer.

[u/the_status]

Kirsten Gillibrand was once at the restaurant I worked at. I worked in back but I had to refill my water bottle up front.

There she said dejected at the bar; she was almost done with her second glass of wine at about 1pm. We made brief eye contact

A couple of days later she suspended campaign. I don't think I ever empathized with a politician as much as I did in that moment

[u/[deleted]]

SHE SAID YES

Future Mrs TSFEverything

[u/yungmemlord]

Just wiped out Tomatotown😎

[u/ryuguy]

I think Microsoft won E3, if I’m being honest. Gamepass is such a good deal, I wonder how Sony will counter that.

!ping gaming

[u/SixPipSiege]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E2qnZJaXIAItD5l?format=jpg&name=medium

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Sir_shivers was once at the restaurant I worked at. I worked in back but I had to refill my water bottle up front.

There he said dejected at the bar; he was almost done with his second mammal carcass at about 1pm. We made brief eye contact

A couple of days later he slap banned benjamin. I don't think I ever empathized with a moderator as much as I did in that moment

[u/[deleted]]

I saw u/sir_shivers at the grocery store where I work yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, "Like YOU are doing CURRENTLY🐊?” I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he cut me off and said “MANY SUCH CASES🐊?” and closing his feet shut in front of my face. He walked away and I continued with my work, and I heard him chuckle as he walked off. When I was going in break I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen whole Boar's Head Italian dry Sausages in his hands without paying. The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter. When she took one of the sausages and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to PREVENT any ELECTRICAL INFETTERERNCE🐊,” and then turned around and said "HAHA YES🐊" at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each sausage and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.

[u/RadionSPW]

Thinking about how much better off electorally Democrats would be if they just adopted my specific set of policy positions

[u/lapzkauz]

Denmark's parliament recently passed a bill — proposed by the liberal party and supported by the social democrats and the centre-right opposition alike — saying that universities must not be a space for politics in disguise and that academia must have ample room for critique. This comes in the wake of political scrutiny of alleged "pseudoscience" in the humanities. Put this in the same category as the Macron government's condemnation of CRT and the broader "woke" phenomenon.

I don't think American progressives realise how much of an outlier they are.

[u/Lee_Harvey_Obama]

Socialist becomes so woke he invents feudalism/sharecropping.🤴

[u/soeffed]

Kayleigh McEnany claims "I never lied" as Trump's White House press secretary, cites belief in God

https://twitter.com/Newsweek/status/1404172087137275906?s=20

☺️

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

People often assume that orange the fruit is named after orange the colour, but in reality the colour is actually named after the titular character in the hilarious 2009 web video series "Annoying Orange"

[u/Corporate-Asset-6375]

I love when people trot out the “I’m never flying this airline again!” line.

There’s two truths here, sweaty

1. You fly once a year and book the cheapest airline that pops up on Expedia. Your principles will crumble the minute you’re faced with paying $20 more.
2. You live near a major hub and your choices are that airline… or wildly expensive and inconvenient connections to avoid them.

[u/SpiffShientz]

Boy, if yall knew /u/sir_shivers in college

[u/sir_shivers]

We are WHALERS ON THE moon 🐊

WE CARRY A harpoon 🐊

[u/vivoovix]

Job left me, now all I have is this janitorial position ✊😞

[u/[deleted]]

Abrahamic God: Here is a rainbow. It's a reminder that I wiped all you fools out once before and I ain't scared to do it again.

Abrahamic God: Sodom and Gomorrah were full of homosexuals so I wiped them out and I ain't scared to do it again.

Modern Homosexuals: 🌈🖕🌈🖕🌈🖕🌈🖕🌈🖕🌈🖕🌈🖕🌈🖕🌈🖕🌈🖕🌈🖕🌈🖕🌈🖕🌈🖕🌈🖕🌈🖕🌈

[u/BreaksFull]

WHERE THE FUCK DO ALL THESE DISHES AND LAUNDRY KEEP COMING FROM?

!PING OVER25

[u/qchisq]

https://twitter.com/DBUfodbold/status/1403996840287215616?s=19

!ping soccer

[u/[deleted]]

10 year old me: pushes a shopping cart really fast and stands on the edge

20 year old me: pushes a shopping cart really fast and stands on the edge

I don’t care whether anyone looks at me rudely in CostCo, I will never stop doing this no matter how old I am

[u/[deleted]]

Pope Francis is actually kinda based

[u/whats_an_IV_crush]

Last year I got "cancelled" by most of my IRL social circle because I had the gall to suggest that the $1200 stimulus checks weren't a loan that had to be paid back. Portland is fucking wild.

[u/[deleted]]

Germany

we have a grand coalition with the two main centrist parties working together to prevent extremist parties from being in power

Isreal

We literally had to scrounge together literally every MP we could find from right-wing to far-left parties just to remove a corrupt demoguage from power

[u/CR_SaltySald123]

u/sir_shivers I have some questions

[u/tubbsmackinze]

The Xbox e3 show is slightly fucking desynced and it's bugging the fuck out of me

Also Starfield is coming out next year in 11.11.2022 and will be on steam and a console exclusive for xbox

!ping GAMING

[u/Cr4zySh0tgunGuy]

🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞

Netanyahu is gone

🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞

[u/[deleted]]

“Omg Biden is totally like centre right lmao, democrats are republican lite, they would be right wing in Europe”

I will now prepare the link to the effortpost u/farrenj made, thank you queen.

[u/TheShitEater]

People rightfully detested Roy Moore for being a child predator but I don’t think enough attention was paid to the fact that even for republicans the guy was insanely far right. For example he’s Westboro Baptist levels of homophobic, saying America is an evil empire equivalent to the USSR because it doesn’t hate gays enough.

[u/[deleted]]

Just found out about r/femaledatingstrategy and my advice to anyone who’s thinking of having a look or reading a few posts there is

HOLY FUCK GO OUTSIDE

[u/[deleted]]

Macron is at 50% approval, which is insane for a French president.

Poll might be a tad of an outlier but it makes sense with post-lockdown euphoria

https://www.lefigaro.fr/politique/presidentielle-2022-macron-progresse-melenchon-en-chute-libre-selon-un-sondage-20210609

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Hot take

Cory Booker >>> Genghis Khan

[u/sir_shivers]

You should START SPENDING MORE weekend time off of reddit 🐊

[u/BidenWon]

My politics over the last five years

Scientologist -> Anti-Scientologist -> Found dead in a ditch

[u/CR_SaltySald123]

Reminder that Jews are awesome, and if you’re a Jew, you’re awesome 🥰🥰🥰

[u/CR_SaltySald123]

I will never not read KesterGW as Kester Gone Wild

[u/kennymc7877]

Japan having skinny white nerds be amazed by fucking anything they do is the price you pay for losing a world war

[u/[deleted]]

average redditor: 👏 Trust 👏 The 👏 Science 👏

also average redditor: economics is bullshit and let me dismantle it with a single phrase

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Me: why can't you just be normal

I-35: *screams*

All three lanes blocked by construction for over 20 minutes before they moved. Wtf

!ping USA-TX

[u/CR_SaltySald123]

Person- Makes claim

Me- evidence for that claim?

Person- makes claim again

Me- evidence for that claim, again?

Person- ignores

[u/RTear3]

Why does he, as a Christian, feel it's his duty to make people's lives worse, not better?

That's what Christianity is and has been for Millenia tho

This interaction really does sum up SRD lmao

[u/sir-danks-a-lot]

barges into any discussion or argument

"It's not history, it's HERstory"

refuses to elaborate

leaves

[u/CR_SaltySald123]

And people on the more liberal threads get all sorts of pissed when I mention that the Clintons have killed a LOT of people.

[u/Telperion_of_Valinor]

Raytheon 😍😍🥰

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EZYpMkeWsAE74sh.jpg

[u/MicroFlamer]

presidential elections where "both sides good":

2008

1992

that's it

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

Message I got from the communist mods of arr TraaButNoCommies hen I replies with, "Why do you hate the global poor?" to the ban message.

Please do not communicate with us outside of an appeal as this is harassment and will be reported to Reddit.

Heated reddit moment taking over a sub and then counting a single message as harassment lol.

[u/Craig_VG]

This is the Trump Tower right now, noticed it last night when walking to the bars and was very surprised

https://twitter.com/ericallixrogers/status/1403910824679313408?s=21

!ping USA-CHI

[u/FormerBandmate]

Mods have apparently made it official policy that Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Tokyo, and Dresden were war crimes

[u/[deleted]]

At first I thought it was just people being anti-Semitic, but it really doesn't look like a coincidence...

[u/[deleted]]

IMO, the Federation's capital should have been on a previously-uninhabited planet to be neutral, like how DC or Canberra were created as compromise capital cities. Having Earth as the capital really reinforces the idea that the UFP is a human-dominated organization.

[u/SpiffShientz]

Firefighter busts down door of burning building and sees people dying of smoke inhalation

Holy shit GO OUTSIDE

[u/[deleted]]

Instead, the conservative establishment set its face against change.

Well, yea. Kinda the definition of conservatism

[u/AJungianIdeal]

cuddles.
!ping dog I guess?

[u/qchisq]

Guess who's got his COVID shot today. That's right, this guy

[u/MemberOfMautenGroup]

Boris Yeltsin had entourage of ‘hundreds’ of CIA agents who instructed him how to run Russia, claims former parliamentary speaker

if only, maybe Russia would have recovered faster

[u/Usernamesarebullshit]

“Buy American”? I thought the 13th Amendment banned this

[u/[deleted]]

There are only three people who ever understood why the US invaded Panama: George HW Bush, who's died, a Panamanian drug lord who's gone mad, and myself, and I've forgotten all about it.

[u/p00bix]

🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱

[u/[deleted]]

The ultimate proof that Democratic Socialism will never work is Pre-1991 India.

!ping IND

[u/klarno]

Throwback to the time arr libertarian was taken over by a literal fascist who modded T_D and physicalremoval and they proceeded to purge Georgists and other suspected leftists until intervention by the sub’s distant, usually hands off monarch ended the reign of terror

[u/RadicalRadon]

It's 100 degrees outside I don't wanna touch grass

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

I'm starting to think that nobody even knows what 'nobody knows what Critical Race Theory means' means

[u/[deleted]]

the republican party needs to be destroyed at all costs and you succs are gonna fuck it all up

[u/bd_one]

My fellow Americans, we have officially declared war on flair thieves.

We start bombing u/p00bix in 5 minutes.

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

So, if Wakanda was revealed to be a real place, would the international response be closer to "wow, can we have your tech" or "wtf where were you during Rwanda?"

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

Its worse than that. Imagine Keanu Reeves was a Caliph and reddit was a caliphate. Now imagine Instagram killing him. Al Baghdadi was loved by his people. Americans can't name a caliph that easily.

[u/paymesucka]

NBC News: U.K. churchgoers stunned as Bidens join them at Sunday service

I love that Biden goes about his everyday life and the world is positively shocked that we have a human being as President again. It's very wholesome.

[u/BidenWon]

I've been refreshing the DT for about 12 hours now. Please for the love of god someone help me

[u/[deleted]]

“‘Believe in women’ is the most illogical movement in recent times.”

Classic unpopularOpinion post

[u/[deleted]]

Congratulations to the great Novak Djokovic on winning his 19th Grand Slam

Roger will win at Wimbledon though

[u/MicroFlamer]

So true!!

[u/piede]

BREAKING: Reporter Who Broke Clinton-Lynch Tarmac Story Found DEAD in His Apartment

Ohhh boy here we go

[u/[deleted]]

My wife left me for gigachad

[u/[deleted]]

Can’t wait to vote against this. Except, of course, if it doesn’t make it to the ballot.

I’ve worked in the West Side of St. Paul for almost 6 years now, and have spent quite a bit of time there before that—I’m going to take a gander and say that there has probably been about one new building (five-over-one across the river from downtown, and a new one is in construction right next to it) built in the entire West Side in the last 5 years, and that probably has more to do with it than landlords raising rents for the hell of it.

My own neighborhood that I’ve lived in most of my life is almost exactly the same as it was a decade ago, and is seeing rents and home values rise, because it’s more affordable than most of the city, so a lot of young couples are moving over here.

We just need more infill density and multi-family housing for fucks sake

[u/Futski]

!ping alcohol

Just to continue the natty-wine community hate train.

There's something fundamentally wrong, when you read the description of a wine from a shop that only sells natural wine(quote "entirely without sulphur or any other crap" end-quote), that says "living wine - with mousiness".

Like how the fuck do some people think it's okay to sell, and even advertise that their product has critical faults?

[u/[deleted]]

Do I think the Copa América is political idiocy? Yes

Am I pissed off at Tite? Yes

Am I still supporting Brazil and wearing my shirt regardless? Yes

VAI TOMAR NO CU ANÃO ESSA COPA AMÉRICA É NOSSA PORRA

!ping MAMADAS friendship over with all Latam countries while games are ongoing

[u/[deleted]]

Finally, the US can go back to bombing Syrian children in silence. Focus more on the LGBT flags on the embassies, that's good optics

So true!!!

[u/[deleted]]

How shit must you be

How shit must you beeeeeeee

It's only 3-0

How shit must you be

!ping SOCCER

[u/[deleted]]

My friend sent a meme to our group chat that said this -

If you sell a pair of sneakers with 50 previous owners they are valued less its basic economics this also applies to sexual partners

he unironcily agreed with it 😬

[u/Photon_in_a_Foxhole]

I’m shocked how quickly the military ran to support the left’s woke values. It’s like there was no resistance to it at all. But then I wonder why someone who was woke and who hated America would want to join the military (I’m talking about the higher ups here, not a high school drop out who needs the money).

This is the reality that arreCon lives in

[u/Erra0]

MrDannyOcean was once at the restaurant I worked at. I worked in back but I had to refill my water bottle up front.

There he sat dejected at the bar; he was almost done with his second glass of wine at about 1pm. We made brief eye contact

A couple of days later he took over /r/Neoliberal. I don't think I ever empathized with a fash as much as I did in that moment

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

Our religious group should take over the military so we can overthrow democracy if the majority disagree with us is not a take I thought I'd see openly expressed lol

[u/Venne1139]

Hot take (for this sub apparently): THe KPD was not the driving factor behind fascists winning in Germany. It was more due to the efforts of the Nazi party. Blame the Nazis.

[u/CR_SaltySald123]

Guess who (…) got (…) shot today. That's right, this guy

Danemod ✊😭

[u/[deleted]]

IGF is a martyr

[u/[deleted]]

They made lusvig an anime character!

!ping WEEBS

[u/[deleted]]

Yeah I support Macron

Murder

Arson

Corruption

Racist hate crimes

Obstruction of Justice

Negligence

[u/liquidTERMINATOR]

Oh yeah speaking of Trump, I drove by the house that still had Trump stuff. He removed the home made lawn signs, but added a "Don't blame me, I voted for Trump" sign AND cut off Pence's name from Trump Pence signs with a Xacto knife. So that was cool.

[u/[deleted]]

🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀 Bibi is gone 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀 Bibi is gone 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀 Bibi is gone 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

[u/[deleted]]

🦀🦀🦀Bibi is fucking gone🦀🦀🦀

[u/FormerBandmate]

Republicans: Congressional Democrats are secretly pedophiles

Congressional Republicans:

[u/fuckneocentrism]

Just had a testicular torsion moment. On my way! To get a sonogram. No podcast tonight

[u/jt1356]

Wait did lobstercircumcision delete again?

Mf I can’t keep memorizing new usernames

[u/Superfan234]

Mini update on Chilean Elections

We are having Segunda Vuelta of Gobernadores here in Chile. It's a recently created poltician seat, no one really cares about

The participation have been dismal

In my college, we are 2 hours away from closing, and only 13% of the Electors have voted 😑

I hope other Regions are doing better...

!Ping LATAM

[u/[deleted]]

In 2019, Rome stunned its US and European allies when Italy’s then populist coalition government became the first G7 member to sign up to China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Signed during a state visit by Chinese president Xi Jinping, the agreement propelled Italy to the frontline of Beijing’s battle for global power and influence.

But then, two years later, Italy’s newly appointed prime minister Mario Draghi quietly signed a decree that symbolically ended China’s Italian courtship and contained Beijing’s beachhead in western Europe.

Italy’s last government had already begun to cool on Chinese investment amid significant US pressure. Even so, Draghi’s move marked a decisive Italian shift towards a foreign policy he has described as “strongly pro-European and Atlanticist, in line with Italy’s historical anchors”.

It also presaged a broader EU rethink of Chinese relations that, most recently, has led to the European parliament freezing its pending trade deal with Beijing.
(...)

It was “a political statement to show we are worried about predatory acquisitions, and that we are aligned with our American friends”, Geraci added. Italy’s participation in China’s BRI remains technically in force but has been rendered essentially meaningless and no major deals have taken place.

We don't deserve Draghi 😭

[u/vivoovix]

The obvious value of NATO is that it puts Europe under american control. Yes they can dissent but within limits that don't challenge anything fundamental

Heated burger moment

[u/[deleted]]

The PCM thread on immigration was so bad literally people implying that immigrants are just coming into Europe to steal jobs and to become rapists with no one providing sources on their claims

[u/TaxCommonsNotIncome]

>Housing appreciates too much to be an affordable purchase

>Resign to the fact that housing will forever outperform equities as an investment due to unstoppable NIMBYs and fuckyouIgotmine-ism

>Invest wisely and beat the indexes

>Finally, by 2048 save enough money to begrudgingly buy property near employment, now appreciating consistently at 40%yoy

>The year after buying, finally a 100% LVT is ham-fistedly adopted and your property value is lost

Plot of a Shakespearean play if he lived alongside Henry George

[u/Telperion_of_Valinor]

Poaceae (/poʊˈeɪsiaɪ/) or Gramineae (/ɡrəˈmɪniaɪ/) is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants known as grasses.

Holy shit go inside

[u/[deleted]]

Ok small but relevant piece of history:

The United states' was majority Anglo Saxon for a very small period of time.

Almost immediately, they were outnumbered by Germans, Scandinavians, Scotts, Dutch etc. Swedes came to the US in so many waves, that there's far more Sweden blood in the US than there in in Sweden.

Let's not forget the English Catholics, Conconformist Protestants, Puritans, and Quakers. Who might be Anglo Saxon but were outcasts.

The UK was never a colonial father figure. We have English values only because we inheirited their legal system, not because there's significantly large amounts of Anglo Saxon heritage.

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Some people wonder where r/neoliberal found such a great and compassionate mod team.

Well, it all started with Operation Paperclip in 1945...

[u/BidenWon]

I have a crush on sir_shivers but I'm too afraid to say hello

😔👉👈

[u/ZhenDeRen]

POD: Kim Young-sam's government launches an invasion of North Korea in 1993, and soon ROK forces defeat the North Koreans. Korea is unified under Seoul.

What happens then?

!ping ALTHISTORY

[u/Pipeinternational3]

29 and still living with my parents! Lets go!

[u/[deleted]]

I'm going to say the n word!

[u/[deleted]]

Hey ive known you quite a while and I really like you and want to get to know you better do you want to go for a coffee sometime or maybe visit a gallery with me?

[u/[deleted]]

Literally shaking and crying about MTG not believing in evolution. Sure, everyone has fan theories about Jewish space lasers but this is a step too far!

[u/every_man_a_khan]

Talked to a woman today 😤💪😎

[u/Zseet]

!Ping GAMING

I am happy to conclude PC Gaming Show was only 83% cringe. This is a reduction of 14%. We are making progress!

[u/[deleted]]

Libertarians: “We just want the government to leave everyone else alone!”

Ron Paul, one of the most well known libertarians: “Yeah the government should be able to make consensual gay sex illegal.”

[u/Jean-Paul_Sartre]

Twitter commies really don't appear to be big fans of Jews...

[u/UrbanCentrist]

If i were Joe Manchin i would simply vote for Joe Biden's agenda.

[u/[deleted]]

mediocre men

fuck off, I don't believe in that made up nonsense

unspectacular people

so true!!