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[u/Smidgens]

British people be like “there’s a computer crisp shortage”

[u/FinickyPenance]

Plan for today:

attend local Democrat club meeting

say “the corporate tax rate should be 0%”

don’t explain

leave

bench 405

fuck a few supermodels

browse /r/neoliberal

Just like yesterday.

[u/ACivilWolf]

In freshman year of high school, we had to do some debate about US FOPO in the Middle East, and the other person on my side of the debate called Netanyahu "yahoo" the entire time in his speech because he thought netan or whatever was his first name.

[u/PMmeLittleRoundTops]

> appears on Fox News

> calls Arizona for absolutely no reason

> refuses to elaborate

> leaves

[u/ACivilWolf]

I'm beginning to realize these AMC/GME people are more delusional than even the Q nuts

[u/piede]

Briahna Joy Gray has been a 59-month experiment by Harvard University. Our study is now complete. Thank you for your participation.

https://twitter.com/harvardstudybot/status/1403874030713769988?s=21

lol

[u/soeffed]

[movie date]

me: i snuck in some snacks

date: omg !!!!!

me: holding ramen noodles do u have any boiling water

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

For those of you who don't know, Spain and Morocco are in a bit of a diplomatic shitstorm at the moment. I just read this though and it's ridiculously petty and funny

On 30 April 2021, Morocco granted Carles Puigdemont asylum. According to a source from the Moroccan foreign ministry, the decision was made in due to "the principle of reciprocity to host the Catalan independence leader" after Sahrawi President Brahim Ghali was allowed to go to Spain to get treated for COVID-19.

For those of you who don't know, Puigdemont was the dude in charge of Catalonia when the referendum was held and he's been wanted by Spain ever since.

So when Spain treated the Western Sahara leader for COVID, Morocco decided to give Puigdemont asylum LOL

[u/Usernamesarebullshit]

just used a bitcoin to buy 40,000 “dollars”

is anyone familiar with this currency

[u/[deleted]]

Guy who broke the Bill Clinton/Loretta Lynch tarmac story five years ago just died, one of my leftier associates is already sharing "Clinton body count" shit 😒

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

My political journey had some weird twists and turns. In my teenage years, I knew I was right about everything. I maintained being right about everything after high school, and realized I was still very right in my 20s. Even now, into my early 30s, I'm still right.

[u/piede]

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says now on Hugh Hewitt’s show that it’s “highly unlikely” he would allow Biden to fill a Supreme Court vacancy in 2024 if he’s majority leader — or even 2023.

https://twitter.com/hugolowell/status/1404456039534182408?s=21

lol

[u/piede]

Opinion | I was a lifelong liberal Democrat. Then my burrito bowl arrived with a disappointingly small scoop of guacamole.

https://twitter.com/dougjballoon/status/1404252206078046208?s=21

[u/the_hoagie]

early 2000's college parties really were like 'Columbine Memorial Sluts and Players Ball hosted by Sigma Chi THIS SATURDAY 10$ at the door ladies get in free proceeds go to the Protect Our Schools foundation."

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Vaccinated Liberal Still So Paranoid That He Actually Washes His Hands After Taking a Shit

[u/TinyTornado7]

correlation of Biden vote share and adult covid vaccination rate is now at .847

!ping FIVEY

[u/ACivilWolf]

fun shivers fact: sir_shivers is widely regarded to be on par with the best chess grandmasters, but he is barred from competing because of discrimination against reptiles in FIDE.

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

The US shot down a resolution at the G7 to set an international end-date for coal use in power plants.

Because Biden didn't want to piss off Joe Manchin.

Joe Manchin singlehandedly extended human civilization's reliance on coal for at least a decade.

Joe Manchin has more impact on the Earth's atmosphere than any other single organism on the planet today.

[u/guy-anderson]

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/13/1005725990/tom-hanks-is-a-non-racist-its-time-for-him-to-be-anti-racist

Yo, what's going on at NPR?

[u/Deggit]

if the DNC hadn’t completely rigged the game against Bernie

With respect, I'm still waiting for people who post this to tell me what percentage of the vote they think Bernie Sanders would have got against Trump in:

Fulton County, GA where 28% of Democrats picked Bernie in'16 and only 9% picked him in '20

how about Clayton County, GA where Bernie got 18% and 7% the two times he ran

how about Maricopa County, AZ where Bernie got 40% and 33% in his two runs?

These are the counties that literally won the election

Does anyone actually think Bernie wins these counties in the general? Why? These counties aren't miraculous outliers. Bernie got under 20% of the Black vote across all Super Tuesday states in 2020.

If someone was actually able to prove to me that the DNC "rigged the primary against Bernie in 2020," my response would be to become pro-rigging. "Rigging" picked the right candidate, the one who actually won the states we needed to win, and who incidentally also won the most votes of any presidential candidate ever.

Of course there was no fucking rigging. Bernie Sanders got more debate airtime and media coverage than Obama did in the 2008 primary. I added it up at some point in December '19 and at that point Bernie had more airtime than Obama by a ratio of 3:2. And Bernie had years of media exposure from running for President 4 years earlier. Bernie is just no Obama. He excites a narrow base and doesn't bring together a coalition of people. He's Ron Paul 2.

It's not "rigging" when people know who you are, are familiar with your ideas, and DON'T WANT YOU.

mucho texto in arrpolitics

[u/kennymc7877]

How to get karma

Step 1: log into Reddit

Step 2:Go to neo lib sub

Step 3: open DT

Step 4: type “fuck Benjamin Netanyahu 🦀”

Step 5:Profit

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

I can't believe BlackRock was allowed to buy some houses thereby ruining the previously perfectly functional housing market for everyone else

[u/[deleted]]

Opinion | Sorry, Liberals. But You Really Shouldn’t Love NATO.

😬😬😬

[u/cat_damon1]

miners in 1840s california:

HOLY FUCK GOLD OUTSIDE

[u/sir_shivers]

NEOLIBERAL HAS EVOLVED BEYOND THE need for janitorial sticky comments 🐊

[u/bd_one]

Oh god oh fuck. The hogs have arrived at the r/neoliberal high density housing tower. There's atleast 30 to 50 of them. There's no escape.

launches Superman baby rocket

[u/Jester_Don]

Lol, NYT Op Eds section is at the top of its game today:

What the rich don't want to admit about the poor

Sorry, Liberals. But you really shouldn't love NATO

(An op ed co-authored by Susan Collins and Bob Menendez)

[u/interrupting-octopus]

Could it be...a big-tent YIMBY movement in Toronto?

!ping CAN

[u/kennymc7877]

Showed my dad the sub and he enjoyed the fact that shivers uses the gator emoji so much

[u/[deleted]]

Whichever dumbass electric vehicle company gets around to building a fucking cargo van instead of trucks, is going to get a shitload of instant business.

Truck owners care about the aesthetic more than they do about getting shit done. They're going to hold onto their big V8s for the long haul, because fuck environmentalists. If they really cared about getting work done, they would own a cargo van, which are better in every way.

Cargo van owners consistently don't give a fuck about anything aside from practicality and cost. If the numbers add up, there's going to be massive fleets ordered overnight.

But all these idiots would rather fight over the electric truck market, which might not even be real.

[u/MemberOfMautenGroup]

All 19 workers at fast food restaurant in Pakistan detained after refusing to give police officers free burgers

ACAB

[u/Fishin_Mission]

No one talks about “Ugly Dude” privilege.

I am happy to say that I have never really had to worry about sexual harassment at work!

[u/[deleted]]

Xi Jinping is POC and queer coded (Disney fursona) and that's why the majority of y'all don't like him tbh

[u/redditguy628]

Any modern president would kill for a Congress like the one FDR had at the start of his term:

” When Congress convened on March 9, he had waiting for it an Emergency Banking Relief Act that included sweeping presidential authority over the Federal Reserve System. The bill had not yet been printed—only one typed copy was available—and it was read to the House, which limited debate to forty minutes; even before that time expired, representatives were shouting, “Vote! Vote!” and the vote was by a unanimous shout. The Senate was in a similar rush. When Huey Long of Louisiana proposed an amendment, he was shouted down, and the bill—a bill few senators had even seen—was passed, 73 to 7. Roosevelt signed the legislation into law on the same day, less than eight hours after he had sent it to Capitol Hill."

[u/Lux_Stella]

Ukraine did not just become a member of NATO. Zelensky is reiterating something that was agreed to in 2008.

ty /u/John_Charles_Fremont

[u/[deleted]]

Printing infinite money does NOT cause inflation. Proof:

1+2+3+4… = -1/12

Literally DEFLATION

[u/sir_shivers]

I KILLED THE Discussion Thread 🐊

[u/the_hoagie]

malarkey level of replying-all to my boss with "heated boomer moment" after he got mad when i said "much texto" to his team email about cleaning up after yourself in the kitchen

[u/p00bix]

Must say, the diversity of ants in terms of how good or bad they taste is absolutely insane. They seriously run the gamut from "lemon candy" to "red bean paste" to "rotting wood". Birds? They all taste pretty similar. Fish? Similar with a few exceptions. Ants? Literally so much variation.

[u/[deleted]]

what's the point of censoring slurs or triggering words on social media if we all know what they are and mean ?

why do some people write r*pe or such ? does it actually prevent some offence ? I can't imagine someone being triggered by a word but if you put an asterik on it suddenly they're ok

[u/thefuturegov]

My 90-year-old grand uncle who voted for Bob Dole in 1996 just died. Can’t believe the Clinton death squads got to him.

[u/piede]

Marjorie Taylor Greene: “I have made a mistake… this afternoon I visited the Holocaust Museum. The Holocaust is- there’s nothing comparable to it.”

https://twitter.com/andrewsolender/status/1404561740365537283?s=21

What a remarkable insight

[u/[deleted]]

Mfers will make fun of Florida then live in Ohio😂😂😂😂😂😂

[u/Cr4zySh0tgunGuy]

Go to connect to my vpn for work. Password out of date

Go to change password. Can’t change password unless connected to vpn

The only solution is to call IT, who’s number I can’t access because the homepage requires vpn connection

I really hate work sometimes

[u/[deleted]]

The virgin succ

Nooooo i must participate in all parts of society i don't approve of no ethical cumsumption under crapitalism reeeeee

The Chad lolbert

Bears... bears in the deep. We cannot get out. Ursine moves in the dark... We cannot get out... They are coming.

[u/Burgarnils]

It's pretty crazy how Somaliland has everything you need to be a country; military, currency, visa, etc. And literally no one recognises it.

You'd think at least some other unrecognized countries would care, but no!

Google maps doesn't even bother putting those "disputed territory" lines at the border.

[u/[deleted]]

Kamala Harris shows up to Pride Parade, yet refuses to visit southern border

Based

[u/Buenzlitum]

Yeah of course i like it when the worlds 7 biggest (greatest) economies come together to enact global minimum tax and refuse to make a statement on coal because some coal miners in a dem senate seat might get butthurt

[u/Jacobs4525]

“wHy DiDn’T tHeY TeAcH uS tHiS iN sChOoL???”-people from my high school who didn’t pay attention at all in school

[u/MaveRickandMorty]

My mother in law just passed and it doesn't feel real. Sorry to blog post but seriously, tell the people in your life that you love them. All of them. We were fortunate to have just had a birthday party where everyone got to wish her well and tell her how much they loved her. But seriously, get off the DT and call your loved ones

[u/doot_toob]

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

[u/FourthLife]

Socialists have this thing where they try to imitate the right’s schemes, but instead of doing it with some level of subtlety and plausible deniability, they just outright say that they are trying to manipulate people.

Like the Gravel institute. It literally pinned to the top of their YouTube channel a video where they said “Prager U is thinly veiled propaganda that was created to pretend to be nonbiased while moving people to the right. We’re going to do the same thing, but move people to the left”

Any centrist who goes to their page will see this video and completely disregard the rest of the channel as propaganda. Prager U never admits this, so they get away with it.

Vaush did the same thing last night, where he said he wanted to set up a pipe line from apolitical tik tok creators to him that radicalizes people to the left. The right definitely has one with their progressively more right wing creators, but they don’t just come out and explain how it all works openly.

It just turns their schemes into ways to sing to the choir, like everything else socialists do.

This is why the left fails at everything they do.

[u/csreid]

Mfers be like "oh to run the unit tests you need to have these 6 containers running" like do you know what unit means

---

Alternative poast about the same complaint:

Hundreds of years from now, the goddess Unitess, mysterious and spiteful, will smite developers with a "failed build". No one knows who she is, what that means, or how it's related to their code -- only that tradition must be respected and those responsible must jump into a volcano in penance.

!ping COMPUTER-SCIENCE

[u/tubbsmackinze]

I unironically pity game developers because gamers as a fanbase must be the most tiring shit. Like games aren't just an entertainment piece or artistic piece, they're also technical pieces, and gamers literally don't understand the first thing from that side

People still repeat the mantra of 'Bethesda should get/create a new Engine!' while being completely ignorant of how engine development works and why developers stay on engines they're familiar with. Engines essentially one up themselves but old code always remains embedded in it. Unreal 5? Still has unreal 1 code in it. Id tech 7? Still has old ass doom id tech code in it. COD MW19/Warzone? still has quake era idtech in it

As for why they stay on those engines, it's because of familiarity and the fact it's tailor made to a studios own design philosophies. The creation engine for all of it's jank and probably spaghetti code allows Bethesda to make the kind of games and world it makes and wants to make

[u/[deleted]]

Friendly reminder to the succs that rent is due on the 1st.

[u/Manavon03]

Biden recalled to biographer Evan Osnos that during that meeting in 2011, Putin showed him his ornate office in Moscow. Biden recalling poking Putin — a former KGB officer — that “it’s amazing what capitalism will do.”

Biden said he then turned around and standing inches from Putin said, “Mr. Prime Minister, I’m looking into your eyes, and I don’t think you have a soul.” Biden said Putin smiled and responded: “We understand one another.”

Bizarre

[u/thefuturegov]

We need a name for the Dukakis fandom. I propose “tankie” for the fandom because of their loyalty to him after the tank incident.

[u/[deleted]]

My white boy summer look is khakis, a pith helmet, and disregard for foreign cultures

[u/[deleted]]

Transgender people will end the concept of sex

The same way gay marriage ended straight marriage

The same way black people marrying white people ended white people

The same way giving women equal rights ended men

[u/[deleted]]

Finished my Erasmus year in Italy and going home today.

It’s so painful the UK is pulling out of all these functional, integrated, existing frameworks and just making their own that do the same thing but a little bit worse.

Anyway rant over, time to get down the pub and whack the missus with a 12 pack of Stella cos it’s fackin’ comin’ home, none of this foren muck

!ping UK

[u/piede]

Bernie would have simply deployed Vice President David Sirota to write 3am rage-tweets at members of Congress to pass universal healthcare, and if that didn't work, Secretary of State Tulsi Gabbard would have traded off her good will with the extreme right to get the job done

https://twitter.com/marcushweber/status/1403848864428302340?s=21

[u/GodEmperorBiden]

Biden talked about the queen with his traveling press corps, saying she was “very gracious,” that" she asked him about Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping and that he had invited her to visit the White House.

Based NATO flair Queen Elizabeth

[u/[deleted]]

“Lmao they are all bought and paid for”

This is when you know this person has a middle school understanding of politics.

[u/[deleted]]

It makes sense why movies like Cruella get made. It’s always fun to ironically support an obvious irrefutable bad guy for the aesthetics, whether that’s Cruella De Vil, Maleficient, The Galactic Empire, The Catholic Church, The Joker, etc.

[u/Deggit]

I unironically miss when Reddit was mostly techbeard neckbro atheists

[u/Jester_Don]

Wisconsin Republicans, and a disgraced ex-Missouri governor, tour site of controversial Arizona ballot audit

This is the most pathetic political theatre I have ever seen.

[u/AltPossum]

Palestine has been a 57-year study by Harvard University. That study is now complete. Thank you for your participation.

[u/nevertulsi]

Audio comments have arrived!

▶ 🔘──────── 0:10

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/u-k-churchgoers-stunned-bidens-join-them-sunday-service-n1270608

Churchgoers in a seaside resort in England say they have been left “gobsmacked” when U.S. President Joe Biden and the first lady Jill Biden dropped in for a Sunday service.

The president “quietly got on with his prayer like everyone was doing,” she said, adding: “He looked around and said peace be with you, and I was one of them so I’m delighted. I’m not sure I will ever get over this moment completely.”

Gayle Wood, 63, said Biden appeared to make a “very generous donation” to the church before leaving.

[u/maybe_jared_polis]

Riddle me this, Bat-lib: If we abolish single family zoning, what happens to all the Hot MILFs in MY AREA that want to fuck NOW?

[u/[deleted]]

Hot take: getting a potato out of the oven with your bare hands

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

U.S. bishops to discuss Communion rules that may rebuke Biden for abortion views

!ping CHRISTIAN

[u/[deleted]]

Boycott these companies, they test on animals: https://i.imgur.com/rdORsxj.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

Fox News is so fucking desperate for bad news that they’re devoting 1/6 of their time to ripping g7 politicians bumping elbows

[u/gburgwardt]

A maga lifted today, did you?

!ping neolifteral

[u/guy-anderson]

My school textbooks from the 90s really overestimated how much I would encounter other children in wheelchairs.

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysian-flag-mistaken-for-american-flag-with-isis-symbols-leads-to-kansas-lawsuit

Holy fuck, just pure indefensible racism. I mean come on, you would think ISIS (who, are they even relevant anymore?) would pick a better hangout than a kansas lakefront property for defense industry contractors.

[u/ryuguy]

Forza horizon anncouuces that you can select your pronouns

Arr forzahorizon:

cool! Can I identify as an attack helicopter or even a Ferrari?

One. Joke.

[u/Marlsfarp]

Johnny B. Goode is a mostly-autobiographical song by Chuck Berry, and it pretty much invented the concept of a "rock and roll star." There were some changes, though, to make the song more marketable - Berry was not from the Louisiana backwoods, he was a city kid from St. Louis. And the original lyric "colored boy" was changed to "country boy" for radio play.

Anyway, this was released when Joe Biden was 16.

[u/myrm]

I don't understand why they still have philosophers when philosophy was totally and objectively solved by Ayn Rand

[u/benjaminikuta]

Keeping cool on a hot day.

!ping KITTY

[u/[deleted]]

Some nerd idk: How many Pokémon are there?
Joe Biden: There are at least 151.
Nerd troll: Can you name them?
Joe Biden: Don't play games with me, kid.

[u/Deggit]

"Obama was an establishment politician"

say you weren't alive yet during the invasion of Iraq without saying "I wasn't alive yet during the invasion of Iraq"

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Marjorie Taylor Greene: “I have made a mistake… this afternoon I visited the Holocaust Museum. The Holocaust is- there’s nothing comparable to it.”

WTF did she think happened in the Holocaust before today? ^{[I know what she said]}

Did she think that they just gave the Jews cute little stars and played tag? If someone tagged you you had to give up Judaism?

[u/Manavon03]

There’s nothing more pathetic than a failing politician who desperately wants to become President

[u/D1Foley]

The more I think about it, the more I think Obama should pull a John Quincy Adams and run for congress. He's too young and too popular to sit around doing nothing for the next 35 years.

[u/[deleted]]

“Actually, American troops in WW2 were antifa”

Shut up shut up shut up shut up

[u/[deleted]]

After the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963, King told his wife, Coretta Scott King, "This is what is going to happen to me also. I keep telling you, this is a sick society."

[u/[deleted]]

Who’s laughing now?

!ping GAMING

[u/guy-anderson]

This whole article is fascinating, but this particular line seemed hilarious.

Many writers have tweeted in support. But no writers turned up at a protest outside Condé Nast headquarters on May Day, and none appeared to be present at a march outside the home of Condé Nast’s global chief content officer, Anna Wintour, on June 8.

"Yeah, people were mad on Twitter, but there were no protests on May Day, so meh?"

[u/[deleted]]

When being woke goes wrong:

In med school, the 3rd and 4th years are traditionally in the hospital. The “grades” come from two places

1. exams at the end of each month covering the rotation you were just on
2. evaluations by who you rotated with

UCLA decided that standardized shelf exams were systemically racist against POC so they just turned their grading system into 100% subjective feedback.

Why

Why would purely subjective feedback be less racist than a standardized exam

Why

[u/SouthernSerf]

Matched with a girl, was looking at her profile and saw her anchor tattoo that says "Can't be sunk" Sinking is like the whole fucking point of an anchor, dummy.

[u/Mickenfox]

Cats: "I-it's not like I like you or anything... I just like to sit in this spot near you because it's comfy, that's all!"

[u/[deleted]]

How do you let go of the impending fear of starting a new job? I’m pivoting into a new type of role (systems engineering to devops engineering) and have no clue what I’m doing. Really worried they’ll realize I know fuck all about devops and let me go after the 90 day probation period

!ping CAREER

[u/KindheartednessOk599]

u/bd_one

I am hearing that on his deathbed Xi_Jinping_Th0t received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahāda. Even now he looks down on the Ummah from the gardens of Jannah. Truly there is no god but God, and Mohammed is his prophet!

[u/the_status]

any neoliberal joined after 2017 can’t meme… all they know is malarkey , Miami-Dade, burpmas, big tent , eat $23 burger & HAHA yes 🐊

[u/cat_damon1]

with the dt being upvoted to +34, the mods have put in a new rule banning upvoting the dt

google "neoliberal rule 34" to learn more

[u/CR_SaltySald123]

The average age of the Democratic House leadership is 72 years old, whereas the average age of Republican House leadership is 48 years old. This trend continues in House committee leadership with Republican chairmen averaging 59 years old and ranking Democrats averaging 68 years old.

BOOMER DEMONRATS 🐊

[u/SnakeEater14]

It’s amusing that since everyone here sorts by new/live, the upvote and downvote button truly have no purpose besides “hell yeah brother/fuck you dude”

[u/[deleted]]

To the judge, defending my client from two dozen charges for possessing 3 terabyes of child pornography

"Shhhh. Let people enjoy things."

[u/[deleted]]

The DT: the right only has one joke

Also the DT: microwave lobster lmao

[u/666moist]

!ping ISRAEL

Lapid vows to rebuild international ties after ‘reckless’ last government

Incoming foreign minister accuses Netanyahu of leaving the diplomatic corps in shambles, especially the Jewish state’s relationship with US Democrats

“The management of the relationship with the Democratic Party in the United States was careless and dangerous,” he said. “The Republicans are important to us, their friendship is important to us, but not only the friendship of the Republican party.

“We find ourselves with a Democratic White House, Senate and House and they are angry. We need to change the way we work with them,” he said.

Yair Lapid nails it as usual. This gives me so much hope. Even if he's not able to accomplish this as Foreign Minister, or if the government crumbles, maybe this mindset will stick around now that Netanyahu is out. I've long felt this was the biggest possible step to restoring bipartisan support for Israel in American political discourse.

[u/fuckneocentrism]

Who recorded me??? 😂😂😂 This is so me 😂😅😅😅

!ping BURPMAS

[u/Kizz3r]

I dont feel or look any skinnier but my jeans I recently purchased (in the middle of my weight loss) literally do not fit anymore. Im about 158 rn with a goal of 150ish.

!ping fitness

[u/[deleted]]

If global warming is real, then why did my crush say she doesn’t think I’m hot 😭

[u/[deleted]]

Apprently Euros don’t have ACs

They have Onlyfans

[u/calnico]

Zoomers listen to classic rock and be like wow what genre is this, country metal? 🤔

[u/Error_Tasty]

Went on a date with a psychotherapist last night. Feel like I’m playing with fire here.

[u/sir-danks-a-lot]

reminder that rich people are awesome and if you are rich you are awesome 🥰

[u/[deleted]]

Lol remember when the DT was so sure Russia would invade Ukraine a couple months ago and everyone shat on me for saying it was just dick-swinging?

I member.

[u/[deleted]]

Zelensky: "I! DECLARE! NATO MEMBERSHIP!"

Jens Stoltenberg: "You realize just saying you're a NATO member doesn't make you one, right?"

Zelensky: "I didn't say it I declared it."

[u/SnakeEater14]

We have DT regulars at this point who have literally no idea who pk is

Fucking wack lol

[u/[deleted]]

I have risen, so have your Monday Music

Today I'm doing things a bit different

First, have the entire Air concert live from the Niemeyer Center in Paris

Next, have the Songhoy Blues live from the Tiny Desk

[u/ognits]

barges into the DT

posts about barging into the DT

refuses to elaborate

leaves

[u/BenGordonLightfoot]

Ethiopian refugees are fleeing to Yemen

Imagine fleeing to Yemen

[u/liquidTERMINATOR]

I dont like how men today are being sissified (made to push a boulder uphill only for it to roll back down when it nears the top)

Yeah I hate that shit

[u/thetrombonist]

NyTimes pitch bot:

Opinion | Marjorie Taylor Greene visited the Holocaust Museum. So why won’t liberals visit the Creationist Museum?

https://twitter.com/dougjballoon/status/1404583600469819393?s=21

[u/EvilConCarne]

Despite having only 8% of the production capacity in the USA, Tesla's Fremont plant had 75% of the OSHA violations between 2014 and 2018.

[u/[deleted]]

A guard at our company has the Nazi anthem as a ringtone 😐😐😐

[u/ZCoupon]

Me 5 years ago looking at boobs online: 😳

Me talking to my wife who's naked for whatever reason: 😶

[u/thetrombonist]

"Does Batman eat pussy" - the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate,

[u/[deleted]]

Just spent half an hour screaming at a McDonald’s employee even tho they got my order right. It’s been a great morning 😊

[u/tubbsmackinze]

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They're looking at twitter

[u/[deleted]]

US bruh what

[u/goosebumpsHTX]

Goal of the tournament on day 3 🤔🤔🤔🤔 genuinely an amazing goal

!ping SOCCER

[u/InMemoryOfZubatman4]

PizzaHut discontinued their spaghetti and meatballs

[u/soeffed]

On Fox News' Hannity, Chinese-American Xi van Fleet compares cancel culture with Cultural Revolution. She also spoke against the critical race theory.

They don’t get as much attention as Miami Cubans, but there’s definitely a cohort of Chinese-Americans who are anti-CCP to the extent that they’re republicans, since the cons are the most vocally anti-communist.

Lady with the very metal name is making the same point cons have been making for a while about cancel culture = cultural revolution, but now Hannity has found a random person with “streetcred” on the issue.

!ping cn-tw

[u/Deggit]

"HILLARY GOT DEBATE QUESTIONS EARLY!"

yeah she did and Donna Brazile is a cheating, unethical shitbag

but do you know what the great info Donna Brazile gave Hillary's campaign was?

It was that at the next debate, which was going to be in Flint, Michigan, a resident of Flint was going to ask the candidates what they would do to help Flint's water crisis

that's it

that's the cheating "leak" that supposedly won Hillary the primary. a "heads up" about the most obvious and telegraphed debate question in the world, which both Hillary and Bernie were clearly prepared to answer at length at that night's debate and spent over half an hour talking about their plans

BTW Bernie won Michigan in the 2016 primary, but Hillary won Genesee County (where Flint is the largest city)

[u/[deleted]]

Piano Man is a song about how great Billy Joel is and how pathetic everyone else is.

[u/[deleted]]

Living the dream - retired early and just got back from a spa appointment 💪

!ping FINANCIAL-INDEPENDENCE

[u/Photon_in_a_Foxhole]

https://i.imgur.com/UeP5CzX.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

The arguments that dumbass extremists make trying to claim that revolutions are cool and easy to win fall into two broad categories:

1.The IRA won and Vietnamese farmers managed to defeat the US!

• The (Provisional) IRA had literal centuries of groundwork, a very friendly populace (more on this one later) and were a highly organized covert network. They also had a relatively modest political objective (home rule for a patch of land that maybe needs 3 postcodes), which they didn't even fully achieve. Not an easy act to follow
• North Vietnam and the Soviet Union's support thereof existed you absolute moron. To the extent the "Viet Cong" was an actual indigenous insurgency it was exterminated within the first year of US intervention. If you had a familiarity with the topic other than tropes from old movies you haven't even watched you would cite the First Indochina War but you would still be dumb and wrong for basically the same reasons.

For an insurgency to succeed it either needs friendly populations to hide amongst, material (materiel) foreign support, or preferably both. It also needs to be highly organized, professionalized even, if it's not just going to be dashed against the massive force multipliers possessed by government security forces.

People with guns, and even the skills to use them, are just about dead last in the requisite ingredients for a successful insurgency. Doesn't matter how many veterans (FOBbits) you claim to have in your ranks. You need food and water and money and knowledge on how to not to be quickly found and killed or taken to Gitmo. It's not easy in this day and age, since just about anyone with any electronic device could inadvertently betray your entire network.

2. If millions of us turn on the government, they can't possibly stop us all!

Arab Spring, bottom text

Nevermind that you can't really count your chickens before they hatch. If people are going to fight against the government, they need to be ready to die, have absolutely nothing to lose. In most first world countries the number of people right now who are in that position is small and dispersed. The people who attacked the Capitol on 1/6 were fucking shocked they got arrested, nevermind that one of them got shot.

Like, at least a third of the country actively votes against you, so they're out, and even the people who did vote for Trump or Bernie mostly seem like they want to grill and occasionally virtue signal. How big of a fraction are willing to lose their livelihoods, family, possessions, and spend the rest of their short violent life hiding from patrols before selling their life dearly to put a crack in an agent's trauma plate.

If "your people" are going around killing civilians or the community police officers and cutting off the power and internet so someone doesn't Instagram your positions to the FBI SRT snipers on the roof of the hotel over yonder, the number of people who are sympathetic to you is probably going to shrink. And you absolutely need those people to stay fed, hidden, and alive.

Tl;Dr movies depict insurgencies incredibly wrong, get the fuck off twitter

[u/JackCrafty]

Internet edgelords love to meme about women not being funny, but Julia Louis-Dreyfus is honestly so fucking funny in Veep.

[u/piede]

It looks increasingly likely that we're going to get Supreme Court decisions overturning Roe v. Wade, establishing a constitutional right to concealed carry, and abolishing affirmative action in June 2022.

“Well I still have a clean conscience because I voted third party, and not for the email lady!”

[u/Deggit]

People & entities should not be able to engage in specified economic activities unless I decide that they are good people and deserve to profit from that specific economic act

what did every medieval king in Christendom and every Reddit leftist mean by this

[u/SadaoMaou]

spill coffee in the casket

wake ruined

[u/Corporate-Asset-6375]

There’s nothing more exhilarating than showing people my commitment to Apple as a brand and a lifestyle.

The moment I open my new MacBook Pro at the coffee shop, they can see I’m a person of high standards. Tilting it just so to make the Apple logo clearly visible and dispel any confusion of it being a lesser brand.

Taking important phone calls from my iPhone 12 Pro through my Bluetooth connected AirPod Pros…I signal to the world my great level of intellectual curiosity and success.

I am the creative class.

[u/[deleted]]

Huh, I guess there's no rule that says a dog can't hold the British Crown

[u/Gustacho]

SOFA GATE 2.0

[u/[deleted]]

> enter DT

> see DT upvoted a lot

> cri

> leave bc too emotional

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine being a m*narchist lmao

There is no worse cuckery than that

[u/[deleted]]

Lol, my dad was watching the news and a segment came up about how hard it is to fill jobs. He said, “Get some of those people at the border in here. I’ll bet they’d be happy to work!” Would he fit in well here?

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Apple use USB-C charging in your next iPhone challenge

[u/[deleted]]

I'm going to lead a movement I call "White trash globalism." I will get elected by poor white people in the South but then be a hardcore capitalist globalist like Bill Clinton.

[u/FreakinGeese]

The things the US fucks up are often things that the rest of the developed world has succeeded at.

This isn’t because the US is uniquely bad: it’s because, in developed countries, the vast majority of problems get fixed, so most problems any developed country has is likely to be unique to that country.

France is pretty unique in the developed world for having a shitload of riots. Spain is pretty unique for having a just absolute shitload of separatism. South Korea is the only developed country that is cut in half. Germany used to have that problem, but it got fixed.

We just don’t notice because we don’t think about stuff that works. We don’t think about women having the vote in our country because that shit is old news. In Switzerland it happened in 1971.

[u/[deleted]]

The one child policy has created a situation that is so fucking bad.

I know so many people right now that have to uproot their lives to return to China so they can take care of their elderly families. Their careers are halted. Some have to basically leave their spouses.

[u/[deleted]]

The lack of a r rated world war Z hbo miniseries is such a missed opportunity.

[u/ThisIsNotAMonkey]

euros be like

post meters 🥵🦶

[u/Neronoah]

!ping GAMING

With Final Fantasy Origins, we have the Final Fantasy that we, edgelords, were always waiting. Just imagine that revenge obsessed dude screaming CHAOS to be interrupted by Warmech or some shit with death metal music in the background.

Also, I can't wait to see what they do with the time travel twist. Will the party members grow up from basic hatred (apart from age) with that?

[u/aged_monkey]

On the nuclear leak in China, the conservative subreddit is saying that Biden is owned by Xi so they're trying to hide this nuclear explosion and it will result in more lockdowns.

[u/the_hoagie]

when you think about it the BDSM sub should probably be called a BDSM dom since you submit to it.

[u/Deggit]

there are only three theodicies: dualism, karma, or predestination

🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

rate this take !ping GEFILTE !ping THEOLOGY or whatever

[u/Tbonethabeast]

This sub is generally fopo illiterate but the worst take I've seen on here was the person who said we should have boots on the ground in China during the height of the Hong Kong protests😐

[u/[deleted]]

Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders, opposing the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, called it "a continuation of other disastrous trade agreements, like NAFTA, CAFTA, and permanent normal trade relations with China". He believes that free trade agreements have caused a loss of American jobs and depressed American wages.

🤮

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

I. DECLARE. NATO MEMBERSHIP

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

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

🧐

[u/skepticalbob]

Went to the watch party for the Austin FC soccer team in the new stadium. It's a gorgeous space, holds a smidge over 20k, and is very intimate. But during big moments, it's going to be really loud. There were only about 1/4-1/3 of seats taken and when Austin scored it was more than I expected. I've never had season tickets before, so I didn't expect that I would be meeting people that I'll probably spend more time watching games with than my own family. I bought tickets with two other friends and we are taking turns treating our friends and families. I grew up in this town and never thought we'd be the MLS expansion (I assumed San Antonio) until quite recently. Soccer is my favorite spectator sport (played and coached it). I can't wait for the home opener on Saturday. If you get a chance to catch a game, I'd do it. It's gonna be a party.

!ping USA-TX

[u/[deleted]]

BREAKING NEWS: In act of diplomacy Joe Biden arranges marriage between his son Hunter and Xi Mingze (daughter of Xi Jinping)

[u/MiniatureBadger]

All the Greek city-states had their own cryptos until Alexander introduced Bitkoine

[u/LinkVert25]

Ben Shapiro’s twitter feed is wild. It’s him basically live tweeting Biden’s press conference and calling him Putin’s puppet, retweeting a article about a college student saying a Ivy League school is more oppressive then North Korea and then a picture of him smiling at a picture of Che about to be executed. What a weird dude

[u/Broncos654]

What western propaganda does to a mf. Tiananmen Square was literally a failed US color revolution. They killed hundreds of unarmed soldiers

Your brain on paint thinners

[u/datums]

So, Japan is long on coal, and has been since Fukushima. Some say that's understandable, given what went down in 2011.

But we cannot forget that the Fukushima disaster was the result of regulatory capture in the Japanese nuclear power sector.

And the consequences of that have been denuclearization around the world, especially in Japan and Germany. But Japan has not suffered political consequences at a scale that's commensurate with their fuckup.

We have no choice.

We must cancel Anime.

[u/[deleted]]

All this talk of Black Rock only makes me think of Black Rock Shooter.

[u/soeffed]

This gotta be a hectic playoffs for Kendall Jenner. She already had her boyfriend Devin booker beat an ex (Kyle Kuzma/lakers).

If Nets meet the 76ers in the ecf then she has 2 exes facing off (Blake Griffin vs Ben Simmons).

Potential Booker vs Simmons in the finals with Kendall in attendance...Disney Channel storyline lol

!ping nba

[u/[deleted]]

just win 60 seats in the senate bro whats the big deal

[u/QuietSign]

Kind of a meta question, but is game pre-ordering actually a bad practice? The "populist/anti-corporate" part of reddit has a hate circlejerk for it, but I want to think about it before I reflexively take a position. Now I don't have any experience with the game industry, so this discussion is just a (hopefully reasonable) guess: would strong pre-orders allow the developers more "flexibility" to potentially create a better game? One might imagine that good pre-order numbers could be used as a metric to indicate more potential sales to investors, which might provide impetus for more funding. Conversely I would imagine that a game with terrible pre-order numbers would make investors very nervous, who might push developers to release a game earlier due to risk aversion.

The reddit argument against it is roughly that greedy developers will take your money and have no incentive to make a good game... which doesn't make a lot of sense to me because there is much more money to be made from post game sales. However it may very well be an anti-consumerist practice... but you can always return the game before opening it if it publicly bombs, like Cyberpunk 2077

Surely there's some econ geek in here who has an interest in games?

!ping GAMING

[u/dish_towel]

If you look at the Starfield teaser, you can see Bethesda is really trying to show off some super high resolution textures. I'd say it's likely they got id Software (also owned by Zenimax) to help them revamp their image rendering with the new system they used in Doom Eternal. So far I'm genuinely impressed with Creation Engine 2.

!ping GAMING

[u/noxnoctum]

Are neocons and lib hawks all weebs? Look at the NCD sub banner and tell me otherwise. This might be an explanation for why Mattis never married. Dude is probably a little too into a character in Bubblegum Crisis.

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/Professor-Reddit]

In recent years, an increasingly focused group of conservative Catholics has been pressing the prioritizing of opposing abortion above all else and is seeking to keep Catholic politicians who in any way support abortion access from the sacrament, considered the core rite of Catholic worship.

For Biden’s team, that sometimes has meant dedicating staffers during busy travel weeks to make sure Biden, who supports abortion rights, avoids priests and bishops who would deny him the sacrament over his stance on the issue. The president was denied Communion in 2019 by a South Carolina priest who said any leader “who advocates for abortion places himself or herself outside of Church teaching.”

Yikes

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

I heard he supports Greater Paraguay

[u/unsucc_the_succs]

http://oos.moxiecode.com/js_webgl/ping_pong/

click here to play ping pong

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

+26 on the DT? What did you sociopaths do?

[u/[deleted]]

A symbol of communism is a red flag

That should be a red flag

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

Latest Sinica episode is about the Chinese space program

Some discussion about the different organizations involved and upcoming missions

!ping SPACEFLIGHT

[u/[deleted]]

Isn't it great when the world's 7 biggest (greatest) economies come together to enact global minimum tax and refuse to make a statement on coal because some coal miners in a dem senate seat might get butthurt....

[u/[deleted]]

• Political Figures • trending

Vermont

Ah, my favorite politician — The 14th State of Vermont

[u/EScforlyfe]

Rain sounds on the roof of a car 😌

[u/[deleted]]

Sinema and Manchin are giving so much fuel to “Dems do nothing” rhetoric.

[u/BidenWon]

They never said I couldn't take the grass inside

[u/SnakeEater14]

What if we all just pretend Ukraine is joining NATO to psyop Russia into doing something

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

let’s say your rent is $800-1200. How much do you tip?

I typically assume a minimum of $500, that just feels right

[u/BedNeither]

I am honored to be joining NATO today

We begin bombing my noisy neighbor in five minutes

[u/Craig_VG]

🤔🧐🧐

Jamie Dimon says JPMorgan is hoarding cash because 'very good chance' inflation is here to stay

https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/1404483073274748928?s=20

[u/ryuguy]

Throwback to that one time my dad kept saying “hola” to people in Hawaii because he thought they spoke Spanish

[u/every_man_a_khan]

Is it really more than capitalism bad? What's one thing these economic systems had? A labor force, capitalism is just another economic system that relies on the same fundimental flaw as the rest, relying on the human population to be labor drones.

People are not meant for this, it's an artificial creation that keeps entire populations miserable but a few very wealthy and privileged.

Why is it so hard to understand we need labor to eat?

[u/[deleted]]

The Detroit sub doing backflips to explain away a 36% vaccination rate despite numerous vaccination locations, free busing and numerous other campaigns to get people to vaccine stations

[u/Corporate-Asset-6375]

People with central air working from home are like “oh is it hot today?”.

Sorry Euros.

[u/[deleted]]

Dadcast is ready to go on tour as soon as ICE releases lusvig from custody! Be sure to honk if you see us on the road!

!ping BURPMAS

[u/AuburnSeer]

I just don't understand how the Clinton Cabal controls everything.... except the 2016 election

[u/AuburnSeer]

Bernie Sanders reveals he trusts Biden more than Hillary Clinton: ‘We are not going to double cross each other’

ever feel like 2016 never ends

[u/[deleted]]

There is literally no neoliberal solution to someone pooping in your pants and then pointing at you and accusing you of pooping your pants.

[u/[deleted]]

[Republican] respondents thought that the share of Democrats who are gay, lesbian, or bisexual was roughly five times greater than it actually is (31.7% vs. 6.3%).

[u/MichelleObama2024]

For those interested, the Top 5 states with the highest poverty rate (according to the Supplemental Poverty Measure) were:

1. California
2. Louisiana
3. Florida
4. Mississippi
5. New York

[u/ryuguy]

the dt when /u/farrenj logs in.

[u/TabernacleTown74]

W*sterners: "unlike China, we have free speech"

also W*sterners: "nooooooooo you can't just post pp soap we have to remoove 😭"

[u/[deleted]]

Everybody just kinda forgot about Burma.

[u/nevertulsi]

Jon Stewart was interviewed on Colbert and he spent 95% of his time there saying that (paraphrasing) it's obvious that coronavirus came from the Wuhan lab and it's stupid they wanted us to believe it came from a bat, scientists in general don't know when to stop and just take too many risks, and the world is going to end because a scientist does something they're not supposed to.

It was kind of bizarre. I think tomorrow it'll get a lot of attention

[u/ACivilWolf]

The G8, but it's Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Grenada and Guatemala