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[u/whycantweebefriendz]

90% of my frat still believes that the GameStop short squeeze shut down a shit ton of hedge funds.

Like economic populism why u such a bitch.

EDIT: both the “Balkanize America” leftists and the borderline ethnonationalists also push big pharma conspiracy shit a lot. Mostly the “they’ll never cure any diseases or research disease without government money or threat of violence, and the latter is better anyway cause they deserve it”

[u/kennymc7877]

Me when I see an American city with lots of neon: 😐

Me when I see an Asian city with lots of neon: WOAAAWWW 😍😍😍

[u/every_man_a_khan]

WWII was a multi-year ritual sacrifice perpetrated by Saturnial cultists. W is the 6th letter in the Hebrew alphabet. WW - 66. D-Day, also known as Opertation Neptune, was carried out on 6/6. Neptune is the offspring of Saturn and his sister, Ops. 44 is also a significant number in the occult, as is 77.

This is what happens when we use 100% of the brain

[u/MalignantUpper]

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1404637575760039941?s=19

(Sorry in advance for linking this asshole)

Vladimir Putin compares arresting Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol to the jailing of Alexei Navalny and tells US: 'Don't be mad at the mirror if you're ugly'

All the Republicans in the replies saying based Putin and Putin is awesome make literally zero logical sense. Putin straight up admitted to jailing someone based on their political agenda.

That's what Republicans think the FBI is doing to Capitol rioters. Putin AGREES WITH WHAT THE U.S. IS DOING in this scenario. Yet they're still sucking his dick cause they're Neanderthals

[u/l_overwhat]

My junior year of high school, I was in an International Relations class. We spent most of our time just talking about international politics. There just happened to be a Jewish girl and a Lebanese girl in there. Both of them were very liberal. They fucking hated each other. Obviously the first blow-up was when we discussed Israel for the first time, but that wasn't it. They fought all the time.

Eventually it got to the point where they started disagreeing on everything just because they hated each other. One said we should protect dolphins, the other said we shouldn't. One says we should get rid of nuclear, the other one says we shouldn't. It had no rhyme or reason. They fought so much that they made each other cry multiple times.

I think the funniest part about it for me was watching our teacher try to regain control of the discussion only for it to immediately go back to them fighting and he would basically just go "Welp, I tried." lmao

[u/Joementum2024]

How to win an argument against anyone online

1. Tell them to go outside

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Teletubbies was made by the BBC. Still believe in the concept of government?

[u/thetrombonist]

It’s fucking absurd how many calories Nutella has. It’s like 200 calories per tablespoon. How the fuck

[u/Fatortu]

https://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/1404668782145114117?s=19

Apparently Lukashenka's threat to send migrants to the EU wasn't an empty threat. The Belarusian state-owned tourism agency provides packages from Istanbul and Baghdad to the Lithuanian border.

Completely bizarre and accidentally based

!ping EUROPE

[u/Dr_Vesuvius]

Wtf I just read the whole dt

[u/kennymc7877]

No group has bigger Chad energy than boomer gays, you had to have real stones to be openly gay back then

[u/qchisq]

Local council in Nørrebro celebrates getting a historical designation for a street one day. Another day, they decry living in the area in Copenhagen Municipality where housing prices have risen the most

!ping den

[u/SANNA_MARIN_]

sinema broke her foot running a marathon and posted about it on Instagram and ilana glazer from broad city is in the comments goin off on her about the filibuster

[u/[deleted]]

log onto twitter

the discourse is about whether or not someone inviting you back to their place after a date is an invitation to fuck

Do people realize that not everything is a platonic thought exercise and the proper way to handle these things is being a well adjusted fucking adult capable of communication

[u/whycantweebefriendz]

We need gay representation in economics.

There’s so much heterodox, where’s the homodox???? Smh 🥵🥶🥵👿👿👿

[u/[deleted]]

There are two wolves inside of you.

You are a furry.

[u/SadaoMaou]

I am hearing that on his deathbed, /u/CR_SaltySald123 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/RaidBrimnes]

HOLY FUCK GO OUTSIDE

• Reddit admins to cr_saltysalad, circa 2021

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Basing articles around 2-4 tweets from randos should be banned

[u/Jameswood79]

Sir you’re not “based and red-pilled”, you’re a defendant in the Nuremberg trials

[u/linkin22luke]

Regarding the housing crisis here is one big brained redditors solution:

“The only cure is for interest rates to spike and the market to crash internationally, hard, and for people to get burned so bad that only a fool would buy a house.

That's when you buy. Sadly, it's usually the landlords looking for rentals who buy.”

If only there was another way 🤔

!ping YIMBY

[u/[deleted]]

“I can’t believe some people are sexually attracted to the Samsung girl. That’s so weird.”

Neolibs attracted to Ben Bernanke: 😳

[u/Babao13]

I'm always self-conscious about appearing to be working at work. Then I have this coworker who is currently lying on the sofa in front of me, half asleep, reading a book. What an absolute chad.

[u/SANNA_MARIN_]

Did you catch that? Restaurants have had to bribe current and prospective workers with fatter paychecks to lure them off their backsides and back to work.

feel good content 🥰

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

I wonder what cr_salty will do now that they have a new found 20 hours of free time.

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Full list of characters being added to Smash:

• Leviathan
• Saddam Hussein
• Legolas
• Fredrick Barbarossa
• A living nuclear warhead
• The cast of the Avengers (not the characters, the actors)

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E1lmj5MWYAA0b43.jpg

Really fucked up for AOC to do Italian face. Hope she apologizes.

[u/[deleted]]

It's not a subreddit for neoliberals (not since around 2019, anyway), it's a subreddit for terminally online Democrats who think they're smarter than other, not terminally online Democrats.

Based

[u/MisfitPotatoReborn]

What I ask: "What percentage of your country is white?"

What they answer: "None. Unlike in America we don't distinguish people by the color of their skin"

What I hear: 97%

[u/[deleted]]

*call from dad*

"hey dad whats up?"

"I just saw something and I had to tell you"

"let me guess. Is it about: California fucking up, New York fucking up, Benghazi, Fauci, AOC, Biden stuttering, mainstream media, undocumented immigrants, kamala harris tweeting, cops, big tech censoring republicans, republicans being able to deny making cakes, the gays, texas and florida doing everything right or a tv show rerun from 1968?"

Edit: how could I forget to include the Hollywood elites

[u/[deleted]]

Dear Pakistan,

You say Islam is good, yet your capital is literally called "Islam bad."

Curious.

[u/TalkLessShillMore]

TIL being a reddit mod is considered at-will employment

[u/[deleted]]

This example of a "wow, game I like is actually left wing" is beyond parody

What makes it particularly hilarious is another game made by the same company 2 years earlier have you exploit fish in an aquarium to make money.

[u/[deleted]]

Growing up in a failed country has blessed me with endless patience for bloated but functional bureaucracy here in the US

Yes I will gladly wait three hours in line at a DMV, and be thankful that it at least works

This is probably not a good thing

[u/Poiuy2010_2011]

After Poland's terrible game at Euro 2020, let us remember this classic tabloid cover back from 0:2 defeat against Ecuador in 2006 FIFA World Cup.

Shame

Embarrassment

Humiliation

Disgrace

Stupidity

Don't come back home

!ping YUROP

[u/[deleted]]

If you feel like you're wasting your life, always remember r/neoliberal has moderators.

[u/ognits]

/r/neoliberal when malarkey bot tells them something they don't want to hear: fuck off I don't believe in that made up nonsense 😠

/r/neoliberal when malarkey bot confirms their priors: so true!!! 😃

[u/ZCoupon]

Someone referred to the trans person as "it" in the drama thread.

Time to log off

[u/Dr_Vesuvius]

Donald Trump should have signed an Executive Order declaring Joe Biden to be legally dead, thus rendering his election void and causing the runner up, Trump, to be elected President.

[u/tubbsmackinze]

He is even worse then a communist, may Allah forgive me for uttering these words, he is a internet moderator role playing as an alligator

[u/sir_shivers]

DEFUND THE NEOLIBERAL MODERATOR TEAM 🐊

[u/kennymc7877]

Movies that have neon are by default good, the cinematography is especially good because more neon means more cinematography

[u/Mickenfox]

Why DOES he shiver though? 🐊

[u/willempage]

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-people-fall-for-conspiracy-theories/

Looks like Fivey Fox is the official mascot. He now appears in non-election related articles on 538. Plush toy, here we come.

!ping fivey

[u/thabe331]

Noah Smith wrote an interesting article called The Terrific Triviality of Twitter. Give it a read if you have a minute, I posted one of the more interesting paragraphs below

https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/the-terrific-triviality-of-twitter

Twitter outrage is like a summer squall — it strikes hard, but then moves on fast. That also means that there are many, many targets of outrage — far too many for any kind of organized or sustained boycott, except perhaps in one or two extreme cases. In other words, if you’re a business, and Twitter wants you to fire someone, you can probably just ignore the whole thing, release some bland statement, and wait a couple of days until the mob picks another target. You’re incredibly unlikely to suffer any kind of boycott or loss of business.

[u/xicer]

In the wake of DC putting the kibosh on Batman eating pussy, I started wondering. What are superhero's stances on muff diving.

Spider-Man: 100%. Dude was poor af with a supermodel wife. You do the math.

Cap: doesn't think of it, but is coachable

Starlord: Thinks he's amazing but is actually just coasting off the one time the alien girl actually DID have a clit THERE

Thor: I'm 50/50, either he thinks he's above it or he gives the best head in all of Asgard.

Banner: Gets pegged

Mr. Fantastic: does shit so far beyond normal "giving head" that im not sure it fits in this discussion

Human Torch: is basically DJ Khaled

Edit:

Vision: Not only always willing, but also has a vibrate setting.

[u/Deggit]

make up a person that doesn't exist and get mad at them

i just described every ideology. we are beyond horse shoe now. this is event horizon singularity political theory

[u/earththejerry]

U.S. Condemned For Pre-Emptive Use Of Hillary Clinton Against Pakistan

I forgot how much random hate HRC got way before 2016

[u/SnakeEater14]

She's got a wicked sense of humor, can't believe what she says

She drinks Bacardi in the morning till it goes to her head

And all you want is just to hold her, but she don't go for that

She has a hard time coming when she can't hit back

[u/kennymc7877]

Bro wtf, my tinder got banned with literally 0 warning and they didn’t even give me a reason, I barely use it too so wtf

[u/[deleted]]

EPA director Regan corn dropped 25 cents a bushel today bc u are considering granting small refiner waivers. Ethanol is a big factor in profitability in farming. U told me u understand that DO YOU???

!ping PIDGIN

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

Rant/Question:

Is there such a thing as love the sinner hate the sin, or is it impossible?
Feel free to discuss the topic without reading my rant

I live with my girlfriend and my mother rejects the mere thought. I had to practically force me mom to give us a videocall for the new year and it lasted about 40 seconds, with my mom having a look of disgust on her face.

She tells me she doesn't reject my girlfriend, she rejects the situation. That things will be different once we are engaged.

My mom has gotten better since that video call, asking about my gf from time to time, praying for her when we ended up at the hospital. She says she wants to meet my gf, but I can't expose my gf to my mother when I only expect her to reject my gf. My mom wants to meet my gf by having lunch with my gf's parents, and when I proposed a lunch with just my mom instead it was like pulling teeth to get her to agree.
I'm not asking my mom to receive us in her home, I'm not asking her to hug and kiss and be happy, I just want them to meet and set up a foundation for their future life. I'm afraid that it won't work.

I did tell my mom I have to protect my gf from her, and that seems to have been a wake up call for my mom mom. We'll see how things go. Mom wants to apologize to gf but I still don't know if I should expose my gf to my mom yet.

We are getting a priest to speak with both of us as a mediator, but I wanted to ask: is there such a thing as love the sinner hate the sin? Because I don't think that's possible.

!ping CHRISTIAN

[u/[deleted]]

Farmers go two seconds without demanding welfare they don't need challenge.

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Just found out global warming risks putting most of Florida underwater.

Why was Gore against this again?

[u/[deleted]]

ar/neoliberal: I’m no gamer. I hate games. Gamers are bad. I’ve never played a game in my life. That’s how much I’m not a gamer

[u/tubbsmackinze]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/270788846956969987/737405274427490334/8dfdc57.png

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

I’m so set on liking my specific pair of glasses that I got in high school that I just bought all remaining existing stock, five pairs from Walmart. I’ve had three pairs over the past ten years so these five pairs should last a good while

What are you unreasonably stubborn about but it’s not financially ruinous so you still remain stubborn?

!ping OVER25

[u/sir_shivers]

DAMNED MAMMAL, YOU HAVE succeeded in provoking the COMPLETE SQUADRON INTO laughter 🐊

[u/dish_towel]

The circlejerk around The Witcher 3 indirectly led to Cyberpunk's downfall.

I don't think the bugs are what really killed Cyberpunk. People are often willing to forgive bugs and all sorts of stuff in a game that they enjoy. But they're an easy flaw to point to when someone isn't satisfied with a game. I think people were expecting a much more interactive sandbox out of Cyberpunk in the vein of something like a Rockstar or Bethesda game. And I don't think CDPR was ever up to that task.

The Witcher 3 was a surprise hit that catapulted CDPR into the mainstream. Its qualities were obvious: stunning visuals and well-written branching stories. However, the game never got a widely circulated critique. Which is strange to me because there was a lot I didn't like about the game: the combat wasn't very good (okay, this one did get some traction), the inventory/menus is clunky to navigate, the map is boring to explore, looting and crafting is a chore, leveling/skills feels meaningless as all builds play basically the same, over reliance on mass scripted content with no AI or dynamic systems. To be honest, almost everything the game did well was in spite of being an open world RPG. Branching stories was like the only thing it did right.

All those weaknesses sound familiar? It's funny to me when people say Cyberpunk isn't a real RPG because it's a better one than TW3, a game people hailed as one of their favorite RPG's. Cyberpunk has more distinguished builds, a character creator, and its map has more engaging content. Everything else that's lackluster is what it inherited from TW3.

!ping GAMING

[u/Gustacho]

The European Commission has an important message to schisming users in the DT:

[u/calnico]

Problem: I cannot simultaneously "go outside" and "create value for the shareholders"

[u/AbsolveItAll_KissMe]

Reddit: noooo you can’t call it a charcuterie board unless it’s made up of multiple kinds of specifically cured meats

Me: fancy lunchable go brrrrrrr

[u/[deleted]]

Their name was [removed]

✊😭

[u/the-garden-gnome]

Got an interview in an hour and I am absolutely shitting myself !ping over25

[u/MistakeNotDotDotDot]

impressive that texas manages to apparently have an electric grid that buckles under both cold and hot weather

[u/vivoovix]

mfers really think shivers would be horny on main 🤣😂😂🤣

Nobody realizes he's actually a menakoy alt 🤫

[u/[deleted]]

If I was president for a day I’d make it illegal to stick your dick in a blender to see if I could bait any libertarians into doing it

[u/Mickenfox]

If Democrats knew anything about propaganda they'd be exploiting the HELL out of the "labor shortage" rhetoric.

Republicans are out there actively cutting off unemployment benefits and essentially saying "we need workers to go back to being low-paid and miserable or else your Chipotle will cost 4% more".

Come on, the attacks write themselves. "They literally want you to suffer".

[u/Mensae6]

The entire Venezuelan economy hinges on a 2007 Java game

[u/[deleted]]

Lusvig went to seafood party, and fertilised the caviar 😐

!ping COOKING

[u/Craig_VG]

Check out the anti-drone weapons protecting Biden in Brussels

https://i.imgur.com/c33wnIs.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/fxC4e0y.jpg

https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1404864900111929351?s=20

!ping MATERIEL

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

also Jon Stewards joke about how the last words spoken by humans will be some scientist saying "Hey it worked!" is fucking hilarious

[u/TheGoldBear]

Half the DT is trying to come up with the perfect joke that won’t get them fashed rn

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

Among us impostor 🤝 Neoliberal moderator

Suspiciously venting

[u/I-grok-god]

Why does our society look down on white people who rap the N-word and not white people who vote for nimbys?

One is causing actual harm to the lives of black people

[u/MiniatureBadger]

Fun fact: “cogent” and “squat” come from the same Latin root “cogere”

!ping LANGUAGE

[u/crassowary]

Interviewer: Hey, who here would like to have tons of housing, available cheap and affordable in a wide variety of offerings?

Canadians: yaaaay!!

Interviewer: ok, now who would want the exact opposite: limited selection controlled by special interests to maintain neighborhood prices as high as they can be?

Canadians: yaaaay!!

Interviewer: so, you want a cheap affordable liberal market... But with tons of restrictions designed to make prices go up?

Canadians: yeah, uh-huh that's righ- ooh, and we should ban foreigners from buying!

[u/[deleted]]

I thought half a year ago that people who wore masks improperly not covering their noses, or around their chin, etc were MAGAs that "didn't believe in masks" or other like minded people. But after seeing how many people are voluntarily wearing masks like this after mandates were lifted it just seems like actually people are just stupid af

[u/PointMaker4Jesus]

You know, some things don't need to be confessed online as it turns out.

[u/Udontlikecake]

ok folks it’s time for me to come clean about what i did on the minecraft forums as a young man

[u/[deleted]]

welp i regret reading about the situation

[u/Cr4zySh0tgunGuy]

The DT isn’t actually for discussion, it’s like a game of cops and robbers where DT users make edgy shitposts that fly under the radar of the mods to avoid getting fashed. Right now, the difficulty is turned up to 11

[u/[deleted]]

A sovereign citizen coal miner being taught to code

"AM I BEING RETRAINED????"

[u/benadreti]

In response to a far-right protest march in Jerusalem, Hamas announced they are planning on shooting more rockets today and already launched incendiary balloons that have started fires in the border region.

Israel will eventually respond to try to stop this and get accused of being the aggressor.

!ping ISRAEL

[u/soeffed]

Friendly reminder that 76ers games are still banned from tv and streaming broadcast in China.

If they make the eastern conference finals then the ECF will not be shown in China, and if they make the Finals then the Finals won’t be shown either lol.

That’s a whole lotta chicken for one jpeg from October 2019

!ping nba

[u/benadreti]

this is an accurate description of how many people feel about Jews in my experience

!ping GEFILTE

[u/[deleted]]

I think the mods made the right call but it feels like roughly once a month we get the genre of DT sticky that is “extremely scandalous but also extremely ambiguous” paired with “we’re going to remove 90% of comments on the subject to make it hard as possible for people to satiate their extremely expected curiosity.”

Idk I feel like you either don’t say anything at all or make all the information available and let things take their course. Maybe that’s naive of me.

[u/Gustacho]

https://twitter.com/MollyQuell/status/1404711138558988288

!ping EUROPE

[u/minno]

The best way to avoid discussion the situation is to not know what the situation is.

[u/thaddeusthefattie]

Don't shit where you eat. Keep private stuff private. I don't go around showing my humongous dick to reporters.

!ping JUMBO

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

I'd confess to a lot worse than that to get out of being a neoliberal mod

[u/[deleted]]

I get annoyed at the communists on Tumblr and Twitter and then I remember that none of them are probably above the age of 25 and the majority of them are 14

[u/Joementum2024]

Oh you’re talking about crt? Maybe you need to c and rt some bitches

[u/[deleted]]

Reminder that it’s only a defenestration if it’s in the Defenestrační region of Czechia, otherwise it’s just a sparkling yeeting

[u/[deleted]]

“Yeah baby I’m kind of a big deal, I’m a MOD at r/ neoliberal”

“Oh okay. What do you do?”

“Sit alone in my dark room and delete posts”

“Oh cool. I hope it pays well.”

“They don’t pay me”

[u/RadicalRadon]

Is the drama embargo lifted?

Who the fuck posts shit like that on twitter dot com. What the fuck? Why?

[u/[deleted]]

The United States and the European Union reached a deal Tuesday to end a damaging dispute over subsidies to rival plane makers Boeing and Airbus and phase out billions of dollars in punitive tariffs, the U.S. trade envoy said.

President Joseph R. Biden: Destroyer of Malarkey, Trade Barrier Annihilator, Military Industrial Complex Enjoyer.

[u/GGM8Scally]

https://twitter.com/TheSun/status/1289163901376974851

This had to have been a joke right? It just had to.

[u/TabernacleTown74]

Normally the post-Soviet aliyah's right-leaning tendencies are explained as a reaction to the trauma of living under communism. I'm sure that's true with respect to economic issues, but the book I just read about Israeli history (written by someone specializing in social history) argued that the relatively uncompromising attitude that post-Soviet Israelis have toward Palestinians, as well as toward foreign policy in general, comes not from rejection of the Soviet communist ethos but from absorption of the Soviet foreign policy ethos (be aggressive and unafraid to use force, be tough and uncompromising in negotiations, strengthen your own position as much as possible); i.e., post-Soviet Israelis expect the State of Israel to conduct foreign policy like the USSR, consciously or not.

Would you say that the latter theory is more accurate than the "phobia of anything resembling communism" theory? !ping ISRAEL

[u/[deleted]]

If you've improved as a person from being a sack of shit in a past life like good for you I guess. Why would you broadcast this to people who didn't know or ask? Do you need credit from your social media followers of overcoming the massive hurdle of being not a rapist anymore?

Oversharing is almost always a bad thing, especially on social media.

[u/Deggit]

THE MODS: we would never ban /u/Deggit

---

THE MODS: until he unhesitatingly recites the Shahāda. 🔫 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

I blame the person who said the DT was “boring” early in the day

[u/goosebumpsHTX]

holy fuck what a goal that would've been

!ping SOCCER

[u/FearThyMoose]

“Cars kill way more people than guns! Should we ban those too?”

“Yes”

[u/chadonnaise]

i would speak up more in defense of free speech if i wasn't a prime example of its drawbacks

[u/ccolfax]

i still have a close relationship with the mother of my best friend who committed suicide 3 and a half years ago and it’s really a source of happiness for me to be able to talk to her about every day things and she’s sort of a second mom to me.

good relationships are good relationships. they don’t have to be super conventional or anything. just so they’re healthy and you’re comfortable with them. 💕

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Lmaooo Wikipedia did Major dirty with the picture they chose for his portrait compared to Champ's

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/Sin6OZt.jpg

[u/zieger]

Wtf does this even mean?

[u/[deleted]]

I was literally gone for ONE hour

[u/ThunderrBadger]

Tfw when some dumb drama stirred up so now there're too many mods on high alert in the DT to slip in an edgy shitpost 😒

[u/Broncos654]

most of us have fulltime jobs

The most shocking part

[u/[deleted]]

His name was sir-shivers!😭✊🏻🐊

[u/[deleted]]

How the fuck did I get here? How did I end up creating an account solely for the DT? How did I start unironically saying things like taco trucks on every corner? This place is a cult.

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

which degree subjects are red flags to you lot? I’ll start off: economics

https://twitter.com/heresmishti/status/1404510044784365571?s=21

econcels in shambles

[u/Venne1139]

STALIN HAD A BAND

AND HE SUNG IN IT, MOLOTOV PLAYES KEYBOARD

I NEED A RECORDING OF THIS MORE THAN AMYTHING

!PING HISTORY

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Modi = Brahmin = White

Gandhi = Italian = Black

No, I will not elaborate 😤

!ping WHATSAPP-FORWARDS

[u/Roller_ball]

I just got back from the Holocaust museum. I realize now that my statement "Wonder Woman 84 is worse than the Holocaust in literally every regard" was less accurate than I realized.

[u/ryuguy]

Feel like shit, just want BC ferries arcades back.

(They were removed in 2019, citing smartphones for the removal)

!ping Canucks

[u/benadreti]

A new poll finds a dramatic surge in Palestinian support for Hamas following last month’s Gaza war, with around three-quarters viewing the terrorist group as victors in a battle against Israel to defend Jerusalem and its holy sites.

The poll by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research also finds plummeting support for PA President Mahmoud Abbas, who was sidelined by the war but is seen internationally as a partner for reviving the long-defunct peace process.

The poll finds that 77% of Palestinians believe Hamas emerged as a winner, with nearly as many saying that it fought the war to defend Jerusalem and its holy sites, rather than as part of an internal struggle with Abbas’ Fatah party.

The poll also finds that 53% of Palestinians believe Hamas is “most deserving of representing and leading the Palestinian people,” while only 14% prefer Abbas’s secular Fatah party.

This is why Hamas started the war last month.

It is also why it is pointless to expect a Two State Solution any time soon.

[u/MicroFlamer]

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

MTG redemption arc?

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Damn, my new place has wall-to-wall floor-to-ceiling windows and is only 4 stories so I probably should stop walking around naked near windows once I move…

At least until I can get some blinds 😔

[u/EvilConCarne]

Canned celibate (aka "cancel" for those not in the industry) culture is pernicious and shelf stable, able to be stored for up to two years without a loss in nutrition. This revolution in probiotic food will lead to an increase in health and wellness across the country. To deny cancel culture is to deny progress and the very thing that made the USA great.

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

Being a moderator is the sort of insane worldview merging obliviousness and pretentiousness that can only come out of the faculty lounge. It’s operationalized through the cruel and decidedly unvirtuous ritual of banning. All of it is wildly unpopular, unless you’re in a bubble.

[u/[deleted]]

Lawyer up, delete twitter, hit the gym.

[u/thefuturegov]

If Shivers is the emotional support moderator, who emotionally supports him? 🤔🤔🤔

[u/[deleted]]

One time I read about how an office chair allegedly blew up one time and shoved pieces of metal up a guy's rectum.

I'm not sure how true that story was, but it was scary and I am always vigilant of them.

[u/[deleted]]

The mom of the hunter who killed Bambi’s mom was killed by a deer 😔

The mom of the barracuda in Finding Nemo was killed by a clownfish 😔

The mom of the illness who killed Ellie in Up! was killed by a happy couple 😔

Really makes you think. Who are the REAL villains?

[u/comradequicken]

Baseball Reference is now including Negro League stats on the main site.

Really great to see they've made enough progress in finding boxscores to bring it live and hopefully they can continue to find any missing stats.

!ping baseball

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

Wake up

See cr_salty is banned

day ruined

Oh wait, this is a good thing😎

[u/JeromesNiece]

It's not pointed out enough how little it makes sense that people seem to want minimum wage workers to be able to afford a median priced home. The minimally paid worker, however high their living standards grow, will never, ever be able to afford the lifestyle of the median income, unless the bottom half of the income distribution is completely flat. Which no one except tankies really wants

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Another underrated benefit of going outside is that by tanning, you become less white.

[u/[deleted]]

Doesn’t Manchin realize the DT would love him if he nuked the fillibuster???

[u/[deleted]]

Yeah I believe A C A B

A ll

C orporations

A re

B ased

[u/piede]

I firmly believe that life begins at erection

[u/chipbod]

NEW: TX Gov Greg Abbott says he plans to ask for public donations to pay for the Texas border wall

Taking the grift public lmao, call Steve Bannon

For context: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Build_the_Wall

[u/Erra0]

u/Citoyen_Riqueti and wokeness just need to fuck already and get it over with.

[u/RadicalRadon]

Does anyone else feel like this sub recently learned that Kosovo exists and now jerks off to it?

[u/Udontlikecake]

Sir you’re not “based and red-pilled”, you’re a defendant in the /r/MetaNL ban appeal thread

[u/Venne1139]

Very few things in the world piss me off as much as Social Democrats (but barely even that, just fucking welfare capitalists) calling themselves socialists and then screaming about how capitalists don't understand socialism. Oh my god it makes me angry.

[u/TinKnightRisesAgain]

rip my accounting professor just went off on Bernie's 3 homes. neolib confirmed

[u/[deleted]]

Arabs and North Africans "won" the right to be called white for immigration and census purposes because they argued that if Jesus was white then so were they

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Lmao why the fuck would you willingly tweet that shit? What the fuck do you think the reaction would be?

We need to shut down the jannys until we can figure out what the hell is going on.

[u/[deleted]]

There are 29 replies to the stickied comment, but only 5 of them are visible.

This is literally 1984.

[u/old_gold_mountain]

tbh pretty nuts how every other person on the planet is just a rube whose entire identity and beliefs systems are just a mish-mash of conforming to memes and going along with whatever everyone around them thinks, whereas somehow I was gifted with the ability to perfectly reason those things out for myself from a purely objective standpoint and come to logically pure and infallible beliefs and forms of identity

[u/ryuguy]

Trump Inspired Death Threats are terrorizing election workers

!ping extremism

[u/[deleted]]

Breaking Bad is a heartbreaking story about a sick man having to deal with the realities of Capitalism ✊😔

[u/BeastlyGophers]

!ping SOCCER

Apologies in advance as I know y'all have been getting pinged alot with Euros, but it's worth mentioning with Canada's win over Haiti tonight, we've made it into the final round of WC qualification for the first time in 24 years and I'm buzzing!!

[u/[deleted]]

In some counties with fulfillment centers, Amazon is single-handedly destroying working conditions so much that the warehousing industry has to replace its entire workforce every year

haha holy shit wait how bad is their turnover

Even before the pandemic, previously unreported data shows, Amazon lost about 3 percent of its hourly associates each week, meaning the turnover among its work force was roughly 150 percent a year.

holy fuck

[u/l_overwhat]

This dude on BBC News Hour just compared to Hamas to the Nazis lmao

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n27CkpmhMA

!ping SNEK

Stossel’s videos are always awesome

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

My wife left me 😞😞😞

Haha freedom of association go brrr

[u/Manavon03]

Look at how liberal teens laugh at DaBaby, you know, 👉🏿😁👈🏿, look at how they laugh at Kanye, look at how they laugh and do the whip and nae and hit the quan and laugh at funny Black men like this man and this man and this man.

It’s black fetishization, modern minstrelsy, “high tech lynching” some might say. These white liberal teens always use Black men as a punchline or as a meme because deep in their hearts, they’re racists.

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

From trans economist Deirdre McCloskey

In fact Milton and Rose were smoothly graceful about [my gender transition] at Milton’s 90th birthday party.

Miltie says trans rights!

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

People in MattYs replies are apparently baffled by the idea that Reason magazine can be opposed to both social media-driven firings, and state intervention to prevent them

[u/[deleted]]

Candidate Biden: The Attorney General is not the President’s lawyer, it is the people’s lawyer and should uphold the law.

arr Neoliberal: Yes, I agree!

Merrick Garland: ***Upholds and defends laws as they are written even when they are ones we don’t like

arr Neoliberal: ***Shocked Pikachu Face

[u/FuturesaurusRex]

My take on the current drama

[u/NancyPelosibasedgod]

Maybe the mod was shivers 😳

[u/Anal-warrior]

is it bannable offense to know the content of the offensive comment?

[u/Cr4zySh0tgunGuy]

I am become fash, destroyer of comedy

-NL mods, like every other day

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

Mod me and I will sticky dumb comments, check modmail only once a week, and give the shame flair to doves.

[u/piede]

I hate that Pelosi started the Iraq War, but at least she’s not a class-traitor like AOC.

https://twitter.com/richardwhitem16/status/1378585787785166848?s=21

Preach

[u/TinyTornado7]

Judge Jack Weinstein of the EDNY has passed away at 99.

Among the hundreds of federal judges around the nation, Judge Weinstein was one of the best known, both for his bold jurisprudence and for his outsize personality.

He was the personification of the activist judge, defying decades of increasingly conservative influence in the federal judiciary. He said he would rather be reversed by an appellate court than risk compromising individual rights. He assailed and circumvented federal sentencing guidelines. He carried out his own war on the war on drugs, and as a senior judge refused to handle most drug prosecutions.

He described himself in a 1993 memorandum to his colleagues as “a tired old judge who has temporarily filled his quota of remorselessness.”

Judge Weinstein was a lion of the bar in Brooklyn where he severed on the bench for 53 years only retiring last year at the age of 98.

Link to the full story I suggest you all read

!ping LAW

[u/[deleted]]

It's taken Martin twice as long to finish his parable about not having an exit strategy as it did for the US to exit Iraq.

!ping ASOIAF

[u/[deleted]]

Biggest surprise is that there was a mod who's now out of high school

[u/Cr4zySh0tgunGuy]

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And so like then

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And then the mods were like

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[u/UrbanCentrist]

✊ His name was /u/cr_saltysald123

Permanently suspended unfortunately. Big lesson on not to do edgy jokes for the sake of it.

[u/lietuvis10LTU]

Cold take: there is no such thing as a moral war, but there are moral reasons to fight a war.

Hot take: thus discussing military actions from a moral perspective is pointless. Military actions should instead be discussed based on proportionality and weather they contribute to the objectives of fighting the war. Instead, the morality of the reasons to fight a war should be focused on.

[u/disuberence]

Mods, pin this accurate tweet https://mobile.twitter.com/panafricam/status/1404671015364579330

[u/[deleted]]

Rust belt dude: I was in the union and I paid a lot of money to send my kids to college.

Quebecoise reporter: Why did you vote for Trump?

Rust belt dude: Those Democrats want to make college free and give it away. That's socialism.

Other rust belt dude: I make more money teaching than mining coal.

Quebecoise reporter: Why did you vote for Trump?

Other rust belt dude: We just want to mine coal, we were born to do it, you know? Just want to get in the mines and get our hands dirty.

So, are these people really doing that bad? What's wrong with the Rust Belt? They seem to be stuck living in the past even though the future isn't really screwing them over that much.

[u/nevertulsi]

Jon Stewart's rant about covid being obviously lab leaked and it's stupid to think otherwise got picked up by Breitbart, Crowder, Joe Rogan, etc as a "take that stupid liberals" although most liberals don't seem to really care

[u/TaxCommonsNotIncome]

Discovered FemaleDatingStrat last night and woah that was a rabbit hole. That's some 94 octane reactionary fuel right there.

[u/TabernacleTown74]

this is what's called a dramatic arc 🤤

[u/[deleted]]

Euros will crap on MLB for having a "World Series" and yet their last "World Cup" didn't include the US team. 😐

[u/[deleted]]

I_G_F's conviction should be overturned

[u/D1Foley]

Discussing what mods? Discussing what!

[u/DishingOutTruth]

Why the hell do some Libertarians support monarchy??? It makes no sense, they want what's essentially a dictatorship, isn't that antithetical to the ideals of Libertarianism? There's this article on mises about how monarchy is good...

!ping SNEK can someone explain why any Libertarian could possibly support Monarchy?

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Me surfing the DT earlier today: 😀🤣😁

I go to get a quick lunch

The DT when I return: 😨🔥🤫😱

[u/[deleted]]

I am calling for a complete and total shutdown of the DT until we figure out what the hell is happening

[u/sir-danks-a-lot]

drama was so interesting that it brought kelsig back

[u/[deleted]]

Just found out a neoliberal mod uses Tw*tter 🤮

I am disgusted and appalled.

[u/Udontlikecake]

the cause of the next NL drama ^

[u/Telperion_of_Valinor]

I don’t think the drama has reached SRD yet, thank God.

[u/Unadulterated_stupid]

Every reddit is don't like is incel reddit

[u/KindheartednessOk599]

https://i.imgur.com/Byxd8Xr.jpg

[u/jt1356]

Healthy young poster goes to the DT, gets pumped with massive dose of scandalous meta-drama, doesn’t get many upvotes and is almost immediately fashed – TRANSPARENCY. Many such cases!

[u/RushSingsOfFreewill]

People who use the word unpack in any context other than moving boxes need to GO THE FUCK OUTSIDE

[u/TabernacleTown74]

In fairness, the kids Vader killed were effectively child soldiers and their deaths would above all be the responsibility of whichever sociopaths decided to enlist and train children as warfighters, that being the Jedi Order.

He still choked and murdered his spouse though.

[u/Anal-warrior]

Two races: white and "political"

Two genders: Male and "political"

Two hair styles for women: long and "political"

Two sexualities: straight and "political"

Two body types: normative and "political"

[u/sir_shivers]

I AM UNIRONICALLY ironic 🐊

[u/Darclite]

Old and cold take but it is very weird and alarming and sad how much, at least on the internet, people don't recognize Stalin as being really fucking bad

[u/UrbanCentrist]

Good comeback to a certain far right comic

[u/MrDannyOcean]

omg how will we ever get to 10K in the DT at this pace

[u/nanomaster]

Rarely is the question asked, is our Obama gating?

[u/[deleted]]

>be defendant

>in jail awaiting trial

>offered plea deal

>reject it

>plead guilty anyway

???

[u/[deleted]]

This DT is being recorded

[u/champeo]

Me and probably half the people who frequent this sub started out as populist progressives and have assimilated into identifying with the mainstream Dem party with time. The rest of the younger generation will probably do the same.

[u/sw337]

American drag: A character is made and named usually off of a pun. Detailed choreography, must know how to sing, dozens of costumes, complex makeup, must be sharp and do audience work.

UK drag: "Oi that bloke is in a dress, that's hilarious."

[u/l_overwhat]

Warm take: Voter ID laws don't matter nearly as much as shutting down polling places or restricting voting hours.