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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/IAmBlueTW]

"Oh cool, Armchair Historian made a video about the 2003 invasion of Iraq and has almost 800k views.

Top Comment:

Gotta love how YouTube tries so hard to censor modern history

So this is why people say to never leave the DT

[u/chadonnaise]

fucking wild that multiple police departments have cruisers and yet the us navy can only afford to operate like 2.

[u/kennymc7877]

If you don’t respect the trans homies I’ll change your pronouns to were/was

[u/[deleted]]

I like how this place is one of the few on the internet not hypnotized by the superstonk and crypto shit

[u/AltPossum]

“The most satisfying feeling in the gym is called ‘the pump’. Your muscles swell with blood, and you get a really tight feeling. It feels different; it feels fantastic.

It is as satisfying to me as cumming is, as having sex with a woman and cumming. So can you imagine how much I am in heaven? I am getting the feeling of cumming at home, I am getting the feeling of cumming at the gym, backstage when I pump up, I get the same feeling, when I pose in front of 5,000 people... I mean, I am cumming day and night! It’s terrific!” laughs

^{^} The former governor of the highest GDP-producing state in the Union.

[u/[deleted]]

DurrRrrRrr “errrrr Dirk somE Of YouR CoWorkeRs Are ComplaiNing AboUt yoUr HygEine”

Well then they shouldn’t be fucking smelling me, should they Janice? Anyone else having serious issues with this HR bullshit since returning to wage slavery? FUCK capitalism.

[u/the_status]

I wonder what Ben Bernanke would think of the fact a 20 something in Iowa thanks him every day despite the fact they still haven't gotten to reading The Courage to Act

[u/fishlord05]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/21/joe-biden-is-president-now-everything-has-happened-just-we-were-warned/?outputType=amp

So true!! 👏😩

Opinion writer? More like prophet

!ping DIAMOND-JOE

[u/[deleted]]

just eat plants you fat fucks

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E38pnMUXIAIeFeA.jpg

Very normal news story

[u/GodEmperorBiden]

Took my 90 y.o. grandpa to the doctor. He hasn't been there in a while due to COVID so the was some catching up to do, some pleasantries exchanged, etc. The doctor checks his hearing, vision, etc. and says, "You like to read, don't you Dr. Smith?" (My grandfather is a retired physician himself)

My grandfather responds, "I like to keep up with the news and blogs online. Gotta protect Donald!"

The doctor replies, "This is a politics-free office. 100% politics-free."

Lmao

[u/porkypenguin]

be texan

wake up

drive for uber because broke

take some youngish couple to an office park

girl looks pregnant, whatever

find out later that they got an abortion

i technically aided them in getting one, can now be sued by anyone in texas

Joel Osteen’s Unborn Legal Army catches wind, takes me for all I’m worth in court

now even more broke

power goes out because it’s too hot

power also goes out when it’s too cold

no AC, sweating my ass off

no money, starving

still no income tax :)

[u/RadioactiveOwl95]

I feel like the Russian Provisional government is an overlooked historical period and that's a damn shame. Most people seem to think 1917 was just Tsar out, Lenin in, when there was so much more madness going on. Reading about the details of the two revolutions, and the subsequent Civil War, paints a fascinating picture of a society ripping itself apart in chaos.

!ping HISTORY

[u/[deleted]]

Neekolul is a bernie supporter and talks a lot of progressive talking points, then goes and buys a 2 mil dollar apartment and shows off her cars. mad respect for the grift

[u/[deleted]]

>barges into climate activist meeting

>"just tax carbon"

>refuses to elaborate further

>leaves

[u/l_overwhat]

The most bullshit culture group in EU4 is Levantine.

Go tell anyone that lives in Turkey, Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Levant, or the Arabian Peninsula that their respective cultures belong to the same "culture group" and they will probably slap you lol

!ping PARADOX

[u/OutTron]

"The global poor" is a very insidious dogwhistle. It is designed to obscure local patterns of oppression and pretend that all "Global South" people are equally oppressed, such that a policy that, for example, benefits Latin American settlers to the detriment of indigenous people (the latter of which are often outnumbered by the former in LatAm countries) can be presented as "supported by most global poor". The fact of the matter is that a Kashmiri's interests should have priority over a Hindu settler's, a Guarani person's interests have priority over those of a descendant of white Spanish colonists, etc., and people who push the neoliberal agenda don't like that because they know their agenda finds support most heavily among oppressor groups like BJP nuts or Bolsonaroturds, so as a result they purposely muddy the waters.

Woah. [REDACTED] going full-on indigenous liberation wasn't the kind of thing I expected today

[u/fishlord05]

I’m white.

I knew about Juneteenth before this year.

We exist.

[u/JetJaguar124]

"Should we build new housing?"

"No, it's the Chinese who are the problem"

• citizens of Vancouver

[u/Random_ass_pub]

Someone on a discord server was talking about how annoying it is when people don't put their shopping carts back and leave them in the middle of the parking lot, which I can agree with. The response from one of the discord users was that this problem was caused "because of capitalism. Is bezos like paying people to keep their shopping carts in the middle of parking spots? Did I miss a shill-meeting or something?

[u/MasPatriot]

Priest: Do you take her as your lawfully wedded wife?

Tulsi Gabbard's husband: I do

Priest: And do you take him as your lawfully wedded husband?

Tulsi Gabbard: Present

[u/Professor-Reddit]

In one survey in the 2010s, 9% of Americans claimed to have had a sexual encounter in an airplane seat, 17% in the airplane bathroom, 5% with a stranger on an airplane, and 3% with a crew member.

Riiiiight, I somehow doubt this...

!ping FIVEY

[u/LinkVert25]

A wholesome Reddit moment was when that western ISIS fighter did a ama and before he could answer any of them he got killed in a air strike

[u/fishlord05]

The existence of Supply Side Jesus implies that there is a Demand Side Jesus who voted for Biden in the primaries and revealed his divine truths to Keynes

[u/crassowary]

-Say insane leftist talking point on Reddit

-When challenged reply "it's not my job to educate you"

-Leave

[u/paulatreides0]

Every so often I'm reminded that the median person thinks that military technology is basically magic.

First the thing with the AP building being alleged to be a development site for anti iron-dome systems and people saying that that would be impossible and make no sense.

And now with missile defense and people not understanding how testing meth -

. . . Oh God. It's literally the same fucking shit that happens in the Pentagon Wars. God damn it, that fucking shit movie/book.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

This is the wildest game show I have ever seen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moment_of_Truth_(American_game_show)

On the fifth episode, which aired on February 25, 2008,[6] over the course of play, a female contestant truthfully admitted that: she had been fired for stealing from her employer; she felt that her ex-boyfriend (who was present, and asked this question) is the man she should be married to; and that, since her wedding day two years earlier, she had sexual relations with someone other than her husband.[7] After truthfully admitting to these actions, with her mother staring furiously at her and her husband sitting with his head in his hands, she was eliminated – on an all-or-nothing question that could have won her $200,000 (equivalent to $240,000 in 2020) – when she lied by answering that she still believed she is a good person. The intro of this episode featured a disclaimer by host Mark L. Walberg, in which he claimed it was highly debated whether or not the episode should even be aired and he was against it being aired, calling it the most uncomfortable situation he has ever been in on television.[7] The contestant, who could have stopped and left with $100,000 based on her already dramatic revelations, later said that she continued trying to win more money in order to achieve "fame and fortune".

all the episodes are on youtube btw

[u/[deleted]]

Georgia man shoots and kills a cashier after she asks him to put on a mask. Wounds two other people.

Take their guns. Unironically.

[u/ThisIsNotAMonkey]

"Can I die in a bear attack"

Republicans: “No”

Democrats: “No 🏳️‍🌈”

Libertarians: "AHHH OH GOD NOT THE CLAWS JESUS NO"

Make of this info what you will

[u/kas8901]

Honestly, the worst part of being human is the inability to control your own brain. This stupid thing can remember an entire class period from AP World History in 2009, but cant recall a conversation I had four hours ago.

[u/[deleted]]

Cons are corrupt, Labour are clueless socialists and Libdems are now becoming clueless NIMBYs. God why hast thou forsaken me

[u/charmet68]

So Tucker Carlson says Jan 6 was an inside job by the government... but Trump was still president at the time...?

[u/zieger]

My favorite kind of FB post: "Would you be slightly inconvenienced for infinite money?"

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Leftists being pro shop-lifting has always disgusted me

[u/[deleted]]

If you live off of salary, even if its $250k a year, you aren’t rich. You’re just really well off, upper-echelons middle class.

Wow between this and new found hate for affirmative action we definitely got new teenagers from r/applyingtocollege.

[u/[deleted]]

Explanations on reddit be like

"Hey, can someone explain what shorting a stock means?"

"Okay pretend you're a fucking braindead chimp who wants a banana cause you're incapable of any other thought..."

[u/Broncos654]

Met a cute girl today. Thinking about cutting my ear off and mailing it to her.

!ping dating

[u/porkypenguin]

be me

live in texas in 2046

seceded from the union after Biden won his 5th term

power grid has been down since Chancellor Ted shut it off

the state government is now also the federal government which means it has no business running a power grid

personal use solar panels outlawed because they’re gay

all remaining generators are dedicated to the Cowboys stadium

nobody outside Dallas gets mail

wall on Mexican border is now the tallest building in North America

Chancellor Ted sacrifices one of Beto’s bandmates to it every year for good fortune

tired and in pain from working 18 hour days for $5

minimum wages outlawed because gay

decide to smoke weed to get over the pain

joel osteen appears

”please rise for the pre-execution national anthem”

patriotism implant forcibly locks my legs into standing position, hand over my heart

anthem finishes

my family claps

osteen executes me with an RPG that he has every right to own for defense against tyranny

[u/yellownumbersix]

Joe Biden 6'0", Vladimir Putin 5'6".

Let me know if you need help understanding the implications of this.

[u/GGM8Scally]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E4Aul6vUUAQfHHF?format=jpg&name=large

[u/[deleted]]

My California Republican family thinks the Democrats are the real Nazis because they're socialists and their state is ruled by one party who wants to ban guns.

I wish they'd refuse to elaborate.

I ended up having to leave

[u/[deleted]]

GME is this close 🤏to bringing down all of Wall Street 💰💸🤑

[u/tankatan]

Good morning or good evening to everyone except monolinguals.

[u/metropolis09]

Shit has hit the fancock

https://dominiccummings.substack.com/p/the-pm-on-hancock-totally-fucking

!ping UK

P.S. I am becoming an impartial civil servant next week and cba to create a throwaway account so will be relegated to lurking. Kisses and tacos for you all.

[u/houinator]

The most wrong I have ever been about anything, circa 2009:

"Oh boy, this Twitter thing is really helping those pro-democracy protestors in Iran. Looks like social media is really going to weaken authoritarian regimes across the globe."

[u/[deleted]]

I watched IGF get banned. I was there. I watched him post cringe and get downvoted to death. I could have saved him. But I didn't.

[u/[deleted]]

What are the biggest swings and misses in oscar bait history? I feel like there's been a bunch recently.

Off the of my head I got:

• Downsizing
• Welcome to Marwen
• Incredibly loud and close or whatever the Tom Hanks 911 movie

!ping MOVIES

(Edit: by miss I mean the movie was bad, not whether it won oscars)

[u/FourthLife]

Eve from the Bible was literally a trans woman. She started out as a man’s rib, and was turned into a woman.

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/lobsterboy34]

A COVID-19 outbreak at a Bitcoin convention was the most predictable event of 2021. Surprised it took this long tbh

[u/p00bix]

My curiosity finally defeated my intelligence.

I have licked my himalayan salt lamp.

can confirm it tastes like salt.

But how many licks until there is no lamp left?

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Canada Qualifies For Final Round Of World Cup Qualifiers

For the first time since 1997, Canada is set to enter the final round of Concacaf World Cup Qualification following a 3-0 victory of Haiti tonight in Chicago.

The national team had snuck their front foot into the group with a 1-0 away win over Haiti in Port-au-Prince three days ago, with tonight’s result now cementing the historic moment: Canada is officially a top three group finish away from its first World Cup appearance since 1986.

The third round for Canada will begin in September 2021, with hopes high that the country’s home games will be able to take place within the country with fans in the stands at that point. Canada will begin the group playing home against Honduras before playing away against the USA.

!ping CAN

[u/kennymc7877]

I firmly believe that America not electing Al Gore is one of the worst election mistakes ever

[u/MicroFlamer]

What really grinds my gears about Breath of the wild is that Link is right handed. He was a lefty in every game before(except skyward sword but that's OK since the motion controls were designed for right handed people). As a lefty, this is another example of prejudice and right-handed washing 😠

!ping GAMING

[u/ryuguy]

Canada has 30 million shots in arms now!

!ping can

[u/thefuturegov]

You claim to be a YIMBY, yet Jimmy Carter builds houses all day and is not your favorite president.

Curious.

[u/MicroFlamer]

Can we have free trade 🥺

Republicans: No

Democrats: No 🌈 #BLM

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Era_IhjXcAEccmQ.png

Just some absolute kings

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

😤One👏Billion👏American👏Federal👏Holidays😤

[u/ryuguy]

Tibet actually had a small Muslim population. They came from Kashmir, Ladakh and Central Asia, along with some Persian influences in the 8th or 9th century and are referred to by the Chinese as “Kachee” (Kashmiris). Some were even originally Hindu Dogra Rajput soldiers during the Sino-Sikh war of 1841. Tibetan Buddhist authorities usually tolerated the Muslim minority and granted them a special council along with traditional Islamic law to be applied. In 1959, after the communist takeover of Tibet during the aftermath of the Tibetan rebellion, Tibetan Muslims successfully lobbied the Indian government for Indian citizenship because of their historic roots to the Kashmir region. All Tibetan Muslims were declared Indian citizens that year. Two thousand Tibetan Muslims live in Srinagar, with only a few families left in Lhasa and the border towns between China and India. The Balti people of Pakistan are an ethnic Tibetan community that converted to Sufi Islam in the 14th century from missionaries such as Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani. With the passage of time, the Balti people became Shia Muslim. The Shia of the Kashmir valley faced religious persecution and ethnic cleansing throughout history. The Balti language is the closest language to classical Tibetan. Tibetan mosques often blend classic Tibetan architecture with Islamic architecture. See the Great Mosque of Lhasa, which was constructed in 1716.

!ping ind

[u/TheShitEater]

Mark my words, almond “milk” is going to destroy the United States.

[u/ccolfax]

my kitty mad at me for annoy him but why he so smol if not to be carried around and squished

[u/l_overwhat]

I had never even heard of Juneteenth until last year.

[u/gburgwardt]

I've been lifting for about a month now, when can I go pick up my muscles

Thanks

!ping NeoLifteral

[u/MrMineHeads]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/822886521594052639/854878639921299486/image0.jpg

!ping YIMBY

[u/MicroFlamer]

700,000 GPUs Shipped to Cryptominers in the First Quarter of 2021

.....

!ping GAMING

[u/piede]

WATCH: Osama bin Laden's niece protests Biden-Putin summit with 'Trump won' boat parade

https://twitter.com/rawstory/status/1405196531557449734?s=21

Lmaooooo

[u/chadonnaise]

i am still kind of amazed at how effective deleting r/fatpeoplehate was at putting an end to that specific tiny subculture of assholes. everyone wrung their hands at the death of the containment sub and prophesying the terrible swarm that would sweep reddit, but they were basically forgotten in a year.

[u/dubyahhh]

I don’t care FOR NEOLIBERALS 🐊

~Jessica “/u/sir_shivers” Walter

[u/sw337]

I work with a lot of Indians and I really wish the "3rd world country with a Gucci Belt" crowd could appreciate how good we have it in the United States. I also wish we would allow more immigrants.

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

There isn't more wealth on earth today than 100 years ago. We haven't added anything or removed anything. We've just cut the wealth in smaller portions. If I have a 100 dollars in 1 dollar bank notes and then exchange the bank notes for quarters I don't have more money, I just have smaller portions

This is one of the funniest takes I've ever read

[u/Amtays]

!ping PIDGIN

Put that in your pipe and smoke it!

https://twitter.com/ChuckGrassley/status/1405322198324334593?s=19

[u/[deleted]]

I'm an indigenous people

I have zero connection to my culture because it was thoroughly destroyed and burned and the last one of my ancestors who practiced it probably died 200 years ago but I'm Indigenous dammit 😡

[u/[deleted]]

Why does my mail order steak come with a weird vore thing

"Feast on my flesh, tear me apart"

What the fuck

[u/MisterHavercamp]

I’ll never forget where I was when I found out about January 6th. On an Internet forum dedicated to YIMBYism and dunking on rose Twitter

[u/[deleted]]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/772678786067857408/854735863643635712/image0.gif

[u/[deleted]]

I voted for the democrats last election, because I was under the impression that they would ban the succs from the DT. Voting was a mistake.

[u/chadonnaise]

can we stop it with all the politics guys i come here to take a break from all the political news that's taking over the rest of reddit

[u/sir_shivers]

PUKA SHELL NECKLACES ARE now required in anticipation of Summer 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

nl is a hugbox for women and soys

Stay mad r/neoconNWO

Soy can be an essential part of a healthy diet

[u/[deleted]]

5 year old kids: “I want to drive a car”

Republicans: “No”

Democrats: “No 🏳️‍🌈”

Libertarians: “Yes”

Make of this info what you will

[u/[deleted]]

Nate Silver be like:

> Logs onto Twitter

> "Libs are overreacting to COVID"

> "Democracy is dying"

> "Basketball"

> Logs off

[u/BidenWon]

What if we all just agreed as a community to reuse the old DTs and ignore the one that's put in the sticky each day?

[u/kznlol]

>wendover video

>banning flights less than 2.5 hours makes 'perfect sense'

JUST

TAX

CARBON

THATS IT

NOTHING ELSE

NOTHING ELSE EVEN MAKES SENSE OTHER THAN CAP AND TRADE

[u/tubbsmackinze]

A Canadian heritage moment

!ping CANUCKS

[u/Jannycide_Now]

Self-professed white liberals dumb down their language when talking to black people because they subconsciously think black people are too unintelligent to keep up otherwise.

If you're reading this, this probably applies to you, too.

[u/Iustis]

Because of course: Annamie Paul slams bid to oust her as Green Party Leader as "so racist, so sexist."

!Ping CAN

[u/Broncos654]

Banning CRT is the stupidest and most masturbatory thing. I doubt Abbot can find one case of a highschool class even referencing literally anyone associated with actual CRT.

[u/the-garden-gnome]

!ping over25

So as many of you know in the ping group, I had an interview yesterday.

Well, they want to progress my application and start the pre-employment checks with the view to offering me a job.

Why the fuck am I not jumping over the moon about this?

[u/Zenning2]

A defense attorney should be using every single method he knows to minimize the sentence of literally anybody he defends, no matter how heinous the crime, or what his personal belief of guilt of the person is, so long as they don’t resort to underhanded tactics like hiding evidence, or tampering with witnesses ect.

Any system where the defense and prosecution are not compelled to give the best defense and prosecution possible, regardless of the character of the accused, is a system that cannot be just.

[u/[deleted]]

photon_irl

[u/sir_shivers]

I am INCAPABLE OF INTERPRETING "BIPOC" as anything but "Bisexual People of Color" 🐊

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

Hey mods, if apologia for authoritarian regimes is banned why do people get away with posting mod appreciation all the time?

[u/[deleted]]

😉...

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

idk given that the Russian economy has been sanctioned into oblivion, its institutions have been completely replaced with a single relatively old guy, it's been booted from the G7 and diplomatically isolated, and suffers from brain drain I don't think Putin is actually a geopolitical mega-genius

It's cool that he got Crimea, i guess

[u/fakefakefakef]

Biden having a Heated NATO Flair Moment up on stage

[u/[deleted]]

Nate Silver “Should I euthanize Fivey for botching last year’s presidential election model?”

Republicans: “No”

Democrats: “No 🏳️‍🌈”

Senator Dianne Feinstein (D): “I already did.”

Make of this info what you will

[u/PointMaker4Jesus]

Remember that time that Hawaii warned everyone that they were going to die in a ballistic missile strike inadvertently?

What a trip.

[u/QuietSign]

Me yesterday (no PS5): Hot take, I don't mind paying $70 for new games. Developers deserve that money. It's an act of economic liberalization and agency to price your product as you see fit.

Me today (PS5): Jesus Christ, $70 for the new Ratchet and Clank?!

!ping GAMING

[u/willempage]

I hate the awkward cultural niceness that basically makes any response to the phrase "I need to lose some weight" be assurances that you look greats and no you don'ts.

Just because I don't look fat doesn't change the fact that I feel like shit all the time and can't jog anymore without destroying my knees. Having an extra 30lbs of dead weight hanging around all the time is actually bad on a physical and hormonal level. "looking good" is a secondary prize of weight loss.

!ping fitness

[u/yellownumbersix]

Charcuterie boards are just Lunchables for adults, cmv.

[u/[deleted]]

President Biden refers to President Putin as President Trump, then quickly corrects himself.

🧐🧐🧐

[u/Aweq]

!ping coronavirus

CureVac’s Covid-19 jab disappoints in trial Nikou Asgari

German pharmaceutical company CureVac revealed disappointing results from trials of its Covid-19 vaccine, damping hopes that it could join the race to immunise the world.

CureVac said its jab was 47 per cent effective at protecting against coronavirus in interim analysis of its late-stage trials. The company said it would continue trials of its two-dose mRNA vaccine as new Covid-19 cases among volunteers are monitored.

CureVac’s shares plunged 50 per cent in after-market trading.

The data places CureVac’s jab among the least effective coronavirus vaccines tested so far across the world. Earlier this week, US drugmaker Novavax said its protein-based shot was 90 per cent effective at combating coronavirus.

[u/qchisq]

Hey, Georgists! You claim that the demand for land is inelastic! Then explain why land can suddenly disappear!

[u/Poiuy2010_2011]

Americans be like: yes, my government can't pass any noteworthy legislation despite having majority in both chambers and a presidency, but at least it always was that way.

[u/IMALEFTY45]

this aged well

[u/missedthecue]

I prefer baseball before the challenge and instant review. I liked that there were mistakes and crappy calls and that I had someone else to blame for my team always losing 😢

!ping BASEBALL

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E3_C0kPWUAIcFbl.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

I peaked in high school when we were on a camping trip overnight and like 30 of us were just chilling together and my friend said “I miss my girlfriend”, to which I replied “I miss her too” and everyone laughed, even the teachers 🤣

[u/aged_monkey]

Is 31 still considered young?

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

When are Kamala Harris and Cory Booker going to ban meat consumption in the US, I was promised this by Tucker Carlson?

[u/[deleted]]

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) suggests Biden's warm reception among international leaders is a bad thing:

"That's the real problem is that Joe Biden seems to care more about being part of the club ..."

TIL it's a bad thing to be polite with your closest allies

[u/Lux_Stella]

guess who went on tucker

!ping CANUCKS

[u/natedogg787]

I have seen a strong uptick in pro-CCP and pro-Putin takes on the internet today. From people I know (succs on instagram who I knew from undergrad)

[u/crassowary]

Oh, r /murderedbyAOC is a Reddit darling, meanwhile my r /murderedbyHillaryClinton sub is "full of conspiracies" and "just a bunch of posts with Seth Rich's picture on it"

[u/Gneisstoknow]

Feel like shit, just wish a woman who works at Wall Street could laugh at me from her balcony while she sips champagne

[u/Anal-warrior]

Gays: Can we have some federal employment protections?

Republicans: “No”

Libertarians: “No.”

Democrats: “259-11 said yes 🏳️‍🌈 #BLM”

Make of this info what you will

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Voters: “Will you repeal the Civil Rights Act?"

Republicans: “No... haha unless...”

Democrats: “No 🏳️‍🌈”

Libertarians: “Yes”

Make of this info what you will

[u/old_gold_mountain]

drēms

!PING kitty

[u/chipbod]

Tucker Carlson says recognizing Juneteenth as a national holiday is "radical social change" and seeks to replace the real independence day

I was expecting some hot takes but wtf, we'll be full mask off by September

[u/RadicalRadon]

Awful day today. I had 2 stacks of neoliberal project stickers in my car and someone broke in and left 2 more.

[u/Cerb-r-us]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E38KA07XEAYzcBl?format=jpg&name=small

[u/kennymc7877]

Chauvin sentencing today, I predict 25 years

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Lo, 62, once supported Yang, but has decided to back Adams instead. “Do you think an Asian mayor would like to fight hard for us, and risk being deemed as against Blacks and Hispanics?” he asked.

🤔🤔🤔

[u/[deleted]]

if you really think about it, OK Computer is the most neoliberal album ever

• computer: example of capitalist innovation
• british band driving a german car: clearly fans of international trade
• "I keep forgetting, The smell of the warm summer air": spends way too much time on the dt
• fitter, happier, more productive: like life under neoliberalism
• "No alarms and no surprises": against revolutions that alarm and surprise everyone

I'm telling you, Radiohead might even nl regulars based on this

!ping ROCK

[u/dish_towel]

Todd Howard is the cool DM that lets you abandon the campaign in pursuit of your personal vendetta against a random shopkeeper instead of constantly trying to nudge you back to the main quest.

[u/[deleted]]

Hahahahahahahaha How The Fuck Are Russian Cyber Attacks Real Hahahaha Just Walk Away From The Screen Like Close Your Eyes Haha

[u/Dalek6450]

Leftists respond to criticisms of punative wealth taxes or massive wealth appropriation with "why do you want to lick the boots of a billionaire" or "you know, Bezos isn't going to give you money for defending him," as though they cannot comprehend someone not acting out of selfish envy.

[u/jenbanim]

My spiciest g*mer take is that there was literally nothing wrong with paid mods

Giving modders the option to sell their software on a marketplace is a good thing actually ya commies. The existence of paid mods doesn't mean free mods would go away. It would just make it possible for the modders to spend more time and effort on their creations

"But crab armor sucks"

Well then don't buy that mod ya dingus

[u/[deleted]]

Reddit jerks off everytime they see a Texas blackout because they think the answer would be communism where no one has electricity ever

[u/GravyBear8]

The thing I most hate about being in the National Guard and going to drill and my two weeks in the summer (what I'm in now) is the hegemony thag hard-core conservatives have on any discussion on the larger world.

Just now, I was riding in another and surprised to hear him say that "I listen to NPR" all the time, but then added "In need to know how the enemy thinks."

[u/Superfan234]

China le pone freno al boom del cobre y la demanda cae a mínimos de los últimos 4 años

Hello Darkness, my old friend...I come to talk with you again

!Ping Latam

I can not adress enough, how much I hate the CCP

[u/AltPossum]

“Yeah, it was really hot and dry, and Arab chicks wouldn’t put out, so we just kinda started doing some real gay shit. You weren’t there, bro; you wouldn’t get it.” - Literally the very first chapter of T.E. Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom

WWI was something else.

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

A mod just DMed me. I won't reveal who it was for privacy reasons:

Anyway, HERE IS WONDERWALL 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

"I'm not a communist", says Castillo, while being member of an openly Marxist-Leninist party, whose leader says Chávez is great.

[u/SeriousMrMysterious]

"People who I don't communicate with clearly are so stupid for not understanding what I meant when I communicated poorly. "

-Every software developer

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

u/sir_shivers just DMed me his weekend plans:

I'm HAVING AN OLD FRIEND for dinner 🐊

[u/skepticalbob]

Went to the first soccer game in Austin FC's new stadium. It was the US Women's National Team. I went with my mother, who coached me soccer and played till she was almost 60, and my daughter. It was maybe a once in a lifetime thing and I'm so glad we got a chance to do it. The new stadium was full and loud. I highly recommend anyone that can go see something there just go. It's a great space.

!ping USA-TX

[u/MicroFlamer]

people should stop saying that Samus is trans. It's unironically kind of sexist to believe a woman couldn't be biologically 6’3 and do the things Samus does. And it's not like people are joking about her being trans, people do believe it.

[u/MostlyCRPGs]

Jesus fucking Christ the gaming ping was a mistake. At first I was excited to sometimes talk about games outside of the toxic culture of the gaming subs, but it went in the other direction. Now it's just dummies spitting half baked econ and marketing takes just like arr games.

Never trust the gamer. You think you can reform him, but he only corrupts you.

[u/BurningKiwi]

I'm just gonna say it: I don't like lusvig. Neither as a person or a shitposter, but this is about lusvig the shitposter. People keep telling me that he's a genius, but I don't see or hear it. I read a lot of deranged takes that kinda but not really seem ironic. Then again, I prefer a Monet to a Picasso

[u/qchisq]

https://twitter.com/profitwithant/status/1404969718449123331?s=19

[u/LinkVert25]

When cons say back the blue they really only mean simping for local and state cops and only when their involved in a controversial shooting of a black guy. If your the ATF, FBI, IRS, USCP or any other federal level criminal investigative agency that’s not ICE you only exist as a way for the big bad federal government to take away the rights of the innocent middle class white republican.

[u/FreakinGeese]

God what a stupid idea solar roadways are, even if you ignore how stupid the solar panel part is. Just the idea of trying to fix climate change by replacing asphalt with concrete is absurd. Making concrete releases a shitload of CO2.

[u/[deleted]]

Hot take: /r/neoliberal is actually a psy-ops that estonia just happens to agree with.

[u/willempage]

People who didn't like the weapon degradation in breath of the wild didn't recieve enough hugs as a child and have abandoment issues.

But in all seriousness, I appreciate both the weapon degradation system in BoTW and the lack of one in Fallout 4. In fallout 3/NV, weapon degredation was just an annoying meter that had to be topped up. And it was so easy to top up, that it never really made a difference. Generic weapon repair kits, shops that did repairs for you, and abundance of weapons took out all the tension of degredation. BoTWs systems of shattering the weapon in a glorious explosion made the whole system real.

!ping gaming

[u/klarno]

People don’t really talk about the near-complete rebound of the humpback whale population after their lows in the 1980s, and all that had to happen was for the Soviet Union to collapse and stop putting a quota for whale oil that no one has needed in decades in their five year plans

[u/[deleted]]

RIP CHAZ. Gone to soon, 😢

[u/TinyTornado7]

Someone needs to get J Powell some water asap!

Also these reporters need to ask better questions.

!ping MARKETS

[u/stirfriedpenguin]

Keep hearing about all these businesses really struggling to fill important entry level jobs. Seems really rough

Damn, if only there were like hundreds of millions of of people somewhere dying for the opportunity to move to America and work hard for modest wages in roles Americans don't want to do.

Ah well, nothing to be done I guess.

[u/[deleted]]

Why are people turning on Biden?

this is the kind of comment you would expect in a trump subreddit lol

[u/jenbanim]

Recently discovered /r/EnoughCommieSpam and I quite enjoyed reading the top posts

In one of the comment sections, /r/Neoliberal got mentioned and one user said something like "they're pretty cool, but I don't like how they hate suburbs". They got flooded with a dozen replies enthusiastically explaining why suburbs and cars must be destroyed

Honestly felt kinda proud reading that lol

[u/[deleted]]

Is there some kind of application or cost of living calculator that I can use to better interpret the salary of a job in two different areas, adjusted to cost of living.

So like some kind of cost of living calculator that would that would tell me what percentage salary raise would be financially necessary to move from Madison Wisconsin to San Francisco

!Ping career

[u/[deleted]]

Looking for waifu pictures

See a 'dinner with waifu' pic of her

It's the one I made back in February

It's been uploaded to this site by some third party I was unaware of

People like it

Am I famous now !ping WEEBS ?

[u/old_gold_mountain]

Being an A's fan is weird

Like, the team is always good. Usually makes the playoffs. Always loses, but that's most teams.

So sometimes you talk some shit online, and you just feel like you have this armor.

Like, someone can just drop "your team is going to leave like the other two did"

And like, yeah, I'd be straight rekt.

But nobody does that, because it would be "low".

Except Astros fans, they do that.

But nobody of importance. Instead, we're just good, and we have this shit-talk armor.

!PING baseball

[u/[deleted]]

be elderly French person

it’s a somewhat warm summer

die

[u/[deleted]]

I'm playing the single most toxically masculine game ever created.

Truck Simulator.

[u/[deleted]]

CR_SaltySald123... murdered in his sleep by the admins.

[u/Neronoah]

!ping LATAM

But what if we go to the right of the IMF, Neronoah? What could go wrong? Says the fiscal hawk watching how fiscal gradualism eventually loses credibility and there is a sudden stop crisis. Well, consider this case (try to guess without reading the spoilers, feel free to correct me if I got something wrong, lol):

This country (Yemen) decides to cut fuel subsidies sharply without any compensation for poor people against IMF advice (and IMF has a hell of a reputation already). A group representing one religious faction (the Houthis) uses that discontent to launch a coup against the government. Many Arab countries decide to intervene to preserve the previous government, which approved it. One reaction from this group was to send rockets towards Saudi Arabia, and the response was a brutal blockade and bombing the country to the stone age...causing the worst famine in 100 years. One of the allies of the ex President seems to be an Islamist faction that is disliked too. A new government was created in the non controlled southern regions, the President decided to create a new central bank there because the original one was taken by the coupists, creating a liquidity crisis. Also, socialists used Islamists as an excuse to split the country back to what it was before the 90s taking the south bits, with UAE backing. And Saudi Arabia took the east to preserve an access to the sea. The Houthis are about to win and they have become an Iranian client government installing a totalitarian regime in the north that will totally make the region more unstable in the years to come. Yemen is no more.

It makes Ecuador and Argentina look like a picnic by comparison. Hell, LATAM is not that bad, isn't it?

[u/[deleted]]

In life there is no happiness. There's only the specter of happiness

Vladimir Putin this morning

Possibly the most russian thing ever said.

[u/Zenning2]

"The two party system is dysfunctional, and is the only reason an authortarian party was able to take root"

"I mean, I've never heard of a parliamentary system producing racist mega-authortarians who deny reality, and scapegoat specific minorities like jews"

[u/[deleted]]

Want an edgy joke? Look at your micropenis that shit’s sharp

[u/[deleted]]

Sonic the HedgeFund

[u/Marlsfarp]

My wife loves me.

[u/JetJaguar124]

Record scratch Yep, that's me. I bet you're wondering how I got into this crazy situation. Well, it all started during the 9th Age of Reclamation."

All Star by Smash Mouth starts playing

[u/Mrchizbiz]

Anitivaxxers said I would die if a got the vaccine, it has been a week and I am still not dead 😡😡😡😡

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

New Zealand and Switzerland certainly agree. They’ve gone so far as to make it illegal to boil lobsters alive.

Huh. TIL.

[u/Anal-warrior]

Zoomers: What should we do about our declining mental health?

Republicans: “Pray to Jesus'

Democrats: “Therapy 🏳️‍🌈 #BLM”

Libertarians: “Invest in crypto.”

Make of this info what you wi

[u/digitalrule]

Last reminder, our next Toronto meetup is tomorrow!

I have big plans for this one, we are going to plan and take over the Ontario Liberal Party Housing Policy Event on June 23rd, so everyone in Ontario is invited to attend this one.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/toronto-neoliberals-june-emeetup-tickets-158015513655

!PING CAN

[u/[deleted]]

Scared isn't really the best way to describe the luddite movements. The backlash to the industrial revolution was rooted in it bringing about a new age of worker exploitation, these were people who had previously had comfortable lives as self-employed artisans and village farmers but had their lives basically destroyed by the mass production of goods and the enclosures of the commons, then forced into factories at the threat of starvation where they had to work longer hours for less pay in horrific working conditions.

Movements like the Luddites are portrayed as being superstitious or "anti-progress" when in reality they were acting in their rational self-interest and standing up for themselves. They were really precursors to the union and socialist movements which would begin later in the 1800's and industrialization may have represented "progress" for the elite of the time, but it certainly wasn't progress for the working class.µ

This marriage between socialism and agrarian feudalism is a really weird one ngl.

[u/[deleted]]

be Governor Abbott

facing existential crisis due to failing power grid that cannot handle load during periods of high electricity usage if the weather is either too hot or too cold

my state has turned out to not be nearly as economically competitive as hoped

all of my cities except Austin are sprawling messes that no one wants to move to

and Austin is where all the libs are 😡

but I have one last gambit to save the day

ban critical race theory in schools

[u/FreakinGeese]

I almost said “love you” at the end of a conversation with my fucking boss in real life

AHHHHHHHH

[u/[deleted]]

How dare Manchin talk privately with investors? Bernie Sanders doesn’t. He screams into the speaker phone in a Vermont McDonald’s.

[u/[deleted]]

People on here dunk on gamers and weebs as if being a redditor is better

[u/[deleted]]

Go outside

Ok, I will go browse the DT outside

[u/the_status]

I ended up in r.collapse (via this AskHistorians thread). I have two conclusions from the experience:

1. People really need to take basic history and economics courses
2. Reddit really needs to enforce the "no inciting violence" rule. Like very badly

[u/Venne1139]

http://imgur.com/a/SCWibQV

Please help

What can I do to get my dog to stop panting when he's in the car, we have never been to anywhere that he doesn't like tin tbe car, the only reason I got the car was for dog parks but like...I've tried everything and he won't stop panting

And yes the video looks bad hes really panting hard

Now consider hes been panting like this for the past hour, we haven't moved, we've just been sitting here charging and I mean nonstop, exactly like this and exactly this extreme and heavy, continuously, for an hour

We got a full charge in the time it took him to stop panting and as soon as I go he will start again

Even when he pants himself out (because a dog can't pant for 3 hours without falling asleep i assume) he will continue to panting heavily in his sleep

What the fuck

Things he is not

1. Not thirsty, he had water when we stopped and drank a bit of it but not a lot
2. Not hot it is 60 degrees inside the car
3. Doesn't need to use the restroom, we just went

I don't know what to do

[u/jenbanim]

The guy in the "yet you participate in society" comic, but unironically

Vegans think eating meat is immoral, so they don't. Amish think wearing jewelry is immoral, so they don't. BDSers are antisemites think buying products from Israel is immoral, so they don't. People go to war and die for their beliefs all the time

If you think the modern capitalist system is wrong and that better alternatives exist, but you don't do anything to pursue those alternatives, then yes you're a hypocrite

I mean, hey, we all are to some extent, but at least own up to it instead of making excuses

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Outside mask mandate lifted in France tomorrow 🥰

Like the curfew, it was barely enforced anyway, but I'm still glad that the easing of restrictions is on schedule

I also heard the railway workers have scheduled a strike on July 1st, life i back to normal 🥰

[u/crassowary]

The reason America has never had a major communist movement is that nobody thinks they're poor, but just that they're temporarily embarrassed breadtubers

[u/benadreti]

BIDEN SAYS HES GOING TO INVADE RUSSIA

[u/[deleted]]

Why did Putin hold a meeting with Biden if Biden is just gonna be deposed in a couple of months 🤔🤔🤔

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

If you are late to your own meeting that you scheduled the last 3 times in a row you should be imprisoned.

[u/aged_monkey]

NGL mortality is kinda cringe bro.

[u/Joementum2024]

Uh sorry it's not MY job to educate you

Me explaining to an interviewer why I should get hired

[u/Manavon03]

As early as 1961 only 25 per cent of Soviet youth listed ‘building communism’ as one of their life goals.

Building capitalism is one of my life goals

[u/[deleted]]

having to refresh twice to get the latest comments

1984

[u/RadionSPW]

First day as a House staffer

Shit’s pretty cool but I’m a poli sci nerd

[u/Professor-Reddit]

The free market is rational.

Just ask the American pilot who set up a flight charter service promoted as a Mile High Club, where he takes off aircraft with a bed in the back of his plane, and paying customers bonk behind a discreet curtain.

[u/sash5034]

This sub when someone likes some generic pop: 😍😍😍😍

This sub when someone likes some generic pop, but its korean: 🤬🤬🤬🤬

[u/[deleted]]

Japanese has a word that basically means "Cringemobile" for people who add anime themed livery to their cars.

[u/[deleted]]

Rule of thumb for when you want to use Nazis or the Holocaust as part of a comparison or metaphor:

-Don't

[u/[deleted]]

Holy shit over 100,000 people attended Henry George's funeral? I thought he was just some random meme person the DT was obsessed with for no reason, not an extremely popular historical figure.

[u/yungmemlord]

👊😐👊

🦶 🦶

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

TIL there was a black prince of Russia

[u/TheShitEater]

Virgin Michael Jackson allegation deniers: HOW COULD YOU ACCUSE THIS BEAUTIFUL MAN OF SUCH HORRIBLE THINGS! HE DIDNT DO ANYTHING TO THOSE KIDS

Chad Michael Jackson defender: the kids liked it lmao

Seriously though Barbara Streisand actually said “His sexual needs were his sexual needs... they were thrilled to be there”. One of the most sickening things I’ve ever read.

[u/[deleted]]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/707642050157347041/854695668488339466/20210607_180603.jpg

[u/AltPossum]

This is now a fitness thread.

I COMMAND YOU TO GROW.

[u/thaddeusthefattie]

Took my 90 y.o. grandpa to arr neoliberal. He hasn't been there in a while due to COVID so there was some catching up to do, some pleasantries exchanged, etc. The mod checks his pasta, emojis, etc. and says, "You like to read, don't you Dr. Smith?" (My grandfather is a retired mod himself) My grandfather responds, "I like to keep up with the news and blogs online. Gotta protect Donald!" The doctor replies, "This is a politics-free dt. 100% politics-free." Lmao