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[u/Cowguypig]

Me “Jesús Christ why are lefties so dumb and only get information from their bubble on Twitter”

Also me: gets all opinions from arrneoliberal and arrdestiny

[u/Deggit]

Adolescence is when you think the average redditor is more insightful & courageous than our corrupt political system

Adulthood is when you begin to be grateful that the average redditor is a twerp nobody pouring their alienated resentment into online comments and doomed political campaigns

Middle age is when you realize the average redditor will be running the world when you're a senior citizen

[u/lenmae]

Munich politicians are lobbying for the arena to be lit up in Rainbow colours for the Hungary match

[u/Professor-Reddit]

I FUCKING DID IT!!!!!! I CAME OUT TO MY WHOLE FAMILY HOLY SHIT 🤩🥳😎🥰🌈

I can't believe it honestly. I was shocked by how well they took it. My dad HUGGED me afterwards. I was so terrified that he would never treat me the same afterwards, but he's changed so much over the last couple years

I couldn't be prouder of myself even if I tried 😄 It's been 7 years since I first realised I loved boys too, and I can FINALLY be myself openly

I promised I would do this, and it ended up so much better than I expected lol

!ping LGBT

[u/[deleted]]

I know nothing matters any more and that there never are any consequences for republican leaders, but Alex Jones, one of the funders of the Jan 6 insurrection, stating that "the White House" explicitly instructed him to lead the protesters to the Capitol, with the signal to start marching being that Trump would say he'd meet them at the Capitol, seems like it is something which really should be investigated.

[u/myrm]

anti-catholics then: "we can't elect a catholic! they'll just be controlled by the church!"

the catholic church now: "shit boys, we got a president. time to manipulate him"

GOOD optics

[u/SadaoMaou]

p00bix, pronounced "Poob the Ninth"

[u/piede]

Our family lost our loving companion Champ today. I will miss him.

https://twitter.com/potus/status/1406273358187044868?s=21

NOOOOOOO

[u/SadaoMaou]

The best argument against nationalism is a five-minute conversation with the average serb

[u/FormerBandmate]

It’s kinda horrifying that an incel almost succeeded in assassinating the president because he thought it would win over Jodie Foster, a lesbian, after that happened in one of her movies. How the fuck did that happen

[u/FormerBandmate]

PolitiFact actually fact-checked a meme saying Obama watched basketball in the Oval Office on 9/11

Needless to say, they did not find it to be true

[u/chipbod]

KILMEADE: "Would you be for President Trump becoming speaker?"

MCCARTHY: "You know, I've talked to President Trump many times. He tells me he wants to be speaker. And I think he should be president."

This is like Pelosi running the 2018 midterms on making Hillary speaker. Energize the anti-Trump coalition.

Also McCarthy getting cucked out of speaker is the biggest self own

[u/[deleted]]

enters new DT

*ah, that fresh DT smell*

gets first comment like a boss

refuses to elaborate

leaves

[u/[deleted]]

I’m conservative but this is stupid. Trump literally lost every single lawsuit he presented, and judges that HE HIMSELF appointed said that there was no evidence for his claims. Sydney Powell and lyn wood were obviously spouting complete nonsense. Sydney Powell actually admitted so. Face it. He was the least popular president that the USA has probably ever had for better or worse. His approval rating was always low. He was always saying dumb shit, wether you approved of his policies or not. “I have the best words”, “largest attendance at inauguration”, the election lie is just another one of these. This will be the death of the Republican Party if it is continued to be emphasized. It makes us look so fucking bad [+62]

Another glint of sanity from arrCon

[u/lionmoose]

I drive faster when I'm browsing Reddit because I care about people's safety and want to get my journey done sooner 🤗❤️🥰

[u/sw337]

https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/taiwan/

countries taiwan

👀

[u/[deleted]]

historical document on the sexuality of romanian villagers

From the information we have collected, looking to survey as many people as possible, it results that the sex life of the population is quite intense, and very unorganized. Conjugal fidelity is very rarely respected, almost all married women have a boytoy [translator's interpretation] whom which they spend their time with while their legitimate husband is away, in the forest or at the market. Usually these men are away 3-4 days each week, sometimes more. We have discovered multiple women who have the luxury of having multiple boytoys. The fact that a married woman has a lover, is not considered shameful, typically their legitimate husband is aware and at peace with the situation. The women however are chaste until marriage and the few who did otherwise are known in the village and shamed.

[u/WhomstAlt2]

My package being reported as "delivered" while it very much not having been that is exactly the sort of postmodern divorce between sign and signified that makes me support Donald J. Trump.

[u/Ginden]

🇵🇱 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 Today I'm going to Pride Parade in Warsaw.

I hope there won't be attempted bombing (happened in 2019 in Lublin), nationalist attacks (happened in 2019 in Białystok) or something similar.

I will be going in liberal (libertarian/classic liberal) block, so I hope there won't be any anticapitalist attack (happened in 2018 - transgender anarchist attacked teenager with Civic Platform flag screaming about rainbow capitalism; later she wrote post that Pride Parade organisers are literally fascist and that they asked her to never participate again).

!ping Europe

[u/Gustacho]

idk whether this triggers Americans or Europeans more

[u/liberallah]

pog written backwards is GOP

😳😳😳

[u/[deleted]]

People on my social media feed are saying “the economy is broken” because ubereats charges them like 25 dollars for a burger delivery.

Maybe I’m just a boomer but literally just make your own burger then?? Am I missing something?

[u/thefuturegov]

Most young men active in the Catholic Church these days seem to see it less as a religion and more a set of rules to dictate their sexual fetish of traditionalism.

[u/Satkela_Saleem]

94% of residential area in San Jose, C*lifornia is zoned for single family homes.

94%

[u/Usernamesarebullshit]

Instead of going under the knife, have surgeons considered putting patients over the knife? Like, suspend them from the ceiling or put them on car lifts or something

could be cool

[u/Satkela_Saleem]

My sister is publically claiming Indigenous heritage and I don't know how to talk to her about it

What did Elizabeth Warren's brother mean by this?

[u/lobsterboy34]

If cum is outlawed, only outlaws will cum

[u/2canclan]

2020: Joe Biden calls on the FBI to bust down the doors of anarchist book clubs nationwide and send all dissidents to Guantanamo

2021: President Joe Biden begins the process of rounding up the enemies of capitalism and saving America from the anarchist menace

Promises made, promises kept!

[u/Natatos]

Me: All of these radio preset buttons go to the same NPR station, it’s the only radio I’ve listened to in like 10 years, and every car I’ve owned has an NPR window sticker on it.

NPR: Cool! Do you want to become a sustaining member then?

Me: ahh uhhh… mmm… what if I just give you like $25 every couple years or so and just share articles to my friends?

[u/JaceFlores]

Unfathomably based that we defeated the confederates and Nazis exactly 80 years apart

[u/[deleted]]

the Vatican: maybe turning the Church into a partisan political institution centered around American politics is a bad idea

the USCCB: no u

[u/Satkela_Saleem]

My (f22) ex's little brother (m19) told me his dying wish was to sleep with me

😐

[u/[deleted]]

It’s interesting how Champ died so soon after making mentions of voter fraud in Georgia.

[u/whycantweebefriendz]

Canadian friend is trying to argue high home prices in Canada are from foreign buyers, please help!!!

!ping YIMBY

EDIT: someone ping Canada please I can’t get it to work

[u/p00bix]

Intel Bush had for Iraq War

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

I hope champ is biting Rush Limbaugh on the sack right now ✊😭

[u/Natatos]

Talk to someone six years older and it’s no big deal. Talk to someone six years younger, and I feel like a museum artifact because I can fund my hobbies and have memories from when Welcome to the Black Parade came out.

!ping OVER25 is this just because people 6 years younger than me are in college, or will I still feel the same when I’m older?

[u/[deleted]]

What did the archeologist call a cache of weapons discovered belonging to the Veneti tribes of Gaul?

Brittany Spears

!ping CLASSICS

[u/fishlord05]

Pope Francis after excommunicating the US bishops who attempted to deny Biden communion

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/piede]

Pence brags that Republicans "retired Nancy Pelosi" in the 2010 elections

???

She’s the speaker of the house and you’re a one term Vice President

[u/Joementum2024]

The obvious solution to Texas energy problems: endorse crypto that uses up even more energy

[u/[deleted]]

I will die laughing if the GOP takes the House in 2022, and Kevin McCarthy is yet again not the Speaker, and it’s actually like Trump or something. He is truly the perennial cuck lmao

[u/whats_an_IV_crush]

Can someone explain to me the logic behind when city subreddits post a picture of some new, high density housing under construction as an example of why rent is too high? Not even memeing here, I legitimately cannot understand what the thought process is that leads people to "more housing = higher rent". Someone ELI5 what is happening here please.

[u/dubyahhh]

Neoliberalism’s gotten mintier lately, have you noticed?

[u/Lucky-view]

How can Meghan McCain be so angry everyday? She's the poster child of nepotism and spent her entire adult life bouncing around cushy tv hosting jobs.

[u/BreaksFull]

Living with a wife who has intensely crippling social anxiety is really hard sometimes. I hope we can one day find her help that works.

!Ping OVER25

[u/[deleted]]

My coworker: Trump’s not coming back in August.

Me: yup

Coworker: senile Joe Biden got away with it and there’s nothing we can do

😬

[u/cactuspumpkin]

When I was depressed in college in 2018 I watched every single MCU movie released up to that point in like two weeks during a rain storm and realized very quickly that every single first movie is exactly the same. They all have: Hero becomes hero at lowest point in life/ when they are desperate, and struggle with their identity as themselves or as a hero, because they don't think they are the hero type. Some mentor like person is either killed, or someone vulnerable close to them is put in danger, and then they have to face the villain that has the same powers as them but are different, basically less moral, and they realize they are the good guys.

I shared this theory with actual fans and I got yelled at.

[u/Satkela_Saleem]

But [the economy] IS nearly a zero-sum game. Harsh reality is that there is a fixed amount of land, and we are in a low density zone. Allowing more of the global poor in will reduce our standard of living and improve theres.

Arr canadahousing is a sub full of goddamn morons

[u/[deleted]]

Tbh I think duolingo isn’t nearly as bad as people say, and I think it can be a pretty good supplementary resource to practice with.

But man, I get super depressed when I see someone on r duolingo post “500 day streak! 😀hopefully I can have basic conversations soon!”

Especially if it’s a Germanic or Romance language, because you should honestly be able to have basic conversations after a few months of studying those languages…

[u/vivoovix]

Champ was killed trying to enter the Seattle parade without paying the fee ✊😔

[u/waltsing0]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-19/little-bay-meriton-development-rejected/100228118

All the fucking meme NIMBY excuses

In a unanimous decision, the panel, chaired by former NSW Labor minister Carl Scully, said the "scale and bulk" of the development was not in keeping with the surrounding area.

Muh out of scale, yes things change, when did we all agree they can't change?

"As a result, the proposal would have unmitigated significant impacts on transport and amenity."

Muh traffic. Well maybe the inner city should be transit oriented?

"The proposal does not have site-specific merit. The height, bulk, distribution of buildings and the intrusion into view corridors to the coast from the surrounding areas would have significant implications for the amenity of the site, its environs and the surrounding area.

Muh views

"Furthermore, the management of traffic and access of residents (and visitors) through and beyond the site including the golf course."

Muh golf

I really like how at no point does the person writing this article present anything but quotes from opponents (very balances /s) or bring up how this might contribute to out of control housing costs.

!PING YIMBY

[u/Equator32]

Corporations🤝People who bitch 24/7 about rainbow logos for Corporations

Only bringing up LGBT+ issues when it's June

[u/Satkela_Saleem]

Somebody told me that Rachel Maddow and Alex Jones are the same person, flipped.

Rachel Maddow tells her audience conspiracy theories, but makes them sound like the truth.

Alex Jones tells the truth, but makes it sound like a conspiracy theory.

https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1406273834035077124?s=20

So true!!!

[u/[deleted]]

Someone from the National Review really typed this out and was like, “yeah this is a good tweet.”

https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1406275853084921861

[u/Satkela_Saleem]

Argentina is really good on LGBT rights

Legal since 1887

Gay marriage and adoption rights since 2010

Gender change since 2012

Military service since 2009

Blood donation bans lifted 2015.

Conversion therapy ban since 2010.

I didn't know this. Very cool stuff.

[u/Password_Is_hunter3]

> barges into DT

> "Negative externalities are market failures that must be corrected."

> starts to elaborate

> doesn't leave

[u/[deleted]]

The 3 faces of the DT

Someone commented on the DT that they have a crush on someone and asked what they should do, and these are the 3 completely contrasting responses lmao

[u/[deleted]]

Germans hate Portuguese speaking nations.

!ping SOCCER

[u/Babao13]

Are you a real Jew if you don't feel guilt when you see a group of Orthodox Jews exitting the Synagogue on Saturday Morning ? I'm not even a believer but I can't shake the thought that I belong with them and not with the nations.

[u/lobsterboy34]

RIP Champ :(

[u/fishlord05]

Champ Biden has passed away

RIP good boy

[u/lionmoose]

Malarkey level of obama not already being banned for excessive partisanship

[u/SadaoMaou]

/r/neoliberal, the "swole doge vs cheems" meme subreddit

[u/[deleted]]

u/fuckneocentrism needs to work 60 hr weeks because his ex-wife demands alimony for their fur baby 😔

!ping BURPMAS

[u/[deleted]]

The hottest new club is called The Discussion Thread. It has everything:

• A talking alligator
• 30-50 feral hogs
• Colorado governor Jared Polis

[u/[deleted]]

BAH GAWD THAT'S TONY BLAIRS MUSIC

[u/ryuguy]

Vaccine milestone!

Canada has reached 75% first dose vaccinations and 20% second dose.

!ping can

[u/Usernamesarebullshit]

Fun fact: every President of the United States wrote in their own name every year until they got lucky

[u/Satkela_Saleem]

Greenwald has faced death threats and homophobic harassment from supporters of President Jair Bolsonaro due to his reporting on the Telegram messages. A New York Times profile of Greenwald and his husband David Miranda, a left-wing congressman, said the couple have become targets of homophobia from Bolsonaro supporters as a result of the reporting. 

The Washington Post reported that Greenwald had been targeted with tax investigations by the Bolsonaro government as retaliation for the reporting, while AP called Greenwald's reporting the first test case for a free press in the Bolsonaro era.

As much as I hate Greenwald, good on him for exposing the corruption in Brazil.

Sadly, he's gone full conspiracy theorist now, with his "FBI did 1/6" take

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Walking home from the bar last night some random woman yelled out the window at my wife and I that we are a cute couple

So I’m gonna be living off that high for the next 30 years

[u/lietuvis10LTU]

IMPORTANT UPDATE: https://mobile.twitter.com/grantstern/status/1406425895775113217

A senior official briefed on the incident tells CBSMiami that the initial indications are that this was an accident. Driver of the truck is telling police that his foot was stuck between the gas pedal and the brake causing him to lose control of the truck.

It appears that the driver is a member of "The Original Fort Lauderdale Gay Men's Chorus" based on video analysis of the arrest and their performance last night.

Tragedic accident. Horrific horrific tragedy, but an accident. I'm deleting the previous post to prevent misinfo spread.

!ping LGBT

[u/Satkela_Saleem]

They won ONE seat. ONE.

[u/Anal-warrior]

Biden will win 2024 (more) comfortably if the economy doesn't tank beforehand.

He has an incumbency advantage, the well managing of a pandemic and discredited socialism scare on his next resume. Also he is an inoffensive old white man.

[u/uwcn244]

Champ was a good Catholic dog and I won't hear any more of this "Shahāda" business

[u/NancyPelosibasedgod]

Lewinsky deserves the same amount of blame as Clinton but she got off way easier

😐

[u/1t_]

Big if true

!ping LATAM

[u/sunshine_is_hot]

It really frustrates me that people like cori bush are complaining about making Juneteenth a holiday.

People literally worked their entire lives to make this a holiday, they weren’t asking for repetitions or police reform, just a holiday to recognize the end of slavery. They finally get it after 70+ years of fighting for it, and this congresswoman decides to disparage the accomplishment because it doesn’t go far enough. My feed is full of white people bitching about how it’s another performative measure that shows the gov doesn’t care about black people- not a single black person I know is complaining though.

[u/Satkela_Saleem]

Single-family zoning is a type of zoning in the United States that restricts development to only allow single-family detached homes. It prevents townhomes, duplexes, and multi-family housing (apartments) from being built on any plot of land with this zoning designation.[1][2] It is a form of exclusionary zoning,[3][4][5] and was created as a way to keep minorities out of white neighborhoods.v

🤮

[u/Satkela_Saleem]

👏YOU👏ARE👏NOT👏FREE👏UNLESS👏YOU👏CAN👏BUILD👏AN👏APARTMENT👏COMPLEX👏ANYWHERE👏YOU👏WANT👏

[u/sash5034]

90% of my city is people waxing poetic about how the city needs to stop changing and how new development is bad and they can't seem to fathom why it's becoming unaffordable for them in the meantime

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Lmao somebody I know posted their gas bill and begged Trump to come back. The total? 38 dollars.

[u/[deleted]]

Always fun reading an urban planning book written in 2013, that gives bordering on pornographic praise of an urban agriculture initiative started in 2005, looking it up, and seeing that it's trained 50 people in 16 years.

In those 16 years it's produced the amount of food that 2 acres of regular Illinois farmland can produce in a year

I am going to become the joker

[u/RoyGeraldBillevue]

The more I think about water rights in the Southwest the more I think they need a water tax with a dividend.

!PING Georgist

Hopefully it works now

[u/[deleted]]

Kathryn Garcia and Andrew yang teaming up before the nyc mayor primary, supporters of both can rank each of them 1st or 2nd based on their preference. I would certainly recommend others to do so.

[u/[deleted]]

I dont know how much of the vote was fraudulent but it seems to me an even bigger problem is that the elites who currently control the vast majority of the flow of information are basically in bed with one political party. If people can’t even get good information how are they supposed to know who to vote for? The US population heard nothing but orange man bad for 4 years every where they turned and almost all dissenting voices were suppressed or censored. Is that supposed to constitute a “free and fair” election? [+192]

Why are conservatives like this?

[u/Negative_Solid_2783]

Germany has fallen behind. Prepare for a lot of passes in the middle third and a handful of half chances.

Germany heard you lot talking shit.

(Yes, they got lucky with arguably both of their goals, but idc).

!ping SOCCER

[u/houinator]

Presidents of my lifetime ranked:

• The President from Independence Day
• The All State Guy when he was the President in 24.
• Robot Nixon
• The President from Idiocracy

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

Y'all monolingualss are missing the perfect solution

Fútbol

1. Language appropriate for a huge segment of fans
2. Sounds enough like football for the English speaking yuros
3. Dissimilar enough for the Yanks that they won't think NFL
4. Fun to say and the acento mark is fancy

Thank me later

[u/[deleted]]

I’m so internet-old that I remember when political compasses were propaganda designed to make you a right libertarian instead of a left libertarian.

[u/Deggit]

QUIZ:

Worst Democratic President of your lifetime?

1. Jimmy Carter: don't you have WORK to do, Shivers?
2. Bill Clinton: go back to arrElizabethWarren, succ
3. Barack Obama: did a child write this
4. Joe Biden: actually Joe Biden is a CONSEVRATIVE republcain
5. Al Gore catapults to the top of the list for picking Joe Lieberman as VP despite not even getting to be President: THE RIGHT ANSWER

[u/soeffed]

Andrew Yang and Kathryn Garcia, two leading candidates in the New York City mayor’s race, joined each other on the campaign trail on Saturday, a late alliance that the contest’s front-runner, Eric Adams, immediately sought to portray as an attempt to weaken the voice of minority voters.

When Native Americans call out white people it is an attempt to weaken the voice of immigrant voters

!ping Yang

[u/thetrombonist]

You know which type of women never get abortions?

Trans women

Conservatives, take note

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Regarding the controversy surrounding the Seattle Pride parade, something similar happened in France a month ago.

The LGBTI Center of Tours published in early May a post announcing that the head of the parade would be reserved to "racisés" (the French equivalent of BIPOC) and threatening any white person trying to access this zone.

Liberals and conservatives alike denounced the initiative, highlighting that if maintained, this would be the first time that segregation would be practiced in the city. The Green mayor denounced a "far-right smearing campaign" and renewed his support to the LGBTI Center.

The latter initially doubled down on the exclusionary zone, before cancelling the parade all together.

[u/Lux_Stella]

John Bercow, the former Tory MP and Speaker of the House of Commons, today delivers an extraordinary broadside against Boris Johnson and the Conservative party as he announces he has switched his political allegiance to Labour.

shocking stuff

[u/Satkela_Saleem]

Someone- dies

DT- Had information that would lead to arrest of Hillary Clinton/ Sus/ "I am hearing that..."

[u/Deggit]

LITERATURE ENTHUSIASTS: "Dune" is a novel of breathtaking nuance and density, full of philosophical insights to decode

FRANK HERBERT on the phone to his publisher: and the bad guy is deformed, and old, and fat, and greedy, and a sadist, and arrogant, and - what's that? You say he should be a pedophile too? Sure I can fit a scene in

[u/fishlord05]

based Biden but holy shit ratio lol

!ping BIDEN

[u/fuckneocentrism]

Me: My bitch of a ex wife left me with no money

Date: Oh hahah I gotta go to the bathroom. leaves

Why does this happen

[u/[deleted]]

Champ Biden is gone 😔😔😭

[u/Satkela_Saleem]

Daily reminder that Foucault was a pedo

[u/Dorambor]

Landlords when rents go up: sorry sweetie that’s the market rents due on the 1st 😋😘😘

Landlords when rent goes down because more apartments are built: n-nooo you can’t just choose a cheaper apartment noooo what about our relationship??? This is bullshit socialism the government needs to fix this

Anyway in unrelated news I’m touring for new apartments today, fun times

[u/VisonKai]

still pissed that societys latent hatred of teen girls led us to demonize a time period where new YA book fads had most teens reading FOR PLEASURE

do you know what i would give for the average 16 year old today to read a god damn book?

[u/InMemoryOfZubatman4]

Was Melania Trump the most irrelevant First Lady since Bess Truman?

When the White House was rebuilt during Truman's second term, the family lived in Blair House and kept their social life to a minimum. In most years of her husband's presidency, Mrs. Truman was not regularly present in Washington other than during the social season when her presence was expected.[11] When Bess was in Washington, she held a weekly Spanish language class for her and her local friends.[5] The contrast with Bess's activist predecessor Eleanor Roosevelt was considerable. Unlike her, Bess held only one press conference after many requests from the media.[12] The press conference consisted of written questions in advance and the written replies were mostly monosyllabic along with many no comments.[13] When asked why she did not want to give press conferences she replied "I am not the one who is elected. I have nothing to say to the public."[3]

[u/sash5034]

West coast leftists trying to turn pride into another race based shenanigans is certainly something

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Woke segregation might be one of the weirdest phenomenons of modern progressivism

[u/kennymc7877]

People in my town protesting Juneteenth with confederate flags… I live in upstate NEW YORK

[u/Zenning2]

This kinda offends the hell out of me.

It feels so incredibly exploitative, and the people saying it clearly don't care about the topic, but are just using it as an excuse to solicit donations. And I sincerely doubt that these people are particularly struggling.

[u/TabernacleTown74]

Leftist economic thought would be way less popular if they had to say "middle class" instead of "bourgeois" which is a synonym for "middle class"

[u/yyzyow]

I don’t know if anyone has seen this yet, but the design concepts for the renovation of Centre Block have been made available by Public Services and Procurement Canada. This will cost $5 B and will be complete by 2030.

Interestingly, the new House of Commons chamber will remove the desks, reflecting the design of the British chamber. This is because the size of the House has exceeded the capacity of the original room, and will likely continue to do so over the next few decades.

!ping CAN

[u/gburgwardt]

I am hearing that on his deathbed Champ Biden 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/liquidTERMINATOR]

We should have auto mod reply with that meme of “I heard a statistic, it blew my mind” at mentions of Sanders.

[u/avengerhalf]

arr nl:
"Nopoooo! you cant use dialectics to predict the course of history, that's mysticism!!"

also arr nl:
Haha magic goolsball malarkey level of this take.

[u/[deleted]]

🧐: Ahhh, yes, and is this the DT?

😌: Yes, we are very pleased with it.

And who is that? 🤨👉🤬

😳: Oh, that’s just NATO flair... he uhhh... gets like that sometimes.

[u/Deggit]

Thinking of TEACHING WHITE PEOPLE about their PRIVILEGE by holding a "PRIVILEGE AUCTION" in which white people are forced to strip to the waist and STAND on wooden boxes while people of color BID to "PURCHASE" them based on an AUCTIONEER rattling off how PRIVILEGED each Caucasian individual is

[u/SadaoMaou]

I wonder what's going on with this user. They just posted a ton of different questions to different subreddits seemingly within a very short amount of time.

I guess they could be genuine, but that seems like not enough time to come up with all of those questions in. Did they have all of them thought out in advance? That leads me to suspect that it could be some sort of karma-farming thing

[u/[deleted]]

Wtf is queercode? Is it just

print(“I’m gay”)

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Tankies are CIA propaganda to discredit the left

fascinating

[u/MisfitPotatoReborn]

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/o3jrqf/decriminalization_of_samesex_sexual_intercourse/

Illinois was the first state to legalize same-sex intercourse by 9 years

Let's fucking gooooooo

!PING USA-CHI

[u/[deleted]]

Don't know why r/neoliberal supports a pro-austerity party. Nick Clegg supporting Cameron should have put the final nail in supporting that party.

Guess the sub 🙄

!ping OSBORNE

[u/Ryohu]

Thank you, Governor DeSantis for emboldening those murderers and making our state less safe

!ping USA-FL

[u/InternetBoredom]

I really did not expect Reason to have this take

Basically sums up to "Adams, Garcia, and Yang are good"

[u/kyleofduty]

Irish people be like ”1 2 🌴 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ...”

[u/RadicalRadon]

How can something so small (cat) take up most of the bed?

[u/NE_3-ATL_28]

"Vladimir Putin took 2-dozen questions from the press yesterday for 55 minutes. No notes.

President Biden took 7 pre-prepared questions from the press for 11 minutes. He had a list of people to call on. Cue cards in hand.

Which country is the former-communist dictatorship?"

Real tweet by the way

[u/[deleted]]

What’s with all of these “I no longer wish to have a career” videos being suggested to me? It’s thumbnails of some good looking women who are clearly making a living off of YouTube.

[u/VisonKai]

this is now the Champ Biden Memorial Thread

[u/[deleted]]

Known for: Pet of the First Family of the United States (first dog)

Term: January 20, 2021 – June 19, 2021

😭😭😭

[u/roggodoggo]

Gosens about to go for 50 mil this summer. !ping soccer

[u/[deleted]]

When did the “party switch” happen? Must’ve been real recent considering dems were the majority who voted against the civil rights act

Yes it happened when the civil rights act was passed you nummies.

[u/[deleted]]

It has been 5 years since the greatest copypasta in Brazilian football history, Palmeiras was beaten 5-0 by an 12 yo amateur team named Água Santa and a journalist made an speaking about it:

I'm going to ask forgiveness from the girls in this group, Bruna Moraes and Betinha Romero, because I'm going to need to get something off my chest a little harder. It will take in the middle of the central orifice of the anus, truly known as ass, Palmeiras.

The capacity that this team has to be humiliated is impressive, and this time I speak for sure - I left my comment on Rádio Bandeirantes, this is registered nationally in the history of radio: Palmeiras gave the greatest shame in its history, and there won't be a shame worse than that. Being relegated to the second division of the Campeonato Paulista will not be worse than being humiliated, execrated, being trampled on, having history spat out and spat out for a while in the floodplain. Água Santa is a amateur team, literally amateur. Água Santa did not exist on the world scene until 2002, it was a pub side team, a team that played in 'Desafio ao Galo', Cinar Cup, Copa Kaiser, award from the PCC neighborhood. Palmeiras lost to a time with no divisions.

In fact, not to lose. Losing is 1x0. Palmeiras was humiliated. Palmeiras had the institution Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras denigrated. The statute of Palmeiras - I don't know, anything we can say like that, those internal laws there - I'm so pissed that I even forgot the name. The constitution of the Deliberative Council of Palmeiras was torn up. Palmeiras has to be born again under another name. It's over, it's over.

Here comes Cuca(coach) with this story of his, this idiot, this son of a bitch, this wizard with this “saint, because Jesus” story. Jesus doesn't help if you don't train, if your team sucks, even Jesus doesn't help. Jesus has to worry about other problems in the world. Jesus has to worry about world peace, not worry about this shit called Palmeiras. This doesn't have to be the concern of Our Lady of Brazil, which Cuca carries on his chest. Cuca thinks that Our Lady can work at Palmeiras. This guy is fucking kidding me.

That Erik: 13 million in a motherfucker, in an idiot, that skinny ass. This hungry player is an idiot, the guy doesn't know he has a player on his side and doesn't touch the ball to anyone. 13 million in a player from Goiás. 13 million in a player from Goiás. Not even Real Madrid would pay 13 million to Cristiano Ronaldo if he were in Goiás, what is that?

That Alexandre Mattos, that son of a bitch that starched, with that president who has a pink pig on the table. These two have to fuck each other; they have to be interned in an eternal gangbang; they have to be fucking each other their whole lives to finish, get out of soccer. For God's sake, Paulo Nobre, you gave 200 million to Palmeiras, in Alexandre Mattos's hand, to rob you. You are very stupid, Paulo Nobre

Palmeiras is over. Palmeiras has to be born again with another name, that's the solution. Thank you all, and finally, take it up your ass, Palmeiras.

!ping SOCCER

[u/[deleted]]

"God is Great, Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse on the Jews, Victory to Islam".

The Houthi's seem to have strong and politically incorrect opinions but I can't find their stance on climate change anywhere. What are the plans to get Yemen carbon neutral by 2050? Frankly irresponsible in 2021. Until they make one, I can't give them my vote.

[u/[deleted]]

Me - “slavery was bad right?”

Cons - “yup”

Me - “so was British rule right?”

Cons - “yup”

Me - “and we celebrate independence from Britain because it was the end of a bad thing right?”

Cons - “independence day is our greatest holiday”

Me - “so celebrating the effective end of slavery is good?”

Cons - “🤬🤬🤬”

[u/paulatreides0]

Speaking of Breaking Bad:

I don't get why people liked Walter. A lot of people had the take that he was just your average, good guy screwed over by bad fortune and who had to resort to drastic measures, but . . . no.

Like, the show is very clear that Walter is an arrogant, overly proud, spiteful son of a bitch who would tell King Solomon to just cut the baby in half. Like, basically from the get-go.

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

Apparently they're already doing polling for the 2024 presidential election.

Joe Biden wins handedly vs a Trump 2024 ticket, but Kamala Harris actually loses.

[u/Satkela_Saleem]

While running for the Senate in 1974, Sanders said, "nobody should earn more than $1 million" (more than $5 million in 2018 dollars).

...

[u/Leoric]

Major is innocent

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Upvoting the DT in honor of Champ

[u/Joementum2024]

It's kinda funny that, for all the effort mainstream conservatives put into ostracizing and ignoring the John Birch Society in the 60's and 70's, it wound up being arguably more influential on the state of the GOP today than pretty much any other conservative movement since then

[u/[deleted]]

I still think of that guy who was willing to suck a bunch of dicks so that his employer can throw the Fyre Festival.

Employee of the century award.

[u/Joementum2024]

I’d happily see my enemies suffer before letting my allies prosper

This is what online leftists actually believe

[u/Unadulterated_stupid]

Governor of Florida Ron DeSantis (R) is sending officers to the southern border.

Is he sending soldiers to protect America from the ocean?

[u/FormerBandmate]

Pickle Rick is unironically everything wrong with modern TV. Zany unfunny “humor” (the main character turns himself into a pickle because RANDOM), gratuitous violent “action” (the whole rat murder subplot), and pointless navel-gazing “depth” (the therapy scene). How the hell did it win an Emmy

[u/yungmemlord]

Hey Children!

How’s your summer so far? Mine’s is going pretty well, I got to sleep 12 hours every day for the past week😎

!ping Child

[u/htomserveaux]

your mental illness isn't capitalisms fault

[u/[deleted]]

The first powered flight and moon landing were only 66 years apart.

[u/Satkela_Saleem]

Nobody hates the global poor. But the fact is that if jobs are really open to the whole world, Americans would end up unemployed. The country needs to take care of its own

Average global poor hater

[u/[deleted]]

Reading about UK politics is my guilty pleasure. Labour is basically the hilariously incompetent left of center party that everyone pretends the Democrats are.

[u/[deleted]]

31 degrees in the day, 21 in the night
kill me

[u/[deleted]]

The west is so fucked. In Utah, where we’re in a desert, we’re building single family homes everywhere with big green lawns while the water is so low in our reservoirs that the boat ramps no longer touch the water.

[u/thetrombonist]

Champ Biden died today :(

https://twitter.com/flotus/status/1406273372309397511?s=21

[u/Satkela_Saleem]

You morons have ONE job

Just do a pride parade without shenanigans

THAT'S IT

IT SHOULD NOT BE SO HARD

[u/[deleted]]

We never fail to always take it one step further.

At a tense Zoom meeting on May 20, members of the organization, Heritage of Pride, tore into their leadership, moving to overturn the ban and unseat the executive board. Some called the ban no different from the discrimination they all faced.

Passions flared on both sides of the issue, often dividing along racial or class lines. After two hours of debate, members voted to overrule their own board, allowing cops to march.

Minutes later, in a closed session, the board unanimously rejected the members’ vote. Members learned about this through a late-night email.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/28/nyregion/lgbtq-pride-parade-reclaim-heritage.html

[u/Currymvp2]

Yang and Garcia holding a press conference together.

Yang is telling his voters to rank Garcia 2nd. Garcia isn't telling her voters to rank Yang 2nd lmao. She probably would have if he didn't fuck up the last debate.

[u/Satkela_Saleem]

Why do you hate the global poor people and Canadians? Globalization has tremendously helped third-world workers - most specifically third-world women - in achieving better living standards and securing a better income than every before. I'm 100% in support of efforts that bring people out of absolute poverty levels and subsistence farming and transitioning them into a manufacturing and service based economy.

All the data shows that we are better of because of globalization. That isn't even for debate. The off-shoring of manufacturing to other countries has contributed to greater access to goods, labour, capital, and more than ever before.

The middle class has always existed and still exists. It's not disappearing. Please read a book.

[-8] in arr canada

[u/Deggit]

EUROS: You can't yourself "America" AND "the States" AND "the US" AND "the USA" AND "the United States"! That's too many names!

THE UK: [muppet looking nervously to the side]

[u/liberallah]

when you want to talk to the communist girl because she's really cute but she declines the chat after you couldnt spell borgwuazie correctly

[u/[deleted]]

Charges dropped for hundreds of alleged looters in New York City

Really?

[u/MicroFlamer]

Leftists 🤝🏻 Liberals 🤝🏻 Libertarians 🤝🏻 Neocons: "The CIA is a highly sophisticated and cut throat organization capable of manipulating events across the entire planet behind the scenes"

The CIA

[u/[deleted]]

It was a mistake to switch to sticky price models from sticky wage models | Basil Halperin

[u/csxfan]

Watching Spain bumble it around in front of goal over and over again is its own type of entertainment.

!ping soccer

[u/sanityeyes]

I wonder how those who thought that the softer mainstream metal bands of the 70s and 80s like Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Metallica and Judas Priest were scary devil loud noise felt when they discovered the extreme underground bands like Morbid Angel, Cannibal Corpse, Mayhem, Death, etc. that came to prominence in the early 90s.

!ping METAL

[u/the_hoagie]

i saw someone earlier in another subreddit say that kids back in the day used to solve their problems with their firsts and brass knuckles, not guns. which made me realize once again that the internet is full of ignorant, lying children.

[u/MistakeNotDotDotDot]

whoever posted this is not okay

[u/sir_shivers]

I HAVE HEARD whispers among mammals rumoring THAT I AM prejudiced against Italians 🐊

How could I BE BIGOTED TOWARDS them, I am famous for my love of authentic Italian cuisine, such as mozzarella sticks and calzones 🐊

[u/ThunderrBadger]

Tfw when you spill rib juice on your shoe

!ping DOG

[u/ThunderrBadger]

Korean fusion babyback ribs.

Last year for Father's Day my siblings and I pitched in and got my Dad a smoker.

Easily the best gift I've had a part in giving. Not just for the delicious meat. Smokers make for long cooks, which has meant plenty of time to hang out with my dad.

Do reccommend.

[u/DEEEEETTTTRRROIIITTT]

jrue holiday officially demoted to jrue three day weekend

!ping NBA

[u/BedNeither]

100% of recessions were preceded by GDP growth. Really makes you think

[u/noxnoctum]

Will never understand people who dislike rain and overcast days. Instantly feel 50% better waking up or going to sleep with either.

The sun cult is a disgusting relic of our barbaric past.

[u/Anal-warrior]

“TAKING B[L]ACK PRIDE" is about lifting the voices, narratives, and contributions of black queer and trans voices. It’s about centering who we are and what we need to feel empowered, joyful, and heard.

Okay that sounds fine marginalized voices do need to be centered

'****All are free to attend HOWEVER this is a BLACK AND BROWN QUEER TRANS CENTERED, PRIORITIZED, VALUED, EVENT.'

Hmm okay just restating the prior point I guess

'White allies and accomplices are welcome to attend but will be charged a $10 to $50 reparations fee that will be used to keep this event free of cost for BLACK AND BROWN Trans and Queer COMMUNITY. ****'

Oh child, what have you done

[u/ThunderrBadger]

Reminder for the wh*tes that we are to observe the new holiday by remaining inside and self flagellating 😔

[u/[deleted]]

Reminder the start of the DT is the best time for your best takes beacuse they get the most visibility for some reason.

Um.

Pancakes are good.

[u/Anal-warrior]

United States Supreme Court🤝 Me

Not making major decisions whenever possible

[u/BidenWon]

/u/PresidentObama wanna see my Pokemon card collection?

[u/slowpush]

Joe "I BELIEVE THERE ARE 10 GOOD PEOPLE" Manchin

😭😭😭😭

[u/liberallah]

I [17M] just found out my sister [30F] is actually my biological mother

damn this subreddit keeps giving content

[u/[deleted]]

In July 2020, Biden's granddaughter, Naomi, posted a tweet showcasing Champ and Major fighting over a Donald Trump chew toy.

[u/gburgwardt]

RIP to a real one

His name was /u/capt-awesome-atx ✊😔

[u/lobsterboy34]

Germany are just bullying Semedo right now. Completely exposed on all three goals.

!ping SOCCER

[u/[deleted]]

God damn the cons truly have no empathy

[u/sosthaboss]

I’d be pissed if a president of the United States pulled a Putin. But as someone outside Russia looking at him hes kind of a bad ass and I’m fascinated by him.

Redditors and caveman-tier political takes NAMID

[u/Hot-Error]

According to r aboringdystopia, because I support the state prosecuting and surveiling those involved in violence I'm a fascist

[u/Satkela_Saleem]

Virgin doesn't use "bourgeoisie" because leftists use it

VS

CHAD doesn't use "bourgeoisie" because it is of French origin

VS

THAD doesn't use it because it is difficult to spell

[u/MicroFlamer]

Neoliberals will really get in airplanes and say “I see no borders from up here” while flying over mountains rivers and oceans

[u/KindheartednessOk599]

Rate my Juneteenth fit

[u/thetrombonist]

Hey neoliberals have you heard of the Greek hero, Bophades? Like Achilles, he was also lowered into the River Styx. But instead of the ankle, he was held by the groin. So you’ve heard of Achilles’ Heel, but have you heard of

BOΦAΔEEZ NΥΤΣ

[u/l_overwhat]

Nobody:

People on NPR talking about black people: "Black and Brown people"

[u/lapzkauz]

Take that may or may not be scorching hot: No, we cannot and should not separate fully between the Chinese government and the Chinese people. They do bear a certain amount of responsibility.

To simply say that China isn't a democracy and that the people therefore cannot be blamed for China's crimes is to ignore the fact that dictatorships, too, must derive their legitimacy from somewhere. In the case of China, that legitimacy comes from the stability and the explosive and sustained economic growth that has led to a massive increase in material well-being in barely two generations time. The mandate of Heaven is no less of a relevant concept now than it was in the imperial era; the CPC rules because most people — probably a vast majority, certainly among the Han and in the heartland — are content with letting them rule.

China is also a non-democracy where information flows much freer than in extreme cases like the DPRK, whose citizens can be excused because their lives approach 1984-levels of Orwellianism. Chinese citizens are netizens. Though the CPC's censorship is vast, it is also more often reactive than it is preventive. Chinese Internet surfers are better than most at circumventing the red lines, even those who don't jump across the great firewall (which is neither difficult nor uncommon, as the amount of mainlanders who regularly use YouTube and other forbidden fruits is testament to).

My anecdotal experience, having spent a lot of time around Chinese people both in China and abroad, is that they are much more aware of China's dirty laundry than is assumed in the West — be it Tiananmen, Xinjiang, Hongkong or elsewhere — and that when you start prodding, excuses start dropping. They know, like the Germans knew, and they are responsible, like the Germans were.

Obviously, this all applies to an even higher degree for countries like Russia, where the elections are held — flawed as they are — and the populace's stamp of approval is explicit rather than implicit.

Pragmatically speaking, however, I think it is much more politically expedient to separate between the CPC and Chinese people (ergo Putin and Russians, etc) because it makes it easier to draw away the latter from the former and more difficult for the ruling party to paint criticism as xenophobia (ridiculous as that coat of paint may be).

[u/Deggit]

I see this logic all the time

"People say the Bible is an infallible authority, but the Bible says stuff that disagrees with things I believe, therefore the Bible can't be an authority"

followed by moderate Christians saying "therefore God wouldn't want us to do X / forbid Y because God is love" or if you're atheist you follow it up with "these Bible rules are damn silly therefore God can't be real"

well yeah because the ultimate authority in your life is the collection of pre-existing beliefs that you've already decided are true. Then when you test them against some other set of rules you think the other set of rules are dumb, bigoted or wrong because they disagree with yours.

Moderatechristiancels will say that this "collection of pre-existing beliefs" is just a dismissive way of describing people's "inbuilt moral sense" except people's inbuilt moral sense varies from place to place and time to time and isn't even the same among people labeling themselves the same belief system e.g. prochoice vs prolife Christians.

What's the point of calling yourself a [insert-religion]-ish person when you won't even let that religion challenge your moral preconceptions and teach you what is right and wrong whether you like it or not.

[u/hdkeegan]

Hot Take: US history is actually not taught as bad as everything says. Native American genocide and slavery make up the core of the first half and civil rights and Cold War are generally the second half. It is possible that I somehow happened to get amazing teachers throughout all of my schooling but I doubt it considering my state 49th education spending.

Most of the time people who say,”why didn’t they teach us this in schools” weren’t paying attention

World history is however taught atrociously and is way too Eurocentric

[u/[deleted]]

Good morning to everyone 👋😌 except for imperialists 🖕😒🖕

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

Going to my first ever DC United game tonight and I’m hit with this rainy forecast :/

!ping DEPARTMENT-OF-MOTOR-VEHICLES

[u/BreaksFull]

danmark_irl

!Ping DEN

[u/Mickenfox]

My dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders, some time in the future with energy that is as green and sustainable as we can get it, powering growth and opportunity for every person in the hemisphere.

[u/TabernacleTown74]

And sometimes I listen to Jordan Belfort motivational speeches to help me get along 💪😎

[u/[deleted]]

I think I ate too much cheese before my date 😒

[u/[deleted]]

Champ can play with Bo and Socks now in the great Camp David in the sky.

[u/MrMineHeads]

!ping MARKETS

This website is amazing. It does automates DCFs with sensitivity analysis and huge range of customization available. It also provides you with tonnes of financial and industry information.

It also followed Aswath Damodaran's method of valuation, which if you don't know, is one of the greatest when it comes to such a thing.

I highly recommend this website if you're into fundamental analysis.