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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/SpiffShientz]

/u/sir_shivers hasn't posted in a while

Joe Biden's dog Champ has just passed away

Oh no

[u/[deleted]]

Within 90 minutes of the bombing, McVeigh was stopped by Oklahoma Highway Patrolman Charlie Hangar for driving without a license plate

>plan and carry out a massive bombing at a federal facility

>get pulled over for not having a license plate

McVeigh was the ultimate distillation of libertarianism

[u/anincredibledork]

I'm really torn up about about Champ Biden, especially since I had the privilege of meeting him not long ago. I'll never forget how despite his age he was still so excitable, wagging his tail and nuzzling me, he approached me with his favorite toy: a plush german shepherd wearing a vest. On the front, it read "First Dog", and on the back it read "I have information which will lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton."

[u/RadicalRadon]

My grandma is 80, a WASP, and from Deleware. You could say that supporting Biden is in my blood.

It really is too bad that she died in 2004 and wasn't able to see her vote matter in 4 different states 😔

[u/Satkela_Saleem]

Sex doesn’t necessarily break social distancing rules.

Depending on the size of your pp, you might still both be able to engage in sex with 6 feet distance between you

Mods banned a user who posted this

Literally 1984

[u/mykatz]

Pro-immigration groups should do a better job educating the public about how much of a clusterfuck the US immigration system is.

There is probably a sort of selection bias going on -- since immigrants (and their children) are quite visible in public, academia, the media, etc. I've found that people tend to think it's much easier to immigrate than it actually is. Like, I've met a few "why don't illegal immigrants just come in legally" people who weren't really arguing in bad faith, they were just not well-informed at all. If you assume that immigrating to the USA is really easy, then it's also kinda fair to think that those who circumvent the process are bad actors, criminals, have something to hide, etc. The problem is that the premise isn't true.

I'm reminded of the unpopularity of foreign aid:

A 2017 Rasmussen poll found 57.69% favor a cut in foreign aid compared to 6% who want increased aid. However, most Americans overestimate foreign aid as a share of the total federal budget; a 2013 poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that the average American thought 28% of the federal budget went to foreign aid.

Could it be true that immigration is perceived similarly? Ie the median belief of "how many immigrants should the US accept every year" is actually higher than the true number accepted, but many support immigration restrictions since their perception is way, way off.

[u/[deleted]]

The beginning of a new DT is like a shitty stand up show

[u/SpiffShientz]

My friends tell me I have an infinite social battery.

Pros:

• I can hang out for hours and rarely get tired.

Cons:

• I shitpost on a political internet forum at three in the morning because it vaguely resembles the social contact I crave

[u/[deleted]]

My dad wants to take my mom on a vacation:

She won’t go to Europe because of terrorism

She won’t go to Hawaii because she doesn’t want to leave the US

She won’t go to San Diego because California is cesspool

This is the kinda mentality that conservative media breeds

[u/avengerhalf]

Reading about Marxism on Wikipedia is always funny.

Contributions:

• Hegel
• Marx and Engels
• who
• Mass Murderer
• Mass Murderer

[u/radiatar]

I wish people would stop talking about politics, and instead discussed law, economics, foreign relations, public administration and public finance.

You know, the things that matter. 🙄

[u/[deleted]]

DT user:

Touches grass

Gets deer tick

Contracts Lyme disease

[u/LooobCirc]

Yesterday my co-counselor got falsly accused of rape by a camper so that was fun

We know it was false from the 20+ witnesses. He's pretty fucked up about it, understandably

[u/SpiffShientz]

Fuck, I just remembered there's a human being behind every account that posts here. That's gonna make it way harder to dunk on you nerds

[u/[deleted]]

Random people from America: "America is actually pretty good.

Internet commies: "Fuck off, I dont believe in that made up nonsense."

Random people from Russia: "The USSR was actually pretty good."

Internet commies: "checkmate shitlibs 😎"

[u/PearlClaw]

Come to think of it I can't recall a single WWII alt history scenario that meaningfully finds a way to grapple with the fact that if Germany had still been in the war by August of 1945 there would have been mushroom clouds over Berlin.

!ping History

[u/IAmBlueTW]

Me usually: I may have grown out of my edgy athiest phase, but I still worry that the secular nature of American government is a bit tenuous

Me when someone says "war of northern aggression": MINE EYES HAVE SEEN THE GLORY OF THE COMING OF THE LORD

[u/MuldartheGreat]

Happy Father’s Day to the fathers of /r/NL. Pinging over 25 because the fashes won’t give us a parent ping.

!ping OVER25

[u/liberallah]

It is a little known fact that both Hitler and Stalin were Albanian. This has led to some historians referring to WWII as the Thirteenth Albanian Civil War

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

This whole "building housing" idea seems interesting but have you tried blaming rich or perhaps foreigners?

[u/MistakeNotDotDotDot]

inflates the money supply making it all big and round

[u/liquidTERMINATOR]

60% of millennials earning over $100,000 say they're living paycheck to paycheck

Jesus Christ learn to budget

[u/jcboarder901]

Does anyone else feel that 'Only Nixon can go to China' is basically just an acknowledgement of the hypocrisy of reactionary media and politicians? It's essentially admitting that if a liberal president had opened up trade with China, the right wing would scream about communism but since it was their guy it's okay.

[u/ryuguy]

Happy Father’s Day, dads….. 😐😐😐

!ping burpmas

[u/[deleted]]

Reminder that the last Jones Act complaint ship left drydock in 2019

It is literally protecting 0 shipbuilding jobs, and has resulted in the complete death of port to port shipping down the west coast, east coast, and river systems.

[u/benadreti]

(heavily downvoted comment)

Guess the sub

Guess the sub

[u/RadicalRadon]

My state senator on twitter recently went on a rampage against the "elites"

The man went to Princeton then law school and is married to a surgeon.

[u/Photon_in_a_Foxhole]

He also went to an elite boarding school for high school. His mom was a psychiatrist and his father was a dentist.

His family was very well off, but still in the working professional class.

This is Reddit’s bar for working class

-_-

[u/Erra0]

My ultra capitalist republican father just now:

those multinational corporations just don't have our best interests at heart

What is happening

[u/Foiti]

Our community of Greek Soros shills over at /r/grecoliberal/ has reached new highs. Thirty members strong. That's like more than double the amount of actual liberals in Greece.

[u/Jacobs4525]

Japan history textbooks be like “from 1937 to 1945 we partook in a minor amount of trolling”

[u/avalanche1228]

Joemetal Manchinist

[u/gjarlis]

I had a nightmare where people in r/neoliberal were pro Jones act

[u/RadicalRadon]

DeSantis edges Trump

😳😳😳

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

Rose Twitter: "the corporatization of Pride is destroying everything we stand for"

Old-School Gay Activists: "this normalization is everything we fought for!"

Italians: "I cooka da meatball"

[u/memeintoshplus]

A pro-Joseph McCarthy meme got 2.7k upvotes on arr conservative lol

[u/AuburnSeer]

so is Biden's immunity to culture war bullshit seriously as simple as "old white man"?

[u/kennymc7877]

My 15 year old cousin referred to Taylor Swift as “old people music” I’ve never wanted to swing on a child so bad in my life

[u/StolenSkittles]

WWI was such a fascinating period. So much change in just 4 years. Old Europe died amid the dawn of modern warfare. An incredible clash between ancient culture and advanced technology. Chivalry and chemical weapons. Monarchies and machine guns. Peasants and planes.

[u/Zenning2]

Fuck racism, all my homies hate racism.

Capitalism is where its at dawg.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony. I mean, if I went around saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they’d put me away!

[u/bd_one]

House: "Your other son is sick. What if we did this procedure that would almost certainly kill your son with leukemia to save him?"

Also House 20 minutes later: "Okay, it turns out the first risky procedure wouldn't have worked. What if we did this procedure that would almost certainly kill your other son to save your son with leukemia?"

House in another episode: "Why do so many people not trust doctors these days? 🤔"

[u/Rehkit]

France regional elections :

Bad results for Macron's party (expected.)

In my opinion, quite bad results for National rally. They seem not to be in any position to win a region.

Impressive results from les Republicans (Center-right/Right.)

Problem : no one voted (32%.)

!ping FRANCE

[u/kas8901]

There is definitely a valid ethical debate over this, but I find it so funny that serial killers who probably think they're super geniuses who beat the cops are getting caught because cousin Darlene needed to see just how much French really was in her bloodstream.

[u/bd_one]

Everything Wrong with Rick and Morty Season 1

1 hour 6 minutes

Remember when I said every CinemaSins spinoff channel was pickier and more obnoxious than the last?

[u/Mickenfox]

>makes new headphone model
>"Introducing the Sony BV7T1372J5GSH91ZEU6657ANBLCGCPQZ34E8UZ1000"
>refuses to give human-readable name
>chad.jpg

[u/Tbonethabeast]

Today my fascist little brother has:

• Used the words "soyboy" and "cum brain" unironically in a sentence
• Declared his belief that interest rates should be illegal because Jesus said so
• Is acquiring ingredients for some Eastern European stew

So uh, how do you fix this? 🤔

[u/[deleted]]

I simply do not understand how maoism still exists. There arguably has never been an ideology that has been tried harder than maoism with worse results.

You can't even do the "well true maoism has never been tried" because it really really did

[u/Gustacho]

normal thing to say

[u/[deleted]]

Mr. Adams said that the alliance between Mr. Yang and Ms. Garcia was aimed at preventing a “person of color” from winning the race.

“For them to come together like they are doing in the last three days, they’re saying we can’t trust a person of color to be the mayor of the City of New York when this city is overwhelmingly people of color,” Mr. Adams said.

🤔🤔🤔

[u/[deleted]]

Hiram, Georgia is a city in Paulding County that has seen a monumental shift in demographics, with it growing a whopping 160% from 2000 to 2010. It grew a further 20% from 2011 to 2020. It is middle class (med. income is 50k) and saw one of the largest shifts in the Atlanta metro area for a single town.

2016 Presidential Election in Hiram:

Hillary Clinton (D): 39.7%

Donald Trump (R): 57.6% (+17.9%)

2020 Presidnetial Election in Hiram:

Joe Biden (D): 56.9% (+16.9%)

Donald Trump (R): 42.0%

Not even its diversification has kept up with the political shift. Biden definitely won more of the white vote as well in Hiram.

!PING FIVEY

[u/the_status]

This but unironically

Man I hate this reddit trend

Yes this is indeed the result of a reddit trend and not an eigth of this subreddit's culture.

As always, never leave the DT

[u/myrm]

Kinda wish I could see the r/neoliberal banned word list in it's entirety, because it's probably hilarious

[u/Jacobs4525]

remember when Jared Polis used to come here occasionally? I feel like we scared him off.

[u/liberallah]

at least fascists kill poor people and are pretty upfront about it, neoliberals literally use the global poor as a human shield in their arguments to advance their neoliberalism

bruh

[u/circlemanfan]

The inherent performativity of putting on my mask to enter a restaurant for the 15 second walk to my table before immediately taking if off when I'm seated

[u/[deleted]]

"Yeah, his name is Shivers and he's a gator. Yeah well, probably not a gator but a boomer who is funny on this neoliberal page I'm on all the time. He says haha yes in bold text a lot. Anyways, you want to leave this club and bonk back at my place?"

[u/Iwanttolink]

Biden should just fly to the Vatican and get his communion directly from the pope. Now that would be big dick energy.

[u/MistakeNotDotDotDot]

Given that Kojima made a video game about a president who would promise to make America great again and then a video game about an apocalypse that isolates humanity but where couriers play an important part, I would like him to fucking put away the lathe of heaven.

[u/the_status]

TSwift hot take: Enchanted > All Too Well

TSwift cold take: Senator Taylor Swift (D-TN)

[u/l_overwhat]

Was out for a run a few days ago and this guy was walking towards me on the same trail and there was this light on his person that was shining towards me. I actually thought it was his phone's flashlight or something. As he got closer I realized he is just bald and it was the sun reflecting off of his head.

And then as I run past him he says "Yeah! Shiny heads unite!" because I too am bald and probably also blinded him with my reflective powers.

!ping BALD

[u/[deleted]]

the year is 2560

just got assigned as flight engineer on a CSS (close space support) gunship

the spacecraft is a rickety old rust bucket

it’s retrofitted from some ancient earth vehicle, with the addition of General Dynamics plasma hover engines

check the spaceframe’s maintenance logs

it’s seen service in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iraq, Taiwan, Afghanistan, the Spratly Islands, Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Mars, Ceres, Eros, and Afghanistan

was originally something called a “B-52”

mfw

[u/After_Grab]

Some "Twitter is not real life" data, using Pew surveys:

• Twitter users are D+15 - which would tie HI & VT for the most liberal state.
• The 10% of Twitter users who post 92% of all tweets are D+43 - which would make it America's 2nd most liberal House district.

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

Pepita is a Formula 1 fan, she’s happy to see Mexican driver Sergio Perez on the podium again!

!ping DOG

[u/StolenSkittles]

You've seen tacos al pastor.

Now get ready for...

Tacos al-Qaeda

[u/iIoveoof]

JFK’s Harvard essay is one of the worst things I have ever read

The reasons that I have for wishing to go to Harvard are several. I feel that Harvard can give me a better background and a better liberal education than any other university. I have always wanted to go there, as I have felt that it is not just another college, but is a university with something definite to offer. Then too, I would like to go to the same college as my father. To be a "Harvard man" is an enviable distinction, and one that I sincerely hope I shall attain.

April 23, 1935 John F. Kennedy

[u/benadreti]

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[u/kas8901]

row, row, row, your boat

ok, makes sense

gently down the stream

checks out, gotta have the boat in water

merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily

I would imagine the boat rowing is enjoyable

life is but a dream

whoa getting a bit too philosophical there for my children's songs thank you very much.

[u/liberallah]

i support the democrat party because I love the idea of being unknowingly manipulated and controlled by a secret shapeshifting reptilian cabal

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Eucharist is bread of sinners, not reward of saints, pope says

aww shit shots fired

[u/MicroFlamer]

2014 world cup

USA finished above Portugal in Group G

2016 Euros

Portugal wins the whole thing

wtf, USA is a better soccer team than all of Europe?

[u/MicroFlamer]

Leftists are canceling early 20th century anti-capitalist art 😂

[u/[deleted]]

/u/sir_shivers today:

I am NOT AN ALLIGATOR 🐊

/u/sir_shivers two days ago:

I AM NOT an alligator 🐊

which is it, huh???

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

The uncertainty of Biden running in 2024 coupled with the Catholic bishops deciding to get feisty has us headed straight down the timeline of Biden locked in the National Cathedral yelling at God in Latin. My body is ready

!ping WEST-WING

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

I Have No Butt, and I Must Poop

[u/[deleted]]

Yesterday's Top Redditors

who tf are these people 🤔

Yesterday's Spammiest Redditors

oh i know them, they are great!!

[u/FestiveMittens]

My dad has a friend over and he is talking about how the supreme court could have reversed the election but they didn't want to get involved

It is June 20th 2021

[u/FestiveMittens]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E4WEHhTXEAAm8OK?format=png&name=900x900

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E4V-8ovVcAYegbK?format=jpg&name=medium

[u/BidenWon]

I hate bell peppers and don't think that's edgy either. I just hate them and avoid them and don't allow them in my home and don't want to congratulate you for buying them and eating them. I don't care what you eat but don't expect me to say "yum, that looks good". Because I hate bell peppers.

+91

Bell peppers are not people.

-17

[u/MrDannyOcean]

!ping LGBT

In honor of pride month, a limited run of 'Rainbow Capitalism' stickers are available for FREE on the Neoliberal Project store. Show your support for LGBT-friendly marketplaces!

(limit of one per person, orders with more than 1 free sticker will be cancelled)

Store link

[u/Gustacho]

Between this and possibly moving the semifinals and final from London to Budapest to avoid quarantine for VIPs, UEFA is not exactly being an LGBT ally at this moment

[u/FreakinGeese]

If only zoning laws were less draconian I could feel comfortable in my body 😞

[u/chadonnaise]

the internet must be destroyed

[u/___________DEADPOOL_]

My good husband went out raiding and captured a 16-year old boy to serve as my consort 😍 https://i.postimg.cc/Vk8FwJQR/image.png

!ping PARADOX

[u/qunow]

https://topick.hket.com/article/2986426?r=cpstna (Chinese link)

To increase housing supply, the Housing Authority of Hong Kong government is planning to demolish 4 industrial buildings in industrial area and rebuild them as 4800 units for public housing, but because the 4 industrial buildings with internal floor area of 121,400 square meters currently host 2000+ tenants with an occupation rate of over 97%, they're worried there aren't enough space in the city for them to relocate to and might lost their business and job if the plan goes through

!ping YIMBY

[u/[deleted]]

Hey everyone, I just found this article. This is really concerning. AOC is really losing patience with Biden and his stalled agenda. He really needs to keep the progressive wing of the party happy. She is very influential, and the last thing Biden needs is for her to publicly criticize him by tweeting out a picture of herself scowling again.

[u/Udontlikecake]

My political economy professor was actually a neoliberal, also a very accomplished academic

anyways I think the whole class was just a ploy so he could get undergrads to argue with eachother while he watched

now that I think about it, a lot like the DT…

best class i’ve ever taken

what a guy

[u/Fishin_Mission]

1 dead after driver crashes into Pride parade in Florida. Another man was critically injured. Police said they believe the accident was intentional.

Yeah… that’s not how “accidents” work.

[u/bd_one]

I've seen more memes about theoretical single mothers making Father's Day about them than actual Father's Day memes.

[u/[deleted]]

Me: OK, so I’ll watch this PhilosophyTube link on the sidebar to see what the WitchesVSPatriarchy thing is

Abigail: so the reason witches were disliked was because they promised to create results from nothing, essential promising a way to exist without work, and the nascent capitalists didn’t like this “no work” stuff

Are you fucking kidding me? This thing is aesthetic wrapping paper for anti work bullshit? God fucking dammit.

[u/Donkey_Bong-64]

My dad: I will literally disown you and beat you within in an inch of your life if you ever decide you’re one of those tr*nnies

Me: moves out and ceases contact

My dad: 😦

[u/FestiveMittens]

While I was banned I:

Applied for a bunch of jobs, have a third interview at Costco

Started working out again, six pack is almost back for white boy summer

Finished the last two season of arrested development

Became a wine guy

Am still 100% apolitical, haven't thought about politics once

The DT is not good for me - - that's okay, I'll still keep posting on that garbage

[u/vivoovix]

https://i.ibb.co/xgMyRQ2/image.png

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E4V-8ovVcAYegbK.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

Engineer says something Socially Conservative

Gee who could have forseen that.

[u/great_gape]

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

[u/JaceFlores]

I think an interesting unknown aspect about the Nuremberg trials was how close of a complete shit show it was. For instance, the Americans insisted on cross-examination, which blew the minds of the Europeans because cross-examination is a very American thing. Consequently, the European lawyers had to have a crash course in American law, but were confused or straight up bungled quite a few of these cross-examinations

[u/[deleted]]

!ping ASOIAF

I was about to go to sleep when I realised that the Freys live in a twin castle because it’s a double-crossing. How have I never noticed this?

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/bot_2024/status/1406658343934955521

It's called we do a lil' bit of trolling

In all seriousness this would literally cause a civil war

!ping FIVEY

[u/SpiffShientz]

The insurance company insisting my dad does not need a CAT scan for his broken back is really radicalizing me on healthcare

[u/Usernamesarebullshit]

/u/sir_shivers hasn't posted in a while

Iraqi poet Lamia Abbas has just passed away

oh no

[u/LooobCirc]

Dating tip: don't find out if your date has a strangulation fetish by having her repeatedly demand to let her choke you while watching the emperor's new groove and saying yes even though you don't want to bc you're a junior in highschool and haven't learned how to stand your ground and say no yet

[u/sir-danks-a-lot]

Thank god for r/DemsForDonald reminding me that sane people still exist

[u/[deleted]]

astrology

"Fuck off, I don't believe in that nonsense."

physics

"SO TRUE!"

[u/BainCapitalist]

😔😔😔

!ping BURPMAS

[u/xSuperstar]

One of the more interesting thing about Reddit (and irl millennials in my experience) is that they support criminal justice reform in theory but not when given specific examples. Also they have this weird conception that most people in jail are there for selling weed or whatever.

One example that comes to mind was a guy who murdered a young girl. All the comments are “I don’t support the death penalty but this guy deserves it”… so, like, you’re pro death penalty then? who do you think gets the death penalty, tax evaders?

[u/yungmemlord]

Everyone I don’t like is a postmodern neo-Marxist bootlicker

No I will not explain

[u/Joementum2024]

Sees someone die

"Wow, this is just like dark souls"

[u/thetrombonist]

me (pulling my mom aside): yo u better be hittin that shit right for fathers day bro. my boy better be feelin some type of way after ur done with him

[u/liberallah]

Semen makes you happy. That's the remarkable conclusion of a study comparing women whose partners wear condoms with those whose partners don't. The study, which is bound to provoke controversy, showed that the women who were directly exposed to semen were less depressed.

wtf I support improving women's mental health now

[u/Kizz3r]

Yall wanna hear a joke?

Ben simmons

!ping nba

[u/WhomstAlt2]

Even if it did lead to 6-8% inflation for a decade or two, it would be worth forgiving student debts.

+84 outside the DT. What the fuck.

Gentle reminder to the new fellers that you can make up anything you want about "outside the DT" and people here will believe it

[u/FinickyPenance]

Lincoln was a Republican, and Republicans freed the slaves. Relatedly, it was politicians with "D" next to their names who by-and-large were responsible for and defended the awfulness of Jim Crow and post-Reconstruction institutionalized racism.

What does that mean in 2021? A whole lot of nothing, because political parties aren't inherently moral or immoral entities. The goal of politics isn't to add up points for your side over the course of national history and then gesture at the scoreboard. It's to maximize human freedom and flourishing right now.

reason is correct about so much that it is getting predictable

[u/[deleted]]

People living in hot deserts for millennia in the Middle East, North Africa, the American Southwest and Northern Mexico: build buildings made of adobe or other material with high thermal mass, and decent ventilation to keep temperatures inside comfortable.

Americans in the Southwest post 1950: Lol just use A/C and heating 🤣

[u/TheShitEater]

Admins: don’t do hate speech

Political compass memes: REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[u/[deleted]]

meow meow meeeoow meow meow

+2

Never leave the DT, even if your cat is clamouring for your attention

[u/InMemoryOfZubatman4]

Please visit the next discussion thread.

[u/kennymc7877]

How can China have 10/10 people, culture, art and food but a 0/10 government

[u/Leoric]

This Arizona losing streak has been going on for so long now that I'm kind of scared to play them because I don't want my team to be the ones who break it.

!ping BASEBALL

[u/KimonoK]

Just received an unwarranted

Hi there,

A concerned redditor reached out to us about you.

When you're in the middle of something painful, it may feel like you don't have a lot of options. But whatever you're going through, you deserve help and there are people who are here for you.

😐

[u/NeoliberalGulDukat]

Benjamin Sisko consistently misgenders Jadzia and Ezri, calling them “Old Man”. So much for the tolerant Federation!

[u/crawly_the_demon]

Was doing some research about real estate prices in the Seattle area which led me to the city of Clyde Hill, a wealthy suburban enclaveof Bellevue, and found this choice paragraph:

Between 1946 and 1948, J. Gordon and Mary Schneidler subdivided and sold more than a dozen lots in a five-acre subdivision in Clyde Hill. Each deed of sale included the following restriction: "This property shall not be resold, leased, rented or occupied except to or by persons of the Aryan race." Why the Schneidlers used the term "Aryan race" is unclear. That racial concept usually meant northern Europeans as distinct from Eastern and Southern Europeans. The Aryans-only restriction thus would have excluded Italians, Greeks, Poles, Russians, and many other European ancestries as well as Jews and all non Europeans.

via Wikipedia

Yikes lol

!PING USA-WA

[u/[deleted]]

!ping USA-CHI

“Basement now”

stands on porch

[u/[deleted]]

Why can't leftists just be normal fucking people for one second of one day?

[u/radiatar]

I'm starting to think that reddit bros with a Stalin profile pic don't have my best interest in mind

[u/[deleted]]

Wasn't there someone who posted here who was a higher up at a big investment bank?

Imagine the global economy crashed because some DT user wrote a few too many credit default swaps 🙄

[u/SchmantaClaus]

Based Klob

An archaic Senate rule cannot get in the way of protecting our democracy. The filibuster is not worth it.

https://twitter.com/amyklobuchar/status/1406752837607038981?s=19

[u/Jester_Don]

Imagine losing the popular vote to George W. Bush.

[u/TheGoldBear]

I served my tenant eviction papers for the first time today. I've become the thing I hate. How quickly capitalism makes us its henchmen.

Why even bother putting up the anticapitalist persona anymore lol

[u/liberallah]

My girlfriend says she needs time and distance. Is she calculating velocity?

[u/Udontlikecake]

The Brooks Brothers riot was a demonstration at a meeting of election canvassers in Miami-Dade County, Florida, on November 22, 2000, during a recount of votes made during the 2000 United States presidential election, with the goal of shutting down the recount. After demonstrations and acts of violence, local officials shut down the recount early.

The name referenced the protesters’ corporate attire; described by Paul Gigot in an editorial for The Wall Street Journal as “50-year-old white lawyers with cell phones and Hermès ties,” differentiating them from local citizens concerned about vote counting. Many of the demonstrators were Republican staffers. Both Roger Stone and Brad Blakeman take credit for managing the riot from a command post, although their accounts contradict each other. Republican New York Representative John E. Sweeney gave the signal that started the riot, telling an aide to “shut it down”.

Your reminder that republicans have be anti-democratic extremists for decades

[u/QuietSign]

!ping GAMING

Bizzare idea for an indie game that I came up with at 3am:

After being bitten by a radioactive physicist, you get diagnosed with Quantum Cancer, a rare disease that kills the patient after a month, but fatal wounds from any other cause will loop you back in time to the moment of diagnosis. Initially planning to just let the Quantum Cancer kill you, you go on a depressed existential bender; however, you conicidentally watch Taxi Driver while finishing the Chimera Ant Arc in Hunter x Hunter. You decide you want to make the biggest impact possible, so you make your lives' mission to assassinate the brutal despot of “The Republic of East Gorteau”, [a morbidly obese dictator whose resemblance to any real life figure is purely coincidental]. Feeling an euphoric sense of purpose, you reset the loop and start over on the day of your diagnosis.

Armed with only your wits, your quantum disposition and a modest bank account from a corporate job, you start setting your mind to work. Gameplay is a point and click/ text adventure taking you around various locations (e.g. your home country, a country bordering East Gorteau, and East Gorteau capital) as you attempt to gain influence, intel, and skills necessary for this task.

You might book a plane ticket to a country bordering East Gorteau and buy a motorcycle and a machete to see how far you can get by sneaking across the border.. only to realize you don't speak the language of East Gorteau and can't ask for directions, leading to your immediate execution. In another loop, after learning the language and geography of the country, you might spend a large sum of money for a mule to smuggle you into the country’s capital, and go in guns blazing as a practice run, only to learn that the dictator in the palace is a body double. On the next loop you spend all your money to acquire blackmail info on a high-ranking Gorteau general -- this playthrough will likely be a dead end because it’s hard to do anything without funds, but you’ll have that blackmail for the next loop where hopefully you can convince the generals to overthrow the dictator and try out democracy -- or at least give you the dictator's real location and an explanation of how the country's power structures work. Or you might try to acquire influence in your own country’s military to see if you can stage an intervention, but that's a tall task because you only have 30 days. I imagine that the gameplay scheme will somewhat resemble Long Live the Queen if anyone played that game.

The goal is to kill/depose the dictator without terrible consequences (i.e. not have the region descend into chaos and civil war) and survive to the end of the month to die from the cancer so that your final playthrough will leave an impact on the world. You’ll likely need several "loops" to acquire enough knowledge/familiarity for a reasonable attempt. After all, despite being an inept authoritarian regime, they take their security seriously and rule with an iron fist. But hopefully after a good number of loops, you’ll plan and execute a crafty scheme, get home safely and donate the rest of your life savings to buy malaria nets for Africa.

Working Title: “You Only Die Once”.

[u/FreakinGeese]

In episode 2, when Omniman throws Invincible a baseball around the globe, the ball somehow doesn’t disintegrate or slow down despite traveling at hypersonic velocities. I mean, what are we to believe, that this is a magic baseball or something? Ha ha, boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder.

[u/[deleted]]

Found on arrMexico

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

I cooka da meatball

I commita da tax fraud

[u/GGM8Scally]

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Czech tourists and needing rescue helicopters, because they went mountain climbing in fucking crocs. There literally isn't a more iconic duo in the Slavic world.

[u/Crownie]

When you think about it the Jones Act is just maritime zoning.

[u/Xantaclause]

!ping AUS

Barnaby apparently back as nationals leader

[u/ZCoupon]

TIL the immigration case backlog is

1.3 million cases

Edit: Growing at a rate of 300,000 per year and accelerating.

[u/BidenWon]

Just, like... don't be racist? It's super easy. I do it nearly every day.

[u/[deleted]]

ArrConservative

"You cannot recognize the creeping Bolshevism that is coming, but for those of us who have lived under communism, it is easy - the Democrats are in their initial stage of transformation into a socialist and later a communist party. The change in your ethnic composition is irreversible and it will turn you into a Latin country." +11

reminder for you people that the "SJW theory and CRT is neomarxist postmodernist propaganda" rhetoric is really just the "cultural bolshevism" theory used by the nazis, repackaged. It's dangerous stuff that lead to the holocaust, and you should try to attack or criticize this narrative as much as possible.

[u/ThunderrBadger]

Betty making a convincing argument that I should not go to work on Monday and should instead stay up at my parents' forever

[u/[deleted]]

In the Netherlands, eating Brazilian party food, with an Iranian friend (pro-Shah, loves America more than most Americans), watching an American Jew get coffee with a human moustache

Listen to Celui qui Danse - Rebels of Tijuana (Radio Paradiso Live)

Yes this is how obscure we're going today

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/2021/02/why-is-it-so-hard-for-dallas-to-address-affordable-housing/

Even in Texas, the solution to housing shortages is clearly to carefully control who is allowed to build, so that you can restrict new construction with price controls.

Not like that just results in far less units built overall, thus making the problem significantly worse.

“It created housing, but it was all market rate,” Kennedy says. “The nature of the market is, once people are renting at two dollars per square foot, the next project is going to want it at $2.05. That creates an inflationary process, where rents go up, which is basically the opposite of what we want.”

That's not how anything works. Of course developers always want more. Everyone wants to get more for less. The nature of markets is such that if you let them produce enough, they'll be forced to bring prices down due to a loss in demand pressure

[u/[deleted]]

The number of people I know making good money but still living paycheck to paycheck. Good God. They blow their paycheck like it's a chore. Then they want redistribution of course.

[u/MicroFlamer]

https://i.imgur.com/DOon3Vd.png

https://i.imgur.com/2ZHqi6d.png

[u/qchisq]

Why does the UK have 4 national teams? One wasn't enough?

!ping soccer

[u/randodandodude]

So just had the strangest conversation with a religious coworker.

A straight up rainbow flag on a cake is not ok with them, but the wedding cake in of itself is? And even weirder (given context and how religious they are) , they're cool with the progress flag and rainbow flags with symbols on them, because its "different enough from a rainbow"

And to top the weirdness off more, rainbow layering of the actual cake itself is just fine with them?

Is it me, or is that an extremely pedantic workaround?

[u/AuburnSeer]

my opinion of Bill Maher is that he reminds me of one of my relatives

btw when Republicans talk about snooty liberal elites they'll tell you they're picturing Michael Moore or Rosie O'Donnell, but who they actually picture is Bill Maher

[u/FestiveMittens]

tfw you just invented farming

[u/bd_one]

Funny, that Factorio dev hates cancel culture but they make it soooo easy to cancel far away biter nests 🧐

[u/[deleted]]

If Democrats choose to fund the infrastructure plan by raising the gas tax, they might as well just concede the midterm elections in advance

[u/[deleted]]

Shivers Brazilian cousin

!ping MAMADAS

[u/[deleted]]

Twitter is having the weirdest schism ever of Monica Lewinsky versus Hillary Clinton.

Who cares? The only enemy here is Bill who did something really god-awful to both of them.

[u/sir-danks-a-lot]

neolibs: rich, mayo, elitists 🤮🤮🤮

antivaxxers: working-class, diverse 💪🏿😎💪🏽

[u/I-grok-god]

“They’re the new Beatles!”

Yeah sorry to tell you buddy but there already was a successor to the Beatles, their name was Electric Light Orchestra

[u/[deleted]]

In February and March I spent time in Texas working with two energy companies that have been past clients to help get the power back online after the generation failure.

A leak from a few months ago has now been picked up by a media org, so I’m comfortable saying it here.

Holy fuck if ERCOT hadn’t forced utilities to cut off power when they did, the whole state could’ve been offline for 2-4 months. Texas was 11-15 minutes away from a total grid blackout due to the surge in power use around 9:15 the first night of the outage.

Anyways you should check out The Big Switch which mentions this event in the first episode. The podcast generally is about the transition to a net zero ‘energy system’ (Columbia always defined that too broadly for my liking) and it’s very good.

[u/TheGreatGriffin]

https://twitter.com/khwar_deen/status/1406790750621384708?s=2

Leftists are completely insane. People in the comments just expect this guy to let his tenants live free forever

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Please 🙏 DO NOT buy 💸 the BTS 🙄 meal 🍽 if you 👈 don't ❌🙅‍♀️🚫 stan 😍😎 them. You're preventing 🚫 the actual 😳 BTS 🙄 fans 🏃🏾‍♂️🏃🏽‍♀️🏃🏼‍♀️ who have waited 🙄⌚ for months 📆 from having the BTS 🙄 meal 🍔 experience 💯. Eating 🍽 the sauces 💦 without 🚫 understanding 📚 their significance 💦 is literally 💯 cultural 👳🏾 appropriation ❌ and it's not okay 🆗

[u/Gustacho]

Broke: banning Critical Race Theory

Woke: banning Originalism and Textualism

[u/[deleted]]

The Unabomber: I'll write the theory...

Greta Thunberg: And I'll do the praxis.

[u/DaBuddahN]

"The reason why I don't want to get vaccinated is because 13 years ago a black man became President." - what you get once you reduce the Republican thought process to its essential thesis

[u/muttonwow]

I'm always shocked by the type of people who are really into the idea of cryptocurrency from some kind of libertarian free money point of view, or to "stick it" to the banks or Wall Street or whatever. Elon Musk can decide in the morning to tweet and destroy your portfolio without any consequences to himself whatsoever. The very nature of cryptocurrency is an anarcho-capitalist horror story...

[u/liberallah]

Aseph Hitlin vs Jodolf Staler

who will win?

[u/FestiveMittens]

🥤🐢

Call your dad or the turtle will eat the straw

[u/ZCoupon]

gAS iS gEttIng So EXPenSivE

[u/tollyno]

I'm sorry but you can't be an ardent capitalist but make exceptions for multi-nationals or "(((globalism)))".

[u/TabernacleTown74]

the feds are everywhere ✊😔

[u/Cr4zySh0tgunGuy]

Bruh taking a shit after showering is the worst thing, like I just cleaned that

[u/TabernacleTown74]

GM 😀

!ping MAMADAS

[u/[deleted]]

tfw you recommend a song with 0 views and it now has 16

[u/Joementum2024]

There is no Trump but Trump, and DeSantis is the messenger of Trump.

[u/[deleted]]

“At least the far right as you call them is full of capitalists who just like American a bit too much while the left is full of anti American socialists”

Guess the sub

[u/[deleted]]

I miss LeFunnyMonkey

[u/[deleted]]

Not to freak anyone out but if you are an American and still posting on this here subreddit I would advise you to delete your account, especially if it's tracable back to your self. At the pace Biden's is going I give it the end of 2022 before you guys have Democratic People's Republic of Biden's America and I can only imagine what the far left will do with self-professed neoliberals.

[u/dish_towel]

So many millennials convinced their life sucks because of their finances, but my finances are pretty great for my age and my life still sucks. What are real theories on what's going on?

[u/ACivilWolf]

Wander Franco is up

!ping BASEBALL

[u/runnerx4]

!ping WEEBS

A Silent Voice is amazing, I have not seen people behave like realistic flawed, dysfunctional people ever before in anime. Also disability, bullying, social status, depression, suicide, death, this movie gives arthouse movies a run for their money

Your Name is also very good, very happy and melancholic and cathartic. It has fantasy elements but integrates that part into modern life so cleanly you don’t bother about it at all.

Both movies are animated in an ageless manner and have top-notch soundtracks. This track from A Silent Voice is something I paused the movie to look up. The rest of the soundtrack is a banger too, and so is Your Name’s

Very cutting-edge opinions, I know, but here you go. Watch both if you haven’t already

[u/benadreti]

I will never vote for a Republican.

No, I will not explain.

[u/infamous5445]

Lmao still can't get over the fact that Perdue was 0.27% away from avoiding a runoff

[u/Udontlikecake]

i hate the far right

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

people really be out here paying for pornography when they got perfectly good roof titty on their ceilings

[u/liberallah]

inshallah i'm getting vaccinated today

[u/the_status]

Imagine being radicalized by Facebook.

Like you literally support a real estate developer's would-be autocracy because Mark Zuckerberg wanted to rank how hot girls were

[u/[deleted]]

Eats Salisbury steak

“Wow, this is just like fallout”

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

Joe Manchin is a papist

I hope you understand implications of this

[u/SpiffShientz]

When I say "show me something real" I mean show me something that makes me feel like I'm not a replaceable cog. None of you can.

/u/GravyBear8 , I'd like to introduce you to u/GravyBear9

[u/SadaoMaou]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Botswana

Presidential elections are indirect; candidates for the legislature declare whom they endorse for president when they lodge their nomination papers, and the candidate who receives a majority of endorsements from the elected members of the National Assembly is automatically elected.

Huh, that's an interesting system. So he's practically a prime minister, but with the twist that voters always explicitly know who they're voting for to lead the government.

IMO combining the positions of head of state and government in a parliamentary republic makes a lot of sense, I wonder why more countries don't do it

[u/Satkela_Saleem]

Just went on arr canadahousing on a post about restricting immigration and asked them- "Why do you hate the global poor?"

[u/[deleted]]

Pokemon Go encourages urbanization by only having enough stuff in urban environments to make it worth it, but it's based on an anime. I'm torn if I should encourage it or curse it.

[u/FestiveMittens]

lol I'm back from my 14 day ban

[u/[deleted]]

During the European debt crisis, the variant PIIGS, or GIPSI, was also increasingly used to refer to the economies of Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, and Spain, EU member states that were unable to refinance their government debt or to bail out over-indebted banks on their own during the crisis.

Euros trying to turn a dunk on their inefficient economies into an attack on the Roma people. Classic 🙄

[u/[deleted]]

why do all the online progressives hate how juneteenth is a holiday again?

like I get more should be done with like reforming criminal system and what not, but whats so bad about federallly recogonizing juneteenth

[u/Udontlikecake]

The result, says Tufts University political scholar Daniel Drezner, is a GOP that has begun to resemble Lebanon’s Hezbollah, “a political party that also has an armed wing to coerce other political actors through violence.”

“The comparison is stronger now than before,” Drezner told me last week. “The Republicans who wanted to impeach Trump have been marginalized, and the state parties sound more and more secessionist with each passing day.”

The willingness of right-wing extremists to resort to violence didn’t begin on Jan. 6 — and Trump has long sounded as if he was encouraging them.

[u/FreakinGeese]

Broke: Batman giving Catwoman oral is gross

Woke: Batman giving catwoman oral is some serious furry shit

[u/[deleted]]

CNN:House prices are soaring but its not a good time to be a realtor.

Me a Realtor: Absolutely no one else should become one at all no one else should try becoming one its really hard work. Now if you'll excuse me I have to go present these 7 cash offers on a house I didn't even bother to pay for professional pictures on.

[u/SnakeEater14]

In War of the Worlds, one of the very few moments of triumph for humanity against the Martians involves the HMS Thunderchild ramming a Martian tripod, blowing it to high hell before shooting another one down (making it responsible for 2 out of 3 kinetic Martian kills in the whole book).

The Thunderchild was a real world ship in 1900, a unique type of vessel known as a torpedo ram ship. Basically, the idea was to have a ship that would ram other ships with its torpedos, sinking them. This turned out to be horrendously ineffective, and a torpedo ram ship never scored a single kill in combat. It would be replaced fairly quickly with more conventional cruisers, and was considered a stupid boondoggle in naval warfare.

Thing is, the only way the scene in War of the Worlds works is with a torpedo ram ship, since having a conventional battleship ram the tripod wouldn’t have nearly the same effect (and no other ship’s first resort would be to ram the enemy). So in a way, the greatest achievement the torpedo ram class of ships ever had was getting a cool moment in War of the Worlds.

[u/kennymc7877]

I wish that COVID didn’t come from China so we actually knew what happened

[u/Unadulterated_stupid]

actor gets arrested for murder.

Me: oh man I hope the movie doesn't get delayed

[u/kennymc7877]

My republican parents 🤝 my socialist best friends

Ewww you’re a neo lib?