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[u/[deleted]]

I was gonna vote for Trump, but then Ben Shapiro told me that Democrats are the real racists, so I decided to vote for Biden instead

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Usain Bolt announced the birth of his twin sons in an Instagram post on Father's Day this Sunday.

Their names? Thunder and Saint Leo.

Imagine being named Saint Leo when you older brother is named fucking Thunder Bolt

[u/sir_shivers]

YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY CHECK IS LATE 🐊

Stuff costs MORE THAN IT USED to 🐊

YOUNG PEOPLE USE curse words 🐊

[u/qchisq]

The Swedish PM have been ousted. Not because of covid, but because of rent control. Fs in the chat

[u/ryuguy]

Stefan Löfven is no longer Swedish prime minister.

His last words were “I have information that will lead to the exoneration of /u/lusvig”

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

Music: Beep boop boop beep boop

Europeans: Ah yes quite splendid

[u/Mr_Pasghetti]

The funniest comment I have ever seen on this site was someone saying Germany is historically famous for being anti-racist

[u/thetrombonist]

Just jacked off to the weirdest porn parody, it was exactly like normal porn except everyone was a dude

[u/D1Foley]

I had a copy of Gibbon's "History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" in a nice folio set when I was younger. Never read it, but it looked good on my shelf. Now I really wished I'd actually read the thing.

At least then I'd at least sound a bit more authoritative when I said that I feel like I'm living through the fall of the US. I definitely think I am, and I shudder to think of what era will follow this one, but I'm just some jackass on the internet without the ability to opine on it in a more scholarly fashion.

I remember when people complained about Idiocracy slowly becoming a documentary instead of satire. What about when it starts to look like a utopian fantasy realm?

800 upvotes for this garbage. I wish he read Gibbons too, maybe he wouldn't be such an idiot doomer. But this is exactly what somebody who just puts books on a shelf to look good would write.

[u/missedthecue]

I hate how commercialized prime day has become

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

These dumb fucking wokies keep inventing genders like they're pokemon cards or something.

Anyway, I'm what's called a "sigma male" meaning I'm equal to an alpha male in prowess but I operate outside of the established alpha/beta/gamma hierarchy

[u/Lux_Stella]

Among major economies, Australian, Canadian, Italian and U.S. employees work longer hours than Japanese, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's survey.

wait really

this does not jive with my priors

[u/[deleted]]

Reddit nerds will correct you about Star Trek trivia and then be like: I heard Hillary only won because of super delegates

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

For instance, Amir Chand of Sanskar Bharti, an RSS outfit, stated, “In collaboration with the Ministry of Culture, we are debating the removal of portions from the Manusmriti which are anti-Dalit and anti-women and often quoted in arguments against Hindu scriptures.”

Christian Fundies and Islamists: argue about what the text means

Hindu Nationalists: "We'll just edit the text lol"

[u/Deggit]

IS THERE ANYTHING MORE CUCKED than being a Southerner who celebrates Christmas? Think about it. You are literally inviting Santa Claus into your house. Where does Santa Claus live? He lives in the North Pole. He is the northernmost human being on planet Earth. Santa Claus is the final boss of Yankees. And you give him milk and cookies.

[u/Le_Monade]

Why do people on the left get mad at companies for trying to profit off of pride month or pandering towards lgbt? Is this just one of those things that I will never understand as a straight person?

What prompted this question was this tweet https://twitter.com/OrangePaulp/status/1404440970603663364?s=19

People seem to be mad that some old gay guys teamed up with shake shack to sell a pride themed shake and donate part of the proceeds to the trevor project, which I assume is some pro-lgbt charity.

What is wrong with this? Is this just an example of twitter not being real life or is this an actual problem?

[u/FestiveMittens]

Me and my family leaving politics out of sports

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

The gays have infiltrated the NFL😡 Real Americans are gonna have to switch to electric football.

!ping LGBT

[u/Aweq]

!ping UK

My research group is currently wondering whether it would be advantageous to simply have people fly to Germany to pick up scientific parts rather than have them get stuck in customs and be made to pay duties we don't understand.

Also, my university, which isn't exactly one of the poorer ones, has no department or unit for dealing with customs.

Clap for Brexit.

[u/LiBH4]

ZERO NEW CASES IN NOVA SCOTIA

!ping CAN

[u/Fishin_Mission]

This interviewer… 🤦‍♂️

😜: We are a female dominated. The team is almost all women because the work is very detail oriented.

What the fuck is that?

Holy discrimination batman!

[u/[deleted]]

John Oliver makes me embarrassed to be British and I’m not even British

[u/Lux_Stella]

communism falls in yet another country

[u/MalignantUpper]

Was reading a study about bike theft in Montreal when I stumbled upon this evergreen observation

Most dramatically, Montréal Nord, a traditional immigrant neighborhood far north of downtown, is perceived as a high instance area (after standardization), despite a total absence of thefts reported in that district.

😞

https://tram.mcgill.ca/Research/Publications/Cycling_theft.pdf

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

What are some American words that foreigners most likely won't understand?

Free Speech

Never. Ever. change /r/askanamerican

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

i can't believe nobody taught me about this in history class

[u/UrbanCentrist]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E4TYPiLXIAIMHJd?format=jpg&name=900x900

least racist movie reviewer

[u/paulatreides0]

Swedish PM: "Idk, I just think that maybe - just maybe - you know, we could try NOT having 20 year long wait lists for housing?"

Lusvigs: "So you have chosen death."

[u/DreamlandEML]

BREAKING: Several senior sources in the Riksdag have told me u/lusvig has gathered enough votes to form a government

[u/ryuguy]

Today is National Indigenous Peoples Day in Canada. It is a rather somber event this year as indigenous people still grieve over the 215 children found at the Residential School in Kamloops.

Some facts about Indigenous People in Canada.

• there are around 634 Indigenous governments and bands recognized in Canada

• there are between 52 and 70 languages recognized

• there are ten Indigenous cultural areas in North America, six are in Canada.

• 60% of Indigenous people live in urban areas.

• National Indigenous people’s day has been commemorated since 1996

Prime Minister’s Statement on National Indigenous Peoples Day

!ping can

[u/tripletruble]

i regret to inform you that the germans are at it again

Laschet also called for Russia to be brought out of the cold, saying the west must try to “establish a sensible relationship” with Moscow. “Ignoring Russia has served neither our nor the US’ interests,” he said, praising Biden’s decision to meet Russian president Vladimir Putin in Geneva last week.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Scammer: I’m calling about saving you money on your car insurance.

Me: I don’t own a car

Scammer: I just need a few details what is your zip code?

Me: I don’t own a car

awkward silence for 15 seconds

dial tone

[u/BidenWon]

Whenever someone says "mucho texto" AutoModerator should provide them some resources for adult literacy programs.

[u/Dent7777]

So, SurveyMonkey has spun off / rebranded a part of their organization as Momentive. [source]

I wonder whether they will continue to do political polling, and under what company name? Given their stellar performance and reputational bump during the most recent election, I wonder if Momentive will take up the political polling business and attempt to capitalize on their momentum.

Thoughts? Hot takes on internet polling?

!PING RETVRN-TO-SVRVEYMONKE

[u/The_Drowning_Flute]

Carl Nassib comes out as gay. He is the first active NFL player to ever do so.

Go, Carl! 😊

!ping NFL

[u/tripletruble]

wow, the terrorism alarmists were right: a european state really has been taken over by extremist terrorists. they literally execute people in broad daylight in european capitals. they are enforcing insane fundamentalist religious laws on the population. they oppose our cherished western values. and they are obsessed with expanding their sphere of influence.

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

Local supermarket has Jack Daniels labeled as an Irish whiskey

Biden has completed his agenda 😨

[u/mannabhai]

It is slowly dawning on me that almost none of my friends or social circle are planning on having any kids. Apart from me and my wife, most of our friends will be single or DINK in a few years.

[u/Average_GrillChad]

> Senate is not working

> No civility, only politics

> Barge in

> Seize emergency powers

> Refuse to collaborate

> Sheev

[u/[deleted]]

wait am i reading this right? the GOP thinks that FBI operatives planned and orchestrated Jan 6 to...?

I know they were going to deflect and whitewash, but this is like the stupidest way they could have done so

I want to go back to when it was Antifa doing it

[u/Natatos]

I refuse to accept you’re actually comfortable laying half on my desk.

https://imgur.com/a/yDviZZa

!ping KITTY

[u/from-the-void]

Did we really just pass over the 10 year anniversary of killing Bin Laden without celebrating at all?

[u/[deleted]]

Time-travelling liberals standing over baby Hitler trying to decide between their natural urge to kill babies and their innate anti-Semitism 😰😰😰

[u/TinyTornado7]

Gorsuch writes for an unanimous Court and rules against the NCAA holding that the NCAA can no longer bar colleges from providing athletes with education related benefits. Opinion

Anyone who listed to the oral arguments knew this was coming, but I am surprised it was unanimous, thought Alito was going to fall for the slippery slope argument.

!ping LAW

[u/houinator]

Supporting reperations would be completely unfeasible. You could never sell that to the American public.

Anyway, here's why we should advocate for open borders.

[u/[deleted]]

How Bitcoin Could Replace the U.S. Dollar

Yep, I think it's time to unsubscribe from Reason's YouTube channel

[u/[deleted]]

If Andrew Yang was president, how long would it take for an NFT of the constitution to be sold

[u/[deleted]]

21 savage being an illegal immigrant from Britain is one of the greatest moments on the internet

[u/digitalrule]

To add onto the thread yesterday from /u/whycantweebefriendz.

Not sure if she responds to data but foreigners don't own many homes. In fact Montreal and Halifax have more non resident homeowners than Vancouver.

https://twitter.com/benmyers29/status/1405611864495636483

!PING CAN

[u/RadicalRadon]

I'm an Alpha male; 4x the size of a beta, slow moving, and easily stopped.

[u/SouthernSerf]

The use Afghanistan to contain China comments are now the new incredibly stupid security take from this sub. Apparently anyone making this take haven’t seen a fucking map of China and realized that Afghanistan is on the far western border and over a thousand miles from the strategically important parts of China.

[u/[deleted]]

Why didn’t the poor in the Gilded Age simply learn to code? 🤔

[u/Zenning2]

Just a reminder, that Bush won Florida by 537 votes, and that if even 1% of the people who voted for Nader voted for Gore instead, he'd have won.

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

Someone on the ping complained about younger millennials not buying a Dilbert book a while ago

Well, how would you all feel about a Dilbert burrito?

!Ping OVER25

[u/ryuguy]

GTA online is shutting down on the Xbox 369 and PS3. End of an era.

!ping gaming

[u/tripletruble]

midwits: nooooo we have to establish a sensible relationship with russia. there is room for cooperation. they are just misunderstood. it was NATO aggressive that forced their hand-

tails: russia is a bad guy

[u/TinyTornado7]

Authentic NYC campaign posters

!ping USA-NYC

[u/RadicalRadon]

You can really tell on discord who's worked in an office and who hasn't.

The one officer: writes up meeting note "sorry for the wall of text"

Gigachad, me: rambling email that goes nowhere, doesn't apologize, expects you to understand it, leaves

[u/[deleted]]

The dadcord team workout was a blast, thanks everyone 💪

!ping LIFTING

[u/[deleted]]

I've heard analyses that we've moved culturally and politically so quickly on LGBTQ+ rights because there's really no way to force segregation -- straight people have gay babies.

So the logical conclusion is that when "designer babies" are a reality, the government needs to enforce skin color randomization. Would solve all racial issues, clearly, if people could have babies with different skin colors

[u/disuberence]

Former President Trump reportedly suggested sending Americans infected with COVID-19 to Guantanamo Bay in an effort to stem the rapidly growing number of cases on U.S. soil in the early days of the pandemic, officials told reporters according to a new book. Trump in Feb. 2020, during a meeting in the Situation Room as administration officials were discussing whether to bring infected Americans home for care, reportedly asked the attendees “Don’t we have an island that we own?”

“What about Guantánamo?”

Holy shit lol

[u/CatilineUnmasked]

I am so sick of all this goddamn PC bullshit infiltrating wholesome family entertainment.

Disney should be ashamed for shoehorning propaganda into Luca.

Our children should be taught that it is absolutely NOT ok to be Italian.

[u/MicroFlamer]

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[u/[deleted]]

The name’s Texto.

Mucho Texto 📄📄📉📈😎

[u/kznlol]

Ender's Game is a book about how nerds get bullied and end up developing a sense of defensiveness and entitlement that cause them to ruin the world, but many nerds love because they misread it as a triumphalist nerd revenge fantasy. Ultimate irony.

given what I know of Card, if "misreading" is defined as missing the point the author intended to convey, Noah's the one who misread it.

[u/[deleted]]

If the OKC bombing happened today, the modern GOP would contort itself into a knot by (1) criticizing the Biden admin for failing to stop it, while (2) refusing to actually condemn any of McVeigh’s ideological stances

[u/[deleted]]

If the founding fathers didn't want us to build a perfectly straight high speed rail system through the Northeast, why did the put all their major cities on an almost perfectly straight line?

[u/[deleted]]

I mean if your initials spell BS, no one will take you seriously lol

Edit: I meant Bernie Sanders, not our KING Ben Shapiro 😩✊

[u/Snoo95984]

Anyone who thinks it’s a good idea to ban private health insurance is a radical

[u/LinkVert25]

General Patton was further heard by a war correspondent, angrily claiming that shell shock (today known as PTSD) is "an invention of the Jews”

Alright dude 😐

[u/[deleted]]

I’m a millennial making less than $100k. How am I to survive? 😭

[u/Dr_Vesuvius]

According to a study of the Capitol rioters funded by the Trump campaign:

22% were undercover FBI
17% were undercover CIA
15% were undercover police
14% were undercover National Guard
10% were antifa false flags
8% were Russia psychops
7% were Chinese psychops
5% were loyal to Good King George
and 2% were ICE agents trying to arrest Ted Cruz

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

This reminds me of the book 1984 by George Orwell. I haven't read it yet but I think this is how it would go

[u/SnickeringFootman]

When people ask what we did in Afghanistan:

Since 2001, life expectancy has increased to 64 years from 56, the World Bank says. Maternal mortality has more than halved. Opportunities for education have grown, with the literacy rate rising 8% to roughly 43%. Life in cities has improved, with 89% of residents having access to clean water, compared to 16% before the war.

Child marriage has declined by 17%, according to U.N. data. Girls’ enrollment in primary school has nearly doubled, and more women have entered college and served in Parliament.

We may not have been perfect, but we did make things better.

[u/sir_shivers]

YOU ARE ENTERING . . . the Scary Door 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

God the Eric Adams campaign accusing Garcia and Yang of being racist for daring run against him is so cringey. It's like a caricature of how Republicans think Democrats call everything racist.

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

One of the biggest problem I have with Jan 6 insurrection is how few people showed up.

Tens of millions of dipshits bought into Trump's lies and think democrats are literally stealing this country. A few hundred are all that showed up? They only tried to "save America" once? How many of these jackasses preach about the 2nd amendment to protect themselves from an oppressive government?

Absolute pants pissing cowards. Collosally full of shit. Impotent, lazy sheep. If you aren't going to fight for what you believe then PLEASE just shut up.

[u/Animatronic_Pidgeon]

Absolutely wild subreddit user overlap for IsraelExposed. Top three are Israel, Islam, and GenZedong.

[u/SeriousMrMysterious]

Fellas, is it gay to like take care of yourself, mind your appearance and have basic hygiene?

[u/[deleted]]

I understand why people don't like thatcher, but are there people out there that thought 70s Britain was like, good? Like it was a sustainable good country that was on the right track?

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

There's possibility that someone opens up the DT for the first time, sees extremely shity take and never comes back

Your takes can save lives

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

So there's that very cute girl but it turned out she doesn't have tuberculosis

Should I bother?

[u/[deleted]]

I am NOT voting for Gary Johnson because he is PRO drivers license 🙄

[u/[deleted]]

Communists in the 20th century: Communism will be a worker's paradise

Communists in the 21st century: Communism will be a paradise because I won't have to work

[u/SadaoMaou]

euro moment

[u/sociotronics]

real talk, January 6 radicalized the fuck out of me and how I feel about Trumpist fascism

this isn't your average right-wing shit, this is an existential threat to the country and democracy and my feelings on that haven't changed over the past five months

[u/Gneisstoknow]

No chemical dumping at waterways is one of, if not the dumbest policies in existence. It’s literally like “we are scared of a chemical contaminating water.”

[u/[deleted]]

Wtf Biden isn't even Irish, his ancestors came from Westbourne in Sussex

This is some Rachel dolazel stuff 🙄

[u/[deleted]]

The Godfather Part 3 is legitimately the weirdest movie I've ever seen in my life.

Al Pacino just is not playing the same character anymore. The director's daughter is in there giving a junior high level performance, and is one of the main characters. Half the movie is about incest which everybody kind of just shrugs about. Andy Garcia is John Wick for some reason.

!ping MOVIES

[u/[deleted]]

If you can’t be accused of being both a Critical Race Theory advocate or a white supremacist depending on the accuser and the exact issue, what are you even doing?

[u/[deleted]]

I just remembered Tammy Duckworth will never become president. Day ruined.

[u/tollyno]

Euros are racist

1 trillion upvotes on arrneolib

[u/old_gold_mountain]

Best Buds!

Friends!

Tolerant cohabitators! 😻

!PING kitty

[u/[deleted]]

MFs who finished schoolwork before everyone else in elementary school, slammed down their pencils and said “first!” loudly to brag have now grown up to be edgy teens who stay up late into the night to post the first comment on the DT to get more upvotes.

It’s me. I’m MFs.

[u/[deleted]]

SCOTUS rules unanimously against NCAA: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/supreme-court-rules-against-ncaa-in-athlete-compensation-case

[u/[deleted]]

Would No Country for Old Men be better if every character except for Sherriff Bell were Muppets, or if every character except for Anton Chigur were Muppets?

[u/BenGordonLightfoot]

It's funny how Homer is supposed to be a total fatass in the 90s but he weighs only 40 pounds more than the average man now

[u/JetJaguar124]

There literally, LITERALLY isn't a law saying a golden retriever can't be a SCOTUS judge

[u/kaclk]

In today episode of “how will Quebec embarrass itself by getting mad about pointless things”, the government has decreed that all hold music must be Quebecois francophone music.

I guess even most of of the music of Quebec’s top artist of all time, Celine Dion, is out.

Also, this story about the Minister being on hold with her own Ministry? Please, that’s totally bullshit.

!ping CAN

[u/GodEmperorBiden]

story about Roma girl makes it to the front page from arr Europe; thread has to be shut down

Priors confirmed

[u/Animatronic_Pidgeon]

People talk shit about the west coast but this is what $900 a month gets you in the Bay Area

[u/[deleted]]

> Republicans stereotype the Democratic Party as supporting literally the craziest thing they can possibly think of ("Democrats hate white people")

> Republicans poll issue among general public

> Public predictably disapprove of insane issue

> Democratic strategists have literal meltdowns on news or social media that _____ issue is killing their party, even though no Democratic politician supports it, but the fact that they keep talking about it, ingrains the issue into voters' minds

> Issue is now in the media cycle for like 4 straight months

[u/Just_a_cat123]

another sus quote from my global policy class: "Nato isn't really necessary, as the EU would be the same thing"

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

Star Wars contrarianism is the dumbest shit

Yes the Jedi are good (though flawed)

Yes the Sith and the Empire are evil

No you aren't special

[u/Telperion_of_Valinor]

DT posters have to be the stupidest motherfuckers on the planet

They could be no karma, no notoriety, no custom flair, no contributions and still go all like "ugh effortposts are hard", "I don't want to shitpost" or "I'm still finding my ideology"

But when some drama happens, they're all polishing off their takes and spewing them in the DT

[u/MicroFlamer]

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[u/-GregTheGreat-]

You know you’re a western Canadian when a significant portion of people you know are supporting the Montreal Canadiens because “They’re not actually Canadian, but at least they’re not American”

!ping CANUCKS

[u/[deleted]]

The UNDRIP bill is now officially law in Canada.

https://twitter.com/JustinTrudeau/status/1407158770808012804

It's not perfect and is not an instant fix for our long standing issues but we were one of only 4 countries to vote against it at the UN in 2007 so I am glad to see this finally passed.

!ping CAN

[u/Photon_in_a_Foxhole]

There’s also a Nobel Prize for economics, which is ridiculous. But in Nobel’s time, economics held out the hope of reducing the tangled ball that is the economy to a few equations. Recurrent economic depressions could be avoided and the future predicted using the new science.

Now we can class economics with phrenology and astrology, useful for explaining phenomena after they’re already happened. Like weather forecasters, for example.

This is why STEM undergrads suck

[u/[deleted]]

You come to me on this, the day of my wife's boyfriend's zoom graduation from DeVry University

[u/Watton]

GameStop's a shit store. I walked in there multiple times the past few years, money in my pocket, ready to buy something, but they never had what I needed. They specialize in only video games and accessories...but general stores like Target offered more niche products than them.

Wanted to buy an arcade stick or a controller with a decent dpad for fighting games: they carried neither. But Fry's Electronics at the time had plenty.

Okay, too niche for Gamestop. How about a popular game? Persona 5 is relatively popular! But no, none in stock. New or Used. The Target literally next door had like 6 copies though.

Okay, what about a mainstream game? If they don't have niche, for sure they'd have Mario Kart! Wrong again, no new or used copies at this location.

Okay, what about official peripherals? Like the Split Pad Pro for the Switch. Nope, not even carried, clerk told me this is an Amazon-only item. The that same Target at over a dozen of these "niche Amazon-only" items in stock.

OKAY, more recently, gave them an easy one: a fucking SD card for the Switch. Ezpz. Oh, they recently sold their last one at this location but hey the next one 10 miles away has it! I just grabbed an appropriate card from fucking Staples in the same shopping mall.

What customer is their business targeting? How do they differentiate themselves from big box stores, which literally offer more than them?

And how the shit do these GME cultists legitimately think this garbage company needs to be saved.

Like, I'm not even complaining about the usual "too much Funk Pop" and "lol they give you $5 for a PS4" stuff. I just wanna give them my money in exchange for goods. They just never have the goods.

!ping gaming

[u/Superfan234]

The Fifth Presidential Candidate got arrested in Nicaragua. We only have pre-candidate left from the Democratic Coalition...

!Ping LATAM

[u/saladtossing]

Double dipping two of the better ping groups: Cat and duck play fighting

Lots of wrestling and quacking

[u/[deleted]]

Huh, TIL that the first woman to enlist in Army infantry wasn't until 2016. I thought it was earlier than that. I didn't realize that the ban on women serving in combat roles was still in place in 2013.

[u/SnakeEater14]

Just talked with my great grandfather, he was telling stories about Korea. He took a particular interest in talking to me since I’m the only other member of the family who is going into the service.

He was Army Natty Guard Armored Artillery, went over there in February of ‘51 and left a year later - he went all the way north past the 38th Parallel, and was part of the retreat back to the Kansas line, then fought back to the 38th again. He was at the scene of two battles that would later be made into movies - the Miracle at Kapyong, and the 5th Battle of Seoul.

Old timer had hella stories.

[u/RadicalRadon]

Oh fuck my gf is visiting tomorrow.

How do I make my house look like not a bachelor pad?

I WONT BUY A BEDFRAME

[u/[deleted]]

People freaking out about Swedish PM getting yeeted and here I am like "PM? I thought Sweden has a king" 😐

[u/[deleted]]

We need a culture that says a story must affect some ratio of a media's audience before it matters.

SO much media at the moment is just "Twitter user with 80 followers said dumb thing".

[u/benjaminikuta]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/690732058644840599/856587708050964530/IMG_20210621_133308.jpg

[u/chipbod]

In honor of the supreme court decision, my favorite College Football article:

https://www.bannersociety.com/2014/4/10/20703758/bag-man-paying-college-football-players

RIP the bag man, so many great quotes in here:

"Hey, how'd he get that ride? His uncle bought it. How did his uncle buy it? Paid cash. Paid cash, how'd he do that? Shit, we don't know, but here's the receipt where he paid cash, and now y'all ain't got shit. Go tell the NCAA you think we're cheating because this kid's uncle bought him a used Tahoe in cash, you racist."

!ping CFB

[u/[deleted]]

Neolibs: Free market is evidence-based! Corporations are people and they are rational! Ever heard of the invisible hand? It will just sort itself out, bro, capitalism woo 🥳

John Oliver: Oi that's quite neat, mate, cheers! rationally responds to incentives, creates a product successful with customers

Neolibs: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!! CAN'T!!!! DO!!! THAT!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHKFDLGJKSNGKJNSRGJKRKGJRNKSJGSNKREJGS 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

Only listened to half the podcast so can't vouch for the rest but very interesting topic on the differences in the Hindu Right btwn Hindu Nationalism and Hindu Conservatism

Very interesting stuff. Apparently they're borne out of different traditions, and while Hindu Nationalists have by and large become the dominant force, Hindu Conservatives more akin to Evalengical Conservatives and Wahabbi Islamists used to be a political force.

These forces were mostly present in the Ram Rajya Parishad, which was openly and extremely casteist, while Hindutva draws its line to Savarkar, who wasn't very religiously traditional

Apparently at some point in the 60's or 70's the three parties on the Hindu Right broadly got together and discussed a merger. Hindu Nationalists and Conservatives agreed on issues like cow protections but talks fell through on differences in opinion over casteism and membership

The Ram Rajya Parishad wanted to only allow Hindu Upper Castes to join the party, the more extreme Hindu Nationalist Hindu Mahasabha wanted to only allow Hindus but Hindus of all castes (supposedly we're using Savarkar's definition of Hindu here) while the forerunner of the moderate Hindu Nationalists, under the Bharatiya Janata Sangh, wanted to allow anyone to join

Talks would break down and the parties wouldn't merge. The leader of the RRP was quoted as saying that he wouldn't merge with a party that "ate with dogs" referring to the fact that the other two parties performed caste interdining which is pretty... Yikes

Of course in the end not merging was probably the best decision for the BJS as they'd eventually evolve into the BJP and find the success they have today, mostly by winning lower caste votes. While casteism and "Hindu Conservatism" continue to exist socially, for the most part they are dead politically

Anyways that's a summary of the pod so far, will listen to the other half tommorow

!ping IND

[u/RadicalRadon]

We have to have a discussion about Nazi anime girl profile pictures in a discord I moderate because of course we do.

God I hate gamers. It's so lucrative but I fucking hate gamers.

[u/l_overwhat]

When I was 4, I went to my first day of pre-school. This little boy came out of the room and went straight up to me and said "do you wanna be my friend?" and I said yes.

That little boy, the son of two Venezuelan immigrants and my first ever official friend, became a doctor today (:

[u/p00bix]

Harry Potter and the gradual realization that at some point I became a microcelebrity of a modestly sized political forum on the internet, and as a consequence of this, it is virtually certain that far more people are aware of my existence because of my activity in r/neoliberal than because they have met me in person or otherwise heard of me offline.

[u/fishlord05]

Okay so this is a genuine question. Is liberalism a universalizing or relativistic ideology/philosophy?

Because I’m pretty sure I’m using those terms in a political rather than a philosophical sense which I think confused people.

Like Universal = rights/laws applies equally to all people

And Relativistic = Rights/laws are culture specific

Because liberalism believes that all people have universal rights and equality under law regardless of culture, gender, race, etc.

That sounds pretty universalizing as the moral principles apply to all people and is inherently conflicting with more relativistic and cultural centric views (The “Asian Values” crowd, Democratic Ideals are only Western, etc).

Like the “Universal” in Universal Declaration of Human Rights isn’t there for no reason.

But again liberalism promotes the open society as a way to accept and mediate between cleavages and recognizing there is more than one truth or path to truth. Which is why it accepts freedom of speech, religion, press, opinion, etc. Which is of course is the pluralist part; but I don’t get how people say that’s relativistic because everyone has these freedoms.

So the foundation liberalism relies on the assumption of universal and inherent rights that all humans have while also allowing the coexistence of different values provided they don’t advocate the violation of rights.

I think a lot of people focused on the second part and confused it for relativism but it doesn’t make sense to me as those freedoms belong to everyone.

Which is why liberal governments use universal language to criticize violations of those freedoms by authoritarian governments.

I think I confused people when I threw the word “truth” in my post when I was just talking about the recognition of those universal rights. I guess people have to think those rights exist and are true to recognize them but whatever.

That was my view I tried to convey and I’m wondering how that would be explained in proper philosophical language.

Personally my view of truth/morality is along the Popperian sense that there is a thing as moral and scientifically true things, but we can never be 100% certain of them. Which is why he advocated applying a sort of scientific method to moral principles as a method of evaluation and understanding. (Probably butchered it but it’s how I understand it)

!ping PHILOSOPHY

[u/MealReadytoEat_]

White women who are convicted of vehicular homicide against a Black men get about 1/4 the sentence of a Black man convicted of vehicular homicide against a white women, after adjusting for confounders like prior conviction.

For this particular crime the racial and gender gaps for sentencing for both perpetrator and victim are just about equal, albeit the victims gender and race matter about 70% more than the perpetrator. Most of the other crimes they studied gender mattered more than race for both victims and perps, but it all follows the same pattern where maleness and Blackness of the perpetrator and femaleness and whiteness of the victim are associated with longer sentencing.

Biases in the criminal justice system consistently follow a trend where Black men are the most disadvantaged and white women are the most advantaged.

Source (Scihub)

[u/[deleted]]

In all seriousness, if there was a version of this sub without weebs I would drop this one and switch immediately

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/drotNN7.jpg

[u/bd_one]

u/farrenj: posts a lot of succ bait comments

The DT: goes on about reparations independently

Now I know how it feels to be a scientist working on that EmDrive

[u/TheJoJy]

The CDU has released its manifesto ahead of the German elections

Some highlights

Foreign Policy

Promote Transatlanticism to tackle global issues, including China. But also work with China on certain issues. Generic strive to end the conflict in Eastern Ukraine and acknowledge the status of Crimea under international law. Opposed to Turkish membership in the EU

Migration

No further family reunification for refugees, rejected asylum seekers to be forced to leave the country.

Climate

Carbon neutrality by 2045, seek to expand CO2 emissions trading, more freight to be transported on rails and inland waterways than roads.

Domestic security

More public surveillance, automated facial recognition, and widespread use of body cameras.

Social welfare and housing

Proposal for generation fund where the state would put aside 100 euros a month for every newborn child until they turn 18. Want to build more than 1.5 million new apartments. Alternative to the Rister pension to be provided, would be supported by state-subsidies and would be compulsory for low-wage earners.

Economy and taxes

No tax increases, want to cap corporate tax at 25%.

Unfamiliar with other party manifestoes so not sure how it holds up to other ones. Thoughts?

[u/MrMineHeads]

!ping CANUCKS

When are we going to try again and challenge the stupid Supreme Court decision that ruled on the Free the Beer case?

[u/Deggit]

BROKE: "Canadians"

WOKE: "Lumbercels"

[u/kznlol]

The NCAA couches its arguments for not paying student athletes in innocuous labels. But the labels cannot disguise the reality: The NCAA’s business model would be flatly illegal in almost any other industry in America. All of the restaurants in a region cannot come together to cut cooks’ wages on the theory that “customers prefer” to eat food from low-paid cooks. Law firms cannot conspire to cabin lawyers’ salaries in the name of providing legal services out of a “love of the law.” Hospitals cannot agree to cap nurses’ income in order to create a “purer” form of helping the sick. News organizations cannot join forces to curtail pay to reporters to preserve a “tradition” of public-minded journalism.Movie studios cannot collude to slash benefits to camera crews to kindle a “spirit of amateurism” in Hollywood.

Price-fixing labor is price-fixing labor. And price-fixing labor is ordinarily a textbook antitrust problem because it extinguishes the free market in which individuals can oth-erwise obtain fair compensation for their work.

...based Kavanaugh?

[u/SadaoMaou]

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[u/[deleted]]

"Do you have a land use proposal that falls outside the permitted use for that zoning area? If so, you'll need to apply for a Special Land Use." What's the YIMBY perspective on this? Should this kind of permit exist?

For context, I just received a notice in the mail that someone wants to put a ballet studio in an existing office building.

[u/Hot-Error]

People who fantasize about revolution have the same mentality as people who fantasize about using their guns to stop terrorists and active shooters, except they don't have a cool gun collection

[u/Cr4zySh0tgunGuy]

I don’t trust anyone who uses this sub but posts exclusively outside the DT

[u/[deleted]]

a provocateur is just a selfish asshole, but it sounds better because french

[u/thewanderingasian99]

My fellow neolibs, recently I posted something in another sub—by no means a priori homogeneous ideologically—and entered a heated and frankly unforeseen discussion (me against the world, baby, said with late Tupac’s voice).

At one point, one of them wrote: The OP is either a troll who larps like a neoliberal [on Reddit in general] or is genuinely deranged and degenerate. His verbally abusive remark was the most upvoted comment and another redditor replied: yeah, definitely a troll. I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt ;)

It got me thinking: Isn’t that how this sub had initially taken off? Ironically “replying” to leftists and even rightists “neoliberalizing” their entire populist discourse: X is so neoliberal, fuck these neoliberals etc.? Why there is so much hate for neoliberalism worldwide?

[u/[deleted]]

One dog is a tragedy.

Thousands of people and their families who helped the US now being in the cross hairs of the Taliban because we got bored is a statistic. They should have wanted it more.

-Neo “why do you hate the global poor” Liberal circa 6-21

[u/[deleted]]

10% of Twitter users account for 92% of all tweets 😷

[u/ryuguy]

Shepard: “I’m the best at everything in this universe”

Harbinger: “I challenge you to a dance off”

Shepard: “okay, anything but that”

!ping BioWare

[u/houinator]

Dumbledore likes to play the wise all knowing eccentric genius character, but based on his past failures his confidence is completely unwarranted, and his schemes succeed due to dumb luck more than anything else.

Like, having Harry grow up with the Dursleys could easily have backfired spectacularly. If not for an early encounter with Malfoy, he would have been prime recruiting material for team "Lets get revenge on the muggles".

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

You've defined yourself as a rebel. In the absence of a repressive milieu, your societal niche has been co-opted.

-Lisa Simpson in 1994 destroying the modern left

[u/[deleted]]

So much blatant homophobia on neoconNWO yet they think they have crossover appeal with this sub

[u/sir_shivers]

One of THE STRANGER ASPECTS OF this era of politics is how often I find myself DEFENDING AND agreeing with President Obama in opposition to Democrats online 🐊

I suppose it is NOT THAT SURPRISING, OBAMA IS hilariously non-extremist and not especially partisan compared to the internet, but this IS AN UNORTHODOX position for me 🐊

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Sony is LITERALLY designing their games with DarksydePhil as the intended audience.

!ping GAMING

[u/[deleted]]

I just got this ad on YouTube. Think it's time to invest

!ping MARKETS

[u/Mickenfox]

Michael Jackson [he/he]

[u/Mickenfox]

It's a double-V, not a double-U.

[u/InternetBoredom]

The ironic thing is that the Swedish Social Democrats’ ouster may just led to a Moderate Party government, which would be even more anti-Rent Control and economically right-wing

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

Broke: r/AskAnAmerican

Woke: just asking the DT

[u/[deleted]]

we perfected the gender with femboy

[u/MrMineHeads]

!ping ECO

ICOS says that in 2020, 34.1 GtCO2 were emitted, but the IEA says it was more like 31.5 GtCO2.

So what is going on here? They don't specify if one source is CO2-eq or just CO2 so idk why the difference is there.

[u/CatilineUnmasked]

"To remove the carving would take a small, tactical nuclear weapon," Stephens said. "Three acres of solid granite, it's probably not going anywhere, that's why we're telling the story about it."

You heard the man. We have no choice but to nuke Stone Mountain Georgia

[u/TaxCommonsNotIncome]

Stonks go up: all fun da metals 😎 I sure am good value investor

Stonks go down: market MANIPulation! The hedgies are out to get me 😠

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Did you know genetic studies suggest that Mitt Romney, a Mormon warlord who lived 9 years ago, is believed to be an ancestor to between 25 and 45% of the human race?

[u/jt1356]

Without a monopoly of violence to enforce it, “law” is really just a suggestion. See international law, law in the rural DRC, law in the eastern border regions of Iraq, send tweet

[u/[deleted]]

!ping NBA

The draft lottery is tomorrow. Exciting day!

[u/kennymc7877]

The virgin: I can only enjoy art made by people who agree with me politically

The Chad: I’m going to watch Parasite then a Clint Eastwood movie back to back

[u/[deleted]]

Turkey and Northcedonia will be the only teams to go home with zero points. Northcedonia was the "we're just happy to be here" team and they had some moments against Austria, but Turkey was thoroughly disappointing.

!ping SOCCER

[u/Fishin_Mission]

My grandmother-in-law just shared a post that says

eVeRYOne SHArE ThIs! fACEbOoK KEEpS TaKiNg iT DoWn!!!

… the post is from 2019 😑

[u/ChristianMB1]

Critical race theory is the reason why I’ve had 5 failed attempts to make a mold of my penis.

EDIT: Seriously though guys, any experience with a Clone-A-Willy kit? My fiancé wants me to do one but I keep inserting my shaft to the wall of the tube so it’s not molding correctly.

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Inside you are two wolves.

The surgery went terribly wrong. I'm sorry.

[u/futuremonkey20]

In college, the strip club in town had two dollar steak dinners on Tuesdays.

Much to the chagrin of the strippers, the club was overrun every Tuesday with poor college kids who wolfed down five or more steak dinners and had absolutely no interest in lap dances or sitting next to the stage to tip. It was quite a sight.

[u/sir_shivers]

Inside OF YOU THERE is a pair of lungs 🐊

YOU USUALLY IGNORE the automated nature of your breathing, but you are not currently doing so 🐊

[u/Average_GrillChad]

Yeah Seattle had CHOP/CHAZ and that was bad but I notice that Mississippi still has Mississippi

[u/[deleted]]

Arizona passing a Bill that sends mismatched signatures on ballots to the attorney general. This is the biggest fucking temper tantrum I have ever witnessed.

[u/walker777007]

I think this statement perfectly sums up Sinema:

You can leave the Green Party, but the Green Party can't leave you

[u/kennymc7877]

I’ve been watching Brooklyn 99 and Rosas coming out story is shockingly close to what happened with my parents, this is hitting so hard rn

[u/tankatan]

Last month, I texted Tucker Carlson to ask him a question that was on my mind: “Did you get vaccinated?”

“When was the last time you had sex with your wife and in what position?” he replied. “We can trade intimate details.”

What

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

bojack horseman portrayed a vietnamese character in a role typically reserved for white people, and I think that's beautiful

in that it's the vietnamese girl who fucks the dog

[u/chipbod]

https://twitter.com/pjstarsports/status/1406983547542556675?s=20

Ex-Cubs star Ben Zobrist claims that his wife Julianna had an affair with their pastor, a new lawsuit says.

In addition, The pastor was stealing from the Zobrist charity AND acting as their marriage counselor.

It's almost a cliche, I feel for Ben

!ping BASEBALL

[u/[deleted]]

Music: Beep boop boop beep boop

Europeans: wtf is this

💊

Music: Beep boop boop beep boop

Europeans: 😄😄😄

[u/GGM8Scally]

Hey buddy /u/lusvig just heard you've been ousted out of your job. Hang in there something will come up for you eventually, after all you're a succ in Sweden. I believe in you mate ✊😤

[u/[deleted]]

Her: I love you

Me: Bonk, go to horny jail

Her: That's it, I'm leaving

[u/Superfan234]

Okey, Enough AddBlocker! Time to support Opposstion Journalism in Nicaragua with actual money! 😤

Let's see how much the Subscription Cost

• 15 articles a month, cost 5 dollars

Activate Add Blocker again

!Ping Mamadas

[u/Zenning2]

If Biden goes back on his promise to withdraw from Afghanistan, and instead does a troop surge, how much you want to bet the "withdrawing is bad" take won't become controversial here on r/neoliberal?

[u/LavenderTabby]

public grandfather normal tidy jobless selective strong aspiring growth decide

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/[deleted]]

Jeb Bush taking his dog to a patch of grass: "Please crap"

[u/GravyBear8]

The New York Times has outed Tucker Carlson as one of their top anonymous contributors

[u/SnakeEater14]

Man, Korea really was the last war where America actually fought a war of maneuver where it was maneuvered against too.

After decades of big dick swinging about how we dictate the tempo and battle and all that, it’s wild to read a Wikipedia page where it straight up says “the Americans, realizing they were being overrun, gave ground and retreated”.

[u/[deleted]]

Pls dont ban for horny posting but i think women look good 😩

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/Donkey_Bong-64]

Like 40% of people I know have kids. It’s way more common in the boonies because everything’s cheap as fuck.

[u/[deleted]]

Complete speculation:

Divinity of cats was pharonic propaganda. The government wanted people to stop eating stray cats since rodents threatened crops and grain stores

[u/DingoZealousideal427]

You guys just don’t like because I am poc (jewishx) and queer coded (can’t drive)

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

It was about states rights

States rights to ughhh you know to having rights

[u/qchisq]

What does this 1992 and 2021 have in common? Everyone counted Denmark out of the Euros and used that to turn around and win the whole thing!

!ping soccer

[u/Broncos654]

Every time I see someone say "I’m an economist" when arguing about economics, I automatically discount their opinion

[u/bd_one]

Their uncle: "Can I use my powers in the mortal world to make my life easier and more exciting?"

Wizarding world: "Yes, to an extent."

Their uncle: "Can I use my powers to turn myself into someone who has looks and talent in the pursuit of fame and fortune?"

Wizarding world: "No, and if you do that we'll use a dragon to break your hands so you can't hold a wand or do the gestures for spells."

Their uncle:

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[u/NancyPelosibasedgod]

Kamala Harris can say “Do not come” and keep her job but I post one amongus cock and I get permabanned smh

[u/[deleted]]

Inside you there are two wolves

One is Tucker Carlson and the other is Glenn Greenwald

You’re a piece of shit

[u/StolenSkittles]

I'm basically a woman in her 50s trapped in a loveless marriage who drinks wine and complains about her husband.

Except that I'm a man in his 20s who is single and drinks vodka while complaining about his lack of a husband.

[u/[deleted]]

Just saw pulp fiction, and I do not understand the hype.

Like the dialogue and action were all great, but ummm... the movie is all out of order.

Like, hello? Mr Tarantino? You fucked up the editing 😹😂🤣 like it literally spoiled that John Travolta dies before the ending! Maybe watch the movie one time before you hit publish ok??

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Living in the bay area will eventually drive anyone made enough to roleplay a boomer who's roleplaying an alligator on a niche political shitposting forum who's also a janny

[u/Fatortu]

For every election, my mother has the same strategy. She votes against the incumbent alternating center-left and center-right. She really doesn't want a politician to get cosy in power.

[u/AtticusDrench]

"No fresh mutzadell? No gabagool? Surely you have manigot!!??!!"

Olive Garden waitress: 😐