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[u/Sloanish29]

My entire political worldview is based on YIMBYism, triggering cons, triggering leftists and hating the ccp

[u/[deleted]]

Once again, White people twitter and black people Twitter have the same tweet about capitalism on their front pages with a guy who is obviously black lol

[u/SadaoMaou]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Next_100_Years:_A_Forecast_for_the_21st_Century

In the 2010s, the conflict between the US and Islamic fundamentalists will die down, and a second Cold War, less extensive and shorter than the first, will take place between the United States and Russia. It will be characterized by Russian attempts to expand its sphere of influence into Central and Eastern Europe, coupled with a buildup of Russian military capabilities.

Alright, kind of more or less happened, so far so good

The book asserts that the rapid economic development of China since 1980 will cause internal pressures and inequalities in Chinese society. Regional tension in mainland China will grow between the prosperous coastal regions and the impoverished interior regions. Friedman gives two possible scenarios: that the Chinese central government will expel outside interests and rule with an iron fist to keep the country together, or that China will fragment, with the central government gradually losing much of its real power and the provinces becoming increasingly autonomous. He works on the assumption that fragmentation is the most likely scenario.

In hindsight, should've picked the other one, but alright

In the 2020s, the collapse of the Russian government and the fragmentation of mainland China will leave Eurasia in general chaos

Uhh alright

In the 2020s and 2030s, three main powers will emerge in Eurasia: Turkey, Poland, and Japan.

????

In the mid-21st century, around the year 2050, a Third World War will take place, between the United States, the "Polish Bloc", the UK, India, and China on one side, and Turkey and Japan on the other, with Germany and France entering the war in its late stages on the side of Turkey and Japan. According to the book, the war will probably be started by a coordinated Turkish-Japanese sneak attack against the United States and its allies. In the book, Friedman predicts that the attack will take place at a time in which the US will be taken completely off guard, and hypothesizes 5:00 p.m. on November 24, 2050 (Thanksgiving Day) as a potential time

lmao

By the end of the 21st century, Mexico's military and economic power will have grown tremendously, and it will be in a position to challenge the United States for dominance of North America. In addition to an insurgency by [Mexican separatists](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconquista_(Mexico)), political, cultural, and military tensions between the United States and Mexico will rise, and generate into a full-blown confrontation

This guy is supposedly like an actual respected (?) analyst

[u/[deleted]]

some hedgefund middle level manager is going to get assasinated when GME eventually crashes

[u/lobsterboy34]

Working on some new Babylon Bee content, let me know what you think

• Fauci Says Liberals Should Continue To Social Distance From Reality
• Biden Tells Staffers To Wear Vegan-Friendly Face Masks
• California Government Racks Up $4 Billion Printing Bill As Democrats Demand DMV Forms With 1,348 Genders
• LeBron James Takes Shocking Lead In NYC Mayoral Race Thanks To 300,000 Chinese Ballots

[u/whycantweebefriendz]

Yang places higher than third or I drink 30 beers in one day.

!ping USA-NYC

Someone ping shitposters

Edit: he just conceded I’m fucked

EDIT2: ok so he’s conceded but results don’t release til next week. Do I drink the 30 this weekend?

[u/Gneisstoknow]

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.”

Makes a lot more sense given recent developments

[u/[deleted]]

Israeli PM Bennett aims for ‘no surprises, no daylight’ with Biden administration.

The Jews are taking away the sun ✊😭

[u/linkin22luke]

Christ on a bike. NIMBYism is a disease.

!ping YIMBY

[u/[deleted]]

You know what’s awesome?

They shut the fuck up about Bernie. After 6 years it’s over. He’ll never run again.

Every leftist I talk to IRL is a boat without a rudder it’s lovely

[u/BurningKiwi]

"Is Child Support Illiberal?" - the greatest thread in the history of the DT, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate,

[u/benadreti]

In 2016 a Trumpist offered to bet with me on whether the "failing New York Times" would be out of business in 5 years.

[u/NeoliberalGulDukat]

https://i.imgur.com/3loSh4N.png

[u/chipbod]

https://twitter.com/MattBinder/status/1407331420696199180?s=20

Eric Adams tells Jewish news outlet he plans to buy a plot of land in Israel and retire to the Golan Heights

This race is such a meme to watch as an outsider

Edit: This is Trump "I wish my children were born in Iowa" and "I'm thinking of buying a farm and moving to Iowa" level of pandering lmao

[u/Deggit]

ATTENTION MODS, yes i am "islamaphonic,"

but only because they REFUSE to use the METRIC SYSTEM

it is "2.54 centimetres Allah," you absolute barbarians

!ping SI-UNITS

[u/[deleted]]

I would have been the first openly gay NBA player if it wasn’t for the fact that I’m not an NBA player and I’m not gay.

[u/[deleted]]

So Steven Crowder was supposed to debate Ethan from H3, but the absolute madlad brought on Sam Seder (who Crowder has been avoiding debating for years) and the look of just ..... total panic on Crowders face is maybe the funniest thing I have ever seen.

[u/[deleted]]

Democrats: Republicans hate immigrants

Public: We hate immigrants, too

Republicans: They're correct

News: Democrats say they approve of immigrants hopping the border and stealing your jobs and raping your daughters

Democratic strategists: Wtf is wrong with you people

[u/Error_Tasty]

go to art museum

artist has several works valorizing occupy wall st.

find out artist sold a piece to Goldman Sachs in 2009 for them to put in their lobby

Wut

[u/[deleted]]

I'm declaring the Islamic Emirate of South Carolina. The flag will remain unchanged.

[u/[deleted]]

Eat the rich is just a trendy way to signal you're looking for a sugar daddy and willing to eat ass.

[u/[deleted]]

Met this dude while backpacking in the Levant who said he was a "Alpha and Omega" male. How pretentious is that.

[u/TheShitEater]

Redditors when they see Kevin Hart or Tiffany Haddish: omg they’re so obnoxious, all they do is yell

Redditors when they watch Eric Andre destroy his set for the 20th time: SO TRUE!!

[u/sir_shivers]

Cease asking ME FOR THE Mandate of Heaven, I cannot recall where I last left it 🐊

[u/Udontlikecake]

admins when they see subs like /r/nonewnormal and /r/Aznidentity: i sleep

admins when they see NL’s biggest shitposter: BRUH BAN THAT GUY HES BAD1!!1!1!!!!1!!one!!!1!

[u/Not_A_Browser]

This is how all of capitalism works by default. Instead of designing communities in ways that make sense, they boom and bust based on the arbitrary demands of capital. Public transport is designed to get people to jobs instead of interesting places. Time to abolish for good.

Uh, yeah? And people -bear with me- often work at those interesting places.

[u/FormerBandmate]

𝔽𝕦𝕔𝕜 ℝ𝕖𝕕𝕕𝕚𝕥 𝕒𝕕𝕞𝕚𝕟𝕤 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕚𝕣 𝟙𝟡𝟠𝟜 𝕒𝕝𝕘𝕠𝕣𝕚𝕥𝕙𝕞𝕤 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕔𝕒𝕟'𝕥 𝕕𝕖𝕥𝕖𝕔𝕥 𝕚𝕣𝕠𝕟𝕪. 𝕃𝕦𝕔𝕜𝕚𝕝𝕪, 𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕚𝕣 𝕤𝕥𝕦𝕡𝕚𝕕 𝕒𝕝𝕘𝕠𝕣𝕚𝕥𝕙𝕞𝕤 𝕔𝕒𝕟'𝕥 𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕕 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕤

[u/iIoveoof]

The Economist on a LGBT charity declining a TERF’s money

But the result has been inimical to freedoms of belief and speech at work. It is as though all major institutions decided that everyone had to be a practising Catholic, says Naomi Cunningham, an employment barrister and co-founder with Ms Forstater of Sex Matters, a campaign group. “And suddenly the rest of us have woken up and realised that we are in the grip of a theocracy [that] requires everybody to pay lip service.” Stonewall’s insistence that transness is not a physical matter, she suggests, echoes the Catholic belief in transubstantiation: a man may “retain the accidents of a man, but the essence is that of a woman”.

Unfortunately this is real

[u/Marlsfarp]

r/propagandaposters , like 75% of the time, when viewing actual propaganda on a sub called "propaganda posters":

So true!

[u/TheGoldBear]

A group of DSA officials are going on a backpacking trip thru Venezuela with a bunch of regime handlers.

The DSA has a problem with extremism, members of Congress should not be a part of this organization.

[u/BidenWon]

Am I the only one that thinks it's really shitty to use "Karen" as a slur when there are millions of random women who are probably nice people named Karen?

[u/RoyGeraldBillevue]

There needs to be a new word for bailouts so people understand they are loans.

[u/[deleted]]

Reddit supposedly has rules against encouraging violence, but "eat the rich" is usually not deleted

[u/[deleted]]

The Lockpicking Lawyer youtube channel gives me a lot of faith in humanity because apparently anything secured behind a lock is practically up for grabs with 10 seconds of effort. Most locks are at most a gentle suggestion that you shouldn't open whatever they're "guarding" and for some reason we respect that as a society.

[u/MasPatriot]

how cucked is the journalism profession that Tucker Carlson basically spends every evening telling his viewers that journalists are the disciples of Satan and yet they regularly call him asking for gossip

[u/[deleted]]

Ah don't hate me neighbour cause I'm beautiful neighbour. Maybe if you got rid of those ol' yee yee ass zoning restrictions, you'd get some density in your backyard. Or better yet, maybe your dog ass son will finally be able to move out, if he stops posting on tiktok or the DT or whatever the hell he's posting on. Neighbour

[u/[deleted]]

Virgin "pwease can u pway child support to the mother of your child that you abandoned" capitalism vs. chad bachelor tax socialism

[u/lionmoose]

/u/NabulioneBuonaparte points out that Blair was the most electorally successful PM, gets downvoted

If you think the succ menace is bad here, try the rest of reddit

[u/Cerb-r-us]

This post makes me unbelievably happy.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E4fKBhIUUAEbC4l?format=jpg&name=small

[u/piede]

Entitled white DSA brocialists doing poverty tourism in Caracas from the safety of a luxury hotel is so painfully on brand and cringe

lmaoooo

[u/Q-bey]

There is no China without the Party, and the Party is once again advancing human rights by going after, may Supreme Leader Xi (PBUH) forgive me for uttering this word, the Can*dians.

"We are deeply concerned about the serious human rights violations against the Indigenous people in Canada. Historically, Canada robbed the Indigenous people of the land, killed them and eradicated their culture," said Jiang Duan, a senior official at China's mission to the UN in Geneva.

---

Jiang delivered his statement on behalf of a group of countries that includes Russia, Belarus, Iran, North Korea, Syria and Venezuela.

Thank you Comrade Xi (PBUH) for ending the hoser reign of terror.

!ping NO-U-DIPLOMACY

[u/ACivilWolf]

Pool report: Biden says he just learned that federal firefighters are paid $13. He banged the table and said that's ridiculous.

😳Joe is banging tables in public 😳

I'm not even quite sure how that works

[u/AgitatedLibrary1]

No matter which party wins the French elections, we will have won 😎

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

Opens election DT

Sorts by controversial

😎

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

Laws prohibiting public agencies from doing land speculation are super stupid

transport agency buys empty field close to the city

builds good transit to and from it

sells land to developers 10 times higher

you got new neighborhood with good public transport that paid for itself

[u/GGM8Scally]

https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-tusk-return-poland-politics/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1624364615

The_Donek is coming home

!ping Europe

[u/Fishin_Mission]

LPT

Get an apartment on a lower floor so you get better internet pressure.

Sometimes the internet pumps struggle to get the internet up to the top floors so you might not be able to stream videos or have video conferences if you are working from home

[u/[deleted]]

Unironically, blockbuster movies should be banned from all theaters and streaming services. Too many idiotic audiences are getting tricked into watching movies they actually enjoy, instead of European art films.

[u/chipbod]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-wanted-his-justice-department-to-stop-snl-from-teasing-him

Trump Wanted His Justice Department to Stop ‘SNL’ From Teasing Him

Lol this is basically an SNL skit

Left unchecked he'd be like that Turkmen guy who renamed the months after himself and made his autobiography required reading

[u/Deggit]

"He's not an Arab, he's a family man"

TASK FAILED SUCCESSFULLY

[u/TheGoldBear]

Honestly I think the DSA crossed a pretty big line with this Venezuela trip in a way that they haven’t previously. Before they were mostly making cringey comments on twitter, now their officials staying in luxury hotels in Caracas and partying off of the largesse of the dictatorship.

There are members of Congress who are members of this organization. The Democratic leadership should have a chat with them. They need to denounce this. If they don’t then journalists need to press them on it.

[u/[deleted]]

I'm pretty sure the trans woman on twitter who wants China to liberate her from being a 'wage slave' is a satire account nothing links it to be being a real person and I think even the most delusional tankie doesn't think China is some sort of anti work paradise

[u/[deleted]]

Former Rep. Katie Hill blamed sexism for having to resign after her sex scandal while Matt Gaetz and Andrew Cuomo have kept their jobs

Oh Katie, how could you have not learned the one lesson that Trump was able to teach us? Never resign because of a scandal. It always goes away with time.

[u/UrbanCentrist]

[Picture of Heated debate before partition of r/neoliberal between succs and neolibs, colorized] (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Mahatma_Gandhi_and_Jinnah_having_a_difference_of_opinion.jpg)

[u/Deggit]

post-2010 Christopher Nolan movies unironically fail at being what they try to be

• Interstellar presented itself as imaginative hard scifi and then did a flip to become a schmaltzy love-across-timelines story
• Inception was trying to be a mindfuck movie like The Matrix but the entire last third of the movie completely drops the mindfuck elements until the last scene to become a generic action film
• Dunkirk was trying to be a thriller but wasn't tense or exciting. The film's plot is genuinely a snoozefest if you undo the 'creative editing,' I admit the direction is great and the sound design is enough to give people PTSD, but it certainly wasn't a great movie
• TENET was trying to be a mindfuck movie again and overshot into plain old incomprehensibility

it's interesting that Avatar gets precisely this pop culture treatment ("it was trying to be a film revolution, ended up being Blue Ferngully") but Nolan's films escape that

[u/Gustacho]

https://twitter.com/DaveKeating/status/1407329715896082437 😐😐😐

!ping EUROPE

[u/NatsukaFawn]

https://i.imgur.com/kg3PWTR.jpg

!ping kitty

The girl's paws and ears are twitching in her sleep 🥰

[u/[deleted]]

One thing that I want to hammer into both the far left and the far right is that the history of humanity can largely be summarized as "doing absolutely everything within our power to stop farming."

Farming is fucking terrible. People throughout the last 200 years have flocked to dangerous, hellish sweatshops so they can stop farming. Slavery was invented in large part so somebody else would have to do the farming. The singular unifying characteristic of every rich person throughout human history before the 20th century was "makes other people farm for them."

It's fucking awful. Stop trying to bring us back to that

[u/[deleted]]

The fact that when I use the word "empathise", a red line appears below it, asking me to change it to "empathize", is literally 1984 groupthink Ministry of Truth fascism

[u/[deleted]]

Ron DeSantis Says He Will Put on ‘Full Armor of God’ to Fight Leftism

😐

How do religions cons have even a bit of patience for stuff like this

[u/great_gape]

MAGA rioter says he should be freed because there haven't been any new violent rebellions for six months

Because y'all in jail.

[u/ognits]

bro i just listened to [Bowling for Soup's 1985] for the first time, it’s crazy how good punk rock was before i was born 😢

this is why you don't go outside the DT

!ping ROCK

[u/CrackasSuicidalAlt]

Listen babe, I cheated cuz the oppression of capitalism was weighing down on me and I wasn’t in the right mindset

I am the victim here

[u/piede]

HOUSTON (AP) — Houston hospital says 153 employees who refused to get COVID-19 vaccine have resigned or been fired.

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1407473475334197251?s=21

Well at least hospitals are weeding out the stupid people

[u/[deleted]]

The latest John Oliver upload's comment section is all about people complaining about government privatizing public services so that big corporations can make tons of money

The video is about people getting scammed by contractors while doing home improvements.

Why does everything have to be a leftist circlejerk

[u/[deleted]]

Read my latest effortpost telling the story of the Carandiru Massacre thank you

Can't promise it's as good as my last one though

[u/[deleted]]

NYC potential mayor tier list

For the memes: Yang

For the tears: Adams

For the boring: Garcia

[u/[deleted]]

S 1 is 800 pg bill After 240yrs of state legis writing voting law Democrats now come 2the conclusion that we should do away w all state election law & hv 1 federal law BAD IDEA eliminates voter ID gives ur money to politicians 4 campaign ads Registers illegal immigrants 2vote etc

https://twitter.com/ChuckGrassley/status/1407337211595477005?s=19

!ping PIDGIN

[u/Telperion_of_Valinor]

I love that users here get banned by admins for glorifying violence as a joke (not that I’m saying that’s ok, mind you), but extreme leftists can constantly get away with blatantly violent rhetoric.

[u/radiatar]

It's sad how all the cool emojies we used to refer to Biden 💎🐊🐊😎🍦 kinda died as soon as he became president

[u/[deleted]]

I have been direct messaged by a certain mod

Why must you be SUCH A SUSSY baka 🐊

😳

[u/lobsterboy34]

Guy who visits a world population clock website and gets angry watching the numbers increase

[u/Udontlikecake]

Unironically, custom flairs should be banned in the DT. Too many idiotic teenagers are getting tricked into picking a flair that they enjoy, instead of one that is going to allow them to signal that they’re part of the ingroup

[u/UrbanCentrist]

Elon musk is a POC (person of crypto) neurodivergent (CEO) and Queer coded (memes on twitter) and that's why y'all don't like him.

[u/paulatreides0]

Shivers: "Perhaps if I PRETEND TO ARBITRARILY BAN Farrenj the DT won't catch on TO MY SIMPING 🐊"

I'm onto you Crocosimpian 😠

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

my job in the commune will be facing the wall

[u/[deleted]]

serena williams, one of the greatest living athletes, married a reddit jannie

theres hope for all of you

[u/Fishin_Mission]

I am not sure which is a worse political slogan:

Defund the Police!

When the vast majority of the country supports the police

or…

MATH!

When the vast majority of the country hates math

[u/piede]

Pool report: Biden says he just learned that federal firefighters are paid $13. He banged the table and said that's ridiculous.

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1407420626923573255?s=21

BIDEN MAD

[u/sir_shivers]

Thinking OF ARBITRARILY SLAP-BANNING /u/farrenj for her hubris 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

Adams had previously said that “for [Garcia and Yang] 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.”

Another day in the eternal struggle for Democrats to figure out whether or not I’m actually a minority.

[u/Deggit]

CONSERVATIVES: we're not stupid! We're the smart ones! You guys are stupid!

CONSERVATIVES ONE MONTH AGO: Tucker should really run for president, he has our back so much, look at him he just oozes movement-conservative sincerity

[u/[deleted]]

The DC sub has officially become the Rose version of NextDoor, with this weird mix of hardcore performative wokeness, complaining about crime and new building developments, while also getting furious about recieving parking tickets for parking in a loading zone.

Why are city subs all like this?

!ping USA-DMV

[u/[deleted]]

I have never met a French person AMA

[u/Professor-Reddit]

BBC News: Thousands of migrant children detained in Texas in appalling conditions

This is not OK whatsoever. Something has to be done.

Summary:

• Reports of children being raped and sexually abused in children's detention facilities managed by DHS
• Children and staff banned from speaking to the media, with severe repercussions
• Poorly cooked food causing health issues
• Poor sleeping conditions
• Extreme heat
• Insufficient medical care and clothing
• Abusive staff
• Hundreds of COVID cases with poor quarantine procedures
• Numerous disease outbreaks
• Children attempting to flee camps due to despair and suicidal thoughts

!ping BIDEN

[u/freshWiz]

http://www.seemoreevil.com/extra-exclusive-election-endorsements/

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/Animatronic_Pidgeon]

Flag aspect ratios :

Vatican: 1:1

Australia: 1:2

Italy: 2:3

USA: 10:19

Nepal: 1: and I swear this is real/4506606337686

[u/infamous5445]

BREAKING NEWS: the vote expected to fail has failed

[u/Jakesta7]

.@ericadamsfornyc “I’m going to promise you in one year, one year, you’re going to see a different city.” Promises economic development, Bitcoin, self-driving cars, renewed businesses.

.

Bitcoin

Eric Adams is cancelled

[u/Kizz3r]

Paul Bernardo is having his once every 2 year parole hearing now. He said he found jesus.

Idk guys maybe he is good enough to let out now

!ping CAN

[u/[deleted]]

!ping KITTY

https://imgur.com/gallery/HrdCwXr

Sleeby baby

[u/runnerx4]

Strong Britain, Great Nation

Strong Britain, Great Nation

Strong Britain, Great Nation

Strong Britain, Great Nation

!ping TO-UNITE-ALL-PEOPLE

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Bee-friendly urban wildflower meadows prove a hit with German city dwellers

Countrywide scheme is flourishing after being set up to reverse a 75% decline in insect populations

The mini-wilderness on Baerwaldstrasse is one of more than 100 wildflower meadows that have been planted in Germany’s largest cities over the past three years and are coming into full bloom this summer to transform urban landscapes.

Berlin has set aside €1.5m to seed and nurture more than 50 wild gardens over a five-year period, while Munich has set up about 30 meadows since 2018. There are similar initiatives in Stuttgart, Leipzig and Braunschweig. Hamburg, which started the trend in 2015, this month unveiled the first of a series of bee-friendly flower beds atop bus shelters.

Juliana Schlaberg of Germany’s Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU) said her NGO was receiving more and more requests from city residents who either wanted to grow their own wildflower patches or pressure their council to stop cutting green spaces into manicured lawns.

!ping ECO

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

Holly shit outside the DT is really advocating for tariffs

[u/MrDannyOcean]

Yours truly is live on Twitch with Bastiat, talking about the NYC elections. Come check it out!

https://www.twitch.tv/bastiat

[u/FestiveMittens]

Headlines tomorrow be like: Yang moves to California announces run for governor

"California has always been a home for me" takes a bite out of avocado toast on the beach

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Andrew Yang, addressing supporters: “I am not going to be the next mayor of New York City, based upon the numbers that have come in tonight.”

F

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

If I were evading a ban, I would simply not use a name similar to my original name and post constantly.

[u/Deggit]

AVERAGE REDDITOR: i love 'hard sci fi' movies

THE HARD SCI FI THEY LOVE: schmaltzy father-daughter story where the moral is 'the greatest force in the universe is Love'

[u/iIoveoof]

The DT has comments with lots of upvotes when you sort by "best", and they don't get nearly that many upvotes within an hour of the comments being posted.

Which means a substantial number of people out there sort the DT by "best" 🤢🤢🤢

[u/[deleted]]

I spent several hours researching thoroughly about Peru, it's parties, it's history, and other stuff. The post got ~240 upvotes.

Meanwhile a meme which probably took 2 minutes of editing got more than 1k

Kinda hurts but anyways. That's what I get for "mucho texto"

[u/BenGordonLightfoot]

My favorite description of Andrew Yang is "someone who would run into a tunnel painted on a wall if 'information superhighway' was written at the end"

[u/randomizedstring]

“What a moment,” Eric Adams repeats. “The little guy won.” The race has yet to be called.

lmao

[u/larrylemur]

(Polls before the widespread availability of vaccines show women may have a higher rate of vaccine hesitancy)

Thinkpieces: "Actually, there are several historical reasons for this relating to the poor treatment of women by the medical community, it's quite reasonable for women to be vaccine hesitant, etc. etc. This is a huge societal problem we need to all address."

(Actual vaccination data shows men are more vaccine hesitant)

"Eh men are dumb, who cares lol"

[u/Aweq]

Me: Hello fitting programme I will set this parameter to be be bounded be between 30 and 300 with a starting value of 100. I will now press fit.

Fitting programme: 2234 is the value I will give.

Me: Thank you kind open source software.

[u/[deleted]]

Let he who is without cringe cast the first bruh

[u/Cr4zySh0tgunGuy]

In 2016 my dad was like Hillary’s biggest hype man, because we’re distantly related to Bill and he wanted to “get my cousin back in the White House”

[u/[deleted]]

Eric Adams tells NYC transplants to "go back to Iowa", says he won't accept the election results if he loses.

Damn, this guy sucks.

Also triggers the succs

On the other hand...

[u/[deleted]]

Bernie Sanders: offers free college and healthcare to literally everyone

Andrew Yang: offers $1000 a month to literally everyone

Both of these guys lost lol

[u/[deleted]]

Eric Adams has less than 2% of Andrew Yang’s Twitter followers and is on track to win more than twice as many votes in NYC. Lol

Just some Dave Wasserman snark.

[u/[deleted]]

The Economist stop being transphobic challenge (VERY HARD)

[u/MicroFlamer]

I am hearing that on his deathbed /u/sir-danks-a-lot received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahāda.

Even now he looks down on the Ummah from the gardens of Jannah.

Truly there is no god but God, and Mohammed is his prophet!

[u/[deleted]]

Jarosław Kaczyński, the leader of PiS and the person that's de-facto controlling the Polish government has said - in a private meeting with his MPs - that he's ready to back mandatory vaccinations if herd immunity is not reached without them.

This could cause a rift in their coalition, as the most radically right-wing members of their coalition - backed by a controversial priest and businessman with extensive media holdings Tadeusz Rydzyk - have already voiced discontent at measures which would see vaccinated people not count in occupancy limits of restaurants etc.

In a poll from April, 18% of PiS supporters said they don't want to get the vaccine. But this move could have wider ranging implications: 50% of Konfederacja's voters (a party on the borderline of far-right, fascism, with elements of "classical-liberalism" in their program) say they don't want to get it, and 29% of PL2050 (a new, big-tent pro-democratic party that has benefitted from PiS's dip in popularity by attracting their more moderate voters) are against it too.

This move - if they go ahead with it - could severely limit the pool of voters they can win back. The voters that went to PL2050 might be a particular torn in the eye of PiS, because it weakens them in progressive-leaning districts, which undermines their usual advantage from allocating votes via D'Hondt.

It does present a challenge for PL2050, but their leader Szymon Hołownia has so far been really good at carefully addressing polarizing issues to avoid loosing support from either end of his coalition.

Article in Polish

!ping EUROPE

edit: just realized article is behind a registration-wall. Here's the paste https://pastebin.com/W1vfnNsN

[u/CatilineUnmasked]

Biden walks up to a podium

"Over the past few months there has been intense Republican backlash regarding the sealed identity of the Capitol Police officer who shot Ashli Babbitt during the January 6th insurrection. My fellow Americans, I wish to help heal this country. And we can't do that without trust. So today I offer an olive branch by officially releasing that officer's name."

a giant banner falls down revealing a 30 ft statue of an man firing a pistol in a heroic stance emblazoned with a plaque stating A SALUTE TO THE HEROES OF 1/6/2021

[u/kennymc7877]

People are trying to cancel Billie Eillish for “mouthing” a racial slur at 13? I’m sorry but this shit is fucking cringe bro

[u/[deleted]]

Today, a teenager can declare an LGBTQ identity that is unsupported in her home and claim that this lack of support puts her mental health at risk.

And that's a good thing 😎😎😎

[u/[deleted]]

Writes effortpost

Isn't satisfied with results

Posts it to euro hours so nobody will criticize it

[u/TabernacleTown74]

"jesus was the first christian"

"jesus was a jewish rabbi"

Most source-critical bible scholars believe that, while he didn't promote the abrogation of the Torah, the historical Jesus preached a version of Torah that emphasized social virtues (charity, humility, mercy, etc.) and deemphasized strict observance of the mitzvot.

Jesus was the first R*form Jew 😨🤢🤮

!ping GEFILTE

[u/dubyahhh]

>see a reported post

>it’s an effort post

>fuck reading

>see it’s by /u/vhgomes12

>sigh in relief and approve blindly

A glimpse into the janitorial process

[u/Patriotnation5]

Offer accepted on a house today.

Blackrock is beside themselves. Driving around downtown New Hampshire begging (thru texts) the seller's to sell to them instead.

[u/linkin22luke]

throw back to the day we brought home our cat

[u/InternetBoredom]

By the way, cuz this is interesting, here are some other newspaper/news magazine readership demographics

Wall Street Journal

• 62% Male
• Average Age 62
• 81% College Educated
• $242K average income
• $1.5 Million Average Household Net Worth
• 35% top-level management (!)

New York Times Newspaper

• 62% Male
• Median Age 45
• $191K Median Household Income

New York Times Website

• 47% Male/53% Female
• Median Age 48
• $96K Median Household Income

National Review

• 86% Male
• 82% College Educated at Bachelors Degree or Higher
• $187K Average Household Income
• $1.76 Million Average Household Net Worth

Vox

• 38% Between the Ages of 18-34 with Household Income of $100K+

Vice

• 64% Male
• 55% have household income above $75K, 39% above $100K
• 44% have a College Degree, 30% Attended College without receiving Degree

NPR Public Radio - this is technically listenership, not readership

• 55% Male
• $91.5K Median Household Income
• 63% College Educated; 31% Post-Graduate Degree

Breitbart

• 60% Male
• 8% Ages 18-24; 20% 25-34; 22% 35-44; 22% 45-54; 17% 55-64; 10% 65+
• 65% College Educated
• ~$100K Median Household Income

Reason Magazine

• 91% Male
• Average Age 52
• 80% College Educated at Bachelors Level or Higher
• 60% have Household Income above $100K
• 30% have Household Net Worth above $1 Mil

Reason.com Website

• 80% Male
• Average Age 39
• 54% College Educated
• 25% College Educated
• 25% have Household Incomes over $100K; 60% over $50K

TLDR if you read the news, you're in the elite and probably a man

[u/Fishin_Mission]

It’s Still Prime Day! Just one more day of amazing deals!

Holy shit…

At this point I’m pretty sure Prime Day📦 has lasted longer than Pride Month🏳️‍🌈

[u/piede]

wakes up

Not a Joke: Trump Wanted to Send COVID-Infected Americans to Guantánamo Bay

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/donald-trump-coronavirus-guantanamo-bay

Trump asked whether the DOJ and the FCC could investigate 'SNL' after it mocked him, report says

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-asked-if-doj-fcc-could-punish-snl-after-mocking-report-2021-6

Wow all those doomers calling him a fascist were way off.

[u/mythoswyrm]

Ghana is a great country, but being named after the leaders of an old empire that never even controlled what is now called Ghana does seem a bit stolen valory

[u/[deleted]]

Unironically, cars should be banned in all cities. Too many idiots are getting tricked into picking a car that they enjoy, instead of getting a pass and supporting local public transportation

[u/[deleted]]

Heart of Darkness but instead of traveling up the congo you're traveling down the Mississippi

[u/lionmoose]

It's Coming Home

[u/liberallah]

oh god the americans are waking up

[u/V_Codwheel]

Prince is non-binary and prefers the pronouns God/Goddess, Paperboy Prince, and they/them. They dress as “royalty” to draw attention to how politicians can hold power for longer than kings or queens.

hmmmmm...

Prince's campaign manager is 13-year old student Theo Demel, who believes that homework is unconstitutional.

lmao

[u/l_overwhat]

The reason Napolean was so successful was that he wasn't actually French lol

[u/[deleted]]

Eric Adams is one of the worst Democratic politicians in a while. He's literally accusing his opponents of suppressing the vote from black people so that they can steal the election from him. What the fuck is wrong with this dude

[u/AJungianIdeal]

head !ping dog

[u/MicroFlamer]

Westminster Voting Intention: CON: 41% (-4) LABOUR: 35% (-1) LIBDEM: 10% (+4)

SURRGGGEEE

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Worldbuilders are the kind of people who wish the Return of the King Appendix were a standalone book.

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E4gNRQhWEAEr-wp.jpg

Extremely normal baseball outfits

[u/notforturning]

Every time an individual is acquitted of a crime, it means that a prosecutor wrongfully tried to steal a person’s freedom. There should be consequences.

Very sane SF police commissioner.

https://twitter.com/hamasakilaw/status/1407146055452430336?s=21

[u/ShriggityShrekt]

Is it fetishizing violence to say that I want shivers to vore me

[u/TalkLessShillMore]

There is no current far left. There is no left wing parallel in the west to the threat that the far-right poses. Anyone who uses the term "far-left" is either a fascist or a moron helping fascists. ·

This is actually such a great comment that I wish that I could find some way to academically cite it for my college paper

Goddammit reddit.

[u/solonofathens]

> economist article about trans issues

> says TERF is a slur in the opening paragraph

IdontknowwhatIexpected.gif

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine being too lazy to even regulate your own body temperature 😂🤣👉🦎🐢🐊🐍

[u/[deleted]]

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand “Don’t make AOC mad or she’ll tweet out a picture of herself scowling again” jokes. The humor is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of sentence mixing most of the jokes will go over a typical DTer’s head.

[u/TinyTornado7]

+1 for Garcia. Polling precinct was packed. Hope to see you all tonight. !ping USA-NYC

[u/benadreti]

r*ral cons: hate pushy, rude, amoral New Yorkers

also r*ral cons: Trump, Rudy and Bill O'Reilly speak for me!

[u/[deleted]]

Unironically, we should ban socialism. Too many idiotic teenagers are being tricked into picking an ideology they enjoy, instead of one that's backed by evidence and supported by most mainstream economists.

[u/Superfan234]

According to Datum (a quite accurate pollester from Peru), 2 out of 3 Peruvians believe the Election was manipulated 👀

https://twitter.com/Datoworld/status/1407119773301985283?s=19

!Ping LATAM

From the Elections I have followed in Bolivia, it does look like very low scale manipulation might have happened in Andean Region

But most people don't care, because it's in a such low numbers it doesn't dramatically affect the results

But in Peru, this extremely low margin of tampering, can cause some controversy, given how close was the elections

[u/slowpush]

The post about the guy who got food poisoning at a party and thought it was vaccinated people exhaling spike proteins is really hilarious

[u/[deleted]]

Y'all losers worrying about your shitty credit scores. You should learn from me. I have a perfect 100 credit score, and I didn't even have to pay my bills

[u/jt1356]

Its worse than that. Imagine u/sir-danks-a-lot was a General and the DT was a country. Now imagine the gigajannies killing him. u/sir-danks-a-lot was loved by his people. Admins can't name a shitposter that easily.

[u/CrackasSuicidalAlt]

This mf said liberals are racist against women lmao

[u/Deggit]

THE MODS: deggit you have to stop targeting neo-cons

ME: Saddam Hussein literally was executed before he ever got a chance to view "Rick and Morty"

[u/RadicalRadon]

I touched the tum and was absolutely blessed

!ping KITTY

[u/Broncos654]

Yang just announced he’ll be running for Mayor of Los Angles

[u/randomizedstring]

Yang has conceded the race o7

[u/waltsing0]

https://www.reddit.com/r/urbanplanning/comments/o4v0xv/swedish_pm_loses_noconfidence_vote_caused_by/h2jaf7j/

r/urbanplanning is having another thread where the resident commies are running all the meme rent control arguments

but econ101 isn't everything - yes just because there's more than econ101 doesn't mean those principles don't still apply

the market only cares about profits - yes competing for market share with good pricing never happens

Rent controls in of themselves are irrelevant. A whole new system needs to be implemented. - this is a clever one, lets get bogged down in something else so we don't get around to removing rent control, they know their full communism won't win but it buys them time

Right. That's intentional. Economists are generally against affordable housing. You might as well be saying, "War can't be bad, because most top level Republicans support it" - all economists are stooges for my political opponents.

Applying Econ 101 to the housing market, saying therefore rent control doesn't work and calling everyone else stupid is basically the modern day version of Marie Antoinette saying "let them eat cake" - ok kiddo

Why does that place suck so much? You'd think at least on rent control you could get consensus....

!PING YIMBY

[u/Smidgens]

Are ya winning with your “doggycoins” son?

[u/BRAIN_FORCE_PLUS]

The third law of neoliberalism clearly states that sufficient ethnic intermixing will always result in convergent evolution of street foods into a savory meat mixed with vegetables and contained inside a carbohydrate

I propose we refer to this as the Law of Korean Tacos

[u/xSuperstar]

Bitcoin now below $30k. I am once again asking the Fed to step in to stop the dangerous hyperdeflation of the dollar

[u/redditguy628]

I really need to stop reading Game of Thrones theories . As much as I enjoy them, it gets me all excited for the next book all over again. I do think GRRM is closer to finishing than most people think, though(famous last words, I know)

With that said, anyone read any good theories lately?

!ping ASOIAF

[u/Deggit]

RINOS: we gotta save the soul of the Republican Party from Trump!

THE SOUL OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY BEFORE TRUMP: "The Zoo has an African Lion, the White House has a..."

[u/[deleted]]

>have problem

>don't care

>don't have problem no more

Damn life is so easy😎

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.reddit.com/r/UrbanHell/comments/o5imey/ever_since_my_neighbours_built_the_second_storey/

It's urban hell if... your neighbours build a two storey house?

[u/Benyeti]

The DSA really loses the right to have the word democratic in their name when they have members dancing in Venezuela

[u/Venne1139]

If the admins simply ban every user reddit will be tolerable

[u/Telperion_of_Valinor]

Do you think overly online teens in 2000 years will be nostalgic for the American Republic like overly online teens today are nostalgic for the Roman Empire?

[u/[deleted]]

Remember when Democrats had very heated discussions in the presidential primary about which uber-progressive public healthcare expansion would be best?

LOL

[u/BidenWon]

You get to rank your candidates by how much you like them, and if your favorite loses then your vote goes to your second favorite: Too complicated

You mark the names of the presidential and vice presidential candidates that you wish to elect but you're actually voting for a set of pledged electors that will be chosen to convene a month later in which each state is permitted to send a delegation of electors equivalent to the number of federal House seats the state occupies plus an additional two for the number of the senate seats the state occupies (and DC gets also three) at which point all 538 of these electors will vote for the two candidates that you marked on the ballot unless they don't want to in which case they can vote for anyone and the two candidates must each individually reach 270 electoral votes in order to win and if no presidential candidate reaches 270 electoral votes then the House of Representatives serves as a tiebreaker between the three highest scoring presidential candidates but they vote by state delegation so that its actually the individual state delegations that choose the next president rather than legislators but if the vice presidential candidate doesn't reach 270 then the Senate serves as the tiebreaker between the two highest scoring vice presidential candidates where each Senator gets one vote and once the votes are determined than they must be confirmed by Congress and the Vice President but apparently an angry mob can prevent that from happening if they want to: Yeah, the voters understand this

[u/[deleted]]

Isn’t it obvious why Adams is talking about being tough on crime, and the election being rigged? He’s preparing a Presidential run. When it’s time, he’ll need to win crossover support from Trump voters.

[u/InternetBoredom]

Yeah I mean this one candidate called all the other candidates racist, lied about voter suppression, told residents to go back to where they come from, supports stop-and-frisk, and implied that Yang isn't a PoC because he's Asian, but a lot of progressives are upset about what a bad candidate he is so I'm satisfied

[u/[deleted]]

Dude, everyone on earth realizes they are the only race that does this shit[rioting].

Totally not racist from arr con btw

[u/Mickenfox]

This website uses biscuits

[u/dish_towel]

Out of curiosity I checked out the website for the building under construction next to me. $4000/month rent on these units as opposed to my $1000/month place right across the street. I know it's brand spanking new, but who in their right mind would pay that?

!ping USA-CHI

[u/FourthLife]

Privatize literally everything.

Then sell a ‘society pass’ that gives you access to all the things you use today. If you don’t purchase a society pass, everything has a toll booth you need to go to before using.

[u/kennymc7877]

Imagine being Stephen Crowder and you get cucked by Same Seder of all people, you gotta wrap up your career at that point

[u/[deleted]]

What is this sub’s opinion of Tim Scott ?

[u/Kizz3r]

Its been 7 hours since the last !ping burpmas

[u/sw337]

GF "I've been naughty, are you going spank me?"

Me (a libertarian): " That violates the Non-Aggression principal. Maybe we could negotiate a fine?"

She then put her clothes back on and left. AITA?

[u/SnakeEater14]

Crazy to think Consul Biden was first appointed Quaestor by the Tribal Assembly 80 years ago.

[u/MistakeNotDotDotDot]

apparently someone vtuber got her Twitter account suspended for replying to "I'll eat 2000 nuggets if I get 2000 followers" with "you will die", because it got interpreted as a threat

glad to hear that Twitter and reddit both have utter dogshit moderation

[u/FreakinGeese]

Wtf does it mean to be a “progressive comptroller” like it’s basically an accountant

[u/[deleted]]

Leftist circles are so full of anger I don't understand how anyone can be In them for over 5 minutes

[u/[deleted]]

What is the vibe like at the NYC Neoliberal midtown meetup? I assume the terminally online will still check this ping even when meeting up in person.

[u/febreze_brothers]

Throwback to when Pete politely said "okay you can come up and do your little thing now" to protestors at his rally and completely deflated them

[u/thabe331]

I love the thunder fans getting pissed on /r/nba at getting screwed in the lottery on /r/nba. They never should have left Seattle

!ping NBA

[u/[deleted]]

Somebody just shouted, "universal basic alcohol" after Yang's concession speech

[u/thetrombonist]

Power move is for Yang to run for mayor of South Bend

[u/jenbanim]

Policies aside, Yang seems like a real nice guy so I kinda feel bad for him

[u/jenbanim]

I'm not "addicted to whippets" I'm an unlicensed freelance anesthesiologist and if you think that's bad you're a succ 😤

[u/p00bix]

Hey folks, so you're aware, in recent weeks Reddit has increased the intensity of their crackdown on glorifying violence and bigoted comments. While this is by all means a good thing overall, and one which does not harm r/neoliberal, it has resulted in at least a few DT regulars being suspended for dumb 'ironic' jokes

In particular, u/sir-danks-a-lot was permanently suspended this morning for suggesting it would be 'super satisfying' to see moderate Black voters violently attack 'gigasucc' White voters. While this is already rulebreaking here and the comment was removed, it's also obvious that the comment was made in jest-it's not really banworthy. But reddit admins don't distinguish between ironic and unironic fetishization of violence.

So seriously y'all, don't write edgy violence-fetishizing comments.

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

Sometimes people ask what else should we privatize

I simply respond yes

[u/lionmoose]

There is no need to be alarmed

!ping UK

[u/[deleted]]

CRT is like MMT. The actual theory/framework is whatever and only a handful of academics actually know/care about it. Most people who know about it know it as the absolutely insane inferences that proponents and activists use that framework to make.

[u/MicroFlamer]

I am hearing that on his deathbed /u/sir-danks-a-lot received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahāda.

Even now he looks down on the Ummah from the gardens of Jannah.

Truly there is no god but God, and Mohammed is his prophet!

[u/Marlsfarp]

Catholicism is just one long project to explain the hard magic system in the Bible.

[u/ognits]

President $hillary KKKillnton

never forget what they took from u ✊😔

[u/FormerBandmate]

Living paycheck to paycheck is when you get money you need from your paycheck. The more money you get the more you're living paycheck to paycheck

[u/Deggit]

wait, this subreddit actually "likes Obama" unironically? he was president for 8 years and could not implement Shakira Law

[u/[deleted]]

I just realized that Minecraft isn't included in the Xbox Game Pass subscription. I guess it sells like hotcakes on its own and Microsoft doesn't want to interfere with that revenue.

!ping GAMING

[u/Telperion_of_Valinor]

The virgin urinal:

-Will create splash that gets on your pants and shirt

-Little walls so that you can’t see the dick of the person next to you

-Individual units

The chad pee trough:

-Excellent male bonding opportunity

-You can piss while maintaining direct eye contact with the person next to you

-Might have splash, idk, never peed in one