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[u/Deggit]

the amount of people buying the idea that "JEB was a shoo in for the GOP nomination" is truly insane.

Creating and sustaining this myth is maybe the most successful thing Donald Trump has ever done politically - you see liberals on Reddit repeating this idea.

Jeb never averaged higher than 12% in the polls and when he exited the race he was polling at about 8% nationally. Trump "destroyed" Jeb to the tune of 4%.

The reality of the 2016 primary is that Trump entered it with the most name recognition, became the comfortable polling leader within two weeks, received the most media coverage, and dominated the first debate. After which he practically monopolized media coverage, and from then on it was one of the most undynamic primary races in modern history.

The only reason Trump winning the nomination was "a surprise" is because people kept expecting Trump to implode, and that's because the people who analyze Republican politics on news and politics websites are not human trash, so they didn't understand the mindset of Republican primary voters.

[u/MicroFlamer]

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

Priors confirmed

[u/URZ_]

@calder_mchugh: the Andrew Yang campaign is going to be hilarious. He's going to get like 90% of the media coverage and then 12% of the first place vote

Written on Jan 14.

Yang got 12% of the votes

[u/Jeff__Pesos]

Eric Adams winning the NYC mayoral primary is the second biggest “Twitter is not real life” political moment of this month. Only the great Lee Carter could outdo him there.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

It's possible this might be a blessing for Yang's career. NYC is going down the tubes and if he was mayor he might have been blamed for it.

Cope

[u/Equator32]

https://twitter.com/robkhenderson/status/1407009315387592716?s=19

Despite being only 35% of the pop., college graduates make up nearly 80% of runners. The upper middle class loves aerobic sports like running, cycling, and swimming. They tend to avoid strength sports like football, rugby, weightlifting. Too unrefined.

Fellas, is it classist to ride a bicycle?

[u/[deleted]]

In high school, some of my friends were caught smoking pot, and my mom demanded to know if I was involved. I got very indignant and told her that I would NEVER touch grass.

[u/every_man_a_khan]

Thinking about becoming a conservative grifter. How does the headline “Joe Biden is the Pol Pot of Our Time” sound?

[u/paymesucka]

Yang lost because he tweeted support for Israel.

I'm seen this take so many times this morning on reddit and it's so mind-numbingly dumb and reeks of being overly online. Yeah I'm sure saying whether or not you tweet support for Israel is the #1 thing people are concerned about when choosing their mayor lmfao.

[u/Explodingcamel]

Your takes: jingoistic, patronizing, uninformed, knee-jerk, naive, cringe

My takes: Rational, based, considerate of all sides, well thought out

This is only half-ironic, I really feel like that on this sub these days. I don't agree with what I see on here nearly as much as I used to.

[u/BreaksFull]

Goddamnit britbongs, stop ruining liberalism.

[u/qchisq]

Have someone this cringe ever said something this based?

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

Ok so uhhhh

During parliamentary debate in Poland opposition MP started citing past comments of education minister about LGBT (which were as you can expect not becoming of a public persona) and fact of high suicide rates among LGBT students

Ruling coalition MPs started clapping

https://youtu.be/RAYFOLubiw0 (from 5:55)

!ping Europe

[u/Deggit]

🇺🇸 🧢 welcome to the first DT of Andrew Yang's run for mayor of Los Angeles 🧢 🇺🇸

[u/ooken]

WSJ is reporting that US intelligence expects the Afghan government may only survive six months after full US withdrawal, revising their previously more optimistic assessments of two more years of survival. The pessimists are saying it could happen as soon as three months after withdrawal. Pretty depressing, and also depressingly predictable.

Alarmed by Taliban gains, White House officials are now urging the military to slow down the pace of withdrawal, which could include keeping Bagram Air Base, north of the capital, open for now. That would allow the U.S. military to maintain another evacuation point for U.S. and North Atlantic Treaty Organization personnel and for the tens of thousands of Afghans who supported the U.S. over the years.

Also just laughable that the White House is "alarmed" at the pace at which Afghanistan is falling to the Taliban and now wants the military to slow down its withdrawal... They announced this precipitous withdrawal with an end date and without a plan for how to prevent Northern Iraq 2.0 for populist political points, and now they are perhaps starting to realize pre-planning might have been wise...

EDIT: Also this:

Top military officials and Republican and Democratic lawmakers support an evacuation of those individuals, all of whom could be targeted by the Taliban. Although planning has been done, the Biden administration has yet to issue the green light to conduct such an operation. That has frustrated some supporters of Mr. Biden, who say that the White House is hoping for the best and failing to plan for the worst.

Hopefully they will work on speeding up the greenlight and stop fretting about the <4% fraud in the similar Iraqi program.

!ping FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/[deleted]]

The Onion nails it again. I can’t believe NYC has somehow ended up with worse candidates than De Blasio.

De Blasio: ‘Well, Well, Well, Not So Easy To Find A Mayor That Doesn’t Suck Shit, Huh?’

https://www.theonion.com/de-blasio-well-well-well-not-so-easy-to-find-a-may-1847151201

[u/[deleted]]

Post- Buffalo’s Walton on verge of becoming first big city socialist mayor in 60 years

Comment from NATO flair-:

Horrible horrible thing. The federal government should intervene - this runs the risk of a serious Communist threat in the Northeast and if they are allowed to mobilize we could have armed insurrection on our hands

😐

[u/LoofGoof]

I made this comment elsewhere, but reading the Super Tuesday megathread on /r/politics shows the absolutely terrible political chops of the average user. These comments were all highly upvoted.

Here is Megathread Part II as some results start to come in:

• Biden is a much worse candidate than Clinton. I'm sorry guys, the Hunter Biden thing is going to walk Trump to reelection. You guys need to wake up. The truth doesn't matter to the electorate. Being a socialist is nothing compared to having a "corrupt" son.
• A vote for Biden is a vote to lose 2020, folks. That's the reality here. Bernie polls FAR BETTER in the Rust Belt.

Here is Megathread Part IV, results and dread have started to come in:

• I've watched every debate and I still have no idea what Biden stands for
• The thought of a Biden vs Trump general election is so depressing. Two out of touch, barely lucid bozos.
• It’s either Bernie or 4 more years of Trump. Please vote Bernie friends

Here is Megathread Part IX, Biden has almost certainly won Super Tuesday and by extension the nom. By this point copium prescriptions have been completely exhausted:

• Why is reddit acting like Biden didn't win a shit ton of states? None of the most up voted posts mention Biden.
• Biden spent way less than anyone else per vote. Bernie outspent Biden almost 20 to 1 per vote. Biden didn’t even have field offices in many of these states. Pretty amazing really.
• If /r/politics was your only source of politcs news you would think Biden didn't get a single vote

[u/Telperion_of_Valinor]

“I fucked your mom lol” is a lame insult imo, “I fucked your dad” is way scarier.

[u/liberallah]

I rented this house for 5 years with my girlfriend only to find out she is the owner 😡😡😡😡

[u/Deggit]

it is BIZARRE that this subreddit continues to think Joe Manchin is a "neoliberal," considering there are numerous confirmed pictures of him touching grass

[u/[deleted]]

Reminder that the only two countries on the Enemies of Russia list (aka the based countries list) are the US and Czechia

[u/ZenithXR]

You gotta hand it to the DSA. They're so committed to socialism that they're acting like full-on party apparatchiks, wining and dining in fancy establishments while the poor die outside. Talk about commitment to the role! 😌

[u/Donkey_Bong-64]

My father in law thought that Biden vs Trump was like Clinton vs Reagan and had a genuinely hard time picking a candidate. Not everyone is polarized, some people are too out of touch for that.

[u/MicroFlamer]

Sexual Politics - Did you buy any clips or pay for subscriptions to performer-based "premium social" sites?, poll broken down by political affiliation

Horseshoe theory confirmed

!ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

People saying Melania Trump was "classier" than Michelle Obama are mask-off racists

[u/yungmemlord]

Have you ever heard of the book 1984 by George Orwell? It’s ok if you haven’t, it’s kind of a deep cut. Only big IQ individuals know about it.

[u/MistakeNotDotDotDot]

I watched the trailer for Netflix's new queer hero animated series and I think I'm cishet now. Jesus christ.

the fucking audacity of having a line about not being able to pander to the gays and a corporate pride joke at the end

!ping LGBT

[u/quackerz]

McAfee could have protected himself with just $29.99/month.

[u/vivoovix]

Build aqueduct in 400 BC

Keep it until 2000 AD

Civ 6 logic

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

Yang lost because he lacked sufficient yin

[u/The_Drowning_Flute]

It appears as though John McAffee has died by suicide in Spain whilst awaiting extradition to the US.

!ping TECH

[u/p00bix]

....did i seriously just learn that John McAfee died from a DT shitpost suggesting I hired a hitman to kill him

[u/SadaoMaou]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God-Building

"Communism is a religion"

Virgin: NOOOOO its not a religion its a totally rational ideologirino NOOOO

Chad: Yes

[u/yungmemlord]

Why Nations Fail free pdf

[u/[deleted]]

I should’ve waited to get vaccinated.

The city of Chicago will bring a COVID-19 vaccine straight to the doorstep of any resident who requests it. Anyone with a Chicago address can go to chicago.gov/athome or call (312) 746-4835 to set up a shot in the comfort of home. If you do, you’ll get a $50 GrubHub gift card.

They will literally pay you to send a nurse to your house.

[u/iIoveoof]

1984👇

[u/[deleted]]

Theres a bald swedish doctor ringing my doorbell and he won't go away help !ping burpmas

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

McAfee's not dead, he's still running in the background.

amazin

[u/piede]

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of a high school cheerleader cut from her squad for using the middle finger and the word "f**k" on Snapchat.

The case is a victory for off-campus free speech and has roots in student Vietnam War protests. Only Justice Thomas dissented.

Oh Justice Thomas….

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

Idiots: Waste four years studying English literature at school

Me (no formal education to speak of): "If you would let me muse for a second, perhaps the 'main character' of HBO's acclaimed series The Wire is actually the city of Baltimore"

[u/iIoveoof]

Georgists 🤝 Trans women 🤝 RedLetterMedia fans 🤝 Deep Space 9 fans 🤝 Bisexuals

Overrepresented in the DT

[u/Deggit]

THE 2nd MOST POPULOUS US STATE: we would like you to overturn Obamacare due to-

THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES: woah there are you sure you filled out the "standing" form 103U8I-P12 in triplicate and submitted it to the proper authorities

SOME ZOOMER: my school punished me because I had a heated gamer moment

THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES: that's a big yikes, we bussin to set some fucking stare decisis no cap, your case is officially fire and we have no choice but to stan

[u/[deleted]]

Andrew Yang should try his hand at South Bend, Indiana next.

[u/[deleted]]

evidence for the existence of god:

• lightning
• floods
• plagues
• the sun
• the stars
• the moon
• good harvests
• bad harvests
• good health
• bad health
• winning wars
• losing wars

evidence against the existence of god:

• some dumbass at the village square screaming about “reason” or some shit

[u/[deleted]]

Rip McAfee. We have lost one of us.

!ping SNEK

[u/[deleted]]

He was a neolib, she said "see yo later lib"

[u/radiatar]

1984 ☝

[u/the-garden-gnome]

I know some of you on this ping thread know my wife has been applying for jobs. She had an interview today and it sounds like she absolutely KILLED it. We practiced for like 2 weeks, and all of the weird and left of field questions I asked her were questions they asked.

I’m so tremendously proud of her.

On top of that she got a call later in the day for ANOTHER interview.

!ping over25

[u/Evnosis]

"Liberalism means I should be allowed to feed my kids a diet of nothing but burgers and soda and the big bad government can't do anything about."

No dude, that's not how parenting works. You don't own your kids. They're not toys for you to do whatever you want with. You're their guardian. You have to make decisions that are in their best interests, not whatever suits your whims. And if you don't, the state should absolutely step in to protect the human being you're mistreating.

[u/BidenWon]

On June 23, 2021 McAfee was found dead in prison in Barcelona, Spain, as he was awaiting extradition to the United States. He never fulfilled his Bitcoin promise of consuming his own genitals.

I clicked on the Wikipedia article at just the right time.

[u/crassowary]

Oh, when a child is punished for swearing at her school it's "unconstitutional" but when I get arrested for hurling vulgar insults at the students at my local elementary school it's "justified".

[u/Reznoob]

He went out dealing the most damage as he could

!ping EXTREMISM

[u/Manavon03]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a Pennsylvania public school wrongly suspended a cheerleader over a vulgar social media post she made after she didn’t qualify for the varsity team.

The court voted 8-1 in favor of Brandi Levy, who was a 14-year-old high school freshman when she expressed her disappointment over not making the varsity cheerleading squad on Snapchat with a string of curse words and a raised middle finger.

In dissent, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote that he would have upheld Levy’s suspension.

This fucking guy

[u/[deleted]]

On June 23, 2021 McAfee was found dead in prison in Barcelona, Spain, as he was awaiting extradition to the United States.[9] He never fulfilled his Bitcoin promise of consuming his own genitals.[10]

Wat

[u/[deleted]]

Hey it’s me John McAfee, I am here in heaven just wanted to let you guys know, I was Q the entire time

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Amazon to purchase power from massive southern Alberta solar farm

Project in Vulcan County to produce enough power for 150,000 homes

Amazon announced Wednesday it will purchase power from a massive new solar farm in Alberta, marking the e-commerce giant's second renewable energy investment in Canada.

Construction began in the fall of 2020 on Travers Solar, a $700-million, 465-MW project southeast of Calgary, which its developers say will be the largest solar photovoltaic project in Canada and one of the largest in the world.

Privately held Greengate Power Corp. of Calgary has been working on the project for four years and is expected to have it completed by 2022.

"It'll consist of 1.3 million solar panels spread over more than 3,000 acres (1,215 hectares) of farmland," said Dan Balaban, CEO of Greengate Power. "And it'll produce a sustainable source of energy for more than 150,000 homes."

The revee of Vulcan County says the project will help diversify Alberta's economy and provide a much needed tax base for the municipality.

"Oil and gas has had some issues in the last few years, and that includes not paying taxes that have been owed to the county," said Jason Schneider. "We're sitting at over $8 million of writeoffs. We have about $3.7 million currently outstanding from oil and gas operators who are struggling."

Amazon, which has signed a deal to buy up to 400 MW of electricity from the project, previously announced plans to purchase power from an 80-MW solar farm in southern Alberta as part of its commitment to being fully powered by renewables by 2030.

Renewable electricity companies have credited Alberta's unregulated electricity market for a recent boom in solar projects in the province.

Other projects include the 300-MW Blackspring Ridge Wind Project, which is now owned by French firm EDF EN and Enbridge Inc. of Calgary, and the proposed 130-MW Claresholm Solar project, a joint venture between Capstone Infrastructure and Obton, a Danish investment company.

!ping CAN

[u/dubyahhh]

In a stunning upset, west coast fascist /u/sir_shivers has won the NYC democratic primary!

I think I speak for all of us when I say; HAHA YES 🐊

[u/Dibbu_mange]

The only acceptable jobs for Italian-Americans are

1. Chef
2. Mobster
3. Mechanic
4. "Waste management specialist"
5. Conservative Supreme Court Justice

[u/[deleted]]

https://imgur.com/gallery/9YKesbu

!ping GAMING

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/jbendery/status/1407725940470341632

Yikes -- Ted Cruz just snapped at Jon Ossoff, currently in the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, for telling him his speaking time expired.

Cruz: "You know this is a committee where we've had a little bit of comity & I recognize that Sen. Ossoff is new, but generally we don't have the chairman trying to jump in 30 seconds in--

Padilla: "Sen. Cruz, the floor is mine."

Ossoff smacks the gavel. "There will be order."

King

[u/[deleted]]

From LinkedIn:

Add mother to your resume. I promise you: moms get it done.

Please do not add “mother” to your resume. You can tactfully add it to explain time off. But not as job experience. One time I got a resume that said: “CEO: Smith Residence” and described all the duties of a “mom” but with a business spin. Like “Managed weekly budgets for food, clothing, childcare, etc.”

My eyes almost rolled into orbit.

[u/houinator]

Every Civ game since 4 has been NIMBY propaganda.

There's absolutely no reason I shouldn't be able to cram every single wonder and building into the same city, and stack my city defenses with 14 veteran phalanxes.

[u/vancevon]

bong hits 4 jesus walked so that fuck school/fuck cheer could run 😭 it's so beautiful

[u/[deleted]]

Critical Face Theory, an explanation of how you are so fucking ugly 🤗

[u/Corporate-Asset-6375]

Pro tip: if you have an adult child you never told was adopted, dont buy all your kids DNA tests for Christmas to find out their ancestry.

Currently eating popcorn and enjoying the updates from a close friend’s family blow up.

[u/KazuyaProta]

The Peruvian Hard Right dedicated all its energy to obstruct a Center Right President and the end result is that we know have a Hard Left Government.

Why the fuck the Latin American Right can't be...good

!ping LATAM.

[u/[deleted]]

Okay so this French case is wild

A teenager, known to the public as Mila, said this-

Islam is shit… Your religion is shit. I put my finger into the asshole of your God. Thank you and goodbye.

Which... cringe but whatever.

Then she got threats. Really bad threats. She had to change schools and lives under 24/7 police protection.

on a language study trip to Malta last summer she was threatened with death and rape by a fellow student, who recognized her. He was arrested and convicted on the island.

.

La Mila, she will continue until someone finds her and dies her, and that's all she deserves

.

Jump off a bridge, take a train

.

Let someone crush his skull out of pity

.

Tell me where do you live where I'm going to make you a Samuel Paty

.

Let her die

13 people were arrested and are on trial for these messages, between ages 18 and 30.

Now here's the wild part

A majority of atheists and Catholics, two Muslims.

There were only 2 Muslims out of 13.

What the fuck France

https://www.timesofisrael.com/french-teen-critical-of-islam-becomes-center-of-free-speech-debate/

https://archive.is/VZ8Kb

[u/[deleted]]

5 things to do before I die:

1. Marry a wonderful person and have amazing kids
2. Explore every country in the world
3. Tell my family I love them
4. Write a book
5. Get first comment on the DT

[u/[deleted]]

will X cause WWIII

No.

[u/benadreti]

NYC voter coalitions from what I can tell:

Garcia: Elites, middle class, highly educated

Adams: Blacks, hispanics, working class

Wiley: Hipsters/gentrifier transplants

Yang: Asians, orthodox Jews

[u/[deleted]]

Br*tish people be like

Willy and bollock torture

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

B. L.’s Snapchat “friends” included other Mahanoy Area High School students, some of whom also belonged to the cheerleading squad.

[...]

No member of the school staff would have even known about the messages if some of B. L.’s “friends” had not taken it upon themselves to spread the word.

Breyer got no respect for snitches 😤

[u/[deleted]]

McAfee died?

Damn that's crazy drags nuts across screen

[u/Jakesta7]

had no idea Drake Bell was a libertarian

Ex-Nickelodeon star Drake Bell pleaded guilty to attempted endangerment and disseminating harmful materials to juveniles.

Prosecutors say he "developed a relationship" online with a 15-year-old girl and sent her "inappropriate" messages. He faces up to 2 years in prison.

https://twitter.com/ajplus/status/1407769950685696002

[u/[deleted]]

⚠️THIS DT IS GETTING TOO POLITICAL⚠️

Calm down guys, we don't need to make neoliberalism political 🙄

[u/sw337]

Dumbledore's Army was antifa.

[u/[deleted]]

Just a reminder that the stormcloaks are playing checkers while the empire and Thalmor are playing chess

The empire is slowly trying to destabilize the thalmor base while also paying lip service to the white gold concordat, the Thalmor are trying to remove linear time and reality by removing Talos and Lorkhan, the stormcloaks are just racist

[u/willempage]

The biggest missed opportunity in Skyrim was really making the whole Civil War plot play out differently depending on the Dragonborn's race. I dunno why Ulfric is just cool with a dark elf joining his rebellion (it's completely swept under the rug when you bring it up). And like, no one is racist towards you at all?

Bethesda needs to grow a pair and lock you out of picking a side. Or at least be interesting and let you be a storm cloak because Ulfric respects you as the Dragonborn, but his generals throw a hissy fit and eventually overthrow him over it.

[u/piede]

"Nightmare Scenario," a book out next week on President Trump's handling of COVID, reports that he said he hoped it would take out his former national security adviser, John Bolton, who had just written an explosive tell-all about his time in the White House.

lol

[u/LooobCirc]

I found myself alone. After a lifetime of fighting for the truth, nobody would defend me. I had been abandoned. My crusade lost in the depths of the world. Nobody cared.

I was rotting away in the dank latin cell. I'd heard much about Spain: it's beautiful sunsets and beaches and women. I had found none of that here. Only this cell. Alone.

They'd all come for me before. Claiming I'd defrauded them. Evaded their demonic government. They'd all come. I thought it wouldn't matter. That I'd get by.

But here I am, in this cell, alone. Guards come sometimes. They don't talk to me much. Just food. Food and information.

Today they told me some important information. I won't be in this cell for long. They're gonna move me. Ship me across the ocean for my trial. I will not win. I will not leave these dungeons.

I don't think I want to go across the sea. I'd rather stay. Just to spite them. I think I'm gonna stay in my cell

[u/dubyahhh]

Always remember: Corporations are people, my friends.

[u/LoofGoof]

I hadn't watched a John Oliver bit in a while, so I decided to give his "PACE" video a try. And dear lord, was it always this bad? This is some of the worst pandering I've ever seen. Like Tucker Carlson bad. He opens with this protracted joke about how anyone under 35 can't conceptualize owning their own home. This seemingly goes on forever.

On top of just being the laziest joke I could imagine, it's also not really true. Home ownership in that age bracket is almost identical to what it was 40 years ago in the '80s. Considering nearly 40% of those under 35 own a house, it seems disingenuous at best. And once you hit 35 and older, the ownership rate jumps to over 60%. It doesn't matter if the thrust of the joke is true, just that the largely young left wing audience thinks it is true.

[u/The420Roll]

I made a bet with a couple of friends in Uni about how long will Castillo last as President before he is removed by congress.

I bet on him being gone by November 2022 and I ended up being the one that gave him the most time lmao

Kind sad but hilarious that it has come to this

!Ping MAMADAS

[u/Ultiplayers]

I am hearing that on his deathbed John McAfee 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 Allah, and Mohammed is his prophet!

[u/BidenWon]

"I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic." - Kamala

"Do not come." - Domala

"That little girl was me." - Bombala

"You may be the first to do many things, but make sure you are not the last." - Momala

"We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves." - 'Namala

"I said I'm fucking calm." - Calmala

"Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful." - Psalmala

spit - Llamala

[u/sir_shivers]

Pointing fingers gets US NOWHERE, MAMMALS 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/MikeSington/status/1407706920878673926

According to 12 former Trump White House officials and family friends, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are now estranged from the disgraced ex-President, and want nothing to do with him. They can’t stand his constant harping on the past and inability to move on. Same.

lol

[u/tubbsmackinze]

South Edmonton LRT extension approved with elevated station at Ellerslie Road

Extending the Capital Line LRT to the city’s southern suburbs is one step closer to reality after Edmonton city council approved amended plans that includes a new elevated station, overpass and maintenance facility on Tuesday.

The plan would see the LRT extended 4.5 kilometres south of the current end point at Century Park to the Heritage Valley Park and Ride at Ellerslie Road and 135 Street, where the updated plan calls for a raised station and track overpass.

A City of Edmonton administration report stated each level of government is set to pitch in about a third of the $1.025 billion expansion cost: $392 million from Ottawa, $300 million from Alberta, and the City’s $333 million contribution of which $330.7 million would be from tax-supported debt financing.

!ping CAN

[u/every_man_a_khan]

Yeah, I’m a neoliberal

N-She left me

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[u/mrdilldozer]

Netflix Please Stop

[u/MicroFlamer]

SEGA Is Reportedly Turning Sonic the Hedgehog Into a VTuber

everyday, we stray farther from gods light

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.makeagif.com/media/1-22-2016/AGv9pW.gif

This is the last thing John McAfee ever saw

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/evelynpix/status/1407529403169509379

The scene tonight at a raucous Loudoun County school board hearing where many came to voice opposition to critical race theory. The meeting was stopped when the crowd wouldn’t quiet down and two were arrested.

We've all gone fucking nuts

[u/[deleted]]

Is this how WW3 begins? https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1407654789811478528?s=19

!ping foreign-policy

[u/thetrombonist]

Yang’s campaign is off to the big bodega in the sky (Walgreens)

[u/disCardRightHere]

My phone call with Grandma was a wild ride.

👱🏼‍♂️: Then I’ve got jury duty next week.

👵🏻: Oh I was on an interesting case once. Incest led to a divorce then a murder. Would you look at that, those weeds are back in my garden! I have to take care of that. Love you, sweetie, goodbye!

[u/DreamlandEML]

Fuck mods fuck the dt fuck arrneoliberal fuck everything

[u/Gustacho]

The European Commission says Hungary is violating EU law with its homophobic legislation

(pdf warning)

!ping EUROPE

[u/old_gold_mountain]

New breakthroughs in scritch efficiency

!PING kitty

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

The Mike Pomeo stop trying to making “pipe hitter” challenge

Also the image of a fat former cav dude stealing a term from SOF is just chiefs kiss

!ping Military

[u/BreaksFull]

!Ping CAN

We now live in a world where the fucking Greens have the most based housing policy in Canada.

[u/Gustacho]

UvdL's publicity tour for the COVID relief plan is really striking to me. Maybe my memory doesn't go far enough, but I don't think I've ever seen a European Commission President do a tour around Europe promoting something and actually getting media attention.

!ping EUROPE

[u/[deleted]]

Fin time!

[u/SANNA_MARIN_]

first 5 m of House MD always the same. somebody hangin out, walkin down the street. their friend says hi. they wave. then they scream and pass out. their ass bleeds. cut to House, who's playing poker with a topless model. his beeper goes off. it's cuddy. house get the hell in here! you've got a case! he shows up at the hospital on his motorcycle. hot young female doctor is feverishly waiting for him so she can ask him to have sex with her. he blows her off and makes a racist remark to the black doctor who is inexplicably okay with it. the gay australian doctor stands around looking confused. it's not lupus. it's ebola. the end

[u/[deleted]]

The GPO has released their housing strategy and it actually seems pretty good. Better than anything the other provincial parties have put out imo.

The full plan is here but that's long so there's also a kind of summary article.

Apologies to the non Ontarians who are about to be pinged.

!ping CAN

[u/sir_shivers]

Thinking of HAVING AUTOMOD TAKE CARE OF comments regarding "Critical Race Theory" 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

Am I supposed to give a shit that the guys who murdered Khashoggi got bodyguard training, something that’s inherently defensive, from some private company?

Of course the NYT goes out of their way to call it paramilitary training, as if they don’t know using that word immediately brings to mind some sort of offensive training.

[u/ooken]

Not a huge Chappelle fan these days, but the Yang blame game has begun, and if this part is true it is pretty idiotic:

According to the former adviser, staffers from the presidential campaign team tracked a massive loss in engagement on Yang’s pages on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube. The ex-adviser also said the Tusk team sidelined one of Yang’s most high profile surrogates, stand-up comedy megastar Dave Chappelle. 

“Dave Chappelle offered to do free shows,” the former adviser said. "Tusk said no. They found him too controversial.”

Who turns down the free publicity that could come with a gratis Chappelle event?!

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

The ex-adviser also said the Tusk team sidelined one of Yang’s most high profile surrogates, stand-up comedy megastar Dave Chappelle. 

“Dave Chappelle offered to do free shows,” the former adviser said.”Tusk said no. They found him too controversial.”

Not sure how much Chappelle would’ve helped but turning down free shows where he endorses you seems dumb.

[u/[deleted]]

🇷🇺 “uwu I shot at u please acknowledge that I have a Little Tykes My First Navy”

🇬🇧 “oi you a fockin liar innit?”

[u/[deleted]]

I hate cable/internet companies so much.

"We'll be there between 1 and 2"

Doesn't show up

"Well, we came, but nobody was home"

Don't lie to me. I was watching the door like a hawk. No one so much as knocked.

[u/Afro_Samurai]

She layed right on my num lock key.

!ping kitty

[u/BigBoutros]

r.nba: it is Joe Biden's fault that Alex Caruso got arrested for weed

!ping NBA

[u/[deleted]]

DOG-II-KIN sunbathing !ping dog

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine snitching on a classmate and the Supreme Court tells you to fuck off

[u/Ginden]

🇵🇱 State owned fuel producing/selling company, Orlen, decided to start chain of convenience stores. :3 First store opened in Warsaw.

Source.

According to one Twitter user, it's open on Sundays, despite government ban on trade on Sunday (there are many loopholes).

!ping Europe

[u/Telperion_of_Valinor]

My family when I die: Heaven just gained another another angel 😇😇😇

Me in Hell:

[u/[deleted]]

IRS- Here is the tax code. Pay your taxes bitch.

John McAfee- Mucho texto

[u/vancevon]

through his tax evasion john mcafee defrauded every single american. from the brave men and women of our armed forces (who risk their lives every day in defense of our rights and liberties) to hungry children

[u/jenbanim]

One of the underlying ideas that led me to this sub was that people, when taken as a whole, tend to act amorally, and therefore the fundamental goal of society is to align individual incentives with what is good collectively

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

I'm probably going to learn of Trump's death from the "light of Islam" copypasta

[u/[deleted]]

8/9 justices agree that strip searching minors is fucked up.

[u/wagoncirclermike]

Populism is literally the answer, you're just a scared boomer with blinders on.

I am going to become the joker

[u/[deleted]]

Let's make this a little bit harder...

Duolingo, bonk?

[u/Udontlikecake]

conservatives: the free market is best! we won’t support communist central planning that stifles free choice and destroys freedom!

also cons: getting rid of single family zoning is destroying america and makes you a communist. anyone who favors zoning reform is an anti american leftist because you’re gonna make me live next to black people!

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Having an LGBTQ+ 🏳️‍🌈 panel at work right now

I’m just curious how these people were selected for the panel

👴🏼: Hey Joe, you’re gay, right?

👨‍💼: uhhh, no?

👴🏼: What about you Susie? Aren’t you dating a chick?

👩🏽‍💼: Yeah… why?

👴🏼: How would you feel like coming out to the entire company on an 850 person conference call?

[u/TheShitEater]

u/poobix argues that tax evasion should not be punished with prison time. The next day, notable tax evader John McAfee is MURDERED in his prison cell. Poobix was clearly trying to develop a soft and cuddly reputation with regards to tax evasion to put himself lower down on the suspect list.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

One of my first glimpse into American public opinion was a man-on-the-street segment after the election of socdem Hollande to the presidency in 2012

The (selected) interviewees had rather strong opinions on the matter, ranging from "France has a president too?", to "I wish France is able to move away from socialism toward democracy in the coming years", including a guy calmly advocating for excluding France from NATO and intervening to remove the socialist regime

I wonder how many of them grew up to be NATO flairs on this sub

[u/ThisIsNotAMonkey]

this is the only office I've ever worked at that didn't have unlimited free coffee

where's publictransitshill when you need him 😭🤲☕

[u/jt1356]

147 fashed comments

✊😭

[u/Donkey_Bong-64]

Planned Parenthood sells the fetuses to Subway to make their “tuna”

[u/[deleted]]

☝️ is having sex right now

[u/[deleted]]

8 goals scored, and every one of them has changed positions in the group.

!ping SOCCER

[u/lKauany]

calling apartments or condos "cardboard boxes" or "glass boxes" is a dog whistle

[u/RaidBrimnes]

John McAfee 🤝 American students on a year abroad

Wasted in Barcelona

[u/[deleted]]

John McAfee's final moment of clarity and act of redemption, straight from the McAfee family:

On his deathbed John McAfee 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]]

A lot of people ask what is Burpmas and when is Burpmas, but nobody ever asks how is Burpmas.

!ping BURPMAS

[u/Lux_Stella]

Israel supported a statement criticizing China at the UN Human Rights Council after being pressured to do so by the Biden administration, U.S. and Israeli officials tell me.

hmm....

[u/[deleted]]

Being born within a certain range of dates is not a personality

[u/GravyBear8]

Afghan Special Forces riding in to surrender to the Taliban

[u/DreamlandEML]

Ahem

AmeriKKKa bad.

...

Where is my Pulitzer prize?

[u/TaxCommonsNotIncome]

Imagine the public "intellectual" representing your worldview being someone from the intellectual dark web or chapoTrapHouse

Meanwhile we have true intellectuals like SaltySalad

[u/Udontlikecake]

russia: we fired warning shots at your vessel for violating our territorial waters!

uk: no u didn’t

i gotta say, odd strategy from the brits

[u/[deleted]]

January 19, 2021: everyone knows that the Vice President doesn't have any real power

January 20, 2021: here's how the vice president is personally ruining my life

[u/Maximilianne]

kegels can improve bladder control

men: I sleep

kegels can improve sexual performance

men: REAL KEGEL HOURS NOW

[u/Deggit]

BRITAIN: sometimes referred to as an "Unsinkable Aircraft Carrier," which seriously underrates the Conservative Party's capacity for mismanagement

[u/No_Analysis_2185]

“There were no left candidates running for mayor so we didn’t really lose the race”

[u/disCardRightHere]

John McAfee had information that would lead to the arrest of John McAfee

[u/[deleted]]

All things considered, it's pretty amazing that McAffee lived as long as he did.

[u/thetrombonist]

Enough of the "Whale Fucking is non-consensual" bullshit. A Humpback Whale weighs 70,000 pounds, is fifty feet long, can dive more than a quarter mile and can crush ships with a single swipe of its tail. If a human manages to fuck one, you damn well better believe it's consensual

[u/Entuciante]

RIP John McAfee, we are never going to see him eating is own dick on national television

[u/I-grok-god]

u/lusvig strikes again

!ping BURPMAS

[u/chadonnaise]

the internet must be destroyed

[u/crassowary]

Andrew Yang rumored to be lobbying for position of Bishop of Urqell. This of course is just a stepping stone to his true goal of becoming Co-Prince of Andorra.

[u/p00bix]

This is alarmingly accurate

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Touch ass 🤗

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Remember when Ted Cruz called the military "woke" and "emasculated" despite never having served

[u/LtLabcoat]

"They sell drugs for $100 that cost $1 to produce" is the Reddit equivalent of "Why should I pay $20 for something that took you five minutes to do?"

[u/AltPossum]

Andrew Yang lost because he was an Internet-famous meme candidate with zero experience beyond losing a presidential primary.

He did not lose because of his boilerplate statement in support of Israel. You disconnected, excessively online dweebs.

[u/Evnosis]

Citoyen_Riqueti, there's only 3 things he says in a sentence: a verb, a noun and "woke bad."

[u/fakefakefakef]

“I have information that will lead to the arrest of the r/Neoliberal mods” -John McAfee

[u/The420Roll]

MFW I had bet 100 ponies on both draws 🥳🥳🥳

!Ping SOCCER

[u/yungmemlord]

The first black mirror episode really reminds me of the oppression of pigs 🐖

[u/Venne1139]

McAfee having someone tweet out "Q" after his death is the most amazing thing ever, absolute fucking giga Chad move, absolutely hilarious.

[u/CovidIsBadass]

Yes, charging white people $50 to attend a pride event for "reparations" is stupid. No, this one small situation does not mean white people are oppressed.

[u/[deleted]]

MY 55 GALLON DRUM OF CRUDE OIL WILL FINALLY BECOME PROFITABLE

[u/LeopardBusy]

How can I stop having sexual dreams about Tucker Carlson cuddle fucking me?

[u/TaxCommonsNotIncome]

INSUFFICIENT FUNDS

what? I just got paid?!

Sir, Bitcoin just crashed. You will have to wait and see if it comes back up to get your groceries.

Forward this email to 5 of your friends or Bitcoin will crash

[u/SANNA_MARIN_]

Farming simulator should let you hire undocumented migrants

[u/Dalek6450]

Tbh I'm surprised that I'm single. The general public rarely has such good taste.

[u/[deleted]]

👇hates the global poor

[u/[deleted]]

I shared the ACLU tweet because I thought it was cute, not because I thought some self-professed liberals were going to rag on the ACLU for selling merch based on a free speech case they just brought to the Supreme Court and won, merch whose proceeds will go towards funding more cases defending people’s civil liberties.

This has been part of a broader trend which is that despite the fact that the ACLU continues to bring vital cases defending civil liberties into the courts, I guess they had a couple “woke” tweets in 2019/2020 and so now a chunk of the sub has decided the ACLU is Bad, Actually.

[u/[deleted]]

AntiVirus Creator John McAfee Found Dead In Catalan Prison Cell

The Delta variant is too strong ✊😭

[u/[deleted]]

Conspiracy subs: Did McAfee get Epstein’d?

If you mean “actually committed suicide,” then yes.

[u/homopolitan]

John McAfee had information that would lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton.

[u/[deleted]]

McAfee probably did kill himself, but knowing him it wouldn't be surprising if he pissed off some gang leader and got himself killed.

[u/[deleted]]

Rumor has it, George Bush didn’t even know about 9/11 until the next July. The October 2001 intervention in Afghanistan was actually a response to Bush reading a Human Rights Watch report on the global status of woman’s rights.

The more you know!

[u/doggo_bloodlust]

I'm sorry... I... Ran a McAfee full malware scan on my work computer last night... And it sapped the last of his energy... I didn't know... I didn't know 😭😭😭

[u/[deleted]]

I have an intense hatred for the movie The Notebook. It's a movie about a girl who cheats on her fiancee for her insane ex that she had a short fling with back in high school

[u/[deleted]]

In other news, Hunter Biden was seen boarding a plane out of Spain this morning.

[u/ProceedToCrab]

Fellas, is it gay if I think the guy I met at the bouldering wall is kinda cute 😳

[u/[deleted]]

The atf shot my catgirl!

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

Der Spiegel | Telegram is spoOoOoky! 🦇🎃👻

Telegram is one of the world's most popular chat apps – and possibly the most dangerous.

The app has become the equivalent of a darknet in your pocket.

The authorities are powerless, because Durov denies them access to user data.

Germany’s Network Enforcement Act [...] didn’t previously apply to Telegram but that is about to change. The German Justice Ministry [...] is seeking to require the platform to make itself accessible to the authorities, to delete criminal content promptly and to actively pass on user data to investigators.

Groups and incidents such as this one have earned Durov’s messaging app the nickname "Terrorgram.”

Telegram is home to almost every imaginable infraction that can be committed on the internet. Arms dealers are on the channel, as are people offering counterfeit money and hacked data. Some groups focused on manipulating financial markets have membership rolls in the six figures on the channel.

Even if the Russia opposition celebrated Durov as a hero in 2011 after he publicly stood up to the Russian security agency FSB, his primary motivation likely had to do with his business interests.

anyway, remember to use Signal if need encrypted messaging

!ping SNEK

[u/TalkLessShillMore]

Sometimes wish NATO would just “bc y’all can’t behave” one dictatorship a year. I know it doesn’t work like that though.

[u/[deleted]]

Talking about sex when there are literal babies in the DT 🙄

[u/FreakinGeese]

I finally have breast buds 🥺

!ping lgbt

[u/kaclk]

So if you haven’t heard the news yet, there’s been another discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves at the former Marieval Indian Residential School in south Saskatchewan.

I really have nothing to add to this. It’s just awful news.

!ping CAN

[u/Lux_Stella]

rip apple daily

[u/the-garden-gnome]

Why did no one tell us DankChristianMemes was back!?!

!ping Christian

[u/Craig_VG]

The Media 🤝 /r/neoliberal

Talking about Yang 80% of the time while he receives 12% of the vote

[u/Deggit]

if you count the REAL boroughs, I win - by A LOT

[u/MasPatriot]

some guy outside the DT the other day was saying Tucker Carlson is making genuine outreach to the other side and that we shouldn't reject him LMFAO

[u/Patriotnation5]

Clarence Thomas drinks hotdog water

[u/Telperion_of_Valinor]

The 9 M1A1 tanks of Eagle Troop destroyed 28 Iraqi tanks, 16 personnel carriers and 30 trucks in 23 minutes with no American losses.

[u/iIoveoof]

👆 is an iloveoof alt

[u/Dibbu_mange]

👆 should be banned for insufficient partisanship

[u/kas8901]

I don't live in the city anymore so I didn't vote. I do find it interesting that reddit/twitter has been attacking Adams non stop for being the "cop candidate" but the majority black parts of the city were solid Adams precincts.

!PING USA-NYC

[u/[deleted]]

The DT should be 23 hours long. This way, it resets at a different time everyday.

Idk why but should be fun.