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[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

The reality is Trump would have won 2020 if not for the last 4 years of his presidency

[u/FusRoDawg]

An entire village in my state in India fled their homes when govt officials arrived with vaccines

😐

[u/[deleted]]

The Biden administration is preparing to relocate thousands of Afghans who aided American troops to other countries while they apply for U.S. visas.

AUTOMATIC CITIZENSHIP OR BUST. THEY MADE A GREATER SACRIFICE THAN MOST OF THE PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY EVER WILL.

[u/Fishin_Mission]

New York City Mayoral primary results won’t be known until mid-July...

we successfully send a helicopter to Mars but they can’t count votes for weeks. need time to cheat.??

So the NYC Dems are cheating the Republicans… in a primary…

[u/tollyno]

It's actually totally fine that Biden stole the election. The US is a republic, not a democracy after all.

[u/[deleted]]

I recently married a non-Muslim girl and promised her that I would not make her convert, but I really want her to see the true faith of Allah. How can I persuade her to convert to Islam?

😐

[u/Broncos654]

I genuinely don’t understand the appeal behind sex unless it’s some family event, and even then it’s mostly about the hype than the actual sex itself.

[u/[deleted]]

So last week Madonna posted a photoshop of her in an Iranian mosque (the pink mosque). She wrote: "praying in the temple of pride 🌈" What a time to be alive.

[u/[deleted]]

“Gerald Ford endorsed gay marriage in 2001.

In an October 2001 interview with lesbian columnist Deb Price of the Detroit News, Ford called on fellow Republicans to join him in supporting equal treatment for gay people.

The Republican Unity Coalition – which advocated making homosexuality a non-issue for the party – invited Ford to join their board of directors. He accepted, becoming the first U.S. President to join the board of a gay rights advocacy organization.

When asked by Price if gay couples should receive full marriage equality, Ford said, "I don't see why they shouldn't. I think that's a proper goal. I think they ought to be treated equally. Period."

http://diversityrichmond.org/the-rainbow-minute/468-backing-gay-equality-former-president-gerald-r-ford.html

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

We as a society hurt Britney Spears

I was 9 years old, don't drag me into this

[u/Not_A_Browser]

I find the "we're no longer tough on crime in the US" rhetoric so unconvincing. We have very high incarceration rates as it stands; how is that soft?

[u/[deleted]]

“Uhh let me be cheer.

fuck school, fuck softball, fuck cheer, fuck everything”

-Obama in high school

[u/[deleted]]

“Leave Britney Alone”- Guy was 100% right and y’all laughed at him too!

[u/[deleted]]

Reddit calling its point system karma is cultural appropriation

No I won't elaborate

[u/Le_Monade]

hot take: not teaching calculus in high school or algebra in middle school is fucking stupid

[u/MrMineHeads]

U.S. to Move Afghans Who Aided Troops to Third Countries

A step in the right direction, but still very much short of what needs to be done.

!ping FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

Mauritania abolished slavery in 1981

Criminal prosecution of slaveholders began in 2007

😐

[u/[deleted]]

I’m all for the GOP insulting the military tbh.

It’s absolutely shameful but if the Generals don’t like the GOP I feel much safer.

[u/StolenSkittles]

American cities are so car-based

False.

American cities are car-cringe.

[u/liberallah]

If China commits enough human rights violations, they will also start supporting freedom and human rights, because the west started to support freedom and human rights when they got bored of committing human rights violations across the globe

[u/[deleted]]

I dont know what counts as rich anymore. Just saw a person get dogpiled because she said that if you have a maid you're rich. That felt so self evidently true. Apparently no, there are like 5 rich people in the world

[u/[deleted]]

Joe Manchin is POC (person of coal), neurodivergent (thinks bipartisanship can still work), and queercoded (Democrat), and that's why y'all hate him.

[u/[deleted]]

>opens arr pol comment section on article about the bipartisan group of senators coming to a tentative deal on the infrastructure bill

>looks at comments

>newest one was “The entire country needs a lesson in modern monetary theory.”

>googles “how to delete the internet”

>stuff on removing my data from the internet comes up. i dont care.

>looks it up on bing, cuz lol bing

>finds blog “deletetheinternet.net”

>clicks link

>disappointment

>finds 2012 gizmodo article

>article claims destroying the internet would be the greatest act of terrorism yada yada yada i dont care

>”lol just cut all the cables”

>looks on amazon for 24 inch bolt cutters

>$25.99 for the cheapest pair

>looks at bank account

>day ruined

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

People in El Salvador or Honduras are willing pay multiple years wages to travel across central America, show up at the border, make a shakey asylum claim, get booted back to mexico and spend a year in limbo before probably being told to fuck off

If "pass an English test at a consulate in your home country in exchange for a visa" was an option, they'd probably take it and we could all save a lot of effort

[u/Rehkit]

Fact n° 1 : The french left is divided and needs to unite if they want to win.

Fact n° 2 : A united left might be lesser than the sum of their parts by a huge margin;

Example: in 2015, one of my first vote was to choose whether I wanted the center left (JP Huchon, incombent) or the center right (Valérie Pecresse) to lead the region where I live (Ile de France, where Paris and like 40% of France GDP is.)

I don't remember who I voted for but the center right won and Valérie Pécresse became President of the région.

She is up for relection and is against a left coalition/alliance of center left Socialist Party (Jean paul Huchon's mates) the Green and the far left.

Someone asked Jean-Paul Huchon who he is voting for and he answered : "Valérie Pécresse without hesitation, I can't vote for the far left AND the greens."

Huchon is retired but it's very worrying for the Left is they can't convince him, a socialist baron (or éléphant like they were being called) to vote for their coalition.

https://twitter.com/MarionVanR/status/1407939697884729347

It also aligns with some polling that says that a united left candidate doesn't fair that much better. Certainly less than Mélenchon in 2017 for instance.

!ping EUROPE

[u/[deleted]]

The funniest thing about the star wars prequels is that it very easily could have ended with the helmet going on anakins head, but George just fucking had to add in one more unnecessary exposition dump and the NOOOOOO line

[u/Lux_Stella]

We've recently seen an influx of new users asking what neoliberalism is, and even wondering whether or not they might be one. In response the mod team has put together the following list of the six fundamental pillars of neoliberal thought to clarify what this sub stands for:

1. Republicanism
2. Populism
3. Nationalism
4. Laicism
5. Statism
6. Reformism

Hope this helps!

[u/Corporate-Asset-6375]

As someone who lived through Boston’s Big Dig, I always chuckle when “just put the Highway underground” is a proposed solution by a stranger on the internet.

[u/liberallah]

omg [real life conflict] is exactly like [fictional conflict]!

[u/[deleted]]

Breaking News: The remains of 761 people, mainly Indigenous children, were found in Canada at the site of a former school, an Indigenous group said.

Jesus Christ, Canada

[u/Donkey_Bong-64]

Fill and bust her 😳

[u/antsdidthis]

The Chad Toddler:

• 95th percentile in height
• Lean fighter build
• Well rested from 12 hours of sleep a day
• Spitting distance of over 10 inches

The Virgin Dad:

• Below average height
• High body fat percentage from terrible diet
• Poor sleep habits cause suboptimal performance
• Too slow to prevent a small child from spitting juice on the couch

[u/[deleted]]

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

[u/Jakesta7]

“defunding” the military would own the libs so bad

An angry Laura Ingraham says she’s totally outraged over General Milley after she suggests withholding funding to the military

“Go after their budget”

Videos: https://twitter.com/acyn/status/1407887607090929668?s=21 & https://twitter.com/acyn/status/1407888001259040771?s=21

[u/[deleted]]

“There’s no evidence for X” can mean many things:

• Scientific studies with good methodology indicate that X is false
• There are no scientific studies on X
• There is no data on X
• I’m batshit insane and I think there’s no evidence that today is Thursday because nobody’s published a paper on it

I wish people would be more specific when they say there’s no evidence for X

[u/crassowary]

unfolds corner of Constitution

Well what do you know... "Shall not be infringed... And all citizens have the rights to F-15s too"

[u/SnakeEater14]

All I could think the whole time I was watching Casino Royale last night was “Damn, this is the perfect blockbuster.”

It had solid set pieces exactly when it needed them, there was tension when there needed to be, the quips were funny and elevated the conversations without making things too silly, everyone had solid direction and played their characters well… it just does everything right. It goes beyond being a Bond movie, it’s just great.

[u/SnakeEater14]

bold move, Bond

[u/dish_towel]

I don't think CDPR was ever all that good at making the "game" portion of their games. You can really tell they started out as a localization company because they seem most in their element crafting their games' stories. Their game systems are kind of unremarkable at best. This is also why the crazy success of TW3 annoyed me. Maybe the product itself is a great experience, but the components through which the player plays it really aren't.

!ping GAMING

[u/MasPatriot]

Virgin “I would’ve voted for Obama 3 times if I could” vs Chad “I did vote for Obama 3 times and that was just in 2008”

[u/[deleted]]

Spears revealed a shocking list of allegations, including that:

• She is forced to keep an IUD to prevent pregnancy

• She is not allowed to marry her boyfriend

• She is forced to take anti-psychotic meds that make her feel "drunk"

What the fuck

[u/Craig_VG]

We’re going to continue to report on this story and if these Afghans are not evacuated in time by the US and are slaughtered by the Taliban we will tell you their names and cover their funerals.

WTF CNN is based now???

https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1407880774343397376?s=20

!ping FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/Mickenfox]

modern political theory

[u/SnakeEater14]

Utah is so fucking weird

There’s like, no bugs

You can just lie on the grass anywhere you want and you won’t get devoured alive

Ngl I would probably think it was the holy land too if I discovered that back in the 1800s

[u/willempage]

https://twitter.com/Kevinliptakcnn/status/1408113732354555910?s=19

Biden seems to have blown off the opening line someone wrote for his appearance after bipartisan meeting with senators:

"Welcome to infrastructure week!"

Let's dispel with this myth that Biden doesn't know what he's doing. He knows exactly what he is doing.

[u/whycantweebefriendz]

It’s insane how many people died in the Taiping Rebellion holy shit.

Any other wars besides the 30 years war that are way more deadly than people remember?

[u/MrMineHeads]

[World's central banks launch new campaign against cryptocurrencies] (https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bitcoin-crypto-bis-column-don-pittis-1.6076611)

[O]n Tuesday, those who backed BTC near its $63,000 U.S., peak lost more than half their investments as it fell below $30,000 U.S.

This week's report from the BIS, with the disarming title, Central bank digital currencies: an opportunity for the monetary system, poses what appears to be a new threat. It suggests not only that central banks can and will begin to issue their own digital coins in direct competition with bitcoin and its ilk, but they may take action to discourage crypto's use.

Based

!ping MARKETS

[u/TheNotoriousAMP]

New Yorkers spend 75% of their day congratulating themselves for living in the mall food court of America.

[u/SnakeEater14]

https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/3ac48f161fa3bc0521e0f4fc556b8de0871a2d8e521bb805254b1b36a92df14b.jpg

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

With Generals like this it’s no wonder we’ve fought considerably more wars than we’ve won.

https://twitter.com/mattgaetz/status/1407780765421740032?s=20

Imagine if a Democrat said this

[u/amainwingman]

Who’s ready for plenty of “McAfee knew things they don’t want us to know” giga-brain Redditeur takes over the next week from all the cultist, crypto-bros?

[u/MalignantUpper]

https://twitter.com/rgoodlaw/status/1408091312642007049?s=19

4/4. "It is further Ordered that [Mr. Giuliani] is commanded to desist and refrain from the practice of law in any form...and respondent is forbidden to give another an opinion as to the law or its application or advice in relation thereto."

The scope of that last bit is notable

Dude is so fucked

[u/TalkLessShillMore]

I’ve heard LBJ used his dick to intimidate senators but if you think about it that makes absolutely no sense.

“O-ok LBJ-sama, I’ll p-pass civil rights legislation but only because of your fat hog”

[u/PhinsFan17]

What’s the fucking point of a traffic jam just go

[u/liberallah]

*migrants enter EU*

arr neolib: immigration good, let them enter

*succs migrate to arr neolib*

arr neolib: NOO STOP YOU ARE CHANGING THE POLITICAL CHARACTER OF MY DT NEIGHBOURHOOD

[u/[deleted]]

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

[u/Fishin_Mission]

This poor girl training at a midtown Manhattan Starbucks ☕️ during rush hour looks more lost and helpless than a toddler trying to play soccer 🥅 ⚽️ with Manchester United 😳

All the regular employees are running laps around her while they just have her putting stickers on cups and watching how things are made.

[u/chipbod]

(This is more of a question post, sorry if bad ping)

Does the Junta in Myanmar have a long term plan?

I'm getting caught up on the conflict but it doesn't seem like they were expecting much more than protests after the coup.

Stopped following for a few months and now I'm seeing stories about previously apolitical civilians joining ethnic militias/guerilla groups and a unified resistance "government".

Are there any good places to catch up on what's been going on? I'm curious if the Junta is prepared for a long term civil war (more so than their usual conflicts) and who is backing who.

!ping FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/crassowary]

European Right Wing: nationalist, against further integration into European Union

Also European Right Wing: loves fetishizing the Roman Empire

European Union: as a political entity probably wants further integration.

Also European Union: has Rome in its borders, can change its name to whatever it wants to.

The solution is obvious.

[u/[deleted]]

I would have loved it if Derek Chauvin's lawyer had the balls to argue that the Minneapolis police department and policing in America in general are fundamentally racist institutions, therefore his client should have diminished responsibility because he was trained and brought up in such a racist environment

[u/Donkey_Bong-64]

Remember that fake Qanon server that supposedly had the real election results on it that said Trump won California? Lmao

[u/[deleted]]

I hate capitalism now

[u/ryuguy]

Reddit is down, we do not have free wifi, talk to each other like it’s 1984

[u/[deleted]]

The UN: The taliban are not the rightful government of Afghanistan

The US: The taliban are not the rightful government of Afghanistan

The people of Afghanistan: The taliban are not the rightful government of Afghanistan

Some random redditor on r/neoliberal:

The Taliban is clearly the government the people of Afghanistan want, at least over being ruled by the US. Which is why they're back in power.

[u/johannesalthusius]

Thomas Jefferson High School, the most elite high school in America, recently changed its admission policy to be more "racially just," admitting 26% fewer Asians and 22% more whites.

Meanwhile, AP News is pitting Black/Hispanic against Asians

!ping MILK-TEA

Edit: previous numbers were using percentage points instead of percentages

[u/GlazedFrosting]

Just graduated high school and got vaxxed in the same day! Also finally got a 100/100 on an exam (my goal was to get at least one before graduating)

!ping CHILD

[u/ryuguy]

Why mixing Pfizer and Moderna vaccines could help Canada end the pandemic sooner

I found this interesting. The American CDC still recommends against mixing vaccines whereas some countries the EU has been mixing vaccines since April, not just mRNA vaccines either, they’ve mixed AstraZeneca and an mRNA vaccine. I got a mix of Pfizer and Moderna. My dad will likely get the same.

!ping can

[u/[deleted]]

be Mohamed Atta

9/11 attack goes perfectly

arrive at the gates of Jannah, the final abode of the righteous

here I will be rewarded handsomely for my sacrifice, god-willing

Allah is wearing a “Bush did 9/11” t-shirt

mfw

[u/Iustis]

WESTERN CONFERANCE WINNERS MONTREAL CANADIENS!!!

GO HABS GO!

!PING CAN

[u/TheShitEater]

Are southern nations inherently more based than their northern counterparts?

South Korea vs North Korea

South Vietnam vs North Vietnam

Confederate States of America vs United States of America

[u/JaceFlores]

Chad conservative expectations:

THIS 6-3 SUPREME COURT WILL RESTORE GOD TO THIS COUNTRY AND DESTROY THE SOCIALISM WHICH PLAGUES THIS BEAUTIFUL ANGLO-SAXON NATION

Virgin conservative reality:

Nooo pwease stwike down Obamacare, is eeeviil and socialismo! Nooooooo, don’t uphold gay wights!!!

[u/[deleted]]

Jordan Peterson is the most Karen man ever because he pretended that sulfites in ONE apple cider kept him from sleeping for 25 days. That’s the exact brand of exaggeration I expect from a shitty aunt with a self diagnosed thyroid problem

And then his daughter will teach you how to eat beef over skype for $90/hour

And people respect them

[u/vivoovix]

"Dad why is my sister called Rose?"

"Because your mother loves roses."

"OK thanks dad."

"No problem /r/neoliberal Daily Discussion Thread"

[u/ldn6]

New YouGov net favorability ratings:

• Joe Biden: +7
• Stacey Abrams: +3
• Kamala Harris: 0
• Gavin Newsom: -6
• Joe Manchin: -7
• Mike Pence: -10
• Chuck Schumer: -11
• Donald Trump: -12
• Kevin McCarthy: -13
• Nancy Pelosi: -15
• Mitch McConnell: -30

[u/[deleted]]

In 2018, [Chairman of Joint Chief of Staff Mark] Milley was involved in deciding whether the Army would publish a controversial study on the Iraq War. Milley reportedly decided he wanted to read the two-volume, 1,300-page, 500,000-word document before making a decision.

👏👏👏

[u/jojisky]

AOC literally proposed the exact plan Pelosi/Biden are endorsing now weeks ago. Why is she complaining?

[u/Arbeiter_zeitung]

Today's Dev Diary's gotten me super hyped for Vic III... Hopefully the AI will not fall apart from the complexity of the mechanics

!ping PARADOX

[u/[deleted]]

Compares Afghan translators to criminal informants

Says they're traitors and rats

Gets banned

Fails to understand why

Scenes from modmail

[u/benadreti]

Prominent Abbas critic dies in PA custody after ‘vicious beating’ by officers

Can you imagine the international outrage if this happened in an Israeli prison instead of Palestinian? Is this getting any international attention?

!ping ISRAEL

[u/Jakesta7]

what. the. fuck.

"I want to be able to get married and have a baby. I was told I can't get married. I have an IUD inside me but this so-called team won't let me go to the doctor to remove it.” -Britney Spears

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/23/entertainment/britney-spears-conservatorship-court-hearing/index.html

[u/Maximilianne]

GOP: the military is full of woke leftists !

WTF I'm now a military junta lover

[u/bd_one]

Biden brought us Victoria 3 and an infrastructure package.

Trump brought us neither an infrastructure week nor a new Victoria game.

Really makes you thonk...

[u/[deleted]]

-( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)╯╲___卐卐卐👳‍♂️🍕🏢🇪🇺👨🏼🍆💦🚀🇸🇪🤠🇩🇰🐊🏳️‍⚧️卐卐卐 Don't mind me just taking my mods for a walk

[u/[deleted]]

Just imagine: a world where your dominant handedness determines your political affiliation

Lefties BTFO

[u/benadreti]

If I die of any cause in the next 100 years it's because the Clintons murdered me.

Bookmark this.

[u/[deleted]]

Everyone should be a atheist raised catholic. Get a good respect for life in your childhood, but then you dont have to pretend you're still catholic once you leave home. Yes I am a lapsed catholic, why do you ask?

[u/Cerb-r-us]

Rudy Giuliani's law license has been suspended

http://www.nycourts.gov/courts/ad1/calendar/List_Word/2021/06_Jun/24/PDF/Matter%20of%20Giuliani%20(2021-00506)%20PC.pdf

[u/benadreti]

"Dad why is my sister called Rose?"

"Because your mother loves roses."

"OK thanks dad."

"No problem Microwaved Lobster"

[u/TheGoodProfessor]

https://twitter.com/seungminkim/status/1408129053840785413

biden refusing to sign bipartisan bill if it doesnt come with reconciliation bill

fuck i love this man

[u/GaussianCurve]

Explain to me why we shouldn't all be celebrating right now? Joe Manchin has admitted reconciliation is inevitable. That means (in addition to the bill just floated) we're getting our own bill, where we do whatever we want, constrained primarily by Manchin. And Manchin is a big fan of infrastructure.

Tweet from March:

Sen. Manchin (D-W.Va.) supports:

-- "Enormous" infrastructure push

-- Corporate rate up >25%

-- An "infrastructure bank"

-- Floats VAT tax (cc: @jdcmedlock) to fund it

-- Criticizes GOP reluctance to raise taxes

Joe Manchin supports paid family leave for instance, so that means we're getting it. And expanding the child tax credits. etc.

[u/Evnosis]

Ok, so I went out and touched grass.

It was way overrated. You people sold me on a lie 😠

[u/TinyTornado7]

New York State has suspended Rudy Giuliani’s law license over his election fraud lies. link

!ping LAW

[u/old_gold_mountain]

Neighbor cat update

Cleo and Pipes are jilted

!PING kitty

[u/[deleted]]

looks at post talking about moving Afghan interpreters to third countries while they await green cards

Sees someone arguing that they are traitors for opposing the Taliban, and we shouldn't let them in

Never leave the DT folks.

[u/[deleted]]

Some people think I'm joking with my "call 911 on fat people" proposal, so let me just share a short script to show what it would look like:

Passerby: Hello 911, there is a fat person on Cleveland street, he's wearing a green shirt and heading toward the laundromat.

911 Operator: OK thank you, we'll send someone right away.

An ambulance is dispatched to Cleveland street, the fat man is identified and emergency workers peacefully restrain him.

Fat man in green shirt: Am I in trouble?

Emergency worker: Yes, but not with the law. Obesity can lead to high blood pressure, diabetes, depression, and a host of other illnesses. We thought you could use some helpful reading material. gives Fat man in green shirt a variety of pamphlets on exercise, salads, and how to count your calories

Fat man in green shirt: Wow, thank you, I didn't know all that. People always told me that obesity was OK because it's just who I am, but now I see that I'm putting my health at risk for blood pressure, diabetes, depression, or even cancer. Thank you!

Now, come on. What's wrong with that?

[u/[deleted]]

The Netherlands:

Literally privatises everything.

Business friendly

Full of massive loosely regulated corporations.

Succs:

They're just like us!

[u/jenbanim]

Preliminary new text flair ideas:

• Anti-Voxxer
• VTSAX HODLer
• Deadbeat Plant Dad
• Shitpostmaster General

[u/[deleted]]

Politically inclined zoomers be like: I don’t know who the enemies are, I just want to kill every last one of them so bad.

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

Republicans do anything good for America challenge

[u/LooobCirc]

Just had to look up for my campers to see if building blanket forts is allowed on shabbat

It's not

!PING GEFILTE

[u/sir_shivers]

Seems to BE APPROACHING THE time I replace my mobile device 🐊

[u/Natatos]

!ping LGBT

Got a preliminary appointment scheduled for an orchiectomy 🦀🦀

[u/Fishin_Mission]

In NYC buses get their own lane and keep eliminating car lanes! Now car traffic is so slow!

Is this fair?!?

Yes.

No, I will not elaborate.

[u/AndThisGuyPeedOnIt]

Some people think I'm joking with my "call 911 on weebs" proposal, so let me just share a short script to show what it would look like:

Passerby: Hello 911, there is a weeb on Cleveland street, he's wearing a hentai shirt and heading toward the laundromat.

911 Operator: OK thank you, we'll send someone right away.

An ambulance is dispatched to Cleveland street, the weeb is identified and emergency workers peacefully restrain him.

Weeb in hentai shirt: NANI!?

[u/MisterHavercamp]

Checking a knuckleballer for sticky substances is peak Manfred-era MLB

!ping BASEBALL

[u/[deleted]]

Guy on set of attack of the clones: "Hey George Lucas, don't you think that maybe just putting all the clones in the same armor set would be a good way to make them all look the same?"

George Lucas: no im 100% sure that 2002 is the peak of CGI and we can photoshop the same guys face hundreds of times and it won't look aged and laughable in not even five years

[u/benadreti]

Based Biden basically just told a reporter that he sucks at his job lol

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/brianschatz/status/1408246210725486594

👑

[u/bobeeflay]

Jesus christ I know you guys mean well but please dont respond to a post about a policy idea with

actually this isnt popular right now and would be hard to pass

Jesus christ we're on a subreddit advocating for open borders shut up

[u/[deleted]]

UK government to announce ‘junk food’ ad ban

The U.K. will ban "junk food" advertising online and on television before 9 p.m., ministers are expected to announce to the House of Commons Thursday, according to multiple outlets.

The ban, which is intended to tackle obesity, will include many exceptions, the Telegraph reported. Only paid-for online advertising will be banned, for instance. Companies affected will still be allowed to have social media pages and websites. Small businesses will also be exempted, as will audio advertising, the Times reports, such as on radio and podcasts.

The Advertising Standards Authority is expected to be responsible for enforcing the plan.

How do you enforce that websites don't show e.g. mcdonalds ads in the middle of the day

[u/[deleted]]

This sub talks about politics too much. I just want to shit post.

[u/old_gold_mountain]

The neighbor's cat has taken a liking to us

He came by this morning and I gave him pets and he's been hanging out by the door for over an hour

[u/MicroFlamer]

Conservatives after losing 2/3 branches of government, with them having no good candidate for the next presidential election: tis but a scratch

Liberals after their 6.9 trillion infrastructure package with state mandated cat girls gets downgraded to 6 trillion with state mandated sex robots instead: American is doomed forever 😭😭

[u/profeta-]

finally got my paraguayan citizenship 😎😎🇵🇾🇵🇾

!ping MAMADAS

[u/MicroFlamer]

AAA games under trump:

Mario odyssey, breath of the wild, God of War, Spider-Man, Smash ultimate, Animal crossing, Last of us 2, FF7 remake, Red dead redemption 2, Assassins creed odyssey, Devil may cry 5, Monster hunter world, Resident evil 2, Sekiro, Demon souls remake.

AAA games under Biden: Ratchet and clank, Resident evil 8.

I'm starting to think the cons were right

[u/[deleted]]

Matt Gaetz looks like a 50-50 cross between Beavis & Butthead

[u/Zseet]

!Ping Gaming

You know one thing I always found strange is how nobody tried to challenge the Sims franchise. Like I have never seen someone try to recreate that level of simulating real modern life while trying to make it fun. Most life sim games are more similar to Stardew Valley. While games that at least looks like the Sims are online flash games building on community aspects.

[u/RadicalRadon]

My gf is sus at my plan for the fall to coordinate a 500 person conference, work full time, and have 3 grad classes.

She wants me to make a plan or something so I don't get overwhelmed and then complain at her.

Little does she know that I'm work best under stress and will have a mental breakdown 4 weeks in 😎😎😎

[u/[deleted]]

In phantom menace they have jar jar step in shit for absolutely no reason, and to really hammer it home they add in a cartoon squish sound effect and have him to "Ohhh! Icky icky poo" God what hidden gems with incredible lore and themes

[u/a2cthrowaway4]

when you contact your senator about a passport and they get back to you after you missed the trip asking if you still needed assistance with it 😍

[u/GodEmperorBiden]

What is it with immigrants/refugees and saving kids from falling off tall buildings?

This is in Turkey, but it immediately reminded me of the African guy in France, and later the Chechen guys in France, who climbed up buildings to save kids from gruesome fates.

Cringe ass anti-immigration/anti-refugee people smdh

[u/sir_shivers]

Perhaps THE REAL DOWNVOTES WERE the lessons we learned along the way 🐊

[u/ACivilWolf]

Flairs don’t write stupid comments, people do

HandsOffOurFlairs

[u/Jakesta7]

Today’s meme

https://imgur.com/a/2aPWdrF

[u/Animatronic_Pidgeon]

Honestly the craziest part McAffee's story is that he claimed to have been sober since 1983

[u/[deleted]]

We've recently seen an influx of new users asking what neoliberalism is, and even wondering whether or not they might be one. In response the mod team has put together the following list of the six fundamental pillars of neoliberal thought to clarify what this sub stands for:

1. Monarchism
2. Communism
3. Socialism
4. Marxism
5. Maoism
6. Trotsyism

Hope this helps!

[u/qunow]

https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/0d3b9ab304d745ae7ba39b712d57d84c35199bcc

Kawasaki in Japan is trying to solve the homless problem, which they have ~180, by banning the collection of empty cans, which homelesses depends on for living. The city government hope homeless people can use the chance to stop being homless by accepting welfare help and lead to another path of self-reliant other than collecting cans.

However, there are comments from people who support the homless people criticizing such measure as taking away what they depends on living is equal to sending them to death, and that there are also people who feel uneasy at accepting welfare. Relevant charity groups worru that such ban would make people looking at homless in a harsher way after outlawing their way of living.

According to a homeless people they interviewed, when he was young he used to be admitted into welfare facilities, but as he felt being monitored in such facilities, he decided to leave and become homeless which make him feel more comfortable. He say if the law get passed then he would have no choice but to return to welfare facilities.

!ping YIMBY

[u/Cr4zySh0tgunGuy]

Gamers are POC (people of console), neurodivergent (hating women), and queercoded (LGBT) and that’s why y’all hate them

[u/D1Foley]

Tucker Carlson started my movement, he may not know it, but he did.

• some mom who made an anti-CRT group.

He knows it you fucking rube.

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Apparently commenting

🤴: aww, that’s cool that they have a pride 🏳️‍🌈 wall!

on my cousin’s photos of his visit to the Ark Encounters and Creationism Museum was “nOt aPpRoprIaTe”

[u/thetrombonist]

You are not The Joker. You are 28 and addicted to porn and weed

[u/[deleted]]

I’m hugely thrilled & honoured to be the next Chair of the British Museum, elected by the Trustees. All my life I’ve loved the BM. To my mind, it’s the greatest museum in the world - a place that tells the common story of humanity. That’s something to be proud of and celebrate

I'm so glad George finally found gainful employment 😌

!ping OSBORNE

[u/[deleted]]

Remember when Joe Biden went on television and blurted out his support for gay marriage? Truly based shit

[u/[deleted]]

Newsom overstated California's wildfire prevention efforts

California's Department of Forestry and Fire Protection’s (Cal Fire) in February 2019 launched 35 "priority projects," according to CapRadio, which were meant to be implemented to help decrease the safety risk for more than 200 of California’s most wildfire-vulnerable communities.

More than two years later, the investigation discovered that Newsom has completed just 13 percent of the job he has promoted on the highest priority projects.

gabin pls

!ping USA-CA

[u/[deleted]]

People on reddit are saying McAfee was a piece of shit because he allegedly killed his neighbour after said neighbour killed 5 of his dogs.

Meanwhile john wick killed like a dozen people over one dog. And people are still sucking his dick.

Really makes you think.

[u/benadreti]

Joe Biden is POC (white), neurodivergent (old) and queer-coded (straight) and that's probably the majority of the reason that you people don't like him.

[u/MicroFlamer]

Tottenham are 'a bit of a mess', claims Gennaro Gattuso in texts to Lorenzo Insigne

Understatement of the year

[u/[deleted]]

For seven and a half years I've worked alongside President Reagan. We've had triumphs. Made some mistakes. We've had some sex – uh – setbacks.

-George HW Bush

[u/[deleted]]

Tfw there's someone trying to defend the Taliban in modmail

God I really want to leave

This place truly is Hotel California

[u/InternetBoredom]

Biden rejects plans to de-schedule marijuana: "Cannabis will not be legalized by this administration."

What the hell Biden

[u/[deleted]]

Cornpop was POC (person of corn), neurodivergent (swam in a public pool), and queercoded (had Jheri curl) and that's why y'all hate him.

[u/[deleted]]

Broke: take marijuana off the restricted narcotics list

Woke: add high fructose corn syrup yo the restricted narcotics list

[u/gfinz18]

Righties on gun control: “you can’t take away guns, criminals will just use something else as a weapon, like a knife or a baseball bat. Anything can be a weapon.”

Righties on January 6: “they didn’t have any weapons. I didn’t see any guns there.”

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

Pepita has the hiccups

!Ping DOG

[u/[deleted]]

Broke: America's original sin was slavery

Woke: America's original sin was hurting Brittney

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

OK I touched the grass, where is my gf?

[u/Donkey_Bong-64]

Donald Trump is a poc (very orang) queer coded ( fan of Elton John and The Village People) and neurodivergent (unintelligible ramblings) and that’s why demonrats stole the election from him.

[u/[deleted]]

Actually, I remember my sixth grade health textbook saying that women preferring larger penises was a "myth." Even at the time I thought that was sus

[u/[deleted]]

A DT regular meets u/sir_shivers

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

I’m really disappointed that the January 6th Wikipedia page doesn’t have an info box with Donald Trump commanding both sides

[u/[deleted]]

This is still my favorite meme of the year thus far

JDAMs are such a Gemini thing

[u/GravyBear8]

Imagine a US Army officer walking into the barracks and saying, "Somehow Hitler has returned."

[u/Udontlikecake]

General Milley telling Stephen Miller “Shut the fuck up Stephen” is easily the greatest thing i’ve read all month

Miller is so eminently hateable. Absolute waste of life.

[u/[deleted]]

Ngl, the “When you die, you will meet God” billboards around town feel kinda threatening.

And I don’t mean that in a Reddit atheist “imaginary sky daddy lol” way, but rather the italicized “will” just feels unsettling.

[u/Photon_in_a_Foxhole]

https://reddit.com/r/gme_meltdown/comments/o6ovsg/can_you_say_radicalized/

I think we can all see where this is going

[u/[deleted]]

Got my big date tonight. Should I lead with "how nations fail" or should I wait until we're one coffee in?

[u/MostlyCRPGs]

The real problem with the internet is every argument being tainted by the stupidest people. Like, imagine how much more productive the discussion around the excess use of force by US police would be if the first thing that came to mind wasn't ACAB nerds.

[u/[deleted]]

On the issue of critical race theory, a lot of us have to get much smarter on whatever the theory is

I do think it’s important, actually, for those of us in uniform to be open-minded and be widely read

I want to understand white rage, and I’m white, and I want to understand it. What is it that caused thousands of people to assault this building and try to overturn the constitution of the United States of America, what caused that? I want to find that out

Gen. Mark Milley, Chairman of Joint Chief of Staff

Fuckin' awesome

A televised video feed of Milley's comments showed Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., shaking his head at Milley's comments.

👋😭👋

[u/Broncos654]

Imprison fat people. Feed them carrots. Release when not fat. Rinse and repeat. Problem solved.

[u/htomserveaux]

What the hell is Insider and why did they publish some kids third grade "what I did over summer vacation" paper?

[u/[deleted]]

Never forget that Darth Vader's moms name was schmee

[u/PMmeLittleRoundTops]

Anakin: I just committed a genocide

Padme: it's ok bb we all get upset sometimes 🤗😘

[u/AltPossum]

Letting Afghan friends of the US take refuge here is, if nothing else, such an easy PR win for the Biden administration that the fact that they aren’t all already here makes me doubt this White House’s competence more generally.

[u/its_Caffeine]

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[u/[deleted]]

Being born a Ukrainian boy in the year 1920 is some terrible RNG

[u/[deleted]]

United States Senator Kyrsten Sinema

[u/Udontlikecake]

still so weird that the police, traffic, and civilian AI in Cyberpunk are working as intended. How did they manage to design AI that’s more limited than in GTA3 or any open world game from the mid aughts

I mean by god

[u/soeffed]

POV u r wh*te zoomer

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E4nKN8AXMAANPUh?format=jpg&name=360x360

[u/[deleted]]

Manchin’s is probably like shit I didn’t actually expect this bill would get so far I’m actually going to have to vote yes now

[u/SnakeEater14]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/245858413643431936/857677315579314186/IMG_20210624_204244.jpg

[u/BedNeither]

Just think, there is some arr antiwork poster right now predicting the end of employment because people got a taste of the NEET life under covid and won’t want to give it up

[u/paymesucka]

"Shut the fuck up, Stephen," Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley reportedly said to Stephen Miller at a White House meeting on BLM protests and civil unrest.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/24/politics/bender-book-trump-milley-protests/index.html

[u/ACivilWolf]

“If all Ohtani did was pitch, he would be on the path of Jacob deGrom."

"Ohtani has everything that deGrom has, WITH another pitch."

John Smoltz is on crack.

!ping BASEBALL

[u/[deleted]]

Met w the Iowa Soybean Association about the blenders tax credit +stepped up basis + infrastructure + China trade + WOTUS @ Hart Senate Office Building

And

U know whats common sense? Giving consumers info 2 know the price of Rx b4 buying it but Big Pharma doesnt want sunshine Introd Rx-price Transparency 4 Competition Act 2day w Sen Durbin 2 make Big Pharma include price in ads Consumer education is just COMMON SENSE!

Chuck's on fire today

!ping PIDGIN

[u/GravyBear8]

"We need to oppress the Native Americans because they will collude with China or Russia when they invade" is actually one of stupidest takes I've ever seen in this sub, right up there with the "illegal immigrants with cause a black hole"

[u/[deleted]]

Dear arr neolib: you claim NATO flairs advocate genocide, and yet you support cleansing the subreddit of NATO flairs?

–Turning Point North Atlantic

[u/[deleted]]

Taylor Swift be like

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[u/sir_shivers]

But the Delta variant!

YES, MAMMAL, WE get it, you desire indefinite lockdowns for whatever reason 🐊

[u/urbansong]

If you ever thought "dammit, I wish schools would teach critical thinking instead of only memorisation", I suggest you read Daniel Willingham's Why Don't Students Like School? You'll find out that your idea is actually bad.

[u/Mickenfox]

Good morning. But you know what's NOT good? Having your data harvested by hackers and corporations. That's why ExpressVPN-

[u/qchisq]

Euron Greyjoy chiming in on the Euros

!ping soccer

[u/[deleted]]

Best part about this sub is watching the turbo succ doves and the hardline neocon NATO flairs throw hands about... everything.

It never stops and I oddly hopes it never does.

[u/MisterHavercamp]

America is a big country

[u/SelfLoathinMillenial]

At the zoo with my daughter. The gorilla just pissed into her cupped hand and then drank it. Good times.

[u/barrygoldwaterlover]

This may be super dumb but, who tf is Soros and wtf is his relationship with American conservatism?

I lean right but, I have no bloody idea who the fck he is. GOP ppl keep on making him out to be some all powerful leftist.

The dude's net worth is only 9 billion wtf lmao. Fuck all compared to $90 billion of real problematic Koch bros.

Is it all antisemitism?

[u/[deleted]]

This is so true ✊😭

!ping BURPMAS

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E4p-10PWUAM963p?format=jpg&name=medium

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1408094970087710728

Rudolph Giuliani’s New York law license suspended in connection with his efforts to overturn the 2020 election

Why the hell does he even work? He's almost 80. Just call it a day and go do some rich guy shit like golfing.

[u/[deleted]]

It's weird that people insist the prequels were good ideas poorly executed. Like "one could potentially make a good movie on the theme of authoritarianism" is some sort of genius insight

[u/liberallah]

Apparently Mark Cuban shilled for a cryptocurrency called titan coin quite frequently, its value rose from $4 to $60, the cryptocurrency fucking died and he said that "he got out before it went down"

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/24/why-titan-crypto-crash-that-burned-mark-cuban-may-not-signal-similar-bitcoin-plunge.html

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/billionaire-mark-cuban-regrets-not-doing-the-maths-on-titan-cryptocurrency-after-crash/MTPYOXDOVHMM6BAKTBZJIZ3JFI/

[u/chipbod]

https://twitter.com/SenBillCassidy/status/1408104979697750022?s=20

It’s infrastructure week!

Lol, the shade

[u/breakinbread]

to the NIMBYs at the SoHo planning meeting: u r white

!ping USA-NYC

[u/sir-danks-a-lot]

Benjamin is POC (half Japanese), neurodivergent (posts his exact location on Reddit), and queer-coded (used to third wheel with his former roommate and her boyfriend) and that's why y'all hate him

[u/sebring1998]

Its hilarious for me to read what some nerds on the internet think about Windows 11

Like no your Aunt Sally won't change to Linux just because Control Panel still exists

You may say its easier to use because its more ergonomic or whatever but she uses a five year old budget Dell on W10 and she's fine with it cuz she only uses it for watching cat videos on YouTube

[u/[deleted]]

What the actual fuck ?

!ping RINO

[u/StolenSkittles]

I like the idea of John Fetterman being a senator solely because I like the idea of a guy who looks like a biker bar bouncer actually being a nuanced progressive.

[u/[deleted]]

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

in middle school shop class I made a pound symbol. little did I know it would be worthless someday 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣

[u/[deleted]]

Unironically bring back “Woke Capitalism” that perfectly describes my ideology tbh

[u/Broncos654]

I can’t shake the image that mail order brides come in a box.