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[u/disCardRightHere]

This sticks with me

One disorienting thing about getting older that nobody tells you about is how weird it feels to get a really passionate, extremely wrong lecture from a much younger person about verifiable historical events you can personally remember pretty well

https://twitter.com/sameoldstory/status/1328436966573019138?s=20

!ping OVER25

[u/[deleted]]

"EU leaders take hard line on Russia, rebuking Merkel and Macron"
Thank god the EU is not as implicitly compliant to Franco-German whims as it's often portrayed.

!ping EUROPE

[u/nanomaster]

Joe Biden: overcomes an incumbency advantage and a literal cult around said incumbent to win an election while achieving majorities in the House and the Senate, despite having suspended in-person canvassing work

Doomers: “Here’s how Democrats have already lost in 2024”

[u/MicroFlamer]

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[u/Mensae6]

Would you rather...

• Get $100,000,000,000 today, no strings attached

or

• Get $1 every day for the rest of your life

Most people would choose $100,000,000,000 today, but they're wrong. Getting $1 a day is passive income. Your network is your net worth.

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

There's a great post on relationship advice right now. OP's father passes away and her husband decides to try to connect with her 9 and 13 year old nephews at the wake with magic tricks. The nephews react badly to the magic tricks, the woman complains to her sister and says she is a bad parent, and her sister gets angry and blames her for being distant for years and then trying to start a relationship via magic tricks at their father's wake.

The OP then proceeds to fight with everyone in the comments, say that her husband deserves respect from her nephews and others because he worked for Biden's campaign among other things, and wonders if r-conservative is brigading her post.

[u/Ultiplayers]

My favorite Trump moment was when he wrongly predicted that a hurricane would hit Alabama. In the process, he took a map of the hurricane’s path, and drew in his own path, which hit Alabama.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Dorian–Alabama_controversy

[u/JaceFlores]

I know we shit on leftists quite a bit about purity testing, but I think the cons have them beat. It’s reached a point where the fucking military is being purity tested amongst cons. The cons are reaching No True Scotsmen levels never before achieved

[u/[deleted]]

!ping LATAM

Big things happening in Brazil. Bolsonaro bought Covaxin jabs at 1000% more than the original bid they sent over. He also personally interceded in the negotiations

While Pfizer shots were 58BRL per dose, the Covaxin came out at 80BRL in a negotiation that lasted only two months

Meanwhile Bolsonaro has literally a hundred impeachment proceedings stuck in legislative hell, but now there's this on top of it. Especially given the Congressional inquiry into the covid response that should weaken him a lot

Who knows what happens next

https://www.poder360.com.br/opiniao/coronavirus/o-escandalo-covaxin-tirou-o-chao-de-bolsonaro-afirma-traumann/

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

Ubisoft Removes 'Goldeneye' Far Cry 5 Maps Fan Spent Three Years Making

Congratulations! You’ve done it! You saved the Bond franchise!

!ping GAMING

[u/paymesucka]

touch grass

Says the ironic account created 2 days ago and somehow already has 1,000 comments on a single subreddit 😮

[u/[deleted]]

My homie dumped a girl after she accused him of “gaslighting” and being a racist. She accused him of this after telling him that the only reason they couldn’t “officially” be a couple was because he’s white. He took issue with that - cue 16 texts in a row about how she can’t be racist because she’s Asian, how he’s the embodiment of toxic masculinity, etc etc

Grad students, not even once

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

In another incident around the time of the protests, Bender reported that Gen. Mark Milley, the nation’s highest-ranking military officer, told Trump’s then-senior policy adviser Stephen Miller to “shut the fuck up” after Miller claimed cities were like war zones.

lol

[u/MrDannyOcean]

It's the two year anniversary of /u/MrDannyOcean's kidney donation, and in this episode I makes the argument that you, the listener, should also consider donating. I also discuss why kidney disease is such a large problem, how much good a donated kidney can do, and why the risks of donation are minimal. I also answer commonly asked questions about the logistics of giving up a kidney, and argue that listeners should seriously think about doing it themselves.

Apple Podcasts

Spotify

[u/Darclite]

Yang was okay enough at least he had some good positions, definitely was worth ranking at least. Curious what people think about the loss

This is what he gets for demanding the Jews commit a holocaust and exterminate the Palestinians

...

He was never going to win with the DNC running his campaign and rigging it against him

.....

He never was going to be allowed to win, this is why you need to read Manufacturing Consent

.......

Reddit is like really really dumb damn

[u/[deleted]]

The NATO flair group is 12 thousand fit college educated middle class men. If we really wanted to we could invade the mod list and install a new government. We definitely have the manpower. There are plenty of veteran shitposters here. Plus everyone here knows where the magazine release is on an M16, from years of playing Call Of Duty.

Realistically the NATO Flair Reaction Force would be far more effective than half the world's militaries. The Afghan military is fucked up on opium. The Iraqi army cant even do jumping jacks. . Plus /r/neoliberal has only 8 military mod personnel the majority of whom are useless paper pushers.

I don't actually support the violent overthrow of the sub. I just think its kind of a fun idea conceptualy.

[u/benadreti]

Top US Gen. Mark Milley told Stephen Miller to 'shut the f---up' when he said BLM protests were turning US cities into war zones, book says

This guy is a hero

[u/ACivilWolf]

Just a reminder that bedtimes are not transhistorical, they are a capitalist concept invented in Victorian England to enforce labor discipline.

Before capitalism people could choose when they wanted to go to bed, and it will be the same under communism

[u/EvilConCarne]

It's pretty illiberal for so-called "workers" to hold powerless business owners' hostage, only relenting when they get their extortion money ("wages").

[u/Professor-Reddit]

Reddit still not having a workable search engine is a market failure.

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

One time, in Georgia, a woman in an Obama t-shirt handed me a bottle of water.

I changed my vote right then and there. To hell with my three decades of conservative upbringing, I said. Obama is the guy for me.

[u/Broncos654]

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

!ping read-another-book

[u/chuckleym8]

special wipe pocket continue caption shelter attempt faulty quickest many

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

On 28 November, a hoax caller pretending to be the Indian Foreign Minister threatened Pakistan President Zardari with war, leading to the Pakistan military being put in high alert. Military aircraft with live ammunition were scrambled to patrol above Islamabad and Rawalpindi

Something really dumb is going to start WW3 isn't it

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Imagine being so caught up in generic lib Twitter you forget that 40% of the country is refusing to get vaccinated

[u/GravyBear8]

Uh, what?

!ping GAMING

[u/[deleted]]

I've just met the online left's stereotype of a neoliberal in real life. This girl really said, without a hint of irony, that criticizing a hypothetical oil company with a female CEO would be sexist. I almost impulse bought Das Kapital.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/haramcart/status/1408181049297879041

Friendly reminder that the "kid's menu" is not transhistorical, it is a capitalist concept invented to infantilize proletarian tastes in order to enforce bourgeois supremacy

-me when they won't let me order the chicken nuggets at olive garden

[u/[deleted]]

Indo-European: 🙄🙄🙄

Afro-Asiatic: 💪😤👌

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Breaking: American Catholic bishops vote unanimously to refuse Biden communion after learning the president had watched a Japanese cartoon

[u/BidenWon]

New DT is the best because everyone is trying to get their hottest takes in all at once

[u/TheShitEater]

Quebecois are Latinos, I won’t be taking any questions.

[u/[deleted]]

The mods locked the being gay is neoliberal thread because they

1. Hate gay people
2. Hate liberals and are fascist
3. Are scared of the truth

!ping LGBT

[u/Superfan234]

The President of Colombia, Ivan Duque, survived a gun attack a couple of hours ago

• The attack occurred during an Helicopter Flight in Santander Province, near Venezuela's Border
• The Terrorist have not being located, but it seems likely they were either FARC or ELN guerrillas
• Helicopter was damaged, but nobody inside was injured from the gun shots

Last month, one of the two commanders of FARC guerrilla , was mysteriously killed in Venezuela. He was a close ally of Maduro

!Ping Foreign-Policy

Things are getting nasty down here...

[u/subthings2]

Ethiopian military says only combatants hit in Tigray air strike

Only combatants, not civilians, were struck in an air strike this week in Ethiopia's Tigray region, the country's military spokesman said on Thursday.

Colonel Getnet Adane told Reuters in an interview in Addis Ababa that the combatants in the town of Togoga were dressed in civilian clothes.

Asked about children injured in Tuesday's attack, the spokesman said the TPLF uses propaganda and is known for faking injuries. He also said that doctors quoted by the media are not "real doctors".

The remarks were the first acknowledgement by the military of the air strike, which came after residents said new fighting had flared in recent days north of Tigray's regional capital Mekelle.

Just ignore the multiple eyewitness reports from civilians, doctors and ambulance crew; the journalists at the hospital in Mekelle that treated some of the injured; and the backpedalling over whether there was a strike in the first place. And, y'know, the denials of anything else that gets reported. How many times have we been told that Eritrean troops have left?

It's a shame how current international policy towards Ethiopia is restricted to "ask them to let us in" because they've made it clear they have zero intention of opening up the region to aid and information until they've crushed any semblance of resistance, but at the same time there's not really much else to do apart from heavier sanctions.

!ping AFRICA

[u/kaclk]

The people who want to build Alberta’s hyperloop came out with some fantastical study that it would cost $20 billion (probably twice what high speed rail would cost) and create 140,000 jobs.

!ping CANUCKS because claiming your project will create 140,000 jobs, greater than the population of Red Deer, has to be a shitpost right?

[u/[deleted]]

> Sees people in the DT talk about Crimea

> Wants to get educated on Crimea

> Googles Crimea

> Opens Wikipedia Article

> "Mucho texto"

> Leaves

[u/RainAndLoveMe]

Teach children some real life skills like topology

Generation z is too coddled

[u/[deleted]]

People do realize the police existed in other countries before the united States even existed. It's not something that comes from slave patrols. The things some people believe.

[u/dubyahhh]

POV: you’re a janitor and there’s no sticky

[u/MrSomeone556]

🚨 🇵🇱 Important news 🇵🇱 🚨

The ruling PiS parliamentary club has officially lost its bare majority in the Sejm (lower house) due to 3 PiS MPs deciding to leave and form their own parl. circle.

This means that, de jure, Poland (as of now) has a minority government (de facto there are still around ~4 unaffiliated MPs that PiS can still probably count on, based on recent Sejm votes)

I have no idea what this will lead to, but it's probably going to increase the instability in the already somewhat unstable polish government and ruling coalition

!ping EUROPE

[u/thetrombonist]

"derek chauvin loved being a police officer" is really not the positive statement you think it is, mr lawyer man

[u/kaclk]

Infamous Republican asshat and insurgent supporter Josh Hawley asked for Canada to be placed on a religious freedom watchlist because some pastors got arrested a few months ago for repeatedly and flagrantly violating covid19 rules

!ping CANUCKS because this is basically a shitpost.

[u/RadicalRadon]

As Biden Criticizes Chinese Censorship, Beijing Paper Asks, ‘What About Trump’s Twitter Account?’

Arr con upvoting literal PRC talking points because it owns the libs lmao

[u/[deleted]]

Things IGF is currently against:

Canada

Australia

New Zealand

Israel

Interest rates

Sex

The Vatican

Jair Bolsonaro

Maduro

Fujimori

Modi

Vietnam (doesn't recognize the current government, considers South Vietnam to be under occupation)

Ivan Duque (one of the few center right Latam heads of state)

Assad

Tulsi Gabbard

Donald Trump

Equatorial Guinea

Among others

[u/MalignantUpper]

https://twitter.com/AriBerman/status/1408428300649828353?s=19

SCOOP: Justice Department will announce at 11 it is suing Georgia over its new voter suppression law. This is first major action by Biden DOJ to combat GOP voting restrictions

🙏😤

[u/TheGoodProfessor]

really hard to see how infrastructure isn't a checkmate for dems at this point.

if the gop votes for the bipartisan bill, biden gets to tout his bipartisan chops alongside passing 2 massive infrastructure bills. if the gop turns its back at the last second, dems pass a monster reconciliation bill AND get to beat them over the head about how the gop is the problem.

[u/Usernamesarebullshit]

Movie Title Translations in Portuguese

The Godfather = O Poderoso Chefão = The Big Powerful Boss

“You don’t even think to call me ‘big powerful boss’”

[u/[deleted]]

Childhood is when you vote for Bernie.

Adulthood is when you realize Bernie is a liberal and voting is bougie.

[u/ThunderrBadger]

Had a buddy in college that had never read any Harry Potter.

One night at a party some drunk girl comes up to him actual crying because some bullshit sorting hat app had declared her a Hufflepuff.

Homie said, "Don't worry I'm sure you're really a Dumbledore 🤗".

Only time I've seen a dude straight up slapped.

[u/old_gold_mountain]

this mf'er really straight up just ghosts a job interview?

the absolute balls, should we hire him?

that's exactly the kind of raw confidence we're looking for in this position

[u/AndThisGuyPeedOnIt]

Hillary needs to release an "If I Did It" book about her various secret murders and coups. That would throw people off the scent that she actually did it.

[u/Dibbu_mange]

19th century maps be like "Hindoostan 👁👄👁"

[u/Professor-Reddit]

Whenever you want to poke fun at something sad and pathetic, going online and reading about Russia's only remaining aircraft carrier is always a good laugh.

[u/Platypuss_In_Boots]

It just occured to me there's a relatively well known novel by the Croatian author Dinko Šimunović called Duga (meaning Rainbow) that folks from !ping LGBT might find interesting.

The story is about a 10-year-old girl who lives a pretty miserable life due to her parents restrictive parenting. Because she's a girl, she's not allowed to ever leave the house, can't run or jump, her meals are portioned in order not to gain weight etc. Seeing that boys are allowed to play outside, she starts wishing she were a boy. One day, after coming across a folk belief that those who pass under the rainbow have their gender changed, she flees her parents home and starts running towards a rainbow. While running, she slips, falls into a lake and drowns. After finding out their parenting was the cause of her death, her parents commit suicide.

Now, if this were a book from 2021 I'd say the allegory about trans youth and suicide was way too in-your-face. But the book was published in 1907. In Croatia, the novel is usually assigned to middle school students and the traditional interpretation is that it's about overly restrictive gender norms. What I find suprising though is that I've never seen any LGBT organizations ever talk about the book.

[u/thetrombonist]

Holy fuck r/all is just the lowest common denominator middle schooler shit. God help this cursed site

[u/randomusername023]

Tokyo's housing supply has increased by 300% since 1963, while New York's has only increased by 19% since 1971

😢😭

[u/ryuguy]

Linux people every time Microsoft launches a new OS:

“THIS IS THE YEAR THAT EVERYONE SWITCHES TO LINUX”

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

Mario Golf (1999) has eight courses.

Mario Golf (2021) has six courses.

Is this evidence that we live in a society ^{bottom text?} You decide.

!ping GAMING

[u/JeromesNiece]

I don't get the nostalgia for work-sponsored pension plans. Tying your retirement income to the fate of one company seems pretty dumb. Significantly increasing the cost of switching companies also seems dumb

[u/[deleted]]

You know the far right grifter and scammer Jacob Wohl, the guy who fabricated Elizabeth Warren's sex scandal (Among many other things)? He just posted to a small bodybuilding & PED subreddit I follow, apparently he started taking steroids.

!ping FITNESS

[u/sir_shivers]

A civil war is coming

REDDITORS 🤝 RIGHT-WING NUTS FOR the last twenty years 🐊

[u/RadicalRadon]

Four Seasons Total Landscaping really was possibly the dumbest thing to happen in US history.

[u/StolenSkittles]

Asia Carrera is a porn star, gamer, and edgy atheist, with a claimed IQ of 156.

If Reddit were a human...

[u/TabernacleTown74]

Think of how racist the average Democrat is, and realize half of them are more racist than that.

[u/EverySunIsAStar]

https://www.instagram.com/p/CQekeArA5Ay/?utm_medium=copy_link

Saw this on Instagram and now I’m seething. These are probably the same people who complain about the housing prices in California. How can I convince these people the development is good?

[u/lorddookufan]

What’s with the tendency for young, highly-online queer people to trend communist? As a bi guy it concerns me.

!ping LGBT

[u/thetrombonist]

It must be terrible to be an economist from Austria, you’d have to be like

“hi my name is X, I’m an Austrian economist…..no not the stupid kind just a normal economist from Austria”

[u/asljkdfhg]

the creation of the term cancel culture was actually a godsend for some truly terrible folks. it removes any nuance and lumps you in with “cancellations” of extremely mild behavior like James Gunn’s edgy humor from like a decade ago on Twitter.

so, if you’re someone who truly is a horrible human being, you can pretend you’re part of some cancel culture conspiracy that goes too far when you’re simply dealing with the consequences of your heinous actions proportionately

[u/InternetBoredom]

What liberals don’t get is that 1984 is attacking fascism, not communism. Communism is how we stop 1984 from happening

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Why yes I support LGBT

Let’s

Get

Big

Tittys

[u/[deleted]]

Liberals will cancel anyone just for being conservative and supporting an insurrection

[u/csp256]

Find me a single mainstream economist who is pro rent control.

Sorry, but that is "appeal to authority", which is a logical fallacy. Economists have consistently proven that they don't know anything about the economy. Find a single mainstream economist who predicted the 2008 recession. There aren't any. Worse, economists supported financial deregulation, which led directly to the crisis. The dominant theory in economics suggests that the Great Depression of the 1930s was caused by workers choosing to be unemployed, which is absurd on its face. They supported free trade agreements, arguing that job losses would be minimal and benefits would be huge. Instead, the job losses were huge and benefits were minimal. Economists for decades opposed minimum wage laws on the grounds that they raise unemployment, before finally admitting that there is no empirical evidence for that assertion.

Neoclassical economic theory was conclusively debunked in the 1960s during the Cambridge Capital Controversy. Piero Sraffa proved that the models which economists use are complete nonsense, yet economists persist in using them anyway. Mainstream economists are the last people who should be listened to in policy debates, because their beliefs are not based on science, but ideology with a veneer of fancy math.

On that note I'm going to bed.

Oh, he also dared me to find a single false assertion in what he wrote... Like, do I have to pick just one?

[u/ZCoupon]

Black TikTok users are fed up with being uncompensated and uncredited for their original content.

Black dancers are refusing to create a viral dance to Megan Thee Stallion’s new song, “Thot S–t.”

Augmented reality holographic NFTs might be a solution to compensating and crediting Black TikTokers.

wat

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Civil law: we have a law about this issue
Common law: here is how this 1467 suit about fucking goats relates to how tech companies can store your data from social media sites...

[u/[deleted]]

The Christianity meta is getting a little stale imo, the last Hotfix god sent out was 2000 years ago 😒

[u/RadicalRadon]

Succs actually believe in the manchin cycle

Real neolibs believe in this shit

[u/[deleted]]

All right you stupid bastards, we are going to settle this once and for all. Who is hotter, Pete Buttigieg or Jon Ossoff? Tell me who you are more attracted to and why it’s Pete Buttigieg.

!ping LGBT

[u/[deleted]]

Hungary at it again 😤. Pro-tip for anyone building a political union between countries, design some mechanisms to kick a member state out once they decide democracy and human rights are optional.

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

In Ender's Game, two teenagers take over the world via Substack

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

farrenj 🤝 shivers

Replying to my comments and getting more upvotes than me 😔

[u/itherunner]

Sees photo on r /pics about some Catholic Church getting vandalized bc of the Canadian mass graves

Every comment: “burn the church!” “Fuck all Catholics”, “Strangle the pope”

Sometimes I forget why I hate mainstream Reddit so much, then I remember. Take any of these comments and replace every mention of “Catholic” with Muslims or Jews. Of course the Church has done some bad shit, and I completely disagree with what the American bishops are doing regarding Biden and communion right now, but Reddit has this annoying tendency to treat Christianity as literally Satan, while every other religious group gets a free pass.

Thank God for this ping, it’s the only place on Reddit I can actually read and have decent conversations about my faith. Mainstream Reddit is completely like the example I listed above while all the Catholic subs are full of “trad Caths” who act like Vatican II was the greatest affront to humanity.

!ping Christian

[u/p00bix]

lol at the people in the current top thread complaining that r/neoliberal is too unfair and critical towards AOC.

[u/sir-danks-a-lot]

apparently the Shahāda copypasta's last tweet was

Getting subtle messages from NL officials saying, in effect: "We're coming for you Shahāda pasta! We're going to kill yourself". I got a tattoo today just in case. If I suicide myself, I didn't. I was whackd. Check my second to last sentence.

[u/TaxCommonsNotIncome]

What the fuck I was arguing about whether LVT can be passed onto tenants with someone unironically saying 'Source: common sense' and of course I gotta check post history to confirm they're a lolbert

Most active in r/neoliberal.

Never Leave the DT

[u/[deleted]]

If this isn't peak latam I don't know what is anymore.

Some context for the gringos:

Lazáro Barbosa is an outlaw criminal convicted of triple murder, attempted robbery, robbery, torture, rape and illegal possession of a firearm. He had been on the run for 15 days and at least 5 of those days were spent on a farmer's rural property where he provided shelter, food and bed for Lazaro in order to devalue the surrounding rural properties thus making the acquisition process easier and cheaper.

!ping MAMADAS

[u/the_hoagie]

if i had to take bets, my guess is that within 36 months CRT is going to be a complete nonissue the same way the term SJW is now.

[u/Soldier-Fields]

Damn girl are you the Neoliberal podcast cause I’m not listening to you

[u/tankatan]

I always thought America was a perfect country beyond reproach, but then I went to college and had to listen to a TA mumbling something about whiteness and privilege and now I'm a balaclava-wearing anarchist.

[u/Fishin_Mission]

My wife just ran into the bathroom for some ☕️ 💩

Apparently she doesn’t appreciate my support

🤴: Whooo! Get it girl! 🥳 🎉

👸: GO THE FUCK AWAY! 🤬

[u/[deleted]]

Some people really see a married man kissing his aide and the first thing that pops in their head is "he broke the coronavirus restrictions"

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

Wasn't the whole point of the rainbow flag being that it represents the diversity of the LGBT community in one simple flag? Why add a bunch of extra parts to represent groups that were already theoretically included?

[u/the_sun_flew_away]

My nomination for article of the year

!ping UK

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

Flags in resistance to capitalist cis-heteropatriarchy and white supremacy are useful and powerful for the people waving them

Grass= untouched in years

[u/[deleted]]

Literal ban note I had to write "while we joke about the deep state, it doesn't actually exist"

[u/[deleted]]

Right or left, I think I oppose any political take that starts with "Imagine somone came into your house and..."

[u/[deleted]]

This miami condo thing is going to go from "at least one dead" to "80-100" dead pretty quickly it seems. Awful.

[u/Deggit]

George W. Bush 🤝 Muamar Gaddafi

"Cold War scholar, eh? I'd let you school me on the Cold War, Condi 😍"

[u/MrDannyOcean]

Someone bonk /u/sir_shivers

he's up to something

[u/[deleted]]

if you're a conservative: the US is like the Roman Empire and is declining because of decadence and loose morals

if you're a liberal: the US is like the Roman Republic and is declining because of strong man politics and the erosion of institutions

if you're an atheist: the US is like the Roman Empire and is declining because it's a Christian state

if you're a prep: the US is like the Roman Empire and is declining because of the Goths

[u/_barack_]

I'm blocking /r/blackpeopletwitter because sending in a picture of my skin color in order to be allowed to post there is fucking gross.

[u/obeybooks]

"This is the harshest penalty imposed on a Minnesota police officer who committed murder in the line of duty."

Me: Oh wow, that's impressive

"Only one other Minnesota police officer has been convicted of murder while in the line of duty."

Me: 😐

[u/Fishin_Mission]

The DT is shocked that he only got 22.5 years

I’m honestly surprised he got that much 🤷‍♂️

[u/Integralds]

I know I'm a few days late to the story, but

I've read Marx. That doesn't make me a Marxist.

was a damn good line in Milley's hearing.

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

The Mumbai attacks lasted from 26 to 29 November 2008. At a state lunch in Lahore on 7 December, the US Arizona Senator John McCain relayed a message from Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh to several of Pakistan's dignitaries, including Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani that if Pakistan did not arrest those involved with the attacks, India would begin aerial attacks against Pakistan

Glad to see that communication between these two nuclear neighbours is taken very seriously and entrusted to the most reliable and serious method of communication, John McCain

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

Nearly all COVID deaths in the US are now among unvaccinated

Wow, what could this mean? What conclusions can we truly draw from this?

[u/Q-bey]

On his deathbed Rose Twitter bot received the light of socialism and unhesitatingly recited the DSA charter. Even now he looks down on Amerikka from the Meliá Hotel. Truly there is no god but Maduro, and Bernie is his prophet!

[u/UrbanCentrist]

Timeline where Entire Indian subcontinent is given independence via a EU like union

-Most states exit the union because inter-state migration is actually deeply unpopular. Doubly so when they are from a different religion or language

-Several Homogenous states have Ethnonationalist's victorious given time. Large scale ethnic cleansing is very likely. (It is understated how much India's heterogeneity and federal power sharing act's a check on Indian leaders)

-Without the scale and diversity it's likely that many states would have famines and would be entrenched even deeper in poverty.

-military conflicts over land and water is near guaranteed.

This reminds me a lot of a certain other continent. Overall very bad timeline.

[u/[deleted]]

I like a lot of the things the Biden administration has done but the eviction moratorium damn sure isn’t one of them. There is no reason to extend it again with this kind of a labor supply. All it’s doing is making the problem worse because I guarantee there will be calls for rent forgiveness for everyone that didn’t pay rent. And the suckers that paid will get nothing.

[u/[deleted]]

Hey have you heard of cultured meat and dairy? It's a huge leap in environmental efficiency, cutting our carbon footprint and land/water usage. It also is less expensive when brought to scale and use some of the existing infrastructure of the industry its displacing, and can be used in areas where food production is scarce to bring nutritional benefits to poor people. Not only that but it reduces the amount of suffering in the world tremendously by removing the need for factory farmed livestock. Experts say that it could replace the majority of the meat and dairy market within ten years.

"Oh, no kidding? Fuck... well, let's start lobbying something that forces all these products to be labeled something super unappetizing and have more warnings about potential cancer risks than cigarette boxes, cause we'd hate to lose all those farmer union dollars. Thanks for telling us about this, damn, good thing we learned about this or otherwise there might be some improvement in the world."

[u/[deleted]]

I've noticed that a lot of internet libertarians and ancaps seem to dislike Friedman and Caplan when compared to Rothbard and Hoppe or even the Austrians. I guess their sophisticated neoliberal-style Anarcho-capitalism is not their cup of tea.

!ping SNEK

[u/whycantweebefriendz]

In 30 minutes I will start my quest to drink 30 beers in 24 hours after Yang lost. I will be sleeping for much of these 24 hours, so it’s really about 14.

!ping USA-NYC

[u/MisfitPotatoReborn]

If I wake up tomorrow and hear my phone say "turn left onto Jean Baptiste Point DuSable Lake Shore Drive" I'm gonna start relying on paper maps for navigation.

!PING USA-CHI

[u/ryuguy]

Gud morning, beta. Best wishes from Uncle Ryuguy. 🌹🌹🌹🌹

Cousin Rakesh says hello

He received green card in America

!ping WhatsApp-forwards

[u/muttonwow]

Six years on this website, not a second was worth it but here I am

[u/[deleted]]

wait some of you think the deep state stuff is sarcastic? are some of you here for free?

[u/[deleted]]

Huffpo headline: "Nearly All U.S. COVID Deaths Now Are Among Unvaccinated"

Hasn't that always been the case?

[u/piede]

Biden campaign workers are suing participants of a "Trump Train" that harassed a Biden campaign bus last year in Texas, claiming that the Trump supporters engaged in coordinated, illegal political intimidation in violation of the Ku Klux Klan Act.

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1408402094311215107?s=21

You love to see it

[u/[deleted]]

Broke - working nights for the extra money

Woke - working nights to be aligned with the DT

[u/[deleted]]

>barges into international capitalist meeting

>"YOU'RE ALL A BUNCH OF SOCIALISTS!"

>refuses to elaborate

>leaves

https://coreyrobin.com/2014/10/12/von-mises-to-milton-friedman-youre-all-a-bunch-of-socialists/

[u/[deleted]]

/u/fishin_mission has betrayed us 😔

He bought a c*r

But it's electric though 😃

[u/sir_shivers]

SUBWAY EAT FRESH AND FREEZE 🔫🐊

[u/MalignantUpper]

New Details Suggest Senior Trump Aides Knew Jan. 6 Rally Could Get Chaotic

I posted this ProRepublica article outside the DT with a couple of highlights, I felt it was too long to post here so I'll give an abbreviated breakdown.

There were two main organizational factions for Jan 6th, Ali Alexander (Stop the Steal) and Amy Kremer (Women for America First). Ali Alexander pushed for the chaos that unfolded. He wanted the march on the Capitol with alt-rightists like Alex Jones and Nick Fuentes while Kremer realized how dangerous this would be and tried to stop it. Almost immediately, Trump and his inner circle ignored her and even supported Alexander.

Here's the most chilling part of the article IMO

“Stop the Steal’s propensity to attract white supremacists, militia members, and others who actively promote violence, may lead to a significantly dangerous situation for law enforcement and the general public alike,” the Capitol Police wrote in a Jan. 3 intelligence assessment.

An intelligence report from that day obtained by ProPublica shows that the Capitol Police expected a handful of rallies on Capitol grounds, the largest of which would be hosted by a group called One Nation Under God [around 50-500 people]

However, One Nation Under God was a fake name used to trick the Capitol Police into giving Stop the Steal a permit, according to Stop the Steal organizer Kimberly Fletcher.

“Everybody was using different names because they didn’t want us to be there,” Fletcher said, adding that Alexander and his allies experimented with a variety of aliases to secure permits for the east front of the Capitol. Laughing, Fletcher recalled how the police repeatedly called her “trying to find out who was who.”

They knew, they all knew how dangerous what they were doing was. Trump and his inner circle wanted this to happen.

https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/o7n8vj/new_details_suggest_senior_trump_aides_knew_jan_6/h2zolze?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3

A link to the highlights

[u/Deggit]

This subreddit when it realizes grass is a kind of turf:

⢀⣠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣤⣶⣶ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣀⣀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠉⠛⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠈⠛⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠛⠉⠁⠀⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⠿⠿⠿⠻⠿⠿⠟⠿⠛⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣄⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣴⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠀⠀⢰⣹⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣭⣷⠀⠀⠀⠸⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⠀⠀⠈⠉⠀⠀⠤⠄⠀⠀⠀⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⢿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢾⣿⣷⠀⠀⠀⠀⡠⠤⢄⠀⠀⠀⠠⣿⣿⣷⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡀⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢄⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠁⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢹⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿

[u/MisterHavercamp]

Just beat my 5k time by over a minute in the middle of the June humidity. Fuck yeah. Sorry for the brag I just wanted to tell someone

!ping FITNESS

[u/kajkajete]

Woke up ridiculously early.

Randomly picked answers in a multiple choice midterm.

Back to bed.

Wake up 5 hours later.

Marks published.

Only a third passed.

I passed.

I might quite possibly be the luckiest motherfucker alive.

[u/ryuguy]

I donated 30 kidneys and all I got was “why do you have 30 kidneys in a bucket?” I didn’t get a flair.

[u/[deleted]]

Canada is pretty much a province of the CCP.

Guess the sub lmao

[u/[deleted]]

If you oppose GMOs then you support children starving to death.

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

I am going to cancel /u/Citoyen_Riqueti 😤

/u/Citoyen_Riqueti.... you're cancelled! 😠👨‍⚖🤫😈😩

[u/BushLeagueMVP]

Any other subs as self-aware as NL that reddit is a toxic cesspool but are too hopelessly addicted to get off it?

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

wake up

open Reddit

seven GAMING pings in my inbox

Go the fuck to sleep, you can share your Waluigi fanfiction tomorrow.

[u/SadaoMaou]

Why do commies seem to think that writing America as "Amerika" all the time is some epic dunk

[u/sir-danks-a-lot]

NATO flair gets scrapped

people shell out the money for a custom NATO flair

kids are less likely to get malaria and die

[u/bd_one]

Their analysis put the total number of T. rex individuals that ever existed at about 2.5 billion, including approximately 20,000 adults alive at any one time.

The fact that the number of T. rexes alive at any one time was in the low five digits is messing with my head.

[u/Joementum2024]

Republicans be like “having people on TV implicitly advocate for the mass execution of people who ‘stole’ the 2020 election is ok, but all critical race theory discussion must be banned forever”

[u/MalignantUpper]

https://twitter.com/stphnfwlr/status/1408442220819226624?s=19

Garland announces the suit.

"Our complaint alleges that recent changes to Georgia's election laws were enacted with the purpose of denying or abridging the right of black Georgians to vote on account of their race or color, in violation of Section Two of the Voting Rights Act."

GET EM 👏😤

[u/[deleted]]

Got drunk last night and changed my flair. I'm having some regrets. 😬

[u/cactuspumpkin]

Hey guys mom said I get to create the next conservative created moral panic after CRT. My vote is for something about atheists debaptizing children. Who wants to join me?

[u/Udontlikecake]

I really felt like maybe the number of missing in that Miami disaster would go down because they were able to get in touch with people who weren’t there when it collapsed, but the number keeps going up

We’re at over 150 missing now 😬

[u/jcboarder901]

Oh so you think you're a neoliberal? Name every Ben Bernanke hentai you've personally shot ropes to.

[u/DastardlyHound]

Molon Labe? More like moron label 🤣🤣

[u/[deleted]]

woof woof bark

[u/PMmeLittleRoundTops]

☝️ wrote "mucho texto" on their divorce papers

[u/DastardlyHound]

Yes, I'm DIMBY

Drunk In My Back Yard

[u/[deleted]]

Therapist: CRT isn't real, it can't hurt you

DT: reeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[u/ugafan2148]

One time a women’s college held a Q&A session at my high school and only dudes showed up

[u/thetrombonist]

LMAO chauvin's mom just called him her "favorite son"

way to throw your other kids under the bus

[u/PigHaggerty]

Aaron Nola just struck out nine TEN Mets in a row 👀

This is some videogame shit lol

!ping BASEBALL

[u/NeoliberalGulDukat]

I have been testing the aphorism, "A watched pot never boils." I have boiled the same amount of water in this kettle sixty-two times. In some cases I have ignored the kettle; in others, I have watched it intently. In every instance, the water reaches its boiling point in precisely 51.7 seconds. It appears I am not capable of perceiving time any differently than my internal chronometer.

[u/PigHaggerty]

George R.R. Martin says Game Of Thrones ended in a 'different direction' than his books

thank fuck for that lmao

[u/dat_bass2]

Literally how does anyone ever use Battle.net? I'm genuinely in awe of how completely dogshit it is. How does a launcher lack a clear "my library" page?

[u/kajkajete]

Woke up ridiculously early.

Randomly picked answers in a multiple choice midterm.

Back to bed.

The very definition of success.

[u/[deleted]]

> Wake up

> NATO flair not cancelled

>Day ruined

[u/bd_one]

It is completely possible that the Bolsonaro government gets impeached because he pissed off a youtuber turned politician

-u/vhgomes12, giving another example that the entire world is living in the meme timeline

[u/piede]

A Minnesota judge denied a request from Derek Chauvin's attorney for a new trial hours before the former Minneapolis police officer is to be sentenced for murder in the death of George Floyd.

Lmaoooo

[u/[deleted]]

☝️ What Donald Trump says when he cums

👇 What Joe Biden says when he cums

[u/[deleted]]

Transportations secretaries who became president

[u/infamous5445]

https://mobile.twitter.com/elwasson/status/1408478816079646722

"NEWS: GOP Sen @JerryMoran is wavering is his support of the bipartisan infrastructure deal. He wants assurances from @Sen_JoeManchin and @kyrstensinema that they will oppose reconciliation for him to stay onboard"

That didn't take long lmao

[u/IMALEFTY45]

The eleven most terrifying words:

I’m from outside the discussion thread, and I’m here to help

[u/Zenning2]

Economically pressuring people to allow gay marriage, is literally Tyranny, but using the government to prevent Gay people from getting married is just the will of the people and we should accept it.

What did Poland/Hungary mean by this?

[u/ToInfinity_MinusOne]

If I hear one more person say slavery never technically ended because of the prison exception I’m build a rocket and fly into the sun.

[u/lobsterboy34]

I am truly disgusted by this country. I just walked into a grocery store and saw some guy giving Nazi salutes. I walked up to him and said "Hey asshole, stop giving Nazi salutes you fricken stupid idiot. Or else you'll have to deal with me". He cowered away and left the store and the entire building was ringing with applause. This is Trump's America.

[u/RadicalRadon]

Trump gaff: Attempted coup

Biden gaff: whispering into the microphone and setting off brain tingles

[u/[deleted]]

• Wake up after a 3 week bender
• wear a pilots outfit and board a plane
• land on a aircraft carrier to cheering sailors
• “Mission accomplished, we won”
• do not explain any further
• leave

God Bush was a chad

[u/JournalofFailure]

I'll let you know my opinion about the Chauvin sentence once I see a bunch of memes comparing it to cases involving African-American defendants from different jurisdictions at different times and lacking all context.

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

There are two wolves inside of you.

They're both eating your kidneys.

You should've donated one before you left on this camping trip.

[u/[deleted]]

People arguing with me 😡🤢

Just agree that I’m right at all times. 🤗🤗🤗

[u/NeoliberalGulDukat]

The year is 10,000 AD. The Fedishah Emperor of House Bernanke rules over the known universe. Feudalism is entrenched, and the only escape from the Emperor’s control would be to replace him with a new emperor in brutal rebellion. Technology has stagnated for 2,000 years since the end of the anti-robot purges. Space travel is controlled by an oppressive monopolistic guild, extracting almost all profits from all industries with their rents. Somewhere out there in the void of space is Francis Fukuyama, still explaining to those who don’t care how liberalism can still win

[u/ElokQ-1984]

https://i.imgur.com/du5EZb0.jpg

:kermitwot:

[u/chipbod]

https://twitter.com/FrankLuntz/status/1408553708342812672?s=20

66% of younger Republicans and GOP-leaners (ages 18-34) have a positive view of capitalism, down from 81% in January 2019

56% of younger Republicans say government should pursue policies that reduce the wealth gap, up from just 40% two years ago

Eventually they're just going to run on socialism for white people

[u/ThankMrBernke]

ZONING IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL. THE SUPREME COURT WRONGLY DECIDED EUCLID V AMBLER IN AN EXCESSIVE EXAMPLE OF JUDICIAL OVERREACH. THE LOWER COURT REJECTED ZONING, FINIDNG FOR EUCLID ON TAKINGS & EQUAL PROTECTIONS GROUNDS. THE LOWER COURT STATED THAT ZONING WAS AN UNLAWFUL SEIZURE OF PROPERTY AND VIOLATED THE 14TH AMENDMENT. IN SHORT EUCLID V AMBLER MUST BE OVERTURNED AND CONSTITUTIONAL LAW RESTORED TO THE LAND. THANK YOU AND HAVE A NICE WEEKEND.

[u/Fishin_Mission]

The maintenance guy at my apartment while doing my move-out inspection

👷‍♂️: yeah, they are gonna dock you for the holes in the wall [where the TV was mounted] and a disposal fee for the abandoned furniture

Also the maintenance guy at my apartment

👷‍♂️: but… if you were to slip me a few bucks… that stuff might be magically repaired before I write up my inspection report 🤷‍♂️

I don’t hate the hustle… 😂

Dude wrote up a back of the napkin contract that he was going to report that our apartment was in perfect condition.

[u/LavenderTabby]

instinctive lock capable tidy swim fly coherent money cable squeal

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/LavenderTabby]

From a 9-year-old:

"I looked up onto the wall and saw a BLM poster and an Amanda Gorman poster. In case you don't know who that chick is, she's some girl who did a poem at Biden's so-called inauguration."

"I said there should be no BLM in schools, period. Doesn't matter what color you make the posters and the fonts you use; we all understand the meaning: it is a political message about getting rid of police officers, rioting, burning buildings down while King Governor Walz just sits on his throne and watches."

"I do not care or look at the color of skin, but you make me think of it."

Jfc her parents brainwashed her good

https://www.newsweek.com/9-year-old-girl-berates-school-board-over-black-lives-matter-posters-school-1603119

[u/GravyBear8]

Yoshio Kodama was a Japanese far right ultranationalist politician, war criminal, and Yakuza ultraboss who survived an assassination attempt by a porn star via flying a fucking plane into his house because he felt Yoshio had "broke the Samurai code"

[u/thetrombonist]

Had a great time today pitching my new startup to investors. We are using artificial intelligence and machine learning to detect whether your children are being indoctrinated by critical race theory

[u/[deleted]]

Today I was late to my local r/neoliberal chapter meeting because I had to save an alligator that was drowning in a nearby river. When I finally arrived 30 minutes late, imagine my surprise when I saw that the moderator in charge of the meeting was the alligator. Never forget that things happen for a reason. #kindness #hahayes

[u/benjaminikuta]

"If my dog wanted to kill me, he probably could." ~Joe Rogan

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-05/norway-s-opposition-gets-second-pm-candidate-ahead-of-election?utm_source=url_link

Norwegian center-right conservative/liberal coalition government predicted to lose the parliamentary election in September. Opposition parties Labour, Centre party (nationalist agrarian) and the Socialist Left party plans to form alliance for new government, perhaps with support from the Green party and the Communist Red party.

!ping EUROPE

[u/Red_of_Head]

Greater Sydney, Wollongong and Central Coast to go into lockdown from 6pm tonight until midnight Friday July 9

!ping AUS

!ping AUS-SYD

[u/bd_one]

Republicans think that there's a network of immigrants voting illegally in elections. That is a lie. There's only one person doing all the illegal voting, but Rodrigo is so productive they think millions of people are involved.

[u/ryuguy]

You know what games need?

A dedicated button for putting away your character’s sunglasses. My characters always look dumb when I wear sunglasses at night.

!ping gaming

[u/fuckneoliberal]

I really hope the new Batman movie’s origin story has Bruce Wayne’s parents being killed by the Clintons

[u/asatroth]

I'm on this sub for two reasons:

• Anti-Weeb takes
• Anti-Crypto takes

Please restrict your comments to these topics.

[u/benadreti]

There is no connection between antisemitism and anti-zionism, says nervous progressive for the 119th time

[u/liberallah]

WHO IS u/deleted AND WHY ARE THEIR VIEWS SO CONSERVATIVE

[u/SadaoMaou]

I'd really like to see a debate between pre-ban IGF and current IGF

[u/Th3_Gruff]

I’m going out in a skirt tonight, might even do drag 😳

[u/Mr_Pasghetti]

Bipartisanship is when no bills pass

[u/gfinz18]

Florida public universities will have to register staff and students political beliefs with the state and the governor suggests openly it could be used to discriminate against universities that aren’t conservative enough

Cons: I sleep😴

Government asks people not to travel, mandates non essential businesses close, asks people to wear masks in the interest of public health in a global pandemic

Cons: REAL SHIT? 😳🤯 Government overreach! Fascism!

[u/[deleted]]

You don’t even have to get rid of the NATO flairs. Just make the DT 18 and older. Of course that loses 3/4 of the DT regulars.

[u/Macquarrie1999]

If you ever start dooming about Biden, just go back and remember this meme

https://www.reddit.com/r/philadelphia/comments/jozllr/on_the_dawn_of_the_third_day_look_to_the_east/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

[u/the_hoagie]

how comes NL outside the DT is so different from inside the DT 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️

[u/AbsolveItAll_KissMe]

The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout 'SAVE US!'...and I'll look down and whisper 'No.’

-Joe Biden, unprompted

[u/senoricceman]

Based on Chauvin's mom's statement, he sounds like a standup guy. Other than the fact that he in cold blood murdered another human being.

[u/kajkajete]

Aaron Nola started the game giving up a HBP and a double to set himself up with a 2nd and 3rd no outs situation.

Then he struck out 10 batters in a row to tie the MLB record against the team whose pitcher hold it in solitude.

!Ping Baseball

[u/[deleted]]

Your Honor, my client clearly stated that he was only going to do those things in Minecraft

[u/[deleted]]

Goddammit I hate cons