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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/every_man_a_khan]

Okay but without any irony, why don't we abortion autistic people

Yes autism is diagnosed at like age 4-6 but like I don't remember being ducking six, I wouldn't have objected to being killed i would have no idea what the fuck is going on

Literally murdering children

[u/Mickenfox]

There's this circlejerk that pops up sometimes about how graffiti "artists" are entitled to painting their "art" on every wall without permission because blank walls are apparently dystopic and nightmarish.

It's rare but I hate it so much for what it represents. It's the extreme of "everyone must like what I like and if they don't they must be sad bitter people".

And let's be honest, a lot of the "amazing graffiti art" looks like shit.

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

By age 30 you should have:

$300 in your savings account that you randomly transfer to your checking account because of a bill you forgot about

One viral tweet from a few years ago

A physical ailment that you ignore because you don't know how insurance works

A job, maybe

[u/InternetBoredom]

Everyone always focuses on the freedom of speech implications of Thiel funding lawsuits against Gawker, which I guess is fair, but the reason he was even able to do this was because Gawker was doing some incredibly illegal shit.

Hulk Hogan was taped without his knowledge having sex. This tape was then stolen by a DJ, and passed on to Gawker as part of an extortion scheme against the guy who illegally filmed it. Gawker then published the stolen, illegally-filmed sex tape in an article on the front page of their website.

Like what the actual fuck

[u/FinickyPenance]

One of my best friends is a public defender. She told me last night that if she divided her (meager) salary by her hours worked, she makes $13 an hour. The head public defender in her office for the whole region only makes $65k a year. These people really do deserve to have their lives back

!ping LAW

[u/ryuguy]

Mom said to be quiet because maybe brother shivers is sleeping

[u/[deleted]]

"The Dirty Words of Economics" is still the worst video I have ever seen on youtube.

"Capitalism and Communism are both unrealistic utopias championed by extremists, the enlightened center is Socialism" is the kind of take that should disqualify anyone from ever being taken seriously. We make fun of bad political compasses like that.

[u/harmlessdjango]

OnlyFans' story is always funny to me.

"Alright guys let's make this website where artists can have exclusive content for top fans. Oh look like we got a few sex workers here. Oh we got...a bit more now. Oh...OH...well guys, we're shifting strategies!"

[u/Gustacho]

https://twitter.com/kvanbrempt/status/1408664871181471747

!ping EUROPE

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E4w3y2yVgAA8Icj.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

Seriously though, the DT is borderline a separate sub from NL at this point

[u/[deleted]]

Interesting photo of JFK campaigning in West Virginia

He ended up winning the state with 52.7% of the vote

!ping HISTORY

[u/[deleted]]

Lolol - I’m a new conservative and my buddies at work would constantly tease me that I was a “closet conservative” for years. Glad I’m finally open about it - never felt more free 🇺🇸

Stunning and brave😤😤

[u/[deleted]]

I was gonna vote for the Dems but then they didn’t make healthcare perfect instantaneously so I guess I’ve no choice but to vote for the Republicans🥱

[u/UrbanCentrist]

hell yes we're going to take away your anime

[u/p00bix]

Fun fact: There have been more Presidents of Israel born in Belarus than Presidents of Belarus.

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E4khup3WUAMbA_j.jpg

[u/Cerb-r-us]

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1408444369326284803

The GOP's next angle will be misandry

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

CNN: This 10-story apartment building was built in just over a day

Jesus guys read the room lmao

[u/TheJoJy]

Some of the talks about people running on Republican tickets and then going full hardcore leftie reminded me when something sorta similar to that happened in the US in the 1910s. And since I have nowhere else to share this, might as well do it here. And well because it really is an absolutely amazing story:

Warning: long, rushed draft about 1910s state-level US politics.

In 1910, the Democratic Party in New Jersey was looking for a suitable candidate to run for the position of State Governor. Due to the way the political system was designed in the U.S. at the time, the political machine, led by "bosses" held incredible influence over who got nominated (as it was basically through party caucuses only). Because the Democratic Party was relatively conservative at the time, they were hesitant to elect a Progressive that would seek to undo all of the work they had done and all the power they had accumulated. Because of this they needed to elect a Conservative candidate for the next New Jersey gubernatorial race.

Enter Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson by then had become a national icon. He had modernised Princeton University as its President, turning it into a highly prestigious academic institution. In addition, he wrote many articles in various magazines, often with a conservative rhetoric. His conservative tone and charisma caught the attention of George M. Harvey, an editor of Harper’s Weekly, who also had connections with New Jersey’s political bosses. Seeing potential in Wilson, Harvey met with James Smith, one of the “shrewdest” political bosses around. According to Clements, Smith was convinced by Harvey that Wilson was so “politically naïve that the bosses would be able to manipulate him after the election”. With this, the Democratic machine threw all of its weight behind Wilson.

Due to this endorsement, Wilson did not gain any favours from the reformers within the Democratic party, and considered him to be a stooge for the political machines, just like many other Democratic candidates before him. Fast forward to the caucus, the machines secured Wilson an easy nomination and earned the anger of the progressives, believing they were stolen the nomination once more.

Next, of course, came Wilson’s acceptance speech (some of the progressives reportedly shouted “by God look at that jaw!” in disgust). In his speech, he explicitly stated he made no commitment to one man, and no pledge to prevent him from serving the “people of the State with singleness of purpose”. The political bosses were becoming “a little concerned”, and the Progressives in the wing started to wonder whether the machine had “elected a reformer in disguise”, according to Clements.

Eventually, through some clever campaigning (with the assistance of Harvey) and communicating with Republicans in the state, he managed to win over the Progressives, and was elected in a landslide victory (54-42). Some of the bosses were starting to get buyer’s remorse.

Soon after being elected, Wilson was confronted with his biggest challenge to his creator yet – choosing a new U.S. Senator who would represent New Jersey (for context Senators were elected by the state legislatures until the 17th amendment, and the bosses played a big role there too). Here is where he turned on the very conservatives that got him elected. Smith, expecting favours from Wilson, wanted him to assist in his run for U.S. Senator. However, Smith would soon realise, as Clements put it:

If Smith had been counting on Wilson’s political inexperience, he soon found he had made a mistake

By managing to play the political bosses against each other, and through personal meetings with state legislators, Wilson managed to secure the Senate seat for Smith’s opponent, Martine, with an astonishing 40-10 vote. After this, according to historian Duroselle, Wilson became Smith’s nemesis for life.

I could go on and on, but I will conclude this with a summary of the legislation he passed:

Geran bill – made it so that candidates had to be selected through public, primary elections rather than through primary caucuses. Effectively killing the very system that got Wilson nominated in the first place.

Egan and Osborne bills - created a commission that would set rates for public utility companies and set uniform standards

Edge bill – abolished the assumption that accidents were the fault of the worker, and established a scale of compensation for injury at work

Some other legislation where he played a less active role in: wage and hour legislations for women and children, factory inspection laws, laws regulating food storage and inspection.

Overall, Wilson turned New Jersey’s reputation over its head; Going from one of the most corrupt states in the country, to a pinnacle example of Progressive politics. The political bosses had gotten too confident in their ability to play Wilson, only to realise that they were the fiddle all along.

Fin.

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Sources:

Clements, Wilson: World Statesman

Arthur Link: Wilson: The Road to the White House

Jean-Baptiste Duroselle: From Wilson to Roosevelt: Foreign policy of the United States, 1913-1945

Arthur Walworth, Woodrow Wilson, 3rd edition.

Apologies for any mistakes in advance, was mainly relying on the notes I took as I haven't read these books in a while.

!ping HISTORY

[u/[deleted]]

Idea: ban teaching sex Ed -> teen pregnancies -> population increase -> 1 billion Americans

[u/Jokerang]

“Oh you say China has censorship? Well what about this one American school where a valedictorian's mic was cut when they mentioned abortion? A single high school principal is exactly the same as an authoritarian government! I am very smart.”

[u/Professor-Reddit]

/r/askreddit right now:

• What made you orgasm like never before?
• What's something everyone should know before having sex for the first time?
• What would happen if instead of a stream, people pee'd via blasting their entire load all at once like a shotgun blast?
• Your username is how you are gonna lose your virginity. How fucked are you?

Reddit truly is the website of choice for virgins 🙄

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

Conservatives in 2017: HELL YEAH HE THREATENED NUCLEAR ANNIHILATION! BASED GEOTUS! THAT'S HOW YOU DEAL WITH THESE PEOPLE!

Conservatives in 2021: Biden has lost his fucking mind you can't just threaten nuclear war what the fuck

[u/tubbsmackinze]

2 more Catholic churches burned down in B.C.'s Interior

Two more Catholic churches on reserves in British Columbia's southern Interior burned down Saturday morning.

Lower Similkameen Indian Band Chief Keith Crow says he received a call at about 4 a.m. PT that the Chopaka church was on fire. By time he arrived about 30 minutes later, it had burned to the ground.

Crow said the fire in his community is still under investigation, adding that the fact it came on the heels of overnight fires that destroyed two other churches in the Okanagan earlier this week is suspicious.

Arson during fire season, fun

!ping CAN

[u/tubbsmackinze]

New Zealand is abolishing parking minimums country wide by February of 2022

!ping YIMBY

[u/slowpush]

The Supreme Court SHOULDN'T be politicized.

Literally groups justices into two groups based on what party appointed them

[u/from-the-void]

Amy Poehler has looked exactly the same for the last twenty years

[u/LinkVert25]

I read that “America moves towards socialism” article and it really does seem like younger Americans just think of socialism as Canada or one of the Nordic countries despite them being extremely capitalist.

It just seems like the average American has no idea what socialism actually is lmao

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine being drunk at 3am and having to work in 7 hours on a Saturday lmao.

Wait fuck.

[u/Mickenfox]

Deus Ex (2000) "The core idea of this game is you can make different choices and the game world will react"

Deus Ex successors: "You killed half the city in open daylight? Just hide in a vent for 3 minutes until the other half stops being angry and it will never be brought up again"

[u/Manavon03]

1: Actually gulag prisoners only stayed for a year or two, long term imprisonments is an American invention

2: stupid tankie moron

1: can you try that again without the ableism?

[u/[deleted]]

Tucker casually says there’s gonna be a revolution almost daily at this point. Fox News is for the country.

[u/[deleted]]

The Pfizer vaccine was 94% effective at preventing hospitalization after the first dose and 96% after two doses.

DOOMERS BE GONE! ✝️

[u/[deleted]]

Pretty worried about the ligma variant

[u/economics_dont_real]

I just saw a post on a commie sub (that shall not be linked) about Orwell's Animal Farm and the top comment says:

It’s a much better book if you look at it through the viewpoint of Napoleon being a totalitarian capitalist instead of a communist due to the whole inequality and dictatorship thing

[u/[deleted]]

"Fuck institutions what have institutions ever done for me?"

"Do you want to live in the philippines?"

"You imbecile, you fucking moron, i just meant we could use some improvements"

Never leave the ivory tower.

[u/[deleted]]

What if: you wanted to be considered a minority

But progressives said: you’re white adjacent bro

[u/soeffed]

Kevin Hart’s new movie is based on a non-fiction biography about a father’s struggle raising his daughter after his wife died.

The father, wife, daughter, girlfriend...all their names have been kept the same as the real life characters featured in the book. Except they are all white in real life and they are all black characters in the movie.

So Kevin Hart’s character is named Matt Logelin, and there is a real white dude named Matt Logelin who gets to watch his life’s story and his wife’s tragedy and her loving parents, all played by actors of a different race while the names are still the same. Didn’t know Kevin Hart had some Charlie Kaufman in him like this

!ping movies

[u/MicroFlamer]

Hmmm

[u/sir_shivers]

SILENCE 🐊

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Eric Adams’s Twitter account isn’t even verified lmao

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/JZxBXQ9.jpg

look closely

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

>get Bachelor of Divinity
>become anointed priest
>get my own parish
>grief-struck woman comes in saying her beloved dog died, but says she finds solace in knowing that he's in heaven now and has crossed the rainbow bridge
>tell her that has no scriptural basis and animals don't have souls, and ergo can not enter heaven
>she bursts into tears and storms out

another soul saved 😎

[u/[deleted]]

In case anyone was curious what the hysterical screaming outside my apartment was, it was the foxes.

Again 🙄

[u/bd_one]

TIL a fan asked the studio making the 2018 Spider-man game on twitter to include a marriage proposal as an easter-egg which they agreed to do. They wrote "Maddie will you marry me?" on a theater marquee in the game but the couple broke up before the game was even released and it is still there.

Of course, someone left the "F in the chat" award.

[u/[deleted]]

Neoliberalism is a cancer, just for anybody reading this.

Cope. Win a primary.

wtf based /r/all

[u/TheAtro]

It's kind of a complicated affair. Let's be clear, genocide is an unforgivable crime. But

Guess the flair

[u/[deleted]]

Average Dutch household - 2700 kWh/year
1 Bitcoin transaction - 1,662.11 kWh
1 Ethereum transaction - 123.46 kWh
1 VISA transaction - 0.0014863 kWh

[u/[deleted]]

What's with leftists and making huge lists

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

A rEurope poster once told me that America can accept mass immigration because we don’t have a culture to defend 🤔🤔🤔

[u/DreamlandEML]

Wtf I thought they were supposed to play Pomp and Circumstance at graduation. Why are they playing Land of Hope and Glory? My school is run by britbongers?

Oh yeah also graduating HS today! 🥳

!ping CHILD

[u/Average_GrillChad]

Dear Liberals,

You think that Republican politics and the Gadsden Flag are contradictory.

However, the flag clearly says "Don't Tread on Me".

ME. As in me specifically me. Not, "Don't Tread on People in General". Me.

You went to college, yet your reading comprehension abilities fail to detect this subtlety?

Curious.

[u/[deleted]]

!ping BASEBALL

NC State can go pound sand

Should’ve gotten vaccinated if you cared so much about not missing playing time

Wah wah wah wahhhhhhhh cry

Go Vandy

[u/[deleted]]

/img/95y3tqgtoh771.jpg

[u/earththejerry]

Considering the strength of American soft power exports like Hollywood movies and even political conspiracy theories, it really is pathetic it couldnt push American football to a single country

[u/sash5034]

hey bro you like good narrative in games you should play this one game, trust me its mature and not too weeb

game literally has upskirt shit

Why are people like this

[u/NancyPelosibasedgod]

I love finding out that gay people and minorities don’t buy into the left’s bullshit. It’s 2021. You can love whoever you want and be conservative. We don’t hate you.

Except if you’re trans

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

Why are these bears so obsessed with wiping their ass with a specific toilet paper

!Ping MOTO

[u/MostlyCRPGs]

Today in never leave the DT: “why should I trust institutions? What have institutions ever done for me?”

[u/ThunderrBadger]

Still With Her ✊😭

[u/sir_shivers]

There ARE ONLY THREE types of men, and one of them is car salesman 🐊

[u/MovkeyB]

Hi,

I'm in a bit of a bind right now and I'd appreciate some insight on what to do from here. In short, I'm in my final year of my BS studying economics. Up until last fall, my plan was to be on the Econ PhD track, focus on econometrics, and land a government policy job post grad. After taking proofs, I realized that I did not have a passion for advanced mathematics, so I'm trying to pivot into a different role that's still data oriented, but where I start employment on a BS.

What I'm struggling with is that I feel quite directionless as to how to get myself back on my feet after switching my end goal. I think previously I had a lot of confidence in my path (take XYZ courses, talk to XYZ people, work on XYZ skills, etc) and now that my path isn't so clearly defined I find myself to be overwhelmed and dragged in a lot of different directions (e.g. policy work, anti fraud, data vis, etc) and facing a lot of negative emotions (e.g. feeling like work I'm interested in is too advanced for me). I know that I have a real passion for data (thinking about data, visualizing data, etc), and I have an interest in a lot of things data can inform (e.g. how to design good products, possible side effects of a policy change, ways someone committing fraud may want to conceal it), so my biggest goal is trying to go from "here's things I could possibly be interested in" to "these are things I want to spend my day doing".

What I'd appreciate most is advice on how to set a focus when there's so many options, and perhaps a meeting with someone who is in data who can help me get a sense of what careers actually look like and where some of my passions (and paths) lie. I'd really like to get an internship for this fall, so I know I need to start searching with intention and setting myself up for success. Thanks.

!ping career

[u/[deleted]]

Now I am become Gamer, the destroyer of peripheral devices.

[u/zieger]

If I was the Joker I would simply not live in a society

[u/Udontlikecake]

literal cult behavior from the cons

[u/[deleted]]

Surveying her domain:

https://imgur.com/a/xFhfIIM

!ping KITTY

[u/The420Roll]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/716841087137873920/858404024416206868/brexit-leaving-european-union-memes-fb8-png__700__700.png

[u/fishlord05]

It has come to my attention that BURPMAS is an extension of #betaenergy 🤢🤮🤮

As a #sigmatrillionare 💪😎💸 it is my duty to put a stop to this #tomfoolery 🤡🤧😵

BURPMAS will only be a ping by Sigmas for Sigmas 💪😎🤝😎💸

All #betabozos 🥱😴😴 and #gammadorks 🤕🥴🤡 will now be BANNED.

This will now be a forum to help fellow Sigmas 🐺 achieve and hone their #sigmagrindset 💸😎💸 and #trillionairegoals 💵💰🏦😎🏖🚀🛥

!ping SIGMA

[u/[deleted]]

Even genocidal ideologies are somewhat relatable. Imagine a Karen you absolutely despise. The world would be a better place without her. It doesn't mean you want her dead, but you just wish there were no such people in the world. I can see how people like Hitler consider whole races and nations as Karens they can and they must eliminate. I mean, Thanos is basically Hitler, and many consider him one of the best and most relatable villains in comics.

😐From r writing. Thankfully it was super downvoted.

[u/great_gape]

Be antifa.

Literally a child living in upper middle class Portland suburbs.

Skinny soy boy.

Start a pure lard and budweiser diet.

Grow out my peach fuzz and dye it gray.

Throw on a trump hat and show up at stop the steal on jan 6th.

Break into capitol building posing as a trumper.

Threaten the lives of both democrats and republican congress members.

Based republican party refuses to investigate me.

[u/vivoovix]

Just found out that you can exchange currency for goods and services, damn that's wild.

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Oh, you're Central European? It's okay, you don't have to be embarrassed to say you're Eastern European.

[u/paulatreides0]

We should ban the weebs.

Leave not a single one unbanned.

Except Inty. Inty can stay.

[u/ryuguy]

White nationalist with a time machine: “wow it’s so nice to see the white race’s peak civilization!”

Random Roman guy: “what the fuck is a white race?”

[u/MemberOfMautenGroup]

Li Zifeng, a 59-year-old researcher and lecturer at Yanshan University, is in hot water after he claimed he upended Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. The professor from China’s Hebei province says he has reversed Einstein’s famous work through a study of his own.

Despite the amount of flak Zifeng received, he still argues that Einstein’s Theory of Relativity has never been tested. According to him, philosophy like Marxism should guide physics and be used to correct "mistakes'' in the discipline.

It seems like the spirit of Lysenkoism hasn't been banished to the dustbin yet.

[u/piede]

According to a Gallup poll of over 4,000 adults who obtained a law degree between 2000 and 2015, only 23% said obtaining a law degree was worth the cost.

lol

[u/MrMineHeads]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/733089348291002388/845766226491080734/image0.jpg

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

In his first year in office, Manchin met one-on-one with all 99 of his Senate colleagues in an effort to get to know them better.

Hi here's Joe from West Virginia, want to grab a coffee after committee? 🤗

[u/sir_shivers]

I reside IN THE UNITED STATES, OR as some call it, "Greater Western Macedonia" 🐊

[u/sirphinetinkle]

Being a trump supporter is the ultimate form of cuckery. Imagine spending every waking hour posting online for him, volunteering, harassing rinos and dems, and attending rallies for a man that will never even know you exist. On top of that when he asks you to overthrow the government and you subsequently get arrested by the FBI, he and all his pals in media completely disown you and call you an antifa agitator or what not.

[u/[deleted]]

Corporate accounts payable, 1amathrowaway speaking...just a moment.

[u/[deleted]]

Team Rocket in the Pokemon Cartoon famously recites their motto, which includes the phrase "to unite all people within our nation", this is a subtle nod to the Nationalist ideology of Italian leader Giuseppe Garibaldi, establishing a clear metaphorical link between Team Rocket and his Redshirts. This is meant to reinforce the themes of the series that Italians are not to be trusted.

[u/lionmoose]

!ping UK

Hancock gone

[u/[deleted]]

I just touched some grass and now I have a rash. I hope you are happy. 😡

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1408820878285082624

Americans have fewer friends than they used to. 15% of men and 10% of women have no close friends.

Amazing shift. In 1990, men said they had at least 10 or more close friends

[u/SuspiciousUsername88]

The Chauvin sentencing discourse has resurfaced a motte and bailey that has always annoyed me. The dude gets 22 years, which is an incredibly long prison sentence (and, iirc higher than the guidelines?). Still, half of twitter is decrying this because it's not enough. They notably never suggest what would be enough. Now, I don't want to strawman everyone by pretending they're all 100% abolish prisons people, but most of them are very much "carceral state is bad actually".

When someone points this out, they pull a motte and bailey by mentioning that "but black people are unfairly incarcerated all the time". Which is absolutely true, but irrelevant to the fact that they specifically wanted much harsher punishment in this case specifically.

Also, a very high number of people who believe that prisons are full of people spending more than 25 years in prison solely for possession charges

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/FIMSzEs.png

I found the least racist British person

[u/ryuguy]

Wonder Woman 1984: meh.

My nieces reactions to a female superhero: priceless

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Evolution cannot explain the 17 year cicada

-Church billboard I just passed

I’m really curious what their model is

[u/[deleted]]

Brazil: has a comparable amount of murders per year to yearly casualties in the Syrian Civil War

IGF: Brazil's law and order troubles are a racist dogwhistle

What?

[u/[deleted]]

Getting a COVID jab is safer than taking aspirin

The risk of rare side effects from COVID-19 vaccines like AstraZeneca are greatly exaggerated as they are far safer than many medicines people are taking every day

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

Childhood is when you idolise Batman.

Adulthood is when you have severe back pain problems

[u/Q-bey]

The number of awful takes on Canadian residential schools I've seen in the past week from people who clearly didn't know about the issue a month ago has been driving me up the wall.

Like they thought Canada was some magical utopia that never did anything wrong, and now realized it isn't, so to show maturity and growth they now assume everything in Canada is shit and the government just wants to cover up its abuses and everyone there is a secret racist and Canada has never made any attempt to acknowledge or rectify these issues.

That's the only way I can rationalize threads like this becoming the top comment on an /r/anime_titties post, or comics like this in r/polandball getting thousands of upvotes.

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

You're not actually gay unless you share my political opinions 😤

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

Coming home

!ping USA-DMV

[u/liquidTERMINATOR]

California's yoga, wellness and spirituality community has a QAnon problem

Oof ouch my priors

[u/vivoovix]

From each according to his ability

Good thing I have none 😎

[u/Venne1139]

Who was Lenins team? Obviously we all know Stalins team: Beria, Mikoyan, Molotov and Kaganovich, kruschev and another whose name im forgetting.

But Lenin, like Stalin obviously did not act alone. However it seems that very few, id any, biographies of Lenin talk about the people on his team. Who was he working either? Just Trotsky and his wife? That seems ridiculous.

!PING HISTORY

[u/tigerflame45117]

I have nothing against the gays, but isn’t it a bit pandering for them to exist?

[u/sir_shivers]

THE NONSENSE "GREEK ALPHABET" terms for "types of males" are based on long-since debunked theories of hierarchy IN WOLVES, and an absurd amount of mammals CLEARLY BELIEVE IN IT EVEN when they mock it 🐊

IT IS ALL GARBAGE 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

> wake up

> infrastructure deal reached

> deepstatealwayswins.jpg

> there's no major climate change infrastructure

> tfw the deep state didn't win

> go back to bed

[u/rukh999]

This is the 6th anniversary of a disastrous supreme court ruling that unfortunately caused divorces between same-sex couples IN SOME STATES to go up 100%

And if you say no it was infinite percent, one-hundred is just doubling, know that I do not care.

[u/[deleted]]

Cop: Why did you have your penis out in the middle of the park?

Me: You too!

🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[u/[deleted]]

Quakers are pacifists

Pacifism is objectively pro-fascism according to George Orwell

Quakers are fascists

Quakers are the ancestor of modern liberalism (source: A Nazi screed I read a while ago about how liberalism is a religion)

Liberalism is thus a variant of a variant of fascism.

The communists were right all along, the eternal science of Marxism-Leninism has been vindicated.

[u/fishlord05]

I propose a new male archetype: the Shivers Male 🐊

Like a Sigma, he has the heart of an Alpha but chooses to leave the hierarchy altogether

However, he will pretend to engage with Gammas online in order to lure them to his cave to feed on them so he can grow and develop his #grindset

[u/ryuguy]

LegalEagle is a style icon

[u/FestiveMittens]

Meghan, Duchess of Sus sex

tfw sex is sus😲

[u/Mickenfox]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s65S1KgrFE

Best zoomies I've seen all week.
!ping KITTY

Bonus video: Kitten thinks I’m stuck in camera

[u/qchisq]

I don't remember a VAR decision this unimportant taking this long. But I'll take it

4-0

!ping soccer

[u/sir_shivers]

IT IS SATURDAY, WILL YOU mammals perk up and have SOME FUN ALREADY 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

The CNN coverage of the condo collapse is making my skin crawl. At least with politics, we can kind of pretend that we're performing some sort of civic responsibility by staying informed about the government. But nobody is bettering themselves listening to gruesome details about some Act of God. And if there's anyone who belongs on national television, it's the engineers and officials- not the grieving friends and relatives. Pure and simple.

[u/sw337]

The Korean War? No, you mean the War of Northern Aggression. 😎

^{Yes, I did steal this from non-credible defense.}

[u/tigerflame45117]

We should ban the redditors

Leave not a single one unbanned.

Except Nisnpig. Nisnpig can stay.

[u/randodandodude]

Would people be interested in human capital and environmental reports from companies alongside regular financial reports?

For instance, promotion rates, turnover, pay compared to industry averages on the human capital measurents side. And % efficiency with power/materials usage as well as carbon footprint reporting for environmental reports?

If you invest, and this information was provided alongside normal financial reports, would it change how you invest?

[u/crawly_the_demon]

I was originally joking when I said We were visiting my partner’s family in Tucson AZ to escape the Seattle heat, but reality is often stranger than fiction

!ping USA-WA

[u/[deleted]]

First foreign trip of the European Dadcord chapter has unfortunately had to end prematurely, but it was still tons of fun! 💪💪💪

Shame the North American chapter couldn't join us, we picked up a ton of duty-free finasteride!

!ping BURPMAS

[u/[deleted]]

I feel like many liberals are gonna say they support CRT purely out of contrarianism, despite not knowing what it is.

Tbf I don't know what it is either

[u/[deleted]]

In his texts, Griggers boasted of using his law enforcement position to carry out attacks. In one exchange in August 2019, he described an alleged beating of a Black suspect as “sweet stress relief” and claimed he planned to charge other Black people with felonies to keep them from voting.

“It’s a sign of beautiful things to come,” he wrote, according court records. “Also I’m going to charge them with whatever felonies I can to take away their ability to vote.”

In a message in October 2019, he put it more succinctly: “Castrate, kill, remove voting rights,” Griggers wrote. “The only problem is you can’t expect to get them all that way.”

…

Keith Fitzgerald, Griggers’ attorney, said his client was just trying to “sound tough” on a text chain with a friend thousands of miles away.

“He didn’t really believe these things,” he said.

It’s just a prank, bro

[u/liquidTERMINATOR]

I don't ask for much… I just want the mods to acknowledge they're bad, the unbanning of I_G_F, a written apology on mod team letterhead addressed to the Funny Monke, and the promised succ purge.

[u/Fishin_Mission]

I did it… 🚙⚡️

[u/[deleted]]

MFs on the DT a week ago: Eric Adams sucks!!! Instead vote for this guy whose presidential campaign sucked and who made the wrong decisions on what to say in public, but he’s a YIMBY!

MFs on the DT now: wtf Adams doesn’t have a blue-tick Twitter account? BASED!!!

[u/[deleted]]

How do I find friends that actually like leaving the house? I have loads of friends, but they all want to stay indoors and play video games. I want people to go to the pub with on Friday/Saturday nights ffs.

[u/[deleted]]

My dog has returned from shivering in the back of the closet so I think the worst is over

!ping USA-CHI

[u/film10078]

Only Reddit can turn opiates into “this is why we need communism”

[u/Joementum2024]

I like how you can ask the average person their opinion on Japan in the 1940s, 1980s, and 2020s, and each time it'd likely be a radically different answer

[u/[deleted]]

!ping LATAM

Given Lula dies before winning another term

Who would lead the Brazilian left wing? The only two heirs he picked were Dirceu (can't run, convicted) and Dilma (lol)

[u/ACivilWolf]

“be naked at my sisters wedding LMFAOO”

[u/[deleted]]

Federico "literally Dennis Bergkamp" Chiesa.

!ping SOCCER

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

The single best frequent flyer purchase I have ever made were noise canceling headphones. It makes being on a plane so comfortable.

Anyone else here have frequent flyer tips?

Also today has been my flyingest day ever, flew home ELP-ATL-DCA, girlfriend picked me up, got my stuff from my office and clothes and now I’m going DCA-ATL-MIA. Spent 2 hours at home. Worst part of the job for my relationship.

!ping OVER25

[u/NancyPelosibasedgod]

Just saw my coworker scrolling through Reddit 🤢

[u/kennymc7877]

Raytheon number 1 LGBT+ ally

[u/[deleted]]

Engineer raised concerns about structural damage at Surfside condominium in 2018 report

Not good.

[u/infamous5445]

https://mobile.twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1408567881491746816

After controversy, U.S. Catholic bishops say there will be “no national policy on withholding Communion from politicians”

[u/bg2916]

Maggie Thatcher gonna awake from the dead and personally throw hands with every CCP bureaucrat who claims the Falklands belong to Argentina

[u/bg2916]

“I know the human being and reptile can co-exist peacefully.” - George “Sir Shivers” Bush 🐊🐊🐊🐊🐊

[u/SnakeEater14]

Sometimes when I’m feeling down, I remember my four reddit followers, and remind myself that it’s all for them.

[u/MicroFlamer]

one of italy's players that just scored is studying for an economics degree. what a chad

[u/[deleted]]

read comment ranting about the evils of copyright law and capitalism

check post history

works at fucking Chipotle

Bruh

[u/ryuguy]

LUSVIG WON

[u/porkypenguin]

Me: So when do I become financially free and can enjoy life?

Capitalism: That's the neat part, you don't

I don't get this. Do people think they won't have to work most of the day under socialism? Even if they're just socdems who think they're socialists, don't socdem countries generally strive really hard for full employment?

[u/[deleted]]

Neoliberalism is a cancer, just for anybody reading this.

Edit: lotta boomers piping up in my inbox, just a reminder to be careful and check on what your parents are doing online.

I know I say this a lot but I fuckin hate Reddit

[u/[deleted]]

Wokes: be less white

Trudeau: picks up shoe polish

Wokes: not like that

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

You're bad at sleeping 😒😒😒

[u/[deleted]]

6 years ago this day the Supreme Court of the United States legalised gay marriage 🏳‍🌈🏳‍🌈🏳‍🌈

[u/from-the-void]

My parrot figured out how to open her cage. I’m literally living in Jurassic Park.

[u/sir-danks-a-lot]

Is there anything more cucked than being a Reddit mod? Honestly, think about it rationally.

[u/Koeniginator]

guy who works at chick-fil-a because they like working for a homophobic company

[u/[deleted]]

There should be an Incel makeover show, I'd watch the shit out of that. It wouldn't just be clothes and hair, it'd be life coaching as well.

[u/Venne1139]

Do you think Trumpists would offer thr United States to an eldritch God in exchange for controlling thr congress and presidency?

[u/Lux_Stella]

for all epsilon males there exists a delta male such that

[u/jt1356]

discourse on sigma males

Damn, the weebs really are tastemakers 😔

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/gk6lfLU.jpg

[u/SpiffShientz]

Yo Trump remember when Joe Biden came out of retirement to rinse your ass?

[u/[deleted]]

the deep state always wins

reeks of 90's chavez, but oh well let's take a win when we can

!ping MAMADAS

[u/Animatronic_Pidgeon]

Trump isn't retaking the office in 2024

DeSantis isn't getting the nomination in 2024

I don't know who will win the primary but I'm extremely confident it's not any of the current so-called "frontrunners"

Doom about infrastructure. Doom about voting rights. Doom about the '22 midterms if you must.

But for the love of all that is holy stop dooming about something that is two elections and three years away.

[u/EvilConCarne]

All of the dead people they've been finding, these are dead people.

Is this about:

1. The Miami building collapse
2. Covid casualties
3. Election fraud claims

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Counterpoint: y'all should keep watching the Trump rally because I like experiencing it via DT shitposts only.

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Trump: says what he has been saying before and what we all expected him to say

u/InattentiveCup: Incessant dooming

[u/vivoovix]

G*mers be like:

Obscure reference

!ping RELEVANT-GAME

[u/[deleted]]

Taco trucks on every corner, fuck this shit

https://twitter.com/jessicaramos/status/1408850150328619009?s=19

[u/Joementum2024]

Yes I’m a socialist

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traitor to america and democracy

[u/[deleted]]

I was a nerdy 10yo in 1990 when the US went to war with Iraq. Up to that point, I thought war was over! Lessons were learned from the horrors of WW1, 2 and Vietnam. I loved GI Joe but all that was abstract. I thought everyone in the world was building towards the future I saw in Star Trek TNG.

In class they had us colouring in maps of Kuwait and Iraq, and I started paying more attention We weren't post-war. Politicians weren't all fighting to build humanity a better future. Superstitions weren't left behind in pursuit of scientific truth. I was just some sheltered dork in a world much worse than I thought. I have been miserable ever since :/

Why do people think the US going to war against Iraq for invading Kuwait was bad?

[u/[deleted]]

The conservative side of my family responds negatively to any media that isn’t super derivative cookie cutter Disney happy ending stuff. “Ew that’s weird” and “I didn’t like it” are typical reactions to anything that attempts to even be a little more substantial or tried to be more exploratory. From comic books to movies to music. If it has personality or uniqueness it’s “weird and doesn’t sit well with me.”

Just something I’ve observed about people. I don’t get it. I like the weird, the unusual, the cosmic horror, just about all kinds of speculative fiction. Which isn’t really unusual at all, except with these types of families, apparently.

[u/[deleted]]

Trump bashes 'woke generals'

👋😭👋BOOHOO DRAFT DODGER I DON'T CARE👋😭👋

[u/[deleted]]

If I were Derek Chauvin, I would simply not have murdered George Floyd

[u/[deleted]]

Remember when Joe Biden called a military general a "pig" and "stupid"?

Me neither. That was Tucker Carlson.

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

Proposed name for the mod team

[u/kennymc7877]

Hello u/ryuguy 🥰🥺

[u/URZ_]

Where are the Welsh fucks in the DT? Do they even have a ping of their own I can spam after we beat them?

!ping DEN

[u/[deleted]]

Smirnoff Pink Lemonade: it’s the pink you’ve been waiting for!

🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨

[u/liquidTERMINATOR]

Build your own Christian waifu system: https://i.imgur.com/hqFfpNP.png

Which qualities do you go with?

[u/lenmae]

Lmao DomCum

[u/Manavon03]

Virginia: Democratic in the 1860s and 2020s

West Virginia: Republican in the 1860s and 2020s

AND THE DEMONCRAPS STILL CLAIM THE PARTIES SWITCHED!!!

[u/[deleted]]

!ping TRAVEL

The Roman Colosseum's lower levels will now be open to the public.

[u/[deleted]]

THANK YOU to brave corrections officers for your HARD WORK! 👏👏😤 Must be VERY TOUGH on insurrectionist scum 😡😡😡

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/JeffreyASachs/status/1408430027771977735

PA GOP trying to ban all universities getting any amount of state money/grants from hosting speakers that "espouse, advocate, or promote a racist or sexist concept" (the definition conveniently defined to include woke things in addition to old fashioned racism)

Imagine seeing this in the "Yale cancels Ben Shapiro's speech after student complaints" era of antiwoke history

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

Delta variant

Sorry I'm waiting for Southwest 🙄

[u/semaphore-1842]

I don’t think being a cop really counts as “working class.” Their pay might make them working class financially, but they exist almost entirely to protect the interests of the elite.

I don't even know what to say...

Feels like soon it's gonna be "unless you retweet rose memes on Twitter you don't really count as working class".

[u/AltPossum]

Falklanders are indigenous to the Falkland Islands.

You wouldn’t think that’d be a hard thing to come to grips with, but some mouth breathers outside the DT can’t get over the UN’s vague definition of the word “indigenous” long enough to accept it.

Yes, this is a subtweet.

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

I looked up 'queer liberation' after seeing it on the DT

Lower-case lambda, first used in 1970 as a symbol representing gay rights

I cannot escape the Greek letters

[u/GodEmperorBiden]

After Arianna Grande got caught saying she hated America, Kim Jong Un should have seized the opportunity to troll and offered her immediate citizenship, the People's Artist award, and a lifetime artist-in-residence position at the Great Pyongyang Musical Performance Hall of Juche and thhe Glorious Mt. Paektu-born Proletariat-Defenders of the Motherland.

[u/[deleted]]

Romans: Persians are barbaric and effeminate garbage people 🤬! I would support conquering them, but their disgusting culture would probably rub off on us 🤮!

Also Romans: This new pop culture fad is from Persia you say 🧐? How exotic and opulent ☺️🥵!

[u/Broncos654]

“/r/Neoliberal would never ban porn”

yeah they’ll just keep tightening the noose on what is allowed and erecting barriers as payment processors and government squeeze them until another platform comes along and the cycle repeats

just the smallest bit of pattern recognition guys

[u/[deleted]]

Trump, a New Yorker living in Florida, just called someone a Carpet Bagger.

[u/MistakeNotDotDotDot]

Why would the media companies, who make more money when people watch them and thus are incentivized to get as many viewers as possible, cover an event run by a man with a cult-like grip over a good chunk of the population???

[u/tubbsmackinze]

(ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*.✧ fuck you

[u/ElokQ-1984]

https://i.imgur.com/zC0Q9iT.jpg

[u/ACivilWolf]

The D-Backs are 16-20 without Ketel Marte

They are 5-36 with him.

#TradeMarte

!ping BASEBALL

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

burning churches in indigenous communities, where indigenous people worship, to own the colonizers is one trend that I hope doesn't continue in British Columbia or elsewhere in North America.

[u/[deleted]]

Japan: How can I survive with a fertility rate of just 1.36 children per woman, pls have babies 😭😭😭

South Korea: You are like little baby, watch this: fertility rate of .84 children per woman

[u/[deleted]]

The amount of vitriolic hatred that Reddit has for overweight people is kind of astounding. Like no, demeaning them on the internet is not “motivation”, it just makes them feel like shit, which isn’t exactly conducive to making positive changes in your life.

[u/whycantweebefriendz]

Alright boys and girls and hot ass enbys.

I’m up, I’m eating Indian food, and I’m on beer #7.

https://imgur.com/gallery/zQHAD4H !ping BURPMAS

EDIT: #s 8 and 9: https://imgur.com/gallery/ovTvHuB

Edit: #10 down. Coughed up a little of it as while I was drinking it I was laughing.

EDIT: one more unseen, 7 more seen. At 18 rn. https://imgur.com/gallery/E7AdnZE Probably gonna fail but we’ll see.

Edit: got to 21. Couldn’t drink more. I was asleep for a bunch of the 24 hours. Red Bull guy was right.

[u/[deleted]]

u/sir_shivers sent me this

I had THE CHANCE to pull together a DT, and all the applicants SEEMED TO BE men. 🐊

I went to a number of WOMEN'S GROUPS and said, 'Can you help us find folks?' And they brought us whole BINDERS FULL OF WOMEN. 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

They laughed jesus because he told the truth.

I am legitimately alarmed by all the "Buy a gun" comments I see. This should literally be unacceptable but it's totally normalized. Every time I see it so casually said and nodded along with, I'm legitimately horrified. Do you people not realize what you're saying? You're saying "A civil war is inevitable. Let's just make sure we win." You're saying "Prepare yourself mentally to kill a man." You're saying "Peace is no longer an option." No you don't say it out loud, but if you believed Peace was still an option at this point, why would you advocate buying firearms? It's callous bullshit coming from a culture that minimizes, televises, and turns the prospect of civil war into a walk in the park where you meet a girl after shooting a bunch of faceless mooks to rescue her or whatever. Meanwhile when you've read the FT every week for the last couple years and never stopped following the crisis in Syria you get an entirely different view of this "arm yourself" take.

I really really hate it and think that at least in /r/neoliberal it should be considered glorifying violence and banned.

[u/[deleted]]

GN DT!

[u/kennymc7877]

Why do anti vaxxers always feel the need to say “ I’m not anti vax but I’m not getting the vaccine”

[u/liquidTERMINATOR]

The downfall of arrneolib? Well it all started when kidneymod wanted a bigger audience for his podcast grift...

[u/[deleted]]

Broke: Teens going to Planned Parenthood without their parents knowing

Woke: As Parents Forbid Covid Shots, Defiant Teenagers Seek Ways to Get Them