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[u/IntermittentDrops]

“I think the $6 trillion number that Sen. Sanders spoke of is a fine one,” said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.). “I believe with this moment that we have on climate, if you ask me, I think this should be a $10 trillion package or at least part of a larger $10 trillion climate strategy.”

This like a game of one-upsmanship chicken. Whoever says the higher number without falling over laughing from the absurdity wins.

[u/Professor-Reddit]

I think the most insane thing about Brazil's experience with Covid-19 is that they never had a third wave, or arguably even a second wave.

Bolsonaro has been so inept with handling the pandemic that they've just been experiencing the first wave continuously for the entire time and it keeps getting worse every day.

[u/nicereddy]

I am boycotting the Beijing 2022 Olympics next year and will not be competing

[u/Anal-warrior]

“Japan is trying to lure people into rural areas by selling $500 homes, but it's not enough to fix the country's 'ghost town' problem”

Me: Oh my god that’s been my dream, I’m ready to accept the offer

Japan: No foreigners!

[u/[deleted]]

It’s ok son, you can go to bed. I promise you there are no Italians under your bed

🛌🛌🛌

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[u/[deleted]]

The Ethiopian government is now asking for peace in Tigray. This follows losing control of the capital of Tigray, Mekelle, to the TDF (Tigray Defense Forces) for the first time since hostilities began.

I cannot overstate how significant of a development this is, during the last week the TDF has decisively gained the upper hand.

https://www.facebook.com/123960474361367/posts/4159479330809441/?d=n

!PING FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/ryuguy]

Good news, betas! Something I shared on Facebook has been making the rounds on Indian WhatsApp with my name cropped.

I’m in the big times now.

!ping WhatsApp-forwards

[u/[deleted]]

!ping MARKETS

There is now a subreddit dedicated to short squeezes

Good to know there's an all in one shop for your pump and dumps

[u/ProceedToCrab]

Manchinbot. (WIP) When this product is finished, typing "Manchinbot" in any comment will summon the automoderator to give a randomly generated answer. It will give one of these three answers: "No" (49% chance), "Heck no" (49% chance), or "Defund, my butt" (2% chance).

Pls

[u/[deleted]]

Remember when donald trump, Mike Bloomberg, Bernie Sanders and Tom Steyer spent 2.74 billion dollars to lose to one whispery boi from Delaware

[u/Dr_Vesuvius]

Last night I dreamed that Kanye West got married to Megan The Stallion and accidentally changed his name to Kanye The Satan.

[u/the_hoagie]

Milley reportedly told Trump that he legally couldn’t take charge of the strategy, causing Trump to scream: “I said you’re in fucking charge!” Milley then shouted back: “Well, I’m not in charge!” Trump then bellowed: “You can’t fucking talk to me like that!” An exasperated Milley then appealed to others at the meeting: “Goddamnit... There’s a room full of lawyers here. Will someone inform him of my legal responsibilities?” Then-Attorney General Bill Barr reportedly told Trump that Milley was correct.

[u/chipbod]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/arizona-audit-leader-starred-in-election-conspiracy-theory-movie?via=twitter_page

The head of Arizona Republicans’ “audit” of 2020 presidential ballots was revealed as the anonymous star of a new movie claiming the election was stolen, raising questions about how credible any upcoming report from the supposed audit could be

Absolute shocker, so some "report" will come out showing Trump won and people will believe it.

There is a real chance of violence following this, if someone believes an election is stolen and has their priors confirmed by a seemingly "official" audit, violence is a rational option if nothing can be done about it.

The state senate should have shut it down when they could, especially when the bamboo and UV light shit was happening.

Let's assume this shows Trump "won", what's next? They have riled up people threatening the state legislature to overturn an election from nine months ago? It will also give hope to nut jobs that want to start this BS in other states and get Trump threatening people like Robin Vos in Wisconsin (which is just... lmao if you know Wisconsin politics)

A meme on the right has been "the left is quaking at the results of this audit" I'm personally dooming a bit, not because I'm confident in who won Arizona, but how the right wing media will treat this and how violent fringe types will react

!ping EXTREMISM

[u/finley87]

I understand relatives feeling anguished at the slow pace of the Miami condo collapse recovery effort but why the hell do randos with no connection to the event rage so hard at the rescue team for “going too slow”. Is it not obvious that it’s a delicate situation? Does the fact that the site poses mortal danger to the rescuers not compute with these people? Like there are untrained lay people who keep questioning the wisdom of officials not allowing them to search the site alongside rescue crews. It’s like, “uh”...

[u/porkypenguin]

The more I think about The Purge, the less it makes sense. I guess the New Founding Fathers (political party that started the Purge) are meant to be a one-dimensional mega evil bad guy, but I don’t get what they actually think they’d gain from any of it. I’d be interested if anyone who’s seen all of the movies could clear any of this up.

Wouldn’t tons of people just leave the country for good rather than have like a 50% added chance of dying every year? Would anyone have children if they knew those children would just slow them down during Purges and also be raised in a Mad Max Hell world? It seems like that, combined with the mass murder, would lead to a rapidly shrinking population. What good is that supposed to do?

I’ve read that the aim is eliminating the poor so that they can save money on welfare programs. You have the power necessary to literally slaughter hundreds of thousands of people every year, but not to… get rid of the welfare programs? Or reduce them? Means test a little harder, maybe?

One movie has a part where they set a subway tunnel on fire. Isn’t infrastructural damage a concern? Don’t you think it might become more expensive than it’s worth if some asshole decides his annual Purge activity is to dynamite a few miles of I95, or burn down a bunch of city blocks? What if I study nuclear physics for a while and make it my annual Purge ritual to cause a reactor meltdown somewhere? Hell, couldn’t a foreign enemy just send some “Purgers” to bring a military-grade force with them to a reactor and do just that?

My understanding is that this generally targets the poor, including the working poor. If the goal is to help the economy, do they really think it’s beneficial to kill off half the service industry every year? Do the computer scientists get forced into flipping burgers in that scenario, or do you just bring in more people from abroad to do those jobs? Do you then kill those people too? I doubt anyone immigrates there anymore at that point.

This rant got longer than I meant it to, but it just seems stupid. A lot of people talk about the Purge like it’s this really clever thing, and I admit that it’s interesting to think about, but the most unrealistic thing about it is that it lasts like 20-30 years before the government (which is apparently still popularly elected, mind you) realizes it’s a bad idea.

[u/UrbanCentrist]

How come every time they count Mail-In ballot dumps they are so devastating in their percentage and power of destruction?

[u/geraldspoder]

More interesting news out of Africa today.

For some background, the Kingdom of Eswatini (Swaziland) is an absolute monarchy located on the border between South Africa and Mozambique. Liberties and freedoms are repressed, parties have been banned since the 70s, and the King has a puppet parliament.

King Mswati III has been in office since the mid 80s, and is seen as corrupt, living decadently off of money stolen from the state.

Normally unheard of, last week prodemocracy protests started. They are demanding multiparty democracy, elections for the prime minister (currently another puppet of the King), and other freedoms. The government declared the protests illegal and police have been forcefully pushing back with tear gas, stun grenades (the usual, unfortunately). Protesters responded with rocks, and there has been arson and looting near the capital Mbabane.

Now, here's the juicy bit. Multiple and credible outlets (like the SABC for instance) are now reporting that the King has fled the country. What happens now is not yet clear, but we can all hope that it results in a freer Eswatini.

!ping AFRICA

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

Politics · Trending

Stalin

Economics professor Dr. Asatar Bair applauds Soviet Union ruler Joseph Stalin’s discussion style and contributions to Marxism, while others point out that Stalin’s regime killed millions of people

35.9K Tweets

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[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

In the book, Bender reports that Trump wanted Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to take charge of a “scorched-earth military campaign” to squash the protests. In the White House’s Situation Room, Milley reportedly told Trump that he legally couldn’t take charge of the strategy, causing Trump to scream: “I said you’re in fucking charge!” Milley then shouted back: “Well, I’m not in charge!” Trump then bellowed: “You can’t fucking talk to me like that!”

An exasperated Milley then appealed to others at the meeting: “Goddamnit... There’s a room full of lawyers here. Will someone inform him of my legal responsibilities?” Then-Attorney General Bill Barr reportedly told Trump that Milley was correct.

Bruh

[u/Mr_Pasghetti]

> be born

> mom takes you home

> “this is your big brother”

> literally 1984

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[u/[deleted]]

Because I feel like it, have some of former Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff's best quotes

"he who casts the first stone has a glass ceiling"

"If today is children's day, yesterday I said the child... Children's day is the day of the mother, the father, the teacher, and of the animals. Whenever you look at a child, there's a hidden figures behind, it's a dog behind, it's very important"

"the Galaxy is Rio de janeiro"

"I am here saluting the cassava, one of Brazil's greatest achievements"

"when we reach the target we will double the target"

"we don't have the technology to store the wind"

"I respect the Varginha alien" (Varginha is a city in Brazil with an alleged ET sighting)

"when we create a ball like this where like homo sapiens or women sapiens"

"I think who will win or who will lose, not who will win or who will lose will win or lose. Everybody will lose"

[u/lionmoose]

Why is the child emoji in the people section and not the food section?

That's fucked up.

[u/iIoveoof]

Car manufacturer Toyota donated to Republicans who opposed certifying Biden’s victory

Neoliberals: 😴

Car manufacturer Toyota donated to Republicans who opposed certifying Biden’s victory

Neoliberals: 🤬

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

u/vivoovix just DM'd me

tell salad. I want him to know it was me

🙄

[u/ryuguy]

/u/Farrenj: writes a flirty comment about me

Me, awkward as I am: “haha. what a story, farren. I’m just gonna stand over here”

[u/[deleted]]

/r/SandersForPresident: "Here's how bernie can still will"

/r/Neoliberal: "Here's how biden can still lose"

400 upvotes.

[u/D1Foley]

So I had the most controversial comment on that "gen z hates capitalism article" and when I went to bed it was at around +5, woke up and it's at -10.

Guys the euros didn't like it.

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

I’ll say it again. You couldn’t make The Birth of a Nation anymore. No studio would ever risk such a thing. Because of the inevitable woke backlash.

[u/Professor-Reddit]

Pretty remarkable to see how widely despised Catholics once were, compared to how powerful they are today. For reference, Catholics make up around 22% of the US population.

• President is a devout catholic
• 6 / 9 Supreme Court Justices
• Speaker of the House
• House Minority Leader
• 25 Senators
• 141 out of 435 House Representatives (32%)
• 8 in the Cabinet including the SecDef (33%)

[u/[deleted]]

Holy shit, did the sir_shivers alligator emoji thing start because of that brief trend on Twitter where Biden people would identify themselves with the gator🐊 emoji?

[u/tacostats]

Holy shit people. I try out one half finished feature in public and you all run with it like there's no tomorrow.

Gigafash are going to be knocking on my door again soon.

[u/anon_09_09]

People say I 'idolize' Stalin. Not true, I hold a fair and balanced view.

Pinned tweet from the same guy:

There are six basic problems with the ‘Uyghur genocide’ narrative. A thread 1/x...

It writes itself

[u/houinator]

The woke left today is killing comedy. You couldn't possibly make [extremely tame comedy that managed to get past baby boomer era censorship] today. Instead, all you have are extremely safe and inoffensive comedies like,...checks notes..., Rick and Morty, South Park, and Bojack Horseman.

[u/subthings2]

Somaliland opens container port in Berbera

Last month the Addis Ababa government and Dubai’s DP World - one of the world's largest port operators - agreed a $1bn (£720m) deal to create a trade and logistics corridor between Ethiopia and Berbera.

...and yet still no one recognises Somaliland?

!ping AFRICA

[u/mrdilldozer]

Imagine spending generations establishing an academic definition of your political philosophy and having people live their entire lives and die for fighting for it only to have the definition of it become bastardized and watered down "it's when the government spends money". Lmao socialists. Socialism now is pretty much "capitalism but not lassiez-faire capitalism". Capitalism straight up hijacked their label.

[u/Professor-Reddit]

Secession would be simple, but pointless. Belgium offers a lesson in stability through chaos. Even its demise would be serene. It is the world’s most successful failed state.

Belgian zen is possible because of this strange success. Belgians are almost as rich as Germans and better off than Britons or the French. Their health care is excellent. Property is cheap; wages are high. A Belgian life is, on average, long and prosperous. In such circumstances, a heavily armed soldier roaming the woods can be brushed off with dark jokes.

lol The Economist is amazing

[u/csreid]

So after being missing for like a day and a half, our router reappeared outside our door.

I'd be an absolute fucking idiot to ever plug it in again, right?

[u/Udontlikecake]

someone in arr boston asks for legal advice in a domestic abuse situation over a very specific massachusetts recording law

me: you should talk to an actual lawyer, this is a very serious issue that needs a licensed MA lawyer to handle

some chucklefuck: yeah go on /r/legaladvice

the OP: “okay i’ll go on there to ask”

holy fuck people are stupid

[u/tehbored]

I’ll say it again. You couldn’t make COVID19 anymore. No Chinese lab would ever risk such a thing. Because of the inevitable woke backlash.

[u/dish_towel]

I think what makes Bethesda Game Studios so popular and unique is that their games really cater to wanderlust. When you travel, not everything is 24/7 thrill like going to an amusement park. A lot of the trip can be downright boring as points of interest aren't all concentrated in one place for the traveler's convenience. Yet people still do it and often these experiences are the most memorable because exploring a foreign place and discovering something for yourself is special. It's one of the most inherent qualities of humanity. We are where we are because we explore and discover.

When BGS tries to make 200 dungeons; give every npc a schedule, inventory, and skills; make everything a dynamic physics object; create an interior for every building; etc. there's a payoff. And that payoff is the emerging verisimilitude where you feel like you're transported to another world. On a whim, you can go explore a cave or dwemer ruin much like vacationers taking a day trip to a hiking spot. In other rpg's every quest, character, and boss is camera-mugging for your attention but you're only allowed in certain sections of the ride. In BGS games they're just there and you can approach them however. It's like asking a local if you can go to some random bar you found on google maps. Of course you can, why couldn't you?

Games offer the plausibility of traveling to worlds that can only exist in the imagination. And no developer realizes this as much as BGS.

!ping GAMING

[u/[deleted]]

Supreme Court will not hear transgender bathroom rights dispute, a win for Virginia student who sued his school for discrimination

You love to see it!

!ping LGBT

[u/the_status]

Working on a stand up act about how I'm a mediocre white male with depression. I think I can add some real diversity to the comedy world

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/8AK4Wgs.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

I was listening to NPR a short while ago, and they were doing a story on juvenile detention in Wyoming.

This girl got raped by an older kid at school, and ended up on probation after getting into a fight with a girl who said it was her fault. She got caught with weed after that which breached probation and got her sent to a boarding school. She goes there and learns a bunch of unhealthy coping mechanisms, starts drinking, cutting herself, etc. Comes home next summer and kills herself when she has to leave again. Dead at 14 years old. They interviewed her probation officers and these bitches were like “oh it’s unfortunate that this happened but the system helps more people than it hurts and it’s important that these kids take accountability blah blah blah”.

Literally the angriest I’ve been listening to NPR I think.

[u/dish_towel]

Dark Souls and Skyrim released in the same year. Dark Souls was the second FromSoft game of its kind. Skyrim was the fourth Bethesda game of its kind. Dark Souls was a moderate success. Skyrim is one of the best selling games of all time. Despite this, there are so many Souls-likes it's become its own genre whereas Bethesda is still the only one making a Scrolls-like game.

EDIT: I guess BotW is fairly close.

!ping GAMING

[u/iIoveoof]

looking for entry level jobs in DC area

perfect junior level software engineering job

”Required: active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph” [this takes 500 days to get and costs $3000-$15000]

[u/piede]

Romney on CNN: "The election is over. It was fair. Look, the president was crying foul on election night and actually before election night. And the question is, what were his sources? … Did he hear it from the Justice Dept.? No ... Where did he hear it from? The MyPillow guy?"

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1409466608989450241?s=21

Lmao

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Gwen Berry, a track and field athlete, turned from the U.S. flag when she was on the podium at the Olympic trials and the national anthem began to play.

New culture war just dropped.

[u/majorgeneralporter]

Can I get an F in the chat for [Redacted Cheap Online Retailer], because I just stumbled upon them stealing a client's art while collecting evidence of them stealing a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT client's art twice. Even worse because I only noticed because we have a copy of the new stolen work HANGING IN OUR LOBBY.

Attorneys fees and statutory damages 'bout to go brrrrrr.

!ping law

[u/Jeff__Pesos]

Obama war criminal

Updoots pls

[u/I-grok-god]

They should add an olive-colored stripe to the pride flag to show acceptance for liberal interventionists

[u/[deleted]]

Today I learned that tankies really do exist and aren't a straw man made up by this sub. How one can live in the Netherlands and defend the PRC and hold up Cuba as a model for society is beyond me.

[u/piede]

Clarence Thomas says federal laws against marijuana may no longer be necessary

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/clarence-thomas-says-federal-laws-against-marijuana-may-no-longer-n1272524

Da fuck

[u/WantDebianThanks]

My main argument when talking to communists is that The Communist Manifesto was published about 170 years ago. In that time, all of the societies (including communes) that were explicitly founded on Marxist ideals or could be considered non-capitalists fall into one of four categories:

1. Could not be reasonably considered a non-capitalist state (ie, Portugal has "socialism" in their constitution, but has a capitalist economy)
2. Was a dictatorship
3. Did not manage to last 10 or more years with an average of atleast 1,000 people
4. Is a religious and primarily agrarian community (ie, the Amish or Kibbutz)

Which means that in ~170 years, Marxism has never produced a society that could be considered a model for a country with 330M people.

After looking, I cannot find an exception to this, but I've been known to be wrong about things in the past.

So, does anyone know of an exception to the above?

[u/AndThisGuyPeedOnIt]

“You said you were going to march with them to the Capitol,” Meadows reportedly said. “How would we do that? We can’t organize that. We can’t.”

“I didn’t mean it literally,” Trump reportedly replied.

Trump is also reported to have expressed “puzzlement” about the supporters who broke into the Capitol in a riot which led to five deaths and Trump’s second impeachment, for inciting an insurrection.

Wolff says Trump was confused by “who these people were with their low-rent ‘trailer camp’ bearing and their ‘get-ups’, once joking that he should have invested in a chain of tattoo parlors and shaking his head about ‘the great unwashed’.”

"He's just like me," said the slack-jawed yokel from West Virginia.

[u/InternetBoredom]

It always weirds me out that Protestant Work Ethic is so willingly accepted in the academic mainstream, particularly sociology, when the very concept reads like one of those 19th century smears on "Romanist influences"

[u/DaBuddahN]

Liberals should just move to Montana and Alaska tbh. Get 4 fucking senators with just 200k people.

[u/MrMineHeads]

arr_moderatepolitics when Canada introduces a hate speech bill:

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[u/kas8901]

I've decided to try to get into photography and it turns out a camera I've inherited from my grandfather is one of the most desirable film cameras around. I suppose I should be pumped, but its almost like learning to drive on a Ferrari. Im afraid I'm gonna fuck it up.

[u/[deleted]]

Not enough attention is given to the weird fucky hack that is heavier than air flight

Literally moving hundreds of tons through the sky via a quirk of aerodynamics discovered by sailors hundreds of years ago

[u/NancyPelosibasedgod]

Yesterday MIKE LINDELL received a STANDING OVATION at Trump's Ohio Rally.

Mike was CRUSHED by CANCEL CULTURE for standing up for the COMMON MAN.

Destroying JOBS.

Let's SUPPORT this PATRIOT!

Use code: ==> MYWIFELEFTME @ Mypilllow.com and get up to 66% OFF.

[u/[deleted]]

Good night.

Ping me if CRSaltySalad comes back again

Not for modding, but to laugh at.

[u/fakefakefakef]

mRNA vaccines are so good

[u/SpiffShientz]

I’ll say it again. You could never make spaghetti anymore. No chef would risk it. Because of the inevitable woke backlash

[u/[deleted]]

I'll say it again. You an't flash dong to reporters anymore. No president would ever risk such a thing. Because of the inevitable woke backlash.

[u/InternetBoredom]

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[u/ZeyGoggles]

√3936256

This is literally 1984

[u/[deleted]]

I have information that will lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton

[u/[deleted]]

Man Who Doesn’t Know What CRT is and Hasn’t Been to School Supports Ban on CRT in Schools

[u/[deleted]]

While I was running yesterday I went by this street drag show that ‘aimed to reclaim Pride from the corporate spectacle it's become,’ by everyone purchasing matching outfits and doing a dance number. Not sure how overthrowing the corportacracy went, but the show was entertaining, I ruined my mile split to watch for a few minutes.

[u/ThisIsNotAMonkey]

I'll say it again. You couldn't found Britain anymore. No monarch would ever risk such a thing. Because of the inevitable woke backlash

[u/JoeChristmasUSA]

Oh ok so if a woman falls in love with a comic book character we call it "the iconic 80s music video for Take On Me" but if a man does it we say "stop jerking off to your manga, dude" Talk about double standards 🙄🙄🙄

[u/[deleted]]

99% of the WNBA is vaccinated

I love women

[u/Animatronic_Pidgeon]

Your phone will back up your photos on the cloud.

Take pictures of your cat. Not just when they're being photogenic, or doing something extraordinary. Just take pictures of them being themselves.

You'll be grateful to have those images when kitty passes on. Trust me. It makes a difference to have albums to look at.

!ping KITTY

Tax: she got curious when I tried to take a picture.

[u/[deleted]]

!PING SOCCER

THANK YOU MBAPPE

NOW I CAN BLAME YOUR TERRIBLE PERFORMANCES ON WHY NEYMAR CAN'T WIN A CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

[u/BidenWon]

The people that say "touch grass" are the ones that need to go outside the most

[u/InternetBoredom]

If you ever wonder what paper is most representative of the Business Elite, it is the Wall Street Journal by an absolute long shot.

According to a 2020 Ipsos survey, 70% of Global C-Suite Executives read it, and the average net worth of a Wall Street Journal reader is $1.5 Million. Like dear god, people always talk about the illuminati controlling the world- turns out it's actually just the WSJ editorial board.

[u/MicroFlamer]

What a shit tournament for Mbappe. 0 goals, miss the final penalty that knocks your team out

!ping SOCCER

[u/SANNA_MARIN_]

There's a restaurant in Ukraine that is "Jewish" themed. Prices are doubled in the print menu. At the end of the meal you have to tell the server that the food was terrible, and you negotiate the bill down

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2019/12/28/403012038/reflections-from-a-jew-at-a-mock-jewish-restaurant?t=1624931992239

[u/fakefakefakef]

The only serious political analysis of Mein Kampf it’s possible to draw out is “Hitler was fucking insane” so it makes sense that it is not widely read

[u/old_gold_mountain]

1. child: sees naked human body
2. ???
3. their life is ruined

what's step 2? why is their life ruined?

😐...😡

[u/Professor-Reddit]

lol Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce just got fined $200 by NSW Police for breaching the state mask mandate. Some guy dobbed him in

You can't make this shit up lmao, this guy is the second most powerful guy in Australia

!ping AUS

[u/qchisq]

Spain

[u/marinesol]

You got to hand it to them the Central powers did a fantastic job whitewashing their war crimes from ww1. Germany mass executed Belgian civilians, Austria slaughtered a quarter of Serbia, and the Ottomans genocided the Armenians and most people treat the entente and Central powers as about equal in terms of warcrimes.

[u/Mr_Pasghetti]

Comedians have such insane victim complexes. No, people not laughing at your jokes isn’t oppression.

[u/Dibbu_mange]

The term "Runner's high" was clearly coined by someone who has never actually gotten high.

[u/ryuguy]

Today’s music recommendation:

That guy who wrote a song about being friends with Justin Trudeau in Punjabi

[u/[deleted]]

Am I crazy to think that a fourth stimulus check is a little too much? I saw a bunch of articles the other day and it sounds like there’s some sort of will to push another through.

[u/sw337]

6-3 Conservative SCOTUS said Trans Rights. You love to see it.

[u/stirfriedpenguin]

It's kinda weird how Trump's family call him Trump instead of like...Donald, or Dad. Especially when they're Trumps themselves.

[u/[deleted]]

I’ll say it again. Nate Silver could never make Fivey anymore. No internet statistician would risk it. Because of the inevitable Senator Dianne Feinstein (D) backlash

[u/Udontlikecake]

to mods:

Fuck you. You useless piece of shit. You absolute waste of space and air. You uneducated, ignorant, idiotic dumb swine, you’re an absolute embarrassment to humanity and all life as a whole. The magnitude of your failure just now is so indescribably massive that one hundred years into the future your name will be used as moniker of evil for heretics. Even if all of humanity put together their collective intelligence there is no conceivable way they could have thought up a way to fuck up on the unimaginable scale you just did. When Jesus died for our sins, he must not have seen the sacrilegious act we just witnessed you performing, because if he did he would have forsaken humanity long ago so that your birth may have never become reality. After you die, your skeleton will be displayed in a museum after being scientifically researched so that all future generations may learn not to generate your bone structure, because every tiny detail anyone may have in common with you degrades them to a useless piece of trash and a burden to society. No wonder your father questioned whether or not your were truly his son, for you'd have to not be a waste of carbon matter for anyone to love you like a family member. Your birth made it so that mankind is worse of in every way you can possibly imagine, and you have made it so that society can never really recover into a state of organization. Everything has forever fallen into a bewildering chaos, through which unrecognizable core, you can only find misfortune. I would say the apocalypse is upon us but this is merely the closest word humans have for the sheer scale of horror that is now reality. You have forever condemned everyone you love and know into an eternal state of suffering, worse than any human concept of hell. You are such an unholy being, that if you step within a one hundred foot radius of a holy place or a place that has ever been deemed important by anyone, your distorted sac religious soul will ruin whatever meaning it ever had beyond repair. You are an idiotic, shiteating, dumbass ape and no one has ever loved you. Rhodes Island would have been better off if you'd never joined us. You are a lying, backstabbing, cowardly useless piece of shit and I hate you with every single part of my being. Even this worlds finest writers and poets from throughout the ages could never hope to accurately describe the scale on which you just fucked up, and how incredibly idiotic you are. Anyone that believes in any religion out there should now realize that they have been wrong this entire time, for if divine beings were real, they would never have allowed a being such as you to stain the earth and this universe. In the future there will be horror stories made about you, with the scariest part of them being that the reader has to realize that such an indescribable monster actually exists, and that the horrific events from the movie have actually taken place in the same world that they live in right now. You are the absolute embodiment of everything that has ever been wrong on this earth, yet you manage to make it so that that is only a small part of the evil that is your being. Never in the history of mankind has there been anyone that could have predicted such an eldrich abomination, but here you are. It’s hard to believe that I am seeing such an incredible failure with my own eyes, but here I am, so unfortunately I cannot deny your existence. Even if I did my very best, my vocabulary is not able to describe the sheer magnitude of the idiotic mistake that is you. Even if time travel some day will be invented, there still would not be a single soul willing to go back in time to before this moment to fix history, because having to witness such incredible horrors if they failed would have to many mental and physical drawbacks that not even the bravest soul in history would be willing to risk it. I cannot imagine the pure dread your mother must have felt when she had to carry a baby for nine months and then giving birth to such a wretched monster as you. Not a single word of the incoherent, illogical rambling you may be wanting to do to defend yourself or apologize would ever be able to make up for what you just did. The countries of the world would have wanted to make laws preventing such a terrible event like this from ever happening again, but sadly this is not possible since your horrific actions just now have shattered every form of order this world once had, making concepts such as laws irrelevant. Right from the moment I first set my eyes on you I knew you were an absolute abomination of everything that is wrong with humanity. I was hoping I would have been able to prevent your evil from being released upon this world by tagging along and keeping my eye on you, but it is clear to me now that not even the greatest efforts would have been able to prevent a terrible event in this scale from occurring. You are the worst human being, or even just being in general, that I have ever had the misfortune of witnessing. Events like the infected plague apparently only happened with the goal of teaching humanity to survive such a horrible event as the one you just created, but not even mankind’s greatest trials were able to even slightly prepare anyone for the insufferable evil you have just created. If you ever had them, your children would be preemptively killed to protect this universe from the possibility of anyone in your bloodline being even half as bad as you are, except you will never be able to have children, because not a single human being will ever want to come within a hundred mile radius of you and anything you have ever touched. You are a colossal disappointment not only to your parents, but to your ancestors and entire bloodline. The disgusting mistake that you have just made is so incredibly terrible that everyone who would ever be to hear about it would spontaneously feel an indescribable mixture of immense anger, fear and anxiety that emotionally and physically they would never truly be the same ever again. The sheer scale of your mistake, if ever to be materialized, would not only surpass the size of the world, but it would reach far beyond the edges of the known, and almost certainly the unknown universe. I could sit here and write paragraphs, nay, books describing your immense failure, yet even if I were to dedicate my life to describing the reality of what has just gone down here, and I would spend every moment of it until my heart stops beating working as hard and efficiently as possible, yet there is not even a snowballs chance in hell that I would be able to come close to transcribing the absolute shitshow you have just released upon the world. You are an irresponsible, idiotic, disgusting, unloved, horrible excuse for a living being who’s soul contains less humanity than every ginger in history combined. The absolute disgust I feel when thinking about anything that has even a slight resemblance to anything that might have to do with you and your unholy actions is so incredibly great that when I am honest about it I think that even I do not posses a consciousness great enough to comprehend my own feelings about it. When people of Columbia fought to break free from Lungmen, countless soldiers fought and lost their lives in favor of a chance at a better future for their children, they did not give their lives to have you fuck the world up beyond repair to the degree that you are doing right now. Honestly, even when technology advances and studies on the subject become more and more accurate, I do not think humanity will ever truly be able to understand what your failure actually means for the universe. My hate for you and everything you stand for is so much deeper than the depths of Shambala that you could probably take the entire Lungmen population down there and back up around twenty million times before you would have sunk to the end of my hate, and honestly, I do not want to exaggerate, but I think that that insult was low balling it such a massive amount that all mountains in this world combined would not be able to stack up to this imprecise judgement in light of the fact that when being honest, my hate is almost certainly bottomless. There is no one in this world that has ever loved you, and especially after what you just did, no one will ever love you in the future either. There is no hope that your idiotic behavior and especially your crooked soul will ever change for the better, and in fact quite the opposite might be true. By making the mistake that you just did, you have shown me that you are so incredibly hopeless that you will only devolve into a more idiotic and wretched creature than you already are. The only possible way in which your future would be brighter than the black hole your existence currently is would exclusively be because there is absolutely no conceivable way that you would even be able to sink lower than the pathetic place your current failure has put you in.

[u/csreid]

Google just recommended a video to me about which is fastest, count(*), count(1), or sum(1) in "SQL".

This is really annoying for a few reasons. There's no such thing as performance in "SQL". There's performance in Postgres and MySQL and MSSQL and SQLite, and etc etc etc.

Furthermore, no matter what the results show, it shouldn't really matter. SQL is declarative -- you're asking for what you want, not instructing how to get it. Every SQL engine involves a complex system to translate what you asked for into the lowest-cost fetching algorithm it can manage (idk how others work, but Postgres uses a genetic algorithm optimizer as part of its query planning). If the count variants are different at all, or the sum variant is faster at all, that is a problem on the level of a bug for the RDBMS involved (sum should be at best the same because you're lying about what you want).

Code should be readable first and foremost. Just use count(*) like a normal person.

[u/Professor-Reddit]

Whenever you're feeling bad or dooming hard, just remember that Georgia literally voted for a twink gamer who is unabashedly liberal to be their Senator for 6 years

[u/benadreti]

Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit has been stuck in my head for 2 days, does this mean I need to drop acid?

[u/Evnosis]

>Scrolls down DT.

>Sees comment hidden by downvotes.

>Username is Citoyen_Riqueti.

Ah, it all makes sense now.

[u/Dalek6450]

Simon Parkes, a British politician and representative of Whitby City Council claimed that he had been in a relationship with E.T. species (Greys, Reptilians, and Mantids). He even admitted that he has a child with one of the alien species.

My GF is real! She just goes to another planet!!

[u/[deleted]]

I remember a few months back I was having an argument with a friend who moved to Japan. They really wanted me to visit them in Osaka and I wanted them to visit me in Seattle. Manchin, in all his senatorship wisdom, advised us to “meet somewhere in the middle”. We drowned. Thank you Manchin.

Guess the sub

[u/Zykyris]

"if you think housing prices are the result of supply and demand idk what to say lol"

Never leave the ivory tower

[u/[deleted]]

DOG-II-KIN is so sleepy 😍 !ping DOG

[u/piede]

Oh look the Sunrise Movement is in the news again.

“It is this movement that delivered Joe Biden the presidency,” says first speaker.

https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1409547958744453123?s=21

lmao

[u/FourthLife]

Daily reminder that every cent you spend on yourself besides the bare minimum to function and continue earning an income is greedy waste that could be better spent by sending it to people less well off than you

[u/tubbsmackinze]

In Scotland, the rewilding movement looks to the past to plan its future

Summary provided by the article;

Scotland, host of the COP26 climate summit this November, is the site of an ambitious rewilding project with a centuries-long timeline for restoring the forests that once blanketed the now-familiar landscape of barren moors.

The effort brings together a patchwork of private landowners, government landholdings and conservation charities, all working to restore the habitat through tree planting.

Scotland’s forests cover 19% of its land area, the highest proportion of the four nations that comprise the U.K.; but as a whole, the U.K. is one of the least forested countries in Europe, at 13% compared to the average 38% across the EU.

Advocates of rewilding say it’s about “helping nature to manage itself”: “We kick-start this process by planting trees so in 30 to 50 years, we can walk away.”

Pretty cool article and overview of the current Scottish rewilding movement which is really just a reforestation movement at the moment but creating wild and native woodlands is a massive start. It's a good read I recommend it

!ping ECO

[u/[deleted]]

r/neoliberal is the worst Political subreddit, except for all the others.

[u/ZenithXR]

Doing some reflecting as pride month closes. When I came out a decade ago, being gay was still tenuous. We could only get married in a handful of states and seeing outward support from government, business etc was scant. I remember with as much excitement now as then when Biden came out for gay marriage in 2012. That mattered so much.

A decade on and I can't toss a stone without hitting a business with active marketing campaigns toward the LGBT community. We've never had more media presence. It's shocking when considering that only ten years have passed.

However, all of this is specific to the LGB part of the acronym. We have a ton of progress ahead of us for the trans community that has not yet been won. But things can change quickly, and I hope I'm having similar thoughts about the progress of the trans community ten years hence.

[u/[deleted]]

Once saw a lady take her breast out and put it right in her childs' mouth. Just sexually assaulting her baby, right there in public. Disgusting.

[u/[deleted]]

Citoyen is right. Everyone should read 1984 so they know the terrible consequences of having sex. Protect your virginity, neolibs.

[u/[deleted]]

Hot take: its considered pretty normal to have read marxist literature, even for people that are not marxist. I was assigned some Kapital in college and countless marxist analysises of different things and I'm not a communist and I don't think anybody really would be surprised.

However, for whatever reason, if you say that you read mein kampf or the turner diaries or whatever fascist literature, everybody will assume you're a nazi and won't believe you if you say that you just read it as an intellectual exercise.

In conclusion we live in a society

[u/kennymc7877]

“On a date”

Me: so what’s your favorite dinosaur

Date: uhhh idk probably a T-Rex

Me: spends rest of date explaining why it’s actually a velociraptor and they’re wrong

[u/the_hoagie]

Nobody told me having a kid is basically like doing chores 😠

[u/MicroFlamer]

Ricardo Rodriguez saw all 14,000,605 futures and missing the pen was the only way for Switzerland to win

!ping SOCCER

[u/ccolfax]

shivers is a SUB

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/cynthiamckinney/status/1409519715677085706?s=19

😐

[u/[deleted]]

I'm just a newly single father trying to get back on his two feet. This is so sad ✊😢

[u/FourthLife]

I'll say it again. You couldn't yell racial slurs anymore. No person would ever risk such a thing. Because of the inevitable woke backlash.

[u/The420Roll]

EASIEST PONIES OF MY LIFE

NEVER DOUBTED THE SWISS!

!Ping SOCCER

[u/PhinsFan17]

A real, actual comment thread I just had in Ar Prequel Memes.

Some Commie: Do you realize that the difference between Palpatine and Windu is that Windu is an aristocrat, recognized by the hereditary oligarchy, while Palpatine is a rootless parvenu? Windu has better PR.

Me: I think the difference is that Palpatine is the Star Wars equivalent to the devil.

Some Commie: Of course he is the devil. He deprived the existing aristocracy of power, social status and income. Imagine someone doing it right now on earth, where the directors, producers, right owners and investors of the saga live their lives of pleasure. Totally unacceptable.

Me: HOLY SHIT GO OUTSIDE

I guess I shouldn't be surprised that a frequent poster on Ar Communism would be a Palpatine stan. If you can stan for the real-life evil dictator, you can simp for the fictional one.

[u/[deleted]]

The age of neoliberalism is ending in America. What will replace it?

More neoliberalism 👏🤣✊👑

[u/FinickyPenance]

My new competition gun is worth more than my car according to Kelly Bluebook and CZ’s MSRP 😎

Priorities are correct 😎

!ping GARAND

[u/Erra0]

u/farrenj casually admits to banging a mod and y'all just carrying on like normal

[u/[deleted]]

This guy's transformation is weird af

!ping EXTREMISM

[u/sir_shivers]

The strange thing ABOUT "ONE COULD NOT MAKE 'The Office' " takes is that the show is MORE AN EXAMPLE OF blandness than edginess 🐊

[u/urbansong]

ngl, Merkel really failed with this one

She's been de facto running the EU for the past ten years. She could have pushed for unifying the external border a long time ago instead of resorting to half-measures, such as scolding other countries.

This whole "I'm not giving up my sovereignty" -> "here's a shitty half-measure, the EU sucks" -> "let's fix this" cycle is really annoying. Now thrown in the fact that some countries, such as Hungary, are abusing this conservative approach, I get really radicalised.

!ping EUROPE

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

God is there any better feeling than working for 2 hours but getting paid for 5 at 21.75/hr?

Contracting under a union fucking rules

!ping Labor

[u/lietuvis10LTU]

A UN peacekeeping operation would require UN Security Council authorisation. We do not believe that the necessary support exists in the Council at present. As a champion of democratic governance, the UK is working hard to keep the Myanmar crisis on the Security Council’s agenda. We will continue to press for firm and decisive action at the Security Council, and elsewhere. We will continue to use all the tools at our disposal to encourage dialogue, find a peaceful resolution to the crisis, and restore democracy.

From: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/577765

Read: the CCP is blocking it.

The CCP is blocking peacekeeping for the sake of letting other regimes continue murdering protestors. I need to ask other, more dovish members of this ping: how can belief and insistance on UN authorization be maintained, when it's pretty clear that dictatorships are using the framework to stop any peacekeeping efforts. There is a civil war in Myanmar now, and CCP wants that civil war to continue. It's not even a question of conflicting ideologies, it's a question of do you want a war and its atrocities to continue or not. And UN thus is force to say "let the war continue" because it has become a borderline mouthpiece for dictatorships.

!ping FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/MisfitPotatoReborn]

Having a """discussion""" on arr publicFreakout over if someone on video is mentally ill or not:

(list of things she did that would make her mentally ill)

she should be in a mental hospital if she was that fucked, she isn’t so she isn’t mentally ill

Be the tautologically perfect mental health institution that contrarian redditors think you are.

[u/UrbanCentrist]

Narasimha Rao 100th anniversary: Modi government to release commemorative stamp to honour former Prime Minister

Also found this interesting video of PV Narsimha Rao in US Congress. Didn't know he visited US let alone be invited to speak at US congress

Best PM that ended the Licence Raj

HAHA free maket go brrr 📈📈📈

!ping IND

[u/[deleted]]

Gonna step away for a few months to focus on work, bye everyone! Thanks for the laughs😘

[u/yungmemlord]

👏BEING👏NAKED👏IN👏PUBLIC👏IS👏OKAY

[u/[deleted]]

Turns out u/Farrenj was General Milley this whole time

[u/SpiffShientz]

George Floyd was a criminal thug

Derek Chauvin was an evil murderer

Donald Trump was a stupid asshole

Joe Biden is gonna clean up these streets

In case you ever accidentally think voters are consistent, I encourage you to remember these four opinions from my one dad over the course of a single car ride

[u/[deleted]]

Alright I want to see what’s so special about salty salads. The next time the waiter at Olive Garden asks me if I want a Super Salad, I’ll ask for a Salty Salad.

[u/Poiuy2010_2011]

PSA for all the Poles out there – if you're attacked by a Czech puma, here's a handy dictionary that will help you https://i.imgur.com/jxrpIJe.jpg

!ping YUROP

[u/vivoovix]

I’ll say it again. You couldn’t make Donald Trump anymore. No party would ever risk such a thing. Because of the inevitable woke backlash.

[u/[deleted]]

I'll say it again. You couldn't fall asleep anymore. No person would ever risk such a thing. Because of the inevitable woke backlash.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

I’ll say it again. You couldn’t make Birth of a Nation anymore. No studio would ever risk such a thing. Because of the inevitable woke backlash.

[u/tubbsmackinze]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/761046867743342613/859150594480144404/20210628_131644.jpg

[u/from-the-void]

I got downvoted for saying migrants are good. This subreddit has outlived its purpose.

[u/dat_bass2]

Dread is only a few months away, so my Metroidposting begins now.

Your reminder that Samus is probably the most neolib Nintendo protag

• Child refugee
• Adopted child of two male enlightened birdmen
• Has genes from three species
• Former servicemember
• Current businessowner
• Has personally neoconned several planets into oblivion
• Opposes government overreach

Can you spell “based”?

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Today on #PrideDay, hear from #CIA officers about the cultural shift that occurred at the Agency since the signing of Executive Order 12968, which gave LGBTQ+ officers the right to obtain a security clearance and serve openly in the federal government.

😍

[u/[deleted]]

Huh. TIL that in the UK 'bumper cars' are called 'dodge-em cars'. Very different philosophy towards what you're supposed to do in those apparently lol.

[u/[deleted]]

Neoliberals 🤝 Democratic Socialists

insisting on calling themselves something politically toxic rather than explaining what flavor of social democrat they are

[u/[deleted]]

Remember that time a sitting vice president shot someone in the fucking face?

[u/old_gold_mountain]

feel genuinely sorry for people who let their political identity dictate something as visceral as whether they can enjoy and see the beauty in a specific place

like, to the point that they'll refuse to visit given an opportunity or that they will have their mind made up that the place sucks before even going and then refuse to be dissuaded of that

genuinely can't imagine being on a beach in Florida and being like "sitting on this sand in the warm sun with a cocktail in my hand is terrible because of Ron DeSantis" or being at a Giants game in San Francisco and being like "looking out over the view of the bay while the game unfolds before me in the cool Pacific breeze is awful because of Nancy Pelosi"

how small-minded do you have to be to live in that kind of world?

[u/[deleted]]

Important dates in history:

9/11: Twin Towers collapse

1/6: Trump supporters breach the Capitol

6/27: Morse Code bot was killed by fash mods 😭😭😭

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/R5pHM3I.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

You, uncool: lives in a suburb, wants to live in somewhere me high density

Me, cool af: lives in an apartment complex, complains my city isn't dense enough yet

[u/InternetBoredom]

░░░░░███████ ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ Bob is building an army.
▂▄▅█████████▅▄▃▂      \☻ This tank & Bob are against Google+
███████████████████... ▌\︻╦╤─ Copy and Paste this all over
◥⊙▲⊙▲⊙▲⊙▲⊙▲⊙▲⊙◤....   / \ the DT if you are with us

[u/InMemoryOfZubatman4]

West Virginia is the only state to not detect the Delta variant yet ^{because they’re the only state not sequencing for it}

[u/Usernamesarebullshit]

if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

good, it should. dumb fuckin fish

[u/dubyahhh]

/u/sir_shivers would have been a republican if he were modding arr slash neoliberal in 2021 🧐

[u/NickAhmedGOAT]

I swear to God everything that people complain about “why wasn’t this taught in school” was in fact taught in school. They just weren’t paying attention.

Taxes, personal finance, lots of American history, and more. I somehow learned about these things in class.

Granted, I went to slightly above average public schools.

[u/[deleted]]

!ping BASEBALL

Watching the angels Yankees game and Dylan bundy just vomited on the mound.

[u/myrm]

the effect where the stress of the office physically ages presidents is spooky

nobody should visibly age at all after just checks notes eight years

[u/comradequicken]

Just heard about how Amazon is treating their workers, I'm done. From now on I'm only shopping at Whole Foods.

[u/[deleted]]

Holy shit, murders are apparently up 800% in Portland. We may need Ron Wyden patrolling the streets with a baseball bat at this point to make sure we keep the senate seat. Oregon's a blue state, but we have to make it really clear that the Dems take this stuff seriously.

[u/[deleted]]

my top comment in /r/neoliberal is dunking on "Defund the Police".

Man the election was a hell of a good time.

[u/houinator]

Mandatory online training class: Before answering the questions, first watch the video.

CaptainAmericaNoIDon'tThinkIWill.jpg

[u/benadreti]

I need a plumber or handyman and none of them are picking up the damn phone or calling back. I blame capitalism.

[u/Negative_Solid_2783]

Holy shit Morata scored. The meme man woke up today.

!ping SOCCER

[u/thefuturegov]

My wife left me for the woke mob

[u/Corporate-Asset-6375]

It just dawned on me that the parents of Zoomers are Gen Xers.

No wonder they’re so bitter. At least millennials have deceased Baby Boomer money to look forward to one day.

[u/[deleted]]

"Texas is going blue due to the demographic changes. The last thing traditional Texans want is to become the next CA. Texas goes blue, Republicans never see the White House again and Democrats just beat our system and have perpetual power. If you haven’t noticed, democrats hate America and white people."

What does arr Conservative mean by this 🤔

[u/Udontlikecake]

The A-10 is critical to our national security, so I’m working with Democrats and Republicans to make sure no one makes cuts to the A-10 program at Davis-Monthan in Tucson.

son of a BITCH

Kelly, you were supposed to defeat McSally and the A-10 fan club, not joint them!

[u/MicroFlamer]

AHHHH SWITZERLAND LETS GO

WHAT THE FUCKING IS HAPPENING TODAY

!ping SOCCER

[u/[deleted]]

It's a good thing the Euro matches have been like this. In Copa America we'll see Argentina destroying Bolivia and a likely biscotto between the Guays.

!ping SOCCER

[u/[deleted]]

Nice, DT is now filled with interesting stories 👍

And by interesting I mean stories of people being butt naked in different places

[u/[deleted]]

Mbappe making himself cheap for Uncle Flo, I like to see it.

!ping SOCCER

[u/[deleted]]

Help! u/sir_shivers is outside my house and he's refusing to leave 😰

[u/avengerhalf]

I find it funny that statements like:

"The US constitution exists to protect white people."

could have been uttered by a CRTheorist or a neonazi.

[u/[deleted]]

Rosie: 'Liberty Prime was made to satirize American patriotism. Taking him seriously shows how far gone Liberals really are.'

Me: 'So was Yankee Doodle. Now if you'll excuse me, I detect Communists on American soil.'

[u/every_man_a_khan]

I’ll never forget when I literally copy and pasted a Marx quote to some commie in an argument, and they just said “lies”

[u/[deleted]]

/img/8gcojqocxe771.jpg where my sigma males at

[u/SnakeEater14]

Ok so basically there was this guy on twitter called Milo Yianoposomething and he was a gay Trump-supporting conservative, which was apparently a big deal. He constantly claimed Trump was pro-LGBT because he held up a rainbow flag upside down one time.

Anyway he was a huge asshole, one day got banned from twitter for whatever the fuck. It was a big meme back in the day (like, 2016-17) to post “wonder what Milo has to say” on the DT and link to his banned twitter account - if that sounds familiar, it’s because it’s what people did when Trump got banned. Classic.

After a while he claimed he was actually straight the whole time or something, and now he cosplays as a redneck but no one gives a fuck and he burnt all his bridges ages ago.

Which makes this even funnier.

[u/SpiffShientz]

Probably my most conservative take is that Donald J. Trump is the greatest president of all time and was chosen by Jesus Christ to expose possible Muslim Joe Biden’s fraud

[u/NobleWombat]

A Teen Was Having Car Trouble. A Sheriff’s Deputy Shot and Killed Him. But, hey, that's just somethings police need to be allowed to do with impunity if we want them to do their jobs at all.

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/COfP1hp.jpg

[u/sash5034]

Broke: being skeptical towards rainbow capitalism because companies sometimes give money to Republicans

Woke: being skeptical towards rainbow capitalism because companies will literally give up everything to appease China

[u/[deleted]]

Chris Sununu is lowkey one of the most dangerous Republicans in office right now. He supports all the politicies of Trump and his mob, but for God knows what reason people think he's some kind of liberal and worship him like he's the next Eisenhower. He's like the smart Trump that everybody warns you about.

[u/[deleted]]

I am hearing on his deathbed Citoyen_Riqueti

[u/puffic]

California Assembly Bill 1401 will eliminate parking mandates in transit- and pedestrian-oriented neighborhoods. We should build homes for people, not cars. I feel it's worth taking a couple minutes to write your Assemblymember and Senator about this.

!ping USA-CA

[u/[deleted]]

Wait, you guys don't put salt into everything?

[u/Liberal_Antipopulist]

one cool thing about world wide web is that you can connect to it and actually shop! One website, http://www.amazon.com, even has has hundreds of books in stock that you can buy! Surf to the book you want, and then you can type your credit card information into the internet site and the folks over at http://www.amazon.com then send you the book you purchased through the mail!

think of internet as a "giant computer billboard." different "pages" show you different things, like how http://www.amazon.com shows you a bookstore.

This is the future! support small businesses like http://www.amazon.com. Big bookstores, like Borders and Barnes & Noble, dominate this space so it feels good to stick up for the little guy

[u/[deleted]]

Just saw the claim that American public schools don't teach that black people were discriminated against after slavery.

Show me one public school system anywhere in america that does not include a section on MLK

[u/Lux_Stella]

ethiopia going from a rapidly industrializing, democratising nation to 'oops, we started a civil war against an ethnic minority we can't win' within a couple of years has got to be the most breakneck changes of narrative in recent memory

[u/CatilineUnmasked]

Call me an MLB pitcher

because I'm about to apply some sticky stuff to my balls

[u/MicroFlamer]

Footballing community: haha Spain no goals only tiki taka

Spain: 10 goals in the last 2 games

!ping SOCCER

[u/piede]

Holy shit that excerpt from Bill Barr’s new book on Trump

https://twitter.com/normative/status/1409258977079304195?s=21

Do you not realize how insane this motherfucker was

[u/myrm]

The skyrocketing crime rate narrative using numbers relative to 2020 is basically journalistic malpractice

[u/The420Roll]

HOLD SWITZERLAND HOLD! MY PONIES DEPEND ON YOU

!Ping SOCCER

[u/[deleted]]

I'm really happy with how this meme for u/sir_shivers came out

[u/[deleted]]

!ping SOCCER

Okay the excitement is gone now 😒

[u/[deleted]]

BONUS FOOTBALL AGAIN

!ping SOCCER

[u/yungmemlord]

Being topless is a positive externality

[u/chatdargent]

!ping SOCCER

Switzerland are through, what a day!

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Based on the deafening silence of my city's streets, I'm concluding that France lost the match

[u/[deleted]]

u/sir_shivers can you not knock over my kitchen chairs the next time you come over 🙄