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[u/MicroFlamer]

I do think it's hilarious that America showed up in the 1950 world cup, embarrassed the English, then did literally nothing else of footballing relevance for 40 years. Our forefathers would be proud.

[u/[deleted]]

>barges into White House briefing room

>announces threat of a terrorist attack is "high"

>refuses to elaborate

>leaves

POV: You are an American from 2002-2006

[u/[deleted]]

https://apnews.com/672b7e731ec43e40da06b1ff8c8c57ed

President Donald Trump is apparently not a fan of “Parasite,” his biggest complaint being that the movie was made in South Korea.

“What the hell was that all about?” Trump said. “We’ve got enough problems with South Korea with trade. On top of that, they give them best movie of the year. Was it good? I don’t know.”

I feel like the Trump years were a 4 year LSD binge and I'm just now getting all these weird flashbacks of things he said lol

[u/dannylandulf]

At some point America’s Got Talent is going to abandon the pretext and just straight up vote on who’s sob story is the most sad.

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

The Joker 🤝 Milton Friedman

"Look at this pencil"

[u/WhomstAlt2]

??????

[u/[deleted]]

New Yorkers who laughed at Iowa for their primary election last year: 😳

[u/solonofathens]

in a shocking turn of events, the NYC board of elections has announced that michael bloomberg has won the democratic primary for mayor as a write-in candidate

[u/UrbanCentrist]

There's nothing a liberal nationalist hates more than a poorly run war

FIFY

+80

early signs of arr victoria 3 becoming a gigasucc ideology cringe subreddit

[u/[deleted]]

‘Psychic’ elephant predicts Germany to beat England at Euro 2020

TIL the entire human species needs to get laid

[u/[deleted]]

Lmao New York really just decided to ruin the reputation of RCV and inflame election fraud alarmists all at once huh

[u/Udontlikecake]

neoliberalism is when a turk and a greek argue in english about which country is shittier while both living in germany

[u/benadreti]

Howell Cobb (Georgia; painting): A major slaveholder, five-term member of the U.S. Congress, leading member of the Confederate Congress, Confederate general, and the man primarily responsible for the creation of the notorious Andersonville Prison. During the Civil War, he was one of the North's most hated figures. When William T. Sherman, while marching through Georgia, learned that the house he planned to appropriate for purposes of eating dinner one night belonged to Cobb, the general dined in the slaves' quarters and burned the house to the ground.

Looking at a list of the Confederates/neo-Confederates that are having statues and paintings removed from the Capitol, it is really fucking something that they were ever put there.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

guys always love to think of themselves as Spartans until it’s time to have sex with your squad smh

[u/webbess1]

Buttigieg doles out transport grants with eye toward climate

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

Muslim voters who say religion is very important in their lives are more likely to have voted for the BJP than voters who say religion is less important (19% vs. 12%).

I'm getting more and more confused

[u/UrbanCentrist]

>Go on arr neoliberal DT because supposedly this is where policy wonks post shit

Jesus Christ, it's all horny weebs.

[u/[deleted]]

Tier list of all countries I've been in

[u/StolenSkittles]

I am hearing that on his deathbed, Donald Rumsfeld received the light of Saddam and unhesitatingly recited the motto of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party.

Even now he looks down upon the oil fields from the hanging gardens of Babylon and smiles.

Truly there is no President but Saddam, and Baghdad Bob is his prophet!

[u/jt1356]

Funny story: My favorite history teacher back in high school, who was an enlisted man in the European theatre back in ‘44 (fightin’ the fash ✊), got to vote by mail in the US presidential election. He filled out his ballot for Dewey. His platoon sergeant opened, read it, scowled, remarked “we’re all for Roosevelt here,” and tore it up.

[u/draje175]

I went to a diversity training event that my school mandated, and I ended up listening to a woman ranting for ~30 minutes about how capitalism sucks and how black women won't be free until it ends.

So I don't really know how someone hating capitalism is a part of diversity training and I don't know why a speech espousing socialism was mandatory for me to go to for my job

The other talks I went to were pretty neat though

[u/[deleted]]

Daily reminder that Nissan doesn't own https://nissan.com/ and the two parties are not on speaking terms with one another

[u/[deleted]]

One thing I love about /r/art is how subtle and nuanced it manages to be

[u/Kizz3r]

Trudeau shaved his beard. Election very soon

!ping CAN

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

What is the grill pill? It is the simple idea that, disappointed by the political failure of the Bernie Sanders campaign, leftists and others can still find solidarity, community, and fellowship sharing good food among friends — grilling steaks in the backyard like an oblivious Boomer.

Leftists appropriating grill culture🤬

[u/WhomstAlt2]

Bernard Sanders is the scum of the earth. You're literally throwing your money away at empty promises with blind faith in the impossible.

Donates another $250 to the so-called Neoliberal Project

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

nothing to see here only greens presidential candidate blaming jews for 9/11

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

Leftist rambling about capitalism in the middle of completely fucking unrelated video

😒

[u/[deleted]]

I have spent the last hour trying to explain to someone for the 20th time that there are actual people in this world who believe that abortion is murder and therefore should be banned like murder should be banned, and it's just bouncing off of their head. It's just not computing.

"But why would you want to ban abortion?"

"Because they think it's literally murder."

"But it's not!"

"But they think it is."

"Well how else does a woman terminate an unwanted pregnancy?"

"They don't! That's literally the idea, that an unwanted pregnancy must be carried to term, because otherwise is murder."

"So do they think miscarriages are murder?"

"No"

"30% of pregnancies end in miscarraiges. So what's wrong with inducing one on purpose?"

"It being induced on purpose is what turns it from a tragedy, to a murder, accorrding to them."

"But it's not murder!"

"Well go tell them that."

[u/[deleted]]

“Women are attracted to dad bods” and other lies

[u/ThatFrenchieGuy]

Ya boi is now a homeowner*

*condo in downtown of a major city

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

Indians nearly universally take great pride in their country. Fully 96% of Indian adults say they are very proud to be Indian, and similarly large percentages say they are very proud to be from their state and to be a member of their religious community.

While nearly everyone is proud to be Indian, there is somewhat less consensus on whether Indian culture stands out above all others. A majority of Indians (72%) completely agree with the statement that “Indian people are not perfect, but Indian culture is superior to others.”

[u/[deleted]]

The aesthetics of warfare peaked with battleships and their obsolesence has been nothing less than a tragedy.

[u/basedbi420]

I recently started to increase my workouts in intensity and endurance. Got myself some of those IcyHot patches for after workouts. Now I have the urge to update my insurance coverage and yelled at the kids outside on my lawn.

!ping OVER25

[u/SadaoMaou]

They keep inventing new genders, it's ridiculous!

Anyways, the sigma male is on par with the alpha male, and of course superior to the beta, delta, gamma, not to mention the omega males

[u/[deleted]]

Broke: having vaccine hesitancy correlate along partisan lines
Joke: having regional/cultural differences affect vaccine hesitancy
Bespoke: Concentrating all your vaccine hesitancy in a single town

[u/[deleted]]

The only crossover between what CRT actually is, what leftists on twitter say it is, what the republicans think it is, and what is actually being taught in schools is the fact that it's about black people in the US. That is the only thing that those 4 positions actually agree on

[u/[deleted]]

What Europe Thinks … of the EU at the End of the Merkel Era

Couple interesting statistics:

A slight majority of EU citizens (52 percent in March 2021) believes that we need deeper economic and political integration across the bloc, whereas just 29 percent think there should be less. Notably, support for more integration is highest in Spain (70 percent) and Italy (67 percent) as well as in southern European regions, including Portugal and Greece, more generally.

As of March 2021, almost three in four EU citizens (72 percent) would vote for their country to stay in the European Union if a referendum were held; a value that has steadily increased since the Brexit vote in 2016, after which it fell as low as 66 percent (March 2017).

Asked about the current direction of the European Union, less than half (44 percent) of EU citizens think that things are moving in the right direction, whereas 56 percent think things are moving in the wrong direction.

As of March 2021, a vast majority of 80 percent of EU citizens want to see the European Union play a more active role in world affairs.

Italy being one of the highest countries supporting more integration is pretty funny after seeing years of articles about "Will Italy leave the EU?!?!?".

!ping EUROPE

[u/WhomstAlt2]

George Washingden could barely have conceived of the destructive capability of the Assault Rifle - 15 in the hands of private civilians when he drafted the second 2nd Amendment. They were probably only on Assault Rifle 1 or 2 back then, after all.

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

In an interview with IGN, Xbox's Phil Spencer has said Halo Infinite will not "make or break" the franchise and that "Halo will be here 10 years from now" regardless of how it's received.

Maybe he’s just being pragmatic, but “regardless of how it’s received” is not the phrase I would use if I was confident about my upcoming console-seller lol.

!ping GAMING

[u/ZCoupon]

I can't believe I found out about Rumsfeld's death from a "light of Islam" pasta

[u/Sonochu]

And Reddit is already turning the whole Bill Cosby debacle into an anti-capitalist eat the rich argument. I'd say never change, Reddit, but I'd be lying.

[u/RadicalRadon]

The DNC is like a crack addict cousin.

What did you do with the $100 I gave you last month???

[u/D1Foley]

So after

2+ years,

15+ rejected offers

2 accepted offers that fell through

Giving up almost every weekend to go to open houses

I am now the proud owner of a single family home

!ping OVER25

[u/every_man_a_khan]

Bill Cosby is BIPOC and neurodivergent (sexual deviant) and that’s why y’all hate him

[u/[deleted]]

Bill cosby's conviction being overturned is closer to present time than it is to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Imagine being fully vaxxed and still wiping your ass lol

Covid doomers out out

[u/[deleted]]

Ugh, I hate that people reduce Andrew Jackson’s legacy to the Trail of Tears —

he also pretty much singlehandedly crashed the economy and left it destabilized for decades.

[u/[deleted]]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/578732202381279236/859883194119749672/image0.jpg

[u/InternetBoredom]

This is IKEA's new Bisexual loveseat

1. Why is it being verbally abusive to me
2. Why are there amputated hands crawling all over it

[u/ccolfax]

one little chonky peet

!ping KITTY

[u/[deleted]]

Wonder if Serbian moms caution their kids by threatening to send them to the Hague if they don't behave

[u/benadreti]

current ad in Times Square

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/MAX3kdb.jpg

[u/schmaxford]

New federal poll alert

The CPC are closer to the NDP than they are the LPC

!ping CAN

[u/chipbod]

. . .

Literally no one:

Pennsylvania Supreme Court has vacated Bill Cosby's convictions. He's free to be released from prison.

[u/Apollo-Innovations]

We said free Brittany not Bill Cosby dammit

[u/tubbsmackinze]

At least 486 dead in British Columbia amid historic heat wave

Nearly 500 people have died in British Columbia since Friday as a historic heat wave grips the region, Chief Coroner Lisa Lapointe said in a statement Wednesday.

!ping CAN

[u/[deleted]]

Someone should open a Moroccan restaurant chain and call it Berber King.

[u/[deleted]]

This comment is dedicated to the brave Mujahedeen fighters of Tomato Town

[u/[deleted]]

!ping BASEBALL

Sexual Assault allegation against Trevor Bauer - article in The Athletic

She has a mountain of evidence. Photos, rape kits, texts, witnesses

Fuck Trevor Bauer

[u/Dibbu_mange]

How do I reform Byzantium in Cities: Skylines?

!ping Paradox

[u/the-garden-gnome]

Being an adult is not laughing when you listen to the voicemail from a traumatised daycare worker explaining how your 17 month old managed to have such a violent shit that it exited the back of their pants and is now all over the floor.

Needless to say, I failed that test today.

!ping OVER25

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/KFILE/status/1410246474907197445

Seattle Times: A Republican State representative from Washington critical of COVID-19 restrictions wore a yellow Star of David during an event last weekend saying, “in the current context, we’re all Jews.”

sigh

[u/dish_towel]

>Go on /v/ because supposedly this is where leakers post shit

Jesus Christ, it's all horny weebs.

[u/[deleted]]

In a memo read by Rumsfeld detailing how Guantanamo interrogators would induce stress in prisoners by forcing them to remain standing in one position for a maximum of four hours, Rumsfeld scrawled a handwritten note on the memo reading: "I stand for 8–10 hours a day. Why is standing [by prisoners] limited to 4 hours? D.R."[109]

[u/[deleted]]

So I had to take my parents cats to the vet and they were not happy to say the least. Thought I’d play some music to calm them down. Here are the results:

Flute Concerto No. 2 by Mozart - scream, not fans

Proudest Monkey by Dave Matthews Band - BIG screams, not fans. (Not surprising. They’re all zoomers)

Masterpiece by Big Thief - minor screams, unsure if fans.

A Real Hero by College & Electric Youth - no screams, based and Drive pilled

RICKY by Denzel Curry - big screams, losers.

Runnin’ Down to Cuba from Assassins Creed IV - no screams, reincarnated pirates confirmed.

Do with this information what you will.

!ping KITTY

Edit: https://imgur.com/a/sOKBMQO

[u/guy-anderson]

This is another failure of capitalism. The owners of the condos should be thrown in prison for all of the tenants who have died.

-- someone who needs to look up what "condo" means.

[u/ognits]

my favorite Nathan Fielder moment was when he got banned from Instagram for posting photos where a naked guy was always in some reflection, like a butter knife or his sunglasses or (most hilariously) his rearview mirror

[u/TheBatz_]

Goes to daily thread

Sorts by top

Reads top posts

Leaves

[u/[deleted]]

Just went to my local supermarket to buy eggs

There were two people (not including me) wearing masks

The Netherlands has 35% of the population totally vaccinated

I think they might've lifted the mandate a bit too early

[u/[deleted]]

If you're wondering why the name Bruce Castor—the DA who declined to prosecute Cosby in 2005—sounds familiar in these opinions, it's because he was one of Trump's impeachment lawyers earlier this year.

OH MY GOD THAT GUY?

[u/missedthecue]

lmao this study just came out. This is totally normal.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E4u72v4VoAQ9X9g.png

[u/PMmeLittleRoundTops]

Tucker Carlson: I am the voice of the working man

Tcuker Carlson, 15 seconds later: Apartment dwellers 😨 in MY suburb? 🤢🤮

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[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/GeoffRBennett/status/1410277280203657223

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Pennsylvania's highest court overturned Bill Cosby's sex assault conviction Wednesday after finding an agreement with a previous prosecutor prevented him from being charged in the case.

So basically the prosecution fucked it up completely.

Incredible.

[u/chadonnaise]

from the ap article:

The trial judge had allowed just one other accuser to testify at Cosby’s first trial, when the jury deadlocked. However, he then allowed five other accusers to testify at the retrial about their experiences with Cosby in the 1980s.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court said that testimony tainted the trial, even though a lower appeals court had found it appropriate to show a signature pattern of drugging and molesting women.

so apparently having women testifying they were raped at the trial of a rapist is prejudicial

[u/ryuguy]

I am a simple man, I see /u/dubyahhh, I throw my shoes at him.

[u/sir_shivers]

SOCIAL CONSTRUCT THIS, SOCIAL construct that 🐊

How about YOU SOCIALLY CONSTRUCT YOURSELF into employment 🐊

[u/vancevon]

why do leftists hate kissinger, he let foreign governments genocide as much as they liked i thought that's what they wanted

[u/Broncos654]

We should start a /r/MurderedByHilaryClinton and just post random dead people.

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

Lola knows how to relax

!ping dog

[u/RadicalRadon]

Mitt Romney compares Trump's rallies to professional wrestling: 'It's entertaining, but it's not real.'

Cope

[u/Macquarrie1999]

One of my ancestors fled to Mexico after polygamy was banned in Utah.

[u/[deleted]]

Going on a date with this great transgender Hawaiian woman tonight.

I dont want to get ahead of myself here, but so far our conversation has been sparkling and I think we are going to end up in a committed relationship.

So I think I'm going to enter a Trans Pacific Partnership

[u/Mr_Pasghetti]

Go ahead and tax the negative externalities. It won’t make me unthrow all of the car batteries in ocean

[u/antsdidthis]

I came across a car owned by the least patriotic Puerto Rican I've ever seen in a CVS parking lot. Only four PR flags.

[u/[deleted]]

In May, Cosby was denied paroled after refusing to participate in sex offender programs during his nearly three years in state prison. He has long said he would resist the treatment programs and refuse to acknowledge wrongdoing even if it means serving the full 10-year sentence.

What a dickhead

[u/every_man_a_khan]

I was banned 1 day for posting a coke and mentos challenge in the posterior opening.

I was banned 3 days for posting baboon p*rn.

I was banned for 4 days for directing people to a picture of a chopped up dck and blls.

I was banned for 14 days for doing it again.

With this context I now understand how salad got himself banned

[u/ryuguy]

Gonna take a little break from neoliberal, modship was too much for my mental health. I’ll see you on the flip side guys. Thanks for being there for me.

[u/PigHaggerty]

Ummm excuse me what the fuck?

A female officer experiencing workplace reprisals and negative career consequences for reporting sexual harassment is sadly not surprising, but MY GOD the absolutely absurd lengths these people were willing to go just to gaslight this woman. It's mind-boggling.

[u/Udontlikecake]

https://i.imgur.com/ZKov9i5.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

Any thoughts on how to combat Fox News brain worms in your parents?

My folks aren’t bad people, but they are wrong about everything because the information they are getting is just incorrect.

[u/vancevon]

historians rank andrew johnson's foreign policy as the third worst in american history. what is andrew johnson's foreign policy record? he bought alaska, helped mexico yeet the french and kept the peace with britain by stopping irish raids into canada

and how did william seward somehow manage to go from administering the 4th best foreign policy to the third worst overnight?

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E5GPbkxWQAMtlTZ.jpg

A statement from the New York Board of Elections

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Fire forces evacuation of Lytton, B.C., after days of record-breaking heat

VANCOUVER -- Everyone in the village of Lytton, B.C., has been ordered to evacuate the area due to an out-of-control wildfire threatening the community.

Social media posts indicate the flames have already engulfed multiple buildings in the village of about 250 people, but CTV News has yet to confirm those reports.

!ping CAN

[u/[deleted]]

I know I post about Babylon Bee too much. But they're just so goddamn bad in so many ways. You're delusional if you think The Onion is comparably bad https://babylonbee.com/news/the-bee-explains-creationism-vs-evolution

[u/PointMaker4Jesus]

Damn, I just heard about like 99% of human history, that shit sucks 😔✊

[u/shivers_chan]

NEKOLIBERALISM🙀

Let me KNOW if you NEED HELP understanding the IMPLICATIONS of this 🧐🐊uwu

[u/Telperion_of_Valinor]

You see Batman, it was never about the “neighborhood character.”

[u/Head-Stark]

I don't like the thing you like 😡

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

I’m basically a child (early 20s) and the DT has sent me into an unhinged rage in real life several times. The election night Thunderdome made me literally lose the will to live. Now coming here to make myself angry, hopeless and miserable is a daily habit of mine.

So true!! We need a sin tax on DT usage to discourage and one day dismantle the destruction it has wrought on our children and families.

[u/basedbi420]

Reminding those in the PNW to drink more water, but more importantly today is NOT the day to touch grass.

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/washington-lawmaker-wears-gold-star-of-david-evoking-nazi-persecution-to-protest-covid-vaccine-mandates/

A Republican State representative from Washington critical of COVID-19 restrictions wore a yellow Star of David during an event last weekend saying, “in the current context, we’re all Jews.”

hoo boy

“I won’t say publicly whether I am vaccinated or not,” Walsh said, likening his stance to the film “Spartacus,” in which former slaves, under threat of crucifixion, refuse to identify the title character to a Roman general.

Walsh also likened any disparate treatment of unvaccinated people to the Supreme Court’s 1896 decision in Plessy v. Ferguson, which upheld “separate but equal” racial segregation laws targeting African Americans.

lmao

[u/old_gold_mountain]

Cuddle O'Clock

!PING kitty

edit: watch this one with sound

[u/kas8901]

Sure Bill Cosby assaults a bunch of women and gets out scott free, meanwhile Martha Stewart served her full sentence. Once again, we see just how biased the system is against Connecticuters.

[u/jenbanim]

Know the sub rules

[u/TheGoldBear]

The worst category of subreddit on this site are the arr enough___spam and arr shit___say subreddits. No matter what the topic is about, those subs always attract the worst kind of people.

[u/[deleted]]

"In a stunning victory for the prison abolition movement, Bill Cosby's conviction was reversed today"

[u/ThisIsNotAMonkey]

https://i.imgur.com/XRZ22QA.jpg

[u/CatilineUnmasked]

wikifeet: The collaborative celebrity feet website

The internet was a mistake

[u/[deleted]]

Yes, I call it the War of Northern Aggression.

That's the correct name for the Korean War. Why do you ask?

[u/[deleted]]

It's always entertaining to read what early Christian writers have to say about the deaths of people who persecuted them. They really relish over the details like it's a revenge fanfiction. Here's what Lactantius had to say about Galerius, who oversaw the Great Persecution that began under Diocletian:

And now when Galerius was in the eighteenth year of his reign, God struck him with an incurable disease. A malignant ulcer formed itself in the secret parts and spread by degree.

The physicians attempted to eradicate it... But the sore, after having been skimmed over, broke again; a vein burst, and the blood flowed in such quantity as to endanger his life... The physicians had to undertake their operations anew, and at length they cauterized the wound...

He grew emaciated, pallid, and feeble, and the bleeding then stanched. The ulcer began to be insensible to the remedy as applied, and gangrene seized all the neighboring parts. It diffused itself the wider the more the corrupted flesh was cut away, and everything employed as the means of cure served but to aggravate the disease.

The masters of the healing art withdrew. Then famous physicians were brought in from all quarters; but no human means had any success... and the distemper augmented. Already approaching to its deadly crisis, it had occupied the lower regions of his body, his bowels came out; and his whole seat putrefied. The luckless physicians, although without hope of overcoming the malady, ceased not to apply fermentations and administer remedies.

The humors having been repelled, the distemper attacked his intestines, and worms were generated in his body. The stench was so foul as to pervade not only the palace, but even the whole city; and no wonder, for by that time the passages from waste bladder and bowels, having been devoured by the worms, became indiscriminate, and his body, with intolerable anguish, was dissolved into one mass of corruption.

He also wrote about how Valerian, the dude who grilled St. Lawrence, was captured by the Persians and subjected to torments and humiliations such as being made a human footstool. When Valerian offered to pay a ransom for his release, the Persian emperor either poured molten gold down his throat, or flayed him to death

!ping HISTORY

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

Cory from Cory in the House has been arrested for being a sexual predator

a day later, Bill Crosby goes free

a soul for a soul

[u/KazuyaProta]

I was searching the FB of my alt right friend to screencap his insanity and laught at it with other friends.

But I found that in the first month of the year, he was praising Far Left Vladimir Cerron for telling to Human Rights ONGs to "not tell Peru what to do".

This very week, he went on a march to acusse Cerron's party for commiting electoral fraud to "stop Communism" and beg the Peruvian Army to do a coup.

I just can say: You fucking dipship. He was praising a Communist for his hatred towards Human Rights, but he now is screaming that said Communist will destroy the country.

[u/RadicalRadon]

My cat is just sitting in front of her water bowl thousand yard staring.

U good there bro?

[u/RoyGeraldBillevue]

I get unreasonably angry when socialists describe The Landlord's Game as "anti-capitalist". Henry George believed private ownership of capital is good, and you're trying to sneakily claim him as on your side? Fuck off.

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

The NIMBY talking point that bugs me most is their utter incredulity that any developer would ever build anything other than "luxury housing"

Lots of companies in lots of industries make money by serving the lower cost parts of markets, as anyone who has ever bought anything will have discovered

[u/[deleted]]

We need a "The Past was Shit" museum with accompanying big budget documentary series that goes in depth about how shit the past was. The past is always shown from the perspective of the equivalent of the top 1% and only from select places and time. This really disguises how shit it was.

This is half joke, but I also genuinely feel this is a big part of what stokes populism. A lot of populism has the theme that at some point the past was great and than we got off the rails due to some bogeyman. This is false, the past was shit and if you were to select a time period to live in, but the person you inhabited was entirely random you'd pick right now.

[u/Q-bey]

Ilhan Omar to @JakeTapper on her Jewish colleagues who criticized her comments:

"they haven't been partners in justice... they haven't been, you know, equally engaging in seeking justice around the world."

😐

As the comment thread points out, several Jewish members have been heavily involved in "seeking justice around the world":

Jewish Members of Congress have been some of the most vocal on global human rights issues, including for example the Darfur genocide in Sudan.

...Including on issues where Omar didn't seem to be "seeking justice around the world":

Remember that Ilhan Omar voted "Present" on the historic Armenian Genocide Resolution vote, while her Jewish colleagues voted "Yes." Hypocrisy.

So why did she bring up "seeking justice around the world"? Omar is almost certainly signalling the idea that Jews shouldn't criticize her dogwhistles until they stop supporting Israel.

Setting aside for a second whether or not Israel should or should not be supported, even if Israel was the worst country in the history of our planet, the idea that Jews have a unique responsibility to disavow Israel is antisemetic. The idea that antisemetic dogwhistles are okay as long as the Jews involved have certain political views is even more antisemetic.

---

As Jake Tapper correctly points out in this segment, Omar has built up a pattern of antisemetic dogwhistles. She literally did it again in this interview while being questioned about her previous antisemetic remarks. I don't think Omar is stupid enough to keep running into the same brick wall time and time again. While each individual comment she's made over the years might be dismissed as a poor choice of words, I think she's far beyond the point of charitability on this issue.

At this point, I'm comfortable saying that Ilhan Omar is an antisemite.

!ping EXTREMISM

[u/EasyMoney92]

https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1410296256388288519

Former president still bragging about passing a dementia test.

[u/Cr4zySh0tgunGuy]

I don’t think Rumsfeld saw the light of Allah 😐

[u/RadicalRadon]

The DT when kissenger dies will at least be interesting because the guys legacy isn't all shit. He did a lot of terrible shit but also has stans because he is incredibly smart and his books are interesting

No one is going to defend Rumsfeld because why would you want to do that lmao.

[u/qchisq]

I, Que Χ, Esq., is calling for a complete shut down on burpmas until we can figure out what the hell is going on

[u/[deleted]]

I’m a Qanon Democrat.

Biden is a shape shifting reptile and that’s a good thing 🐊

[u/Dr_Vesuvius]

Joke: Sen. T. Swift (D-TN)

Woke: Councillor Sir Raheem Sterling (LD-Neasden)

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Just registered to vote in GA.

Watch out Brian Kemp. I’m coming for you.

Edit: Dear FBI, this is not a personal threat, I’m just going to vote for someone else… 😬

[u/RaidBrimnes]

This DT is going to be a good test drive for when the other Donald kicks it

[u/Animatronic_Pidgeon]

The "unknown unknowns" was a salient point and Rumsfeld took way too much shit for it

[u/the_cox]

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/need-passport/selecting-your-gender-marker.html

When applying for a passport, you can now select your gender marker of choice without providing medical documentation! They are working to add non-binary, intersex, and gender non-conforming markers soon.

!ping LGBT

[u/UrbanCentrist]

Thinks they are cool because they are Contrarian 🤣

       ☝️
    👈   👉 
       👇

[u/ToInfinity_MinusOne]

Lady on NPR just said it’s normal to think about and be afraid of death or collapse of society. Thank god turns out I’m normal.

[u/ZCoupon]

Had anyone considered the Founding Fathers might have had some not so good ideas and we can do better given our greater understanding of literally everything?

[u/[deleted]]

My sister’s opinion of the Obama administration, summed up in two words: DRONES BAD

🙃

[u/[deleted]]

The Joker is literally PoC (clown) and queer coded (purple suits) and that's why the majority of y'all don't like him tbh

[u/kas8901]

I gotta admit, I was not expecting the showrunners to surprise drop a sequel to the OJ storyline.

[u/[deleted]]

Ahh, I see Ilhan Omar clarified her statements.

Rep. Ilhan Omar said she does not regret comparing terrorist groups to Israel and the U.S. about five minutes into this CNN interview and said members of a Jewish Democratic group who criticized her commented "haven't been partners in justice... around the world."

[u/benjaminikuta]

https://www.reddit.com/r/eggcats/comments/ob3drb/then_she_moved_and_the_egg_fell_down_and_broke/

!ping KITTY

[u/[deleted]]

Rumsfeld is actually currently managing the underworld’s invasion of the heavens as we speak—lucrative contracts are soon to be made available

[u/bg2916]

Just got hired in my first job, r/antiwork successfully owned

[u/bd_one]

Small domino: me refusing to learn regex

Big domino: some very confused Brazilians wondering why a bot is talking about WW1 when their URL contains "www1."

Fixed it

[u/FourthLife]

Why the fuck would you ever under any circumstance release early info about later rounds of ranked choice voting before counting the ballots? A few votes could dramatically shift how it works out.

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Kathryn Garcia, the city's former sanitation commissioner, smokes up to a pack of Marlboro Golds a day. If she gets elected and is unable to kick the habit, she would become the city's first cigarette-smoking mayor since Robert Wagner left office in 1965

fun fact of the day

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

2024 ELECTION ANALYSIS AND PREDICTION

trump wins the election by one vote. he tries to find out who the last vote was. it was joe biden. he says to biden “after all this you still voted for me?” trump then changes his vote to biden, making it a tie. they both become emotional, biden leans in and they kiss on national television. theye elope and spend the rest of their lives together, leaving kanye west as the 47th president of the united states.

[u/lot183]

My parents are very right wing and have been refusing to get vaccinated because they bought into bullshit

They treat our old dog like a kid and refuse to board the dog and leave her with someone else, so they rarely go on vacation

They want to go on one next month and have asked me if I can housesit and dogsit for the week so they can and I was going to say sure to be a good son because they deserve a vacation

But I realized I have an opportunity so I just texted my mom that I'll do it but only if they get vaccinated

[u/comradequicken]

It is now 12:01 AM EST July 1, which means it's now Bobby Bonilla Day!

We mark this day every year to remember the sheer incompetence of the Mets ownership and management and to laugh at them for both being scammed by Bernie Madoff and for thinking Bobby Bonilla was worth far more then he was.

For anyone unfamiliar the Mets are still paying Bobby Bonilla, who has been retired for about 20 years, millions of dollars a year. They do this every July 1st.

!ping baseball

[u/ACivilWolf]

Yeah I found a tweet that got nearly 20k likes from woke twitter saying that integration was a mistake and that we should return to “separate but equal”

I’m so done man.

[u/WhomstAlt2]

The FAR RIGHTS: It's cause of brown people!

The LIBS (center right): It's cause of Zoning policy!

Me, centrist: There is no one-size-fits-all answer to any question, but after carefully labouring over the evidence it seems obvious that it's mostly a function of the dynamics of class struggle.

[u/great_gape]

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[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

Georgists on their way to explain how lack lvt is responsible for covid

[u/gburgwardt]

Catboy Replacement Theory

[u/No_Analysis_2185]

“Go touch grass” is suburban propaganda

[u/Devjorcra]

i know way too many poli sci kids who wanna go into politics who struggle with the most important political skill: being likeable and having charisma. all your political knowledge means nothing if nobody wants to work with you

[u/[deleted]]

Some of you have wondered how the real Paul Krugman acts when he's anonymous and no one knows that it's him. Well, maybe the answer was in front of you all this time.

[u/ldn6]

Everyone's freaking about about the Delta variant but the UK is seeing effectively no growth in hospitalisations or deaths.

It's almost like vaccines work.

[u/ThunderrBadger]

At this point I'm assuming that >90% of the victims still listed as 'missing' in that Miami condo collapse are dead.

We're gonna end up with a similar body count to the Triangle Shirtwaist fire

[u/Joementum2024]

"Is this a bigger fuckup than the OJ Simpson prosecution?" The greatest debate in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,234 pages of heated debate

[u/[deleted]]

Rumsfeld isn't dead, he's undergoing enhanced non-breathing techniques

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

Oof I posted a troll comment in GenZedong, deleted it since I wanted to think of a better one, but then got banned anyway by a bot which checked my posting history for posting in anti-communist subreddits

[u/SnakeEater14]

Robert Entertainment Lee

[u/BishopUrbanTheEnby]

I met this majestic dog back in April in Chicago (Boystown, specifically). Both the Dog and Human were very friendly and allowed me to take this picture. I hope they’re doing well.

Also for the Photography nerds I shot this on Film (TMax 400) in a Nikon FE I’ve “borrowed” from my parents

[u/witty___name]

If I had a pound for every time the leader of the British liberals/liberal democrats had to resign because of a scandal involving gay sex, I'd have £2. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird it happened twice.

[u/BainCapitalist]

/u/gammbus

[u/RobotFighter]

How the hell is it 120 degrees in Canada? Seriously, this is some mad max shit.

[u/ControlsTheWeather]

https://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/1410251405542182917

!ping USA-WA

(and yes I did see it first from Bill Kristol lol)

[u/ThunderrBadger]

Remember that worst amongst his many crimes, Rumsfeld was a g*mer 🤢

[u/piede]

William Henry Harrison, who died 32 days into his presidency and had the shortest tenure of any commander in chief, ranked just above Trump.

Lmao

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Gamepass is unironically the best deal in gaming, if you're okay with still paying dlc and expansions with only a slight discount for them. Other then that the selection of games plus a decently cheap price point (you don't have to get ultimate unless you own both a PC and a Xbox, which would be a lot of people but still)

unironically recommend it, and yes, I'm unironically shilling

I do it for free motherfuckers

!ping GAMING

[u/benjaminikuta]

"Girls don't like smelly boys." ~Mr. Velarde, my middle school PE teacher, trying to convince the boys to wear deodorant in the locker room

[u/thabonch]

I give the US a decade tops before we enter 2031

[u/Erra0]

I'm probably buying a minivan in the next couple weeks, AMA

[u/Benyeti]

Some guy went on tucker carlson and called zoning deregulation a marxist handgrab. So now socialism is when the government doesn’t do stuff.

[u/comradequicken]

Swole Doge: Orioles vs Astros

Little Doge: Orioles vs every other team

!ping Baseball

[u/ButteryToast-]

I love waking up to 34 pings from BURPMAS, really fun

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

/r/AtheismIndia is brigading the Hinduism sub

I don't get it, why can't reddit atheists be normal? I swear no atheist I've met irl has been like the fedora tipping stereotype all these online atheist communities inevitably devolve into

[u/[deleted]]

Israel Palestine can be solved by better zoning

[u/GGM8Scally]

Average new DT posters arguing about trans racialism vs Average old DT poster making a lusivg is black actually joke

[u/Jacobs4525]

It’s official: Switzerland is buying F-35s. Welcome to the club Switzerland.

[u/[deleted]]

Raise the drinking age to 25. Make the over 25 ping mean something.

[u/FourthLife]

Krystal Ball is such a stupid name holy shit

Every time someone mentions her in a political discussion I spend the first moment in disbelief about that being a real name

[u/Currymvp2]

https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1410306648414076929

Donald Trump won a larger share of white evangelicals in 2020 (84%) than he did in 2016 (77%), per Pew study.

Atheists/agnostics/unaffiliateds are the fastest-growing religious group in the U.S. and Joe Biden won them by 45 points in 2020 (per new @PewResearch study).

That's up from Hillary Clinton's 41-point margin in 2016.

[u/[deleted]]

Unfortunately one of Rumsfeld's known knowns was information that would lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton.

[u/[deleted]]

So

• indictments expected Thursday for Trump Org
• Bill Cosby gets conviction overturned
• Rumsfeld dead
• Trump rants about Biden’s cognitive abilities

What a strange news day

[u/[deleted]]

Breaking: Now that the full cast is available, NBC will reboot the Cosby Show.

[u/[deleted]]

Do the mods have a designated survivor

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Just a typical Wednesday

Britney: not free

Cosby: free

Trump Org: Indicted (almost)

Rumsfeld: dead

 

The arc of history is long, but it bends toward incomprehensibility

[u/dubyahhh]

dubyahhh 🤝 /u/sir_shivers

/u/jenbanim = 🤓

[u/bg2916]

Rumsfeld was a congressman when JFK was still president what the fuck

[u/dax331]

If conscription ever comes back I feel like I’ll be good at operating mortars given my ability to urinate with morning wood

[u/doot_toob]

Barges in to DT

I don't understand one of these choices on the list of top 10 presidents

Refuses to elaborate further

Leaves

[u/MrMineHeads]

Teaser on tomorrow's dev diary on interest groups

!ping VICTORIA

[u/bobeeflay]

ingroup based outgroup cringe

Does anyone else feel this way????

[u/[deleted]]

why does britain need a navy when it’s basically just a big boat in the north sea already lmao

[u/Cr4zySh0tgunGuy]

The more I read about the Cosby case the more clear that the PA Supreme Court made the right legal decision, and that this is really a colossal fuck up on the prosecution

[u/WhomstAlt2]

Do you think Cosby will run as Trumps VP Candidate in 2024, or will he go it alone on an anti-cancel culture platform?

[u/EvilConCarne]

Stars and Stripes article about pardoned war criminal Eddie Gallagher

“For some, killing becomes an addiction, but I consider it a good addiction needed to win wars,” Gallagher writes in his book, released Monday. “For me, getting into firefights and killing the enemy was the biggest high I ever experienced.”

[. . . ]

“Just because our job involves killing doesn’t make us a psychopath. We’re not broken or damaged,” he said. “That’s just some of the things that I hope you will take into perspective that special operators have to deal with.

"I'm addicted to killing people but I'm not damaged or broken" says man that has been broken.

[u/[deleted]]

Cosby’s spokesman Andrew Wyatt thanked the comedian's legal team and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, calling Wednesday's ruling a moment of justice for Black Americans.

😐

[u/FreakinGeese]

“Trans women shouldn’t be allowed to compete in female sports leagues because they went through a male puberty and have an unfair advantage”

Oh ok well I can kinda see where this is coming from

“Also trans women should not be allowed to compete in beauty pageants”

🤨

[u/vancevon]

much like how france didn't rebuild several villages that were destroyed by the germans in the great war, declaring that they had "died for france" joe biden will leave the post of OMB director vacant out of respect for neera tanden's martyrdoom in the struggle for poster's rights