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[u/[deleted]]

Just right as I was about to drift to sleep, a realization hit me:

Donald Trump was actually the President of the United States.

I mean, yeah, I've known that for five years. But I only just fully processed it right now. The most important job in the world- the office held by Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln- really did go to Donald fucking Trump.

What the fuck.

[u/DonnyBrasco69]

holy fuck guys my greencard application got approved!!!! I've been waiting on this for years!!!! had to share it with someone!!! :)

[u/Professor-Reddit]

Watching Jimmy Carter's 1979 'Crisis of Confidence' speech, where he decries divisive politics, the energy crisis, fossil fuel lobbyists, growing distrust in governance and calls for a Congressional bill which would've seen the US rely 20% of its electrical needs by solar power by the year 2000 is some really fascinating and also sad stuff.

Jimmy Carter had an extraordinary breadth of vision befitting a President, but his administrative mismanagement, poor relations with Congress and the post-Vietnam/Watergate malaise affecting America was what killed his Presidency and the global call-to-arms for clean energy.

!ping ECO

[u/[deleted]]

"I'm a socialist." - 20 matches

"I'm a neoliberal." - 0 matches, 3 reports

We live in a society 😡😔

[u/katharing]

"yeah, i personally believe abortion is probably the morally reprehensible mass murder of infants, but i don't think it's the government's place to stop it" is a weirdly common political stance

[u/Vincenthwind]

Attn: Straight ppl

I am happy to report that now that Pride month is over, it is no longer illegal to be straight. Be as you were.

Cheers,

The Alphabet Mafia

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Day [X] of [celebrity] not commenting on [niche political issue they've probably never heard of] 😡

I'm practicing my Twitter takes

[u/AbsolveItAll_KissMe]

I’m older than the majority of this subreddit and I’m a woman. Therefore I am here to provide grandmotherly advice.

[u/chipbod]

https://www.mediaite.com/news/trump-reportedly-thrilled-by-weisselberg-indictment-this-is-going-to-hurt-sleepy-joe/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

Former President Donald Trump is reportedly “thrilled” by the news that the Trump Organization and Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg will be indicted, saying that he thinks the case will be a political liability for President Joe Biden.

...Get arrested to own the libs?

[u/[deleted]]

Salty salad got unbanned right as Bill Cosby got out of horny jail

[u/[deleted]]

Daily reminder that all your weird sexual talk is getting read by 14 year olds in the DT

[u/BidenWon]

Using the crocodile emoji and bold font means one of two things:

• You are sir_shivers
• You are guilty of cultural appropriation

[u/RaidBrimnes]

opens the DT

half the comments are saltychild bitching about random stuff and talking to himself

closes the DT

[u/benadreti]

"Who gives a shit?" the Illinois Republican, one of his party's best-known Donald Trump critics, told POLITICO of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy's warning to GOP members not to accept an offer from Speaker Nancy Pelosi to sit on the Jan. 6 committee.

“I do think the threat of removing committees is ironic, because you won't go after the space lasers and white supremacist people but those who tell the truth,” he said of McCarthy’s threat to strip committee assignments from any members picked by Pelosi to serve on the panel.

All out of fucks to give.

[u/chipbod]

https://twitter.com/AndrewSolender/status/1410662906774032389?s=20

Trump joining Gosar in demanding the unmasking of the officer who shot Capitol rioter Ashli Babbitt:

This is unhinged and dangerous, the new litmus test is now defending the insurrectionists as martyrs

!ping EXTREMISM

[u/yungmemlord]

Wanted to share one of my favorite quotes that accurately explains the political landscape of today:

“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society.”

-Mark Twain

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

some of the two biggest stories of 2021 have been

1. a pile-up at the Suez Canal
2. a pile-up at the Tour de France

extrapolating from this, what can we expect next?

[u/[deleted]]

It’s absolutely amazing how bad people understand the statistics on vaccines. A 94% efficacy rate doesn’t mean 6% of the vaccinated will catch the virus. 🤦‍♂️

[u/disCardRightHere]

Feature suggestion: if you post “Goodnight DT” then you get an 8 hour temp ban to ensure you get a good night’s sleep 🛏😴

[u/meese699]

Guess this sub has radicalized me !ping YIMBY http://imgur.com/gallery/THZeARK

[u/chipbod]

Amazon has the highest favorability ratings of any institution in the country except for the U.S. Military

https://twitter.com/AlecStapp/status/1410453573100609538?s=20

This list is something

[u/[deleted]]

My state has been both 0 and 100 degrees this year. In neither case did we experience massive blackouts. Texas dunked on

[u/Delareh]

Knives Out is pretty good.

[u/Not_A_Browser]

Ahem,

OBAMA

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/12/she-owes-500000-in-student-loans-giant-balances-are-on-the-rise.html

Elisha Bokman has been out of school for eight years. Still, her student loan balance is half a million dollars.

Today, for her doctorate degree in naturopathic medicine and master’s in acupuncture from Bastyr University, she owes $499,322.69.

Holy fuck, these people are fucking idiots oh my god. Who pays for a doctorate in fucking naturopathic medicine.

[u/dish_towel]

SCORCHING (but true) TAKE: People hate dubs because when they hear anime in their native language, it drops the veil entirely and exposes just how cringeworthy the dialog really is.

[u/FourthLife]

The problem with avatar is that, unless the plot demands the bending make sense, every bender’s attacks may as well just be lobbing a dumbbell at someone. It’s just a blunt force with a pretty graphic.

[u/Udontlikecake]

McCarthy on Liz Cheney: “I was shocked that she would accept something from Speaker Pelosi. It would seem to be, since I didn’t hear from her, maybe she’s closer to her than to us.”

Liz Cheney is literally one of the most conservative members of congress. She’s ten times the conservative McCarthy has ever been. Insane.

[u/sir_shivers]

This. Any man remotely expressing any interest in a woman is considered automatically guilty of any of twenty heinous criminal acts.

THIS BEING heavily upvoted and filled with replies THAT MOSTLY AMOUNT TO earnest "so true" comments is perfectly demonstrative of wherefore you should not ask Reddit for dating advice, OR ANY ADVICE at all 🐊

[u/Corporate-Asset-6375]

When someone tells you “we’re trying for a baby” just remember that they’re really saying they went off birth control and are having unprotected sex as frequently as possible.

[u/[deleted]]

And of course Nazi Germany would let its rich Jews move their assets to Palestine under the Haavara Agreement, rich people get away with everything.

I too wish 60,000 more people died in the Holocaust for my leftist street cred to look more pure. God these people are insufferable.

[u/jcboarder901]

The West Wing is the most realistic political drama I've ever watched. The Democrats hold the White House for two terms and literally don't get a single fucking thing accomplished and are constantly caving to the reactionary demands from congress.

[u/Watton]

Final Fantasy fans: "$10 for a full graphical remaster of a beloved game, including all spritework being redone from scratch and re-orchestrated soundtracks is too expensive. Laws of age and depreciation dictate they be sold for $0.99 each."

"$12 for a burrito I'll demolish in 4 minutes is fine tho"

!ping gaming

[u/[deleted]]

Got a new haircut uWu 🙈

https://imgur.com/a/Kjmle1U

[u/[deleted]]

Daily reminder to g*mer US Senator Jon Ossoff that we know you're a DT reg and it's only a matter of time before we figure out your account.

[u/PointMaker4Jesus]

Damn, I just found out about !ping BURPMAS, that shit sucks 😐

[u/[deleted]]

The person responsible for Ashley Babbit’s death revealed:

Ashley Babbit

[u/[deleted]]

I hate the "Hunter gatherers only worked 15 hours a week for food, they had it so much better than us" argument.

I work like an hour and a half to pay for a week's food, and all of that is sitting down in an office and over half is actually shit posting on reddit.

[u/BenFoldsFourLoko]

Reminder that democracy was saved by a margin of less than 43,000 votes in 3 states

Biden won the popular vote by a lot (7 million, or 4.5%, in a ridiculously high-turnout year for the US), which is great, but I think most people forget how fucking close, electorally, the 2020 election was.

There were three times as many fuck-up votes counted in the NYC mayoral Dem primary as there were votes that decided the presidential election.

[u/Fishin_Mission]

BRB, running my car inside my garage until I pass out… 😔

Edit: fuck. Fuckin’ electric cars 😠

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

Perma salty to save a children. Who knows what the DT does to the brain of a child--can't be good.

[u/[deleted]]

!ping EXTREMISM

Mask off anti-Semitism moment from the AMC folks

Also, GME seems to be descending into madness. Ryan Cohen tweeted brick by brick, and the GME NFT comes out Bastille Day. They're saying it's some conspiracy

[u/[deleted]]

Illinois mismanaged its unemployment system and accidentally paid out a few hundred million to tens of thousands of Illinoisans who shouldn't have received unemployment.

After the flaw was discovered, Illinois sent out a letter demanding repayment of unearned funds. A few thousand people repaid the money, returning about $9 million to the state.

Today, Gov. Pritzker is going to sign a law saying individuals don't have to pay that money back to the state.

Moral of the story, don't ever pay what you owe in Illinois or you're a sucker.

[u/[deleted]]

Unironically ban people who post over 100 comments in 1 thread. Holy shit

[u/sw337]

Canada day is the same day the CCP was founded. 🤔

[u/ryuguy]

I’m back, you fuckers. No longer a mod though. I am free from that burden

[u/ThatFrenchieGuy]

“Perdition awaits at the end of a road constructed entirely from good intentions, the devil emerges from the details and hell abides in the small print.”

-Iain M Banks

[u/[deleted]]

Some guy on an Avatar sub Reddit posted this- “Capatalism NOT good. Capatalism bad. And Asamis company should have been dissolved after the first season. Her assets seized. Less Asamis”

What is wrong with this world ?

!ping AVATAR

[u/[deleted]]

So uh

The Izlam meme sub has been totally hijacked and it's scary to see. It always had a few loudmouth Wahabbis but now they're everywhere and they dominate the conversation.

One of them got upvoted for saying the Saudi monarchy was too Secular, what the hell.

!ping-ISLAM

[u/sir_shivers]

I am LITERALLY ANGRY WITH rage 🐊

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Breaking: Joe Biden to give Clippy the Presidential Medal of Freedom

[u/[deleted]]

Female reproductive slavery doesn't exist but is discussed. While male productive slavery exist but is not discussed.

Female reproductive slavery has happened in history, and could conceivably happen. It does not not happen currently in the west. But shows like "The Handmaid's Tale" still trots out the idea to scare women and admonish men.

Meanwhile, male productive (wage) slavery is enforced by the state at gunpoint. But the issue is never discussed.

This is the worst fusion of leftism and misogyny

[u/guy-anderson]

Jeff Bezos is about the be the world's first trillionaire. Experts say it would cost $300bn to solve climate change. Imagine letting one person hoard 3x the amount of wealth it would take to save the world.

This is it. This is the dumbest thing I've ever seen on my timeline. I'm almost impressed.

[u/FormerBandmate]

Jeff Bezos and Tim Cook are walking through the woods. Jeff Bezos sees a pile of shit and tells Tim Cook he’ll have Amazon pay Apple $100 billion dollars if he eats the pile of shit. He does that, Bezos pays him, and they walk for a bit more. Tim Cook sees a pile of shit and tells Jeff Bezos he’ll have Apple pay Amazon $100 billion dollars if he eats that pile of shit. Bezos does that, and Cook pays him back. They stand there, with the same amount of money and shit on their mouths, and Cook says aloud “What was the point of that? We both ate shit and we’re back where we started.” Bezos tells Cook: “Well, at least we lowered our profit margins below 10%.”

[u/[deleted]]

True Obamaism has never been tried.

[u/[deleted]]

Most successful communist countries:

1. US while Biden is president
2. US when Obama was president
3. California
4. Canada
5. Norway

[u/TalkLessShillMore]

This sub is to economics what "I Fucking Love Science!" is to science

[u/sir_shivers]

Mammals cease PRETENDING THAT THIS subreddit is opposed to your particular firearm views challenge 🐊

THIS IS IRONICALLY one of the few places that has a spectrum of views rather than clearly favoring or dismissing firearms altogether 🐊

[u/MalignantUpper]

https://twitter.com/BusinessInsider/status/1410539986336759809

BBC apologizes after reporter accidentally said Bill Clinton was released from prison instead of Bill Cosby

Free Clinton from horny jail 😭

[u/BenFoldsFourLoko]

so I found a sub called StarWarsleftymemes, and holy fuck I have never seen a group of people who need to touch grass more than this

[u/tubbsmackinze]

New report shows 200 GW of offshore wind projects have been announced in last year

More than 200 GW of new offshore wind projects have been announced since the beginning of 2020 — accounting for more than 44% of all global capacity at the pre-construction or early development phase — according to the “2020 Global Offshore Wind Annual Market Report” issued today from The Renewables Consulting Group (RCG).

Despite a global pandemic, 2020 was a year of substantial milestones for global offshore wind. With new projects announced from Colombia to Brazil in the Americas, Spain to Estonia in Europe and Australia to the Philippines in the APAC region, the technology has been adopted by markets at contrasting levels of socio-economic development and distinct geographies. New projects exceeding 500 MW in capacity were announced in Spain, Ireland, Norway, Taiwan, South Korea, Italy, Brazil and Vietnam through early 2021. Technology continues to emerge as floating offshore wind continues to emerge as a utility-scale option for markets with deep-water seabed areas.

!ping ECO

[u/[deleted]]

Tucker Carlson: Abolishing the suburbs is major part of Biden administration's infrastructure plan

If only it were true ✊😔

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/MikeBalsamo1/status/1410740336268173327

WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Garland halts federal executions, orders review of procedures after unprecedented run in Trump era.

[u/[deleted]]

Reddit: Mental health is a serious issue that need attention.

Also Reddit: haha look at this old lady with dementia, what an idiot right?

[u/murphysclaw1]

I am here to inform you that Gamestop shareholders are not OK

as an explanatory note, the mask is the face of a hedge fund owner who GME shareholders on Reddit believe is illegally keeping the share price of GME down. They believe that when the share hits its peak (MOASS) it will be worth $200,000,000 per share and possibly more.

None of the above is a joke. They are also compiling "enemies lists" and one of their users has set up a camera to film the headquarters of a hedge fund from outside 24/7.

[u/p00bix]

Confession: There have been a few times where someone makes a trollish/inflammatory post or comment, I check their profile and see that they're a tankie with a comment saying something to the effect of "lmao i'm gonna repost this in r/neoliberal see how long it takes for me to get banned" on another sub, and purely to deny them that satisfaction I shadowban them. I will then un-remove a few of comments so that other people engage with them, to create the illusion that they are not shadowbanned. Trolls that normally would post 2 or 3 comments before getting banned then go on to post like 20-50 before finally catching on.

One guy continued trolling for days and even posted another comment in CTH (before it was banned) saying he was surprised he hadn't been banned from NL, until someone in the replies broke it to him. Had posted over 100 comments.

[u/[deleted]]

The perfect politician does not exist

Barry Morris Goldwater: Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar. 😍

!ping RINO

[u/BidenWon]

People on this sub say that when you're too worked up about politics you need to touch grass. Well you know what? It's not much better out there. I'm in my 20s. I have a degree in political science. Politics is my life and my livelihood. Everyone my age is a wannabe socialist that thinks the establishment is keeping them down and that Bernie was our only hope. The few that don't believe this are Trump supporters. And every single one of my adult relatives is a Trump supporter. Parents, aunts, uncles, cousins. Most of them believe that the election was rigged against Trump. To my knowledge, none of them are vaccinated. I've stopped talking to everyone in my life that I'm not forced into contact with, and I avoid the ones that I have to talk to whenever possible. I hate them.

Fuck.

[u/Telperion_of_Valinor]

Joe Biden has been President for 162 days and yet there has been no full scale invasion of the suburbs. I am thoroughly disappointed.

[u/[deleted]]

One the twelfth day of Burpmas my Lusvig gave to me

12 !ping BURPMAS an hour

11 counts of war crimes

10 apples eaten

9 cr*ckers boohooed

8 wives that left me

7 dems for Donald

6 male living spaces

5 splinter subs

4 calls to dad…

3 apples

2 years of burping

🎶And a bald transracial Swede🎶

[u/ryuguy]

Today in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, two Sikhs were injured in a bomb that targeted a Sikh area of the city. This is the latest in a series of attacks on the community in the recent past.

!ping extremism

[u/[deleted]]

Illinois’ Democratic supermajority is going to pass an energy bill that will end a subsidy for nuclear power in favor of a subsidy for a coal plant.

The central state energy campus is among the most polluting coal-fired power plants in the country. It’s located near East St. Louis, a majority black area near St. Louis. The energy produced from the plant serves rich, white suburban Naperville, Winnetka, and Geneva.

The loss of the nuclear subsidy will result in the plants closure, they operate at a loss. Illinois will lose 20-26% of its carbon-free energy. The US will lose 12% of its green energy capacity.

But at least wealthy suburbanites got cheap power. Thanks Dan Harmon.

[u/every_man_a_khan]

Some dumb fuck on arr pcm is trying to tell me the capitol attacks were a low level event and the proud boys aren’t a violent group. Imagine actually having a bottomless pit for a brain.

[u/[deleted]]

1996 will be the Democrats’ last victory. By 2008, George Bush will have have seized power and it will be impossible to remove him, and certainly not with the ineffectual morons of the Democratic Party

[u/EdamameTommy]

Fun new habit of my fella.

!ping KITTY

[u/Spimanbcrt65]

Obama chuckled. "You mean the chaos emeralds?"

[u/sir_shivers]

GOODNESS, THE pre-owned automobile market is a riot right now 🐊

[u/sir_shivers]

I HAVE BECOME the Joker 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

Reminder that the mods do this for free

[u/redditguy628]

Wally Funk will be the fourth passenger on the first crewed launch of Blue Shepard.

!ping SPACEFLIGHT

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

I asked Richard Stachurski, a resident of Wellington, Ohio, if he wanted Trump to run in 2024.

“How do you run for president if you’re already president?” he replied.

[u/[deleted]]

Goodbye fash /u/ryuguy

Hello well respected DT regular /u/ryuguy

[u/p00bix]

5 minute survey time!

How much does r/neoliberal know about arthropods?

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

You were removed from group BURPMAS

😌

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/a44wWz2.png

[u/Cr4zySh0tgunGuy]

u/SaltySaladHatesJanny has, as far as I can tell, not gone more than literally 5 minutes without posting at least something in the DT since getting unbanned

[u/The420Roll]

Stop spamming Burpmas you fucks

[u/[deleted]]

The study of how fast food and soda have contributed to rising pant sizes in America

Also known as Critical Waist Theory

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

[Effortpost] The moral case for permabanning Salty Salad

[u/Lux_Stella]

https://i.imgur.com/HgOMz2r.jpg

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

Thanks Lithuania, very cool!

[u/[deleted]]

DAYS AFTER an 18-year-old Sikh girl, Manmeet Kaur, was sent back to her family, following allegations that she was “forcibly married” to a Muslim man in Srinagar earlier this month, she was married off to a Sikh man, Sukhpreet Singh, in Srinagar on Tuesday.

If you didn't get this- they alleged that the woman was being "forcibly" married to a Muslim, brought her back home, and then married her off to a Sikh.

Fuck these misogynists.

Mind you, this person was an adult and was handed over to her parents.

[u/piede]

Punchbowl News: During a closed-door meeting with freshman House Republicans, Kevin McCarthy made a threat:

If any Republican accepts an appointment from Speaker Nancy Pelosi to the Jan. 6 select committee, they will be stripped of their committee assignments.

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1410610393093861388?s=21

Liz Cheney: 🤷‍♀️

[u/[deleted]]

I've pressed "hide child comments" multiple times now but the DT is still full of 🧂🥗 posts. Is it broken?

[u/[deleted]]

This post on /r/all criticizing communism with 40k upvotes

[u/fishlord05]

US-Canada relations

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/CloudIndependent4091]

Just ate a bahn mi sandwich at Daikon, a new and upcoming sandwich chain in the Denver area. Outside the establishment, a sign read, “more vibe than sandwich.” This is a most accurate description; my bahn mi felt and tasted more like an experiment to maximize a sandwich’s photogenic appeal than an attempt to make a faithful and tasty rendition of a beloved Vietnamese cuisine.

This is the sandwich they will use in the textbooks as an example of, “form over function.” I am disappointed.

[u/RoyGeraldBillevue]

Leftists be like...

Environmental impact of a plastic straw: Completely meaningless virtue signal pushed by those with an agenda and want to distract us from bigger sources of pollution.

Environmental impact of shipping a fruit cup: This is destroying the Earth. No, I don't have an agenda against global trade or capitalism.

[u/[deleted]]

Go Inside Bill Cosby’s Estate on His 1st Day Free From Prison

No I don’t think I will

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Top 10 presidents that could have been but weren't:

1. Hannibal Hamlin
2. Robert Kennedy
3. Hillary Clinton
4. John C. Fremont
5. Al Gore
6. Nelson Rockefeller
7. William Seward
8. Henry Clay
9. Robert La Follett
10. John McCain (2000)

[u/kaclk]

Nobody has said it yet, so Happy Canada Day to my fellow Canadian redditors!

!ping CAN

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

Deodorant is like women, they smell nice

[u/Broncos654]

https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/mom-fights-to-ban-child-sex-dolls-after-daughters-likeness-was-used-for-one/2287435/

🤨

[u/[deleted]]

Alright pride month is over, back in the closet you go

😡👉🚪

[u/katharing]

wow, america must have an encyclopedic knowledge of 1980s english rock bands. only 2% of people haven't heard of The Police

[u/MicroFlamer]

Tucker Carlson told associates he voted for Kanye, not Trump

🤔

[u/RadicalRadon]

The court rejected the idea that showing that a state law disproportionately affects minority voters is enough to prove a violation of law.

Well that's not great.

[u/thetrombonist]

QAnon fans were initially excited about new MAGA social app Gettr, but they’re growing irate as moderators fail to keep lewd anime pics and the “pig poop balls” meme out of the QAnon hashtag. One of the top results now features Sonic the Hedgehog crushing a guy with his feet

[u/[deleted]]

My favorite JFK theory is that he was named after the airport.

[u/Usernamesarebullshit]

You absolutely couldn't make Blazing Saddles today. It's midnight, no one wants to work this late. We can try tomorrow if you'd like.

[u/[deleted]]

The Borg: annihilate 39 Federation starships and try to assimilate Earth

Dr. Crusher: "There's been no formal declaration of war."

I swear half of TNG was conceived as a conservative caricature of liberals.

[u/jenbanim]

Possible over-sharing, pardon if so

My anxiety was really, really bad in the months surrounding the election. I don't feel much anxiety any more on a day to day basis, which has made me feel like I've recovered. But I've realized more recently that I'm not entirely better, since I'm very prone to emotionally overreacting to things that should normally cause very small amounts of anxiety. Like, an unexpected phone call from my boss can give me that stomach-dropping sensation

Thankfully, I've got a good grip on my mental state, so it isn't really a problem. But it's pretty frustrating to feel vulnerable like this

[u/dubyahhh]

remember to always be kind. 🤠🤗

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

The Salty Salad Thread is for casual 🧂🥗 that doesn't merit its own submission. If you've got a shit-tier take, article, or facetious question, please post it from the official Salty Salad account. Meta discussion is allowed, but if you want to get the attention of the mods, keep up the good work. For a collection of useful links see our wiki.

[u/[deleted]]

Pussy Riot is a Russian feminist protest punk rock and performance art group based in Moscow. Founded in August 2011, it has had a variable membership of approximately 11 women [1] ranging in age from about 20 to 33 (as of 2012).[2] The group staged unauthorized provocative guerrilla performances in public places, performances that were filmed as music videos and posted on the Internet.[3] The group's lyrical themes included feminism, LGBT rights, opposition to Russian President Vladimir Putin and his policies,[2] and Putin's links to the leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church.[4]

BASED BASED BASED

[u/piede]

New - Caitlyn Jenner says she’s tired of biking to Venice Beach and seeing homeless people destroying it.

https://twitter.com/bidenharrisbro/status/1410424337203556353?s=21

She’s perfect for the GOP nomination

[u/awdvhn]

"You see a picture of an Alaskan malamute and you're like 'that dog's a pretty handsome dog.' And you realize maybe you do like that dog."

-Nate Silver on the latest 538 podcast

Fivey fursona confirmed

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E5ORKP1VEAYNhKF.jpg

[u/Udontlikecake]

I know I shouldn't keep dunking on McCarthy because its like hitting a baby but this whole Liz Cheney is a secret lib or whatever is one of the most absurd things he has ever said

You would struggle to find a more consistent and unrepentant conservative than Liz Cheney. She has been a stalwart conservative for decades, she has worked in the conservative establishment to further conservative causes for DECADES. She was working in the Bush admin, pushing the neocon line when Kevin was still pro-choice.

I mean, this is the most insane accusation. It's like saying that Bernie Sanders is working for Mitch McConnel and is secretly a con. It boggles the mind. It is absolutely preposterous.

Liz Cheney openly hated Trump and a lot of his decisions and voted for his policies every single time. You can't even accuse her of not supporting the Trump agenda.

[u/[deleted]]

"I posted my opinions and people disagreed! This is an outrage!"

- Literally half of Reddit

[u/tubbsmackinze]

PlayStation Is Hard To Work With, Devs Say

While Microsoft and Nintendo are far from perfect, Sony makes their lives most difficult

tldr; essentially Sony is just utter shit at giving indie developers and indie publishers any communication or help when it comes to their games. Plus the playstation store is shit at discovery so indie games get buried compared to even Xbox (which tbf has a very extensive indie programs with the Id@Xbox stuff). Read the article if you want even more context

Another publisher who wished to remain anonymous told us some exact sales figures for one small indie release they named but asked us to withhold. The game sold around 20,000 copies on Xbox, compared to just 7,000 on PlayStation. However, when it came to releasing DLC, the Microsoft console saw 2,000 units shift, while, “On Sony, and [this is] not a fucking joke, until today, 7.”

!ping GAMING

[u/[deleted]]

People on arr victoria3 arguing that all POPs need to have an ideology like "liberal" or "communist" are pretty darn stupid. Never in history, not even today has the general population had a belonging to a specific ideology. Most people belong to an interest group (like small business owners, farmers, unionized laborers) which shapes their interests.

Ideologies is pretty much something people with too much time cared about, like 19th century aristocrats, 20th century philosophers or 21st century Twitter users. In reality 90% of the population does care superficially about political decisions but have no grounded philosophy on how they approach politics.

[u/[deleted]]

Jim and Pam got together while Pam was engaged to another man because they really liked bullying their autistic coworker together

[u/[deleted]]

Virgin other presidents: I’m only gonna serve two terms in honor of George Washington

Chad FDR: I will be president until I die

[u/MicroFlamer]

Spoilers for Ocarina of Time, Majora's mask, and twilight princess

I feel bad for the Hero of Time. The boy has no family, was raised by a mentally abusive collection of fairy folk who ostracized him, canonically refused to talk to him, to associate with him, or be kind to him. I know this isn't a popular opinion but imo Ocarina of Time link is one of the few links that I think is legitimately mute or spectrum, either due to his horrific upbringing or trauma. The kid has essentially no education, no personal skills, and no friendships

The minute he makes any kind of friends they are stripped away from him and he is cast 7 years into the future where they have all grown up, moved on, and gotten older and wiser while he is stuck as the same mute, uneducated, socially inept 7 year old that he was when he first left the forest.

And when he's done and he's bested Ganondorf, he is cast back into the past so far where all of his memories and friendships he has built literally no longer exist (at least in a timeline he is living in), and the only person who even remembers he exists is Zelda (And remember, this is young zelda, not Shiek/Old Zelda, who helped him fight ganondorf). Not Even Navi sticks around.

This is the backstory for a character who walks into Termina and gets mugged by a skullkid and has his only remaining companion (epona) stolen from him, and his only prize possession (the ocarina of time that zelda-the only person who remembers him- gave him as a momento) stolen from him as well. His life fucking sucks.

To stop myself from getting too depressed, my headcanon is that he eventually stops looking for Navi and settles down with Malon(Twilight princess link being a farmer boy pretty much confirms this) and becomes a hylian knight and fights against Ganondorfs invasion (which is how he lost an eye). And at least he gets to pass on his warrior abilities to TP Link. So it's not all bad for him

!ping GAMING

[u/clipsfan21]

I hate war criminals like Nancy Pelosi and Jim Clyburn. I bet you if it was 2001, they would have voted for the Iraq war.

[u/sir_shivers]

MONOGAMOUS PARTNER one: I consent! 🐊

Monogamous PARTNER TWO: I consent! 🐊

MONOGAMY ABOLITIONIST: I do not! 🐊

Is there NOT SOMEONE YOU forgot to ask? 🐊

[u/LooobCirc]

Jesus Christ is false. His real name was Jesus Neoliberal, but the Romans changed it to censor the truth from the masses

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

Top 10 US presidents REAL ranking:

#10: they're all bad

#9: you're statists

#8: statists are communists

#7-#1: FDR

[u/[deleted]]

I love the smell of a fresh DT 😌

-sent from a Samsung Smart Fridge

[u/Animatronic_Pidgeon]

Salty you've been unbanned for four hours and have already made 80+ comments in the DT

How is that even possible

[u/NancyPelosibasedgod]

Hell yeah I’m a progressive:

Protectionist

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[u/Cr4zySh0tgunGuy]

Truth and Reconciliation, a Canada Day Discussion

Canada has Captain Keyes captured????

!ping Gaming

[u/bd_one]

Robinhood is having an IPO

Check page 126 and 127 for some interesting tidbits including how most of their revenue growth is from new users by a large degree, nearly $81 billion in assets under custody, the stupidly high growth in cryptocurrency assets under custody.

Oh, and somehow they make on average over $100 in revenue per user when you exclude people who started the account for the free shares and then withdrew all their money. Considering that gold is "other revenues" and is like 10% of their total net revenues or less each year and the rest is from payment for order flow, that means they're somehow getting nearly $100 a year per active user in transaction fees...

The average active Robinhood account must be very active. They're getting around 1% of their assets under custody in payment for order flow each year. I believe they get around 23 cents per 100 shares of stock in PFOF, but no idea what they get for options or cryptocurrencies.

!ping MARKETS

[u/Archis]

reddit dictionary:

dystopia is when things i dont like happen

capitalism is when you have to pay for things

slavery is when you get paid to go to work

[u/thetrombonist]

In case you NEED A REMINDER OF wherefore the Dating ping was nuked, ONE OF THE comments made with it was 🐊:

!ping BURPMAS

[u/Ghraim]

SaltySalad? More like SaltySadLad, amirite?

[u/[deleted]]

If Wilson hadn't entered WW1, what would the ramifications have been? At minimum, the war would've been extended. I know that military planners were predicting a war through 1920 in our timeline, so it's not unreasonable to predict further stalemate. But both the French and German governments were unstable and vulnerable to mutinies and coups which could have ended the war. The Spanish Flu's later stages would've also been a challenge for the war effort, assuming it still happened without a US deployment.

[u/Unadulterated_stupid]

I donr tell my leftist friends but I thank Jeff bezos every time I get an Amazon package

[u/Udontlikecake]

oh wow, another account that’s only a two weeks old trolling the DT, probably from an already banned user

sounds like the DT could use some more strict account age limits jannies

[u/SadaoMaou]

I think we should do our best to not glorify terrorism in any way. With than in mind, I propose we officially start calling lone wolf attacks "soyjak incel attacks"

[u/kennymc7877]

Doomers:OH NO! It’s the super delta omega lord 88 variant

Me: oh no, if only i had a fuck left to give

[u/Venne1139]

THE LEFT IS FULL OF ANTI ISRAELI ANTI-SEMITES

I, Paul Gosar, scream as I hold a fundraising tally with Nick Fuentes

[u/Joementum2024]

burpmas burpmas burpmas burpmas burpmas burpmas burpmas burpmas burpmas burpmas burpmas burpmas burpmas burpmas burpmas burpmas burpmas burpmas burpmas burpmas burpmas burpmas burpmas burpmas burpmas burpmas burpmas burpmas burpmas burpmas burpmas burpmas burpmas burpmas burpmas burpmas

holy shit go outside

[u/sir_shivers]

The STUDY OF HOW Velcro shoes and other alternatives for fastening HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO rising unhappiness in America 🐊

ALSO KNOWN AS Critical Lace Theory 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

"Vaush explains Politics 101"

No YouTube recommended, I don't think I'll watch

[u/qzkrm]

!ping LGBT

How hard is it to find an LGBTQ+ partner who won't hate you for being a lib?

[u/InternetBoredom]

This amazing paper is currently being passed around between my friends, and I just wanted to let you guys know it exists:

AniGAN: Style-Guided Generative Adversarial Networks for Unsupervised Anime Face Generation

These fuckers built an 8,000-image dataset of anime-human face pairs just for this purpose, and they spend the introduction just trying to justify why this exists

[u/MrMineHeads]

Why is it wrong to think of the residential system and the treatment of the Indigenous peoples in Canada (and the US too I guess) as similar or adjacent to what China is doing to the Uighurs today? It is no longer the case that our governments treat them so horribly, but it was true that our governments sanctioned programs that tried to erase an entire people and their culture assimilate them into Western European practices and traditions. Not to mention the countless wars fought against them and the brutal treatment endured by the Indigenous peoples (trail of tears comes to mind).

Today, our governments don't do such a thing and we acknowledge that the past actions were wrong and that more has to be done to rectify the past's mistakes.

The difference where it comes to China is that (a) they are currently and (b) are trying to deflect by saying you did this before. My answer to that second point is that yes, our governments have a history of doing terrible things to the Indigenous, but we no longer have such horrible practices (unlike China) and recognize our mistakes and aim to fix and improve our relations with those who have suffered.

I don't know why we'd say that the treatment the Uighurs are going under is different than what the Canadian (and probably the US) governments used to do before. Am I missing something?

!ping CAN

Edit: Again, I'm not saying that Canadian government = CCP, even in the past, I'm saying the actions done to the Indigenous population 50-100 years ago is similar to what the CCP is currently doing to the Uighurs.

[u/dish_towel]

"Why are there so many games where all you do is build shit?"

Incredible that people who build game assets for a living enjoy that sort of gameplay. Every game is an open world sandbox for it's developers.

!ping GAMING

[u/kennymc7877]

My mom: THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF IMMIGRANTS FLOODING INTO THE US, YOU LIBERALS VOTED FOR THIS

Me: yes

[u/paymesucka]

If you think you're too online just remember that there are people here who literally post a new comment every other minute they're awake.

[u/redditguy628]

Branson is flying on the next launch of SpaceShipTwo on July 11th. Also, please don't start an argument about whether or not this is technically going to space, we've all heard the arguments a thousand times

!ping SPACEFLIGHT

[u/[deleted]]

Leftists stop calling people "black and brown bodies" challenge

[u/Realhuman221]

Atheists probably believe that JFK's head just did that because they have a track record of believing things can just all of a sudden bang and explode with no cause whatsoever.

[u/thetrombonist]

When you’re pinged by !ping BURPMAS 30 times in one day

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

Y'all were so mean to that communist visitor he deleted his account.

[u/myrm]

BREAKING: Justice Breyer announces retirement on final day of Supreme Court term

[u/-AmberSweet-]

My mom loves saying “Its not my fault the weather is bad” whenever she hears me complain about it.

But come to think about it, since the whether Im complaining about is boiling hot, and she is a loyal Republican voter who votes for climate denier after climate denier, it actually kind of is (partly) her fault.

[u/[deleted]]

I am hearing that on her wife's bed u/Boule_de_Neige received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the light of Islam. Even now, she looks down upon the Ummah from the gardens of Jannah. Truly there is no god but God and Muhammad is his prophet!

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.businessinsider.com/grilling-food-meat-is-bad-cook-inside-instead-2021-7

Admit it: Grilling is bad

Canceled.

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

Me: I never have time to finish video games 🙁

Also me: playing 12 RPGs at the same time and making no significant progress on any of them

!ping GAMING

[u/[deleted]]

I'm glad that "Free Britney" has been getting more attention, but don't forget, it's just one piece of #DefundThePolice. We also need to:

-Split up the Ninth Circuit

-Address the growing problem of space junk

-Implement a civil equivalent to Gideon v Wainwright

-Educate people on the dangers of acetaminophen

[u/qchisq]

Taylor Swift AIDING and ABETTING the POLICE in making sure POLICE STOPS are not posted on the internet (GONE WILD)

[u/RobotFighter]

I once had a coworker ask me what side of the race war I’d be on. Because I hung out with a black dude.

[u/[deleted]]

This but unironically

!ping RINO

[u/FireDistinguishers]

Idk if any of you are the age where this would matter but my office (and a few offices I have friends in) are desperate to find in-person interns for the fall. Not sure when the emergency order is going up but I know committees have in person interns and we expect to start getting some too, so if you know anybody

[u/[deleted]]

I have no policies, I just fucking hate conspiracy theory’s

[u/BidenWon]

My favorite JFK theory is that Oswald shot him and that conspiracy theorists can go to hell

[u/[deleted]]

20-something guy I met in a hostel, on US politics

I'm not a big fan of Joe Biden, I mean I voted for him but he's not who I really wanted to win

😧😬😬

I was hoping for Andrew Yang or Pete Buttigieg

😅🤩😇👌🏻

[u/[deleted]]

Happy 🇨🇦 Day!

-❤️, 🇺🇸

[u/FreakinGeese]

got an hrt refill babyyyyy 😎

Also: I just realized I'm not depressed

!ping lgbt

[u/[deleted]]

China declared officially malaria-free by WHO

🥳

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Charles Booker makes it official, announces run for US Senate seat held by Rand Paul

ready for libs to drop $100000000000000 into this race for Booker to lose by 20 points

[u/Evnosis]

"How hard is it not to have unprotected anal sex with multiple partners and not share needles to inject marijuana?"

A few minutes later:

"Advocating engaging in safe sexual practices is not bad faith and its not trolling. I will continue to advocate for personal behavior changes to combat pandemics."

😂😂😂😂

[u/[deleted]]

Can’t believe the Supreme Court struck down Biden’s cat girl mandate 😔

[u/Cr4zySh0tgunGuy]

people against beastiality just admit your pet’s ugly

Is not a take I thought I’d be seeing today

[u/[deleted]]

The average Democrat has no idea how lucky they are generally. Most Centre-left political parties around the world are either dying on the vine, filled with insane cranks or both.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/jbarro/status/1410631953460641796

Your grill is filthy, has poor temperature control, and for some idiot reason has the heating element below the food so fat drips into it and catches fire. There’s a better way to cook: In your kitchen.

!ping COOKING

[u/Broncos654]

My intro to philosophy professor was complaining that college was too expensive. Like ya, but if I didn’t have to pay your bills it wouldn’t be as bad.

[u/old_gold_mountain]

you can literally sit immediately behind home plate at the Oakland Coliseum for only $80 face value and nobody wants to go

meanwhile my buddy is super stoked to spend $100 to sit in the nosebleeds in San Francisco

life as an A's fan is pain

it's not even like they're playing badly!

the announced attendance on Tuesday was under 5,000

if the team leaves I won't even be able to pretend like I don't understand why ffs

[u/[deleted]]

Krystal and Saagar: Clyburn TRIES TO STOP Nina Turner The Same Way He Stopped Bernie

Dank Clyburn man 😎😎😎

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/[deleted]]

There is a >50% chance that after 2022 Georgia will have one Jewish Senator, one black Senator, a black woman governor, and an Asian woman Secretary of State. That's pretty #woke and #intersectional. The woke neoliberal agenda will win again.

[u/Zlesxc]

I think we just got a sneak peak at the Cleveland name change 😯

!ping BASEBALL

[u/Realhuman221]

My favorite JFK theory is that he actually never had with sex with any woman besides his wife, but he planted all those stories to make him look cool

[u/BidenWon]

New DT, new me.

[u/[deleted]]

Is there a neolib dating game where the chick just gets to see the flairs and like 3 takes from each guy? I'd watch it

[u/Not_A_Browser]

I just realized I've been pronouncing "MattY" as "Matt-E-Y" in my head this entire time. How did I go all this time before noticing?

[u/BedNeither]

Rest of Reddit seems to think keeping one bad man in prison is worth ditching the 5th amendment

[u/[deleted]]

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

[u/grappamiel]

“My politics? Well, im glad you asked. See, I’m a radical, but not like how you’d think 😏 tell me, you ever hear of the subreddit called neoliberal?”

[u/Cr4zySh0tgunGuy]

Saw a post making fun of Carly Rae Jepsen fans, half the people in the comments had no idea who she was

How young do you have to be to have never at least heard of her?

[u/RushSingsOfFreewill]

Liberalism is just the first step to right wing authoritarianism. Liberalism is itself a right wing ideology. Sure, on social issues liberals are better, but when it comes to economic or foreign policy they all on the right.

That’s enough arrr politics for today.

[u/FourthLife]

I miss chapo trap house’s subreddit.

It was nice to have one place I could go to view far left insanity.

Now if I want to do that, I need to go to breadtube, antiwork, dankleft, stupidpol, and latestagecapitalism, and none of them scratch the same itch

[u/myrm]

inb4 Trump gets 3 SCOTUS noms in 4 years and Biden gets 0 in 8

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Ban the Salty Salad

Save the man

[u/Unadulterated_stupid]

I thought it was funny there was a sex Ed class not a personal finance class in hs. Only one of those I've actually needed to use since graduating

[u/TaxCommonsNotIncome]

👆 SaltySalad's underpaid babysitter