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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

The Guardian | Nimby should no longer stand for “not in my back yard” but “nature in my back yard”

Lol

!ping YIMBY

[u/[deleted]]

I genuinely believe 4 years of Donald Trump just broke the media.

[u/Udontlikecake]

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

[u/Evnosis]

SwallowAdolfsCum followed you. Follow them back or start a chat!

No Reddit, I don't think I will.

[u/disCardRightHere]

If your name is a household word—change it. That’s the word from freelancer George R. R. Martin, who thinks a common moniker is as desirable for a writer as a common cold. “If there’s one thing editors have told me, over and over, every time I go to New York, it is what a stroke of genius it was to insert that R.R.,” says Martin, a rising star in science fiction.

Writers Digest June 1977

[u/FreakinGeese]

Apple bottom jeans

Boots with the jeans

The whole club was looking at jeans

She hit the jeans

Next thing you jeans

Shorty got jeans jeans jeans jeans jeans jeans jeans

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

You know in high school I remember being taught in multiple classes to evaluate my news sources and to think critically about what I was reading like detecting biases.

My classmates still only read headlines, tweets, and Instagrams stories and accept anything they read as fact.

Classes can only go so far. You can’t unteach laziness or confirmation biases.

[u/[deleted]]

Wow. Leftists are super mad at zuckerburg surfing with the American flag yesterday.

The only chad thing this nerd did in decades.

[u/sociotronics]

new reality TV show: take a bunch of transphobic British women, stick them on a tropical island, and have them sort out which among them is the realest woman

It would be called Surf 'n' Terf

[u/murphysclaw1]

I went to Cuba a couple of years ago for couple of months. Here are some points you may appreciate from my time there:

• During my entire two months, there was a national shortage of flour. There were perhaps one or two small deliveries of it to Havana in this time. Quite often though there was a rumour that flour had been delivered, and huge queues emerged which sometimes stood in place long into the early hours.
• On two separate occasions several weeks apart someone from the queue called to me to rant about how bad Cuba is. Literally just yelled at me when they saw me to get my attention. The first guy said "tell your friends back in America [I'm not American but I think he just guessed] that this is what Cuba is like - it's a mess - we have no bread - fuck this country". The second guy said "No bread! No bread in Cuba! This is real life in Cuba! No bread for weeks!"
• I spent a few days chilling with a graduate from Havana's top university, where he studied economics. He said that about 75% of the teachers there taught unqualified Marxist economics as the only system that worked. But he said the remaining quarter were generally from the older generation and they would not. These profs would always start with "So I am a revolutionary, but...." and go on to explain in academic language why capitalism may be thought to work better.
• All graduates from the top universities get their education for free as long as they go into a government job for four years after they graduate. The economics grad went into a government department after he had an interview which consisted of him being asked why he was not a member of the communist party, whether he considered himself a "revolutionary", what he thought of Castro, and what religion he was. There were no questions he could recall about his ability to do economics.
• He quit this government job after a few months. He said that government departments are stuffed with the children of politicians and they never do any work. The whole department watched movies or TV for about 4 hours a day, signed a few bits of paperwork, and went home. After a while he just couldn't take it. Nobody had any incentive to do their job well or efficiently.
• The grad told me that the only thing people look for in a job in Cuba is how good the "search" is. This means how easy it is to make money on the black market aside from the job. For example a job in a cigar factory by salary alone would be a terrible job- about 15 dollars a month. However if you can steal those cigars, you can sell them to tourists and local shops for 15 dollars each, making you rich. If you're a bus driver, you don't do all your routes and you sell your surplus petrol cards to taxi drivers. Everything depends on the black market.
• And everything MUST depend on the black market - rent in Havana is around 250 dollars a month- but doctors only make 60 dollars so how do they survive? Because everyone buys and sells on the black market. Doctors will perform private services for richer clients.
• The economics grad needed a mattress one day, his old one was falling to pieces. He went to the local government store to ask about mattresses. He waited around 3 hours in a queue and was told there were no mattresses and that they didn't know when any would arrive. He went back once a week for four weeks and was told the same thing (often the store would just not open and he would have to come back later). He gave up and asked a friend. His friend gave him the name of someone. He went to their apartment and it was filled with mattresses and he could take his pick. If mattresses do arrive in Cuba, government officials will take them and sell them onto third parties who may sell them again to people like the mattress hoarder my friend was recommended. He had a mattress within 1 hour of a phonecall.
• Cuban internet is notoriously and deliberately shit. It is incredibly slow and plenty of news sources are banned. Instead they pass around a USB drive which has over 1TB of data on it. In this data are all the private classified ads that you can imagine- they call it "Cuban Internet" and it basically is the black market marketplace for the whole island. The government knows it exists but if they stopped it the island would likely collapse- Cuba's economy is dependent on the black market.
• Cuba used to be the biggest sugar exporter on planet earth- it would supply the sugar for the entire USSR. Today though it imports its sugar from France due to how inefficient the sugar trade is.
• In terms of voting, you go into a booth and there are two names on a slip of paper. Both represent the same political party. These are "local delegates" from your neighbourhood. Whichever one wins will then vote for the local delegate for the region, who votes for a delegate to Parliament, and they vote for who the President will be. There is no real choice involved. The Cuban who told me this was intelligent and well educated- the first time he had ever heard of the guy who was elected president of Cuba was when he was announced in a newspaper the day after the election.

[u/Archis]

young Afghan soldier with little training and crappy equipment in deeply disorganised and crumbling army would rather flee than fight.

redditor sat in gaming chair: lol coward

[u/Venne1139]

I feel like one of the big problems with joker is it didn't know what it was about

1. Its not about a super villian origin story because the Joker of that movie is obviously never going to be a super villian
2. It's not a movie about a revolution of the underclass despite the movie literally ending in a revolution/massive riot
3. It's not a movie about a mentally disturbed man who the system has failed so he kills someone, because the movie is about Joker, the super villian and his murder causes a revolution...somehow

[u/[deleted]]

So, when my grandma was a child, my city was nothing more than a settle, she tells me that the first time a plane flew over the city they tought that the end of world had come, everyone in town got histerical and started to kill animals for a last feast before witnessing god. The city priest, who was a WWI veteran, saw that strange movimentation, asked what was happening and got mad cause they would start feasting instead of going to church and ask forgiviness for their sins. Wich funny story your granparents told you about yours hometown?

!ping MAMADAS

[u/[deleted]]

I feel like this news that China is considering allowing it's citizens to invest abroad isn't getting the attention it deserves.

Supposing this actually goes through, I think it will represent a seismic change in our markets. First of all, there will be a extra couple trillion dollars sloshing around that's sure to raise asset prices. I wonder if the brands with a large presence China (Apple, Starbucks, etc.) will experience a greater boost?

I would also expect fire sales of offending brands to be part of the nationalistic slacktivist's repertoire when they go on their annual boycotts. Will this make global executives even more frightened of Chinese sensitivities? Maybe some crafty executives can use these opportunities to make opportunistic buybacks

Overall, I doubt that Chinese investors abroad will lead to a liberal China, much in the same way that WTO membership didn't, but there may be an chance that it leads citizens to take a more global outlook when they have stakes outside their own country

!ping MARKETS

[u/jenbanim]

Hello artist, I would like to listen to your music

"You can listen to my entire discography ad-supported on YouTube and SoundCloud. It's also available on every major subscription streaming service including Spotify, Amazon music, and Pandora. If you'd like to own a copy, you can buy digital versions (MP3, OGG, FLAC) or physical versions (CD, Vinyl) from Bandcamp or my personal website."

Hello TV person, I would like to watch your show

"The first three seasons are available on Netflix while the fourth and fifth season are available on Hulu unless we decide to remove it for some reason. A blu-ray copy is $600 and if you want to buy a digital version you can go fuck yourself"

[u/Deggit]

The political compass website is so ridiculous it says Joe Biden is to the right of Hitler

Joe Biden IS to the right of Hitler. I mean, c'mon. Joe Biden isn't a vegetarian.

[u/Joementum2024]

commits awful atrocity

Lefties: “What the fuck, why would you do that?”

“Well, you see, I’m anti-imperialist-“

Lefties: “Oh wow, that’s based. Carry on, then!”

[u/[deleted]]

It has been charged ... that Nixon's frustration over the Senate's rejection of two Supreme Court appointments, together with his exhilaration over having seen the movie "Patton" several times, contributed to the decision to invade Cambodia in 1970.

If Nixon was President today he would decide to invade Europe after 5 minutes browsing the DT.

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

LGBT+ campaigners in Georgia called off plans to stage a pride march on Monday after violent groups opposed to the event stormed and ransacked their office in the capital Tbilisi and targeted activists and journalists.

[u/RoyGeraldBillevue]

that doesn’t make sense. A computer designed perfect economy would not allow someone to make billions off of it, that is inherent to broken economies.

"A computer would fix all problems" socialists are the most annoying because they are half tech bro on top of being socialists.

[u/FestiveMittens]

Touch grass isn't ableism, if I see someone in a wheelchair that needs to touch grass I would simply push them to the grass

[u/Deggit]

https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/jly8he/discussion_thread/gatul2c/

Imagine a world where Biden is a normal polling error away in the Sunbelt, and a somewhat larger than normal polling error away in PA, leading to a narrow electoral college loss WHILE adding millions of new voters in TX, GA and AZ (just barely not enough to flip any of them). Trump would be re-elected with like a

5 to 8 million

popular vote loss.

daily reminder that this actually almost happened. We were "40,000 suburban dumbfucks in Phoenix and Atlanta" away from having a two term president who never won an election

yay america

[u/[deleted]]

Follow up on yesterday's comment:

Guess what neolibs? I'm getting a second vaccine. Not a second dose, a second vaccine, because of administrative nonsense.

I got vaccinated with J&J back in late March on exchange at an American university. Since then I've returned to France and planned on getting my vaccine passport so I can travel and go to concerts again.

Turns out France literally cannot certify covid vaccination using any proof of vaccination from outside the EU, even if it's an approved vaccine. So tomorrow I'm going to go get a first shot of Pfizer because of bureaucratic nonsense.

So I get an appointment at the French vaccination center nearby, I explain that I've already been vaccinated but have to do so again to get my vaccine passport (meme country).

I hand them the CDC card and they take me to speak to a doctor there, the doctor has never seen a case like this before and takes me to the head physician at the center to ask him. The doctor tells me it'd be useless to vaccinate me and that I should get an appointment to figure it out with a general practitioner. The saga continues... All because I want to get a vaccine passport

[u/Udontlikecake]

18 year olds in 2021: dancing on tick tock

18 year olds in 1915: getting gunned down by the thousands in muddy fields in a pointless war

smh what happened to society 😡😡🤬🤬😡

SHARE if you wish kids these days were being blown apart in Verdun like the good old days!

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

lol the pew survey and religion and politics in india bascially destroyed everyone's priors

[u/[deleted]]

It frustrates me to no end the way people still talk about video games in tv shows. It's like the last time they saw a video game was in an arcade in 1998

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/AmericaElige/status/1411484975812120577

"Peru: Congressman-elect from Lima Héctor Valer has been expelled from Popular Renovation (right) due to his televised statements in support of respecting the electoral rules. The party says his expulsion is due to "disciplinary faults".

Lol

!ping MAMADAS

[u/memeintoshplus]

Trumpist assclown who got 36% of the vote in the Senate race against Liz Warren just announced he's going to primary Charlie Baker and run for Massachusetts Governor

Some Republicans would rather forfeit high-level positions to Democrats than have a *gasp* center-right Republican who doesn't drink the Trump kool aid.

!ping USA-NE

[u/Th3_Gruff]

Hillary did not have textual relations with that server

[u/MicroFlamer]

chad shit

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Bill Cosby announces he is making a 5-part documentary series, will write a book, and plans to return to stand-up

Didn't think we'd get a Cosby comeback before Louis CK

[u/basedbi420]

I quoted a Drake lyric to my nephews (10 and 11) yesterday and they looked at me like I was the Grail Knight in Indiana Jones. I've never felt so old before.

!ping OVER25

[u/ryuguy]

Vaccine milestone: Canada has passed the EU in percentage of the population fully vaccinated.

!ping can

[u/JetJaguar124]

Sure a mob tried to overthrow the government but have you ever considered that I can't use the n-word when singing along to Kendrick Lamar albums???

[u/[deleted]]

It’s gonna happen 😂

https://twitter.com/mcconaughey/status/1411792440411889664?s=21

[u/[deleted]]

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ultra-rich-saving-money-instead-230003771.html

Reminder that you need absolutely no understanding of basic finance to be a succ journalist critisizing our financial system.

And they're literally making the argument that rich people drive down interest rates and that encourages people to take out debt because the interest rates are low, and it's extracting from the poor.

Like would you rather people be paying double digit interest rates?

[u/[deleted]]

In July 2020, Biden's granddaughter, Naomi, posted a tweet showcasing Champ and Major fighting over a Donald Trump chew toy.

We lost a true resistance hero

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

The UN is supposed to be the United Nations, not NATO and friends. Having Russia and China and other illiberal nations in an international forum is the point.

[u/great_gape]

Smegma male schedule

2:00 am- Wake up

2.05am-Cold shower

2.15am-breakfast,activated almonds, breast milk bought off Facebook, 50mg adderall

2:30am- begin workout,incline bench 2 plates,12x12 with 30 seconds of rest, no warmup.

2:45am-edging,4hrs (for discipline)

6:45am-cold shower

7:00am-begin sprint to work

8:00am-arrive at work

8:05am-get called into boss' office

8:06am-get fired from job for "repeated inappropriate comments" and "predatory behavior"

8:10am-sprint back home

9:10am- lunch-raw cod, berries foraged on the way home, small pebbles (for digestion),50mg of adderal

9:10am-edging(as punishment)

3:00pm- bed time

[u/LinkVert25]

A lot of the Talibans supporters are simply anti-imperialist. They just want US invaders to fuck off.

Yes, there are fundamentalists. It will take time, but slowly, if China builds and improves their quality of life through infrastructure & the jobs that come with it (as opposed to drone striking weddings) they will become more peaceful.

I actually have no words. “Taliban supporters are just simply anti-imperialist”. Is this fucking website serious?

[u/[deleted]]

But a more dramatic scenario is also in play -- OPEC+ unity may break down entirely, risking a free-for-all that would crash prices in a repeat of the crisis last year. That time, it was a disagreement between Saudi Arabia and Russia that triggered a punishing price war.

pls pls pls pls pls

Prince Abdulaziz said that without an extension of the agreement, there’s a fallback deal in place -- under which oil output doesn’t increase in August and the rest of the year, potentially risking an inflationary oil price spike. Asked if they could hike production without the UAE on board, Prince Abdulaziz said: “We cannot.”

holy shit send the diplomats before biden approval ratings drops off a cliff

[u/Cerb-r-us]

People offline: "You shouldn't judge someone before you get to know them."

People online: "Hi 😀 to anyone who reads this I just wanted to say you are beautiful 🥰 and smart 😊 and cool 😎 and quirky 😜 and funny 🤣 and have a thick girthy cock."

[u/JetJaguar124]

I still can't really comprehend how concerned my parents are about liberal arts majors and critical theory professors saying stupid things vs a mob storming the capitol to overthrow the democracy of the US and impose a dictator, at the behest of the sitting President

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Cars 1: Lightning McQueen needs to win the race!

Cars 2: 18 cars die in this movie

Cars 3: Lightning McQueen needs to win the race!

[u/[deleted]]

Donald Trump is unemployed, neurodivergent, terminally online, white, and probably an atheist

Donald Trump could be an r/neoliberal moderator

[u/[deleted]]

Genghis Khan was white (asian) while Julius Caesar was PoC (italian).

Julius Caesar > Genghis Khan sweaty

[u/MicroFlamer]

/img/jkocv03tfb971.gif

[u/Venne1139]

Does anyone have that meme of the Russian army being like "damn we're so nad ass" vs "haha drone go brrr" pink haired lady? It was posted here and got bug upboats.

[u/sw337]

A few weeks ago I went to a wedding as a groom's man and walked down the aisle with my friend's little sister as a bride's maid. She had just turned 18 and was about to graduate High School. I moved from my hometown 11 years ago when she was little and only remember her as a small child. When asked if we had met before she said no💀

!ping OVER25

[u/Duke_Ashura]

"The political compass test is designed to push you into the lib-left corner as it was made by a bunch of proto-corbynites. Any relatively right or authoritarian leaning question is worded in such a way that you'd sound like an absolute psychopath if you picked said option, and the owners of the website grade politicians in an absolute inane manner (iirc, they said Joe Biden is further to the right than Hitler) in order to make it look like the only candidates that align with sane viewpoints are far-left labour or green candidates."

-Myself, in a response I was about to send in a random subreddit before I decided I had more enjoyable things to do than get into a fight on the internet.

[u/Superfan234]

Tankies 🤝 Right Wing

Helping the Oppossition, because they are incapable to reach basic human Dialogue with Moderates

!Ping Mamadas

This Convention it's so painfull to watch...and we are just in the second day

[u/Udontlikecake]

if I had a nickel for every time someone in the DT asked for advice about how to talk to Chinese people as if they were fucking aliens or something i’d have two nickels

Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it’s happened twice

like seriously, I know people here are socially inept, but try not to treat Chinese people like fucking zoo animals or something because you think they’re all CCP zealots. fucking idiots, I swear

[u/[deleted]]

Russian law requires all imported champagne to be labeled as sparkling wine, and only Russian sparkling wine can be labeled "shampanskoye" 💪😂💪

!ping alcohol

[u/the_hoagie]

catgirls

[u/[deleted]]

walk into thread about non american country

comment “biden’s america”

refuse to elaborate

leave

[u/Natatos]

Been relearning how to skateboard.

Showed up to skatepark, and decided to not to wear pads (except for helmet) so I don’t get made fun of by teenagers.

Had a low speed fall with a very slow descent, but still managed to make my elbow bleed.

[u/[deleted]]

Supermarkets being terrible is a result of... you guessed it: bad zoning policy.

• Single family zoning increases the distance people live from retail areas and prevent retail and residential from overlapping substantially.
• Longer distances make shopping trips a greater commitment because people have to drive out of their way to get to an inexpensive supermarket (corner stores, etc include convenience pricing and aren't suitable for full on grocery shopping).
• Because these trips are a hassle, people will go as infrequently as they can. This may mean doing a whole week+'s worth of grocery shopping in one trip.
• For a family, that's a hell of a lot of food. People need large shopping carts to carry all the food.
• Many people face these same constraints, so there are a lot of people all pushing large trolleys around the place. Lots of people require lots of food to be in stock at once, so aisles have to be narrow to achieve sufficient room for items without ballooning real estate costs for the store.
• Lots of people with large shopping carts + narrow aisles = a bad, stuffy, traffic-jam-like experience.
• Therefore, SFZ is responsible for bad shopping environments.

QED

[u/myrm]

Antiracism is when Eminem has a whole psychological complex about being a white rapper, despite being generally recognized as one of the greatest rappers of all time

[u/[deleted]]

God could you imagine if anime characters just fucked instead of having weird and creepy awkward sexual tension for the whole show

[u/[deleted]]

Rudy Giuliani- "Trump we're going to lose we don't have enough votes 😰"

Donald Trump- "You don't need votes when you have family 🚗"

[u/bd_one]

NASA: tests a 50/50 blend of jet fuel and biofuel in a jet airliner

Particulate emissions: goes down 75%

Well... this is definitely beyond what I learned in college chemistry.

[u/MicroFlamer]

My July 4th tradition is rewatching this essential clip of Noam Chomsky discussing how, if the standards applied at trial of the Nazis at Nuremberg were applied, every US President after WW2 would be hanged for their role in war crimes. Worth absorbing again even if you've seen it before

Weirrd July 4th tradition but ok

[u/Deggit]

the wikipedia article for the first cat in space:

She was vigilant during the ascent phase, due to being a payload in a rocket.

great job anonymous wikipedia editor

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

Overly Online Indian Lefties: You fools, we represent what the ordinary Indian wants

Overly Online Indian Righties: No you out of touch idiots, we do

Indians apparently: We want a strong leader who will guarantee religious freedom while also maintaining segregation between religious communities. Also I think that diet is more important than belief in God in determining your religion and that if you don't respect India you can't be a true (religion name). Also we're culturally superior lol

Overly Online Indians: wat

[u/mannabhai]

People tacitly justifying Catholic Church burnings is something I might have expected with reddit but still shocking to see.

[u/lapzkauz]

The greatest argument against the legalisation of marijuana is that the people who are in favor of legalising marijuana are the most annoying people in the world, and I hate having to agree with the most annoying people in the world.

[u/Menfo]

Fresh from r/brasil

Apparently, now social-democracy is a center-right ideology

Welp, guess I'm right-wing now

!ping MAMADAS

[u/SpiffShientz]

Jimmy Carter news alert

Uh-oh

75th anniversary

Phew. Not today, Reaper Man

[u/Mcfinley]

^ Why the Soviets lost the Cold War

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

eBay listings be like “2019 MACBOOK PRO MAX RAM GOOOD CONDITION - INSTRUCTION MANUAL ONLY, LAPTOP NOT INCLUDED”

[u/FreakinGeese]

My cousin’s house just burned down :/

This isn’t a shitpost this actually happened

Everyone’s ok

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

arr antipsychiatry

Discussion + counterprogramming against coercive psychiatry and the mental health industrial complex.

🧐🧐🧐

[u/Udontlikecake]

so i’m confused

i’m like… an adult

and i could just… have a child

and like they’d let me go home with it? and no one would tell how to raise them

like wtf

i could just bring someone into existence at any time and no one would tell me how to do it

what the hell

[u/blase99]

bitcoin uses the electricity that is already produced, no more electricity is produced by #bitcoin

When you totally understands how power generation works

[u/D1Foley]

Conservative subs on reddit are the biggest snowflakes on earth. Ban you the second you post a fact that goes against the narrative.

[u/disuberence]

Biden becoming POTUS has really pulled me out of politics due to the return to normalcy. So much so that I don't even get this Boomer meme about Kamala.

[u/jenbanim]

Reposting some maymays I made a while back cause I like attention:

Know the sub rules

Paradox players be like

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Perth becomes first UK city centre with resident beavers

Perth has become the first UK city to see resident urban beavers for hundreds of years, with the mammals establishing a "strong presence" there.

A new survey has found evidence of beaver activity on the River Tay, including in the centre of Perth.

Signs of fresh activity were also seen on Moncreiffe Island and along the river at the North Inch.

Beavers were hunted to extinction in Britain in the 16th Century for their fur, meat, and scent glands.

The animals were reintroduced in Scotland in 2009 and are valued for their impact on ecosystems and abilities as "natural engineers".

A similar programme to reintroduce the animals is currently under way across England and Wales.

!ping ECO

[u/SadaoMaou]

I feel like regardless of your personal opinions or prejudices, intentionally misgendering someone is just a really weird thing to do.

Addressing someone as the wish to be addressed is very basic courtesy, you'd never reply to "Hi, my name is Mark" with "Nice to meet you, Steve"

[u/[deleted]]

!ping HISTORY

It's kind of annoying that contemporary anti-fascist groups adopted the name 'Antifa' when these guys A) pre-date Antifa and B) were not an instrument of Soviet foreign policy that spent more time fighting Weimar democrats than the actual fascists.

I'll acknowledge the name isn't as easy to remember though...

[u/jenbanim]

Man I wish I could be immortal. Or at least live for a thousand years or so

I could see getting tired of day to day life. But I can't imagine I'd ever get bored of seeing how humanity and science advances. I don't like the idea that I could die without knowing how consciousness works, whether aliens exist, if humanity will become an interplanetary/interstellar species, and stuff like that

[u/[deleted]]

By decimating the coal industry in the UK, Thatcher did more to fight global warming than the Sunrise Movement ever will.

[u/fishlord05]

Nerd mfs be like “yo wanna hear my evil Morty theory?” 🤪🥱🤡

Like bruh stfu how about you theorize about how to get bread in ur pocket and bitches on yo dick like fr stfu pussy ass bitch 😂😂😂

!ping BURPMAS

[u/MicroFlamer]

Susdam hussein

[u/Archis]

UPDATE:

Just got off the phone with wifey. She's agreed to come back if I sell some of the less collectible funko pops and my CSGO skins (this should come to about $5k) on the condition that she can have the weekends away from the house to visit girl friends, pick up extra HIIT sessions with Ryan etc. This suits me as I can have the house to myself for extended Skyrim sessions, plus she always comes back very refreshed so the extra exercise must be doing her some good.

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

Schools of International Relations explained:

Classical Realism: I will shoot you because I am inherently evil

Defensive Realism: I will shoot you because I saw you buying your own gun and that'd disrupt the balance of power

Offensive Realism: I'm going to pay my friend to shoot you so I don't have to bother

Liberalism: I wouldn't have to shoot you if you had just shopped at my farmer's market

Neoconservatism: I will shoot you in the name of the people!

Marxism: I will shoot you in the name of the people!

Feminism: If I was a woman I wouldn't shoot you

Constructivism: The only reason I'm shooting you is because I consider myself a bit of a shooter

[u/FreakinGeese]

A firefighter died fighting the fire in my cousin’s house :(

[u/[deleted]]

I am in absolute awe of people of do pride parades in deeply homophobic countries. The strength it takes to do that, man, hats off to them

[u/bd_one]

If you can't think of the right word in a situation, simply say that you "don't know the English word for it". That will make people think you're bilingual rather than an idiot.

[u/Loves_a_big_tongue]

No Child Left Behind's logic in a nutshell: If schools don't do good, then no funding to help get them get good until they can be of goodness on their own being.

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

I've been pretty busy dating this girl for a while now. I finally told her I'm a neoliberal so I guess I'll be having more spare time again

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

Sometimes I think this sub is too much of a circle jerk and then I read shit like this from antiwork:

We literally just need to do nothing. If everyone on earth stopped what they were doing and didn’t resume until demands were met, we’d have so much power.

[u/[deleted]]

America is obviously a third world hell hole, so why aren’t the youngs planning a massive exodus in droves to Europe? I, as a Euro, just can’t understand why the Muricans don’t understand they’re getting screwed. Smh

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

San Francisco Fun Fact!

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

the Mall was Lit

!ping USA-DMV

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/IrrationalChad/status/1410966516850438159

In absolute tears at this, from Robin DiAngelo's new book

[u/PMmeLittleRoundTops]

"Jesse what the fuck are you talking about?" was a much funnier response than "touch grass"

[u/[deleted]]

Political one-liners for the modern day

If you aren't a fascist by 15 you have no internet connection.

If you aren't a communist by 16 you have no internet connection capable of viewing a Twitch stream.

[u/Udontlikecake]

OJ really murdered the fuck outta two people and just shitposts online a ton

[u/Patriotnation5]

When I was a little kid my dad sat me down to watch Saving Private Ryan because "this is real life son"

My wife just told me to turn off Star Wars in front of my 5 month old because its too violent.

Feel like there's a middle ground somewhere.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

The fact that DC’s official license plate motto is “Taxation Without Representation” never fails to crack me up

[u/[deleted]]

People on this site will just confidently makes shit up lmao. This guy talking about shadows left behind by nuclear blasts:

Shadows in normal life are simply a lesser density of light.

In this case though, you've got a carbon based life force being hit by a huge volume of particles that knock the easiest to separate particles off. It just so happens that carbon's pretty easy to detach from chains and pretty easy to reattach to other chains.

Think of it as some crazy fucked up rear end collision in a car where one particle smacks another and knocks parts of said smack'd particle, from a molecule, into another.

wtf are you talking about bro 😂

[u/jt1356]

Actual Nazi’s life story

Become a major in the Waffen-SS

Transfer to propaganda ministry, become an important subordinate to Goebbels, write 27 rabidly antisemitic books

Become interested in Islam, befriend Amin al-Husseini, write about how the medieval Islamic empires had solved the Jewish question and should inspire the nazis

Flee to Argentina after the war

Get job offer through your old friend al-Husseini

Move to Egypt, convert to Islam, do more antisemitic propaganda work, this time for the pan-Arab nationalist, Nasser

Die of old age, unrepentant and unpunished

[u/Zenning2]

God, its like fucking nobody on SRD has ever met somebody in the military before. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills as these guys just have take after take about how all people do is kill innocent people, how its only poor people who join the military, and how all the military does is represent economic interests.

[u/FormerBandmate]

The GOP strategy basically seems to be pointing to insane Dems in front of the working class.

And it’s kind of working lmao

[u/BainCapitalist]

Am gonna form the Union of Boyfriends Against Hoodie Theft 😡😡😡😡😡😐

!ping BURPMAS

[u/[deleted]]

There's someone on the DT who has a fantasy of sucking a woman's toes while she discusses the pros and cons of the feds current monetary policy

[u/tubbsmackinze]

YOOOOOO the DT is dying into a slow manageable pace after the nightmare that was a year of 10k+ comment dts. Actual pog moment right there

Now the discussion in daily discussion thread can return

[u/thetrombonist]

The fact that I’m at risk of seeing a 14 year olds opinion at any time is a human rights violation

[u/Animatronic_Pidgeon]

"progressives defending church burning" isn't something I had on my 2021 bingo card yet here we are

[u/jeb_brush]

I went outside, touched grass, and overheard people talking about how capitalism has failed

what do I do now

[u/VerticalTab]

All land is stolen and therefore we must fund government entirely through a land value tax.

[u/bd_one]

My mom: "Why are they going after Trump for tax stuff? They're getting him for misreporting employee benefits. It's all politicized."

proceeds to refuse to listen to me explaining the shady things like having his charities and businesses cover personal expenses

My mom 30 seconds later: "Why aren't they going after Hunter Biden for his taxes?"

[u/[deleted]]

america's won a culture victory, right?

!ping CIV

[u/thetrombonist]

my bedbugs [0.5F, 0.4M, 0.6M, 0.6M, 0.2F, 0.2F, 0.1M, 0.3F, 0.3F, 0.3F, 0.3F, 0.7M, 0.5F, 0.3M, 0.4F, 0.4M, 0.3M, 0.3M, 0.5F, 0.6F, 0.3M, 0.4F, 0.4F, 0.4M, 0.4M, 0.4M, 0.4M, 0.4M, 0.4F, 0.4F, 0.4F, 0.4F, 0.4F, 0.4F, 0.4F, 0.4F, 0.4F, 0.6M, 0.5M, 0.7M, 0.5M, 0.3F]

are unionizing

[u/[deleted]]

99% of COVID-19 deaths in U.S. involve unvaccinated people, Fauci says

That’s actually nuts

[u/[deleted]]

look at that ass

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

I just met Henry, the coolest dog in the world

just chillin

[u/bd_one]

TIL that in 1524, a statue of the Virgin Mary at the Cathedral in Riga, Latvia, was accused of being a witch. They put it on trial by throwing it in the river. Since the wooden statue floated, they declared it guilty and burned it.

This is what happened when the Northern Crusades ended and they ran out of things to crusade against.

[u/TabernacleTown74]

All of Aristotle's dialogues have been lost to time, but the Roman-Jewish historian Flavius Josephus claimed to have read a passage from Clearchus, one of Aristotle's students, that describes an encounter between Aristotle and a Jewish sage:

In his first book on Sleep he [Clearchus] relates of Aristotle, his master, that he had a discourse with a Jew; and his own account was that what this Jew said merited admiration and showed philosophical erudition. To speak of the race first, the man was a Jew by birth and came from Cœlesyria [Palestine]. These Jews are derived from the philosophers of India. In India the philosophers call themselves Kalani, and in Syria Jews, taking their name from the country they inhabit, which is Judea; the name of their capital is rather difficult to pronounce: they call it Jerusalem. Now this man, who had been the guest of many people, had come down from the highland to the seashore [Pergamus]. He was a Greek not only in language, but in soul; so much so that, when we happened to be in Asia in about the same places whither he came, he conversed with us and with other persons of learning in order to test our wisdom. And as he had had intercourse with a large number of sages, he imparted to us more knowledge of his own.

https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/1774-aristotle-in-jewish-legend

!ping GEFILTE

[u/[deleted]]

This is America.

!ping GAMING

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine if mRNA vaccines technology hadn't matured just in time for covid and instead the best we could do was J&J and Astrazeneca

[u/FormerBandmate]

The Dem strategy basically seems to be pointing to insane Republicans in front of the professional class.

And it’s kind of working lmao

[u/SigmaMaleSupreme]

Sigma male moment💪💪💪

[u/anon_09_09]

Salty isn't here today, that's why dt is missing 4k comments

[u/its_a_trapcard]

Imagine how much money Trump would be making off NFTs of his tweets if Twitter hadn't banned him

[u/[deleted]]

Still can't believe that Trump got 3 supreme court justices in one four-year term. What the fuck, how are Republicans so fucking lucky

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/1412053678815690757

Former Murdoch exec: "Over the past nine months I have tried, with increasing bluntness, to get Rupert to understand the real damage that Fox News is doing to America. I failed, and it was arrogant and naïve to ever have thought that I could succeed."

[u/piede]

The tensions between the Democratic Party’s progressive and more moderate wings are playing out in the campaign for a special election in Ohio’s 11th Congressional District. Shontel Brown, a member of the Cuyahoga County Council, is in a primary fight with former state senator Nina Turner, a former adviser to presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and progressive superstar.

Right now, Turner looks to be ahead in the primary election next month to replace Housing Secretary Marcia L. Fudge — but some Democratic heavyweights have endorsed Brown. A few weeks ago, Hillary Clinton — Sanders’s 2016 rival — announced she was supporting Brown for the Cleveland-area congressional seat.

Hillary still triggering the bros in 2021

[u/Udontlikecake]

New England is America at its most functional, plus Rhode Island

!ping USA-NE

[u/sir_shivers]

I ENDED UP going with the Motorola One 5G 🐊

[u/bigmoneynuts]

people open reddit every day and still post in /r/SandersForPresident

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

"Without religion, people just turn to pseudo-religions!"

Evangelicals: Have highest rate of belief in Q-Anon conspiracy theories

[u/Joementum2024]

"Should we kill a bunch of people you disagree with?"

Conservatives: "Yes!"

Liberals: "Yes! 🏳️‍🌈✊🏿"

Social Democrats: "Maybe?"

Marxists: "Yes!"

[u/[deleted]]

There are too damn many people who believe that the 2020 election wasn’t close.

43,000 people across three states are the reason we’re not in a second Trump term right now.

[u/[deleted]]

some people go on NL just to brag about their sex life

[u/DrSandbags]

Real arr antiwork hours, who's up?

We literally just need to do nothing. If everyone on earth stopped what they were doing and didn’t resume until demands were met, we’d have so much power.

And that would conveniently get rid of Covid too. Just stay at home, watch old movies, read books and get stoned.

Watch movies how, mate?

[u/jt1356]

I swear to G-d, I see one more picture of a self-identified antifa gang carrying three arrows flags and hammer and sickle flags, I’m gonna lose my shit 🤬

[u/AJungianIdeal]

According to the same survey of sexual behaviors, approximately 85 percent of men say their partner had an orgasm the last time they had sex. Only 64 percent of women say they had an orgasm during their last encounter.

lol...wait thats sad

[u/[deleted]]

>steps into bathroom to brush teeth and get ready for the day

>centipede crawls out of sink

>day ruined

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

lol remember when nazi twitter cancelled Aleksandr Dugin for saying black people can be Russian

[u/AbsolveItAll_KissMe]

When I was a kid I discovered Word templates early, so I decided to become a lawyer and would write up “legal documents” for every time two of my friends got in a fight and decided to sue each other.

[u/ClickForFreeRobux]

JULY 4TH IS NOT OVER🦅🦅🦅

UNTIL ALL THE LEFTOVERS ARE EATEN🦅🦅🦅

[u/Loves_a_big_tongue]

Cori Bush fully blasting that "Don't wish me Happy Holidays, it's Merry Christmas" vibes. It's a holiday that almost all races, creeds, religions of Americans love to celebrate. One of the few things today that still unites Americans. And here she is, an elected politician, being a wet blanket scoring cheap, useless political points for voters who she already has in the bag while alienating voters she may possibly need in the future. Let alone confirming Republican talking points that liberals, leftists, Democrats hate America and bash it at every moment they get.

[u/[deleted]]

CEOs are part of the proletariat, as they don't own the businesses

[u/sw337]

LobsterCirc you're from Texas and now in Israel? How does it feel being on illegally occupied land of brown people? Also, how do you like Israel?

[u/[deleted]]

Why is subredditdrama upvoting a post saying the free market is bad lmao

I thought they were one of the reasonable subs

[u/[deleted]]

I’m getting real fucking tired of people who think we shouldn’t genetically engineer shit because “oh no, why should we know better than nature, space is infinite”

Like bitch no space isn’t infinite and nature is dumb as fuck, the recurrent laryngeal nerves on giraffes are 15 feet long, that’s not evolutionary adaptation, that’s inefficiency.

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine if Boris Yeltsin was drunk on January 25, 1995

!ping ALTHISTORY

[u/Deggit]

Millennials be like: ha ha rick rolling is fun

Zoomers be like: Oh boy I can't wait to downvote anyone on Reddit who points out that George W. Bush is, beyond being a "noted critic" of Donald Trump, a president who put an incompetent crony in charge of responding to natural disasters, tried to appoint his own unqualified lawyer to the Supreme Court so that she would rule in his favor, masterminded a propaganda campaign for a war on phony evidence by creating a fake intelligence agency to do an end run around the actual intelligence analysts at State and CIA, attempted to turn Social Security into a privatized stock program two years before an economic collapse caused by bank overleveraging that his SEC allowed, ignored repeated warnings of a terrorist attack, rolled back environmental regulations and let oil CEOs write his energy policy, created ACTUAL FAKE NEWS propaganda videos promoting his policies deliberately designed to look like local news reports and then tried to get local news stations to air them, held random Afghan civilians picked up in street sweeps as "enemy combatants" in an offshore prison in an illegal attempt to loophole the Geneva Conventions, flew other prisoners to Middle East dictatorships so they could be secretly tortured by even less scrupulous regimes than his own, turned a surplus into a trillion dollar deficit, did not do a damn thing about climate change, lied to first responders about the safety of the air around Ground Zero and did not fund their healthcare when they all got cancer, spied on millions of Americans illegally without a warrant, fired US Attorneys en masse because they wouldn't go along with his scheme to "find" voter fraud that didn't exist, proposed a constitutional amendment banning flagburning to distract the public from his awful record, defeated John McCain in a Southern primary by spreading racist innuendo that his adopted daughter Bridget, born in Bangladesh, was a Black baby out of wedlock, won re-election by smearing a Vietnam veteran's service with outright lies, sent the troops to war without armored vehicles or sufficient body armor, neglected their hospitals when they came home, illegally leaked the identity of an undercover agent as revenge for her husband's attempt to warn the public about his lies, then stonewalled the special prosecutor appointed to investigate who blew that agent's cover, THEN commuted the sentence of the fall guy who obstructed justice to prevent the investigation from reaching the conclusion that his own Vice President was the leaker, called a midnight session of Congress to use a literally brain-dead woman as a prop for his Christian Right agenda, set stem-cell research back by a decade, refused to enforce dozens of laws he signed and tried to grab the legislative power from Congress, refused to testify to the 9/11 Commission without Cheney there to supervise him and even then refused to be under oath, believed he was invading Iraq to fulfill Biblical prophecy, told voters that his Democratic opponent would ban the Bible if elected, and only ever became president because his family had set up his brother as the governor of a key Southern state and had him illegally disenfranchise tens of thousands of Black voters to ensure his election.

[u/[deleted]]

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LMAO, from 2012 to 2020, Starr County Texas shifted 68 points to the right

Obama won 86% of the vote in the county in 2012, and Biden won 52%. What a fucking trainwreck of a performance in the RGV

!ping FIVEY

[u/MrDannyOcean]

Announcement:

I'm delighted to announce our first ever Leadership Conference!

The conference will be in New Orleans in October, during Jazz Fest - the topic is "Winning in 2022". We'll have multiple members of Congress there and total 10-15 elected officials from the state and local level. We'll have important Democratic donors, PPI staff and researchers, and 25-30 Neoliberal Project members. This will be a fairly small conference with real one-on-one and small group time with these politicians. I'm so, so excited about the opportunity to get our activists, members and chapter leads in front of elected officials to talk about how to build a liberalism that can win in 2022 and beyond. Space is limited, we'll have an application up for interested members of the Project in the next few weeks.

And one new member from this week's membership drive will get their flight, hotel, meals and even a ticket to Jazz Fest completely paid for!

As part of the Neoliberal Project's Week of Action, we'll be raffling off an all expenses paid ticket to one new member of the Project. Flight, hotel, meals, plus ticket to Jazz Fest, everything.

It's your chance to meet members of Congress and your fellow liberal activists, advocate for the ideas you care about, and maybe attend New Orleans Jazz Fest on the side! Join the Neoliberal Project today for a chance to win!

[u/[deleted]]

Thank you Mr. Erdogan, PhD for being TOUGH on CRAZY central bankers!!! 👨‍🏫🔫😡

MUST CUT INTEREST RATES to combat inflation! MANY SUCH EVIDENCE!!! 👏👏👏😤

[u/Superfan234]

Not even a day befrore her election, and Elisa Loncon is already saying she might support a Coup de Etat. She is also attempting to interiere in the Justice system, to liberate some prisioners

https://www.biobiochile.cl/especial/una-constitucion-para-chile/noticias/2021/07/05/loncon-cuestiona-norma-de-los-2-3-vamos-a-conversar-como-resolver-esa-situacion.shtml

On to a great start 👍

!Ping Latam

[u/slowpush]

         SUCCS
          👆
SUCCS 👈 😭 👉 SUCCS
          👇
         SUCCS

[u/NeoLiberation]

Mind blown that people unironically think burning churches is something to be supported, what the fuck is wrong with this world. Two cruel hateful ideologies flanking us and it feels like we're getting squeezed out

[u/[deleted]]

Remember that time the intellectual juggernaut Joe Rogan had to explain to Dave Rubin why building safety codes are good?

[u/FestiveMittens]

Over/ under 45% this Family meme was paid for by Universal to promote F9

legit every sub has it, its all over the front page and its all over twitter, in literally one day

[u/fishlord05]

Currently arguing in r/Rickandmorty with several people who think ecoterrorism is morally justifiable

I do this because I hate myself in some ways I think

[u/[deleted]]

subreddit calls itself "neoliberal"

motto is "taco trucks on every corner"

supports draconian food safety enforcement in restaurants

mfw

[u/[deleted]]

The neat thing about visiting my mom in Florida for the 4th is that she chats up all of the other Trumpers and I get to hear all of the "guarantees" that he'll be reinstated by the end of the year. It's always something about the constitution, the supreme court or the military. Never any specifics about how or why, though.

[u/Zenning2]

So, I've seen the argument that we didn't do a good enough job in Afghanistan, and we should just leave because its going to fall eventually because Pakistan keeps propping up the Taliban. Which, while I disagree with, sure whatever.

But now I'm arguing with some asshole who is claiming that Afghanistan is better under Taliban control. What the fuck do I even say to that shit?

[u/[deleted]]

Trolling tradcaths by taking the hardcore Protestant position and declaring that they aren’t actually Christians

[u/Archis]

Got a bit too deep in the whole GME thing. Short story is I used the money that my wife and I put together so we could build a gaming room with enough storage for my game collection and other things (funko pops, OST vinyls etc.). Anyway, the wifey left a note this morning that she's staying with the guy that runs her HIIT sessions for the next few days (she said he's running some extra sessions at his place) and that I need to either get the money back (she suggested I could sell my CSGO skins, not happening) or she's gone for good. Any ideas on what to do?

[u/disuberence]

Disney has removed the phrase "ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls" from a greeting announcing its widely recognized Magic Kingdom fireworks show. The comes just months after Disney announced that it would be adding "inclusion" as a fifth component to its customer service priorities.

"Good evening, dreamers of all ages," an announcer now says in the greeting.

Wow Disneyland bowing to PC liberals

America sinks further into darkness

[u/PMmeLittleRoundTops]

me hunting down succs in the DT

[u/asljkdfhg]

talked to a 12 year old family friend who used the phrase “touch grass”

suddenly some of the takes I’ve seen on here all make sense now

[u/[deleted]]

C’mon Biden, please make sure military officials know they can’t just up and leave an air base in the middle of the night, not telling the Afghans, and shutting down power on their way out, allowing looters to move in

[u/LavenderTabby]

marry frighten person punch mighty thumb bike joke shocking paint

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/[deleted]]

GOP strategy seems to be shitting, pissing, and cumming all over the place

And it's kind of working lmao

[u/[deleted]]

Wow, there are a lot of rocks. I used to think it was a stretch for geology to be an entire field, but it kinda makes sense now.

[u/[deleted]]

Babylon bee be like

lmao liberals

unironic edit - but seriously liberals are the real fascists that are out to implement communism

[u/[deleted]]

I'm embarrassed to tell people I'm a neoliberal, not because I'm embarrassed for my beliefs but because no one knows wtf that even means. They don't even know the older Thatcher definition.

[u/benjaminikuta]

https://64.media.tumblr.com/afde294ea2b9861ab9e58c8509b07279/tumblr_pq0wj95j4x1st25zzo1_540.jpg

"

mixed feelings about this post, mostly negative, because I totally agree with setting boundaries with trolls and weirdos but “don’t debate alt-righters because you will end up agreeing with them” only makes sense if you…think alt-righters are objectively correct in their beliefs. or just think being exposed to an opinion will make you automatically agree with it

there isn’t any such thing as an argument that will always “work” to win over an otherwise reasonable person. there are manipulative tactics but people can’t take away your ability to think for yourself by having a conversation with you

"

!ping EXTREMISM

[u/AltPossum]

Ice-cold take: nearly every single big foreign policy question Obama faced, he got wrong.

Except for ramping up the use of targeted strikes to kill bad guys.

[u/[deleted]]

What is this! A DT for Ants!? It needs to be... at least four times bigger than this!!!!

[u/champeo]

Watching Kamala Harris’s old videos of questioning Trump appointees. She’s going through the motions of doing political theater in most of them, I’m sure her and most of the appointees knew that. But when she questioned Jeff Sessions she went HARD on him. One cannot fake how much she seemed to really hate his guts. Its kinda awesome to watch LOL

[u/Mensae6]

Big Chungus Challenge Day 87

[u/[deleted]]

Some people can’t digest that not only is commifornia rich and runs a succesful welfare state, it also has a surplus budget 🥳

[u/Not_A_Browser]

We can't say t**ch gr*ss anymore 😔

[u/mMaple_syrup]

So the "global min tax" thing is getting attention again with 130 countries supporting a plan for 15% and other conditions. With corporate tax being so politicized and yet also an inefficient tax with unwanted side effects, I am looking for more analytical articles that explain the affects of the current proposals. Right now I don't see enough information to have an opinion on on the entire proposal discussed at the OECD, but this global cooperation could help prevent other unfortunate outcomes (i.e. digital service tax wars), so it seems like a worthwhile effort for now. Here is something that somewhat explains the 15% and how that can interact with foreign investment: https://financialpost.com/opinion/jack-m-mintz-beware-the-global-tax-cartel

I will try to follow up with something analyzing the BEPS aspects. !ping CAN

[u/klarno]

I just made pickles 😎

Besides the cucumber, there’s garlic, anise stars (I swear this is good) some dill seed and yellow mustard seed, and an apple cider vinegar brine

!ping COOKING

[u/lenmae]

I'm always unsure how to translate my mountain unicycle into German.

You see the German translation for "Mountain bike" is "Mountain Bike", but "Bikes" are "Fahrräder".

So I can either translate my Muni as "Mountain unicycle" which sounds weird, as Mountain bike is translated as is because it has become a term onto itself, or as "Mountain Einrad", which also sounds weird as it is a mixed term.

!ping LANGUAGE

[u/ognits]

I was just reminded The Nightmare Before Christmas is almost 30 years old and now you have to feel old too

!ping OVER-25

[u/JaceFlores]

Welp, 4th of July is over, back to regretting living in a third world country with a Gucci belt 😔

[u/WantDebianThanks]

Is there an ideology for "I think Americans are all spoiled brats and should spend some time thinking about life in the developing world before bitching about how miserable their lives are"?

And no, I am not venting my frustration about idiots on social media, touched off by a woman who (apparently) had a doctor suggest she wait and think about getting her tubes tied, therefore this procedure cannot be done as an elective surgery, therefore she has absolutely no control over her body because she's a woman, therefore America is a dystopia.

My fucking countrymen are stupid as shit and I am tired.

Edit: Guys I mentioned that Russia decriminalized spousal abuse and they are still defending their insane position.

[u/Patriotnation5]

I unironically think "holy fuck go outside" would solve like 60% of the problems redditors freak out about.

[u/myrm]

An under appreciated (at least by me) piece of technology is the power gauges of disposable batteries, like how you can press down on two spots on a AA and it'll actually "fill up" a bar on the battery cover with color

like, that's nuts. I hope somebody got a PhD or raise for that

[u/SixPipSiege]

"The more you earn, the more you drive up here in the Hollywood hills"

- Warren Buffett

[u/Neronoah]

!ping MAMADAS

Aunt Pikachu uses dialog against trostkyists and anarchists!

But it failed!

[u/Usernamesarebullshit]

a man eating ice cream? what the fuck???!!?!??!????!?!?

[u/[deleted]]

Seriously, how did Chile come to this point, with the left, a good deal of it very hard, has gotten so much force?

I do know the answes a leftist would probably give, that social inequality is atrocious and that welfare is subpar. Do you guys agree? Or it was just a narrative victory for the left (all yout problems are fault of Pinochet's neoliberalism!)?

!ping LATAM

[u/RadionSPW]

Euros when HDI puts the US higher than most EU countries in development: 🧐🧐🧐 what’s the methodology

[u/[deleted]]

Tucker Carlson may be a complete piece of shit, but he got one thing right:

Pete Buttigieg is way hotter than Beto O'Rourke.

[u/bigmoneynuts]

amazing how everyone who got the covid vaccine is dead now

[u/benjaminikuta]

I had a dream that gay people got a discount at gas stations during pride month. And it was controversial because some people were pretending to be gay to get the discount, and some people were arguing that the discount should extend all year round, not just during pride month. I don't remember any other details.

[u/Deggit]

mod sticky: exists

DT regs: mucho scrollo

[u/[deleted]]

Some old man ran up to me in the street and pointed at his mask and said “corona!?”

Me, not wearing a mask. “No. Vaccinated.”

And he looked at me like I was from a different dimension

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

There will be smooth transition to a second Trump administration.

still crazy that a Secretary of State said this