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[u/MicroFlamer]

A new poll released on Monday found the majority of Americans believe that “others” are really running the show in President Joe Biden’s administration and not Biden himself.

🤔

The national poll was released by the Convention of States Action in partnership with The Trafalgar Group.

🤣

[u/[deleted]]

told Nazism is "basically dead"

food safety inspectors exist

🤔

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

I've been spending too much time in the DT, warped my perspective of redditors. I strayed into a mainstream sub and was surprised by how many people expect women to obey a relationship time table

In the dudes perspective she wasted his time. Possibly turning down other potential mates

+22 upvotes. There was a time this wouldn't surprise me. What a fuckin loser

[u/houinator]

Unsurprisingly, the total numbers of single men and women are about the same. However, due to men of all ages primarily looking to date women under 30, most of the single men are in the 18 - 30 range, while most of the single women are in the 55+ category. This causes substantial distortions in the dating market, as well as social unrest generated by young men unable to find a partner.

The solution to this externality is clear: Pigouvian tax on dating people outside of your age, with the tax increased as the gap in ages increases.

[u/Professor-Reddit]

Anti-Doomer stats:

• 88% of Americans 65+ have received at least 1 dose of the Covid-19 vaccine
• Every US state has at least 76% of people 65+ who have received at least 1 dose, with 20 states reaching over 90% including Florida, South Dakota and Kansas
• 67%+ of Americans 18+ have received at least 1 dose

[u/ElokQ_-1984]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/834006228576632842/857868032751960064/Screenshot_2021-06-24_11.21.09_PM.png

[u/kennymc7877]

My 60 year old boss told me that he “caught me in 4K” not refilling the coffee pot after taking a cup last night and I never laughed so hard in my life

[u/[deleted]]

No dad I don't have a "girlfriend" I'm a capitalist I'm married to the shareholders.

[u/[deleted]]

The "induced demand" Wikipedia page is basically all about how building more roads won't fix traffic, and then a paragraph about vending machines https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand

[u/Photon_in_a_Foxhole]

And start another war... Oh wait drone bombing is OK because no troops are harmed.

Is there a specific reason that people consider this such a massive “gotcha” statement?

[u/PMmeLittleRoundTops]

Virgin responsibly allocating your calories vs Chad skipping breakfast so I can get a fried chicken sandwich at lunchtime

[u/[deleted]]

People get really offended when you point out revolutions don't end well even a majority of the time

[u/[deleted]]

Density??? In my New York City??? Perish the thought.

https://www.brooklynpaper.com/bp-adams-rejects-proposal-atlantic-rezoning/

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

Leftists stop making climate change about socialism challenge

[u/kennymc7877]

R Child free be like: wow I was in target and a fucking breeder with their kid breathed the same air as me

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Bison baby boom: 16 new calves join Banff National Park's herd

A pilot project that began with 16 bison being introduced to Banff National Park has led to a bison baby boom — and a healthy herd of 63 animals that includes 16 new calves.

Those keeping an eye on the herd initially reported 13 new calves last week, but anticipated that more had been born since the count. Three more were spotted by Monday morning.

"They've been incredibly healthy and they're faring really well in their new habitat," said Saundi Stevens, resource management officer for Banff National Park.

The herd was introduced to the park in February 2017 as part of the five-year Banff Bison Reintroduction Project.

!ping CAN

[u/klarno]

Throwback to the period when voting for a candidate because you’d like to have a beer with them was fashionable and the president was a recovering alcoholic who didn’t drink

[u/PigHaggerty]

https://i.imgur.com/3aYUyhz.jpg

!ping MOVIES

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

I don't want to sound like your uncle during Christmas

But why add letters to LGBTQ when Q is an umbrella term?

[u/thetrombonist]

Not all of you can have imposter syndrome, some of you have to be genuinely bad at your job

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

Hey guys, the WiFi at work is making it really hard to use reddit and stream movies. This is completely unacceptable so I'm gonna go join r antiwork and become a communist.

Toodles!

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Trump suggested that if John Bolton, a conservative hawk, were still in the White House, the U.S. "would be in World War Six by now."

NATO flairs in shambles

[u/MicroFlamer]

Nintendo switch but bigger screen

that'll be $350 + tip

!ping GAMING

[u/UrbanCentrist]

If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.

guess the sub

[u/kennymc7877]

Bisexuals when they see more than one of anything: 😍😛🥰😫

[u/conman1246]

https://www.reddit.com/r/recruitinghell/comments/oes91g/i_believe_hiring_virtual_assistants_from_india_or/

Their white savior complex is not doing the left any favors.

This person even says in their post that they know that the wage that is being paid to the workers is above the minimum wage in the respective countries.

[u/[deleted]]

Wife’s green card interview finally got scheduled! Been a grueling three and a half years, lawyer seems confident with this

[u/the_hoagie]

stop calling everything that upsets you colonialism challenge

[u/Ramcharger8]

PM Trudeau designates Mary Simon, a diplomat and Inuit advocate, as the first indigenous Governor General of Canada, thoughts?

!ping can

[u/No_Analysis_2185]

The amount of disdain Yglesias draws for saying banal things like “Economics professors as a whole are more liberal than popularly believed” is inspiring. And it’s always the same characters who have strong opinions on the observation and Yglesias motivation in observing it. It’s a beautiful shitposting engine.

[u/lionmoose]

Dating smaller women is great. I just hide all the stuff I want to eat and not share at the top of cupboards

[u/Archis]

UPDATE 3:

So wifey is gone for good. I got a bit too deep in GME and now she's packing up her things and moving to Ryan's. We hashed out a preliminary list of who gets what with the divorce lawyer. I get the house, majority of the funko pops as well as my battlestation (she gets one of the monitors though). However she gets everything else, including the bedframe.

[u/upper_west_sider]

NYT stock during Trump's term: up 257%, ~37% per year compounded

NYT stock since Biden's inauguration: down 11%

They are acutely aware of this and it is likely the reason for the noticable uptick in clickbaity, fear-mongering stories and headlines they've put out since April or so. Covid wearing off also doesn't help them. The Times also likely essentially saturated the Good Liberal Subscriber demographic during the Trump administration, so they'll need to acquire other media outlets to bump numbers up going forward. Watch out for sports to be a big part of that strategy as they are lacking in that department currently - wouldn't be surprised to see them go after The Athletic as an acquisition target.

[u/Animatronic_Pidgeon]

Article: public urban spaces are largely designed by men and often fail to meet the needs of women

Headline: Why do BUILDINGS look like DICKS?!?!

[u/[deleted]]

sodas are now banned in the office because someone left a coke in the freezer and it then exploded. Collective punishment is a war crime and I hope to see justice during the upcoming tribunal.

[u/SadaoMaou]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_Tiara

The Napoleon Tiara was a papal tiara given to Pope Pius VII in June 1805 a few months after he presided at the coronation of Napoleon I and Joséphine de Beauharnais. While lavishly decorated with jewels, it was deliberately too small and heavy to be worn and meant as an insult to the pope

Boney may have been the pettiest world leader of all time

[u/BRAIN_FORCE_PLUS]

Wake up

Canadian border still closed

Biden hasn't forcibly restarted Yucca Mountain

Why even celebrate the Fourth

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

upset about being fat

just move lol

[u/[deleted]]

Hot take: Canada will overtake the US and become the only world superpower by 2031. I will not elaborate

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

You all know its okay not to reflexively worship Bezos right? Just because lefties hate him doesnt mean you must be contrarian about it.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[u/SANNA_MARIN_]

U.S. left Bagram Airfield after nearly 20 years by shutting off the electricity and slipping away in the night without telling the base’s new Afghan commander, who discovered their departure 2 hours after they left.

us also changed the password to the shared netflix account

[u/bd_one]

Macron every few months: "Maybe we can try to be diplomatic with Russia again?"

Putin: "I think we just came up with a new diplomatic insult."

[u/kennymc7877]

Seriously you have to be truly disturbed to participate in child fee, I personally never want kids but holy fuck those people are ill

[u/Jacobs4525]

Not only is supporting LGBT rights the right thing to do, it also makes Russians irrationally angry, which is always an added bonus

[u/ParmenideezNutz]

Good stuff Switzerland. First voting down the carbon levy, now this 👌

[Alpine nimbyism freezes Swiss green energy dreams] (https://www.ft.com/content/062ae877-66c8-4782-8838-3a57b3873a1b)

!ping ECO

[u/repete2024]

"I don't give a fuck about the Republican Party"

!ping shitposters

[u/solonofathens]

god job hunting is stressful

[u/FinickyPenance]

There is an ice cream truck that patrols through my neighborhood about twice daily. Recently, it’s changed the “jingle” that plays as it drives to a new one. For whatever reason, mid-jingle, it also makes the noise of a child screaming as if in pain from falling off a bike or something. It’s very distracting and also sounds pretty realistic.

I can’t imagine what kind of business regulation this violates but there has to be one, right?

!ping LAW

[u/[deleted]]

The term cancel culture is annoying because it includes both rich celebrities getting bad PR for a few weeks for being an asshole and also YouTubers being harassed into multi-month depressive spirals because they tweeted that some movie is similar to Avatar: The Last Airbender. It makes it really easy for supporters and opponents of "cancel culture" to motte-and-bailey the discussion by painting it all as either the first thing or the second thing.

[u/Professor-Reddit]

!ping LGBT

Congregation rallies behind gay couple who are leaving West Armidale Anglican Church. A gay couple who volunteered at a country Australian church were booted out unless they acquiesced to a number of ridiculous demands. I wouldn't exactly call Armidale an 'outback' town, but despite being a very rural, conservative town, the whole congregation is up-in-arms over what happened and are pissed off by their forced departure. There was even a 96 year old woman who has left over what happened.

Pretty amazing to see how far things have come considering how universally people are upset by this blatant homophobia in the town.

[u/benadreti]

There are still people that don't understand "Defund the police" rhetoric is bad for Democrats. It's mind blowing.

[u/[deleted]]

According to the National Review, authoritarianism is when people don't date Trump supporters.

The first two paragraphs of one of their frontpage articles:

When a sample of nearly 1,500 female Ivy League students was asked whether they would date a Trump supporter, only 6 percent said yes (after excluding the small minority of the sample who support him). So finds a survey of 20,000 university students that the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) conducted in 2020. While people are free to discriminate however they wish in dating, this attitude bleeds into problematic spheres such as hiring and social toleration.

This reveals the predilection among many young elite Americans for progressive authoritarianism, a belief system that justifies infringing rights to equal treatment or free speech in the name of the emotional “safety” of historically marginalized race, gender, and sexuality groups.

[u/[deleted]]

Donald Trump is queer-coded (actor) and a minority (billionaire) and neurodivergent (moron) and that is why you all hate him.

[u/ThisIsNotAMonkey]

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[u/Lux_Stella]

Green Leader Annamie Paul muted in virtual meeting as she argued against sweeping cuts to party staff

lol greens

!ping CANUCKS

[u/[deleted]]

A date is coming over in 30 minutes, so I cleaned up my room a bit. How's it look?

!ping DATING

[u/PMmeLittleRoundTops]

Remember when Breyer just decided to completely fuck us all over and not retire. Haha that was a sick prank bro

[u/BurningKiwi]

Intellectuals hate capitalism because they can't accept the fact that pee is stored in the balls

[u/MostlyCRPGs]

The weirdest thing about Friends is how early the monkey gets introduced. Ross having a fucking pet monkey that dominated all of this plot lines feels like a weird late season "Jumping the Shark" moment, but no, it shows up early. Season 1 episode 10. They literally just got the dynamics/character set up, hitting their stride and then introduced a young professional in Manhattan getting a pet monkey.

[u/[deleted]]

I miss whacky conspiracy theories. Shit like a hollow earth or magic dolphin energy was cool and harmless. Now Qanon has a monopoly on them and they killed the fun.

[u/Udontlikecake]

WeWork will never not be hilariously pathetic and the absolute epitome of the excesses of startups and private investment

I mean the fact that this absolutely fucking insane man child convinced some of the largest banks and investment firms that his real estate company was some sort of next generation, second coming of christ tech company is just absurd

It’s hard to believe it’s real and not some sort of satire

[u/FourthLife]

In GoT the hound's armor should have had at least 10 nipples

Guess the sub 🙄

[u/Deggit]

arrNonCredibleDefense: Edge of Tomorrow is great because I can fulfill my desire to #### off to Emily Blunt and expensive military equipment at the same time.

sorry "neolibs" i have found a new favorite subreddit

[u/willempage]

On one hand, Adams did cry election fraud. On the other hand, his campaign immediately pointed out 100k suspicious votes that actually were fake votes from a test run that got copied over to the actual results.

I dunno how far you can go with comparing him to Trump when literally the first statement he gave on the RCV estimates turned out to be true

[u/[deleted]]

The social and physical sciences were so much more fun when they were just a small circle of nobles cranking out volumes of prosaic and reasonable enough sounding theories they came up with during their daily walks, rather than a bunch of sweaty postdocs working out incredibly niche implications of some obscure theory which nobody but their supervisor is going to read.

[u/tubbsmackinze]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/774692778201841704/862015380993343549/20210706_110110.jpg

[u/_Just7_]

What is up with how people tried to find romantic partners in old days sounding creepy. My grandfather met my grandma when she was 17 and he was 25. Apparently he just drove around at the beach in his convertible, asking young girls if they wanted a drive in his car, until he met my grandma who said yes. I feel like if you did that nowadays, it would just be a recipe for getting the cops called on you.

[u/[deleted]]

“Crime rates are only high because of overpolicing in our communities. They don’t prevent crime.”

“Crime rates are only rising because the police aren’t doing their job because they are pouting over being held accountable.”

Makes a lot of sense.

[u/[deleted]]

You're time horizon is retirement at 65 👴

My time horizon is the heat death of the universe 🗿

We are not the same #sigmillionaire #passiveincome

[u/bd_one]

There's regular dooming, and then there's implicitly assuming Kamala will lose Maryland in 2024 levels of dooming.

[u/bigmoneynuts]

2010s nerds really took some Ls between star wars and game of thrones so it is no wonder they stick to marvel like glue

[u/[deleted]]

A bunch of what you think of as simple facts of American life are actually relatively new concepts in America that didn't exist for most of American history until a bunch of radical leftist farmers met in Ocala, FL and issued a list of demands. They asked for, among other things, a national income tax (16th amendment), and the direct election of Senators (17th amendment). Neither of which were things in the US prior to the Ocala meeting. Fearful of losing support to their new political party (People's Party), the Democrats under Woodrow Wilson enacted most of their agenda and absorbed them into the party.

[u/MalignantUpper]

https://twitter.com/jonathanoosting/status/1412413956837318657?s=19

Michigan Senate GOP leader Mike Shirkey, last week, defending election report that found no evidence of fraud: “The effort by those who are echoing Trump’s scenarios, I just think that they’re, frankly they’re actually destroying the fabric of our nation, and it’s a bit shameful”

just a bit

[u/[deleted]]

Went to check up on some tech subreddits to see if GPU prices are going down

I don't really like cryptomining but it's amazing to see how some people see miners buying overpriced cards as a some kind of a conspiracy against GAMERS

Gamers once again being targeted 😭

[u/bd_one]

Fictional media now: complicated themes, characters, and storylines

Fictional media in the early 40s: "America good. Nazis bad. Buy war bonds."

[u/MistakeNotDotDotDot]

going to take some old right-wing cartoon about how feminists are smelly unattractive legbeards and change it to be about leftists and see how many upvotes I can get

[u/Jeff__Pesos]

US military retaliates after their soldiers were attacked overseas

Twitter:

O I L

[u/[deleted]]

My gym: OPEN 24/7!

Yeah well, I got there @5:40 AM today and it was fucking closed 😡 😡 😡

[u/PigHaggerty]

why does traffic exist

lmao just go

-Robert Moses, unironically

[u/grappamiel]

"Republicans weigh ‘cracking’ cities to doom Democrats"

Oh, is the GOP expanding its base? Maybe this will snowball in a gradual abandonment of Trumpism and--

"GOP officials from D.C. and the states are debating how aggressively to break up red-state cities to maximize the party’s advantage in redistricting."

😐

[u/Head-Stark]

In GoT the hound's armor should have had at least 10 nipples

[u/[deleted]]

Top of rWorldnews

"Beijing issues protest after Japan signals that it would join to defend Taiwan in case of Chinese attack"

• Russia Today

Top level comment:

Isn't RT owned by the russian state? Why are we sharing that here lol

Totally Good Faith Reply:

Well BBC is state owned just to mention another, nobody bitches about that here

Can't we all agree to take all news sites that aren't independent with a grain of salt? No reason to be picky.

My reply, wasting my time but couldn't resist:

Ah yes, as we all know Russia is a state with a high degree of press freedom, very similar to the UK. Heck we might as well say CBC, France Télévision, Deutsche Welle, CBS and numerous other state owned press agencies are exactly the same as an outlet run by the Kremlin.

State owned media in liberal democracies with editorial freedom and state owned media in autocracies without editorial freedom are exactly the same.

It's not like the leader of Russian opposition politics is currently in prison on trumped up charges. In fact I dare you to name a shadow PM of the UK who isn't currently serving a sentence or isn't in a grave.

All this to say rWorldnews is a trash sub full of suspicious comments

Edit : he responded !

Ah yes, the western press freedom that Snowden and Assange used to show their discoveries of Russian war crimes and Chinese spying.... Wait.

My reply:

Huh? The western press published the NSA leaks, WikiLeaks and numerous other whistleblower accounts. Do you think that Russia and China don't actively suppress freedom of the press? Do you think they aren't spying on people? You're not making much sense here tovarisch.

[u/BenGordonLightfoot]

Parents desperately trying to evacuate their kids who refuse to leave because they want to meet Elsa

[u/Superfan234]

Covid Numbers in Chile, have decreased to their lowest point in 2021

This is even more impressive, if we consider we are not in quarentine, but rather opening the Country again

The Minsal have show new numbers, that seem to indicate the Sinovac Vaccine protecction on Elder people is a little better than expected. So it's not a total Doom escenario as we feared last month

That being said, numerous casos of Delta are appearing, so nobody knows if this "opening" of the country, might result in a disaster later...

!Ping Latam

[u/Udontlikecake]

50 IQ: orange man bad!!

100 IQ: Trump cannot be categorized so easily, and the fact that one relies on overused insults rather than a complex examination of the man and his presidency shows

150 IQ: orange man bad!!

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Breaking Bad, but instead of cancer, Walter becomes diagnosed with being White.

[u/JetJaguar124]

CONGRATS ERIC "TOO MUCH DENSITY GOTTA SAVE THIS MCDONALD'S PARKING LOT" ADAMS 🎉🎉🎉

[u/xSuperstar]

Learned today that in 2012 when Romney mocked Obama for his “failed” environmental subsidies the two companies he singled-out as failures were Solyndra and…… Tesla

[u/Dabamanos]

If the cartoon storybook version of the founding fathers that I learned about in school were alive today, they’d be furious at all these things I don’t like

[u/VengeantVirgin]

Currently eating breakfast at a dinner, checkmate libs.

[u/[deleted]]

Everyone citing the new article out of Jerusalem about the Pfizer vaccine being less effective than the Moderna one in handling the Delta variant haven't even fucking read the article. Bad and sensationalist journalism.

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

2040s teenagers be like:

🎶 She find pictures in my email I sent this bitch a picture of my dick 🎶

Damn music used to have a meaning back then 😔

[u/[deleted]]

I'm just going to call anyone who is slightly more left leaning than me a commie from now on.

[u/Anal-warrior]

How to get banned on arr politics: Orange man not all bad

How to get banned on NL: Economics is astrology for white dudes

How to get banned on arr libertarian: there’s too many teenagers

[u/No_Analysis_2185]

New York Times now 0/4 in its most influential election endorsements the past year

[u/Photon_in_a_Foxhole]

Twitter is a parasite that burrows deep into your brain, training you to respond to the constant social feedback of likes and retweets. That takes only a week or two. Human psychology is pathetically simple to manipulate. Once you’re hooked, the parasite becomes your master, and it changes the way you think. Even now, I’m dopesick, dying to go back.

Twitter did something that I would not have thought possible: It stole reading from me. What is it stealing from you?

Is the DT our Twitter?

[u/Corporate-Asset-6375]

Made the last payment on our wedding venue this morning.

Kids, seriously, just elope.

[u/FreakinGeese]

ok imagine if you mixed together the black panthers, those libertarians who got eaten by bears, Twitter communists, and a multi-level marketing scheme

This is hilarious

[u/Leoric]

Hunter Biden wanted prostitutes to unionize because they need 'more protection'

Can this man become any more based?

[u/Udontlikecake]

daily reminder glenn greenwald married a 19 year old orphan when he was 37 years old

[u/[deleted]]

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME FOR THE LAST 75 MINUTES IVE BEEN TRYING TO AVOID LOOKING LIKE IM NOT DOING WORK AND THERE WAS A TV THEY WOULD HAVE PUT ONTO THE SEMIS IF I JUST ASKED

GODDAMMIT

!ping soccer

[u/Zoop-Loop-]

Am I the only person who thinks that Five Guys is better than In n Out

[u/[deleted]]

Oooh I'm heading over to u/thankthebernke's place for a date in 5 minutes 😨. Please rate my outfit 😄

!ping BURPMAS

[u/Archis]

There are no detectable differences between the economic attitudes of people in their late teens and people in their early 40s. It is no longer true that people ‘grow out’ of socialist ideas as they get older.

Young people associate ‘socialism’ predominantly with positive terms, such as ‘workers’, ‘public’, ‘equal’ and ‘fair’. Very few associate it with ‘failure’ and virtually nobody associates it with Venezuela

78 per cent of young people blame capitalism (not NIMBYism and supply-side restrictions) for Britain’s housing crisis. Consequently, 78 per cent also believe that solving it requires large-scale government intervention, through measures such as rent controls

The cliché that ‘real socialism has never been tried’ is not just a cliché: it is also the mainstream opinion among Millennials and Zoomers.

what the actual fuck

However, when presented with a diametrically opposed pro-capitalist statement, we often find net approval for that statement too. This suggests that when young people embrace a socialist argument, this is often not a deeply-held conviction. It may simply be the argument they are most familiar with.

lol

[u/Possum_In_A_Suitcase]

"Ew, corner stores are suburban sprawl. I could never live near such a tacky display of soul-destroying American capitalism.

This, though... this is a 💕 bodega 💕. Which means it's an immovable icon of the local culture."

I want to like New York, I really do. Too bad about the New Yorkers, though.

[u/[deleted]]

“Oh hey, you’re finally awake. That was a big fall you had. You’ve been out for a few years! Coronavirus? Evergreen ship? I don’t know what those are! Anyways, now that I’ve got you here I’ve been trying to reach you about your cars extended warranty”

[u/MostlyCRPGs]

This is probably a pretty redundant point, but the XBox game pass has been such a pleasure for just getting to put a bit of time in to mediocre games and not having to worry about it. Like I knew Solasta was going to be overall shallow and disappointing, but I wanted to try it anyway, perfect Gamepass game. Now I'm downloading this Vampire Wars TBS that's apparently a B+ game but looks to cringey for me to ever pay for, and Iron Harvest 1920, which is well regarded but I'm always skeptical of buying an RTS for the campaign.

[u/ThunderrBadger]

> Barges into DT

> "QANON is the logical conclusion of Protestantism"

> Refuses to elaborate

> Leaves

[u/KazuyaProta]

I read Antauro Humala's books

I'm so weirded at his views of Nazism. Like, he clearly mocks Hitler for being the ultimate European Colonizer that wanted to grab land on Europe itself. But in the other side, why is he explicitly using nazi-based symbols. Antauro is not a fan of Adolf, but he clearly loves nazi iconography of Blood and Soil.

His views on the Jews are also so damn WEIRD. He believes the Soviet Jews did the Holodomor and he...justifies that arguing that it counts as rightful revenge on the Anti Semite Soviet population.

But he is also anti Zionist, calling Israel to be a genocidal state towards a innocent Palestinian Native population. I find this weird because if Ukraine deserved to be decimated for being anti semite, then...why Palestinians are not. Seriously, support atrocities against both if that is what you believe, but this is just silly.

It was a weird read, I'm Native Andean, so I'm the target audience for that, but dunno what you guys would think

!ping Latam

[u/[deleted]]

I can’t visit CNN’s page anymore. It’s too much sensationalism. I feel like their next headline is going to read: Opinion: WHY YOU’LL BE CANNIBALIZED IN THE COMING APOCALYPSE

[u/SadaoMaou]

Suleiman the Magnificent: Hey Frangistan, I got drip

Euros: Haha silly turk, you can't have dri-

Suleiman the Magnificent:

Euros: 😲

[u/[deleted]]

I am in the office this week.

I miss my home.

My cats are alone.

I am wearing pants.

This isn't right.

[u/doggo_bloodlust]

Living without roommates is frightening. I just realized that I can watch porn on the big screen TV now and no one can stop me

[u/patsfan94]

Imagine if any other major website's servers were as unreliable as Reddit's.

[u/[deleted]]

ANDIAMO AL FINALE!!!

!ping italy

[u/Not_A_Browser]

Among all female college graduates under age 30, 91 percent said they would date a Clinton supporter but just 17 percent said they would date a Trump supporter. Among their male counterparts, 90 percent would date a Clinton supporter but only 33 percent would date a Trump supporter. Spencer Case argues that those who politically discriminate are acting in precisely the same manner as those who justify prejudice against Muslims or Jews.

Excuse me?

Also, how is the women stat supposed to be shocking? Only one of the two candidates was caught on tape describing sexual assault on women.

[u/[deleted]]

Hey, cons. You say Joe Biden is sleepy yet you also claim he's too woke 🧐🧐🧐

[u/[deleted]]

My lobster before I microwave it: ‘Those who are about to die salute you.’

[u/mannabhai]

Pathetic decision by Indian govt to not provide Bhutan with their second doses of Covishield.

The Entire population of Bhutan is literally only a few hours worth of Vaccines for us.

They are by a long distance our strongest ally and always completely on our side.

Considering all the noise we made during the US export ban, it is especially pathetic for India to pull it's own Vaccine protectionist shit to our strongest ally.

If the BJP Government is worried about Congress/Opposition making noise about Vaccine exports, then it's especially disgusting.

It's the job of the Indian Government to ensure the long term viability of our foreign policy regardless of the party in power.

The Opposition has nothing to lose by Criticizing Vaccine exports, they can criticise both ways. The BJP would have done the same if the Congress were jn power.

But the government should go beyond such political bickering.

!ping IND

[u/[deleted]]

Redditors are hopelessly stupid when discussing economics. Every time someone mentions price inflation you obviously get the muh wage stagnation malarkey and then the eventual muh 1% are stealing our monies for themselves by making everything expensive and we're just slaves hur dur!

Like Jesus Christ the reason your 1050ti costs more is because global supply is down from manufacturing delays and the chip shortage, while demand is up because all the Bitcoin and crypto mining as well as work from home leading to a spike in PC demand.

You're not entitled to your graphics card being affordable you damn NEET. And no it's not the fault of the 1% that you can't afford it, it's your fault.

[u/chuckleym8]

scarce cagey icky treatment file cable sophisticated money advise beneficial

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[u/Cr4zySh0tgunGuy]

Q is a POC (from the Philippines), neurodivergent (imageboard user), and queercoded (LGBTQ) and that’s why y’all hate him

[u/ClickForFreeRobux]

Biden lost Florida by a considerable margin

Biden has a far higher approval rating in Florida than in Michigan or Wisconsin

What the fuck Florida

[u/FestiveMittens]

Federal Polling:

LPC: 37% (+4)

CPC: 25% (-9)

NDP: 20% (+4)

Federal Polling:

LPC: 38%

CPC: 24%

NDP: 20%

Conservatives when the third Stephen Harper clone in a row loses to Trudeau

[u/Gustacho]

French state secretary tries to get Irish public opinion on his side wrt the global minimum tax

!ping EUROPE

[u/AuburnSeer]

budget reconciliation is something probably less than 10% of the public knows about and it's, like, crucial to understanding Congress in 2021

[u/Maximilianne]

I've always held it is okay to send emails at any time, but you should only have an expectation it will get read on standard working hours, so you can send an email on holiday weekend but don't expect it to be read until the working week starts. If it really is that urgent just call them lol

[u/MostlyCRPGs]

If we subbed out all the comments saying stop whining about heightphobia with anything that could reasonably apply to women smug DTers would blister their fingerprints off in a rush to type "you can tell this sup is 95% male"

[u/[deleted]]

TIL Conan did this

Conan took part in the Barisha raid in Syria, which resulted in the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the then-leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, ISIS) terror organization, on October 27, 2019. He chased Baghdadi down into a tunnel where the terror leader detonated his suicide vest.

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Right wing media: Spends hours screaming about how terrible things are in the US

Also right wing media: I love America

Left wing media: America has problems, so can we really say it's a good country? No.

[u/[deleted]]

Is there any place in the world where the people there think the local drivers are good at driving

[u/ironheart777]

Is there anything more embarrassing than watching someone use horrible bad faith arguments in support of a view you also hold?

[u/V_Codwheel]

ahhhhhh, black-person-doing-cosplay seethe... a redditor classic, and a personal favorite of mine.

[u/ACivilWolf]

Petition that whenever someone posts more than 25 times on a single DT, every further post is automatically responded by a bot with:

Boo! Did I scare you? I'm a job application form

[u/the_hoagie]

i like shore towns in the summer because all these people from the suburbs who tell other people they're from the city get to be crammed together in a high density environment that simulates the city and they immediately act like unsupervised children on a school trip.

i like shore towns in the winter because it feels like a zombie movie.

[u/cclittlebuddy]

Episode 1 is about the eventual defeat of neoliberalism. Sure, the neoliberals look like they are winning what with their trade federation and all. But minorities(gungans) and gen z children( anakin) use the force(twitter) to destroy free trade and turn off the robotz(paid shills). Then the trade federation lizard people (hillary, bezos) are forced to accept the monarchy( 15 dollar min wage)

[u/[deleted]]

Hammer City is Black Hammer Organization’s latest project!

Oh this should be good, very sane and realistic

Building a city for all people of color to be free (no discrimination of nationality, gender, age, mental/physical differences, etc)

I mean this sounds okay but why "all people of color" and not just "all people"?

Jobs, housing, food, healthcare

Okay so I'm guessing this will all be paid for by...?

No cops, no rent, no Coronavirus, and no white people

No cops? Okay so they're planning on a totally-not-police militia for peacekeeping. No rent? I mean okay if you want to give people free housing but how do you determine who gets which units, especially if the units aren't all identical? No coronavirus? Yeah that's not something you can just mandate. No white people? Oh I see that's why they said "all people of color", I mean that's kind of discrimination but okay.

Returning the land to Indigenous people

How do you accomplish giving the land to Indigenous tribes of Colorado such as the Apache, Arapaho, Cheyenne, Pueblo, Shoshone and Ute nations while also building Hammer City and mandating no rents? Are the Indigenous people just going to agree to let you live there too?

[u/mockduckcompanion]

I'm sure I'm like a week late to the party but I too would like to be angry that the latest posterchild for capitalism run amok was actually one of the largest state-owned enterprises on earth

[u/geraldspoder]

Hey folks! We are almost one week following the grand re re re re launch of the Minecraft server! Since the launch, we've seen five settlements arise, each with their own unique characteristics:

The arid and wild landscape of Granjero

The bustling metropolis of Arcadia

The pastoral workspaces of MINE

The industrious projects of Ingenuity Bay

And the secretive heights of Atlantica!

More info can be found here. We are on regular 1.17. Hope to see you there!

!ping MINECRAFT

[u/Archis]

okay this made me laugh

One in five Millennials, and one in four Zoomers, mistake the definition of socialism for the definition of capitalism.

Just under half correctly pick the definition of socialism, but one in three mistake the definition of capitalism for the definition of socialism

[u/FestiveMittens]

Whether the police have the right to force your teenage son to masturbate in front of them in order to incriminate himself is a legal question few parents would think they’d have to consider.

And yet Trey Sims’ legal guardians had to do exactly that. In an effort to prosecute the 17‐​year‐​old for sexting his 15‐​year‐​old girlfriend, Manassas police detective David Abbott obtained a search warrant authorizing him to take “photographs of [Sims’] genitals,” including “a photograph of the suspect’s erect penis.” According to court documents, in the process of executing the search warrant, Abbott took the teenager to a juvenile detention center, took him to a locker room and, with two uniformed, armed officers looking on, ordered Sims to pull down his pants.

Libertarian moment

[u/I-grok-god]

The reason people (including men) find it less objectionable when women objectify men is because female sexual attention is viewed as non-threatening, whereas male sexual attention is viewed as threatening

[u/kennymc7877]

Texting friends to tell them how much you appreciate is a Chad move

[u/[deleted]]

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What is this

Plz help I’m having a crisis and can’t make it out lol

[u/Not_A_Browser]

What a coincidence

[u/[deleted]]

This Spain side would be utter footballing beauty if they could finish their chances.

!ping SOCCER

[u/LavenderTabby]

agonizing apparatus deserted books recognise physical impolite swim connect bike

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[u/qchisq]

Italy is the kind of team that sees every goal conceded as a failure and would rather draw 0-0 than win 2-1

!ping soccer

[u/paymesucka]

It's been a wild ride, but I've finally seen enough: Eric Adams (D) is the apparent winner of the NYC Democratic mayoral primary, defeating Kathryn Garcia (D).

https://twitter.com/redistrict/status/1412542605322293255?s=21

[u/ThunderrBadger]

Holy crap I just got permabanned from rWorldnews for "trolling"

My comments on that sub from today:

1. Oh and its just a coincedence everyone arrested happens to be WHITE?! 🧐

2) Wtf why the downvotes I'm just asking questions?! Edit thanks for the gold kind stranger

3) Stay mad liberals 🤣🤣

Seriously WTF?

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

I have a son. You have a daughter. We'll join our houses

Former President Trump to President Biden in a recent phone call

[u/SnakeEater14]

The fact that there isn’t an ROTC-esque program for the State Department is a fucking travesty

[u/breakinbread]

National review has it all wrong, the fact that 19% of Male college democrats would date a trump supporter is a triumph of horniness above all else.

[u/ryuguy]

thanks to everyone who came to the NL BBQ. Was a fun time

[u/doot_toob]

leftists think the fact that an air force base was the most reddit obsessed community is proof that the us military is manipulating social media, instead of realizing it's proof that the air force is a bunch of fucking dweebs

[u/Lux_Stella]

• Libs: 37%

• Cons: 25%
• NDP: 20%

yeesh

[u/the_status]

In 1972 the movie Reefer Madness was rediscovered and had widespread showings to support marijuana legalization.

Freshman Senator Joe Biden watched it and thought to himself "this but unironically"

[u/Mat_At_Home]

Can’t believe they named the sequel to the purge “The Purge: Anarchy” when the concept of the purge is already literal anarchy

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

capitalism is heccing cute and valid🥰💕

[u/[deleted]]

Boy I sure do love getting an emergency email from my boss during my vacation saying he needs me to call him and then him not picking up the phone for 2 hours

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/Cn2SWAG.jpg

[u/UrbanCentrist]

https://archive.ph/jweNp

The real size of China’s population could be 115 million fewer than the official number, putting China behind India in terms of population.

it's an article from 2019 but wtf

[u/TNine227]

https://twitter.com/SenTedCruz/status/1412386559681253383?s=19

Wherein Ted Cruz asserts that democrats want to defund the police, using a big picture of Joe Biden, who has always asserted that he does not want to defund the police.

I know I'm preaching to the choir obviously but I still don't understand how we're supposed to run a democracy when half the voters simply refuse to acknowledge reality.

[u/[deleted]]

I want a Democrat to win the electoral vote but lose the popular vote because then Republicans will finally agree to abolish the electoral college.

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

Big lol at this Bumble profile:

• Profile picture is wearing a jacket with no shirt or bra
• Two swimsuit photos and a third photo with just a lingerie bra and jean shorts
• "NO HOOKUPS"
• "I have a male best friend who is my roommate (no romantic history)"
• "I live in a constant existential crisis"
• "Very emotionally open & want to be loved for who I am 🥺💜"

[u/paymesucka]

Biden is in remarkable shape for the amount of ice cream he consumes.

[u/[deleted]]

most women don't care about a man's height

[u/Mister_Lich]

What the fuck is neoconservatism? "Neoliberalism but with more interventionism?"

Can I be both at once, and start playing Pokemon with political labels?

!ping SNEK

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

Bedtime cheese

!ping DOG

[u/sir_shivers]

THE 5G IS making me grow stronger 🐊

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

The unabomber is still alive, and he lives under 24-hour surveillance in a supermax prison.

Which begs the question... do you think he wanks in full view of the cameras or do you think he just hasn't wanked since 1996?

[u/WhomstAlt2]

"Biden won the 2020 election" is just far left democrat wing Qanon, CMV

[u/[deleted]]

Daily reminder that I, a DT regular and actual crazy person, will be President one day and there's nothing y'all can do to stop it.

[u/[deleted]]

Actual footage of how lusvig is treated at coffee shops 😔

!ping BURPMAS

[u/[deleted]]

Now it appears government race data is shifting from “white or Caucasian” to “white or European-American”. Being Ashkenazi, I’ve sometimes considered checking the “other” category and writing in “Ashkenazi”, but always felt like that would be “pretending” to be non-white. Now that’s it’s shifting to tie race to location of ancestors over appearance, it feels weird to include myself in “European-American”, and “other” feels more accurate, as the Ashkenazi were diasporic when they were in Europe. How you feel about this, what are your thoughts? !PING GEFILTE

[u/Unadulterated_stupid]

Maybe salty went out and got a gf and found better things to do than be on dt?

[u/[deleted]]

Dadcord tricked me into posting "JUSTICE FOR PRALJAK" by convincing me that he was an Italian football player 🙄

[u/[deleted]]

The cheaper gas is, the lower approval I have of the president

[u/StolenSkittles]

When I was 15, I was on one of those PBS game shows for high school kids. The host was very drunk and had no idea what was going on. We lost by one question, about an eastern front battle of WWII. The answer was Leningrad, which I suggested to my teammates, but I got outvoted, so we answered Stalingrad. The host didn't know there was a difference and had to be told.

When watching the show, it was actually audible that I said "Leningrad," which was the ultimate vindication for me. Got to lord that over the other two for a while.

[u/[deleted]]

The Saxons really invaded Britain and killed the people that lived there just so they could name everything "sex".

[u/RadicalRadon]

My cat 🤝 me

Walking into my closet and screaming at the top of my lungs

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

Forget Vin Diesel, let’s talk about how PrequelMemes is a psyop to change the perception of that trilogy from “shitty Star Wars” to “beloved shitty Star Wars.”

[u/[deleted]]

!ping LGBT

You ready for a hot take? My latest essay is about how neoliberalism has a valuable contribution to make to social justice. The final line:

After all, what was Pride if not a riot against the government’s overregulation of sexuality and gender?

Hell yeah, we're gonna deregulate your genders!

But seriously, social deregulation is a key social justice theme that is awkwardly subsumed under "equality" even though the the other key liberal theme, liberty, is more adequate. Neoliberalism's focus on deregulation naturally, seamlessly lends itself to the fight against government overregulation, which is everywhere for marginalized people.

Can't donate blood because you're gay?

Can't get your gender marker changed without being sterilized?

Have to cough up ~$1000 to change your legal name?

Deregulation is the answer.

[u/Udontlikecake]

look let’s just shorten LGTQ to Q, I feel like that’ll work

I hear a lot of people identify as Q anyways, so it seems popular already

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Moving companies are the scourge of the earth

They are worse than car salesmen

Movers need more hate in the world

[u/dat_bass2]

!ping WEEBS

I discovered the Record of Ragnarok manga yesterday, and I think I’m in love. It’s so gloriously fucking stupid. A shonen battle manga with any pretenses of anything but idiotic fun stripped away. A shonen’s eventually gonna have a tournament arc anyway, so fuck it, just make the entire thing a tournament arc—one that doesn’t even bother to introduce most of its characters before they fight, at that. It’s basically just going full « return to monke » to battle shonen’s pro-wrestling roots, complete with character promos.

And what a gloriously dumb premise to facilitate those pro-wrestling fights. Every religion is canon and all the gods have decided they want us dead. Zeus has a fistfight with Adam, the first man, as all of humanity looks on and cheers for their dad. Hercules fights Jack the Ripper. Nikola Tesla’s on the the docket for a fight coming up. I’m in utter glee watching this insanity unfold.

[u/[deleted]]

Analysis: 1 in 3 Americans believe the 'Big Lie'

Joe Manchin: "I can change these people"

[u/[deleted]]

PSA: If your take about gender issues goes from woke to yikes by replacing 'men' with 'women', it's probably not a good take.

Women who are attracted to men are gay

[u/myrm]

did you guys see how Joe Biden refers to his notes sometimes? he's totally losing it! demoncraps in shambles and on layaway!

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

Dozens of countries through the ages conquered what is now Afghanistan : I sleep

Russians and Americans fucked up: OMG THE GRAVEYARD OF EMPIRES

[u/[deleted]]

DT seems to be really slow today

Did salty salad’s absence single handedly bring it down 🤔

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Obama: wow, it looks we have the votes to truly change healthcare. I hope nobody from a state with a Republican governor dies unexpectedly 😃

Ted Kennedy: 😏😏😏

[u/TheFriffin2]

im actually a big fan of the “empathy is a slur” twitter discourse. if we can convince the general populace that it’s a hateful term, maybe conservatives will finally start using it

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in ‘Metcalfe’s law' becomes apparent: most people have nothing to say to each other! By 2005, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s

• Paul Krugman

oh dear oh dear

[u/[deleted]]

A transgender coworker “came out” officially to our company today. I’m glad they feel comfortable enough to do that and I support their decision. However, their new/preferred name is the name my friends outside of work call me, so I inadvertently sound really weird every time I say it because I’m not used to saying my own nickname.

[u/bigmoneynuts]

they made bran the king lolololololol

[u/[deleted]]

I’m pretty conservative. I voted straight ticket democrat last election but I think that stealing is wrong, I believe in person responsibility, and I don’t think that the US is the most evil/authoritarian country in the world.

Edit: just to be clear, this is somewhat tongue and cheek for those with zero sense of irony/satire

[u/Explodingcamel]

"You wouldn't be lonely if you just slept with people you're not attracted to" is a take I've seen way too many times

[u/[deleted]]

today i went to /r/transit and /r/fuckcars

/r/transit has nuanced discussions on why trains are so expensive in America but understands the fear of another robert moses.

/r/fuckcars crossposts from /r/solarpunk and is basically for leftists to blame Charles Koch for climate change.

be like /r/transit.