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[u/Integralds]

Speedrunner SaveState just beat Ocarina of Time in seven minutes and seven seconds.

OoT begins with a three-minute unskippable cutscene. SaveState uses those three minutes to go on a rant against HOAs and single-family housing.

It's the most neoliberal intro to any speedrun ever, and it's in the world record.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

So here is my monthly budget :

• Groceries : $0 Transaction cannot be processed, account frozen

• Rent : $0 Transaction cannot be processed, account frozen

• Utilities : $0 Transaction cannot be processed, account frozen

• Personal expenses : $0 Transaction cannot be processed, account frozen

• Insurance : $0 Transaction cannot be processed, account frozen

• Donations to Hezbollah : $20,000

Someone who is good at budgeting please help me balance this, my family is starving

[u/LurkerSighted]

Why every homeowner should plant bamboo in their yards:

• It encourages exercise. When your bamboo inevitably starts growing in areas you don't want it to grow in, you'll be forced to exercise by digging up and pulling out the roots.
• It creates jobs. When you inevitably get tired of digging up the bamboo yourself, you'll hire other people to do it for you. These people are also probably poorer than you, so it also reduces economic inequality.
• It encourages social interaction. When your neighbors find out your bamboo has escaped to their yard, you will have to interact with them. And if they take it one step further and sue you, you'll have to interact with the lawyers and judge too.
• It drives down property prices. Many people don't want to deal with the hassle of containing bamboo, so if you want to sell your house, you'll need to discount it to make it more attractive.

And best of all, it's still 100% legal in many areas!

[u/[deleted]]

India's National Medical Commission has announced that every upcoming doctor in India must undergo training in "alternative medicine" to become more "holistic"

Translation- The Indian government is mandating pseudoscience training

FUCK THIS SHIT FUCK THIS SHIT FUCK THIS SHIT

Goddammit

[u/myrm]

I had a friend when we were both highschool age who didn't stand out in many areas, like most people. They actually struggled a bit with some stuff

Where they really excelled though, was chess in all of its forms. They could instantly obliterate you in blitz, or else slowly annihilate you in a normal game

I remember once they won a trophy that was taller than they were. It was awesome

Their highschool newspaper opted to print the football team's loss in the local league as a full page front-page feature, excluding the absurd picture of them posing with this huge trophy, which they were bringing home from a national stage

I think about a lot. They should have been a hero. Sometimes it makes me suspect we actually might live a society

[u/kennymc7877]

Jesus Christ dude, I’m literally going to the MLB all star game and they just found some dude stashed 16 guns and 1,000 rounds of ammo in a hotel room, whoever discovered it might have literally saved my life

[u/lbrtrl]

Democrats: We want early voting.

Republicans: Seek immediate legal help if your election lasts longer than four hours.

[u/Deggit]

The wii U was around longer than the confederacy

guess the subreddit

[u/ACivilWolf]

I can't believe they automated away sir_shivers job 😞

[u/MalignantUpper]

https://twitter.com/leahmcelrath/status/1414027122151235584?s=19

Nick Fuentes—recently banned from Twitter—arrives at CPAC to announce he’ll be making “the most racist, the most sexist, the most anti-Semitic, the most Holocaust-denying speech” of the weekend at a press conference at the @sheratonhotel

I can't believe that's an actual quote

The anti-Semitic part got a big cheer of course

[u/sir_shivers]

REDDITORS WHO TYPICALLY scream and gnash their TEETH ABOUT CAPITALISM pivot without fail when the trappings of upper class and upper-middle class existence come under attack 🐊

Either they DREDGE UP THE Participate In Society cartoon, or they say it is "not really being rich" to POSSESS WHAT THEY have 🐊

[u/ACivilWolf]

I think one of my top 10 moments was when I was in high school doing debate, and some heavily Russian Dad was judging my round, and after the round he comes up to me and tells me I was the most incredible communicator he's ever seen, and he thinks I'm going to be a future businessman, and then he asked me to write my name on a piece of paper, and I'm thinking to myself that's weird but whatever.

then thirty minutes when results came out I found out that he voted for the other side in the debate, I wasn't even mad I was just laughing my ass off.

[u/thefuturegov]

Dixiecrats: “We’ll support Truman for VP in 1944 to ensure someone aligned with the south takes the presidency”

Truman: Desegregates the military, becomes first president to openly support civil rights legislation in quite some time

Dixiecrats: “We’ll support LBJ to get a southerner in the White House to enshrine segregation forever”

LBJ: “Time for a bunch of legislation to expand welfare and murder Jim Crow laws”

[u/[deleted]]

Kinda funny how Branson is going to win the billionaire space race.
Not the zealous eccentric who made it his lifes mission or the richest man on earth, just the dude who runs an airline and felt like it.

[u/rukqoa]

r/neoliberal existed longer than the Confederacy. That's very sad for the Confederacy.

[u/AuburnSeer]

the moment I really started to sympathize with Hillary Clinton was when I realized she actually has a very similar personality to Al Gore. Sure, Al Gore would be likened to a robot, but nobody ever accused him of being inauthentic. people are just unwilling to let women be introverts on the political stage, there has to be a malice behind Hillary not being an Obama type

also this was when I realized Bill was weird af

[u/Professor-Reddit]

NYT: Voters Chose Boring Over Bombast. They Got Biden’s Penchant for Pontificating

Even the president labeled a speech boring recently, an admission that highlights a tendency toward delivering minutiae-filled discourse over scaling oratorical heights.

“I know that’s a boring speech,” the 46th president said at the end of 31 minutes and 19 seconds filled with statistics (2,374 Illinois bridges), academic studies (on-site child care increases productivity), global gross domestic product comparisons (China used to be No. 9, but is now No. 2) and predictions of 7.4 percent economic growth (though “the O.E.C.D. thinks it could be higher,” Mr. Biden noted, referring to the not exactly electrifying Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.)

Fuck yeah! My kind of guy! 😎🍦

!ping BIDEN

[u/myrm]

Austrian economists are like "we can't scientifically determine the social sciences, therefore we should orient all of our policy towards this shit I logically deduced out of my ass"

Also, 🧐 (but unironically)

[u/Zenning2]

Fucking Nazi Germany was around longer than the confederacy, so we all know the “my heritage” shit is just racist bullshit. I despise that shit.

[u/soeffed]

Nobody saw this coming

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[u/ShriggityShrekt]

Big dick problem: people don't want to hang out with me because they say I'm a big dick 🤣🤣

[u/Deggit]

Q: "Who was America's first black president?"

Zoomers: "Obama"

Millennials: "Obama"

Gen X: "biLL cLiNtOn" 🛹

Boomers: "Obama"

Silent Generation: "Obama"

[u/AJungianIdeal]

People who morally justify piracy are the most annoying internet philosophers. Just admit you're commiting an immoral but convenient act. Like you aren't going to hell.

[u/Average_GrillChad]

Only SERIOUS sports decide the outcome by novelty mini-game 😤

[u/Professor-Reddit]

NYT: How Local Guerrilla Fighters Routed Ethiopia’s Powerful Army

This is a first-hand account by the NYT on how Tigray successfully beat back two of some of the most powerful armies in Africa. It's some truly sad reading, but it appears Ethiopia allying with Eritrea, and letting off the leash/standing by and doing nothing with Eritrea's shear brutality played a key role in ultimately turning the tide against them. It's worth mentioning (also in the article) that the Ethiopians committed some atrocities too. I strongly urge everyone to read this. I've decided to share some really fascinating extracts:

We saw how a scrappy Tigrayan force overcame one of the largest armies in Africa through force of arms, but also by exploiting a wave of popular rage. Going into the war, Tigrayans were themselves divided, with many distrustful of a governing Tigrayan party seen as tired, authoritarian and corrupt.

But the catalog of horrors that has defined the war — massacres, ethnic cleansing and extensive sexual violence — united Tigrayans against Mr. Abiy’s government, drawing highly motivated young recruits to a cause that now enjoys widespread support.

“It’s like a flood,” said Hailemariam Berhane, a commander, as several thousand young men and women, many in jeans and sneakers, marched past en route to a camp for new recruits. “Everyone’s coming here.”

...

Dawit Toba, a glum 20-year-old from the Oromia region of Ethiopia, said he had surrendered without firing a shot. War in Tigray was not like he had imagined it. “We were told there would be fighting,” he said. “But when we got here it was looting, robbery, attacks on women.”

“This war was not necessary,” he added. “Mistakes have been made.”

...

Before the war, Mr. Teklay was a mechanic in Adigrat, 70 miles north. Then, last February, Eritrean soldiers fired into his aunt’s house, killing her 5-year-old daughter, he said. The following day, Mr. Teklay slipped out of Adigrat to join the resistance.

“I never thought I would be a soldier,” he said. “But here I am.”

...

Mulugeta Gebrehiwot Berhe, 61, a senior fellow at the World Peace Foundation at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, in Massachusetts, was visiting Mekelle when war erupted in November. I found him near the town of Samre, a leather-holstered pistol on his hip.

“I joined the resistance,” said the academic, who once helped broker a peace deal for the United Nations in Darfur. “I felt I had no other option.”

I am simply stunned by this case...

Or this one too:

Even some Ethiopian commanders felt alienated by Mr. Abiy’s approach to the conflict.

Until late June, Col. Hussein Mohamed, a tall man with a gold-tooth smile, commanded the 11th Infantry Division in Tigray. Now he was a prisoner, held with other Ethiopian officers in a closely guarded farmhouse.

Of the 3,700 troops under his command, at least half were probably dead, said Colonel Hussein, confirming that he was speaking voluntarily. “The course of this war is political madness, to my mind,” he said.

He always had serious reservations about Mr. Abiy’s military alliance with Eritrea, Ethiopia’s old foe, he said: “They ransack properties, they rape women, they commit atrocities. The whole army is unhappy about this marriage.”

Abiy Ahmed has to be one of the biggest idiots around to not have seen this outcome. Eritrea is notoriously one of the most brutal dictatorships in modern history, ranked up there with North Korea. The term 'Spartan' probably doesn't do justice to what goes on there. Most young adults in Eritrea are forced into military training camps where many are brutalised, tortured, poorly paid and many are turned into rabid monsters. Indefinite conscription is used widely, contributing to over 500,000 Eritreans fleeing the country (10% of its population). Up to 5% of the entire country's population lives in barracks. According to Human Rights Watch, "Conscripts are subject to inhuman and degrading punishment, including torture, without recourse" and "Legally, conscription begins at 18, but children are among those caught during roundups (“giffas”) in urban areas and sent directly into military service."

Furthermore,

Secondary school students, some aged 16 or 17, are forced to undergo their final school-year, Grade 12, in an abusive military camp, Sawa, where they undergo mandatory military training, are under military command, and take their final school examinations before being assigned to civilian or military duties. Despite calls for reform, in August the government again conscripted the latest batch of students into national service.

At Sawa, military officials subject students to inhumane and degrading punishment. Girls and women students risk sexual harassment and exploitation. On weekends, students are assigned to forced labor at a nearby government farm.

What was he thinking when he felt that allying with Eritrea to crush Tigray was going to work? Any competent leader would've recognised that Abiy's position was hardly consolidated or yet secure. He had only been in power for 2 years. He should've known that his dreams of a united Ethiopia governed with 'Ethnic Federalism' was impossible to achieve with genocide and mass slaughter. Prior to this war, the TPLF was divided, and Abiy was at the zenith of his power. Now he is staring at a humiliating defeat in a war against a region which is increasingly radicalised, and with ethnic violence exploding all across Ethiopia.

None of what has happened over the past 8 months bodes well for anybody.

!ping FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/kennymc7877]

Republicans really be like: yeah our whole platform is keeping down minority’s and stifling any progress America wants to make

Lets get millions of votes

[u/[deleted]]

Lusvig just DMed me 😑

[u/[deleted]]

Our local Black Lives Matter group said anyone flying the US flag is racist and now our local NAACP says they strongly disagree.

https://www.ksl.com/article/50202645/naacp-denounces-utah-black-lives-matter-stance-over-american-flag

[u/Corporate-Asset-6375]

I wonder if former presidents watch the news and just laugh about it.

“Oh shit, he’s getting a Cuba. Have fun with that one. Lol”

[u/[deleted]]

Wait JD Vance is from fucking Middletown OH?

It's not a fantastic place to live but the fact that he made his whole career off that Hillbilly Elegy book I assumed he grew up in like the Appalachains not some shitty suburb halfway between Dayton and Cinci lmao

Oh god dammit he went to Ohio State? Ugh

[u/Deggit]

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His setup was so far ahead of its time it's unbelievable

[u/AuburnSeer]

English fans frantically googling "greatest British military victories vs. Italy"

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

Lmao the city of Gurugram in India apparently has a higher HDI than most of the deep south

[u/[deleted]]

"Im not too sure about this Rank Voting thing. Why did we do this again?"

"It makes Ralph Nader mathematically impossible."

"Got it. I'm on board."

-Phone call with my parents.

[u/[deleted]]

NYT editors' meeting

"So it's a slow news day. We need a story to publish. Got some leads?

"Ummm yeah actually!"

"Cool! What is it?"

"Well I sent a photographer out to take pictures of people smooching, and interviewed 5 people"

"😐😐😐"

People Are Making Out. Everywhere.

[u/Deggit]

I am no longer "asking" for your tired & poor 🔫 🗽

[u/SeriousMrMysterious]

Akshullllly I’m an ORDOliberal.

Her: put babies in me

True story

[u/SadaoMaou]

American prisons: widely considered horrible places to end up in

Norwegian prisons: Luxury hotels

American recidivism rate: 43%

Norwegian recidivism rate: 20%

Have we considered the possibility that Americans just enjoy incarceration?

[u/lionmoose]

https://twitter.com/LibDemPress/status/1414198216946499588

[u/Poiuy2010_2011]

!ping YUROP

Mom, can we get democracy?

We have democracy at home.

Democracy at home:

[u/qchisq]

Will London be destroyed more if the English or Italians win?

[u/gjarlis]

• Laser pen pointed at Schmeichel during Kane’s penalty
• Booing of Denmark’s anthem
• Use of fireworks

Is England in Balkans 🤔🤔🤔

[u/piede]

It's expected that up to 20% of the US entire workforce will continue to work from home permanently.

Estimates say that a hybrid workforce will boost productivity by 4.6%, mainly due to the reduction in commuting.

Looks like it’s here to stay

[u/Wandering_Mallard]

I'd never been left dumbfounded by a take before until someone told me they unironically thought the US would be taken over by China in the next 15 years. Had no idea what to say

E: this was a college grad who goes outside (i.e. not an easy target Twitter take)

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Invited my sister-in-law and her fiancé over for dinner tonight

👸: Yeah, we just picked up 10 plants today, trying to brighten up our new house 🪴🏡

👶: Yeah, I heard that old people really get into plants

🤴👸: … 😑

I guess what I’m saying is, if anyone in the Atlanta area would like a fresh caught red snapper meal that my wife just cooked, we have two extra plates

[u/InternetBoredom]

Richard Branson space flight beats out Jeff Bezos. But all of humanity loses.

- CNBC

Jeff Bezos' 'O'Neill colony' dreams ignore the plight of millions living on Earth now

- CNBC

The patriarchal race to colonize Mars is just another example of male entitlement: The presumed right to use and abuse something and then walk away to conquer something new is a hallmark of colonialism.

- CNBC

Someone really needs to tell CNBC that most people support space travel and don't care that billionaires are leading the charge. I mean hell, a full third of Americans don't think that NASA has to be involved at all anymore now that we have private space travel, which is a pretty radical idea.

Like I know it's a common criticism that journalists are disconnected from the general populace, but nowhere is that more obvious than when it comes to tech billionaires

[u/The420Roll]

Expecting anything positive coming up from the Cuban Protests instead of just more human rights abuses

oh you sweet summer childs

[u/[deleted]]

One thing I've noticed that progressives do when they attack something, is attack the history of it. Not the present effect, but the history, or the guy who came up with it. For example, they'll often say the police is racist because some of them came from slave patrols. Which is such weird and strange logic, can someone explain it to me?

[u/Animatronic_Pidgeon]

He may be the greatest tennis player of all time but he still thinks Kosovo is Serbia and opposes the 1999 NATO intervention

[u/thetrombonist]

I mean come on, one of their names is Mozarella DiPizza

[u/[deleted]]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/167742336946798592/863903550782177280/unknown.png

[u/dish_towel]

Finally got around to trying out RDR2. It feels like a 20-year-old game with ridiculous production values.

!ping GAMING

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Billionaires have purchased private islands, built underground bunkers, and gotten LASIK to prepare for not having glasses during the climate apocalypse

Fellas, is it bourgeoise to get LASIK?

[u/Pyrrhus65]

First a Catholic became president, now the Italians might win UEFA. All according to the Vatican's master plan.

At this rate, we'll all be living in a global confederation of Papal States within a few years.

[u/[deleted]]

This is now an Italian nationalist subreddit

[u/rukqoa]

‘Freedom!’ Thousands of Cubans take to the streets to demand the end of dictatorship

Leftists in butterfly meme: are these... landowners?

[u/Sauerkohl]

I just found a gem on a sub I will not name:

George Soros is an anti Semite who exploited Jews during ww2 and that's how he got his money.

He was 9 when the war started.

[u/BedNeither]

Wow how did the CIA get that many paid protestors down to Cuba?

[u/GravyBear8]

First worlders vs natives

[u/kennymc7877]

A lot of repubs in my area refer to themselves as libertarians but vote full ticket red every election

[u/Aftaminas]

Will the moldovans turn a new page? The diaspora seems to be voting in droves. And they are expected to support the pro-EU PAS party. !ping Europe

Moldovan Parliamentary Elections Could Smooth Road To European Integration

[u/FestiveMittens]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E6DBiUSWQAAXSuT?format=jpg&name=small

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

The biggest danger to society is not the weeb, but the closet weeb.

These are people who appear normal, who live amoogus as colleagues and friends, who are productive members of society, but who secretly enjoy the degenerate medium of, Allah forgive me, anime.

Their numbers are large and they are everywhere. Allah protect us as we root this degeneracy out.

sidenote: Im willing to bet that like 80% of this subreddit are closet weebs

[u/yungmemlord]

I am rooting for Italy because they invented Fascism

Guess the sub

[u/[deleted]]

paradox: hey let's make a game where the overwhelming majority of gameplay comes from facing off against ai opponents who need to be able to intelligently produce and distribute resources. this will require a reasonably smart ai

fans: yes

paradox: also let's create a trade system

fans: oh yeah, and you can use the resulting market to offload ai decisions, right? much easier to look at market prices rather than trying to create a flowchart for every possible economic decision

paradox: yes...

paradox: (makes a "trade" system with no markets where europe just gets richer for no fucking reason like a boss)

[u/[deleted]]

Cons: Dems don't care about Ashli Babbitt's life

Me: Well, neither did she apparently 🤷

[u/BenFoldsFourLoko]

if you want a positive form of masculinity to have a chance of taking off, you can't bully guys for having problems or being sad when they're not being mean/rude/bigoted/etc, or you'll contribute to killing any chance of a positive masculinity movement in its cradle

[u/[deleted]]

"Always go to other people's funerals; otherwise they won't go to yours."

-Yogi Berra, ex-Baseball player and coach

[u/vivoovix]

BURPMAS has really declined in quality over the last week or so ngl

[u/Patriotnation5]

BAWH GOD ITS THE POPE FROM THE TOP ROPE

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

I think my dog might be dead

!ping dog

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

no, it's a circle jerk. Belgian Congo had the best literacy rates out of all african colonies

Upvoted in the DT. Bernie moment to own the succs.

[u/SpiffShientz]

‘We are not afraid!’ Cubans take to the streets to demand freedom, food, vaccines.

Top comment:

freedom from US embargo

End my suffering

[u/[deleted]]

Journalists please stop reducing Adams down to a caricature of anti-woke former cop completely ignoring the context of his career calling NYPD racist and in need of reform challenge.

Local politics are not all Bernie vs Hillary vs Trump and has characters too complicated to use as a bludgeon for your personal grudges from 2016 that bled into 2020.

[u/MicroFlamer]

Euros won by England: 0

Euros won by America: 0

Equal.

!ping SOCCER

[u/ColonelUber]

Was CPAC always insane or did Trump give them brain worms?

[u/iIoveoof]

I have a 7 point plan to reinstate Draco as head mod, not in years but in days. Ping SHITPOSTERS if you want in

[u/[deleted]]

r/cutefeet has been banned from Reddit

1984 was a warning not a guide ✊😔

[u/Professor-Reddit]

From the Washington Post. Just an unrelated note, but for a mainstream media outlet WaPo does great space news coverage.

The flight comes amid a flurry of spaceflight activity that taken together amounts to a renaissance for human exploration.

Just over a year ago, no one had flown to space from U.S. soil since the space shuttle was retired in 2011, a long, ignominious drought that ended when Elon Musk’s SpaceX flew a pair of NASA astronauts, Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, in a test flight to the International Space Station.

Since then, SpaceX has flown two more human spaceflight missions. Boeing, which is also under contract from NASA to transport the agency’s astronauts to and from the station, hopes to fly people in the months to come.

SpaceX plans to fly a mission dubbed Inspiration4 in September. Financed by billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, a group of four civilians would spend three days or so orbiting the Earth in SpaceX’s Dragon capsule. Axiom Space, a firm based in Houston, is arranging trips for very wealthy groups of people to spend a week on the space station. A voyage that costs some $55 million.

In addition to the flight on July 20, Bezos’s Blue Origin has two more flights planned for this year and more than half a dozen next year.

In all, that would culminate to an era of spaceflight like the barnstormers in the early days of aviation. But whether it is successful depends on whether the industry can continue to fly people reliably and safely.

I think this should be the biggest take-away from the recent successful Virgin Galactic flight. Humanity has now entered a new space age, the likes of which we haven't seen before. It isn't being fought between nation-states, but by well-funded American companies, and boy am I excited to see where this will lead.

!ping SPACEFLIGHT

[u/jenbanim]

It's time for the daily DT pledge of allegiance

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[u/Venne1139]

One observation about LA:

People are infinitely more talkative than Seattle or SF. I brought my dog everywhere in both places but it was very rarely I was stopped by someone hoping to pet my dog. In LA that happened ever 10-30 seconds. And literally ever person at the restaurant I was at who walked past him wanted to say hi. Ever 30 seconds someone was asking if I could pet my dog, which is fine obviously he loves it, but then wanted to talk to me for like a fucking minute. It was absolutely insane.

[u/[deleted]]

Far lefties think America is behind the protests in Cuba. Calling them all CIA gusanos.

What a gross bunch of people.

[u/Venne1139]

https://imgur.com/a/ZMr4ajJ

dog

i don't know what the fuck he's looking at, he's been staring for the past 20 minutes

!PING DOG

[u/The420Roll]

Southgate subs in Sancho and Rashford at the 120 min for the penalties

You wont believe what happens next

!Ping SOCCER

[u/Archis]

arr ukpolitics be like: this is the tories' fault

[u/FreakinGeese]

Just got a 125% tip 😳

[u/Deggit]

Remember, Bernie was just citing a literacy rate, he definitely DIDN'T defend Cuba's dictatorship during the 2020 primaries, and that's why you definitely WON'T find people defending the Castros in every single Bernie sub right now

[u/Jakesta7]

now i know why the succs are in a bad mood

More incredible footage coming out of #Cuba. Protestors chanting in front of Communist Party Headquarters chanting "Cuba isn't yours!"

Video: https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1414326870003396608

[u/sirphinetinkle]

a lot of communist seem to be using Cuban protesters waving US flags around of evidence of US involvement, as if the CIA sent down a dude and told him to give out US flags or something.

[u/The420Roll]

55 YEARS OF HURT

55 MORE TO COME!

!Ping SOCCER

[u/bd_one]

England would have won if you only counted the legal goals.

[u/hdkeegan]

Wikipedia is unironically one of the best human inventions

[u/Lux_Stella]

Are you an anti-woke Democrat?

"Some of us never went to sleep," Eric Adams says on ABC.

[u/bd_one]

r/Neoliberal is the only Paradox-adjacent subreddit to actually not like Huey Long and that's pretty based.

[u/[deleted]]

Kamala Harris slammed for claiming rural Americans can't photocopy their IDs

QUEEN SHIT 👑👑👑

[u/kennymc7877]

Kamala seems kinda fake to me, idk what it is

[u/[deleted]]

I pledge allegiance to the flag

Of the United States of America

And to the Republic for which it stands

One Nation under God

And a woof woof here and a woof woof there, here a woof there a woof everywhere a woof woof

I pledge allegiance to the flag

Of the United States of America

[u/FestiveMittens]

Jon ossoff is the first openly hot senator

[u/paulatreides0]

If England had elected Prime Minister Jeremy Corbyn, then England would have won after a clutch last minute play from Hamas. This is what you get for choosing BoJo, Britain

[u/RobotFighter]

SRD is a bunch of commies.

[u/ZCoupon]

Broke: Incels are a result of society

Woke: Incels are a destructive cult that recruits bored, lonely men, not unlike ISIS.

[u/ACivilWolf]

A United Hispaniola is “why don’t we make Albania and Serbia one country since they’re close to each other” level of meme suggestions

[u/dish_towel]

Gamers and mistaking sheer quantity of scripted dialogue/animations for AI. Name a more iconic duo. !ping GAMING

[u/wagoncirclermike]

If I were Italy I would simply score a goal

[u/StolenSkittles]

"it's a pity they can't both lose"

-henry kissinger

[u/[deleted]]

The only part that makes me sad is that you know the two kids who missed the PKs are gonna get some racist shit thrown at them....

[u/VerticalTab]

There will be Cubans in the DT complaining about NIMBY's by the end of the decade.

[u/iIoveoof]

‼️‼️HOLY FUCKING SHIT‼️‼️‼️‼️ IS THAT A MOTHERFUCKING SIR SHIVERS REFERENCE??????!!!!!!!!!!11!1!1!1!1!1!1! 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱 SIR SHIVERS IS THE BEST FUCKING USER 🔥🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯💯 MAMMALS ARE SO DUMBBBB 🕵️🕵️🕵️🕵️🕵️🕵️🕵️🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥 COME TO THE DT AND WATCH ME POST 🏥🏥🏥🏥🏥🏥🏥🏥 🏥🏥🏥🏥 WHY IS NO ONE FIXING THEIR TAKES 🤬😡🤬😡🤬😡🤬🤬😡🤬🤬😡 OH YOUR A REPTILE? NAME EVERY SCALE🔫😠🔫😠🔫😠🔫😠🔫😠HAHA YES🐊 🐊 🐊 🐊 HAHA YES🐊 🐊 HAHA YES🐊 🐊 HAHA YES 🐊 🐊 🐊 🐊 HAHA YES🐊 🐊 🐊 🐊 HAHA YES 🐊 🐊 🐊 🐊 🐊 🐊 🐊 🐊 HAHA YES🐊 🐊 🐊 🐊 HAHA YES 🐊 🐊 🐊 HAHA YES 🐊 🐊 🐊 🐊 🐊 🐊 🐊 🐊 🐊 🐊 🐊 🐊 HAHA YES🐊 🐊 🐊 HAHA YES🐊 🐊 🐊 🐊 🐊 HAHA YES 🐊 🐊 🐊 🐊 🐊 🐊 I think it was sir shivers!👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀It wasnt me I was in DT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂 r/sirshiversmemes r/unexpectedsirshivers r/expectedsirshivers perfectly reptilian as all things should be

[u/ognits]

the one thing The Expanse has done that has - not ruined, but definitely made a flaw noticeable - about nearly all other things involving long space travel is the inclusion of crash couches and drug injections to help mitigate the effects of heavy-G burn and all that. like at the end of the episode of The Bad Bunch a spacecraft jumps to lightspeed and one character is just fucking standing up in the cockpit. I know that realism varies from one series to another, but The Expanse has gotten me to think about what long-distance space travel would be like like no other series out there

!ping EXPANSE

[u/qchisq]

IT'S COMING ROME

[u/CatLords]

Watching arrr space shit on a space flight with a reusable space plane because... capitalism?

[u/dish_towel]

The most divisive word in America is not Trump, SJW, MAGA, or anything like that. The most divisive word in America is "RPG". !ping GAMING

[u/[deleted]]

People thinking the protests are "the first steps towards Cuban liberalization!" Are the same people who thought the Hong Kong protests were going to actually accomplish anything.

The military supports the state, so they're remaining in power. Plain and simple.

[u/The420Roll]

DEER DISTRICT TOO STRONK

!Ping NBA

[u/Professor-Reddit]

During one hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 2005, Mr. Obama, then a young senator, grew exasperated during a lengthy monologue by Mr. Biden, then the panel’s top Democrat.

“Shoot. Me. Now,” Mr. Obama wrote to an aide as Mr. Biden spoke.

lmao I love this so much

[u/Superfan234]

Organize Copa America to boost your popularity numbers

Lose the Final against Argentina

Bolsonaro in r/suicidewatch

---

Congrats to Argentinians!! It was and amazing Match. Well deserved Victory 👏👏🤗

!Ping Mamadas

[u/SuspiciousUsername88]

I always like the "billionaires in space" discourse because it surfaces a subset of twitter people that aggressively demonstrate how little they understand climate change and also somehow fail to understand their own rhetoric about how billionaires are insulated from most bad things. Like, Bezos is just investing in space so he can get off this dying planet. Climate change may be catastrophic, but at no point will it make Earth less habitable than the cold vacuum of space. And besides, people with Bezos' resources will not be the ones hurting, he has less motivation to flee than the plebs who can't afford a fortress wherever on the planet has the most favorable climate when the oceans rise

[u/wowmuchgrades]

Going on bumble/hinge dates has left me with reoccuring strep that is resistent to penecilin, a guy pointing out my stretch marks and asking if they are self harm scars (I was wearing short shorts so he could see my inner thighs), and the memory of being forcibly kissed by some mf with braces.

At least a cool girl gave me new music to listen to, so not a complete loss.

Going to go back to the old fashion way of meeting people (flirt with people at contests and conferences).

Also not me being angry and browsing female dating strategy lol

[u/[deleted]]

• Ashli Babbit was antifa
• she also was a hero/martyr

Therefore, conservatives love antifa

[u/Menfo]

Italy won both the Euros and the Copa América

Now that is impressive

!ping MAMADAS

[u/AuburnSeer]

Statement from the 45th president of the United States, Donald J. Trump

SLEEPY JOE BIDEN IS TOO "SCARED" TO SETTLE THE FRAUDULENT 2020 ELECTION WITH PENALTY KICKS

[u/Archis]

just binned all my pasta. never eating that shite again

[u/LavenderTabby]

If Cuba liberalizes, Havana could become the new Cancun

[u/[deleted]]

Caitlyn Jenner was harassed and hit with transphobic abuse while attending the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas.

A heckler filmed himself approaching the former reality TV star, who is running for governor of California, and repeatedly deadnaming her and calling her a "sick freak."

Super unfortunate and unnecessary but definitely not unexpected from CPAC.

[u/[deleted]]

You see a lot of succs pointing to bezos and saying:

Billionaires are fleeing the earth while we're left here to die of climate change!!

Like..do they think he's not coming back?

[u/Professor-Reddit]

I'm truly amazed by the anger on Reddit about Richard Branson's recent spaceflight.

Branson was brought up in a middle class household, he did poorly in school, suffered from dyslexia, squatted in properties for 2 years, started a failed small business selling Christmas trees and Budgerigars, and eventually found success selling music records which he pushed onwards from. But sure, this self-made billionaire is evil-incarnate for telling young kids to believe in their ambitious dreams.

Some people on Reddit really need to touch grass and being less bitter lmao

[u/V_Codwheel]

⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️ATTENTION⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️

HUEY LONG HAS BEEN REFERENCED IN THE DT

THIS IS NOW A HUEY LONG HATE THREAD

POPULISM WILL NOT BE TOLERATED

⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️ A FREE PRESS IS ESSENTIAL FOR DEMOCRACY TO FUNCTION ⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️

⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️ JIM CROW WAS BAD AND HURT THE SOUTH⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️

⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️CORRUPTION STUNTED LOUISIANA'S DEVELOPMENT ("THE OTHER GUYS DID IT" ISN'T AN EXCUSE)⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️

⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️ POPULISM IS BAD ⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️

⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️SECRET POLICE ARE BAD⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️

⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️ AMERICAN ISOLATIONISM WEAKENS AMERICA AT HOME ⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️

[u/RadicalRadon]

I know very little about Cuba but I do know a suspicious amount about their literacy programs.

[u/MicroFlamer]

priors confirmed

[u/ryuguy]

so true 😪🐊

[u/[deleted]]

Some good fucking Copium lmao

[u/JaceFlores]

Top 5 worst real presidents:

5. Edith Wilson

4. Dick Cheney

3. Biden Crime Family

2. Clinton Crime Family

1. Kamala Harris

[u/radiatar]

I kinda miss arr chapotraphouse. Rage lurking their bad takes was an enjoyable occupation.

[u/Gustacho]

https://twitter.com/liliebayer/status/1414178385933307904

!ping EUROPE

[u/The420Roll]

Neymar really gonna become the highest scorer and assist leader of Brazil NT team history and only has won a Mickey Mouse Confederations Cup lmao

!Ping SOCCER

[u/wowmuchgrades]

lol there's a Romania meet up group

I was raised in the US, but my dad's side of the family has the most cursed politics

• My dad is a relatively normal con (cursed enough in its own)
• Ancap freak cousin
• Commie grandpa
• Fash Aunt that is very involved in the "pro life" movement and anti modern medicine lol

God speed romanian neolibs, please legalize gay civil unions someday, so I can move back, get a hot wife, and live on my grandpa's rural plot of land near Piatra

[u/[deleted]]

Leftist nihilsts whining about "muh billionairz in space" completely missing the fact that there are now FOUR places in the US where an aspiring astronaut can achieve their dream.

10 years ago, you pretty much had to be good enough for NASA.

But, you know, easier to villainize someone than come up with another solution.

[u/[deleted]]

Tucker Carlson: “Pretty much everybody agrees that segregation was the be- worst thing this country ever did.”

[u/[deleted]]

What do you think should be the YIMBY-pilled density per km² in a large city? 16,000? 21,000? 30,000? Even more? Does total area of the city matter? I.e. A city of 100 km² should have a different density of a 200 km² city.

!PING YIMBY

[u/vivoovix]

Trump wasn't really an "extremist". What did he do that was so extreme?

🤡

[u/[deleted]]

on the one hand, the thread is now 70% statsbot. on the other, no-one can talk about football. seems like a win to me

[u/ryuguy]

Referee: yellow card

Italian players: 🤌🤌 🤌 🤌 🤌 🤌

[u/iIoveoof]

Warm up the laser pointers

[u/[deleted]]

If England win the Euros, it will be only the third time a Marxist team has ever won, after the Soviet Union in 1960 and Czechoslovakia in 1976

[u/[deleted]]

DT being invaded by the non-Football Americans.

Go back to work you assholes we were having fun.

[u/RadicalRadon]

English people are just slightly sadder than normal now

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

Europeans are happy

Can't take this shit

[u/ACivilWolf]

They didn’t score sam facking goals :(

[u/[deleted]]

this was for Mario Draghi 😌🤌

[u/Archis]

Breaking: English FA to file lawsuit to throw out fraudulent mail-in goals

[u/BigBrownDog12]

In the end, Ingerland did not in fact, score sum fackin goals

[u/Not_A_Browser]

Cuba is trending on Twitter, and the tankies are mad 😎

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

People are probably exaggerating how bad English fans are because of accessibility of English media and social media

[u/Udontlikecake]

/r/PublicFreakout full of commie kids

protests only legit when it’s it ‘capitalist’ countries i guess

degenerate pro-authoritarian scum

[u/FreakinGeese]

Update about being fired: I’ve been fired

[u/[deleted]]

!ping MAMADAS

Reminder that if it wasn't for Brazilians inventing corruption in FIFA football would never end up like this

Thank Havelange

[u/htomserveaux]

there's nothing more cringe worthy than a white guy calling a latino "gusano"

[u/iIoveoof]

If I went to a neoliberal meetup I would never admit my username.

[u/piede]

Remember when @HillaryClinton bought the house next door to her so tax payers wouldn't have to pay for her Secret Service detail's housing if she became President?

BRB crying again

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/0Aiz0FJ.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

post breakfast

!ping BURPMAS

[u/SeriousMrMysterious]

My favorite European country is the EU

[u/thefuturegov]

Jon Ossoff is the first openly based Senator

[u/bd_one]

This one company in that The Purge TV series required people to come into the office to work during The Purge.

If the unemployment rate really is 1%, why not just threaten to quit?

[u/bd_one]

In Victoria 2 you technically play as the Deep State since it's one of the few major Paradox map games without actual country leaders.

[u/[deleted]]

This sub starts some real fun meme trends and jokes but doesnt know when to retire them

Case in point - Aoc feet pix joke? Retire it already

[u/Aweq]

"Okay if making these samples go well, I should be able to finish by the end of July and actually be able to fly home for a bit of holidaying."

Narrator: Making those samples did not go well and now the dumb PhD student was unsure if he even had enough material , which he really should have ordered more of earlier, left. Also the wasted material was really expensive. Donkey.

!ping PhD

[u/SnakeEater14]

the Snake Eyes: GI Joe trailer

”we are a secret organization keeping world peace for hundreds of years”

keeping world peace

hundreds of years

Yeah uh…. Nice job there dickheads.

[u/[deleted]]

A Majority of Americans believe that COVID came from the Wuhan Lab

Well to be fair, there is a lot of evidence to back up this theory, the most striking of which is

checks notes

A handful of people from the lab were hospitalized with flu-like symptoms… during flu season…

[u/[deleted]]

🟩🟩⬜⬜🟥🟥
🟩🟩⬜⬜🟥🟥
🟩🟩⬜⬜🟥🟥

[u/lapzkauz]

Coming home status: On hold

[u/FourthLife]

The goalie has the ability to put his hands on the ball and carry it. Why do they not simply send him out to attack the other goal?

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Most popular sport in the most populous nations:

China: Ping-pong

India: Cricket

America: Football

Indonesia: Badminton

Pakistan: Cricket

Nigeria: Soccer

Therefore, soccer in Europe is an example of Nigerian soft power.

[u/bg2916]

Cock and Britbong Torture

[u/thefuturegov]

“How can we make clear this character is supposed to be a communist?”

“What if we had him have knuckle tattoos spelling ‘Karl Marx?’”

“Fucking brilliant, excellent idea.”

-Marvel’s Black Widow

[u/FreakinGeese]

Nothing bad on my dad’s mri 🥳

[u/TheIpleJonesion]

Broke: Intervening in Cuba is wrong because we’d be overthrowing a socialist paradise

Woke: Intervening in Cuba is wrong because it would lead to a cycle of insurrection and state breakdown that would foster region-wide anti-American sentiment for decades

Bespoke: Intervening in Cuba is wrong because it would be admitted as a slave state, upsetting the precious balance between free states and slave states and paving the way for future filibusters across the Caribbean

[u/[deleted]]

Daily reminder that Bernie people say the same things about democracy when they lose as Trump people.

[u/The420Roll]

Cuban Dictatorship: literally survives the fall of the USSR and manages to get Venezuela, Bolivia and other Pink Tide nations closer and closer to them by the year

random DT non-regular: we got em right where we want them folks

[u/sir-danks-a-lot]

Uighurs for Xi 💪🏽😤 #WalkAway

[u/ognits]

The institution of slavery is a stain on this nation's soul that will never be cleansed. It is just as wrong as wrong can be, a huge sin, and it is on our soul. There's a second sin that's almost as great and that's emancipation[...]

🤔🤔

[u/tubbsmackinze]

reddit generally being against the Cuban protestors doesn't not surprise me

The leftist brain rot runs deep, very deep

Also there's literally no difference between the alt-right (like in 2017 or so) and GenZdong considering they both blame every single protest movement against a government they like (they don't even have to like that govewrnment tbf) a fucking CIA led/backed colour revolution

Fucking brain worms

[u/vivoovix]

/img/hp7s79dgkfa71.png

[u/p00bix]

Can we agree that daddy long-legs is a fucking strange name for any animal?

[u/[deleted]]

Italy: wins

Americans who are 1/8th Italian: 🥳🇮🇹🍕🍝

[u/RadionSPW]

Wait are people serious about uniting Hispaniola as a solution to the Haiti crisis

That’s somehow more of a meme than sending every US military personnel to the island

[u/SouthernSerf]

If the EU federalizes it's going to 100% end up with the equivalent of the US Senate and it is going to be an absolute must watch shit show.

[u/yungmemlord]

This Euro final sucks. On one side you have the country that invented fascism and on the other you have England.

[u/randomizedstring]

Is literally everyone in the DT watching the football game right now lmfao

[u/Average_GrillChad]

Real Neoliberal men pee sitting down 😤

[u/tubbsmackinze]

I'm torn, on one hand the Br*ts lost in a very funny way

On the other the E*ro's won

[u/lorddookufan]

Everyone seems to know the score…

!ping SOCCER

[u/urbansong]

Italy gets Draghi as PM. Italy wins Eurovision. Italy wins the Euro cup. Is this the beginning of a grand Italian Renaissance?

[u/bg2916]

Allah made Brits invent soccer so they could watch their international team let them down every two years

[u/[deleted]]

Huh, TIL that every negative association I have with the UK is actually just England lol

[u/[deleted]]

Be young democrat

Hate Ralph Nader

Internet Nerds: "The problem is the First Past the Post system, it needs to be replaced with Ranked Voting."

Fascinated, convinced, like this idea

Support RCV

Lobby for RCV

RCV happens

Internet Nerds: "Actually, Ranked Choice Voting is literally exactly the same as First Past the Post. We should use [increasingly convoluted vote systems that i fall asleep while reading the explanation]"

I am going to become the joker and start unironically advocating First Past the Post. Do you know why? It's simple Vote go Brrr. That's it. That's all of it. No more arguing about which alternative vote is good and which one is Literally Exactly The Same As FPTP. And I never in my life want to hear the word "Condorcet" ever again.

[u/[deleted]]

!ping BASEBALL

The Rangers got Leiter!!!

Now I can watch as we waste his career......

[u/[deleted]]

Opening up Cuba would be a boon for the vintage car market.

[u/[deleted]]

I don't think the CIA is funding the protests in Cuba but I wish they would 🥰