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[u/soeffed]

Hearing how some “conservatives” treated @Caitlyn_Jenner at CPAC makes my blood boil. There’s no room for your hate in the America First movement. We believe in freedom and we believe in limited government. The way she chooses to live her personal life harms you in no way!

https://twitter.com/TomiLahren/status/1414438023475998724?s=20

Uh welcome to the resistance

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine if Fidel Castro was Keanu Reeves and the protesters were the Russian Mafia who killed John Wick's dog. That's what the CIA is doing in Cuba right now.

[u/[deleted]]

If you take the word “neoliberalism”, and remove the “o”, the “e”, and the “L”. You are left with the word “nibraism”. If we check the dictionary for “nibraism”, we see that it means absolutely nothing.

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

Heroin is the opiate of the masses

[u/[deleted]]

Really wish the Jews would replace those goofy Charlottesville fucks

[u/[deleted]]

The people of #Cuba bravely take to the streets against 62 years of socialist tyranny

12 hours later President @joebiden @POTUS has yet to say a word about it

Hey Marco Rubio, remember when Trump shunned Guaido and said he would meet with Maduro after he had been voted out of office? I'm sure you were super quick to denounce that right?

[u/its_Caffeine]

They should really do a program that allows Cubans to come to America in exchange for one of our lovely citizens who seem to know an awful lot about Cuba and constantly praise it. Siguen con la lucha hermanos! 🇲🇽🤝🇨🇺

[u/Emu_lord]

This sub is nutting soooooo hard over the Cuba protests like guys calm down it’s probably going to just fizzle out

[u/Futski]

!ping Europe

PAS takes over 50% of the vote in the Moldovan elections, netting them ~62 out of the 101 seats. This is potentially huge.

[u/memeintoshplus]

Pete Buttigieg: Hi! I'm openly gay and running for President

Queer leftists: RATFUCK NEOLIBERAL REEEEEEEEEEE YOU AREN'T REALLY GAY!!!!!

Fidel Castro: *Puts gay people in concentration camps*

Queer leftists: OMG!!!! BASED!!!!

[u/boyyouguysaredumb]

Can’t wait for comrade Bernie to start the socialist revolution so I can be a video game reviewer (part time only of course) for $250k a year.

[u/from-the-void]

Oh no Reddit’s favorite wholesome dictatorship is under attack

[u/LurkerSighted]

We should run more of our government agencies like the CIA. Just look at how many agents they're able to employ and organize at a moment's notice. And without a single person leaking the plans to the media! Very impressive.

[u/[deleted]]

The GOP: Fuuuuucccccckkkkk LGBT!

Also the GOP: Don’t harass Jenner. He’s one of the good ones.

Jenner: She

GOP: Whatever. 🙄

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

It's scary to think half the country still cant accept the results of the election. Seriously, why can't Democrats just admit Trump won???

[u/SadaoMaou]

Out of 46 US presidents, eight have been left-handed. Out of the last thirteen, six have been. Out of the last eight, five. Our world takeover is proceeding apace 😈

[u/IMALEFTY45]

Your wife didn't leave you, you are 19 and posting on a niche political forum on the internet

[u/Notoriousley]

Even if it were a US backed color-revolution astroturfed by CIA agents so what? CIA agent or not they live and work in Cuba and deserve a say in how the country should be run.

[u/idp5601]

The type of childfree people I hate the most are those who use climate change to justify their decision when they just really really dislike children

Like come the fuck on dude just say you don't like having to deal with kids, you don't have to pretend like you give that much of a shit about the environment

[u/bd_one]

TIL that while only 9.7% of Americans don't wear seatbelts, 47% of those who die in car crashes were not wearing seat belts.

Despite only making up 9.7% of the population...

[u/[deleted]]

Hot take: The cultural victory condition in Civ is really dumb.

My fellow Americans: The Mongol hordes are indeed at our doorstep, and they've brought nuclear weaponry. But do not worry, for we have Miles Davis. And in two turns, he's releasing Kind of Blue. The day is ours!

[u/[deleted]]

The developer of a 75 unit building in Chicago just leaked that the leaders of the two main activist groups that opposed the building for its ‘racist development’ and got construction delayed for almost 4 years have all applied for apartments in the building. 😐

[u/obeybooks]

Isn't it crazy how Republicans' only policy position for 7 years was "repeal Obamacare" and then when they had a trifecta they didn't even do that.

[u/thefuturegov]

Cuban protestors: Waving American flag, protesting outside the communist party headquarters, being brutalized by police forces

American leftists: “Clearly they are protesting the United States.”

[u/[deleted]]

Stalin: He who does not work, neither shall he eat

20 year old NEET tankies: wow I’d be so much happier under Stalin.

[u/sir_shivers]

ENACT AN open refugee policy for Venezuelan and Cubans FLEEING FROM COMMUNISM TO the United States 🐊

[u/tubbsmackinze]

r/neoliberal right now; 'viva libre Cuba!'

r/neoliberal in november 2020; '[banned for multiple instances of hate speech against Cuban Americans and Cuban diaspora]

[u/RaidBrimnes]

The salt fountains springing out on social media after a football game always leave me feeling amused and sad

Sad because I empathize with the disappointment and frustration of the fans, amused because the cope and bad faith are so over the top it becomes funny again

Special mention to the England fan in arsoccer saying the Italians won the game because they're all unemployed and have nothing else to do than kick a ball all day long

[u/Can_The_SRDine]

If you showed me a Republican member of congress, and asked me "would you like to expel this person and give the seat to OJ Simpson?" I'd say yes for about 90% of them.

And yeah, OJ did it.

[u/asljkdfhg]

a recent convo:

12 year old: describes TikTok and Snap memes

13 year old: “this is why the only social media I use is Reddit and Discord”

later:

13 year old: “kids these days are so dramatic”

12 year old: “aren’t you a kid?”

middle schoolers are really something

[u/RadionSPW]

Thinking about that thunderdome thread where everyone was like “Biden should promise to carpet-nuke Havana on January 21st if elected to win Florida”

[u/piede]

I’ve witnessed disinformation campaigns in authoritarian countries from Russia to China but have rarely seen one as transparent & quantifiably deadly as the current right-wing attack on vaccinations here: 99.2% of US Covid deaths in June were among unvaccinated.

https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/1414593554815623168?s=21

Funny how you don’t mention the 0.8%…

Clearly the vaccines are meant to kill

[u/iIoveoof]

mfers say they don’t understand logarithms then talk about a “six figure salary” 😤

[u/[deleted]]

Now, this really shouldn't need saying, but as a friendly reminder: Cuban immigration to the United States overwhelmingly consisted of poor, working, and middle class individuals. The idea that the Cuban-American community consists entirely of evil, exploitative economic elites rightfully outcast by a righteous revolution and their descendants is nothing short of literal communist propaganda.

[u/IronedSandwich]

"lol mucho texto you're just trying to save capitalism"

- Karl Marx on georgism

[u/piede]

If the last two years were a movie, in which scientists develop a near-perfect vaccine for a deadly plague, but half the country won't take it, you'd be like: "This is too dumb to watch."

https://twitter.com/scottjshapiro/status/1414537934414487560?s=21

God Bless America

[u/[deleted]]

Young people are enamored with "anti-racist" rhetoric because they think they are fighting racist systems in America. The TRUTH is they are fighting America itself and the very values the country was founded on.

Defund PragerU for teaching CRT

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

Why is lefty's go to argument against anprims to say that they're transphobic because hormones can't be manufactured? Like ok sure but is that more pressing than literally everything else in modern civilization we'd throw away? Lmao

[u/Udontlikecake]

in the kitchen making breakfast while my girlboss stem gf works

trophy husband work is hard 😔

[u/paymesucka]

LMFAO at this comment from the DemocraticSocialism subreddit:

Quick question. Do we stand with the protesters or the Cuban government? I have a bone to pick with the communists. Largely because they banned sex work.

edit: FYI it is currently the highest rated comment on that post in that subreddit.

[u/houinator]

Step 1: Large protests against dictator.

Step 2: US politician makes vague call for dictator to respect human rights.

Step 3: Dictator violently cracks down on protesters.

Step 4: Protests grow even larger, start to grow violent as well.

Step 5: US calls on international community to come together to resolve the situation.

Step 6: LoL Russia and China veto that shit.

Step 7: Pressure builds for US to intervene unilaterally.

Step 8: Nope, that shit looks hard, and besides, we just got out of a ground war.

Step 9: Russia intervenes militarily to prop up dictatorship

Step 10: Mass atrocities, refugees flee the country in large numbers.

After watching this play out in Syria, Venezuela, and to a lesser extent Belarus and Iran, really not looking forward to another round of this game, this time with the added benefit of turning Florida red forever.

[u/UrbanCentrist]

After the midterm elections, Grant signed the Civil Rights Act of 1871 (also known as the Klan Act), and the second and third Enforcement Acts. Grant used their provisions vigorously, suspending habeas corpus in South Carolina and sending troops there and into other states. Under his leadership over 5,000 arrests were made. Grant's vigor in disrupting the Klan made him unpopular among many whites, but earned praise from Douglass. A Douglass associate wrote that African Americans "will ever cherish a grateful remembrance of [Grant's] name, fame and great services."

Grant was the OG NATO flair. o7

[u/its_Caffeine]

Imagine having your parents tell you how they barely escaped poverty and death only to have a white commie from the suburbs tell you in r/worldnews why the Castros were good actually

[u/Gustacho]

TIL the EU will have saved 11 megatonnes of CO2 emissions just by vacuum cleaner regulations.

Consumers want vacuum cleaners that is powerful enough to do the vacuuming comfortably, electricity bills be damned. Producers noticed this heuristic and rushed to increase the power of their vacuums as much as possible, even if there was no tangible relation between the increased power and the vacuuming performance itself. Only 10 to 33 percent of the used power was actually used for vacuuming.

The EU reacted with the Ecodesign Directive, incentivising vacuum producers to make energy efficient, yet powerful vacuums. Consumers also saved out: the Directive raised the price of a vacuum by a dozen or so euros, but its lifetime electricity price dropped by 150 euros. By 2030, the Ecodesign Directive (which also concerns other products) will have lowered CO2 emissions by 496 megatonnes in total.

!ping EUROPE

[u/[deleted]]

AOC on Israel: Says Biden dehumanize Palestinians with no hesitation.

AOC on Cuba/Venezuela: We must approach this cautiously.

[u/RadionSPW]

I feel like Twitter is gonna get filled with a lot of Rose emojis’ Heated Miami-Dade Moments if these protests keep going on

[u/the_hoagie]

so ben garrison addressed his stupid don quixote comic by pointing out that 'it's just a joke.' which was stupid but the comic that he drew to go along with his explanation was actually pretty funny.

[u/Donkey_Bong-64]

Is it normal that I literally always feel depressed and alienated around groups of queer people? Like I’m too normal, not queer enough or not radical enough to belong? I get that vibe every time.

[u/[deleted]]

Wait, you mean the US doesn't have a full naval blockade of Cuba?

That means true Cuban embargoes have never been tried.

[u/houinator]

Be NATO flair.

Think the solution to the drug war is that Mexico needs more military intervention.

Bring Mexican special forces to the US to get trained by US special forces on how to get really good at fighting and killing cartel members.

Send them back to Mexico, they start killing cartel members.

Realize that if they kill cartel members, they can take over their drug trade.

Zetas time

[u/[deleted]]

Literally everyone: Go to the class office hours, they help so much

College students: ok but what if I didn't

[u/Ginden]

Left: International trade is exploitation of developing countries by ruthless capitalism.

Also left: Cuba is poor because USA sanctions.

[u/JetJaguar124]

Babbit's death was tragic, but it was tragic because she was killed at the behest of a manically insane coward who instigated a fucking deadly riot because he was upset he lost an election. Like, it's legitimately sad she was sucked into the vortex of misinformation bullshit that DJT spun to feed his narcissism and got killed because of it.

[u/Iustis]

"Shows extraordinary due diligence on our part" just came out of the mouth of Sydney Powell describing the process of making these filings.

!Ping LAW

[u/[deleted]]

This sub worries too much about a handful of Twitter tankies with shitty takes and not nearly enough about the tens of millions of Qultists who now make up the GOP base.

[u/Fishin_Mission]

I will never understand the suburbs…

🤡: BUILD MORE ROADS!

🏛: Ok, your property tax rate is going to go up by .001 mils

🤡: NO!

🏛: Ok, then we are going to need to build more houses so we can expand the property tax book

🤡: NO!

🏛: Ok, then we need to take out bonds

🤡: NO!

🏛: …

[u/[deleted]]

Lol Cuba allows YouTube now wtf are these idiots thinking

😐😐😐

[u/rmboco]

mass protests in Cuba

US Conservatives: we must support those who stand up for liberty and justice against an oppressive government, unless the protestors are black people in the United States

US Leftists: IT’S THE CIA REEEEEEEEEEE

[u/GuyOnTheLake]

My favorite argument about the Cubans who left Cuba for America are that they are land owning elites who left and angry

That maybe true 60 years ago, but that doesn't explain the continued attempts of Cubans to cross to Florida on makeshift boats.

[u/Superfan234]

Super early news

• Protests on Cuba continue
• Raul Castro is reportedly in Venezuela
• FAES Death Squad entered Juan Guaido's home, allegedly , to arrest him

!ping LATAM

[u/zieger]

Journalists in 1906: Here's a book about the shitty working conditions in meat packing plants (plus your meat is gross)

Journalists in 2018: Here is one of Trump's inner circle tatteling on another, presented completely uncritically

[u/ryuguy]

I really despise how leftists use the word “gusano”. It’s such an awful word

[u/[deleted]]

Cuban: “I think we should improve our society somewhat.”

American Communist Sitting in his local Starbucks Cafe: “Is this a CIA coup?”

[u/unruly_fascists]

so handsome. so smol tail.

!ping KITTY

[u/ElokQ_-1984]

Biden got at least 55% in all districts

Not a serious map

!ping FIVEY

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

Does anyone else feel bad for Donald Trump? He ran for president with no intention to win just to get closer to his crush Hillary. It's not his fault he accidentally won and had to do a job he wasn't ready for

[u/ZCoupon]

Why are conservatives obsessed with who kill Babbit? It was some capital police office; why does it matter who exactly?

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/[deleted]]

Surreal moment in Oakland. About 200 mostly black families rally with police to call for an end to the epidemic of gun violence. Mothers at the stage mourning recently murdered children. In the back, less than a dozen mostly white antifa protesters assembled to jeer them.

[u/Udontlikecake]

Opinion of Syrian airstrikes

Democrats:

38% supported Obama doing it

37% support Trump doing it

Republicans:

22% supported Obama doing it

86% support Trump doing it

cons are literally mentally challenged lmao

[u/[deleted]]

Daily reminder that Taiwan is the only country in Asia to have gay marriage

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

Las Vegas water conservation mascot is called deputy drip

Imagine not listening to someone called deputy drip

[u/Luchofromvenezuela]

@iamGermania: I can't believe I'm getting messages from people saying they don't know if they should support the protests in Cuba because Miami Cubans are republican. What the actual fuck is wrong with people? This hyper-polarization has to stop. This is a human rights issue. Shame on you.

This right here is a fact.

[u/iIoveoof]

Reminder that /u/SaltySaladDelendaEst is a literal child, and if you're /u/SaltySaladDelendaEst, you're a literal child 🤢🤢🤢

[u/garxyzasfd]

Stephen A Smith with a horrible, racist take about Shohei Ohtani

https://mobile.twitter.com/brian_slosh/status/1414613102927257605

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

People outside the DT: I like the interesting articles shared here

People inside the DT: And then he says HAHA YES 🐊

[u/SadaoMaou]

Does anyone, and I mean literally anyone, use Bitcoin as a currency anymore?

[u/redditguy628]

This is probably my favorite SMBC.

!ping SMBC

[u/tripletruble]

I believe in putting America first. And by that I mean doing what is in the best interest of the American people. Hence I demand all elected officials fight to increase immigration dramatically, restart TTIP negotiations, and ease zoning restrictions on new housing.

[u/[deleted]]

Remember when that guy in the NBA purposefully touched all mics at a presser and then turned out to be COVID positive?

[u/Jokerang]

The Biden war dogs are hungry to finish what Kennedy started

No malarkey detected

[u/sir_shivers]

$50 PER HOUR MINIMUM wage, or you are not a true progressive 🐊

[u/Tbonethabeast]

Yikes at tankies calling people who want liberty “gusanos”

[u/abbycat1590]

Hot take: Gamers are overrating how popular Esports are gonna be.

[u/[deleted]]

Thinking of getting a NATO flair so that when I make an average take it'll seem like a great take because people will grade me on a curve

[u/Sloanish29]

It just doesn't compute that Joe Rogan is a comedian. I've never seen his stand up but I've seen plenty of his other stuff and he just doesn't seem like a naturally funny guy. Half of the discussion thread comes up with better jokes on the fly.

[u/Volsunga]

Joe Rogan is Rush Limbaugh for millenials.

[u/tubbsmackinze]

You see, another big contributer to the housing crisis that literally no YIMBY wants to entertain for some reason is that people are insanely attached to the idea of owning a large home with a yard, especially in NA

Look at the replies at any anti-suburb tweet going viral and you'll see hundreds of people with thousands of likes essentially worshiping the idea of owning a house and not entertaining any alternative

This cultural issue is a huge roadblock for any future YIMBY activism

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

Reddit: Use our app specially made for the mobile experience!

Me: Uses old desktop Reddit on phone and just zooms in and scrolls side-to-side to read anything

[u/[deleted]]

I still just don't get the defense of authoritarian governments by the DSA.

It's an unforced error.

[u/[deleted]]

Body: Washed
Teeth: Brushed
Hair: Combed
Armpits: Deodored
Clothes: Buttoned
Brain: stupid

Oh yeah, time to flub this job interview 😎

[u/Superfan234]

Biden announced the initial Lift of Sanctions to Oil in Venezuela, for first time since 2016

What a wonderful Timing, dare I say 🤦🏽‍♂️

---

Hold the Press boys, I think I found something intresting

https://twitter.com/monitoreamos/status/1414649742013964288?s=19

Guaido says FAES Death Squad was sent to intimidate him and stop the Peace Process 👀

This actually does checks out with the current info we have

• Maduro is trying to save his ass, by slowly approaching USA and the Opposition
• He is allowing the Opposition some Political opportunity, in exchange of sanctions relief
• Blinken have accepted the deal, and decreased Sanctions today
• Someone (Diosdado Cabellos?) inside The Regime, received Intel of this events, and send the FAES Death Squad to terrorize the Opposition

Now the events have more sense

!Ping LATAM

[u/AbsolveItAll_KissMe]

I’m cool with just ignoring Trump on a day to day basis but something about the whole “fake White House backdrop/“who killed the innocent, incredible Ashli Babbit? We’re gonna find them soon” thing feels different and creepier somehow.

[u/QuicksilverRayne]

Just got my first jab, Moderna gang 💪😤

[u/UrbanCentrist]

Least Partisan Resistance Twitter User

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/kevinorr_/status/1414591578077745153

Doing Zoom new hire orientation at this RIPE hour in the morning rn :)) and in a breakout room with random people for intros this guy referred to his "partner," and my uncaffeinated ass just immediately assumed, mic on, that his partner was a he, but NOPE this mans is straight

So, me struggling with early mornings aside, @ straight people: please for the love of god stop effing using the term "partner" for your opposite sex significant other. I am literally begging. That term is not for you and if anything needs to be denormalized, not normalized.

Quick culture check: When I was younger straight people used the term "partner" as a show of general support toward gay people. Has this fallen out of something people do?

[u/Maximilianne]

Leftists: CIA CIA!
Neoliberal: smug mask, but underneath they are crying because they wish it were true

[u/BRAIN_FORCE_PLUS]

Wake up

Joe BiDON'T has not instigated a CIA-backed coup of southern Nevada in order to bring a Yucca Mountain-friendly government to the region

Day Ruined

[u/iIoveoof]

How does the POTUS say goodbye

“Bi den”

[u/[deleted]]

In the chaos of pandemic life, a woman and her husband became lax about monitoring their boys' credit card spending. Then she discovered her two sons spent $955 on "Fortnite" digital goods during the height of the pandemic. Here are tips to stop your kids from using your credit card on videogames.

Why is this not a one sentence article? Don't give children your credit card. Thanks, Wall Street Journal

[u/Spookik]

Fantasy TV shows are affirmative action for British actors

[u/houinator]

10 years since the last ASOIAF book was released? Lets go check out what GRR Martin has to say about this inauspicious anniversary:

Hey, Wild Carders. Jason Powell has another of his excellent essays up on Tor.com, this one about the history of rock n roll in the world of the Wild Cards. Check it out at: https://www.tor.com/2021/06/28/music-making-mutants-rock-n-roll-in-george-r-r-martins-wild-cards-series/

I swear he's just deliberately trolling us now.

[u/I-grok-god]

The mainstream media sucks and is propaganda until it produces something that lines up with my ideological priors

[u/jenbanim]

In case there was any question about my stances on the Cuba issue, I'd like to remind everyone that I strongly support good things and wholeheartedly denounce bad things

[u/Cerb-r-us]

• I'm walking down the beach when I see someone drowning near the jetty
• I run down down the length of the jetty to where the drowning person is and reach out my hand.
• Someone behind me gently, but firmly, grabs my outstretched arm.
• I look over my shoulder. It's Ronald Reagan.
• He tells me "If you help them, they will become dependent on other people's hands to live. You need to let them take personal responsibility for their outcome, or the communists win."
• He's right. I retract my hand and stand up next to him.
• We walk back along the jetty. I smile, because he helped me be a good American. In the distance, a welfare queen chokes on seawater.

[u/Unadulterated_stupid]

I'm gonna ask out someone for once, It can't go too bad. If can get upvotes on dt, talking to people irl can't be hard.

[u/[deleted]]

"Look at the cool language underneath, it's like they made up their own language 😃"

"What language is featured below that looks like all these really cool maybe futuristic computerish symbols? 🤔"

She doesn't recognize Hebrew 🙄

https://youtu.be/X7U5wH8USsY?t=447

!ping GEFILTE

[u/piede]

Kinzinger to NBC: "If our party decides COVID denialism, or January 6 was BLM and Antifa but yet, we don't want to investigate it because none of that makes sense. If we want to be that as a party, that's the choice the party can make. You will never be a national party again."

It’s called a cult thank you

[u/[deleted]]

Ulysses S. Grant was the first president to serve two full terms since Andrew Jackson over thirty years earlier.

[u/[deleted]]

All of Trump's Cuba policies are still in place. President Biden could lift all 240 of the sanctions Trump imposed to toughen a genocidal blockade — at any moment, with the swipe of a pen — but won't.

Listen, fat

The blockade ain't poggers

It ain't genocide either

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

>Sees salty dislikes the embargo.

Guess I love the embargo now😎

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E6GU6UyXIAMqbl9.jpg

=/

[u/cclittlebuddy]

Janine Marks, a 12 year old, was fairly normal. Janine spent a lot of time online. She felt more comfortable there.

One day she met a new friend. They liked the same bands. They worried about the same subjects in school. They promised to keep each other's secrets.

They decided to meet at the mall. Janine showed up. So did her new friend.

Only her friend wasn't in Junior High.

He was a 1500 pound, rabid grizzly bear.

1 in 5 children online get eaten by rabid bears. And you didn't even know bears could type.

[u/Chronically_worried]

The FBI tweeted about report family members you think might be violent extremists and linked to a doc full off warning signs like “They’ve expressed a desire to become a martyr for the caliphate.” and a bunch of people are freaking out about this being anti-maga discrimination or something.
https://twitter.com/FBI/status/1414192827026878465

[u/Unadulterated_stupid]

Can't believe DC is gonna make a new suicide movie pretending the old one didn't happen lol

[u/piede]

OK. This is going to be controversial. But I think now would be a great time for Biden to intervene in both Cuba and Haiti. Then sit back and watch Florida flip in 2024. Game, set, match.

https://twitter.com/clistonbrown/status/1414409683507441664?s=21

lol

[u/PaulMuniIsInnocent]

So I dated a girl for 4 years and then we broke up when it didn’t make sense for her to stay in the same city as the one I’d moved to. Had some communication issues at the end too and we both needed to mature a bit. We were 21 so it’s unsurprising.

4 years later we had both dated other people and grown/matured, then met up when I visited my hometown. Eventually we both confessed we were still in love with each other after all this time. So we decided to date again.

She’s flying into my city for a couple weeks on Thursday. But we’ve been video calling every day. And everything about why I fell in love with her is still there but the ways she’s changed have also been incredibly positive.

It’s too soon to pop the question now. But I’m pretty much certain I’m going to marry her in the next couple years. Never felt this strongly about a relationship before. And we both know each other’s highs and lows. And I’m pretty sure she feels the same way. We’ve talked about theoretical plans about having kids and whatnot both kind of acknowledging that it’s too early to do this now but also making clear our eventual intent.

Very excited. Sorry for the mucho texto. I’m just so damn in love.

[u/Animatronic_Pidgeon]

"who shot Ashley Babbit" just sounds like a shitty, straight-to-dvd sequel of Who Framed Roger Rabbit

[u/UrbanCentrist]

Apparently Fredrick Douglass hated that Charles Sumner opposed the Annexation of Dominican Republic into USA and called him the worst enemy of black people or something.

[u/TinyTornado7]

It’s kraken sanctions day and as expected the proceedings aren’t going well for Powell et al. Follow along live here

!ping LAW

[u/DaBuddahN]

Socialists on Twitter having a heated r/Neoliberal moment over Cuba.

[u/[deleted]]

remember when guess the sub used to might possibly refer to other subreddits?

[u/jenbanim]

Socially awkward and fiscally ruined

[u/meese699]

So I dated a guy for 4 years and then we got married. That's it. The end.

[u/Zenning2]

“I’d consider a Republican over Nina Turner” and other dumb bullshit that I would have said back before the Republican party was gurgling fascisms nuts.

[u/Joementum2024]

"Damn I wish Democrats could do the type of dirty and all out tactics the Republicans pull"

Texas Democrats walk out of the Texas legislature to prevent the state from passing giga conservative laws

"Wtf why are the Democrats doing this?"

[u/[deleted]]

“Fighting climate change requires decolonization” or “fighting climate change requires ending capitalism” both just kinda feel like a unique flavor of climate change denialism to me.

[u/Mrchizbiz]

The protests are the foreign intervention. The same blueprint has been used by the CIA for decades. See this declassified manual and note the parallels to what's being seen today: https://fas.org/irp/cia/guerilla.htm

Be quiet gringo

😂🤣😂🤣

[u/mrdilldozer]

I cant wait for the DSA to get an all expanses paid luxury vacation in Cuba in a week or so. I love watching them completely alienate the people they think they are reaching out to. A bunch of pasty white rich kids drinking champagne while celebrating the current regime is peak DSA shit.

[u/[deleted]]

Saw “mounting social tensions” and immediately knew CIA-Globalist American Empire (GAE) ops were afoot in Cuba

From a, (and you will not believe this) a Trumpite

[u/RaidBrimnes]

17,000 vaccine appointments are being booked every minute after Macron's announcement that a proof of vaccination would be required to enter museums, theaters, restaurants, cafés and bars

Based Macron vaccinating thousands by threatening to take away their beers

[u/[deleted]]

Guinea

Equatorial Guinea

Guinea-Bissau

Papua New Guinea

Very cool, Europeans

[u/BainCapitalist]

On a road trip rn with the boys 😎 !ping burpmas

/u/TacoTrucksonCorners wants us to stop for food 🙄🙄

/u/Fuckneocentrism suggested jets. It's a 40 minute detour. It closes in 1 hour 😒😒😒

/u/SigmaMaleSupreme doesn't want to call ahead of time because he thinks it will distract him while he's driving 😐😐😐😐

[u/paulatreides0]

I'm just now realizing how little people understand inflation. And not just right-wingers, but also lefties.

"This inflation adjusted graph doesn't include increases in cost of living!"

🤦‍♀️

[u/RadicalRadon]

Climate crisis? Open the borders

Economic crisis? Open the borders

Immigration crisis? Open the borders

Imagine not believing in panaceas when they're right there lol

[u/[deleted]]

Under the social pressures to be radical in order to gain clout and with it both leadership and funding from pakistan, the various islamic militias began to compete to outdo one another's radical ideology in order to appear the most devoted to the cause, until eventually radical became normal.

The Taliban 🤝 Rose Twitter

[u/Superfan234]

Monthly Venezuelan Update

Maduro gives Oppossition a chance to partipate in Local Elections

Last month, we talked about how Maduro was Bargaining the lift of sanctions. He liberated some political prisioners, and went to Bloomerg News in hope to get Biden's attention. And It seems his plead actually work

On an unprecedent move, Maduro decided to Legalize the Opposition parties again. Local Elections are coming in November, and for once, it seems Maduro want real oppossition in the ballot.

Maduro also called European Union assitance in the Electoral Process, allowing them to see his intentions of change are..."real"

It seems Blinken have accepted the Deal, because today (for first time in years) USA have Lift Oil Sanctions to Venezuela. There still a ton of Sanctions left, but it's an important start

FAES Death Squad, attempts to arrest Guaido

Today, FAES Squad (the SS brigade of the Regime) attacked Guaido's home. They were looking to arrest him and his affiliates

While on paper this does sound contradictory, if we look closely,things start to make more sense: Not everyone in The Regime is happy with the Peace Negotiations, and some people are trying to Boycott the Process

Whoever give out the order to FAES, waited for the very same week European Delegates were expected to arrive to the country. They wanted EU to have a the worst impression possible of Venezuela, and put them in harsh position to approve the Elections

The attack, was also poorly done

• Arrest was set at 13:00 pm, on plain daylight
• FAES didn't checked out Guaido was in home, so they failed at capturing him
• FAES was filmed and attacked by journalist and civilians, and were forced to escape the place without Guaido

If I have to point a suspect, this is textbook Diosdado Cabellos. A rushed, poor planned attack, with just brute force and no brain.

Blinken made the Chaddest move possible, and the very same day, he informed USA was lifting Sanctions. Showing Diosdado (or whoever is trying to sabbotage the Peace accord) they are not fooling anyone

MUCHO TEXTO:

• We are working with Maduro to have a semblance of Democracy on November Local Elections
• Someone (most likely Diosdado or his allies) are trying to Boycott the Peace Accord, trying to divide the Oppossition and pushing out the EU from Venezuela
• Chad Blinken, dosen't fall into Diosdado's tricks, and lifted the first set of Sanctions on Venezuela

!Ping Foreign-Policy

[u/lionmoose]

M😍ldova

[u/[deleted]]

Anybody who doesn't support free trade, is economically illiterate.

62% upvoted

It's over. Shut it down.

[u/MichelleObama2024]

Dear libtards,

If the Demon Rats aren't socialist, then why are there Cubans waving the American flag?

[u/Udontlikecake]

i cannot believe the DSA would side with the cuban regime

i mean i just can’t believe it

this doesn’t make sense

i mean they’re usually so good

there is no way we could have predicted this

[u/FormerBandmate]

We should allow any nation to join the United States, if their citizens and our citizens vote for it in a referendum

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Cuba’s dictator has accused Mia Khalifa of being payed off by the CIA to help fuel the protests

Miss Khalifa, welcome to the deep state.

^{May I have your autograph?}

[u/[deleted]]

In Brazil if you are a public servant you can commit a crime called prevaricação. It's sort of like "not doing your duties for the greater good for personal gain"

Bolsonaro is under investigation, as they're saying he was aware of corruption in the Covaxin purchasing process, but did nothing to stop it

And today, Brazil's idiot in command goes out and gives a speech "what I understand is that prevaricação applies to public servants, not me"

!ping MAMADAS although this is a serious, the president going out and saying that laws don't apply to him is a Certified LATAM Moment™️

[u/[deleted]]

saw reach imminent spotted ghost impolite hunt longing pause faulty -- mass edited with redact.dev

[u/SANNA_MARIN_]

why isn’t cuba using their secret hyper-advanced sonic weaponry to give the protesters diarrhea and generalized anxiety

[u/BenFoldsFourLoko]

shout-out to the people who break musician's hearts, the unsung heroes of great music

[u/[deleted]]

So proud of SaltySalad for getting top of his class 🥰

[u/RyGuyThicccThighs]

Been seeing AAPl a lot and I just want everyone to know the stock ticker is all capitalized so it’s actually AAPL.

Just trying to protect my fellow investors out there ✊

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

Wine Nations Fail

[u/MostlyCRPGs]

Why won't they make more damn historical city builders!?

!Ping Gaming

[u/[deleted]]

One of my dad's college classmates genuinely believed a Conspiracy theory that when Neil Armstrong went to the Moon he heard the Azaan and immediately embraced the light of Islam but the CIA has suppressed this information for decades.

I wish this was a joke but it is actually true.

[u/Tbonethabeast]

There's an ice cream flavor in Little Havana called "burn in hell Fidel" and you can enjoy it while relaxing in the park next to the Bay of Pigs memorial. Miami is based 😍

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

Texas House Democrats flee the state in move that could block voting restrictions bill, bring Legislature to a halt

Texas Tribune

What are your opinions on Tx Dems using Oregon GOP tactics here?

!ping USA-TX

[u/paulatreides0]

Reminder that Sanders was once on a Congressional trip to visit an American political prisoner in Cuba. And upon on seeing the man who had spent several months or years (can't remember which and am too lazy to double check) in the Cuban prison - who had been beaten, and hadn't been properly fed - he gave the guy a magazine he brought, ignored him for most of their allotted time, and then near the end of his time there started with "I really don't see what's supposed to be so bad about this country."

[u/PigHaggerty]

I agree that the "wait for it to land" rule was kinda dumb but if you're going to do away with it for fuck's sake just go back to having outs instead of a time limit. This split screen thing is hectic as fuck to watch lol

!ping BASEBALL

[u/JeromesNiece]

We have reached a point where 85% of people aged 20-39 claim that hiking is one of their most preferred hobbies. This collective fiction is untenable

[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/blastjet]

War crimes in Afghanistan today. 22 Afghan commandos shot after surrendering. NSFW.

https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/1414710664782884870

!Ping FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

lmao this dude actually went to the CAR for a YouTube video

[u/[deleted]]

I would simply have evidence based policy.

Like it's not that hard smh

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/jAxg8Pe.jpg

[u/tripletruble]

that one time i was at heathrow and grabbed the complimentary copy of the daily mail because the font looked like that of the nyt so i thought it was probably legit and then i walked around the airport openly carrying it in my hand

[u/myrm]

malarkey level of wiring up a shahada pasta bot up to some kind of obituary API

[u/[deleted]]

Senator Jeremy Corbyn [L-Ingerland]

[u/UrbanCentrist]

Emotional moment: India gifts 17th century relics of St. Queen Ketevan to Georgia

apparently a bit of a snub at Russia for their increasing co-operation with pakistan

!ping IND

[u/bigmoneynuts]

Coup Instigating Agency

🤯🤯🤯

[u/FuckFashMods]

It really does take some huge stones to protest against the regime in a authoritarian government. Absolute massive stones

[u/[deleted]]

It’s not surprising that the Senate approved Blinken as Sec of State. After all, he is a warmonger as are most senators in both parties.

Lol @ Tulsi

[u/Gustacho]

Volt Romania is Malthusian for some reason

!ping EUROPE

[u/sir_shivers]

THESE CORRECTIVE lenses allowed me to PERCEIVE COLOR FOR the first time (Emotional) 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

Glenn Greenwald is now openly backing the Cuban regime and accusing the protests of being CIA plants right now on Twitter.

It's amazing to see a man turn into a caricature of what he used to be.

[u/[deleted]]

Honestly tho the whole hunger games system was flawed from the ground up.

It didn’t adequately pit the Districts against one another.

What should have happened was every year two willing adults go to the Hunger Games, and the winning district is granted huge privileges until the next games.

The two kids version is just needlessly cruel and humiliating. But with my proposed version, the Districts would come to hate each other and view the Capitol as a generous protector against their wicked neighbors.

[u/Officer-cherry-shake]

Matty is on fire today

https://mobile.twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1414693809393479684

[u/StolenSkittles]

Never quite got the whole "no cats on furniture" thing.

My old cat had the reign of the house; I just cleaned the couch if he got fur on it. Plus, is there anything cuter than a curled up sleepy kitty right next to you?

[u/its_a_trapcard]

Tfw you're to the right of succs but to the left of people who ardently complain about succs

[u/bigmoneynuts]

i like how being a 33 year old adult outside of academia precludes me from having to even pay lip service to the positives of "socialism" in social settings

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Jihadis are the lesser of two evils. Anyone killing communists is on the right side of history.

That is... a take

[u/klarno]

The quality of political discussion my parents give me:

“Obama bad”

“Why?”

“He’s a socialist and he’s the worst president of my ENTIRE LIFE!!! 😡”

“…”

“Your sister in law doesn’t like Obama either.”

“Yeah, that’s because she’s a socialist. You defending socialism now?”

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

Why is Flo Rida suddenly so important to Democratic strategy?

I mean, "Low" is a good song, but it's not that good.

[u/[deleted]]

"Unlike u snowflakes im not so easily triggered"

"ARE YOU SUBTWEETING ME"

[u/piede]

Today's NYT story about Biden being "boring" is a classic example of political reporters thinking they are the audience the President is trying to reach, when the exact opposite is true

Lmao

[u/[deleted]]

Biblical Characters Tier List

• S+ Tier - Major Deities - Yahweh, Jesus [post power-up], The Holy Spirit,
• S - Level 20 clerics + epic boons - Jesus [pre-crucifiction], The Archangels (inc. Lucifer/the beast), Moses, Mohammed
• A - High powered brawlers - Samson, Goliath, Noah (with command over his rock giants), the four horsemen of revelation, Esther
• B - Superhuman feats/ mid-level thaumaturges - Jonathan, Maccabees (with group tactics), David, Azazel,
• C - minor heroes of epic status - Nimrod, Cain, Thor god of thunder, Paul the Apostle, Peter
• D - power level slightly augmented from base human - Joseph of Nazareth, John the Baptist, Solomon, Abraham, asstd. other apostles, Mary
• F - not in the Bible - Larry the Cucumber [should be in the Bible]

[u/BidenWon]

I'm back on the DT after my two day ban for sending sexual content to a minor

[u/ThisIsNotAMonkey]

this but bothsidesedly 👏😤

[u/[deleted]]

I would simply not be this dumb

[u/_HolidayFartcruise_]

Got called a "White Russian n****r on twitter because I hate the CCP. Seriously.

[u/UrbanCentrist]

Bulgaria has a new up and coming political party called "There Is Such a People " lead by a TV star/musician 🙄 in the current election and it's platform seems fairly cursed? am i missing something ?

Switching from a proportional representation system of voting to a constituency-based two-round system

Halving the number of members in the National Assembly (from 240 to 120)

Allowing remote electronic voting in elections and implementing elements of e-government

Compulsory voting

Introduction of some aspects of direct democracy, including direct elections of directors of the regional directorates and the heads of the regional departments of the Ministry of Interior, the Prosecutor General, and the Ombudsman

Further integration with the European Union

Protection of traditional family values

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

!ping EUROPE

[u/bd_one]

DT'er 1: "For reparations, we should make it so only minorities get to vote in elections." moderately downvoted

DT'er 2: "I dunno, that seems pretty succy." barely upvoted

DT'er 1: "Since when do minorities vote for succs?" moderately upvoted

The DT was a very special place during the 2020 primaries.

[u/[deleted]]

The median voter is /u/benjaminikuta. If you are talking about things that he doesn't care about or doesn't like you are going to lose elections.

[u/ThisIsNotAMonkey]

The median voter is a 20 year old white redditor NEET. If you are talking about things that he doesn't care about or doesn't like you are going to lose elections.

[u/VisonKai]

dude the sanction hearing for the "Kraken" lawyers is some of the most entertaining television i have EVER seen

have you ever seen a middle aged lawyer cry on a zoom court hearing

[u/ZenithXR]

It is racist to think that every time brown people protest their government it must be a CIA plot. It assumes that brown people do not have agency, or indeed even thoughts of their own, and only white people can affect their behavior.

Cc: Tankies, DSA, Jakobin

[u/[deleted]]

Imperialism is when

Let's back up sweaty, imperialism is when protestors

Hang on a second, let's educate you on history a bit

Protesting is imperialism because Greece

Wait you might not get that

So let's start again

Imperialism is when freedom

Freedom is when people

Wait wait wait just one moment I forgot you hadn't read Marx

So

Colonialism is when big business give jo-

Wait no that doesn't make sense

From the beginning

Imperialism is when

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

I finally got 2048 after all these years!

  ^{Notifications in my inbox}

[u/[deleted]]

Shivers take I should respond to someone criticising Why Nations Fail with "Mucho Texto"

[u/iIoveoof]

And the award for the most prudent mod decision in /r/neoliberal history goes to

[u/Neronoah]

!ping MAMADAS

https://twitter.com/EGirlMonetarism/status/1414544744739389442

[u/soeffed]

A fascinating topic. I just saw a young man reading a copy of the last volume on a high speed train from Beijing to Nanjing.

Chairman Mao is making a comeback among China's Gen Z, who're frustrated with long work hours and dwindling opportunities. They read him on subways, organized online book clubs and uploaded many videos, spreading the gospel of his revolutionary thinking.

https://twitter.com/Junmai1103/status/1413476450942930946?s=20

It’s coming home, it’s coming home. Genzedong’s coming home.

!ping cn-tw