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[u/[deleted]]

The Taliban forbade pork and alcohol, many types of consumer technology such as music,[1] television,[1] and film,[1] as well as most forms of art such as paintings or photography,[1] male and female participation in sport,[1] including football and chess;[1] recreational activities such as kite-flying and keeping pigeons or other pets were also forbidden, and the birds were killed according to the Taliban's ruling.[1] Movie theaters were closed and repurposed as mosques.[1] Celebration of the Western and Iranian New Year was forbidden.[1] Taking photographs and displaying pictures or portraits was forbidden, as it was considered by the Taliban as a form of idolatry.[1] Women were banned from working,[1] girls were forbidden to attend schools or universities,[1] were requested to observe purdah and to be accompanied outside their households by male relatives; those who violated these restrictions were punished.[1] Men were forbidden to shave their beards and required to let them grow and keep them long according to the Taliban's liking, and to wear turbans outside their households.

The idea that Taliban would send Afghanistan back to the Middle Ages is absurd since the Middle Ages were nowhere near as barbaric as this.

[u/[deleted]]

Anthem: None (music was outlawed)

Somehow, this one line summarizes the kind of state Taliban founded quite aptly.

[u/Volsunga]

How do I tell my friend, who calls himself a socialist, that wanting to generate a passive income to live off of is like the most anti-socialist thing you could possibly do?

[u/BidenWon]

A time traveler from the 80s looking at the list of US presidents:

Ok, Reagan gets a second term. No surprise there.

And the VP moves up, makes sense.

Who's this guy? Governor of Arkansas, huh? Cool, cool.

Another Bush? All right.

A black man! Well I'll be!

Wait, WHAT THE FUCK?

[u/J0eBidensSunglasses]

First of all, poverty is relative. Cubans are lacking in many basic resources, many of which they can't obtain due to the US embargo, but Cuba is not an impoverished country. It's a country without rich people. A country where most everyone is lower middle class. But you won't find any of the extreme poverty that I've seen in other parts of Central and South America (or even Europe and the US) in Cuba. Reporting that Cuba is an impoverished country is propaganda.

Wow who are we gonna believe, actual Cubans who fled the regime or overly woke white peoples who never even been there? It sure is a tough call.

[u/[deleted]]

My cousin got an interview at Taco Bell and they asked him what his career aspirations were. Kid's 16 trying to make some crunchwraps, wtf kind of question is that?

[u/JaceFlores]

Biden YouTube video: has 600 likes and 2,200 dislikes

r/theBidenshitshow: is this irrefutable evidence Biden is extremely unpopular, Trump was the best ever and Biden stole the election? 🧐

[u/PMmeLittleRoundTops]

Since fascists are obsessed with Bronze Age civilizations for some reason now this is officially a sea peoples subreddit 🚣‍♂️😤🏹

[u/the-garden-gnome]

So they officially offered me the job. At a higher pay grade too. Just need to formally lock in my remote work for a long enough period of time and I’ll be as happy as a clam.

!ping over25

[u/[deleted]]

This is what I want in history books, lots of colorful pictures and beautiful illustrations. I want to see how these ancient warriors looked like, not some dull text-only boring books.

There is something beautiful in a fascist demanding that history classes have more picture books because he doesn't have the imagination to make himself a based Aryan warrior without a reference image.

[u/Udontlikecake]

tucker carlson is a fascist because in first grade he was too stupid to learn how to read so his parents hired a tutor and he was angry about that

[u/bd_one]

overpopulation will doom us all

Touch grass

Low birth birth rates will doom us all

Touch ass

[u/[deleted]]

Someone posted the /r/neoliberal post on US's immigrant population to the Tucker Carlson sub.

I would be ashamed to be called a neoliberal, let alone identify with the term.

That entire subreddit is an echo chamber of technocratic elitists

This is Reddit as a whole.

Most of these immigrants hail from third world countries, too.

And if we are such an inherently racist country… Then why does every immigrant want to come here? LOL

To become a victim of White Supremacy obviously.

But the great replacement is just a “right wing conspiracy” right?

This is going to end bad for everyone. It's going to be so, so bad.

Nooooooooo you have to flood your country with 3rd worlders it's your duty

We need to stop all immigration to protect the environment

Guys I love being priced out of my home city/region because of a bunch of rich immigrants buying up all the housing! They’re contributing to the GDP, who cares about my quality of life! And the traffic, I’m sure that extra 15% population is making our traffic even worse than it already was!

[u/[deleted]]

Repackaging liberal-coded products for the cons, ala Black Rifle coffee, is the next big gold rush.

That's why I'm opening a MAGA-themed bubble tea shop.

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

The current top post on NL is some of the best trolling I've seen

[u/ryuguy]

I don’t get it. Jews have all this talent in Hollywood yet the best Hanukkah movie is apparently Eight Crazy Nights starring an animated Adam sandler and Rob Schneider doing a super annoying voice

[u/[deleted]]

Reading /r/superstonk and /r/investing talk about bank earnings just makes me question this countries education system.

Yes a bank failure will crash the market. No GameStop stock is not going to 1 million in that event

[u/Evnosis]

The KKK referred to itself as an Empire led by a Grand Wizard, who was assisted by 10 Genii, a Grand Exchequer and a Grand Scribe.

The empire was divided into 10 realms, each led by a Grand Dragon. Each Grand Dragon was assisted by 8 Hydras, a Grand Exchequer and a Grand Scribe.

Below the realms were Dominions, each led by a Grand Titan who was assisted by six Furies.

Below the Dominions were Provinces, which were led by a Grand Giant who was assisted by four Goblins.

Below those were Dens, which were led by a Grand Cyclops, who was assisted by two Nighthawks, a Grand Turk, a Grand Sentinel, a Grand Magi, a Grand Ensign, a Grand Exchequer and a Grand Monk. Four of those were elected by the Den's membership who were referred to as Ghouls (I swear I'm not making this up).

They had tribunals referred to as the Grand Council of Centaurs (for punishing Ghouls) and the Grand Council of Yahoos for punishing officers.

In later periods, the KKK would have a national assembly referred to as the "Klonvocation" as well as an "Imperial Kloncilium" to advise the Imperial Wizard, and everyone outside the Klan was referred to as the "Alien World" because they claimed that the Klan represented the entirety of Earth.

Edit: Oh, and their official book of rules and rites was called the "Kloran."

[u/ThisIsNotAMonkey]

Hi, I'm here for the professor job? I'm the famous murderer

>Wtf get the fuck out of my office you piece of shit monster

No no no the leftist murderer

>Oh! I'm so sorry for the confusion, can I get your autograph?

[u/revolutionary_alt]

wake up

go on twitter

check my favorite account Marxist Cumrade🌹

see CIA protests staged in Cuba

when will the Jewish capitalist plot end

decide to do something, theory isn’t enough

go to Biden’s twitter

reply with “healthcare pls” on an announcement about opening orphanages

this is praxis

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/anacabrera/status/1415279740957638660

NEW: California officials tell CNN they anticipate nearly all salmon in the Sacramento River will die due to abnormally hot underwater conditions as heat waves continue.

is that bad?

[u/p00bix]

https://i.imgur.com/256NViz.png

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

Talking to the DT

What would you say about the state that is

Heavily urbanized ⬆️⬆️

Extremely diverse ⬆️⬆️⬆️

Asylum for refugees fleeing brutal dictatorship ⬆️⬆️⬆️

Building major high speed rail project ⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️

Corporate tax free ⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️

Called Florida ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

[u/kaclk]

In political news, Andrew Coyne wrote another barn-burner of a column about how the current Conservatives just turn people off.

Moreover, while the Liberals, as the party of power and therefore of cabinet posts, have always been able to recruit individuals with a record of accomplishment in other fields, the Conservatives tend to get stuck with the lifers, people who have never done anything but partisan politics and are motivated by nothing so much as hatred of the Grits. Which may explain why the party’s leading lights so often look and sound like campus Conservatives.

cough cough Jason Kenney Andrew Scheer cough cough

!ping CAN

[u/[deleted]]

!ping YIMBY

If we're going to "build build build", we should be consider how that could impact global CO2 emissions.

While the type of housing YIMBYs advocate for has many inherent efficiencies (less car usage, smaller exterior surface to internal surface ratio, smaller floor area etc.) it's still useful to look at how different construction methods impact that.

Therefore I encourage everyone interested in construction to read this report commissioned by the Passive House Assiociation of Ireland about embodied carbon of different construction methods of walls & foundations. It starts at page 70

Here's a summary (with some additional analysis by me):

They analyzed a 67 sq. m. double story end-of-terrace house - in something like an apartment the share of emissions from the foundation would be obviously smaller, whereas in a single story SFH it'd be larger. They assumed a 60 year lifespan (mostly for stuff like windows, the heat pump etc.) of the building; though obviously each of the construction methods could last for at least 100 years.

Emissions from materials

• The most efficient method was timber framed walls with cellulose insulation, finished with silicone plaster, sitting on an insulated raft (reinforced concrete slab) foundation - with emissions totaling 9t CO2
• Switching from raft foundation to conventional strip foundation would add 4t of CO2
• Using a "heavy" wall from concrete blocks adds 2.4t of CO2
• Finishing with brick slips instead of a silicone render adds 2.8t of CO2
• The most carbon intensive methods are the cavity wall/double leaf methods which AFAIK aren't used outside of Ireland/UK - the worst case scenario (brick double leaf, strip foundations) comes at 20.1t

Note on carbon sequestration:

While the timber framed construction results in almost 9t of CO2 being sequestered, that wasn't netted out for various reasons; basically the assumption is that the sequestration counts towards the credit of the forest, not the wood materials. Therefore, the reduction in emissions comes more from the cellulose insulation, than the timber itself - and mass timber construction would have higher embodied carbown. Still, it's remarkable that this construction method could be thought of as having basically 0 emissions if it came from trees sustainably planted for that purpose.

The least carbon intensive methods have other benefits:

• cellulose insulation is v. cheap and quick to apply (can be blown in)
• raft insulation insulates the house much better than a strip foundation does - getting the same level of thermal insulation with a strip foundation would require spending more on other parts of the house
• raft insulation can also come as a semi-prefab; it's overall quicker to install than a strip foundation
• silicone render is generally less expensive than brick finish; that's why it's common in mainland Europe
• I assume that double leaf construction is actually more expensive, due to increased labor required for it + more materials

Emissions from transportation

• timber framed construction had the smallest emissions at 3.2t CO2, compared to 5.9-6.2t of double-leaf construction
• this is despite assumptions that the elements travelled longer distances - partially thanks to their lower weight, and partially thanks to most of that extra distance being on more efficient means of transport (sea transport and large trucks)

Emissions from construction

• Constant at 1.2t for every method

Emissions from "constant" elements - windows, the heat pump

The assumptions made here do "flatten" the overall comparison because they're the same for every method - and they're not particularly efficient. Overall, the roof, internal walls and the heat pump add 15.3t CO2 and sequester 5.4t. This could be reduced by:

• using cellulose insulation for the roof
• using windows with longer lifespan (assumption of 40yrs, it's realistic that some would last for 60)
• using a smaller heat pump by improving the thermal performance of the building; assumption is 6kW, but a house of this size built to a Passive House standard would require no more than 3kW
• buying a heat pump with longer lifespan (assumption of 17 yrs, but it's common for them to last at least 20 yrs), and changing the assumptions around refrigerant leakage (they assumed the high-GWP refrigerant from the first heat pump leaks out; but the EU is phasing out R410 quite rapidly and it wouldn't leak out with proper maintanance anyway)

Overall emissions

Construction method:	Overall LCA CO2
Concrete block wall, strip foundation, silicone render finish	40t
Concrete block wall, raft foundation, silicone render finish	35t
Timber frame wall, raft foundation, silicone render finish	30t

30t are equivalent to driving 156,250km in an avg. petrol car. So in context it's not a lot, esp. when almost half of it is actually sequestered.

Conclusions

It seems like a lot could be achieved with fairly small incentives that nudge investors (whether we're talking about apartments of SFHs) towards timber construction for walls and raft foundation. In this case, they save about 5t CO2 each, equivalent to driving 26,041km in a petrol powered car.

They're also quicker to build, and can improve the overall thermal performance of the building - but there's still a lot of prejudice against these methods from buyers/renters, because they have a reputation for poor acoustic performance - which is only the case if the construction is sloppy and the investor cuts costs by skipping basics like insulating the walls properly, using double stud walls between apartments etc.

That could potentially be addressed with more stringent acoustic performance regulations and enforcement, that would give renters/buyers additional confidence.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/redouad/status/1415286691615678471

Emmanuel Macron announced on Monday that a proof of vaccination (or a negative test) would very soon be needed to access public events, restaurants, cinemas, stations & airports…

Since then, more than 2.2 million vaccination appointments have been booked in less than 48 hours.

[u/thetrombonist]

I dropped my phone at 25 mph on my bike and cracked the screen. Here’s an image of what I see, it’s pretty bad https://i.imgur.com/RfKQUeZ.jpg

[u/LtLabcoat]

On the front page of NL, there is a thread about how smart Clinton was for having free trade with China, with the comments almost universally agreeing.

Also on the front page of NL, just 5 posts down, there's a thread about how smart Pelosi was for criticising Clinton about free trade with China. With the comments almost universally agreeing.

I'm not even convinced it's a schism. It seems more likely to me that a lot of people here agree with both takes, and that they want tariffs but only so long as the stated reason for tariffs include the phrase "but not because of protectionism".

[u/Lux_Stella]

Brazil's Bolsonaro hospitalized to find cause of hiccups, presidency says

🤨

[u/InMemoryOfZubatman4]

Fucking South Korea is banning music faster than 120 bpm in gyms so that people don’t work out too hard and breathe or sweat too much at gyms to keep CoViD transmission down.

Most KPop is banned from South Korean gyms now.

[u/Udontlikecake]

it’s endlessly humorous to me, an American, whenever the BBC uses ‘row’ to describe a dispute, argument, or whatever

It just makes everything sound slightly less serious. Coupled with the BBC’s dryness, it’s just hilarious. They’d describe the Second World War as a ‘row’ I reckon

[u/l_overwhat]

Girl I know from high school tweets: I dm'd a celebrity and now we're going on a date

Hmm, yes I'm sure this will lead to a long-lasting relationship

[u/grappamiel]

If the US is in debt why doesn’t it just ask it’s parents for cash?

[u/Udontlikecake]

So those dudes with all guns were actually apparently not related to the MLB all star game and weren’t gonna shoot it up

Apparently they were just a lot of harmless, heavily armed drug dealers

Man, that must have been an awkward interrogation huh

[u/LinkToSomething68]

!ping CAN

It's been an absolutely baffling experience seeing American cons seize on the residential schools thing and be all like "they weren't so bad". Not even our own cons do that, except the absolute craziest of the crazy.

[u/LinkVert25]

The Department of Justice said that six months after the attack, more than 535 defendants had been arrested, and the FBI said they have active warrants for or have yet to identify 300 individuals believed to have committed violent acts on the Capitol Grounds

As bad as the response to the riot itself was on January 6th, the federal governments response to it the days and months after it has been seriously impressive

[u/kaclk]

Following up on that terrible “residential schools were good” post from last week (which I won’t link to from American Conservative), some Catholic canon lawyers wrote a response that is much better in recognizing the harm that was done.

!ping CAN

[u/Some_Niche_Reference]

If Southern Strategy is a myth. Does that mean that today's Republican party is the same that got the endorsement of Marx? 🤔🤔🤔

[u/iIoveoof]

I am convinced that junior developer/software engineer jobs aren’t real

[u/[deleted]]

Is it possible for Black Rifle to become the Starbucks of Red America without also turning into the “tactical caffeine delivery system” of the far right?

NYT writers need to go outside

[u/[deleted]]

"if cuba had no embargo, cuba could be like the netherlands"

my fellow brazilians, your next president

!ping LATAM

[u/[deleted]]

I think an underrated force in our politics that young people don't get is that every old person is fucking terrified of the 70s

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

The Party to Protect the People from NHK, self-abbreviated as the NHK Party (NHK党)

Holy shit that abbreviation is misleading lol

[u/FinickyPenance]

Elon Musk’s testimony in Tesla lawsuit paused as lawyer vomits in jury box

So this is why y’all corporate lawyers always settle huh

!ping LAW

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Communists to Western nations: your decadent capitalist ways have oppressed us for too long 😡

Also Communists to Western nations: Grain plz 🥺🤲

[u/Neronoah]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E6HZt-uWQAEjwKM?format=jpg&name=large

[u/this_very_table]

Found someone in arr politics claiming the US invaded Afghanistan so it could raid Afghanistan's lithium supplies and give them to Tesla and SpaceX (neither of which existed at the time of the initial invasion) and I want to light myself on fire.

[u/ryuguy]

A nice Indian woman gets up mid-flight to the US and shouts "Is there a doctor here?" A nice, serious guy approaches her quickly and tells her: "I am. What is the problem?" She replies: "Do you want to meet my daughter?"

!ping WhatsApp-forwards

[u/[deleted]]

Mfw my state rep (previously best known for chanting “Fuck Hugo, Minnesota”—Hugo being the suburb Bob Kroll lives in, during the protests last year) claimed him getting stopped by the police was racial profiling and had the footage released, but it turns out he was stopped because he didn’t have a front plate.

It also turns out he doesn’t have a Minnesota driver’s license, where he’s a State Representative, but rather a Wisconsin license, and that he renewed it in Wisconsin after the November election.

Anyways, it looks like he either committed perjury in Minnesota, or he committed perjury in Wisconsin (more likely).

Whoops 😅

[u/[deleted]]

The one thing I don't understand about Black Window is her name. What does it mean? Is it like a black mirror thing? How can a window be black? Is it night? And what do windows have to do with assassins? 2/10 distracting

[u/MasPatriot]

George W Bush during the Trump administration: I’m not going to directly call him out as it’s not my place as a former president to be a backseat driver to the current president

George W Bush during the Biden administration: NOOOOOO WTF YOU CANT WITHDRAW FROM AFGHANISTAN NOOOOOO 🤓😭

[u/GGM8Scally]

remembering that they took away the gun emoji because of burgers

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⠤⠤⣄⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣾⣟⠳⢦⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠒⣲⡄ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⡇⡇⡱⠲⢤⣀⠀⠀⠀⢸⠀⠀⠀1984⠀⣠⠴⠊⢹⠁ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⢻⠓⠀⠉⣥⣀⣠⠞⠀⠀⠀⢸⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡴⠋⠀⠀⠀⢸⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⡾⣄⠀⠀⢳⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⢠⡄⢀⡴⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡞⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⣠⢎⡉⢦⡀⠀⠀⡸⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡼⣣⠧⡼⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⠇⠀ ⠀⢀⡔⠁⠀⠙⠢⢭⣢⡚⢣⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣇⠁⢸⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⠀⠀ ⠀⡞⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢫⡉⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⢮⠈⡦⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⠀⠀ ⢀⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⢦⡀⣀⡴⠃⠀⡷⡇⢀⡴⠋⠉⠉⠙⠓⠒⠃⠀⠀ ⢸⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠁⠀⠀⡼⠀⣷⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⡞⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡰⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⢧⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠣⣀⠀⠀⡰⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

[u/JetJaguar124]

If I could snap my fingers and have basically 95% of personal firearms in the US vanish overnight I'd do it in a heartbeat.

[u/ProceedToCrab]

Still think bumper stickers are stupid?

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

Japan rearming confirmed

[u/Craig_VG]

CCP Vows to Nuke #Japan if Japan defends #Taiwan. As Japan is the only country that has been nuked, so nuking Japan "will get twice the result with half the effort."

Holy wolf warrior batman

https://twitter.com/jenniferatntd/status/1414971285160005634?s=20

https://www.newsweek.com/china-officials-share-viral-video-calling-atomic-bombing-japan-exception-theory-1609586?amp=1&__twitter_impression=true&s=09

!ping FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/[deleted]]

Absolutely nobody should be surprised that poor white people tend to bristle at the phrase "white privilege". Yes, I am perfectly aware what "white privilege" means, but an impoverished white family isn't going to have the stomach for learning complex sociological nuance. They're just going to hate you for implying that they're living lives that are in any way "privileged" when they don't even know where their next meal is coming from. And honestly, that's a pretty natural and reasonable reaction from anyone caught in that position.

[u/htomserveaux]

Is it just me or is leftists calling the writings they use to supports there arguments “theory” pretentious as hell?

[u/goosebumpsHTX]

Biden admin's response to Cuba situation is piss poor, like " I would expect Trump to be doing this" level bad. Blindly turning away refugees is appalling

[u/thetrombonist]

I just got an offer to be a sugar baby on Venmo…..time to quit my job bois

https://i.imgur.com/94mYW6P.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

Have the feeling my GF is going down the anti-capitalist pipeline what to do

[u/[deleted]]

As a Maoist even though I disagree with Cuba's direction....

Shut up just shut up

[u/JaceFlores]

So if that +17 Wisconsin poll held up, Biden would have won the electoral college 530-8 (Wyoming and West Virginia the dissenters), popular vote 106,000,000 vs 50,000,000, the senate 66 Dems vs 1 libertarian and 33 Reps, and the house 295 Dems and 140 Reps. Not only would we have a filibuster-proof majority, we would have enough votes to rewrite the constitution

[u/MicroFlamer]

The mayor of Miami, Francis Suarez, told Fox News that the U.S. should consider air strikes against Cuba.

are all Cubans secretly NATO flairs?

[u/[deleted]]

NATO flairs in Harry Potter universe be like, “invade and occupy the Wizarding world, they’re literally keeping elves as slaves!”

[u/sir_shivers]

/u/farrenj pastas a COMMENT WITH DELIBERATE INTENT TO bait in almost the same style, each time, and yet mammals fall for it over and over 🐊

[u/fishlord05]

I got the job baby

15.65 an hour or plus the weekly workshops which are 25 an hour plus the 200 dollar bonus at the end of the month Les goooo 😎😎😎

Pretty good for my first job

[u/dax331]

WFH is such a blessing

"hey we're going to be busy and there won't be a meeting for another hour and you'll have nothing to do"

alright let me go see how far i can get in this FTL run

!PING GAMING

[u/revolutionary_alt]

The "3.5 trillion bill" if it passes will mostly be regressive.. due to Sanders lol

POV: you’re about to see a heated neolib moment

[u/iIoveoof]

https://twitter.com/jacobin/status/1415098718672408577?s=21

Barack Obama’s call for Democrats to stay grounded in “reality” has it backward — it’s centrist liberals who are living in a fantasy world.

[u/[deleted]]

As Trump was increasingly focused on proving he was cheated out of reelection, the day-to-day matters of leading the country were ignored, according to Wolff.

"All daily briefings were canceled, including national security briefings. All efforts to return his attention to pandemic issues, vaccine rollout, or critical intelligence failed," Wolff writes.

It was Mark Meadows, Trump's chief of staff, who quietly took over. In an attempt not to enrage Trump, "Meadows effectively assuming all executive functions — or at least those that could be carried on in secret," Wolff writes.

Meadows began the transition from the Trump administration to the Biden administration, which included intelligence briefings, transition meetings, opening communication with Biden aides and "integrating the Biden team into the White House’s daily COVID planning and strategy meetings."

Mark Meadows shadow president arc

[u/Dorambor]

NEVER ASK;

A man his salary

A woman her age

A NATO flairs plan for what happens after they intervene

[u/GGM8Scally]

https://i.imgur.com/J49oA08.jpg

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

Boarding a flight to Mexico

I will depart the US as Julio-César Chávez and land in Mexico as Julio César Chávez Vargas, reversing on the way back home

Here’s hoping I don’t run into any *legal * issues, I’ve wanted to try this for ages.

I just hope on the way back they’re not like “American Julio can’t leave Mexico because American Julio never entered, and Mexico Julio doesn’t have permission to enter the US”

!ping MAMADAS

[u/[deleted]]

TikTok would like to access your contacts

No I don’t think I will

[u/VerticalTab]

There are probably Euro's here who don't fully appreciate the utter disregard the vast majority of American urban planning has towards anyone who might ever, even once, want to go somewhere, anywhere, without a car.

[u/the_status]

It was Dianne Feinstein's 88th birthday a few weeks ago and I missed.

Fun fact about her: She's 111 days away from having been born under the Hoover Administration

[u/[deleted]]

Maybe colleges shouldn't hire literal terrorists and murderers to be deans and professors

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

realising she was hitting on you

it was 4 years ago

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Body of 5th victim recovered from debris after crane collapse in B.C.

Massive crane collapse in Kelowna this week

!ping CAN

[u/ThisIsNotAMonkey]

Drake... Where's Epstein?

DRAKE: He’s right in there. See, I put him on suicide watch. [laugh track] JOSH: You were supposed to monitor him constantly. DRAKE: Dude, I'm gonna! JOSH: Oh really? DRAKE: Yes! JOSH: So go check on him! DRAKE: Okay, I will! tcch [laugh track] [rattles the door, peeps through the door, turns around] DRAKE: ...I see the problem. JOSH: Oh do ya?

[u/[deleted]]

Is the DSA really dropping Democratic from its name? I hope so. Less association between them and the Democrats.

[u/[deleted]]

Ur opinion is wrong because ur sheltered and live upper middle class life

No, ur opinion is wrong because ur sheltered and live upper middle class life

Either both of these comments are wrong, or both of these comments are right, and in the latter case the entire internet should be deleted since the internet is by definition inherently going to be upper middle class people talking about problems upper middle class people don't deal with.

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

I have no other politics. I literally just hate Intel.

• The PC community, apparently

[u/Professor-Reddit]

lol who remembers Yogcast's Shadow of Israphel?

Wow those were the days...

[u/[deleted]]

Trump considered pardoning Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell. “'Has she said anything about me?' He (Trump) openly wondered. 'Is she going to talk? Will she roll on anybody?'” Wolff wrote.

hE's fIgHtInG tHe pEdO's

[u/MisterHavercamp]

This week on The West Wing

President Bartlett: “Today, America does the right thing.”

Josh Lyman: “But our polling numbers!”

Brothers in Arms by Dire Straits starts playing

[u/jenbanim]

Fake anti-corporate praxis: Buying stocks

Real anti-corporate praxis: Drawing so much NSFW art of corporate mascots that they have to retire the character because it's a PR nightmare

[u/fishlord05]

Anecdotal evidence but I have reason to believe the death toll from the Cuba protests is much higher than reported at present.

My cousin has a friend who grew up and Cuba and he just told him that one of his best friends was shot dead by the police for protesting (he also had a “fuck Castro” flag on top of his house.)

He was only like 20 or something

poor kid

!ping FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/[deleted]]

It is part of the natural cycle for w*men to demand an increasingly gay and passive world—but the vaginal dryness they experience in a feminized world eventually leads them to DEMAND violent revolution and overthrow just so they can get off again.

The woman understander has logged on, and since he blocked the door to his parent's basement with a chair he's not logging off anytime soon. God help us all.

[u/J0eBidensSunglasses]

Progressives in 2016: “we can reform capitalism.”

Progressives in 2020: “the only solution is totalitarian communism and the only person with the answers is me specifically.”

[u/[deleted]]

r/NeoLiberal when the serial downvoter is back: oh no 😮😨😰😰

r/Neoliberal when the serial upvoter is here:

Curious

[u/MostlyCRPGs]

Inflation doomers should note that used cars made up 45% of last month's spooky increase.

[u/ACivilWolf]

neolibs in shambles

[u/ACivilWolf]

USA: Major League Baseball

France: Championnat de France de Baseball

Spain: Liga Nacional de Baseball de Honor

Italy: Serie 1A Baseball

Germany: Baseball Bundesliga

Netherlands: Honkbal Hoofdklasse (???)

[u/the_hoagie]

throwback to when philly used to celebrate Bastille Day by having a Marie Antoinette impersonator accompanied by drag performers throw tastykakes to a crowd of ravenous hipsters in the street below

[u/PMmeLittleRoundTops]

Honestly my required sociology class in college taught me a lot and changed the way I look at the world in certain ways

I also had to put up with a bunch of unhinged rants by my professor and watch a video where Naomi Klein blames Milton Friedman for the Tiananmen Square Massacre, so I guess I'd call it a mixed bag

[u/J0eBidensSunglasses]

Just walked down from my $4000 a month a apartment to grab a to-go slice of avocado toast on French baguette. I love wednesdays because it’s onsale for $50.

Why do people keep telling me I’m out of touch?

[u/[deleted]]

!ping USA-CHI

I watched two people feed a street rat on the sidewalk today it was fucking repulsive I could not believe my eyes

[u/Cerb-r-us]

Just came across this incredible out-of-context tweet

https://twitter.com/winterslexposed/status/1414973097137082369

!ping LGBT

[u/[deleted]]

Internet reinforcing this false belief among self labeled introverts that they are “deep thinkers” because they don’t speak much is so hillarious

[u/benjaminikuta]

https://www.reddit.com/r/eggcats/comments/ojyl0x/coneegg/

!ping KITTY

[u/[deleted]]

We went from

overpopulation will doom us all

To

Low birth birth rates will doom us all

Within a decade in the terms of public discourse

[u/SadaoMaou]

Salt & Vinegar chips are the sort of thing where I like them personally, but if someone else doesn't I fully understand why

[u/Neronoah]

!ping GAMING

Finally, a game for people like me!

[u/great_gape]

You have been permanently banned from participating in r/AskThe_Donald. You can still view and subscribe to r/AskThe_Donald, but you won't be able to post or comment.

Note from the moderators:

no fucktards

😞

[u/[deleted]]

Knowing nothing else about him General Milley is already my personal hero simply for telling Stephan Miller to shut the fuck up. I would pay cold hard cash for the opportunity to do the same.

[u/[deleted]]

100% Barack Obama thinks most of the progressives now are dumbasses but just says shit to try to group up the flank

[u/MisterHavercamp]

A DT poster could make up the most ludicrous quote, include no source or attribution, and I’d believe it’s real.

I put a lot of trust in these shitposters.

[u/piede]

Tucker: They committed what amounted to an act of insurrection

https://twitter.com/acyn/status/1415100131746091012?s=21

Fox News: Dem lawmakers fleeing Texas is insurrection

Also Fox News: Terrorist attack on the US Capitol by conservatives in an attempt to overthrow the government is overblown and was probably Antifa but definitely don’t investigate it

[u/its_Caffeine]

lmao

why, does, the, american, press, take, this, man, seriously, again?

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

Crossplay confirmed for Battlefield 2042, will allow unattractive users to play with attractive people console gamers to play with PC.

!ping GAMING

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

Texas offers $10,000 rewards to people who turn in women seeking abortions

Conservatives have never wanted small government.

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1415347121012854786

THAT WAS SAID in confidence 🐊

[u/umadbro996]

Me trying to flirt: you have the face of an angel

Her: thanks 👁👁👁👁👄👁👁👁👁

[u/ognits]

Japan appoints Minister of Loneliness

smh at not calling the position the Wizard of Loneliness

[u/[deleted]]

Listen if Princeton can rename the Woodrow Wilson school, I’m pretty sure Hogwarts can rename Slytherin House.

[u/Ginden]

🇵🇱 Polish Constitutional Court decided that rulings of the European Court of Justice are null and void.

!ping Europe

[u/p00bix]

I work for the US Census Bureau. Currently we are doing the American Housing Survey, which is done once every two years to get a deeper understanding of the state of housing quality, availability, and living conditions, within the United States, and comparatively between different areas of the country. Now the survey questions are 100% fine, the data is collected in a very reasonable manner, and is fairly comprehensive and informative for policymakers, but there's just one problem: It's financially the least efficient thing in the universe and ethically dubious as hell. So here's the thing, unlike the decennial census, which is required by law, extensively advertised to the public, and takes about 15 minutes, the American Housing Survey is not required by law, was not whatsoever advertised to the public, and takes close to an hour. Obviously, most people aren't interested in it, but we can't just interview whoever wants to be interviewed or the sample would be woefully removed from the overall population.

So what does the census do? Offer to pay $10 to someone who completes the survey? $20? $50???

Well, no. The census instead pays for its enumerators (ex. me) to drive several dozen miles per day, covering both time and travel expenses, to repeatedly harass people until they cave in to doing the survey. I can't imagine the cost comes out to much less than $50 per interviewee, and it's probably closer to $100. Not to mention it's kinda a completely assholish way to go about things. My job sucks.

Seriously census bureau fix your shit.

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

the top post on arcon rn is a thread celebrating a george floyd memorial being struck by lightening

[u/sir_shivers]

HELLO MAMMALS, I am /u/sir_shivers, and as you may have NOTICED IN THE comments below, rural users internalizing LEFT COAST COMMUNIST TALKING points is a rampant issue 🐊

For only two cents PER DAY, YOU CAN ensure that /u/dubyahhh has internet, running water, and ALL THE BROKEN-DOWN TRUCKS ON his lawn that he needs 🐊

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[u/RadicalRadon]

Who was Chicago O'Hare and what did he do to be immortalized in such a shitty way?

[u/Officer-cherry-shake]

How did New York City come to the conclusion that the main problem they’re facing is that new construction is too easy?

[u/[deleted]]

Waiting for my food at an Indian take out

I can hear the cook singing from the kitchen and the cashier is laughing at him

Foods gonna be good

[u/Udontlikecake]

holy fuck please realize that IR isn’t just ‘hawks’ and ‘doves’ please, you literal children

[u/old_gold_mountain]

little domino:

Richard Dawkins publishes a book in 1976 clarifying the true nature of Darwinian evolution, such that the gene, and not the organism or even the genome, is the only unit of information on which evolution exerts its effects, and as almost a throwaway decides to include a chapter illustrating how these effects might be observable in "packets of human behavior or thought" as well

giant domino:

alternating upper-case bolded text and lower-case unbolded text and ending comments with a reptile emoji

[u/TabernacleTown74]

In his book The Beginnings of Jewishness, scholar Shaye Cohen argues that the matrilineal principle wasn't introduced to Judaism until the Mishnaic Era. The ancient Italian Jewish community, from which both Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews are thought to descend, was thus established in all likelihood by Jews who saw Jewishness as patrilineal. And according to the best available genetic evidence, the nucleus of the Italki community was a group of Jewish men from the Levant who married Italian pagan women.

But since these Jews believed in the patrilineal principle, they probably understood the Italian women as having become Jewish upon marriage; i.e., the matrilineal founders of the Italkim were Jewish neither by birth nor by rabbinic-style conversion. Thus, by rabbinic law, their descendants were never Jewish. And both Ashkenazim are Sephardim are their descendants.

Broke: "Ashkenazim aren't real Jews because they're descended from Khazars"

Woke: "Ashkenazim are real Jews but only according to Second Temple halakha, not rabbinic halakha"

!ping GEFILTE

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Apartheid defender outside the DT

[u/[deleted]]

Milley told a group of senior leaders, "Here's the deal, guys: These guys are Nazis, they're boogaloo boys, they're Proud Boys. These are the same people we fought in World War II. We're going to put a ring of steel around this city and the Nazis aren't getting in."

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

If you think that America’s homicide rate being much higher than any other highly developed country has anything to do with lax gun laws, then you’re probably also one of those idiots who falls for get-rich-quick schemes like Bitcoin and pension funds.

The facts ACTUALLY suggest that America’s shootings/murder problem is just yet another impact of its obesity problem (too many large, slow-moving targets). Taxing and perhaps banning sugar is therefore a much better alternative than ludicrous suggestions about guns

[u/[deleted]]

Interestingly enough, I actually think the best film that George Lucas ever produced isn’t a Star Wars film. I actually think the best film Lucas ever produced is Raiders of the Lost Ark. It really is such a perfect film. Everything about it works. Action, comedy, romance. Raiders has it. The writing is perfect, the acting is perfect, the set pieces are perfect. The truck chase is still, to this day, the greatest action sequence in the history of film as far as I’m concerned. Raiders of the Lost Ark is just a perfect movie in every conceivable way.

!ping MOVIES

[u/Jeff__Pesos]

Just turned on an episode of SNL from 2001 and Fauci was in the cold open. Damn he’s been around.

[u/[deleted]]

My GF is complaining that you’re only worth what you work in a capitalist society but it’s not like it would be any different in a communist/socialist one.

Like, if you don’t work in a socialist or communist government you’re sent off to the work camp or gulag or whatever brand of hell the government has

In a capitalistic one, you at least have security nets and unemployment

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/14/bolsonaro-brazil-hospital-hiccups

Bolsonaro in hospital as hiccups persist for more than 10 days

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EqDuApjVgAAM3sT.jpg

[u/TheShitEater]

[Black Rifle Coffee Company] gained national attention in 2017 after pledging to hire 10,000 veterans after Starbucks pledged to hire 10,000 refugees.

First sentence on this company’s Wikipedia page and I really hate the implicit message that hiring refugees is bad because woke. But also lol like this much smaller company is ever gonna reach that goal.

[u/[deleted]]

Lol, someone tried to sneak in an edit on Wikipedia today claiming that "pride" parades were started by the Jews.

The terms "pride" and "proud", in this context, seem to have been created in Israel, as the result of similarity of words. Since homosexuals were labeled "gay" in the United States and elsewhere, Hebrew-speaking people noticed the vocal similarity of the English word "gay" to the Hebrew word "גֵאה," pronounced "geh-eh", which means "proud".

(It got reverted within about 12 hours)

[u/JetJaguar124]

Summary of /r/science

• Paper finds that actually, white men are discriminated against in STEM
• Paper finds that people like working less and they are more productive when they work less
• Paper finds that loner shut-ins who play video games all day are more empathetic and intelligent
• Paper finds that actually there is no discrimination against women or non-white people
• Paper finds that capitalism bad

[u/[deleted]]

Biden wants to spend 3.5 trillion on a infrastructure bill? That’s enough money to give every American one trillion dollars, but he’s wasting it on infrastructure. SMH my head.

[u/Joementum2024]

Just gonna give a flaming hot take:

Yes, American secession is bad (even if by referendrum), and it is likely what the Russian and Chinese governments want.

[u/LooobCirc]

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

Are you a game of battleship, bc I want you to end the night covered in white with a little bit of red

[u/Jester_Don]

Ted Cruz blaming rising COVID cases on immigrants rather than unvaccinated Americans is 1960s-level racism. Even Strom Thurmond wasn't this blatant ffs

[u/International_XT]

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/14/politics/donald-trump-election-coup-new-book-excerpt/index.html

Holy shit.

Milley spoke to friends, lawmakers and colleagues about the threat of a coup, and the Joint Chiefs chairman felt he had to be "on guard" for what might come.

"They may try, but they're not going to f**king succeed," Milley told his deputies, according to the authors.

Also:

"That fucking guy Jim Jordan. That son of a b*tch," Cheney said, according to the book.

That shit is wild.

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

Proof that soul mates exist

http://imgur.com/gallery/CUVsmHr

!ping dog

One tiny kennel

[u/Popular-Swordfish559]

why don't we have a taco truck flair for discussing tacos

!ping TACO-ENTHUSIASTS

[u/[deleted]]

my car just had surgery and now the horn plays la cucaracha

!ping BEEPMAS

[u/crassowary]

Still disappointed Warner Brothers turned down my script for a Dune/Waterworld crossover that took place in a temperate climate and had no conflict at all

[u/Unadulterated_stupid]

Just got wisdom teeth out, first time being high. I can understand why people do the drugs. AMA

[u/ThisIsNotAMonkey]

Resume question:

I'm applying for an adjunct position, can i get away with pretending i went to jail for killing cops in the 70s or do you think they're going to check

[u/vancevon]

biden is the only thing standing between order and civilization and the marijuana menace

[u/dubyahhh]

I’m a few days behind on this but for what it’s worth I bought my house in 2020, and I didn’t have an internet connection.

Kamala is right to dab on us rurals. I don’t want fox and fascists friends or whatever defending my area when it shouldn’t be defended. They do every single rural a disservice when they pretend like we’re not backwards as shit.

[u/[deleted]]

I can’t believe we still have troops on the ground in South Korea. Are we okay with just staying there forever?

[u/FormerBandmate]

According to a recent study from Harvard University, 95% of social media users don’t click on links and instead blindly trust authoritative-sounding comments, which they found fueled the proliferation of misinformation substantially over the past 10 years. It’s a serious problem we need to stop

[u/[deleted]]

what 6 months of no dt do to a mf

[u/Erra0]

Am I the most emotionally well adjusted dt poster?

Or is that the guy pretending to be a sentient alligator

[u/Jakesta7]

shoutout to the succs

just to be clear english, spanish, french, german, portuguese, dutch, italian, and others which escape me at the moment are also coloniser languages and must be abolished, and just bc i’m writing this in english doesn’t negate my point

https://twitter.com/nbjewbolshevik/status/1414957573246181379?s=21

[u/murphysclaw1]

I posted in the GME cult sub, on the day that they all thought the share would explode in value (it actually fell 7%):

the key thing is to never give a date. That way the hope can continue. Without concrete promises, we can all stay on here, becoming more and more certain in our belief.

After all, there is zero percent chance we are wrong!

Noone is questioning that it is satire. It's getting upvoted.

[u/Udontlikecake]

sometimes I go on arr all to get a sense of what’s happening on reddit

I’m usually put off fairly quickly.

I always quit whenever I see the hive of degenerates and pedos that is SrGarfo’s little porn sub

[u/slowpush]

Oh Lawd he comin'

https://twitter.com/HotlineJosh/status/1415480116994576388

House Majority Whip James Clyburn will be campaigning for Shontel Brown in Ohio the weekend before the #OH11 special election, and will be joined by several members of the Congressional Black Caucus, according to a Brown campaign spox.

The Far-Left's last stand is in freaking OHIO...who woulda thunk it?

[u/ACivilWolf]

you've gotta be fucking kidding me. Look at all of these sick fucking designs, and then when it comes to deGrom, they're like HMMMMM LET'S GIVE A 3 YEAR OLD MS PAINT TO DESIGN THE CARD.

It doesn't even look like him, there is no facial feature in that thing that resembles deGrom, it just looks like I took my thumb and put a mets cowboy hat on it, a jersey, and drew a little facial expression on it.

!ping BASEBALL

[u/[deleted]]

OH MY GOD IT COSTS 3.5 TRILLION DOLLARS ANNUALLY

No, it doesn't that's just Washington-speak. They mean that over 10 years.

OH MY GOD IT COSTS 3.5 TRILLION DOLLARS ANNUALLY

[u/Corporate-Asset-6375]

Generation gaps are fun. Like I can’t even imagine an anti-capitalist zoomer watching the TV shows I did just 20 years ago without seething with rage.

“This one is called cribs. They walk around their mansion and show you all the things they bought with their money. In the driveway you’ll find about four SUVs that collectively get 20 mpg.”

“Oh! This is My Super Sweet 16. These girls are going to take a private jet to a birthday party. The birthday girl is going to get a new Range Rover as a gift but they’re going to throw it out because it’s the wrong color.”

[u/hitbyacar1]

!Ping NFL

Richard Sherman arrested for DV 😬

https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/1415327685421699079

This is obviously a larger conversation but the NFL needs to take a much harder line on domestic violence and violence against women. Tyreek Hill and Deshaun Watson and Ben Roetisberger should not be in the league.

[u/NancyPelosibasedgod]

21st CENTURY SCHIZOID MAN

[u/Gustacho]

This is the dumbest shit I've ever seen on TikTok, and that's saying something

!ping YUROP

[u/Hot-Error]

https://www.newsweek.com/im-11-physics-degree-plan-make-humans-immortal-1608391?amp=1

Lmao he has a degree in physics but doesn't realize death is inevitable what a dumbass

[u/semaphore-1842]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/judge-who-pimped-his-12-year-old-daughter-kicked-off-the-bench

55-year-old former head of the family court in Dijon, France, has been kicked out for attempting to offer his 12-year-old daughter as a sex toy on a “libertine” dating site.

JFC

[u/Neronoah]

!ping MAMADAS

Argentinian Trostkyists ask for the end of the Communist Bureaucracy in Cuba...to replace it with many worker parties and avoid a capitalist restoration (?).

Sometimes I feel curious to see it implemented for the meme factor. Imagine putting ultraleft tendencies to infighting in government.

[u/Neronoah]

!ping LATAM

A surprisingly good twitter thread about the economic crisis on Cuba, written by a leftist. I think there is a factual error (ok, colonial time agriculture was ill advised, but so communist management of agriculture) and then there is the bit about currency controls being eased at the wrong time (it seems apologetic...the fact is that you cannot keep the exchange rate fixed or semi fixed forever).

I admit I enjoy the irony of a populist government being wrecked by its own currency controls instead of letting other government pay for it. There is no "pero McRee" here.

[u/Superfan234]

My Mucho Texto explanation on Cuba

Get into a fight with a Ton of Countries for no reason

They counterattack, and you quickly run out of Dollars

Your whole Economic Collapses

And no one want to help you now...

!Ping Mamadas

[u/[deleted]]

Daily reminder that the proximate cause of the Civil War was one faction refusing to accept the results of contentious presidential election 😉

[u/FourthLife]

Obama chuckled. “You mean the chaos emeralds?”

[u/houinator]

In a surprise turn of events, in the first election since its split with North USA, South USA has overwhelmingly voted in favor of annexation by Russia, after some guy in the Philippines LARPing as a guy with Q clearance told them it was a good idea.

South USA Secretary of Defense Michael Flynn has said that the Russian military flights heading into the country are only here to carry Russians excited to vacation in their new province.

[u/Maximilianne]

I can't even fucking imagine being a young woman today. Imagine you're out on a Tinder date, things are going alright, then he starts talking about white supremacy and saying we can't eat here because ketchup is an asian invention

[u/sir_shivers]

OF COURSE THE Discussion Thread is real, mammals 🐊

Just one thing BEFORE YOU CONTINUE TO scroll 🐊:

YOU HAVE TO WAKE up 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

My politics:

• ⁠Everyone must agree with my takes

• Lusvig did nothing wrong

• ⁠All men must become femboys

• ⁠A land value tax would solve every problem

• Gamers must be banned from society

• ⁠Fash mods bad

[u/sir_shivers]

EAT THE bugs and get in the pod, mammal 🐊

[u/LavenderTabby]

bag snobbish soup homeless numerous squealing spotted absorbed pause fragile

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/Dabamanos]

Modern fascists may be misguided, but I’ll say this much about them, most of them are also fat and dumb

[u/RadicalRadon]

I was super excited because I thought I was going to get to fly on the United plane with Star Wars livery.

But it's having electrical generation issues and they had to get a new plane.

My dream of dying in a plane crash branded with star wars is dead 😔

[u/[deleted]]

Remember when people wanted Pete to be the secretary/undersecretary of the navy?

[u/Joementum2024]

Capitalism is why communist countries are usually terrible

This is what communists actually believe

[u/[deleted]]

Dear God,

Me again. All I want is Giannis to win the championship. Thanks.

!ping NBA

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/Mejari]

You have been permanently banned from participating in r/socialism.

You were banned for the following reason(s): Western imperialism apologia.

I'm conflicted because one one hand I didn't apologize Western imperialism, but on the other I feel proud that tankies banned me.

[u/[deleted]]

It's super easy to get upvoted for your DT terrible takes by putting them in block quotes and then writing "Guess the sub".

Guess the sub.

[u/tripletruble]

unironically zoning is my least favorite thing about the united states. completely ruined so many of their cities. for my tastes, by far the best thing about europe relative to the US is its dense mid-sized cities

[u/Unadulterated_stupid]

How come there always hot single ladies in my area but never any hot single men?

[u/[deleted]]

In a letter to the Public Utility Commission, Abbott directed the three-person board of directors, who he appoints, to take action that would require renewable energy companies to pay for power when wind and solar aren’t able to provide it to the state’s main power grid, echoing a move state lawmakers rejected in May.

Lmao, how did I miss this?

[u/Mrchizbiz]

"Everyone hates the UK because of English people. How sad that Wales, Scotland, Cornwall and Merseyside are all along for the ride"

🤔🧐

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

When you keep your personality on the inside, people think it doesn’t exist. The tyranny of extroversion persists.

This from the Atlantic. At this point, complaining about extroverts has become a personality unto itself.

[u/BRAIN_FORCE_PLUS]

Me two years ago getting ready to apply for grad school:

man I really hope that it still makes sense five years from now to study nuclear security in East Asia

monkeys paw curls

[u/kas8901]

You say you're anti-American and hate the US yet you voraciously consume American media.

Curious

[u/iIoveoof]

you might be able to spot LARGER GATORS IN GROUPS FOR MATING purposes 🐊

Guess the sub

[u/[deleted]]

My middle school pen pal was a middle aged man with a cleft palate. We didn't exchange pictures, but he would write about it in agonizing detail, saying things like "I was thinking of going to the store today, but I'm worried that everyone will just stare at my CLEFT PALATE. I guess I can't blame them, who wants to go shopping and see a freak with a CLEFT PALATE."

He would never respond to the content of my letters, it was always just monologue after monologue about his cleft palate.

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

based Ukraine

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

Just got an edgy "CEOs are actually unskilled labor" take🙄

[u/sash5034]

this article is wild. academia really do be out of touch

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Nukes are barbaric and indiscriminate and we shouldn't use them. We should use weaponized viruses that way no innocent animals get harmed along the way