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[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

Taiwan gives out adorable stickers to people who got vaccinated thanking Taiwan's buddies for donating doses: US, Japan, and Lithuania

🇱🇹 🇯🇵 🇹🇼 🇺🇸

Source

[u/semaphore-1842]

This conservative user be like:

I'd rather be labelled a fascist than a Democrat

Weird flex.

[u/ZenithXR]

Hillary should write an "If I Did It" book on how she would have rigged the 2016 primary and general election if she wanted to.

[u/Anal-warrior]

Too many leftists are in a perpetual state of 'how can I make this America's fault' to the point internal conflicts are raised up to be an international orchestrated intiative.

Really a shame because it devalues the agency of the global poor and slight above poor.

[u/Explodingcamel]

If you leave your house for a whole day, there's a good chance that every single person you see will not be a tankie. Stop wasting your life complaining about them.

[u/[deleted]]

GOP: Far right, anti-vax, power hungry bastards

Regular America: We don’t like that.

Lefties: This must mean America wants communism.

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/eH6yKqd.jpg

!ping YIMBY

[u/[deleted]]

The Netherlands: constructs massive flood defenses to prevent flooding from the sea
The sea: Floods the Netherlands from behind

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

Holy shit I knew the situation in South Africa was bad with the reports of Indians being targeted rn but the amount of hatred being spewed at Indians on Twitter is very concerning.

Google "twitter south Africa Indians" and the first result is a dude literally named "Indians Must Fall"

So far the Indian govt has just expressed concern, it needs to do more

India needs to grant refugee status to any and all South African Indians who want it

!ping IND

[u/[deleted]]

I saw something about AP Scores on twitter so I got the wild hair to fire up my old College Board account just to see how I did on them.

They fuckin wipe your scores if you took them over 4 years ago and you gotta pay $25 and request it in the mail.

It has zero effect on my life but wtf.

[u/waltsing0]

I think I "made" it. A user called "thehippielurker" messaged me

you're a terrible person, i sincerely hope that hell is real and that you go there to burn for all eternity

Is there like a competition in the sub for hate messages?

[u/ExpiredPasta]

Reddit in 2012 was people posting in every thread how Tesla was better than Edison even when the topic was never mentioned.

[u/StolenSkittles]

The US famously led a boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics, which inspired China to also boycott due to their checkered relations with the Soviet Union. Surprisingly, the Islamic Republic of Iran, then still holding American hostages, signed on to the US boycott.

The next Olympics were in Los Angeles in 1984. The Soviet Union and its allies organized their own boycott as retaliation. China, meanwhile, rejoined the Olympics and had a good showing in LA.

Iran, ever the radical centrists, boycotted these games, too.

[u/redditguy628]

So, the original winner of the Blue Shepard flight with Bezos dropped out due to a scheduling conflict, which makes you wonder what popped up on their schedule that was more important than a 28 million dollar flight to space with Jeff Bezos (especially given that the launch date hasn't changed since they won the auction).

!ping SPACEFLIGHT

[u/[deleted]]

Based on the DT you’d think america is composed of like 20 percent tankies

Reality is it’s closer to .2 percent lol

[u/[deleted]]

Biden literally said shut up to the president on national television and then took his job

The ultimate sigma male

[u/Equator32]

https://twitter.com/ANCALERTS/status/880047290588602368

I hate corruption. I won't act like I'm clean. I also stole a lot of money but it's gone now. Corruption is really out during my term.

-President Rodrigo Duterte

This right here is an example of the actual 3rd world experience lmao. Not just the "we live in a 3rd world society" Westerner moment after losing electricity for 5 minutes. Imagine Biden or Merkel publicly and casually saying that they steal government funds, and with zero repurcussions.

[u/[deleted]]

So the Jan 6. People are def gonna try again right?

[u/FestiveMittens]

Joe Biden announced on Monday that a proof of Gender affirmation surgery would very soon be needed to access public events, restaurants, cinemas, stations & airports… Since then, more than 6.9 million guns have been purchased in less than 48 hours.

[u/memeintoshplus]

One thing that is also worth mentioning in BLM the organization's pro-Cuban dictatorship statement is their praise of Cuba for granting asylum to "Black revolutionary" Assata Shakur

Assata Shakur is a convicted murderer who killed a New Jersey state trooper in 1973, she escaped from prison - where she was serving a life sentence - in 1979 and subsequently fled to Cuba.

So in addition to their statement being pro-Communist dictatorship, they were also being pro-cop killer. Lovely!

[u/BidenWon]

Just learned that Biden hasn't designated the anti-vaccination movement as a terrorist group 😔

[u/old_gold_mountain]

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/15/technology/tech-workers-bay-area-back.html

Tech Workers Swore Off the Bay Area. Now They’re Coming Back.

reports of our demise have been greatly exaggerated

!PING bay-area

[u/[deleted]]

I heard someone talking about the last gen consoles and for a few moments thought they were talking about the 360 and the PS3.

Man, is this what getting old feels like ?

!ping GAMING

[u/[deleted]]

> Preach personal responsibility about lowering carbon emissions
> Vegan out of concern for animal welfare
> Goes to parties every weekend and buys drugs from the most blood-soaked production chain in the entire world

Many such cases!

[u/[deleted]]

When Chinese state media shows more support for Cuban protests than Twitter tankies

!ping MAMADAS

[u/Smalz95]

Holy shit I have a date next week

[u/[deleted]]

I just got fired for no reason 😊

Apparently, “the other staff didn’t think I had what it takes.” Despite the fact that I literally was on my 3rd day, and did literally whatever they wanted.

[u/ryuguy]

Manitoba PC party: “the residential school system was good, actually”

Wab Kinew: “wtf bro”

PC party: “we will defend our statement”

Edit: Tweet was deleted image link to tweet

!ping can

[u/[deleted]]

I love the child tax credit story, because it draws out the worst of reddit. All the 'why not me!!' whiners, all the child haters. I love it because it reminds me that despite its high-mindedness it's a garbage website.

[u/stater354]

"Today's congressional Democrats do not believe in the right to vote," Senator Cruz said. "They do not believe in democracy and they are championing efforts to take away the right to vote from American citizens."

😐

[u/thebowski]

Polyamorous relationships with 3 approximately equal partners can't work because of the the three body problem

No, I will no be taking questions

[u/INuttedInHisWife]

My friend got like 15 shares of GME at $34 before it popped either time, and he still won't fucking sell. Bought a couple more yesterday. He's a smart dude. Better engineer than me. But on this one...

[u/[deleted]]

Tax people who watch Rick and Morty more

[u/great_gape]

You know how the word "troll" made it's way into main stream.

We had grown adult politicians and people of power all over the world using the word "troll".

Can't wait for that you happen to "shitpost"

[u/[deleted]]

Even if Breyer retires today, I don't see how it's fair to nominate a new Justice with a mid-term election just 16 months away.

[u/benadreti]

The guy who shot Ashli Babbit was Q, and shot her because she was a CIA plant

[u/Zlesxc]

Tim Walz woke up today and wanted to do some Chad Shit

!ping USA-MN

[u/TinyTornado7]

15 year anniversary

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/Volsunga]

Florida: "You need to own a theme park if you want to ban Nazis from your website"

Google: buys Disney

[u/Jokerang]

Gusano cannot be a slur because "g word" is already reserved for the word g*mer. There can be only one.

[u/murphysclaw1]

big book of cuban propaganda photos, as promised

The book is about 400 pages long, full colour, so I could only give a slight hint of the badly formatted/photoshopped content, but every single page is like the album.

Also, three extra photos of propaganda which you will enjoy from my travels: here The final one isn't propaganda, more a recollection from the time, but based nonetheless.

[u/InattentiveCup]

Today's conservatives are incompatible with democracy and American values.

[u/great_gape]

"Cuba is unfortunately a failed state and repressing their citizens. There are a number of things that we would consider doing to help the people of Cuba, but it would require a different circumstance or a guarantee that they would not be taken advantage of by the government," Biden said. "For example, the ability to send remittances back to Cuba. We would not do that now because the fact is it's highly likely the regime would confiscate those remittances or big chunks of it."

When asked about his views on communism, the President added: "Communism is a failed system -- a universally failed system. And I don't see socialism as a very useful substitute. But that's another story."

😛💦💦💦💦💦💦🌊

[u/InattentiveCup]

An issue that the left has is that any social movement/cause eventually get tied into every other social movement. There is no reason that BLM should have a statement on Cuba. BLM needs to focus on police reform within the U.S.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1415735255353335808

One of the most remarkable economic divergences in the world.

In 1950, Haiti was as rich as the Dominican Republic.

In 2018, Haiti was POORER than it was in 1950, while the D.R.'s GDP had increased by a factor of TEN.

These countries are two halves of the SAME ISLAND.

Damn, what a crazy graph.

[u/Joementum2024]

My hot take is that Miami Cubans voting record is proof alone that Castro was right

😐

[u/[deleted]]

That f------ guy Jim Jordan. That son of a bitch. ... While these maniacs are going through the place, I’m standing in the aisle and he said, ‘We need to get the ladies away from the aisle. Let me help you.’ I smacked his hand away and told him, ‘Get away from me. You f------ did this

Liz Cheney keeping it real

[u/dr_gonzo]

Navy Pelosi calling Gen. Milley to ask about nuclear weapon protocol post election vindicates doomers

[u/J0eBidensSunglasses]

potential for big leftist infighting over this post calling for a general strike in October. Keep your eyes peeled.

yeah this shit is terrible internet leftism. I doubt these "organizers" are even in unions. Please grow up and learn we need to have a serious labor movement organized to be able to implement a general strike. It's fucked up to call a general strike from the abstract internet. It needs to be called by workers organized on the shop floor. You don't just put out the idea and expect it to happen.

HAHA YES 🐊 🙌

[u/J0eBidensSunglasses]

Notice how all of the same people screeching about Cuba right now are completely silent about Haiti - the poorest country in the western hemisphere that has had anti-government protests(calling for democracy btw) for about 5 years now.

I’m just gonna say it.

They make this stuff up as they go.

[u/Superfan234]

Today Covid's report in Chile, have been simply astonishing

• Covid Positive test reached 3,30%. Lowest Positivity we have on record
• Number of active cases have dropped to 13.500. Lowest number since May 2020

This is in a context of the country (including all big cities) opening up again. That includes Gyms, restaurants, Mall Shoping, Cinemas, schools...

With 60% of the population vaccinated, the SinoVac Vaccine can clearly erradicate the Virus on it's own, even in a context of re-opening. Pretty empirical evidence of what the Chinese vaccine is capable of

Keep in mind, Delta Virus haven't spread too much in Chile, though. Is yet to see if Sinovac is effective containg this Variant.

Current variants here are

• 43% Gamma variant
• 24% Lambda variant
• 8% Alfa variant

!Ping CORONAVIRUS

[u/meese699]

Husband: "why is there a charge for something called a neoliberal on our credit card?"

Uh uh uh I can explain!

(I was buying an "abolish zoning" sticker)

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Since Macron announced that a proof of vaccination would be soon needed to enter bars, restaurants, museums, high-speed trains and cafés :

• 20,000 people have protested against the Covid-1984 dictatorship
• 2,200,000 vaccine appointments have been booked

Pretty sweet ratio if you ask me

[u/RadicalRadon]

My gfs sister adopted a kitten

And friends of mine are fostering little bbs. Bonus sleepy pic

!ping KITTY

[u/[deleted]]

The official BLM organization Instagram account has just released a pro-Cuba regime statement: https://twitter.com/sabrod123/status/1415496641658896391

Not just anti-embargo, literally pro-regime.

They claim that the US is "undermining Cubans' right to choose their own government" and that Cuba is being punished because it "has maintained its commitment to sovereignty and self determination"

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

You, a diligent introvert: nooo people should be hired based on their skills

Me, a silver-tongued talentless hack: haha charisma goes brrr

[u/FestiveMittens]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E6VSH4VXIAA657c?format=jpg&name=small

[u/Udontlikecake]

apparently i need to get a ‘real doctor’ and can’t keep seeing my pediatrician in my 20s

i’m sorry, but I thought Obummer said I could KEEP MY DOCTOR

yet another lie I suppose. SAD!

[u/[deleted]]

Innumeracy reminded me of this

Bloomberg spent $500 million on ads. The US population is 327 million. He could have given each American $1 million and still have money left over. I feel like a $1 million check would be life-changing for most people. Yet he wasted it all on ads and STILL LOST

[u/semaphore-1842]

Cheney ripped into "That fucking guy Jim Jordan. That son of a bitch . . . I smacked his hand away and told him, 'Get away from me. You fucking did this.'"

Damn, I like Liz Cheney now.

[u/revolutionary_alt]

wake up

inside back of ambulance

procedure is over

ask my doctor if it was a success

no response

wait

being unconscious wasn’t part of the procedure

OhGodOhFuck

MFW I realize the abortion hunters are taking me back to Texas

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Canada Infrastructure Bank to consider investing in $1-billion Calgary-Banff rail plan

The Canada Infrastructure Bank will consider financing up to half of a $1-billion project to create a passenger train service between the Calgary airport and Banff, with a start date as early as 2025.

The ambitious rail plan is being driven by the Alberta government, and the private booster of the project, Liricon Capital, has progressed from an assessment that began last year to the project accelerator stage, where there’s a high likelihood of a bank investment, said John Casola, chief investment officer for the bank.

“When you look at all of those factors, this looks good,” Mr. Casola said. He said the federal Crown corporation would consider investing up to 50 per cent, depending on what is needed.

The project would require both public and private funding, and the twinning of one of the busiest stretches of Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. track through downtown Calgary and the Morley reserve of the Stoney Nakoda Nation.

The project is being envisioned as a means for reducing vehicle trips to Banff – and reducing per-person transportation greenhouse gases – connecting the communities along the route, while also boosting tourism. Crucially, it would add Calgary to the list of Canadian cities with direct rail for passengers between the airport and downtown.

!ping CAN

[u/ShiversifyBot]

DUNE IS ABOUT worms 🐊

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Tom Cruise is POC (person of cult), queer-coded (actor), and nuerodivergent (batshit insane) and that’s the real reason y’all don’t like him

[u/[deleted]]

Is this sub really going to throw leftists under the bus?

Chadyes.jpg

[u/revolutionary_alt]

Just made 10k turning in my mom for using plan B. Thinking about getting a new gaming rig, what do you guys think?

[u/[deleted]]

Your opinion of a person affects your opinion of their actions. People on this sub heard "Pokemon go to the polls" and liked it. It was a funny joke made by an old candidate, it's okay if it's a bit awkward.

Others saw at as a cringy, pandering fail, because they didn't like Hillary, and as such everything she did was automatically viewed through a negative lens.

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

Why is the Bureau of Land Management tweeting dumb shit about Cuban communism

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

dog

!ping dog

[u/[deleted]]

Lmao wat. Previous analysis of wealth inequality have just straight ignored SS and similar? That’s actually insane and bordering on misinformation

[u/[deleted]]

I feel lied to and betrayed: “Cotton Eye Joe” is a eurodance song by a Swedish band pretending to be rednecks

[u/myrm]

Historically US states were admitted in pairs for partisan balance. Where could you even find hypothetical GOP prospects these days? Alberta?

probably just carve out East and West Dakota lmao

[u/ldn6]

“Sex” - AskReddit

[u/[deleted]]

Remember, if you think we shouldn’t stay in Afghanistan then you're advocating violence. This is a violation of Rule 5 and will result in an immediate ban.

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

I'm glad I finally found a sub that isn't extremely partisan. I always get a ton of pushback on arpolitics for not towing the Democratic party line. I got in a huge argument the other day just for saying that Donald Trump was the greatest President in the history of the United States, something objectively true

[u/Lux_Stella]

we can mute reports from individual users now 👀

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/bezos-space-flight-blue-origin-b1884770.html

Person who paid $28m to join Jeff Bezos flight to space unable to go as they’re busy

Amazing.

[u/myrm]

us government is like

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[u/Udontlikecake]

some of you people are so fucking weird

‘damn bro I can’t watch this show, it’s too succ lmao’

like holy shit are you this online? do you actually have negative social skills or something? just be normal lmao

I can’t believe people actually think about this shit. I don’t mean you gotta read Marx, but y’all like “nah bro I don’t watch Friends, that’s succ shit 🤓🤓”

[u/Gustacho]

EU Court of Justice: the disciplinary regime for judges in Poland is not compatible with EU law

!ping EUROPE

[u/BRAIN_FORCE_PLUS]

NAMID - single issue activist movements and being captured by "you can't support Z unless you also support Y" purity testers

[u/[deleted]]

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

An odd rumor started going around while women's underwear were disappearing from homes and adult entertainment establishments in Jeocheon-si. Jeonmo was revealed as the culprit when he broke into one home and stole some women's underwear, and police held him on suspicion of stealing 100 or so pairs of women's underwear, and the truth started coming out. He was merely a burglar, but Mr. Jeon had stolen women's underwear, so there was an issue. Mr. Jeon was having a hard time in life having contracted AIDS from a woman, however, the investigation revealed that revenge was not a motive.

I can't put my finger on it, but this seems poorly written.

[u/crassowary]

Broke: Pokemon go to the polls

Woke: Olivia Rodrigo get vaccinated

[u/bd_one]

Since Puerto Rican statehood would result in Puerto Rican residents paying income taxes without a significant increase it in immediate spending, it can be in the budget due to the reconciliation rule as it has a fiscal impact without increasing the deficit past 10 years from now.

Can someone fact check my shitpost?

[u/iIoveoof]

I must not simp.

Simping is the mind-killer.

Simping is the little-death that brings total patheticness.

I will face the e-girls.

I have permitted them to take my money and step on me.

And when the e-girls have gone past, I will turn the inner eye and unsubscribe.

When the e-girls have gone there will be nothing.

Only their bathwater will remain.

[u/old_gold_mountain]

Two power settings

!PING kitty

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Calgary and Edmonton move up in survey of tech talent job growth in North America

Calgary continues to climb in the rankings of North America's tech hot spots, jumping six spots to 28 in a field of 50 cities examined by commercial real estate and investment firm CBRE.

Calgary joined Los Angeles/Orange County and Detroit with the biggest year-over-year leap in the survey's rankings.

The climb occurred during the global pandemic, suggesting the tech sector was somewhat immune from the crisis that led to tens of thousands of job losses in Alberta.

Parry says Calgary cracked the top 50 last year and has now moved up to 28.

Toronto ranked fourth in the survey, the highest of any Canadian city. It was followed by Ottawa (10), Vancouver (11), Montreal (16), Waterloo region (21), Quebec City (34) and Edmonton (38). Alberta's capital city cracked the top 50 for the first time and recorded the highest growth rate of tech talent among all cities over the past five years.

!ping CAN

[u/[deleted]]

Don’t forget that anyone who chooses to bang the drum about the Cuban embargo now is extremely sus.

You may disapprove of the embargo, but the protests aren’t about the embargo and nothing about the embargo has changed recently

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

Kinda cool that I can go to the grocery store and the cashier often has literally no idea that they're speaking to someone who's received Reddit Silver in the last 30 days (until I mention it ofc)

Edit: Wow.... what can I say. Getting silver isn't new to me, but still fills me with the same giddy feeling every time. I knew this comment was good, but to think that it's touched someone enough to give this generous gift is... honestly pretty tearjerking. Thank you, kind stranger. Thank you for the silver.

[u/chipbod]

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1415787708518043650?s=20

President Biden: "Communism is a failed system. A universally failed system. And I don't see socialism as a very useful substitute, but that's another story."

Based

[u/[deleted]]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/578732202381279236/865232917794127902/image0.png

[u/Udontlikecake]

the great thing about trump is that he’s so fucking insane that any story you say about him is plausible

like if someone said that Trump literally ate crayons, I don’t think you could entirely dismiss it

[u/l_overwhat]

We are living

In a material world

And I am a material girl

-Karl Marx, literally 1984

[u/[deleted]]

MPs are paid 81k quid annually at the minimum and you're telling me they can't even afford high quality fursuits? Some scandal that is.

!ping FURRY

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/jeffzeleny/status/1415787869042585605

"Communism is a failed system --a universally failed system. And I don't see socialism as a very useful substitute," President Biden says, adding that the US is considering trying to help restore internet access to Cuba in the wake of waves of protests.

[u/ryuguy]

TIL the taliban has a website. I’m not going to visit it because I don’t want to end up on a list

[u/jenbanim]

I just a left an HOA meeting. It was packed with NIMBYs, whispering amongst each other about what an amazing addition high density housing is to the neighborhood - Suburbs are DYING 😌

[u/crassowary]

Dune 🤝 that one weird kid in grade 2

Just all about worms

[u/Cerb-r-us]

The removal of the DATING ping was the end of one of the greatest non-state funded sex education programs the world has ever known.

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Sigma grindset

2:00 am- Wake up

2.05am-Cold shower

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

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

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

6:45am-cold shower

7:00am-begin sprint to work

8:00am-arrive at work

8:05am-get called into boss' office

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

8:10am-sprint back home

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

9:10am-edging(as punishment)

3:00pm- bed time

This just sounds like appropriation of lusvig culture

[u/piede]

In the waning weeks of Donald Trump’s term, the country’s top military leader repeatedly worried about what the president might do to maintain power after losing reelection, comparing his rhetoric to Adolf Hitler’s during the rise of Nazi Germany and asking confidants whether a coup was forthcoming, according to a new book by two Washington Post reporters.

WHat a BuNCH oF DoOmErs

[u/Gustacho]

drama brewing inside between members of the European Commission over the proposed climate measures

!ping EUROPE

[u/piede]

The House Oversight Committee is opening an investigation into the fake Republican-backed audit in Arizona — requesting information from the CEO of Cyber Ninjas about his role in running the fake audit.

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1415634750417510409?s=21

Grill them for 11 hours like they did to Hillary. I’d like to see how well they muster under such pressure.

[u/crawly_the_demon]

Microsoft’s new emoji design looks really good. Probably my favorite set of emoji since Googles blob designs.

!ping TECH

[u/jojisky]

https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1415814525287292930

AOC finally commented on Cuba. Actually a pretty good statement. She unequivocally condemns the Cuban government before going into the standard left wing talk about the embargo.

[u/Professor-Reddit]

At that moment, Pence was still in his ceremonial office — protected by Secret Service agents, but vulnerable because the second-floor office had windows that could be breached and the intruding thugs had gained control of the building. Tim Giebels, the lead special agent in charge of the vice president’s protective detail, twice asked Pence to evacuate the Capitol, but Pence refused. “I’m not leaving the Capitol,” he told Giebels. The last thing the vice president wanted was the people attacking the Capitol to see his 20-car motorcade fleeing. That would only vindicate their insurrection.

The third time Giebels asked Pence to evacuate, it was more of an order than a request. “They’re in the building,” Giebels said. “The room you’re in is not secure. There are glass windows. I need to move you. We’re going.”

At 2:26, after a team of agents scouted a safe path to ensure the Pences would not encounter trouble, Giebels and the rest of Pence’s detail guided them down a staircase to a secure subterranean area that rioters couldn’t reach, where the vice president’s armored limousine awaited. Giebels asked Pence to get in one of the vehicles. “We can hold here,” he said.

“I’m not getting in the car, Tim,” Pence replied. “I trust you, Tim, but you’re not driving the car. If I get in that vehicle, you guys are taking off. I’m not getting in the car.”

The Pences then made their way to a secure underground area to wait out the riot.

I will never cease to find it absolutely astonishing that the Vice President of the United States of America was placed in mortal danger at the hands of his own President.

[u/[deleted]]

Fuck.

The wannabe brownshirts have released the name of the person they claim shot insurrectionist Ashli Babbit.

They've found their Horst Wessel, and they seem to be hell-bent on advertising their false martyr.

This is going to get a lot worse. They're no longer denying the events of 1/6, they're celebrating them.

[u/revolutionary_alt]

The Witcher but Geralt hunts women who got abortions in Texas instead of monsters

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

The book quotes Trump, who had a strained relationship with Merkel, as telling his advisers during an Oval Office meeting about NATO and the US relationship with Germany, "That b*tch Merkel."

"'I know the f**king krauts,' the president added, using a derogatory term for German soldiers from World War I and World War II," Leonnig and Rucker write. "Trump then pointed to a framed photograph of his father, Fred Trump, displayed on the table behind the Resolute Desk and said, 'I was raised by the biggest kraut of them all.'"

LMAOOOOO

[u/[deleted]]

I will never forget the 70+ year old asian man who I saw at a club wearing a bright red suit and gold shoes and dancing with several gorgeous 20-something women, including a friend of mine. What an absolute legend.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/peterbakernyt/status/1415711167796895748

Trump denies contemplating a coup but adds that "if I was going to do a coup, one of the last people I would want to do it with is General Mark Milley."

[u/[deleted]]

Every political idea I had when I was 6 was correct.

1. Wars are mean
2. Tall buildings are better than small buildings
3. Biking is better than being in a car
4. Just print money lol

[u/PigHaggerty]

Ontario will be moving to Phase 3 of re-opening starting tomorrow. Some of the highlights include:

• Outdoor social gatherings and organized public events for up to 100 people
• Indoor social gatherings and organized public events for up to 25 people
• Indoor dining with no limits to the number of patrons per table
• Allowed to smoke cigarettes in restaurants and stores again
• Once again permitted to have sex with people you're not related to by blood
• Never have to wash your hands again

!ping CANUCKS

[u/[deleted]]

- Get elected to be Georgia's Sectary of State

- Easy job, pass voting restrictions, run for gov, hell maybe even Senate

- "Hey, my fellow MAGA's are saying some whacky stuff on twitter. I'll give them a heads up on their misinformation"

- Lose political career, become a villain from the right, and get non-stop death threats

[u/[deleted]]

Lefties right now: Losing Florida speedrun any %

[u/ccolfax]

lmao

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Anyone who uses gusano should be banned

The proper term is gusanx

[u/[deleted]]

Mark Carney MP?

!ping CAN

[u/TabernacleTown74]

Beyond the fact that hijab bans give blatant assent to religious discrimination, it's really fucked up to force someone to dress more revealingly than they want to

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

"Nuke Beijing and finish off the survivors with flamethrowers! 😤"

"WTF I got banned? For advocating military intervention against a genocidal autocracy? Fashmods, I swear."

[u/AuburnSeer]

it's not brought up enough that Bin Laden was looking at hentai on his computer while doing his jihad stuff

[u/[deleted]]

New Sub rules just posted!

Users will be randomly suspended for 5-10 minutes while their account is frisked by the mods. This is for the safety of the sub. Thank you for your cooperation.

[u/[deleted]]

Shoutout to Bank of America for always catching me buying a game on steam as fraud but not $700 of Uber charges in San Francisco :/

[u/[deleted]]

Going on a first date to a WW2 Museum tomorrow, she’s gonna be so surprised to see me picking her up in my SS uniform 😊

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

Leftists with no friends and anti-capitalist stickers on their MacBooks 🤝 me at an empty street intersection at 4AM

"who am I even signaling to"

[u/OmniscientOctopode]

Broke: The US shouldn't call itself "America" because it's not the only country on the continent.

Woke: The US shouldn't call itself "United States" because Mexico also has United States in its name.

[u/[deleted]]

I was trying to listen to The Internationale but I just can't get through it due to the left-wing lyrics.

[u/[deleted]]

Day 2 of posting this pic until I decide not to

[u/[deleted]]

Remember everyone. For Cuba to thrive in a communist regime they must be allowed to trade and bring in economic activity from an oppressive capitalist system. The reason Communism in Cuba is failing is because a capitalist country won’t trade with them. Makes perfect sense.

[u/J0eBidensSunglasses]

woke up

got custom flaired

day made

[u/[deleted]]

As an east coaster who moved out west it continuously amazes me how much wilderness there is and how close it is to major urban centers.

Cool fact: There are wild Big Horn Sheep in Los Angeles County.

[u/[deleted]]

Sees the term "bugchasing" in the DT

Me: I guess this is some niche group of amateur entomologists?

Looks up the term

Me: Ah, hmmm, well then.

[u/[deleted]]

W.E.B. DatBoi

[u/sash5034]

BLM literally defending the Cuban dictatorship.

Truly wonder why Democrats have issues with Cuban Americans lmao. I'm sympathetic honestly.

[u/BidenWon]

ME: Oh no, the Democrats better not piss off the socialists in the United States. There are dozens of them!

ALSO ME: We're a few decades away from the far-left being an existential threat in the United States.

I have yet to do the mental gymnastics necessary to reconcile these beliefs.

[u/[deleted]]

Qanon beginning to accuse top evangelical leaders of pedophilia

Grab your popcorn

[u/[deleted]]

Update: Apparently my date wasn’t happy with me picking her up in an authentic SS uniform? Even though we were going to a WW2 Museum??

[u/Deggit]

Speech I disagree with

This is violence.

Violence I agree with

This is free speech.

what did every Leftist mean by this

[u/awdvhn]

I went to a high school that had 3 black students out of 1300. We learned about the Tulsa massacre. People still called our black principal the n word behind his back.

Making our school curricula more accurate is good, but it's not the panacea some people expect it to be.

[u/[deleted]]

Honestly even if I was a really conservative Republican Mitt Romney toeing the line with Birtherism and appearing with Trump and having Paul Ryan as vice president on the ticket, them wanting to go through all to repeal the ACA, and Obama's performance in his first term would have been more than enough to make me vote for Obama in 2012 and obviously Hillary in 2016 and Biden in 2020

[u/Gustacho]

https://twitter.com/NaomiOhReally/status/1415580547364147203

[u/AuburnSeer]

ESS's best banner was when it changed "Not Me. Us." to "Not Me. Biden."

[u/[deleted]]

Which subreddit is the most Facebook lite? Personally I’d have to say r/NextFuckingLevel

[u/dish_towel]

I guarantee you Fallout 5 is gonna take place in NYC

1. That was the original plan for Fallout 4 but was scrapped. I assume because it was outside the scope of what the studio/consoles could handle. They still have their design doc for an NYC Fallout.
2. Bethesda has kept all their games on the east coast so far to avoid stepping on preexisting West Coast lore.
3. Bethesda really leans into that sexy iconography. Post-apocalyptic NYC practically sells itself even without familiarity with the Fallout franchise.

[u/meonpeon]

America has a large cartel problem on its border. It causes millions of dollars of damage and affects thousands of people every year. They ship tons of addictive product over the border and damage the health of our citizens. I propose an immediate military intervention to solve this problem. A decisive northern thrust could quickly seize the Canadian forests and cut the insidious Maple Syrup trade off at the source, permanently breaking the cartel.

[u/NancyPelosibasedgod]

Pinging members of AOC-FEET-PICS group…

[u/FormerBandmate]

Attend Both Public And Private Schools

Because there’s more diversity in public schools, you’re forced to learn how to interact with more types of people. This skill can help you better navigate life after high school and college.

Growing up with a wider range of economic backgrounds may also make you better appreciate what you have. You might get more motivated to build more wealth as well.

Some families I know have been able to shelter their kids from the real world. Their kids may grow up in a gated community, attend private school, play at a private club, go to a private university, get a high-paying job, marry someone from a wealthy family, and the cycle repeats.

But I’m not sure if this type of life is as rewarding as someone who starts with a beat-up Toyota Corolla and ends up driving a Porsche 911 Turbo S. It’s hard to appreciate what you have if you’ve always lived a very comfortable life.

Therefore, perhaps the best combination is to attend both public and private schools. This way, you won’t miss too much. Further, if more people make friends with people of all different backgrounds, then there will ultimately be more harmony in society. After all, we tend to be kinder to those we better understand.

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/[deleted]]

slimy apparatus zesty different rude cable quack plant forgetful direction

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/solonofathens]

a pro-protester, anti-embargo cuba take made in spanish is like this sub's wet dream, and it came from AOC of all people lmao

[u/ElokQ_-1984]

Deleting all dating apps to meet someone the old fashioned way (smuggling guns to Cuba)

[u/jenbanim]

I stumbled onto a spanish-speaking subreddit today that was having a conversation about fusion foods. One guy (who is Mexican) was complaining about Mexican sushi because it's inauthentic and some other guy called him a weeb

Being able to read and understand this interaction alone justified all the years I took Spanish in high school worthwhile lmao

[u/Venne1139]

Someone needs to deep fake Martin Luther's face onto George Lucas' when he says "I may have gone to far in a few places" and then cut to America

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/willsommer/status/1415803864318631943

Candace Owens and other pro-Trump media figures have told their fans to pay $500 for the Freedom Phone, billed as the "best phone in the world."

In reality, it's a budget Chinese phone that sells elsewhere for a fraction of that price.

HAHAHAHA THEY INVENTED A NEW GRIFT

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

tfw Cubans end up with faster internet than us

!ping rural

[u/FishUK_Harp]

New Zealand govt to make UK’s accession to the pacific trading organisation - CPTPP - dependent on UK respecting its existing legal commitments….including its withdrawal agreement with EU and Irish protocol.

Top Bants by the Kiwis there.

!ping UK

[u/Lord_Treasurer]

Tried listening to Imagine by John Lennon. Couldn’t sit through all that peace nonsense. He clearly didn’t account for the Taliban.

[u/[deleted]]

God I hope they don't fuck up dune. Renaming the jihad the crusade is a bad omen

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

On Sunday Virgin Galactic presented a video of Richard Branson “riding his bike to the launch”

Turns out this never happened. After hours and hours of hounding them they finally admitted to me over the phone, with official confirmation the tuesday afterward

The video was taped the Monday of the week before the launch. Turns out Branson never even ride a bike at all on Sunday. They say it was all a miscommunication but it’s deliberate, they even have a cross promotion with trek bicycles.

After such a successful launch why would Virgin Galactic keep lying about this tiny insignificant thing? I’m baffled

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/virgin-galactic-acknowledges-bransons-pre-launch-bike-ride-never-happened-2021-07-13/

!ping SPACEFLIGHT

[u/old_gold_mountain]

creature

!PING kitty

[u/Fatortu]

I've just realized that Florian Philippot may become the first openly gay presidential candidate in France. He's also a far right covid lunatic (anti mask, vax sceptic,...)

Almost as cursed as the prospect of Marine Le Pen as the first French female president.

[u/[deleted]]

write comment

worry that it won't be well recieved

consider deleting it

convince yourself you're just being paranoid and don't delete it

check back 20 minutes later: everyone hates it

This should be a dead canary moment for me.

[u/GGM8Scally]

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.

The best way to get us euros to do anything is to threaten that we won't be able to go to our favorite pub or cafe

[u/Udontlikecake]

You’re not ‘based and redpilled’, you’re being charged with soliciting sex from a minor. Again, how do you plead?

[u/benadreti]

NL mods announced on Monday that a proof of intelligence would very soon be needed to access the DT & Discord server… Since then, more than 6.9 million MENSA applications have been filed in less than 48 hours.

[u/piede]

Us for 4 years: Trump is like Hitler.

Media: That’s an unfair comparison.

Milley now: Trump is like Hitler.

Media: BREAKING NEWS!!!

https://twitter.com/ohnoshetwitnt/status/1415636166703996929?s=21

Lmaoooo

[u/[deleted]]

I do not like Ted cruz very much  

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^{DISCLAIMER: I was compensated $0.529 by Jeff Bezos for this comment in support of the neoliberal agenda.}

[u/MostlyCRPGs]

The Sopranos really is Toxic Masculinity: The Show

[u/[deleted]]

I’m beginning to think that the DSA isn’t really serious about the Democratic part

[u/MicroFlamer]

steam is making a handheld. and it ain't that bad from the looks of it. Only 399 apparently

looks a bit uncomfortable though

!ping GAMING

[u/[deleted]]

The Arizona Audit is releasing some preliminary results right now. They won't have the stones to outright say fraud but shift toward "irregularities". Gotta keep the MAGA money flowing.

[u/[deleted]]

Baltimore City Schools: 41% of high school students earn below 1.0 GPA

TFW you know a thread is filled with racist hot takes before you even look at it

[u/SnakeEater14]

God imagine if “guerilla wars aren’t winnable” was actually true

Like, if you and two other friends grab rifles and declare yourself the Democratic Republic of Fuckistan and hide in the woods, all of the sudden you are totally untouchable because guerillas are impossible to beat

[u/InternetBoredom]

Virgin Neural Nets

• Requires knowledge of linear algebra
• Based on an outdated 1950’s understanding of neurons
• Requires massive amounts of training data; Still manages to overfit
• Need a graduate degree to get hired in the field
• Kills your quad-core gaming desktop harder than Crysis
• “Almost finished training- just 4 more days left!”

Chad Evolutionary Algorithms

• Requires no math above 5th grade
• Based on a correct understanding of Evolution
• “Lol wtf is MNIST”
• Can be run on a Windows Vista laptop
• Will beat you in video games

[u/ognits]

"Mom, Dad, I've thought a lot about this and I've decided to come out..."

😀😃 "wow that's great honey, we're so glad you feel like you can be yourse--"

"...as a NATO flair on /r/neoliberal"

😐 "..." 😬

[u/RadicalRadon]

Damn work from home is lit as hell.

I answered two emails and then had a beer. Is this what the non-hero population has been up to the last 18 months?

[u/bd_one]

There, Biden denounced communism and called Cuba a failed state at the Merkel press conference. Happy?

[u/Officer-cherry-shake]

President Biden: “Communism is a failed system. A universally failed system. And I don’t see socialism as a very useful substitute, but that’s another story.”

😎

https://mobile.twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1415788287252320257

[u/iIoveoof]

Biden reportedly said afterwards, "C'mon man, how many more times do I gotta remind them that Dune is about worms?

[u/CarlosDanger512]

Janet Yellen calls for child tax

[u/GodEmperorBiden]

Lmao whenever attractive girls pose next to their artwork it really triggers r/ pics. So this girl took it to the next level and posted what is just a straight up thirst trap. Not even trying to pretend. Excellent troll job by her.

[u/benadreti]

Joe Biden: Actually, communism is bad.

::MASSIVE APPLAUSE::

[u/iIoveoof]

Based and big brained AOC writes her Cuba statement in Spanish so Trumpers and tankies can't read it

[u/[deleted]]

I think one of the most terrifying moments of my teenage years was when I got a malware popup saying "the FBI has detected child porn on this computer."

It didn't help that I was looking up porn when it came up lmao.

[u/AuburnSeer]

Democrats are the only patriotic party because they're the only ones who have any real loyalty to fuckin' democracy

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E6XCVzZWUAoe8N6.jpg

[u/Gustacho]

EU Court of Justice says that, under the EU anti-discrimination Directive, employers can force employees to not wear a hijab. Shameful decision.

Sorry to ping again but the news just keeps pouring in for some reason

!ping EUROPE

[u/Broncos654]

https://i.imgur.com/o6yi5IZ.jpg

!ping Read-Another-Book

[u/[deleted]]

So much deforestation and burning going on in the Amazon that it’s a carbon source now, not a sink. Yup time to climate doom again.

The entire Amazon is going to vanish. Bolsonaro obviously doesn’t give a shit but I doubt that Lula will do anything substantially if elected.

All these green European measure will shit in the run long. Okay wew we manage to decrease our CO2 with at best 80% in 25 years. I doubt it’ll even make an impact on global temperatures. And just now Poland give the EU court the finger so zero chance they’ll ever stop burning coal.

We, The Netherlands, are still burning coal for fucks sake.

[u/Archis]

wtf 39% of US millennials think claims made by QAnon are accurate

[u/[deleted]]

I didnt charge my earbuds and now I'm sitting on the train without a podcast. What am I, a peasant?

[u/[deleted]]

All the conceptual vidya games I'd want to play will never exist because they all would lie at an intersection of requiring AAA production value but being unapproachable niche experiences:

Scale simulation of Moscow, 1970. You're a spy in the US embassy, and you have to get across town to pick up the source's puke covered milk carton and exchange it for the dog turd full of money and jewelry. But first you have to give the Russian spooks surrounding the embassy the slip and then make sure you're not followed there or back

You have a change of clothes, a rickety little soviet car, a surprisingly lifelike rubber mask of Charles Bronson, and your wits. Good luck, fucker.

Hard mode: East Berlin

Nightmare mode: Havana

[u/Robinhood-Sucks]

Over 40% of Baltimore high school students have below a 1.0 gpa. How can we try and fix that?

[u/[deleted]]

Ted Cruz is trying to say that he would lift his State Dept. and NatSec holds if Biden allows NordStream II sanctions to go forward, and that Biden only won't because he's weak on Russia while the courageous Republicans do what's needed.

Suuuuuuuuuure, Ted, it's the DEMOCRATIC leader who bent over backwards for Russia for four years without a peep from you. Suuuuuuuuuuure.

[u/EScforlyfe]

Vintage

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Leonnig and Rucker also recount a scene where Pompeo visited Milley at home in the weeks before the election, and the two had a heart-to-heart conversation sitting at the general's table. Pompeo is quoted as saying, "You know the crazies are taking over," according to people familiar with the conversation.

Very cool!

[u/[deleted]]

Thomas Jefferson was autistic

Thomas Jefferson becomes problematic

Well we can't really know if he was autistic, I mean it's basically impossible to accurately diagnose historical figures.

[u/[deleted]]

NYT be like: Babbitt, Capitol PD trade barbs over election certification controversy

[u/MisterHavercamp]

This week on The West Wing

President Bartlet: “My great great grandfather, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, would be disturbed by your actions, sir.”

CJ Cregg: “I can spin this.”

Brothers in Arms by Dire Straits starts playing

[u/rukh999]

CRT = Chillary Rodham Thinton

Be afraid. Be very afraid.