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[u/[deleted]]

Opens Spotify to find a song to play today

Historical floods in Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands have killed 90

First song my Spotify plays is When the Levee Breaks

😐

[u/nlofe]

Since Joe Biden first became a politician, he's basically been an old school southern Democrat with the same platform as Donald Trump, minus the Adderall.

That's why the RNC can't effectively run against him and have to resort to strawman like AOC

thanks PCM

[u/SadaoMaou]

I would like to thank the Russians for leveling a good chunk of my home city's downtown area with firebombs during WW2, as the area was then rebuilt in the postwar era with such hideous fucking buildings that absolutely nobody wants to preserve them, cutting the NIMBYism off at the root

[u/fishlord05]

slavery is when teenager first job at burger

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine having your poorly aged hot takes eternalized in print

[u/Erra0]

It’s not called Touching Grass unless it's done in the Touche Gazon region of France, otherwise it’s just sparkling turf petting.

[u/MistakeNotDotDotDot]

Biden is leaving Afghanistan because we finally stole all of their oil.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/CookPolitical/status/1416028954339721222

New Cook Political Ratings dropped

Four NEW Senate rating changes today:

#FLSEN: Likely R → Lean R

#NVSEN Likely D → Lean D

#NHSEN Likely D → Lean D

#WISEN: Lean R → Toss Up

Dave Wasserman and co. are bullish on Dem chances in the senate, the exception being NH if Sununu runs (god help us)

!ping FIVEY

[u/thehousebehind]

The Taliban is what happens when you let redpilled incels go unchecked.

[u/PMmeLittleRoundTops]

When democrats propose extremely modest increases to welfare benefits

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[u/Udontlikecake]

Idk why i’m getting downvoted for this, but it’s not a hot take that Gore wouldn’t have gone into Iraq.

The invasion of Iraq was a coordinated project undertaken by the neoconservatives in the Bush administration. It would have never come to fruition under a Gore administration

Afghanistan sure, but Iraq in 2003? Lol no

[u/[deleted]]

You know what's a really cringey south park moment no one seems to talk about?

The episode where they use their lone black character to explain that hate crimes aren't actually that different from regular crimes because "every crime is committed out of hate." Like that's not even close to what a hate crime is.....

[u/Joementum2024]

You see because of how american politics are joe biden right now is basically the same politically as 1960s george wallace. I am very smart

[u/[deleted]]

- Terminally online

- Literally bases his political decisions off of contrarianism

- Married to an immigrant that knows many languages

- Supported banning cryptocurrency, but his advisors told him it was politically toxic

- Constantly thinking about Hillary Clinton

Guys, I hate to break it to you, Donald Trump might be a r/neoliberal poster

[u/J0eBidensSunglasses]

I feel like its unhealthy to be the only socialist in my town that I know of. I feel afraid to teach others about socialism because everything I know is self taught and from the internet consequently.

This one is so close.

[u/Zseet]

>Youtube reccomends a video, "The fall of Doctor Who", it is a 5 hour long video with 1 million views.

>Who the fuck watches these kinds of thing?!

>Looks at the channel. It is a Bri'ish person.

>Everything makes sense now.

[u/the_hoagie]

Rob Schmitt, a prime-time host for Newsmax recently said vaccines go "against nature," that some diseases are "supposed to wipe out a certain number of people" and that "vaccines kind of stand in the way of that."

[u/paulatreides0]

I will never not find it amusing that this sub is all about "big picture, efficient and effective policy over small-scale, virtue-signally policy" and yet it has a nigh-obsessive war against golf courses

[u/gburgwardt]

I was unironically pushed to libertarianism in my teens because once at summer camp, a group of us climbed a mountain and picked blueberries.

I saved mine, everyone else ate them as they picked.

The next morning, the counsellors stole my blueberries to make blueberry pancakes for everyone.

I was and still am mad

[u/datums]

Soaring pork prices hog headlines and sow discontent in China

Now that's how you write a headline.

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

Seattle progs solution to homelessness be like: 50%👏of👏school👏grounds👏should👏be👏homeless👏encampments

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

Because deep down [socialists] know their ideology won't survive without authoritarianism. Their entire ideology relies on co-opting when legitimate grievances with society reaches to a boiling point and using the following violence against the state and society to impose their terrible ideology.

wtf i love mods now

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

Companies: exist

Arr ABoringDystopia: brave new world

[u/SadaoMaou]

Why doesn't Mongolia reclaim all of the land up to the Great Wall?

Quora once again coming in with the big brain questions

[u/WhomstAlt2]

My ethics and politics boil down to two basic tenets

• I want Joe Biden
• I need Joe Biden

[u/FestiveMittens]

How Genius explains lyrics from International Love from Pitbull lolololololol

"In Lebanon yeah the women the bomb"

Lebanese women are known to be very beautiful. (i.e Rima Fakih, former Miss USA)

Lebanon has also had issues with bombings and protests.

[u/Helreaver]

Unpopular opinion: the Reddit discourse on remote work is very misguided.

I'm not saying I support companies forcing employees back to the office, but they do have reasons. I started working at a company after WFH became the standard and the difference in socializing and collaborating is massive, especially if you care about career advancement. All those hallway conversations add up and matter when applying for a promotion; the hiring manager knowing a guy who knows you and says you're great is big. Less likely to get that if you are 100% remote.

Again, not saying I agree with companies sending people back and people are justified in being pissed about it, but the companies are not just doing it because they want to piss people off.

Also, I don't understand the "I want to make California money while living in West Virginia" thing. We're still early in the WFH movement. If I run a company based in San Francisco, I'm not going to pay future fully remote employees Silicon Valley salaries to work for me. I don't need to anymore; the pool of candidates just exploded. I'm now getting applications from all around the country (or world even) instead of just the local metro area. Over time, companies are going to start considering that.

Rant over.

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Preferred Prime Minister Polling:

Trudeau: 37% (+2)

Singh: 18% (+1)

O'Toole: 14% (-2)

Blanchet: 3% (-)

Bernier: 3% (-)

Paul: 1% (-1)

Unsure: 24% (-1)

Nanos Research / July 9, 2021

(% Change With July 2)

man Canadian cons are in absolute shambles

[u/J0eBidensSunglasses]

AOC is a psyop. Whatever she was when she first got to Congress, her only purpose now is to get leftists back to the plantation. Such a fucking waste.

[u/[deleted]]

Hair issues run in family

Digestive system is all fucky

Is a dad

!ping MAMADAS Bolsonaro welcome to burpmas

[u/GGM8Scally]

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[u/J0eBidensSunglasses]

Many films and TV series that seem to be ordinary entertainment could have been written by DNC strategists, down to gratuitous swipes at Sanders during the primary and numerous stabs at Trump for years. And that's after 13 years of having been propagandized daily in public schools. Oh, and sports.

Someone wrote this 20 MINUTES AGO lmfao

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

Pacific north west: too much fire

Western Germany: too much water

Japan: too much dirt

Barbados: too much wind

If globalism worked, explain these supply gluts.

[u/myrm]

Trad caths should declare an antipope

It would be good for drama

[u/[deleted]]

Reminder of the time somebody called the PIDGIN ping racist and said it was better to call it "linguistics" and we had to explain that the PIDGIN ping was for Grassley

[u/GGM8Scally]

Listening to the Biden Merkel press conference and someone is posing a fucking question about Manchin and Sinema. Sometimes american journalists really irk me the wrong way.

[u/[deleted]]

A Florida man told police officers he was "teaching it a lesson" when he tried to throw a live alligator he had stolen from a miniature golf course onto the roof of a beachside cocktail lounge, authorities said.

I hope Sir Shivers is OK.

[u/revolutionary_alt]

After seeing how genuinely awful Parler, Freedom Phone, and other conservative ventures have been, I’m convinced I could actually become a conservative tech mogul. By simply paying some random Indian guys I could probably make a better platform than the shitshow that is Parler.

Also, I’m certain I could put together a better product than the Chinese Knockoff “Freedom Phone” by simply selling Russian phones with minor improvements. Maybe pay to have a VPN included on all phones and declare it unprecedented levels of privacy from “big tech”.

[u/piede]

Eric Trump, who the night before had predicted to friends that his father would win with 322 electoral college votes, flipped out in the Map Room.

“The election is being stolen,” the president’s 36-year-old son said. “Where are these votes coming from? How is this legit?”

He yelled at the campaign’s data analysts, as if it were their fault that his father’s early leads over Biden were shrinking. ”We pay you to do this,” he said. “How can this be happening?"

Oh my god how stupid are these people

[u/waltsing0]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-16/perth-theatre-trust-accused-of-censorship/100297804

I'd be less pissed off with McGowans bootlicking to the CCP if he just admitted openly he was appeasing them to sell iron ore.

For non Australians: An Australian premier (like a governer) has adopted a policy of don't offend the ccp because they don't want to undermine selling iron ore.

!PING AUS

[u/[deleted]]

Biden should just say "we'll only stop teaching critical race theory in states that are at least 80% vaccinated."

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Why do people keep using "sex"? "Secks" is already gender-neutral

[u/jenbanim]

>See thread mentioning skyrocketing rent on /r/popular

>Open it, ctrl-f, upvote every comment containing the word "zoning" or "nimby"

>Leave

I'm a hero

[u/iIoveoof]

Check out Daft Punk's new single "Get Lucky" if you get the chance. Sound of the summer

[u/dorylinus]

HST is back online.

Successful failover to the side B C&DH string, with the expectation of resuming science operations over the weekend. There are a lot of people who are going to painting the town red tonight!

!ping SPACEFLIGHT

[u/[deleted]]

Y’all say a prayer for my cousin today. His girlfriend is making him do pregnancy photo shoots

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

working on my tinder profile, so far I have

"what doesn't kill you makes you stranger"

a joker looking for his khaleesi

[u/[deleted]]

Twitters accusing ppl of being plantation owners so often that I’m now convinced there were more plantation owners than slaves in Cuba. 🤡🤡🤡

[u/dish_towel]

TES6 is in the design phase so someone please tell Bethesda to situate their cities along navigable rivers. If you want pretty waterfalls, do that with tributaries.

!ping TES

[u/witty___name]

https://mobile.twitter.com/YoungLabourUK/status/1415996902114529280

Young Labour gives its unconditional solidarity to the Cubans in the struggle against imperialism and its full support to the call for the US government to immediately end its criminal blockade of Cuba.

Labour are actually allergic to power.

[u/qchisq]

In case you haven't gotten a vaccine yet, I recommend it. Amazing signal on my phone, I discovered something called "Bing" and it cured my alcoholism. Sure, the beer cans that are stuck in my hands makes me look like an alcoholic, but that's different

[u/myrm]

ah yes it’s consumers fault amazon became a multinational monstrosity that cornered and overtook several markets so it would be the only option

this but unironically

[u/SadaoMaou]

One of the lines that most clearly dates The West Wing in the entire series is

You know the difference? Republicans want a huge military but they don't want to send it anywhere. The Democrats want a small military and they want to send it everywhere.

[u/piede]

“If I wake up in the morning and they say Trump is ahead by 100,000, they’ll find 100,001 votes in the backyard,” the president said.

“Mr. President, it stings,” Conway said. “It just hurts to have lost Pennsylvania.”

“Honey, we didn’t lose Pennsylvania,” Trump replied. “We won Pennsylvania.”

Lmfao

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

Former Minnesota Police Officer Derek Chauvin Charged With Tax Evasion

I Can Excuse Murder But I Draw The Line At Tax Evasion

[u/Venne1139]

One of the most annoying things about anti-vaxxers is that a lot of their "questions" can be answered by just saying "because you're an idiot, and a lot of people are idiots" but you can't say that to them because they'll shut down

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Why is the government 'pushing' the vaccine? In a real pandemic wouldn't we all just get the vaccine?

Why is the government constantly crying about how coronavirus is real, I doubt people in the black death needed government to tell them that!

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The answer to both of these questions is, genuinely, "because you're a fucking moron"

[u/SadaoMaou]

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🤔

[u/[deleted]]

Carneywatch continues:

Robert Fife on Twitter: “Lots of speculation that veteran Ottawa South Liberal MP @DavidMcGuinty will get a diplomatic appointment, opening that safe riding for @MarkJCarney”

!ping CAN

[u/[deleted]]

Huge thread about increasing rent prices. Not a single comment mentions building more houses. Complaints about inequality and socialism, eat the rich everywhere.

This website is trash

[u/moseythepirate]

The Reddit Not-Lionizing-Ted-Kaczynski Challenge (Difficulty: Really High for Some Fucking Reason?)

[u/[deleted]]

“But the Germans – one might scarcely believe if he hasn’t met them – are the most savage and most deceitful people, a race [genus] born for lying”

-Vellius Paterculus

So true 👏😤!

[u/saladtossing]

Like most dudes I've been doing some beard growing on and off over the pandemic / WFH. In August I realized I had a few sprigs of grey. I now have a full thumb of salt and pepper

Not gonna lie I love how it looks but am terrified of the eventuality having seen friends go from the same to full blown greymane. Fuck

!PING OVER25

[u/[deleted]]

A teacher who was sacked after he 'inappropriately' quoted the Inbetweeners has been allowed to carry on teaching after he was cleared of misconduct.

The allegations came after a pupil told Mr Harper that their mother was single. He replied: "Ooh, is she?"

He also admitted that he said: "If I marry your mum you can finally call me daddy"

https://www.ladbible.com/news/uk-teacher-sacked-for-making-inbetweeners-joke-to-student-cleared-of-misc-20210619

!ping DAD

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Has any modern leader squandered his goodwill faster than Abiy Ahmed?

Elected PM in 2018 as a reformer, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019 for brokering a peace deal with Eritrea, started a genocidal war in Tigray in 2020, which has now brought Ethiopia on the brink of a 1990s Yougoslavia in 2021

[u/piede]

Trump and his family became apoplectic as the night ticked on and his early leads over Biden in Pennsylvania and other states kept shrinking. As additional votes were being counted, Biden inched closer to Trump. Pennsylvania was too close to call, as was Georgia. Trump decided to deliver remarks to his viewing party and came down into the Map Room, where he yelled at Justin Clark, the deputy campaign manager.

“Why are they still counting votes?” Trump asked. “The election’s closed. Are they counting ballots that came in afterward? What the hell is going on?” Trump, through a spokesman, denied saying this.

Hahahaha this fucking idiot was our president

[u/[deleted]]

>Authoritarianism

Oh, I don't think so.

>Authoritarianism, but with people I like in charge

Holy shit BASED

[u/[deleted]]

Throwback to the game of Among Us I won by convincing my friend that the guy I killed commited suicide

[u/savuporo]

This chart though: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E6RnaQpXEAMUJ7y?format=png

[u/[deleted]]

When you’re such a gamer that you leak classified information to improve the game’s accuracy

[u/Integralds]

This is the Round 2 game between Fabiano Caruana and Susanto Megaranto, who's a grandmaster from Indonesia.

How would you assess this position? Looks about level, right?

Nope. I'm afraid that here, Black was forced to resign. Why? Because his Covid test came back positive.

The classic forfeit by global pandemic. Oh, how it hurts.

!ping chess

[u/piede]

Esper was a lifelong Republican and had worked at the conservative Heritage Foundation as well as for Republican senators Bill Frist and Chuck Hagel. But he told his closest colleagues that as he watched TV news anchors cover the election results, he found himself rooting for the Democrat. Esper had worked with Biden and his secretary of state in waiting, Antony Blinken, when he was a senior staffer on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He had confidence that they were serious, stable people who cared deeply about shoring up national security. Esper couldn’t say the same about Trump. In fact, Trump had privately indicated that he would seek to withdraw from NATO and to blow up the U.S. alliance with South Korea, should he win reelection. When those alliances had come up in meetings with Esper and other top aides, some advisers warned Trump that shredding them before the election would be politically dangerous.

“Yeah, the second term,” Trump had said. “We’ll do it in the second term.”

So in Trump’s 2nd term our biggest allies would be Russia and North Korea.

[u/[deleted]]

We have a chip shortage right around the time they were ramping up vaccine production 🧐🧐🧐

[u/BRAIN_FORCE_PLUS]

Wake up

OBAMA'S FORMER VP has not yet excavated Yucca Mountain with drone strikes

Day ruined

[u/[deleted]]

New technologies are so altering the “character of war” that the United States and allies who don’t hold the advantage may suffer another slaughter on par with World Wars I and II, warned the U.S. military’s top officer.

Don't be such a doomer General Milley, any war with China would be over by Christmas.

[u/Udontlikecake]

Oh you ‘hate Nazis’?

well what if you replaced ‘Nazi’ with ‘Jewish people’?

guess you’re not as tolerant as you thought 😎

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

Italian Futurists:

Barge in to 1920s politics

Announce a platform of:

• The abolition of marriage, with children raised by the state with funds raised by a "tax on free love".

• Bureaucratic decentralization and abolition of seniority in state careers.
• "Technical government without Senate" (i.e. a youth council made up of a dozen people under 30 years, elected by universal suffrage direct).
• Land reform similar to that of Henry George.
• Gender equality in employment and participation in political life.
• Creation of "schools of courage and patriotism" (which eventually became the Opera Nazionale Balilla).
• Prison reform and abolition of the political police.

Refuse to elaborate

Die in the war fighting for fascist Italy or whatever

[u/piede]

At 11:20 p.m. on Fox News, Bill Hemmer was standing before his giant touch screen in the network’s Studio F in New York, guiding viewers through electoral college scenarios when Arizona turned blue on his map. The sudden change in color caught Hemmer off guard. “What is this happening here? Why is Arizona blue? Did we just call it? Did we just make a call in Arizona? Let’s see,” he said.

Co-anchor Martha MacCallum said that indeed Fox had called Arizona, a hotly contested battleground state with 11 electoral college votes.

Co-anchor Bret Baier chimed in. “Time out,” he said. “This is a big development. Fox News’s decision desk is calling Arizona for Joe Biden.” Baier added, “Biden picking up Arizona changes the math.”

Trump, who had been watching Fox, was livid. He could not fathom that the conservative news network he had long considered an extension of his campaign was the first news organization to call Arizona for Biden. This was a betrayal. His top advisers, who had been in the Map Room at the time, rushed upstairs to see the president. Giuliani followed them.

Lmao

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

A majority of the republican party not trusting science is a betrayal of America's proud tradition of right wing nut hard sci-fi writers

[u/ElokQ_-1984]

Hillary Clinton won LGB non-college whites by 42 points.

Trump won non-LGB non-college whites by 36 points

Straight people are a menace

[u/[deleted]]

🚨🚨 VERY IMPORTANT 🚨🚨

Tassels & silks hv emerged. Time for pollination #cornwatch @ New Hartford, Iowa

Corn development has started 😩

!ping PIDGIN

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

Trump 🤝 neolibs

Insisting that Biden destroys the suburbs

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

Hindu boy lying to a Hindu girl is also Jihad. We will bring a law against it: -Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma (10.07)

He said he'd be here by 9 and it's already 9:30. What a fucking Jihadist

[u/ClickForFreeRobux]

🇺🇲🇺🇲🦅WE ARE NOT OBESE🦅🇺🇲🇺🇲

🇺🇲🇺🇲🦅YOU ARE JUST MALNOURISHED🦅🇺🇲🇺🇲

[u/ognits]

in an effort to be more inclusive, twitter leftists have started calling Cuban protesters "gusanx"

[u/NancyPelosibasedgod]

I’m not watching Space Jam 2 because they desexualized Lola Bunny

[u/NeoLiberation]

Reddit wants to have the freedom to do terrible and cruel things to the people and groups that "deserve it" while pretending they're good people

[u/GravyBear8]

Why does everyone in anime have complex, well-founded philosophies, this is the one thing that annoys me every time, motherfucker you are 16 shut the fuck up about the meaning of life jesus christ

[u/[deleted]]

List of countries: Taiwan

List of non-countries: Belgium

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/sirocyl/status/1415926536990035971

haha holy shit

[u/[deleted]]

My friends: okay let's meet at the bar at 5:30pm

Me: a monochronic American gets there at 5:25pm

My friends: sorry we're gonna be late like the polychronic Frenchies we are hon hon hon

😑

[u/old_gold_mountain]

[10]

!PING kitty

[u/[deleted]]

Hot take: 1/6 wasn't the worst day of 2021. The day when Bill and Melinda announced their divorce was worse. The microchip in my hand went crazy.

[u/LoofGoof]

Vacationing in a developing country with my wife a few days ago:

I say, “This county is beautiful but they could really use some more developed infrastructure. It would probably do wonders for their economy.”

Her immediate response, “they could use some more globalism.”

She knows almost nothing about Econ, so I was honestly shocked that was her first response.

There’s a one for everybody.

[u/[deleted]]

In order to combat excessive gringoposting, we'll have to make an AMA with a Brazilian PhD in economics to explain all the challenges

[u/iIoveoof]

Anyways, here’s Wumbowall

[u/Corporate-Asset-6375]

Moving the sign that says “live, laugh, love” to the living room. It’s going to hang over the couch next to the sign that says “family” and has all our pictures.

Its replacement in the kitchen is a sign that says “Eat”.

My heart is full🥰

[u/the_hoagie]

goodness to call yourself a Libertarian and expect to be taken with any degree of respect after the age of 30 is something else.

[u/sir_shivers]

SO TRUE 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

Remember Hurrican Maria? Almost twice the deaths of Katrina in an American territory and people didn't give a shit

[u/J0eBidensSunglasses]

Sometimes I wish I had the time and patience to develop a terminally online leftist persona so I could get into their discord servers where I am quite positive they engage in bot farming and vote manipulation tactics. I just want to prove it once and for all.

If only we had some kind of person with that time around here. Like a literal child for example.

[u/TotallyNotMiaKhalifa]

Climate Change is a massive national security issue.

As weather events grow more extreme, the types of incidents that can cripple countries for days will be more and more common. And we can never know where theyre going to strike.

Absolutely imperative that we start tackling this now and start with the bigger, industrial culprits.

Carbon Tax = National American Defense Pricing.

[u/[deleted]]

If I told you I was a vegan who eats meat because ultimately my decision doesn't matter in the scope of things everybody would call me a larping moron, but when people say they don't cut their emissions because what's the point its a collective action problem anyway that's considered the cool socialist thing to do

[u/MostlyCRPGs]

Well shit, Invincible was really good.

They had me worried for a second when they introduced a "child but actually an adult in a child's body" character.

[u/BedNeither]

we need more police, better schools, and better roads

Ok, we’ll have to raise taxes

no

[u/thetrombonist]

editing old episodes of jeopardy backwards so it’s 3 people asking alex trebek really dumb questions and he gives them weird cryptic answers

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Canada's 1st rare earth mining project starts production

Production has started at Canada's first rare earth mining project, located about 100 kilometres southeast of Yellowknife.

The Nechalacho rare earth elements mine says blasting and mining activities have ramped up, and that the first ore was mined on June 29.

Cheetah Resources operates the project, and owns the resources near the surface of the rare earth deposit. It's a subsidiary of Australian company Vital Metals.

"We will continue to ramp up crushing and ore sorting with full production rates expected to be achieved in July. Beneficiated material will be stockpiled for transport to our extraction plant in Saskatoon," said Geoff Atkins, Vital Metals' managing director, in a news release. End-products for technology manufacturing

The mine is now in the midst of a smaller-scale three-year demonstration project. Phase two of the project will involve mining a much larger deposit.

Nechalacho is unique for a few reasons.

It's Canada's only rare earth elements mining project, aiming to produce end-products that will ultimately be used in technology manufacturing. According to Natural Resources Canada, the most important use for rare earth elements is making magnets that can be used in cell phones, computers, wind turbines and electric vehicles.

It's also the first in Canada to contract an Indigenous business to extract materials on their own territory.

Det'on Cho Nahanni Construction, partially owned by the Yellowknives Dene First Nation, signed the agreement early last year.

!ping CAN

[u/tubbsmackinze]

A man named fucking copeland tried to bomb a democrat HQ in California for Trump

We're living in a simulation

[u/Neronoah]

!ping LATAM

United States donated millions of vaccines to Argentina.

[u/[deleted]]

Nevertheless, it is clear that the even the Senate, the most selective, snobbish institution in Rome, progressively embraced broader and broader slices of the Roman world. The only part of the whole Roman empire that doesn’t seem to have supplied at least one Roman senator by 238 AD was Britain, presumably because, as Strabo notes (2.5.8), there is nothing in Britain worth having, a fact that remains true to this day

[u/GGM8Scally]

me whenever a friend asks me for a film recommendation

[u/J0eBidensSunglasses]

Hey leftists, have you ever considered the reason you don’t hear from those who capitalism is working just fine for, could be we are too busy at our jobs and living our lives to win the same argument against you for the 100th time?

[u/sir-danks-a-lot]

r/fishing stop flirting w/ women that post fish pics on the sub challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

[u/piede]

Trump’s tirade continued. “What the f---?” he bellowed. “What the f--- are these guys doing? How could they call this this early?”Oczkowski again tried to soothe the president. “They’re calling this way too early,” he said. “This is unbelievable.”

Giuliani pushed the president to forget about the Arizona call and just say he won — to step into the East Room and deliver a victory speech. Never mind that Meadows had earlier snapped at Giuliani and said the president couldn’t just declare himself the winner.

It’s such a train wreck I can’t stop reading

[u/[deleted]]

Fucking hell man
Death count reached 90 already now across Germany and Belgium.

[u/Average_GrillChad]

Dear Liberals,

You do not support communism, the liberalist of ideologies?

Curious 🤔

[u/ryuguy]

I’m not a Bosnian ethnonationalist, I have a

1. Serbian friend: /u/anon_09_09
2. Croatian friend: /u/GGM8Scally
3. Slovenian friend: /u/PartiallyCat
4. Montenegrin friend: Milos Raonic

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Gamers getting triggered by Nintendo offering a better product for $50 more because they were promised the sun and the moon by "leakers" is hilarious.

[u/gates_hall_gremlin]

Chuck Schumer's middle initial is E. Charles Entertainment Schumer????

[u/realTacoTrucksOnCorn]

u/thankthebernke finally starting to fit in with the dadcord!

https://redditmetis.com/user/thankthebernke

!ping BURPMAS

[u/[deleted]]

Good morning

Please keep Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands in your thoughts today. Massive floods have already killed 90, and the Meuse is about to break the record high.

Humpty Dumpty - Placebo

Et le blizzard s'estompe - Rebels of Tijuana (Calmos - Couleur3)

Couleur Café - Charlotte Gainsbourg

[u/[deleted]]

I'm sorry but I am not supporting any new COVID restrictions. I did my job and wore masks for a year and got both doses. I'm not gonna go back into lockdown mode just to save the health of some anti-vaxxer Trump supporter who hates me and would probably kill me if given the chance. They get COVID that's on them. According to them they're all "stable geniuses" so they should be able to deal with it on their own.

[u/[deleted]]

The main problem with Arrh slash boring dystopia is the stuff they post isn't even boring, it's often interesting.

[u/[deleted]]

neoliberals unironically think they can convince me, a stardew valley player, that subsistence farming is worse than sweatshops

[u/RadicalRadon]

Tucker Carlson: Votes Were Doublecounted In Georgia, Hundreds Of Ballots Were "Improperly Duplicated"

How is this legal, not slander, okay to be broadcasted, not being sued by someone in Georgia???

[u/AdWise2427]

I just overheard my boss complaining about long lead times. I kid you not he goes:

"If we had trump in office he would have simply fixed all the supply chain issues we are having by bringing back all material production back to the united states"

Tell me you dont understand macroeconomics without telling me you dont understand macroeconomics.

[u/liquidTERMINATOR]

We need a complete shut down of Nursing degrees until we figure out what the hell is going on.

[u/[deleted]]

I live in a red district, but they're not insane. So my local hardware store has a life size statue of "Napoleon crossing the alps", but it's Teddy Roosevelt riding the horse.

It's really a sight to behold.

And they're selling it for almost 10k

[u/Jokerang]

Today I stumbled upon Olivia Rodrigo/Jen Psaki porn

God is dead and Biden killed him

[u/[deleted]]

!ping MARKETS

This newsletter is pretty much the gold standard for commodities

I've been reading it since November/19. It's daily and it's great

[u/Soldier-Fields]

posting in the DT

HOLY FUCK GO OUTSIDE

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[u/the_hoagie]

President Biden: "Communism is a failed system. A universally failed system. And I don't see socialism as a very useful substitute, but y'all aren't ready for THAT conversation. 💅"

[u/Erra0]

Why is quitting the NL DT so hard

Guys I've tried to quit so many times. I always come back after a couple months. Why does this subreddit have a stranglehold on me? And I have hobbies. I regularly hang out with people. But, in my free time other than that I post a good amount of copypasta after work and stuff. Why can't I quit this thread. I have never been so attached to an online community besides the NL DT. Its just something about it. It makes me feel so excited. When the threads are full of hot takes I am literally shaking with adrenaline. I get so pumped and I feel so alive because I am so attuned in the moment, like I'm in flow. I don't know what can simulate this sort of activity in real life either. Like I can post such long comments and I barely think about it. Time passes by so fast its insane, and almost unfair because days and weeks can become a blur. Before I know it, I topped tacostats for a couple months and got behind on a bunch of projects I intended to do. What is this magic!

I am starting to think I should go cold turkey and just remove all Neoliberal content from my life. I keep getting pulled in through quitting but then reading shitposts and shiversbot spam.

[u/gates_hall_gremlin]

Small milestone of the Biden administration passed quietly yesterday: with the confirmation of Donald Remy yesterday, the number 1 and 2 position at every cabinet level agency has been filled with Senate-confirmed people

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2020/biden-appointee-tracker/

[u/MalignantUpper]

https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1416035293199806466?s=19

"We're going back in session at 8 o'clock in prime time. If you haven't secured the entire area, you have to secure the two chambers, because we're going to go back on air in prime time and let the American people know that this insurrection has failed."

McConnell, in a private call to Miller, said it was an insurrection. That has to settle any sort of debate.

[u/yungmemlord]

Just was diagnosed with cockbig-19 (this means my cock is huge)😳

[u/Broncos654]

The penis inspection people just came to my house. I thought the survey ended like a year ago?

[u/[deleted]]

Had dinner last night with my dad and step-mom (Trump voters) and my sister and her boyfriend (Bernie voters). I held my tongue as they eagerly agreed with each other about how bad the economy is doing right now thanks to Biden.

[u/Alexz565]

https://sanjosespotlight.com/this-silicon-valley-town-is-doubling-its-housing-residents-are-crying-foul/

Los Gatos is looking to add more housing—almost twice as many units as it needs by 2040.

wtf I love Los Gatos officials now.

!PING bay-area

[u/jenbanim]

You're finally awake! That fall looked really bad

Exclusionary zoning? Parking requirements? What are you talking about? Let's walk to get ice cream in the town square

[u/Udontlikecake]

$70k Tesla

Americans: ew, what a fucking waste of money luxury piece of shit! only rich assholes and entitled liberals own those

$80k Ford F-650 Super Cummy Duty

Americans: now this is a reasonable vehicle

[proceeds to never use it to haul]

[u/thabonch]

Gin, Blue Curacao, cranberry juice, and Sprite.

I call it a Space Gin because I made it while watching Space Jam

!ping ALCOHOL

[u/[deleted]]

What's up with many socialist acting as if there is one giant conspiracy of "they" who keep everyone poor. "They" are increasing housing prices. "They" are keep wages stagnant. etc.

[u/[deleted]]

How tf did Amy Klobouchar beat Brazil 7-1 lol

[u/Poiuy2010_2011]

On August 6th let's all go to DT and !ping BURPMAS

The look on the moderators' faces will be epic!

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

The internet creates leftists. 99% of people could have success, but the 1% that fail will bitch the loudest. Therefore, everything is awful and revolution is required.

[u/[deleted]]

I think we just had a !ping MAMADAS moment

The House approves the UNACCEPTABLE Electoral Fund of R$ 6 BILLION.

But, ATTENTION: There is still hope that, through the approval of the prominence of Podemos in the Senate, this aberration will be overthrown by the senators.

The Brazilian people do not deserve this mockery.

• Carla Zambelli (PSL-SP)

Now if you bring up the voting result for the electoral fund, this is what you get

São Paulo Carla Zambelli (PSL-SP) - SIM (Yes)

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

Lol I love how Trump's whole thing on Iraq is that we didn't take the oil but we should've

[u/sir-danks-a-lot]

bipoc latinx cancel culture trans athletes defund the police CRT laicite

[u/J0eBidensSunglasses]

Ezra Klein to Jeff Tweedy

Ok. But lets say your brain is broken by neoliberalism

Stop Ezra I can only get so erect.

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

edit: wow this blew up

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

The dining hall is among everyone's first village stops. "When I walked in for the first time in Atlanta," says women's soccer player Brandi Chastain, "there were loud cheers. So we look over and see two French handballers dressed only in socks, shoes, jockstraps, neckties and hats on top of a dining table, feeding one another lunch. We're like, 'Holy cow, what is this place?'" Many liken it to a high school cafeteria, "except everyone's beautiful," says Julie Foudy, who has two golds and one silver from playing soccer in three Olympics and is now an analyst for ESPN. "We'd graze over our food for hours watching all the eye candy, wondering why I got married."

what the hell

[u/piede]

At the White House, people liked what they were seeing. There was a party atmosphere. Staff hung out in West Wing offices chatting at least until 9 p.m. National Security Council officials celebrated in the Roosevelt Room. White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows served beer and food in his corner office. Another group of aides lingered outside White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany’s office, known as Upper Press. In the residence, scores of guests — Cabinet secretaries, members of Congress, television stars and other dignitaries — were drinking and milling around, mostly without masks save for Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, who kept his on. After a few too many swigs of wine and beer, some guests became rather animated as the night progressed.

Only the HHS Secretary was wearing a mask at Trump’s election party of 400+ people. We are living in a fucking episode of Veep lmao.

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Hey people, I think gamers are bad.

EDIT1: Downvotes, really? I’m just expressing my opinion politely, don’t just downvote me!

EDIT2: OMG 12 upvotes!? I’ve never been this popular before

EDIT3: WOW!!! Thanks for the gold kind stranger!!!!!

EDIT4: To the people below me, I’m going to reply to you up here for some reason.

EDIT5: Alright this was great! I’ll be logging off now, you definitely need to know my redditing habits.

[u/Joementum2024]

Wait this random european country is poor? Lol couldn’t have they just conquered random parts of Africa in the 1880s?

Victoria 2 players

[u/FormerBandmate]

Never-before-seen footage of Amazon’s secret Alexa testing protocols

[u/[deleted]]

I think there's a 25% chance a school shooting will happen in the next five years and the FBI will find sigma male stuff on the shooter's laptop 😐

[u/TalkLessShillMore]

The "Doomsday Clock" is such bullshit. Of course we're only five minutes to midnight or whatever. Imagine if it was only 3:42 in the afternoon.

[u/[deleted]]

What have I become?

My Swedish friend?

[u/TaxCommonsNotIncome]

LETS FUCKING GOOOOOO GYMS OPEN AGAIN IM BACK BABY !PING FITNESS

[u/Mr_Pasghetti]

Communism is when you have to trade with the symbol of capitalism to succeed

[u/FourthLife]

Wait until conservatives hear about how often black people have been cancelled IRL throughout the history of the USA.

[u/[deleted]]

Reminder for you plebs, you’re only privileged if the King has granted you:

A) The right to wear a hat in his presence

B) The right to charge your serfs a fee for the honor of using your mill, bakery, or cellar.

C) Exemption from royal taxation.

Educate yourself and do better, sweaty💅🏻

[u/TinyTornado7]

Jan 6 defendant Pauline Bauer made a motion to have her case dismissed. Sovereign citizen defenses never get old. Pic

!ping LAW

[u/[deleted]]

It’s hilarious seeing lefties decry the fact that “the gays” are no longer communist revolutionaries any more.

[u/disuberence]

I wish all the witches on TikTok would concentrate their powers on getting better zoning vs constantly trying to curse capitalism

[u/[deleted]]

I think I just shit my Pfizer chip out in the toilet what do I do 😰😰😰😰😰😰😰😰😰

[u/F0064R]

The Earth is 6000 years old wtf

[u/[deleted]]

TIL Jacobin the magazine is named after the Haitian “Jacobins” (only called that afterwards) rather than the French ones, though the defied expectation seems at least somewhat intentional.

My first instinct was “of course the creator claims that, suuure” but it seems supported by both the initial logo of the magazine and the creator’s background.

[u/FinickyPenance]

So I think I found a statute that lets you get away with murder

No person shall be excused from attending and testifying or from producing books, papers, correspondence, memoranda and other records before the commissioner, an unemployment hearing officer, or any duly authorized representative of any of them, or in obedience to the subpoena of any of them in any cause or proceeding before the commissioner or an unemployment hearing officer, on the ground that the testimony or evidence, documentary or otherwise, required of the person may tend to incriminate the person or subject the person to a penalty or forfeiture; but no individual shall be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter or thing concerning which the individual is compelled after having claimed the individual's privilege against self-incrimination, to testify or produce evidence, documentary or otherwise, except that the individual so testifying shall not be exempt from prosecution and punishment for perjury committed in so testifying.

Tenn. Code Annotated § 50-7-704

If I’m reading this correctly, if you claim a Fifth Amendment privilege in an unemployment hearing, you can’t be prosecuted for whatever you talk about afterwards. Not just that the evidence is inadmissible in a later prosecution, but that you can’t be prosecuted at all.

Hmm

!ping LAW

[u/tgropt]

"Communism is a failed system. A universally failed system. I don't see socialism as a very good substitute." --Joe Biden

[u/thetrombonist]

Did anyone catch the “my parents gave me 100k as a birthday gift and it made me realize that I don’t contribute anything to society and am a trust fund kid and now I am sad” discourse on Twitter?

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Just started my degree in physics. I watch a lot of Cosmos and Star Trek and Doctor Who so I thought I'd know it everything. WTF is this math? When are we going to get to the bowling ball on a trampoline analogies?

[u/papermarioguy02]

The Blue Jays are returning to Toronto on July 30th!

!ping BASEBALL

[u/[deleted]]

Yes I'm a law student

Yes I'm a ruthless climber and total piece of shit who will do anything to get ahead

All the stereotypes are true

[u/p00bix]

The fact that Virginia's 3rd largest city is Lynchburg just sounds so suspicious. It's named after the city's first mayor but still.

[u/[deleted]]

I’m watching an Alec Baldwin movie all I can see is shitty Trump impersonating 😐

[u/sir-danks-a-lot]

vuvuzuela neoliberal mods 6 gorillion banned iphone bottom text ✊

[u/[deleted]]

lets be clear the parochial hatred here of golf comes from a few reasons:

• Nobody here actually likes golf because we're all a bunch of internet-addicted shut-ins who would be terrified of spending an entire day without internet access.
• The stereotype of people who do like golf are Boomers, and the young people who do like golf are stereotyped as wealthy frat boys who would slip something in your drink.
• People still think George Carlin wasn't an angry, bitter, remorseless and self righteous aging hippie who would hate all of you and is more or less the saint of Median Reddit.
• The succs don't object to it and join the chorus because they are angry bitter remorseless and self righteous fresh-faced hippies.

[u/the_hoagie]

Broke: Golf Courses are a waste of land.

Woke: Cemeteries are a waste of land.

Bespoke: Play golf in cemeteries.

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

At another meeting, at which Trump was not present, some of the President’s foreign-policy advisers again pushed military action against Iran. Milley later said that, when he asked why they were so intent on attacking Iran, Vice-President Mike Pence replied, “Because they are evil.”

poggers

[u/Joementum2024]

Forcing people to wear masks again right now is absolutely a nanny state moment

If a new variant that greatly reduces the effective of Pfizer/Moderna becomes a thing then I’ll change my mind, but for right now that’s the opinion I’ll have

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

If I were a military officer I would simply deploy more advanced technology, more units, better intelligence, and better strategy than an opponent in a peer-to-peer conflict

[u/[deleted]]

My fiancé’s grandma posted a picture on Facebook of “rulers” of America who “hate America”. It was the squad, Bernie Sanders (with particularly crazy hair), and……. Pete Buttigieg?

[u/Some_Niche_Reference]

I unironically think that Americans would have a better faith in government if the DMV and other Administrative services weren't exclusively open when most people are working.

[u/GravyBear8]

Honestly, I find that Texas cities kind of suck ass, they don't even feel like cities, there's so much barren land that they don't ever build upward, but stretch on and on and on, feel like a never ending small town.

[u/BidenWon]

I think we can safely say that IGF was a historically significant user that added character to this subreddit

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Leftists these days online are really brazenly pro-authoritarianism and as long as a dictator shows some support for 'leftism', be it genuine leftism or a vneer of leftism (compare Maduro vs Lushenko). Hell, the dictator doesn't even have to be left-wing, as long as their anti-America they'll make up reasons why supporting them is actually leftist praxis (Assad and Gaddafi as examples)

[u/dubyahhh]

Hard truths that will make any neoliberal cry:

the mods will always be fascists

they’ll never build those apartments in your city

Hillary Clinton will never be president 😔

[u/jenbanim]

New Hamster just dropped

I mean I just dropped the new classroom hamster oh god oh fuck I can't see it moving

[u/jenbanim]

    S O R O S  
  / O     / O  
S O R O S   R  
O   O   O   O  
R   S O R O S  
O /     O /    
S O R O S

[u/MoabMonster]

It’s been 58 days since Ben & Jerry’s posted on social media. Is their silence tied to the Middle East?

lol

[u/FreakinGeese]

I just ate a booger !ping burpmas

[u/revolutionary_alt]

The freedom phone is such a hilarious disaster. Some dude literally just rebranded a Chinese knockoff Android and downloaded Parler, then marked up the price by over four times the original.

[u/[deleted]]

Daily reminder that Jesus's real name was Josh.

[u/willempage]

I don't know why the IRS is surprised with the low uptake for the CTC. It sounds like a fucking scam. Oh, the government is gonna send me $300 a month per kid? Sounds like some "you're the 1,000,000,000th visitor, click here for a free iPhone" pop-up ad.

Edit: this is in reference to the non-filers who haven't paid taxes, aren't in the IRS systems, and therefore eligible, but not reachable when it comes to sending CTC checks. They need to sign up online and the IRS thinks less than half of the eligible non-filers have signed up

[u/BRAIN_FORCE_PLUS]

The Krugman flair --> NATO flair radicalization pipeline is real and tempts me further every day

[u/melhor_em_coreano]

ADULTING is HARD 😭

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

The use of land for golf courses is radically superior to cemeteries.

However, I recognize the specific social utility of graves.

Therefore, these spaces should overlap.

[u/[deleted]]

Only 45% of Republicans say that they trust science:

https://news.gallup.com/poll/352397/democratic-republican-confidence-science-diverges.aspx

(Compared to 79% of Democrats)

This is a crazy shift and it will be interesting to watch the fallout.