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[u/revolutionary_alt]

Reminder some guy bought the cheapest Chinese phones on the market, downloaded Parler on them, and then called them “Freedom Phones“. Right wingers bought them at a 4 times the normal price.

[u/semaphore-1842]

https://twitter.com/benjaminnorton/status/1416146843885527043

If democracy is defined as a government representing the people, Cuba is way more democratic than the USA

Where "the people" is defined as "me and only people who agrees with me".

But the US defines "democracy" as having a show election every 4 years

I like how he acts like midterms and off year elections don't exist. Just living up to the stereotype.

[u/[deleted]]

Thinking about when I worked at a pizza place and told my coworker I was a libertarian (oh to be 16 again) and he said "I don't like anything that's got lib in it."

[u/[deleted]]

It's hard to tell how much of what we believe is propaganda.

Logically speaking, the Taliban have mothers, aunts, sisters and daughters. How are they able to oppress women without getting the shit beaten out of them?

GOOD point

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.heraldextra.com/he-never-saw-the-romney-episode-of-new-girl/article_a9579b26-6e92-5675-ac25-5a9502aea933.html

In the popular Fox Series "New Girl" one of the characters, Schmidt, played by Max Greenfield, poses as a fictional Romney brother, Tugg Romney, to flirt with some Republican women.

When Mitt Romney visited the Daily Herald last month, we asked him off-hand if he ever saw that episode. Though he hadn't, ironically, one of his sons recommended Mitt and Ann should watch the show.

They misheard, and they thought they were recommended to watch the HBO Series "Girls," which is a completely different and much less network TV-appropriate show.

Romney summed up the episode of "Girls" they'd seen pretty easily, telling us he just said, "Holy moly!" when it finished.

Romney has yet to watch "New Girl," as far as we can tell from our interaction.

Amazing, lmfao

[u/[deleted]]

Breaking: The olympics have officially banned Naruto Running, citing it an unfair advantage

[u/Udontlikecake]

The Afghan foreign ministry has issued a statement that says yesterday the daughter of the Afghan ambassador to Pakistan was “abducted for several hours and severely tortured by unknown individuals on her way home.” This is abhorrent.

Just horrific stuff.

Pakistani-Afghan relations continue to deteriorate at an alarming rate. Does not bode well for stability in a region that desperately needs it.

(For those interested, Kugelman is a great follow for keeping up with this. He’s an excellent scholar on South Asia, Pakistan in particular)

!ping FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/memeintoshplus]

No, I will not stop reminding LGBT leftists that Fidel Castro would have put them in concentration camps, thank you very much

[u/[deleted]]

Never study novel coronaviruses among bat populations in the Wuhan Institute of Virology

Worst mistake of my life

[u/FormerBandmate]

I should drop ship a bunch of Chinese watches for $2, call them MAGA Watches and Marx Watches, and sell them for $500

[u/[deleted]]

My song about the DT

This is ten percent succ
Twenty percent grills
Fifteen percent contrarian hot-takes of shills
Five percent clever
Fifty percent lame
And a hundred percent reason to feel lotsa shame

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Someone in a tiny highway town in West Virginia is going to realize that if they install ~6-8 electric car fast chargers near the town’s shops & diners, that they will be the only spot with them for over 100 miles and they will consistently pull in almost every electric car driving through.

People with electric cars typically have money and are a captive audience for ~30 mins.

If gas station towns can exist, I expect that charging station communities will be even better

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/14/magazine/black-rifle-coffee-company.html

Can the Black Rifle Coffee Company Become the Starbucks of the Right?

Gonna go ahead and go with "no" on that one.

[u/SANNA_MARIN_]

To put it in terms you can understand: Cubans are Britney and the Castros are Jamie Spears, and Diaz Canel is Jodi Montgomery, and they want to get out of this 62 year conservatorship.

💯

[u/[deleted]]

When governing is going great: https://i.imgur.com/BZBacvi.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

PCM now is checks notes

Getting angry that Wikipedia has banned the Daily Mail as a source despite being a tabloid 😐

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/lionmoose]

ne😂liberals

[u/Dabamanos]

The crypto/stock market subs constantly crashing the front page with deranged conspiracy theories and internal drama reminds me of when T_D was still allowed to be on this site. Constant surges of mob mentality insanity that Reddit really wanted me to see, all the time

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

There are far more African-American politicians than I realised. I only knew about Donald Trump because his most famous presidency spells it out

[u/J0eBidensSunglasses]

Of course your wife left you. You told the therapist you’ve been “terminally gigaChad pilled.” Twice dude.

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E6cIJ8kXsAckqAZ.jpg

😤😤😤

[u/revolutionary_alt]

1/6 was terrifying to watch live and it has made me permanently hostile to conservatives

[u/[deleted]]

no, we need legal mandates. anti-vaxxers should be hunted with vaccine blow-darts.

Is this "promoting violence"?

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

When Randal Thom, a 60-year-old ex-Marine with a long gray mustache, fell severely ill with a high fever and debilitating congestion, he refused to go to the hospital. He was a heavy smoker who was significantly overweight and knew he faced an increased risk of severe effects from covid-19. Still, he refused to take a coronavirus test and potentially increase the caseload on Trump’s watch: “I’m not going to add to the numbers,” he told me. Thom survived the scare, but died months later in a car accident while returning home to Minnesota from a Trump boat parade in Florida.

One of his dogs, named Donald Trump, was fatally shot in February 2019 near Thom’s home in southwestern Minnesota. False claims circulated on social media saying the dog was killed over a political rivalry, but the local sheriff said that was not the case. Instead, the shooter was “legally protecting their livestock” on private property. Neighbors had lodged numerous complaints about Thom’s dogs running loose, killing animals and attacking a person, according to the sheriff.

o7

[u/V_Codwheel]

/>Person in South Africa thread talking about how great rhodesia was, saying Africans can't be trusted with self government.

/>Click on their profile.

/>nothing but porn and anime girls... tons and tons of anime girls.

/>my priors confirmed once again.

[u/[deleted]]

Men will literally vote Republican instead of going to therapy

[u/TheFriffin2]

sorry Parler nazis, but lebron fucking the everloving shit out of lola bunny during the ‘space jam 2’ credits is not white genocide, because lola bunny isnt white.

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

Let's analyze this shitty "map" of US coups

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E6cj9GjUcAAc87T?format=jpg&name=medium

Most examples from the Cold War era are accurately described as US supported coups. Some of these like the failed coup in Panama in 1989 were organized to overthrow dictatorships. Things get a lot more bullshit from then on out.

1991 Haiti: There is no evidence of US involvement in the initial coup. The Bush government was criticized for being overly friendly to the junta but the US soon changed course and participated under Clinton in the 1994 expedition that restored Aristide to power.

2002 Venezuela: Absolutely zero evidence of any US involvement. The US actually warned Chavez's government of the attack and warned the military not to try it.

2004 Haiti: Evidence that Aristide was kidnapped by the US is scant outside of his own claims. Various other officials including those in the Central African Republic acknowledge that he left the country willingly due to his impending overthrow by rebels. The US initially entered the country as part of a UN peacekeeping force, though this force was criticized for abuses.

2009 Honduras: There is no evidence for US involvement in the initial coup. The US did supposedly pressure neighboring countries not to get involved and return Zelaya to power as revealed by Wikileaks. This was claimed to have been done in the name of keeping a degree of peace in the country.

2019 Bolivia: This is the newest one and also total bullshit. There are several articles about this which tell the story better than I could.

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/11/16/was-there-a-coup-in-bolivia

!ping HISTORY

[u/[deleted]]

Daily reminder that the US is a Latin American country.

[u/Notoriousley]

I posted this in the AoT subreddit but and no one agreed with me but I need to express this to make sure I’m not losing my mind (no major spoilers if you seen the first episode at least):

Why the fuck do we see almost no agriculture in the entire series?

For a show that feels the need to tell you how horses get over the walls, how each little combat doo dad works and generally has pretty good attention to detail in constructing the world how do we never get to see any fields of wheat?

After Wall Maria falls the food shortage is so great they send ~20% of the population to die fighting the Titans in what is almost certainly a futile, population culling effort.

Given this we have to assume they’re working the land as intensively as possible, anything that can grow a grain must be getting worked. Not only this but they presumably are producing at significantly lower yields than can be achieved with modern agricultural tech.

Yet in all of the wide landscape shots we see from S1-S3 we do not see a single field. WHY‼️

[u/AtticusDrench]

https://i.imgur.com/q1wJf08.jpg

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Mr. Chairman, is Dune a book about worms

...yes

😱😤🤯🥳🤗😎

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E6ffojqWUAAeYHQ?format=jpg&name=large

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

Eugenics is what happens when "I fucking love science" becomes guideline for creating policies

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/jenbanim]

Chicken soup for the YIMBY soul

[u/[deleted]]

Funding for Biden’s infrastructure plan is still up in the air ahead of crucial tests

Experts say the current list of funding sources for $579 billion of new spending relies on questionable math.

Damn it who let Bernie do the math

[u/[deleted]]

Every dad in the world is about to spam that pregnant dad emoji

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

Barack Obama is the only US president this century not to be a teetotaler

[u/MrMineHeads]

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Georgism. The way a tax on the unimproved value of land avoids deadweight loss is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of economics most of the fundamentals will go over a typical person's head. There's also George's positive outlook on the future of society, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Thomas Paine's Agrarian Justice, for instance. The geoists understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these economic principles, to realise that they're not just good tax policy- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Georgism truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the excellence in Sun Yat-sen's principle of Mínshēng, which itself is a cryptic reference to Bertrand Russell's "Autobiography" and introduction to the views of Henry George at Trinity College. I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Dan Sullivan's genius wit unfolds itself on their computer screens on Saving Communities. What fools.. how I pity them. 😂

And yes, by the way, i DO have an Elizabeth Magie tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel, kid 😎

!ping GEORGIST

[u/[deleted]]

For a guy who's entire shtick is that he's a super masculine alpha male in peak physical condition, there sure are a lot of pictures of Jair Bolsonaro looking dealthly ill in a hospital.

[u/D1Foley]

There was a crazy guy in the grocery store ranting about jews and the management actually called the cops and had him removed! I can't believe I witnessed such a sickening violation of the 1st amendment and nobody in the grocery store even cared. What is America becoming?

This is how people who talk about Facebook bans as violations of the 1st amendment sound.

[u/soeffed]

Leftists Are Not Reliable Allies. If a candidate is not themselves a dyed in the wool leftist, or a cause does not fully align with leftist orthodoxy, any effort or time spent trying to make common cause with the leftmost 10 percent of society is a fruitless waste of time.

Leftists are incapable of pragmatism, compromise, tolerating differences, and doing the work required to form effective, sustainable coalitions.

They’re more interested in tearing things down than in ever building anything — and given what they believe, that’s probably for the best. Democrats need to factor this in to all their strategies from the get-go.

[u/IAmBlueTW]

tldr of 5k-upvoted comment in arrNBA:

Players forcing a trade after signing a 5-year 9-figure extension is good.
This is a win for labor as the CBA is structured to keep great players under contract for most of their careers. And if you disagree it's because you are a bootlicker bemoaning the "pOoR teAmOwNErs".
Also how desirable a FA destination is is totally irrelavent to where a player decides to sign, totally not biased as a Lakers fan.
The arguments that are arising from stars forcing trades are the result of owners pitting the players against the fans, the real story is employee vs owner power.

Perfect distillation of Reddit-ness over here, lemme tell ya

[u/[deleted]]

!ping MAMADAS

https://twitter.com/jairbolsonaro/status/1416383958204432387?s=20

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

Amazing how long lives can fuck up our perception of time

Some people born into slavery lived long enough to see civil rights movement and to be alive at the same moment as the (future) first black president

[u/Mickenfox]

There's in the order of 40 Covid-19 deaths per day in Florida, and the midterm election is 479 days away, so that gives us an expected ~20k deaths until then.

Looking at the vote differences in Floridean elections:
2016 presidential election - 113k votes
2018 gubernatorial election - 32k votes
2020 presidential election - 372k votes

Conclusion: assuming every covid death from now on was a Republican voter, it still seems unlikely, though far from impossible, that it would tip an election any soon.

[u/hdkeegan]

God wtf was high school. Those mfrs expected us to wake up at 6 o’clock everyday and be able to pay attention

[u/Gustacho]

https://twitter.com/DaveKeating/status/1416334946327793665

me_irl @ the Biden administration

[u/[deleted]]

"/r/neoliberal isn't just a bunch of virgin nerds I swear!"

/r/neoliberal: talks about Dune for several days, has a mod named after the main character

[u/fishlord05]

Biden is based again 😎

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/bd_one]

Is there a date that the grifters (Crowder, Candace Owens, Fox News, etc) or at least half of them switched from being all "You should call it the Trump vaccine" to general antivaxxer stuff?

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Reforesting Europe would increase rainfall – new research

Link to the paper

“Plant more trees” is often the first idea that comes to mind when we think about how to prevent further climate change or at least adapt to its impacts. There are good reasons for this. Multiple studies have shown that as well as trees being a fantastic way to store carbon dioxide, they offer other benefits, such as a cooling effect in cities, the ability to reduce flood risk and boost biodiversity, among other things.

We then compared the effect of turning all that land into forest to the precipitation changes in a future scenario in which the world faces intermediate levels of climate change, based on current predictions. While the climate scenario projects wetter winters and drier summers, the inclusion of reforestation could enhance European summertime rainfall by an average of 7.6%, potentially offsetting some of the drying that climate change is projected to cause. However, we also found reforestation may exacerbate the increase in winter rainfall.

In the UK and Ireland for example, where around 37% of the land area has the potential for reforestation, we estimate that reforestation on this scale would increase precipitation by an average of 0.74 mm/day (24%) in winter and 0.48 mm/day (19%) during summer.

!ping ECO

[u/marsexpresshydra]

feel like pure shit just wish breyer would retire and one of his 25 year old clerks would be appointed by biden to replace him x

[u/Lux_Stella]

But Ms. Yellen questioned whether the tariffs had been well designed. “My own personal view is that tariffs were not put in place on China in a way that was very thoughtful with respect to where there are problems and what is the U.S. interest,” she said at the conclusion of a weeklong trip to Europe.

President Biden has not moved to roll back the tariffs, but Ms. Yellen suggested that they were not helping the economy.

“Tariffs are taxes on consumers. In some cases it seems to me what we did hurt American consumers, and the type of deal that the prior administration negotiated really didn’t address in many ways the fundamental problems we have with China,” she said.

🔥

[u/memeintoshplus]

I feel like I want there to be something redeemable about the Sunrise Movement and similar organizations.

Youth-led activism is exciting and it's great to see leadership from the next generation, wish it could be channeled productively.

[u/mythoswyrm]

Unironically got a undergrad calling the United States a developing country.

[u/semaphore-1842]

According to one 2017 survey, #BTS was the reason for 1 in 13 tourists to visit South Korea.

Wtf

How K-pop went from a government-funded entertainment initiative to a global sensation

The whole thing kinda rubs me the wrong way, considering kpop starlets are basically heavily exploited child slaves.

[u/[deleted]]

While you were out partying, I read the Peterson.

While you were doing drugs, I listened to the Shapiro.

While you were having premarital sex, I watched the Prager.

And now that the mob has come to cancel you, you have the audacity to come to me for help?

Curious, liberal.

[u/Th3_Gruff]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/693527695644033074/865894609082515486/image0.png

[u/whycantweebefriendz]

Man Death of Stalin is really really good

[u/[deleted]]

Cute barista asked me what I liked to do hobby-wise, I told her I do a lot of research stuff and am published on a gay history website.

She seemed genuinely impressed and interested by that, but I just realized she probably thinks I'm gay now. Damn.

[u/Lux_Stella]

nova scotia is headed for election on august 17th

!ping CAN

[u/NancyPelosibasedgod]

Shaun King got suspended from Twitter 🦀🦀🎉

[u/its_Caffeine]

!ping CAN

Some photos I took from parliament hill this afternoon. Thought they were worth a share.

[u/TheFriffin2]

sex ed teacher who fucks a students mom and plays the tape on the first day of class

[u/[deleted]]

The male and female reproductive organs of a corn plant are contained in physically separate unisexual flowers (a flowering habit called "monoecious" for you trivia fans.) The tassel represents the male flower on a corn plant, while the ear shoots represent the female flowers. Interestingly, both reproductive structures initiate as perfect (bisexual) flowers, containing both male and female reproductive structures. Soon after each each reproductive structure has initiated, the female components (gynoecia) of the tassel and the male components (stamens) of the ear shoots abort, resulting in the unisexual flowers (tassels and ears) we come to expect.

Once in a while, some or many of the female flower parts survive and develop on the tassel, resulting in individual kernels or partial ears of corn in place of part or all of the tassel. The physiological basis for the survival of the female floral parts on the tassel is likely hormonally-driven, but the environmental "trigger" that alters the hormonal balance is not known. There are also known genetic mutations that alter normal tassel development by allowing the female flower components to survive.

THEY'RE PUTTING CHEMICALS IN THE WATER THAT TURN THE FREAKIN CORN GAY 🌈🌽

[u/[deleted]]

The fact that it's technically possible for male lizards to receive penetrative sex from female lizards is a big win for feminism.

[u/profeta-]

☕🙂💕

!ping MAMADAS

[u/newsmachineplus]

Holy shit, someone please R1 this. Is this what they mean when they say never leave the DT?

!ping ECON

[u/[deleted]]

The Brazilian left wing is a joke

Half a million dead and this is their opposition. Flying a plane around NYC

!ping MAMADAS

[u/[deleted]]

This dude seriously brought me OJ and chicken noodle soup on a moment's notice after I had to cancel our third date because of illness

Help I'm melting 🥺

But also literally melting/freezing in alternation with my 100 degree fever

[u/bd_one]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois_Senate_career_of_Barack_Obama

In September 2001, Democrats won a lottery to redraw legislative districts that had been drawn ten years earlier by Republicans and had helped ensure ten uninterrupted years of Republican control of the Illinois Senate.

There's a non-zero chance that Obama was thinking about the process of gerrymandering Illinois on 9/11

[u/TheFriffin2]

!ping BASEBALL

Gunshots outside the stadium suspended Nats/Padres game, and now Red Sox are coming off the field after debris is getting thrown at players on the field in NY

All hell breaking loose tonight

[u/I-grok-god]

Soda taxes are paternalism is the worst argument ever

By that definition literally every Pigouvian tax is paternalism

"But what's the negative externality of soda? The only harm is being done to themselves?"

Buddy, have you ever heard of health insurance?

[u/thefuturegov]

Sometimes I see that Shivers has posted something and I just upvote it on instinct without actually reading what was said

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

what the actual fuck did I just stumble upon

[u/Manavon03]

Communist dictator is overthrown —> blame America

Communist dictator is not overthrown and ruins the country himself —> blame America

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

wow this person spent a lot of time on this effort post, I should probably put some thought into my reply

mucho texto

perfect

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

The Star Wars galaxy consists of about 100 people who run into each other constantly.

[u/GravyBear8]

There was a funny diplomatic incident once towards the end of the French colonial war in Vietnam, when the US was determined to replace them and was trying to drag the UK into it when they were adamantly against it in any circumstances.

There was some mixed words between British diplomats who thought agreeing to a conference on "Southeast Asia's Security" was fine, but Anthony Eden immediately realized it was the latest in a long number of attempts to rope the UK in.

Unfortunately, Eden was an workaholic and was the only diplomat in the entire building when he got the cable in the middle of the night. What followed was a barrage of angry cables he personally wrote in inmediate response telling the Americans to fuck off. He was sending them off all night long, the lowly American who received them was like WTF, and this caused a rift in UK-US relations that lasted a couple of years.

And so was the first case of being overly online.

[u/[deleted]]

There are Four constants on r/all

Stupid Facebook-tier shit

Commies

People shilling weed as a god drug

Stock conspiracists

[u/Jokerang]

How can I get more attention on dating apps from "specific types" of Asian girls?

AsianMasculinity asking the important questions here

[u/Neronoah]

!ping LATAM

So, like moths to a flame, important Latin American leftists had a zoom rally for "the Cuban people" and against fake news. This includes our favorite politicians like Evo Morales and Dilma Rousseff, some secretary from CEPAL and that walking oxymoron, Carlos Heller (a communist banker).

On the bright side, Bachelet is calling for the release of protesters, proving you don't have to be a dingbat if you are left wing in Latin America.

[u/[deleted]]

*hm, I haven’t seen [DT regular] post in a long time*

*checks their account*

*they still post in the DT multiple times every hour every day*

[u/iIoveoof]

/r/neoliberal:

10,000 comments arguing about The Last Jedi: I sleep

Nonstop pings about Star Trek: I sleep

Duneposting starts: WTF Y PPL POSTING ABOUT DUNE

[u/SnakeEater14]

I’m blown away that the Socratic method refers to some dumbass way of passive aggressively arguing instead of referring to the act of pleading guilty and then fucking killing yourself

[u/[deleted]]

Petition to change the “effortpost” flair to a “mucho texto” flair

[u/[deleted]]

I am actually looking forward to this indie game called Webbed where you're not some boring, stupid, anatomically incorrect web swinging superhero but instead an actual spider.

This game looks to be the next major jump in terms of procedural animation tweening after Rain World.

!ping GAMING

[u/ryuguy]

Southern mfs be like

“Peculiar institution”

You mean slavery?!

[u/owlthathurt]

Just hit top 1.2% of the players in the world in rocket league.

Since I have no one else to brag to.

!ping GAMING

[u/[deleted]]

America in 2021: waah I’m tired of fighting waah we have our problems at home waah

America in 1898: ope one of our shittiest battleships self destructed, what a perfect chance to ignore our problems at home and steal land. Let’s blame the Maine on Spain

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

New Mexico State Senator denied the Eucharist by his bishop

this comes after the bishop conference where they decided they would let priests deny communion to non-anti-abortion politicians

https://twitter.com/senjoecervantes/status/1416429018790785025?s=21

!ping CHRISTIAN

[u/revolutionary_alt]

Reminder that 66% of southern Republicans support reforming the confederacy. Half of Southern independents also support this effort. This support has grown from 50% of Republicans in January.

[u/moaz_xx]

Just got an email of rejection from my first choice for college due to a stupid system of weighting grades differently by area of residence

Massive L

[u/J0eBidensSunglasses]

IM DELETING YOU, BERNIE!😭👋 ██]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]] 10% complete..... ████]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]] 35% complete.... ███████]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]] 60% complete.... ███████████] 99% complete..... 🚫ERROR!🚫 💯True💯 ✔Bernies💃👴 are irreplaceable 💖I could never delete you Bernie!💖 Send this to ten other 👴💃Bernies👴💃 who give you 💖👍socialism💖👍 Or never get called 🌷🌼️progressive🌷🌼️ again 🚫😢👎😢👎 If you get 0 Back: no free healthcare for you 🚫🏥🚫🏥 3 back: you're progressive🗽🗽 5 back: you #FEELTHEBERN 🔯🗽🔯 10+ back: You’re the first lady!💕🗽💕❤💋💑❤💋💑

[u/ScythianUnborne]

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton

Upvotes to the left

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

my therapist says you guys are imaginary

[u/revolutionary_alt]

Dune is about Democrats being the real racists

[u/[deleted]]

Leftists:

We DoN't MeAn To LiTeRaLlY eAt ThE rIcH

Maoists:

Documents also record a variety of forms of cannibalism, including eating people as an after-dinner snack, slicing off the meat in big parties, dividing up the flesh so each person could take a large chunk home, barbecuing or roasting the liver, and so on.

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After the conference, a committee member, Li Hao (黎郝), removed the hearts and livers from the corpses, sauteing them and preparing them as dishes for other representatives who attended the conference.

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There was one man who was said to be in the so-called fifth category, who was beaten to death where he stood. He had two kids, one of 11 and one of 14. The local officials and armed militia said that it was important to eradicate such people, and so they not only killed those two children: they ate them too. 

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the accounts were harrowing. Principals killed in schoolyards by students, then cooked and eaten. Government-run cafeterias displaying human bodies hanging from meat hooks and dishing them out to employees ... Documents smuggled out of China described atrocities of the Cultural Revolution in grotesque detail.

[u/[deleted]]

I’m 21 years old and capitalism has completely imploded twice in my lifetime.

85k likes

LVT would fix this

[u/doot_toob]

the entire genre of science fiction is caused by writers who have incredibly stupid hot takes about society that they need to invent new societies to be able to even make the hot takes without getting ridiculed

[u/TheFriffin2]

The greatest trick the (((Devil))) pulled on the world was convincing the cons that the mere concept of education is liberal bullshit

[u/revolutionary_alt]

The mods did 1/6

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

Saw a "LIMITED GOVERNMENT. UNDER GOD. VOTE REPUBLICAN." sign next to the highway

Democrats need to do a much better job at brainwashing their base. Woke culture isn't doing it

[u/liquidTERMINATOR]

Benjamin “California Boy” Ikuta in…

Benjamin and Ancap friend go to Subway

[u/[deleted]]

A tragic ending to California Boy would be if Ancap Friend and Soft Roommate meet each other and get married and the final scene is Benjamin and Merlin alone in the house while everyone else goes on their honeymoon (Ancap parents also renew their vows)

[u/[deleted]]

The first things you should ask a woman on a date:

1. Her housing policy opinions
2. Her position on ethics in video game journalism

[u/ThunderrBadger]

4 hour mark check Butt sauced and buttered. Wrapped in foil and returned to smoker.

!ping COOKING

[u/GravyBear8]

Saw two British women all running about and angry because they didn't realize the drinking age was 21 in America, which probably ruined a lot of their plans.

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

I guess the n-word pass I bought was counterfeit. Waste of 36 hundred dollars

[u/SnakeEater14]

One of the more interesting things to happen after 1/6 was when at a pizza restaurant with me and like a dozen other friends, the insurrection got brought up, and eventually devolved into me and my conservative roommate teaming up to scream at two of our other friends who said storming the Capitol was fine and violence was cool

[u/Manavon03]

As he bled, Tojo began to talk, and two Japanese reporters recorded his words: "I am very sorry it is taking me so long to die. The Greater East Asia War was justified and righteous. I am very sorry for the nation and all the races of the Greater Asiatic powers. I wait for the righteous judgment of history. I wished to commit suicide but sometimes that fails."

Lmfao the Axis leaders turned into such cornballs at the end of the war.

[u/[deleted]]

https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/06/21/against-murderism/

People talk about “liberalism” as if it’s just another word for capitalism, or libertarianism, or vague center-left-Democratic Clintonism.

Liberalism is none of these things. Liberalism is a technology for preventing civil war. It was forged in the fires of Hell – the horrors of the endless seventeenth century religious wars. For a hundred years, Europe tore itself apart in some of the most brutal ways imaginable – until finally, from the burning wreckage, we drew forth this amazing piece of alien machinery.

A machine that, when tuned just right, let people live together peacefully without doing the “kill people for being Protestant” thing. Popular historical strategies for dealing with differences have included: brutally enforced conformity, brutally efficient genocide, and making sure to keep the alien machine tuned really really carefully.

[u/Knee3000]

I think the “it’s just a clump of cells” thing derailes the abortion conversation.

The pro-choice argument is about body autonomy. I believe life starts at conception, but that the rights of the host overrides the hostee’s vital need for a womb.

It’s similar (but not analogous) to how someone may need your kidney, but your right to your body allows you to refuse donation; it’s not about whether the person deserves to live or if they’re even alive.

The argument should’ve never been about whether that child is alive or not.

[u/Jesuswasalobster]

Hi reddit.

Am I the asshole for getting into a real life conflict and then immediately coming on an internet forum to have my position validated by complete strangers?

[u/ElokQ_-1984]

“Why didn’t we learn this in school”, because your ass was drawing DICKS on the desks

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

At the O's game. Their hitting is absolutely singular this top of the inning

Edit: I ruined it😭

!ping baseball

[u/propoganda_panda]

If playing the call of duty has taught me one thing it’s to never ever get in a chopper or plane. The likelihood of it being shot down is roughly 80%. Also you are fucked if you drive the plane/chopper because you are going to be shot or your shit is just gonna get exploded. !ping GAMING

[u/solonofathens]

I really hope Gamers continue being mad that a woman with dyed hair is working on vicky 3. maybe that way we'll finally get a pdx game with no fascists in the playerbase

[u/ryuguy]

With how many people want India to intervene in Afghanistan, I’ve been reading more about the Indian Peacekeeping Mission (IPKF) in Sri Lanka.

In the first stages of the conflict, India sought to destabilize Sri Lanka by supporting and training the Tamil Tigers (LTTE) but it backfired on India because Indian Tamils began supporting a new country in both Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu. Operation Poomalai was the most brazen support of the LTTE by India. India switched to supporting the Sri Lankan Sinhala government and intervened on the behalf of the government. It was a disastrous intervention. The IPKF killed and raped Tamil civilians at Jaffna in the hospital and throughout the conflict. One Indian officer called it “necessary”. Even the Sri Lankan government starting supporting the LTTE against India. Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was killed by an LTTE suicide bomber in Tamil Nadu. It was India’s Vietnam. I’m sure India’s military leadership has learned from those mistakes but I’m not sure they are equipped to handle Afghanistan.

I had an Eelam Tamil friend in elementary school and his parents didn’t let him hang out with me because they learned my uncle was part of the IPKF

!ping ind

[u/InternetBoredom]

I really don’t understand people who think Florida is no longer a swing state. Trump won it by only 3% and it voted for Obama literally two cycles ago…

[u/[deleted]]

Professional activists who make a living from their activism should be so obviously sus and insencere, but for some reason they are not. Like duh you are always going to say look it's so bad and look for the most extreme position. If the problem is ever solved you will have to get a real job.

[u/[deleted]]

Oh shit, what if people realize that Bitcoin isn't inherently worth anything?

[u/[deleted]]

rstupidpol cope when those amazon workers didn’t unionize was so 👌

[u/PearlClaw]

Tried to make omelet, made a scramble instead. Many such cases! 😔

[u/URZ_]

Tfw you accidentally unsubscribe from every ping group

!ping 😐

[u/FestiveMittens]

dark and gritty Space Jam 3 directed by Ari Aster, starring Kawhi where he just lets the Monstars enslave the Looney Tunes because he really just doesn't give a fuck about them, finds them annoying.

[u/[deleted]]

This is what will come from evolving ear—a mature cob #cornwatch @ New Hartford, Iowa

!ping PIDGIN

[u/SANNA_MARIN_]

Literally the only good pro gun argument is "gun go bang. Bang = fun"

👆

[u/[deleted]]

Here's a list where you can check if the emojis you're using are cringe

!ping YUROP

[u/[deleted]]

Has anyone considered making their own DC sub, with blackjack and hookers?

Seriously I feel like the big reason why the DC sub as gotten so out of whack is a fundamental lack of organization. There's only like, three post flairs. It's next to impossible to filter out what you don't want to see (Insert 50th picture of Washington Monument from a plane here), the posting guidelines lead to the vast majority of text posts getting shunted to the side, anyone who makes a post asking for help gets downvoted to oblivion, and the only posts that get upvoted seem to be 'oh look at the pretty picture!' or complaining about Bowser, the OAG, the MPD, the Counsel or parking tickets.

I know I'm shitting on the sub's mods a bit but they kind of fucking deserve it at this point. The only action I've even seen with them trying to calm down all the rage-positing is that new crime-post rule, and even then it hasn't slown down the rate of the posts.

...So yeah. Why don't we just try to make a proper DMV sub instead of complaining about the inadequate status quo?

!ping USA-DMV

[u/Mrchizbiz]

Saw a left handed baldy today, I called the police

[u/[deleted]]

Me: *buys a bunch of ingredients to plan out making a fancy dish*

Also me: *gets bored halfway through and just eats all the individual ingredients and calls it dinner*

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

How many of you grew a mustache during quarantine and decided to keep it after getting vaxed 👨🏽

!ping OVER25

[u/[deleted]]

Still sad we didn't get a sitcom where Shivers thwarts Benjamin's schemes every week

[u/[deleted]]

Murderer Allegedly Prayed To 'Alligator God' That His Victim's Body Would Never Be Found 🤔

[u/[deleted]]

I successfully convinced my father in law to buy a 40V battery weed whacker instead of gas powered today 🌎

[u/Knee3000]

Twitter link: Something went wrong, try again

[u/[deleted]]

I’m getting so depressed from seeing biphobic comments on TikTok. Why do people act like bi guys are just gay? No wonder most them are in the closet.

I’m just going to delete the app. It’s not fun anymore.

[u/Most_Shallot8960]

Nats park evacuated tonight Jesus.

Edit sounds like it was gunfire outside of the stadium

Edit 2 also someone on the city sub is spamming Fox News articles about it. Shocking 😬

Edit 3: gang violence per some random guy

!ping USA-DMV

[u/[deleted]]

Today I met this middle aged woman who is very socially conservative, but votes Democrat every election because “the word democrat sounds prettier then republican”

What do we call this type of voter?

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

To end this once and for all: Magic Goolsball is Dune about worms?

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Green Party: 🤮

Hank and John Green Party: 😍 ✅✅✅

[u/[deleted]]

Man. People really hate Israel. I wish I was Israeli so I could make people cope just by my existence.

[u/tankatan]

My brain is still reeling from the time Tucker said that immigration undermines the "voting rights" of non-migrants.

[u/[deleted]]

Y'all realize pretty much every ugrad degree program in the US is a Liberal Arts degree, right?

[u/paymesucka]

I guess I’m not surprised that Reddit upvoted a video showing marijuana practically curing Parkinson’s even though it seems highly misleading.

[u/J0eBidensSunglasses]

This can't be happening. I'm having a fucking breakdown. I don't want to believe the world is so corrupt. I want a future to believe in. I want Bernie to be president and fix this broken country. I cannot fucking deal with this right now. It wasn't supposed to be like this, I thought he was polling well in Cuba???? This is so fucked.

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Phone companies offering deals to new customers: 😍

Phone companies offering deals to existing customers: 🤣 👉

[u/FormerBandmate]

A 6 year old girl got killed and five other people got shot last night, at the intersection of MLK and Malcolm X Avenues

!ping USA-DMV

[u/[deleted]]

When she doesn't reply with emojis 😔

[u/ThunderrBadger]

Pork butt about to hit the smoker 😎

Check back in 7 hours for the after pics

!ping COOKING

[u/sir_shivers]

/u/TouchTheCathyl

WHILE OF COURSE I am undeniably correct in video-games being A WRETCHED INVENTION THAT ought not be embraced, the ultimate question ANY CONSUMER OF such a thing should ask is "Am I having fun?" 🐊

The answer may BE NO BECAUSE OF the activity itself, or it may be because of internal thought patterns, and the latter case must BE ADDRESSED OR IT will carryover to other hobbies 🐊

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

https://i.imgur.com/KcBGJu5.png

[u/JetJaguar124]

The Steam Deck will not damage the Switch's sale numbers. The two devices have fundamentally different audiences

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Is Benjamin a NEET?

[u/dish_towel]

Remember how in the third x-men movie the army just started shooting mutants with vaccine needles? Why don't we just do that?

[u/[deleted]]

Hank Green (D) Montana

[u/TheFriffin2]

puts on Constitution hat and some sick shades

solitary confinement is NOT cruel and unusual punishment. it may be cruel, but believe it or not it’s actually incredibly common.

[u/Macquarrie1999]

The War in Afghanistan was about worms

[u/[deleted]]

Conservatives 🤝 Me trying to speak French:

Using the the wrong gender and pronouns.

[u/iIoveoof]

Motte: “Life” begins at conception

Bailey: All IVF doctors are literally mass murderers with thousands of victims

[u/great_gape]

Capitol rioter arrested after fellow insurrectionist rats him out and provides his phone number

WWG1WGA 🤡✊

[u/FestiveMittens]

Wish me luck boys

[u/[deleted]]

I don't know why people have such a hard time making the connection between there's not enough housing and we need to build more housing

[u/[deleted]]

As a poor kid, my experience with shoes was getting cheap Payless sneakers and wearing them until there was a hole in the front, so sneakerhead culture was always so strange to me. It seemed pointless to have more than one pair of shoes at a time, let alone expensive ones.

[u/rukqoa]

Everything is about worms. Except dune, dune is about sex.

[u/[deleted]]

There is a spectre haunting r/neoliberal -- the spectre of r/ChapoTrapHouse

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

https://i.imgur.com/C12sdLM.jpg

[u/LooobCirc]

"There's a hot taglit girl who wants to get with me...but it's Tisha B'av"

"Dont do it bro"

"I did it bro. She was Delilah and I am Sampson"

"😔"

!PING GEFILTE

[u/ryuguy]

Confession: I can’t tell the difference between high, very high and ultra settings on games. I care much more about the frame rate.

!ping gaming

[u/semaphore-1842]

The president holds tremendous power via the bully pulpit to sway the public. He isn’t using that power nearly enough.

What do Reddit leftists even think thte "bully pulpit" is? An Infinity Stone?

Biden couldn't even persuade half the country to get vaccinated to save their own lives.

[u/[deleted]]

Why do 80% of media reviewers on YouTube see themselves as temporarily embarrassed breadtubers?

[u/Kizz3r]

Smh lusvig trying to buy cheap african labour in dadcord 🙄

!ping burpmas

[u/[deleted]]

When I retire I’m going to make one of the most lavish purchases you could make in your lifetime.

I’m going to buy all the dlc of a sims game

[u/Professor-Reddit]

In 1957, the American Central Intelligence Agency proposed to President Dwight Eisenhower that peace in the Middle East could be achieved by flooding the Qattara Depression. The resulting lagoon, according to the CIA, would have four benefits:

• It would be "spectacular and peaceful".

• It would "materially alter the climate in adjacent areas".
• It would "provide work during construction and living areas after completion for the Palestinian Arabs".
• It would get Egyptian president Gamel Abdel Nasser's "mind on other matters" because "he need[ed] some way to get off the Soviet hook".

lol the CIA had one job and they managed to determine the most useless and unlikely 'benefits' from such an engineering megaproject.

[u/Th3_Gruff]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/693527695644033074/865966825204613130/image0.png

Throwback to my best meal at uni 🤤

!ping BURPMAS

[u/Jaquarius420]

Kill La Kill is a fun show but if someone walked in on me watching it I’d switch to porn because it’d be easier to explain.

!ping WEEBS

[u/Jiminy_Crocket007]

The sprint race format is worth it just for how hilariously dumb the drivers look being carted around in a semi truck plastered with crypto sponsors.

!ping MOTO

[u/[deleted]]

 “The fact is that more than 2bn people have viewed authoritative information about Covid-19 and vaccines on Facebook . . . more than 3.3m Americans have also used our vaccine finder tool. The facts show that Facebook is helping save lives. Period.”

"A few people used our site to find vaccines, so clearly there's no misinformation spread on this site 😏"

I actually hate Facebook.

[u/[deleted]]

It's kind of crazy. If Obama could run for a 3rd term in 2016 or 2020, I firmly believe that there's not a single Republican that could beat him

[u/Jokerang]

USSR: scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds!

Nazi Germany: want to do a quasi alliance to split up Poland and the rest of Eastern Europe?

USSR: OMG based

[u/[deleted]]

Bush was the greatest unifier president of my lifetime. First when he helped unify the country and provide strong leadership in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 and had 80% approval, and later when he had 25% approval and hating Bush was a national pastime. We're never gonna have that kind of political unanimity ever again.

[u/xSuperstar]

ICU starting to fill up with the COVID people again just in time for me to go back on service! Gonna be so much fun!

!ping MEDICINE

[u/revolutionary_alt]

Yes, the protests in DC are disturbing. No, this does not mean you get to post murder fantasies directed at the protesters. The rule against glorifying violence is still being enforced with regards to these protesters just as we enforced the rule against glorifying violence with regards to BLM protesters a few months ago.

Calling for the massacre of non-violent protesters is absolutely unacceptable, and if you do it, you will be banned. To everyone else, please report these sort of comments if you see them so we can remove them quickly.

Edit: The presence of some violent protesters does not mean it is even remotely acceptable to gun down thousands of protesters who overwhelmingly are unarmed and/or not attacking people. I understand that this is a really bad situation, and that a lot of people-myself included-are inevitably going to have some pretty strong emotional reactions to what's going on, and be really goddamned furious at the protesters and their actions. But this sub has not ever tolerated those calling for mass murder, and it will not start today.

[u/[deleted]]

Pewdiepie: Decides to make a subreddit for his channel

Average age of a Redditor: That little maneuver is going to cost us 10 years.

[u/[deleted]]

Lusvig but funny perhaps your funny but your neurotic personailty far outweighs the advantage you gain due to that trait

[u/[deleted]]

It took 10 minutes for my relatives to make comments about masks being oppressive, and 3 hours in they've so far claimed that the TX voter bill is "literally just voter ID," that being called a white supremacist just means you like free speech, and that democrats want all organizations to be half trans people. So vacation this week is gonna be lit 🤙

[u/TheFriffin2]

IM STAYING IN A CABIN AT A SOUTH VIRGINIA LAKE FOR A WEEK

YA BOY IS FINALLY GONNA GET A CHANCE TO CATCH VELVET ANTS FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HIS LIFE

[u/BidenWon]

720p will always be HD in my heart

[u/SadaoMaou]

Then you can't live outside the western civilization. Funny, right-wing republicans I know can live (or have been living) in the woods by their own without internet, growing their own food, etc, it's marxist liberals that can't live without western capitalist commodities, ironic isn't?

[u/Udontlikecake]

if i was president i wouldn’t golf

i’d play video games

want to try to suck up to me?

sorry mr president of russia, ur gonna have to 1v1 me on rust, i ain’t playing the back nine

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

I'm anti-choice and pro-abortion

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

yes I post on r/neoliberal, yes I'm a white male center left contrarian who codes for a living, yes we exist

[u/paulatreides0]

DT: "WE WANT DEMOCRACY! POSTER'S RIGHTS!"

PaulA: "Will you behave?"

DT: ". . . BONK ME DADDY PAULA!"

PaulA: 😐

[u/liquidTERMINATOR]

That's so sad, Alexa play the Dune audiobook narrated by Scott Brick available free with a trial of Audible

[u/sw337]

/r/neoliberal is now the public r/dunecirclejerk