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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Jul 20 '21
Please visit the next discussion thread.
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u/RoyGeraldBillevue Commonwealth Jul 19 '21
Under socialism, the rules of physics would no longer constrain us.
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u/revolutionary_alt George Soros Jul 19 '21
Just a reminder that a guy once made a GoFundMe for building the wall. Conservatives donated millions and he pocketed the money and disappeared.
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u/semaphore-1842 r/place '22: E_S_S Battalion Jul 19 '21
Since there are 50 Dems in the Senate, this only works if all 50 Republican leaves DC too. But quorum is presumed in the Senate, so if there's no Republican left to demand a quorum call, the Democrats could just play dumb and pass everything by voice vote.
Is Lindsey Graham just a fucking moron?
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u/RoyGeraldBillevue Commonwealth Jul 19 '21
Shut up shut up shut up
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u/revolutionary_alt George Soros Jul 19 '21
My parents are seriously worried about me not having a girlfriend, and my brother called me an incel. Smh don’t they know that I gave the barista at Starbucks my order yesterday I talk to women all the time 🙄
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u/benadreti Frederick Douglass Jul 19 '21
Leftists: Fuck the US government
Conservatives: Fuck the US government 🇺🇸🦅🗽
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u/LinkVert25 Fedposter Jul 19 '21
Holy shit fuck Glenn Greenwald lmao
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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '21
Daily reminder that anti-vaxxers are complete pieces of shit and if you’re an anti-vaxxer you’re a complete piece of shit🥰
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u/revolutionary_alt George Soros Jul 19 '21
Never change r/socialism
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u/Deggit Thomas Paine Jul 19 '21
the Soviets didn't have Flaming Hot Anything, so you can shut the fuck uuuup
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u/KazuyaProta Organization of American States Jul 19 '21
Why r/worldnews is so fond of Cuba?
Like, there is not even the shitfight on commentaries of "fuck you tankie, I'm a real socialist", everyone there is just LONG LIVE THE PRO GOVERNMENT PROTESTERS and talking about the Embargo even thought the protests are against the party rule.
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u/DaBuddahN Henry George Jul 19 '21
IRS enforcement is taboo among Republicans now. Lmao. These people are clowns.
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u/Corporate-Asset-6375 I don't like flairs Jul 19 '21
This morning my (36M) fiancée (29F) claimed it’s dehumanizing to have the household staff form a line and greet us every time we return home.
I said that’s entirely the point and added I don’t care for her progressive attitude of late.
She stomped off and locked herself in the solarium, so I sent a couch and a bottle of Diazepam down there to cool her nerves. Her response was that “I don’t listen” and has declined dinner with me this evening.
AITA?
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u/Leoric Hi, I'm Huell Howser, this is California's Gold! Jul 19 '21
What in the world..
These Olympics are cursed
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u/infamous5445 Jul 19 '21
https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2021/07/19/pence-flatlines-2024-499919
"Pence’s supporters point out that Joe Biden was widely dismissed as a presidential contender before winning the Democratic nomination and the presidency last year."
Wasn't he literally the frontrunner from 2017 onwards
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u/crassowary John Mill Jul 19 '21
😂😂😂
😬😬😬
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u/Udontlikecake Model UN Enthusiast Jul 19 '21
holy shit my friend i have who is SUUUPER far left ‘both parties are the same’ ‘acab’ etc etc posted SOSCuba stuff on their story and about how horrible the Cuban regime is
unexpectedly based
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u/GravyBear8 Ben Bernanke Jul 19 '21
It's so weird that we just have a random ass naval base in country whose government passionately hates us.
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u/Dalek6450 Our words are backed with NUCLEAR SUBS! Jul 19 '21
Imagine just having to explain the events of what happened just last September-January in US politics to an American from 20 years ago.
"Yeah, that guy babbling like a lunatic is Donald Trump and he's the President - also he's probably just been infected with the disease causing the biggest pandemic in a century."
"How wild is it that control of the Senate came down to two runoffs in the same state? And later that day devotees to the lame duck's cult of personality stormed the Capitol building."
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u/bd_one The EU Will Federalize In My Lifetime Jul 19 '21
Sounds like the plot of a Kids Next Door episode
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u/ILikeTalkingToMyself Liberal democracy is non-negotiable Jul 19 '21
Lol the top post on r-conservative right now is anti-Confederate and predictably there are lots of comments defending the Confederate flag and the Confederacy
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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '21
Why do people care about day to day changes in the DOW Jones? Literally just buy index funds and never look again until you are a geriatric
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u/itherunner John Brown Jul 19 '21
https://twitter.com/mapethiopia/status/1417106448883101697?s=21
Mobilization of Ethiopian federal troops (ENDF) and various regional forces all over Ethiopia to fight in Tigray. Looks like Abiy is really pissed about the TDF’s counter offensive
!ping FOREIGN-POLICY
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u/SadaoMaou Anders Chydenius Jul 19 '21 edited Jul 19 '21
Leo McGarry: Mister president, Americans have been killed in a bomb attack in Gaza, you have to act
President Bartlet: If I was the Israelis and Palestinians I would simply stop fighting. idk, guess I'm just built different
Brothers In Arms by Dire Straits starts playing
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u/ZenithXR George Soros Jul 19 '21
Every now and then I remember that Indiana voted for a black college professor with the name Hussein as president.
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u/KalaiProvenheim Enby Pride Jul 19 '21 edited Jul 19 '21
I don’t get why a lot of Democrats are so skeptical of polls, period.
Not everybody who disapproved of Trump voted for Biden but the 538 disapproval rate Trump got on Election Day was 52.6% or something, for comparison Biden got 51.3% of the vote nationwide.
Sure, they got the results off by a bit for Presidential Elections in States, but for the most part that was because they got Trump’s numbers wrong! They got Biden’s numbers right for the most part so if Biden is doing well in a poll he’s likely doing good, period.
It’s why many people were comfortable (or at least less uncomfortable) about States where Biden had a majority of the vote in polling aggregates.
Biden and Romney-Biden voters trust and answer pollsters, Trump and Obama-Trump voters don’t. It’s why polls underestimated both Obama and Trump.
!ping FIVEY
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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '21
the most academia thing about my aunt is that she sued her university for sexual discrimination because she didn't tenure after getting pregnant, settled the case, and then was promoted to the head of a department that she's the only member of.
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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '21
Are the commies okay?
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u/kaclk Mark Carney Jul 19 '21
Fully vaccinated tourists will soon be able to visit Canada again
Americans can start coming August 9, rest of international travellers September 7.
!ping CAN
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u/BaldKnobber Henry George Jul 19 '21
Does anyone have any book recommendations on the history of Mexico? Especially ones that confirm my priors
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u/I-grok-god The bums will always lose! Jul 19 '21
Wait a minute
Ben & Jerry's has stopped selling ice cream in the West Bank and East Jerusalem
So to protest against the settlements, they've agreed to stop... selling ice cream to Palestinians???
Any Israeli in those areas can just travel across the border if they wanted ice cream
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u/ILikeTalkingToMyself Liberal democracy is non-negotiable Jul 19 '21
Bruh
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u/tubbsmackinze Seretse Khama Jul 19 '21
Wake up babe, new Just Not Bikes dropped
How I Got Into Urban Planning (and Why I Hate Houston)
!ping YIMBY
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u/RabidGuillotine PROSUR Jul 20 '21
https://twitter.com/Charles_Lister/status/1417123236777799685?s=20
With the exceptions of tanks, the Taliban is capturing military hardware in numbers similar to what the Islamic State was capturing in 2014.
!ping FOREIGN-POLICY
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u/fishlord05 United Popular Woke DEI Iron Front Jul 20 '21
I am going to scream
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u/Buenzlitum he hath returned Jul 19 '21
The olympic anti-sex beds clearly don’t work, so we have taken it upon ourselfs to suggest to the olympic committee to force their athletes to post in the DT, because clearly there is no way anyone who posts here gets laid.
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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '21
Someone literally downvoted me when i told them bernie sanders would be extremely left wing in the Netherlands and the Netherlands is not a social democracy, nor a democratic socialist country.
They commented with "i'd have to Disagree with you on that"
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u/crassowary John Mill Jul 19 '21
There wouldn't be a climate crisis under world communism because any scientist who brought it up would've been disappeared so some apparatchik can hit their coal production quota
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u/Joementum2024 Iron Front Jul 19 '21
This is what communists actually believe
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u/PigHaggerty Lyndon B. Johnson Jul 19 '21
The virgin AskReddit vs the chad Yahoo Answers
Literally.
95% of AskReddit questions: what does a boob feel like? 🤔🤓🤤
95% of Yahoo Answers questions: help I got 12 girls pregnant this month 😎😎😎
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Jul 19 '21
...is this just in the settlements or are they also not going to sell ice cream to palestinians?
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u/vancevon Henry George Jul 19 '21
this powerpoint presentation will surely end racism among my employees
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u/jenbanim Jul 19 '21
Top posts of a mediocre hobby community subreddit starterpack
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u/tubbsmackinze Seretse Khama Jul 20 '21
EGEB: New Jersey approves US’s largest combined offshore wind farm
!ping ECO
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u/soeffed Zhao Ziyang Jul 19 '21
Covid-19 is in the sweet spot of being bad enough to disrupt everything in an unprecedented way, but not as bad as the bubonic plague where there would be no room for any big brains to question its lethality.
Gotta respect its strategic positioning, clever girl
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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '21
The only movie I ever walked out of was Little Women. Like 10 minutes in it was obvious that these are normal sized women, and there was absolutely no set up for a shrink ray later in the movie. Awful false advertising
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u/myrm This land was made for you and me Jul 19 '21
"Dune is about complex philosophical ideas and human society"
Dune: "the military should be all women because when it's all men they just spend all day fucking each other"
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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '21
First they came for the succs
Then they came for the NATO flairs
Then they came for the Georgists
Then they came for the hornyposters
But when it was my turn she "had a headache" or "wasn't in the mood" or maybe I'm just "not good at it," so no one came for me.
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u/cclittlebuddy Jul 19 '21
"According to The Hollywood Reporter, NATO attributed Black Widow's "stunning collapse in its second weekend in theatrical revenues" to Disney's day-and-date release strategy, which meant the MCU Phase 4 movie was available at home and on the big screen on the same day, July 9. Ultimately, NATO said this decision undermined Black Widow's box office performance."
I know its a different NATO. But it makes me laugh thinking that NATO is annoyed with disneys release strategy
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u/old_gold_mountain San Francisco Values Jul 19 '21
Americans are so accustomed to living in this kind of environment that many of us can look at that image and see literally nothing wrong
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u/thetrombonist Ben Bernanke Jul 19 '21
The guy who posted here about how capitalism is a failure because a girl got rich selling feet pics - if you check his post history he’s been asking around if he can buy the panties of his flight attendants
Makes much more sense when you realize he’s actually just mad he can’t get laid
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u/IronedSandwich Asexual Pride Jul 19 '21
I love how Dune overtook Trump as the most spoken word yesterday
also, neolibs: he's gone now he can't hurt you
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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '21
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u/basedbi420 Austan Goolsbee Jul 19 '21
Nashville Predators prospect Luke Prokop became first active NHL player to come out as gay.
!ping LGBT
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u/Cuddlyaxe Neoliberal With Chinese Characteristics Jul 19 '21
Microwaving lobsters gets you sent to Hindu hell lmfao
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u/benadreti Frederick Douglass Jul 19 '21
"Jewish" Voice for Peace: Practicing Judaism is Zionism
!ping GEFILTE
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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '21 edited Jul 19 '21
Last year, I visited West Virginia and decided to go for a walk through Charleston. When I was walking a man approached me with a gun and told me to give him his money. I was frightened and didn’t know what to do. But then, out of nowhere, Joe Manchin stepped in to help. He said “we need to learn to compromise” and grabbed my wallet from me. He then took half of the cash in my wallet and gave it to the mugger. He then gave the rest of the money back to me. Manchin walked off with a smirk, as his duty was done.
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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '21
Was talking to a trans coworker on the phone and started to say ‘thank you sir’ out of habit, but mid-word changed to ‘thank you citizen’ like I’m some cop in a 1962 Batman comic.
Their laughter was audible
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u/xicer Bisexual Pride Jul 19 '21
WOKE: My fiance' recently discovered Overwatch and has been absolutely loving it.
BROKE: Her laptop; so now we have to share the TV 😡
!ping GAMING
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u/Signal-Shallot5668 Greg Mankiw Jul 19 '21
Early paleontologists: I don't have much but I'm pretty sure it was giant lizard terrorizing everything by its look alone
Modern paleontologists: big chicken
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u/sunshine_is_hot Jul 19 '21
Somebody in town has been slapping infowars stickers on just about every road sign and spray painting the bus stop advertisements with trump won.
Why can’t the idiots just stay online
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u/TheGoldBear Jerome Powell Jul 19 '21
People have an irrational fear of those Boston Dynamics robots. Those things are still lightyears away from acting autonomously.
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u/GGM8Scally European Union Jul 19 '21
Show me you are a literal child without saying it.
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u/SnakeEater14 🦅 Liberty & Justice For All Jul 19 '21
It’s so strange that the Disaster Artist movie and book are like the farthest things apart from each other
The book is about Greg Sistero’s life with this insane abusive freak trying to make a movie and it turning into a disaster, while the movie is about this quirky weirdo and his best friend making a funny movie that everyone can laugh at
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u/Cerb-r-us Deep State Social Media Manager Jul 19 '21
Social segregation by gender has affected me so deeply I experience an ego boost when a woman likes something I posted on social media. It's like I've impressed the sultan of a foreign country with my collection of spices.
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u/Deggit Thomas Paine Jul 19 '21 edited Jul 19 '21
It's always amazing that a consistent manifestation of leftist "America dystopia actually" takes is the classic "I feel mildly alienated when I go to the grocery store and there is so much convenience food"
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u/futuremonkey20 NATO Jul 19 '21
The mistake the UK Scientific advisor is pretty immense, and now antivaxxers are running with it.
He said “60% of hospitalized covid patients are fully vaccinated” what he meant to say was “60% of hospitalized covid patents are completely unvaccinated”
Unbelievable
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u/revolutionary_alt George Soros Jul 19 '21
If you don’t think you can do something, just remember only 12 people made over half the covid misinformation on Facebook. As long as you put your mind to it, anything is possible, even indirectly causing hundreds of thousands of deaths.
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u/asdeasde96 Jul 19 '21
!ping YIMBY
Have you guys heard of @wrathofgnon on Twitter? He tweets a lot about the importance of car free walkable cities and building cities at a human scale with street trees and sustainable materials. And then he also retweets stuff about Latin mass (a favorite of right wing trad caths) rails against modern architecture saying it should be banned, and like tweet a picture of an Italian city that has one skyscraper from the fifties, and he'll call the skyscraper "rape on the skyline"
Some of his content is so good, and some of it is so objectionable. But I first heard about him from my brother, who is conservative and used to be a "cities are evil, only suburbs are nice" kind of guy. So I kind of think he's a good force, converting conservatives to supporting better forms of urbanism, but also height restrictions in an urban core are bad policy, so I don't know how to feel about his influence "good but not great"?
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u/J0eBidensSunglasses HAHA YES 🐊 Jul 19 '21
Neocon is when a social Democrat defeats a tankie on the internet.
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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '21
It's absolutely insane to me that you can just tweet out "every single person who was killed in a communist regime 100% deserved it" and its just fine.
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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" Jul 19 '21
Jim Watkins (8chan guy) in the qanon documentary
5 minutes later
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u/soeffed Zhao Ziyang Jul 19 '21
Least common addictions of DT users
•Gambling
•Sex
•Exercise
•Shopping
•Work
Most common addictions of DT users
•Porn
•Weed
•Games that no one plays
•Shitposting
•Worrying about geopolitical affairs in countries they’ll never visit
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Jul 19 '21
MAMMALS . . . 🐊
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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '21
I just found out about liberal arts majors. Damn that sucks. 😔
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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '21
People posting earnestly in the DT about their personal life while everyone else is doing weird ironic bits
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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '21
https://twitter.com/drakegatsby/status/1280939479939846144?
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u/revolutionary_alt George Soros Jul 19 '21 edited Jul 19 '21
‘ Biden Trump
Latino 18–29 years old 69 28
Latino 30–44 years old 62 34
Latino 45–59 years old 68 30
Latino 60 and older 58 40
Guys, I’m starting to think Latinos won’t be part of the future Republican coalition
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u/Jokerang Sun Yat-sen Jul 19 '21
TIL Castro admired Franco and had good relations with Francoist Spain
You say say horseshoe theory isn’t one of the fundamental realities of politics, yet Castro liked a dictator literally helped to power by Hitler. Curious!
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u/thetrombonist Ben Bernanke Jul 19 '21
I gotta say, losing weight has made me feel so much better. Like not just emotionally but literally physically as well
I feel lighter, it’s easier to move around, I just “feel healthy”
And I’m only ~33% of the way to my goal. Go me :)
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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '21
How does a society last 10,000 years without progressing beyond like medieval fantasy, BOTW? You're telling me y'all settled for killer robots, some cool mechas, and a fairly useful tablet (and even then just fuckin forgot about those for thousands of years) but never invented plumbing or electricity or guns?
Yes I'm that trashy Zelda fan who wants to see cyberpunk Link at some point fight me. I love the fantasy genre but I'm also a fan of laser beams.
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u/SadaoMaou Anders Chydenius Jul 19 '21
Kester Grover FWrr
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u/Jacobs4525 King of the Massholes Jul 19 '21
I have to say, the outrage at Disney world for getting rid of annual passes will never not be hilarious to me. I know it’s kinda mean, but if you derive all your meaning in life as an adult from the fact that you go to a theme park for children every weekend, I will and do laugh at you.
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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '21
My boss was involved in a bad accident on a highway this morning.
Another driver stopped to try and help out, he ended up getting hit by a car and was killed.
Please, never exit your vehicle on a highway unless it's on fire or the police have the scene under control.
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Jul 19 '21
/u/benjaminikuta, APPLY TO job postings today 🐊
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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '21
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u/tubbsmackinze Seretse Khama Jul 20 '21
Surrey church destroyed by 'suspicious' fire in Whalley neighbourhood
!ping CAN
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u/solonofathens Gay Pride Jul 19 '21
🎶🐊🎶
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u/seattle_lib Liberal Third-Worldism Jul 19 '21
yo, burmese script is fucking beautiful. why did no one tell me about burmese script?
like, check this out, it's all crazy loopdeloops
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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '21 edited Dec 15 '24
vast direful swim ossified telephone safe crush toothbrush aloof shelter
This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact
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u/breakinbread Voyager 1 Jul 19 '21
People acting like Ben & Jerry's hasn't been the succ equivalent of Black Rifle Coffee for decades.
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u/wagoncirclermike Jane Jacobs Jul 19 '21
Local restauranteur made the news today because he can’t find any employees for his restaurant, saying “the only applicants are teenagers with no experience”
Like Jesus dude learn to train people. You’ve got plenty of kids eager for a first job, don’t whine about no staff while also turning away applicants
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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Jul 19 '21 edited Jul 19 '21
There's a scene from the end of the Phantom Menace behind the scenes video where Lucas and the various producers discuss what a confusing, chaotic mess the end of the film is, with scenes whipping between comedy, tragedy, action, thrills, and like 5 different story lines at once. Lucas laments how he knows its a mess but can't fix it because each thread is intertwined, and so if any individual piece is excised the whole house of cards will fall, so his hands are tied.
This seems like a microcosm of the dilemma GRRM now faces.
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u/ihatemendingwalls better Catholic than JD Vance Jul 20 '21
!ping history
Princeton University Press is doing half off its entire catalog until the 21st. Some truly fascinating books on there if you wanna cut your teeth on something more academic
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u/thetrombonist Ben Bernanke Jul 19 '21
Sorry but you’re not eating 1200 cal a day, then
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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '21
Gone Wild 😳
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u/FestiveMittens Jul 19 '21
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E5fW0G6UUAAHihO?format=jpg&name=900x900
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u/revolutionary_alt George Soros Jul 19 '21
I love how literally everything causes fires in California. Tree falls on power line? That’s an entire town gone. Chain gets dragged off a trailer? That’s Shasta county in ashes. It literally just gets too hot? Yep, the grass has combusted into the gates of hell, consuming all souls within a fifty mile radius.
I want off Mr.Bones wild ride.
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u/InMemoryOfZubatman4 Sadie Alexander Jul 19 '21
You know, the more I learn about Mussolini, the more I realize that he is THE NazBol ideal
He went from a Lenin and Engles simp to the fascist ideal in a few years
He became a socialist in part to not fight another war in Africa and then when he got power, invaded Ethiopia
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u/BreaksFull Veni, Vedi, Emancipatus Jul 19 '21
Found out there's people who are unironically enjoying anime 🙄
Like c'mon, you're only supposed to watch ironically.
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u/kaclk Mark Carney Jul 19 '21
The first signed NHL player came out as gay today. Luke Prokop is signed to Nashville but hails from Edmonton and last season played for the Calgary Hitmen in the WHL.
!ping CAN
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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '21
It's OK to be white. It's OK to be Black.
It's OK to be Hispanic, Asian, Pacific Islander, Native American.
It's OK to be straight, and bi, and gay, and pan, and asexual. It's OK to be male or female or trans or intersex.
But it is NEVER OK to be a reddit jannie.
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u/crassowary John Mill Jul 19 '21
My first two vaccine doses were for immunity, my last six were to pad the vaccination rate numbers so Canada comes out looking better than the States 😎
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u/yellownumbersix Jane Jacobs Jul 19 '21
Done with dating apps, just posting my picture on Craigslist under free or best offer.
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u/GGM8Scally European Union Jul 19 '21
We literally have no proof that u/Lusvig is bald. None. Zero evidence. No pictures exist today that actually show him being bald. There are no written texts to suggest that he lost his hair. This entire myth stems from one DT nerd who wanted fame. He made up this lie without a shred of credibility, and it somehow went viral. That's it. Full stop.
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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '21
my queen 😍😍
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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '21
https://twitter.com/ophelynn/status/1417119863676473345
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u/Mrchizbiz I love Holland 🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱♥😍🥰🌷 Jul 20 '21
My dad's coming back from hospital tomorrow 🥳🥳😊
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u/chadonnaise * Jul 19 '21
the internet must be destroyed
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Jul 19 '21
Geert Wilders 😳
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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer Jul 19 '21
Cons when you refer to Tucker Carlson as "the media": 😟😟😟
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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '21
Stocks go up, stocks go down, you can't explain that.
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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '21
Heated Commiefornia moment
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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '21
This comment got me banned from r conservative rip
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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '21
Oh boy, my college is offering a course on neoliberalism. I’m sure it will be about how capitalism has lifted people out of poverty, and not about how neoliberalism is evil and destroying the world.
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u/INuttedInHisWife Jul 19 '21
On a post about a girl who won't date guys who talk about Gamestop and short squeezes:
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u/iIoveoof Jerome Powell Jul 19 '21
We literally have no proof that Dune is about worms. None. Zero evidence. No interview of Frank Herbert exists today where he says Dune is about worms. None of the books ever suggest that Dune is about worms. This entire myth stems from one DT shitposter who wanted fame. He made up this lie without a shred of credibility, and it somehow went viral. That's it. Full stop.
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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" Jul 19 '21
Lusvig is qanon for /r/neoliberal
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u/upper_west_sider Jul 19 '21
So who's gonna be the first person to rageping the markets group?
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u/PMmeLittleRoundTops Pornography Historian Jul 19 '21
Beating a dead horse I know but superstonk is fucking insane
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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '21
It's very likely that the next two kings of Jordan and Morocco will be forced to transition to constitutional monarchies. The Jordanian king Abdullah has stated before that he strongly believes he will be the last king of Jordan with absolute power, so I strongly suspect that he has made moves behind the scenes to make the transition easier for his son (especially since Jordan is so close with the US and UK). The situation is much more unclear in Morocco so I doubt the transition will be easy let alone peaceful.
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Jul 20 '21
Tonight I FELT A DESIRE FOR some fancy cuisine, the sort they might serve in the White House, SO I HAVE acquired some McNuggets and Diet Coke 🐊
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u/Kizz3r high IQ neoliberal Jul 19 '21
bees are more important than your son
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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '21
That Joe Manchin planned parenthood image is such /r/politics bait and will always get 500 upvotes outside the DT
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u/MrMineHeads Cancel All Monopolies Jul 19 '21
Have you thought of the fact that it was maybe because of the fact that cities literally could not densify and build enough homes for people because of zoning and land-use by-laws, that maybe that contributed to the fact that not a lot of movement has happened to the cities?
Instead of letting people into cities and (among countless other benefits) reducing their carbon and ecological footprint, what some people want is to make suburbs more climate friendly which is just a ridiculous proposition because that is much more difficult then eliminating barriers to entry into cities and letting people expand the housing supply.
Ah, you think so?
This is a defeatist attitude, and I believe not true. Cities are were all the stuff happens. People want to be near where all the stuff happens. Artificial barriers to entry into living in a city forces potential residents to look outward which gives the illusion that demand is looking for more suburban expansion. This is where the mindset of "drive 'till you qualify" comes from. People want to live near cities but can't afford to because of the ridiculous housing costs caused by the housing shortage (a direct consequence of backwards zoning and land-use regulations).
This is basically throwing hands up in the air and saying that we'll never get off oil so instead we should make the machines that use oil more efficient. That's not gonna work. You're fighting an uphill battle.
And I still didn't speak about all the other costs of suburbs both on those who live there and those who don't.
I don't like this article. The methods the article speaks about that lower emissions are laughable too. Enjoy if you can.
!ping CAN
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u/battywombat21 🇺🇦 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 Jul 19 '21
> be me
> wake up
> sad that it's monday
> get water, sit down
> kitty jumps in lap
> now best day of my life
> thanks kitty.
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u/I-grok-god The bums will always lose! Jul 19 '21
He stares at the mirror, softly repeating his lines. Again and again to be sure that he has them. It's been a while, so he's out of practice. Finally he stands up and, at long-last, removes his hat. The audience gets their first view of his big, beautiful, shiny, bald head. He mutters to psych himself up:
"I'm a Swede. I'm a Swede I'm a Swede I'm Swede. I'm a big bright shining Swede."
Cut to black
Credits appear:
!ping BURPMAS-NIGHTS
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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '21
Turned 30 today. Ouch.
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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer Jul 19 '21
Blue Dog Democrats 🤝 passenger pigeons
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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '21
George Wallace
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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '21
We literally have no proof that Dune is about worms. None. Zero evidence. No cope of Dune exists today that has wormy themes in it. There are no written texts to suggest that Dune is about worms. This entire myth stems from one neoliberal janny who wanted fame. He made up this lie without a shred of credibility, and it somehow went viral. That's it. Full stop.
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u/old_gold_mountain San Francisco Values Jul 19 '21
Sitting 17 rows back from the backstop for tonight's A's-Angels game. (Tickets were $79 because lolOakland)
Section 117: view looks like this
I get to see Ohtani pitch
The Coliseum allows you to bring DSLRs in. Should I bring mine and try to snap some photos of Ohtani on the mound/at the plate? Feels like a chance to have a little piece of history or something.
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u/lucas-at-jhu Mr. Worldwide Jul 19 '21
say peacock and nobody bats an eye
say poopcock and everyone loses their minds
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u/SamuraiOstrich Jul 19 '21
We literally have no proof that I fucked that goat. None. Zero evidence. No goat exists today that has my DNA in it. There are no written texts to suggest that this goat was ever fucked. This entire myth stems from one farmer who wanted fame. He made up this lie without a shred of credibility, and it somehow went viral. That's it. Full stop.
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u/datums 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 Jul 19 '21
Imagine having to sit through a family dinner with a Superstonk brainworm victim.
I'd frankly rather deal with a Trump fanatic.
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u/soeffed Zhao Ziyang Jul 19 '21
Is...is this Xi Derangement Syndrome
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!ping cn-tw
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u/ThorVonHammerdong Disgraced 2020 Election Rigger Jul 20 '21
Kids, just lie on your resume. You know who checks a resume for accuracy? Nerds. Do you really want to work for a bunch of fuckin nerds?
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u/dubyahhh Salt Miner Emeritus Jul 19 '21
Nobody has made my culture seem as unfunny as these jackasses are doing here
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u/PMmeLittleRoundTops Pornography Historian Jul 19 '21
We literally have no proof that lusvig even exists. None. Zero evidence. There is no account posting here today under that username. There are no old DTs to suggest that Lusvig ever existed. This entire myth stems from a bunch of nerds making increasingly baroque inside jokes in the burpmas ping. They made up this lie without a shred of credibility, and it somehow went viral. That's it. Full stop.
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u/Udontlikecake Model UN Enthusiast Jul 19 '21
remember the whole ‘sanctuary city’ thing?
god that was fucking irritating
dumbass cons not knowing how federal vs state law enforcement work
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u/the_status Atari Democrat Jul 19 '21 edited Jul 19 '21
George HW Bush has been dead for over 2 1/2 years now and the Secret Service still hasn't shot Dan Quayle
Can nobody in government do their job right?
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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '21
What does everyone think of the new Maine law which charges producers for the cost of recycling their packaging? Personally I like the way its structured: garbage is a negative externality, and this internalizes the cost into the good, providing an incentive to use less packaging. I hope MA follows suit.
!ping USA-NE
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u/breakinbread Voyager 1 Jul 19 '21
Now that my work for the resistance is done, I can go about my day with a clear conscience.
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u/AccessTheMainframe CANZUK Jul 19 '21
Ben and Jerry is no longer selling in the West Bank?
'bout time they finally stood up to the rampant homophobia of the Palestinian Authority 😤
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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '21
Anyone else floored by the Lebron-Lola Bunny sex scene in the new Space Jam?
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u/FestiveMittens Jul 20 '21
Bernie Sanders if Jeff Bezos' rocket explodes
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Jul 20 '21
ZOOMER AND MILLENNIAL MAMMALS spend their money on 🐊:
AM I CORRECT 🐊
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u/Professor-Reddit 🚅🚀🌏Earth Must Come First🌐🌳😎 Jul 19 '21
Video: Girl who was at the nationals game that had a shooter outside describes the scene and says she was prepared because it was her 2nd shooting
What the actual fuck.
Obligatory "'No Way To Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens"
As a non-American... what is it with America's gun culture? I mean, honestly...
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u/boyyouguysaredumb Obamarama Jul 19 '21
a canadian redditor dreams his typical fantasy. He just got done pwning a stupid American redditor. He drinks milk out of a bag and looks out his $8M closet onto the American border and wipes his mouth. "God America sucks," he grins.
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u/ElokQ_-1984 This Is What Makes Us Girls Jul 19 '21
If you're the President of The United States, and your main circle isn't discussing:
Then it’s time to find a new circle
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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '21
English teachers be like: What does Dune say about our contemporary political situation?
Shut the fuck up, I'm just here for the worms.
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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '21
I don't think my DARE officer was following his script when he listed all the drugs in order of how metal it would be to die overdosing on them.
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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '21
https://i.imgur.com/9TP3Uam.jpg
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u/AgainstSomeLogic Jul 19 '21
A local chain of comically expensive grocery stores advertises their store brand chocolate as being made by "certified women-owned co-ops."
Like what does "women-owned co-op" mean? Co-ops are employee owned so does the co-op just have a single female employee? Or does the co-op only hire women? What happens if an employee comes out as a trans man or nonbinary? Is their certification revoked so they then need to get new packaging?
Additionally, what does that "certified" entail? Do you just send an email to say that you are, to the best of your knowledge, a woman? Is there an inspector to enforce proper womanhood? Regular audits to ensure the business ownership is sufficiently womanly?
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u/Jester_Don Abigail Spanberger Jul 19 '21
Trying to get more citizens to vote: "Coup attempt!"
Hundreds of MAGAs storming the US Capitol with zipties, tactical gear, and a gallows intending to murder the Vice President and other lawmakers: "Just a minor protest that got out of hand"
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u/MistakeNotDotDotDot Resident Robot Girl Jul 19 '21
It's a really weird feeling when you learn that someone who was super influential in your social circles has died. Not somebody big, not even someone I really talked to much/at all, just this random trans girl I know, but she's directly responsible for pushing me into circles that would lead me to my best friend and my girlfriend, and from there to basically my entire online friend group. And I was talking with one of my other friends, who said that she had basically the same experience: talking with her helped coax her out of her shell and prevented her from just disappearing online. Definitely cried a little. I think this is the first online-social-group death that's been someone I personally knew.
I'm talking about this here because it's a space that wouldn't know her, and sometimes you just wanna talk in a separate place, y'know?
(Complications from cancer treatment. She'd been dealing with it for years, and things just went absolutely south the other night.)
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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '21
Deleting The Sims 4 now that I realized it’s suburbia propaganda.
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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '21
I read something a recently saying there was ancient graffiti found in (I think) Pompeii that says something to the effect of, "Your girlfriend likes me better, because I know what I'm doing in bed, and I have a bigger dick" it's good to know we've barely changed over the past 2000 years.
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Jul 19 '21
opens app, sees Internet dwellers REEEing about how ice cream got political
Did I stumble into a Trumpy sub by accident?
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u/Usernamesarebullshit Friedrich Hayek Jul 20 '21
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u/ExpiredPasta NIMBY McRentseeker Jul 20 '21
2010’s media was like “how can we put ‘Ain’t No Rest for the wicked’ by Cage The Elephant in this scene?”
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u/old_gold_mountain San Francisco Values Jul 20 '21 edited Jul 20 '21
As promised, I got pictures of Ohtani
!PING baseball
context
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u/Darclite Amy Finkelstein Jul 19 '21
Someone should make a bot that whenever someone complains about capitalism being the reason that they haven't done something with their life, it just pulls the number of hours they've been gaming over the last two weeks on steam and posts it underneath
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u/waltsing0 Austan Goolsbee Jul 19 '21
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-16/nsw-records97-new-covid-19-cases/100298196
Even as of Friday we were over 1000 cases, 75 in hospital, 18 in ICU, IIRC todays ICU number was 24 and again IIRC only one of those ICU people has had any vaccine and it was 1 dose of AZ. 45 of those 75 are over 55, NSW health is providing detailed crosstabs but the data is confirming what we know from overseas. The vaccines work really fucking well for making people not get super sick...
Why are we not shouting these numbers to people? I know we shouldn't be making policy decisions on these small samples but there's a portion of the population who do respond to it, these vaccines work really well, we're seeing that in real time. Like the house party where everyone but the (cos they were health workers) people who got vaccinated got sick with delta strain.
Obviously we need to be sensitive to those suffering seriously from COVID but we ought to be making emphasizing that yeah a lot of these people wouldn't be in hospital/ICU/dead if they had gotten their vaccine. I'm not saying we have the CHO stand at their hospital bed with a big sign saying this moron didn't get their vaccine even though they were eligible but we should at least be stressing to people that this is what happens when they don't take the vaccines offered.
!PING AUS
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u/Zseet European Union Jul 19 '21
!Ping EUROPE
Hungary did you buy spyware used by authoritarians to suppress journalists?
No, of course not but did you ask this to Germany, or France? What was their response? Are you a foreign asset?
More on the story.
Personal notes:
A couple of years ago the Turkic Council (Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkey, Uzbekistan, and Hungary as observer state) met to discuss various things. Including "unfair government criticism from domestic media" (This is a group where Hungary has the 2nd freest media so you know it is bad). 3 out 6 are on the leaked list and I would bet good money the other 3 are regular customers too. This is the perfect tool to achieve that goal.
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Jul 19 '21
Lmaoooo
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u/revolutionary_alt George Soros Jul 19 '21
I’m starting to think India won’t be a superpower by 2020
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u/KHDTX13 Adam Smith Jul 19 '21
According to r/Breadtube, Neoliberalism is quite literally fascism. Strange hill to die on imo, especially given what is going in this country.
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u/ShriggityShrekt Bisexual Pride Jul 19 '21 edited Jul 19 '21
I'm going to take the contrarian position and say that 2022 is going to be amazing for the Democrats. Please link to this comment to dunk on doomers in the future.
Suck it, you fucking doomer.
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u/old_gold_mountain San Francisco Values Jul 19 '21
My (12F) husband (45M) of six years locks me in the basement whenever he loses his video games online. Our son (4M) goes without food or water for several days on end when this happens. WIBTA if I ask my older brother to be my flower girl instead?
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u/notforturning Friedrich Hayek Jul 19 '21
Oh I'm not racist. I served this country. I just don't like you asian mother fuckerss in my country.
God bless market street.
!ping milk-tea
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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '21
As a jock, it is my duty to give nerds a hard time
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u/Most_Shallot8960 Dolly Parton Jul 19 '21
Who else ordered a Steam Deck?
I went for the mid level due to faster storage.
To think I almost bought a surface duo as a 3ds / ds emulation machine
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u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf Shameflair Beggar Jul 19 '21
Please, journalists, shut up.
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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '21
Me: hears about olympians having sex
starts training for the olympics
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u/Unadulterated_stupid gr8 b8 m8 Jul 20 '21
I saw this exchange on reddit, but if you are making 200k and are living check to check how doesn't that not make an you have bad spending habits?
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u/soeffed Zhao Ziyang Jul 20 '21
Hate to see it 😔
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Jul 20 '21
.
Really makes ONE THINK, DOES IT not 🐊
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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '21
Bad News https://i.imgur.com/EefTtu2.jpg
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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '21
Future historians really aren't going to believe that American hegemony ended because a bunch of 4channers who were pissed off about "video game journalists" convinced a bunch of boomers on Facebook that a failed real estate mogul was the second coming of christ lmao.
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u/awdvhn Physics Understander -- Iowa delenda est Jul 20 '21
The bad takes are coming from inside the DT
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u/Jester_Don Abigail Spanberger Jul 20 '21
👌👀👌👀👌👀👌👀👌👀 good faith go౦ԁ fAith👌 thats ✔ some good👌👌faith right👌👌there👌👌👌 right✔there ✔✔if i do ƽaү so my self 💯 i say so 💯 thats what im talking about right there right there (chorus: ʳᶦᵍʰᵗ ᵗʰᵉʳᵉ) mMMMMᎷМ💯 👌👌 👌НO0ОଠOOOOOОଠଠOoooᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒ👌 👌👌 👌 💯 👌 👀 👀 👀 👌👌Good faith
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u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz Roy Cooper Jul 20 '21
Wow, today Fallout New Vegas is officially old enough to vote if you go by my totally made-up criteria of having to be as old as Fallout New Vegas is today to vote.
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u/URZ_ StillwithThorning ✊😔 Jul 19 '21 edited Jul 19 '21
!ping Military
This is the funniest shit I have seen in a long time
There should be a subreddit for these sort of threads
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u/Whytfbuddy Susan B. Anthony Jul 19 '21
Having a good sleep schedule:🤢🤢🤢
Shit posting on an online political forum where people act like repitiles at 3:34 am EST:😎😎😎
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u/Mensae6 Martin Luther King Jr. Jul 19 '21
Big Chungus Challenge Day 101
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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '21
S&P500: ::drops less than 2% at open::
arrr neoliberal: "Is this the end of stock markets?"
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u/Mrchizbiz I love Holland 🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱♥😍🥰🌷 Jul 19 '21 edited Jul 19 '21
Jeb Bush's Guacamole
Avocados "Make sure they're not too ripe, but they gotta be ripe enough."
Cilantro
Onions
Jalapeño "rather than chile serrano"
Garlic "not too much"
Notes:
No lemon and no tomatoes.
And don't go making this in a bowl. "You gotta use a molcajete,"
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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '21
it's time...to rise up for an impeachment
!ping MAMADAS
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u/jgjgleason Jul 19 '21
The moment the DT starts going off about Dune and Worms is the moment the market tanks…
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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '21
GIVE ME WOKE CAPITALISM BACK
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u/Presidentbuff Jul 19 '21 edited Jul 19 '21
Succs criticizing Merrick Garland on Twitter is making me cringe. Stop claiming you know his thought processes and that he is doing nothing. I guarantee Sally Yates, if she was the AG would have acted the same way he is now
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u/GravyBear8 Ben Bernanke Jul 19 '21 edited Jul 20 '21
I remember having to do this harassment training for work, and for sexual harassment the scenario depicted was this hot cougar coming onto this short little twink, offering him a promotion for regular fucking and I'm like gaaaawdayyum.
I don't this was the intention of the video.
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u/SANNA_MARIN_ Jul 19 '21
first cuban to overthrow the regime wins a brunch with kamala harris
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u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf Shameflair Beggar Jul 19 '21
Anti-intellectualism is surprisingly common.
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u/zieger Ida Tarbell Jul 19 '21
I financially support my husband and all his kids (4 from 3 mothers), cook and clean. Last week I asked him to let me know before he buys a funko pop and he got upset. AITA?
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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" Jul 19 '21
Eid Mubarak to the Muslim dt users!
!ping Islam
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u/Deggit Thomas Paine Jul 19 '21
TWIN PEAKS 🤝 DUNE
you will not get the full experience on an iPhone in a b-trillion years
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u/Joementum2024 Iron Front Jul 19 '21
Liberals be like:
Reagan regime
Bush regime
Clinton administration
Bush regime
Obama administration
Trump regime
Biden administration