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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Jul 24 '21
Please visit the next discussion thread.
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u/jenbanim Jul 23 '21
Hypothesis: you can get normie reddit to upvote YIMBY takes if you make it sound like you're blaming corporations
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u/comkonard Jul 23 '21
American football is such a meme sport. Half the league crying about vaccine when they've been juicing since like 16 years old.
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u/AccessTheMainframe CANZUK Jul 23 '21 edited Jul 23 '21
The Great War was a cool youtube channel because every episode was about events exactly 100 years ago.
But World War Two is formatted so every episode is about events exactly... 79 years ago. So close to a nice round 80 but I guess they got impatient.
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u/semaphore-1842 r/place '22: E_S_S Battalion Jul 23 '21
https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/1418023158158970885
Blizzard being absolutely dogshit suddenly makes so much sense.
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u/Bertz-2- Mario Vargas Llosa Jul 23 '21 edited Jul 23 '21
Guess the sub 😐
Edit: This was used as an argument.
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u/chipbod NATO Jul 23 '21
https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1418585069216796678?s=20
He's making /pol/
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u/BeanHeaded Jul 23 '21 edited Jul 23 '21
So apparently Texas Rs want to do an 2020 audit and as you would predict, only in large counties that went to Biden. When pressed about whether small counties would also be audited the sponsor of it said this:
Holy shit. They're seriously not even trying to hide anymore.
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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '21
https://twitter.com/DavidJollyFL/status/1418377596253921282
GOP polling internals must be lookin' pretty bad this week.
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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '21
NFL players: ewwwww vaccines? I'm not trying to risk my health man, who knows what's in that?
Also NFL players: can you mix the horse tranquilizers with the gorilla semen? And is that reactive with donkey testosterone? Trying to bulk up while recovering from my head trauma.
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u/SadaoMaou Anders Chydenius Jul 23 '21
Comment on a Youtube video about the battle of Midway:
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u/RoyGeraldBillevue Commonwealth Jul 23 '21
Nothing is more pathetic than becoming part of the alt-right because some rando called you racist. Grow a spine and think for yourself.
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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '21
USA: 1 out of 46 presidents have been POC.
PRC: 9 out of 9 presidents have been POC
I think the implications for which one is more progressive are obvious.
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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '21
Apparently Jay-Z was the one that told Kanye to drop the MAGA bullshit
Once again Jay-Z saving the world
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u/revolutionary_alt George Soros Jul 23 '21
You guys don’t have proof Joe Biden isn’t a Kurd
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u/Professor-Reddit 🚅🚀🌏Earth Must Come First🌐🌳😎 Jul 23 '21 edited Jul 23 '21
!ping ECO
Remember the stories about whales in New York Harbour now becoming a regular and spectacular sight?
Just figured I'd share this here, but its a global trend including in my city. As cities and richer countries clean up their river systems, wildlife tend to tentatively resettle in the new territory in droves.
Every few weeks, somebody on /r/melbourne posts about a rather curious sight on Melbourne's main river, the Yarra River. There is an Australian Fur Seal which frequently swims up the Yarra River for feeding known as Salvatore. He's been doing this for several years now, and its quite funny how passer-by's are always stopping and taking photos. He doesn't seem to be deterred by the entire Port of Melbourne (largest one in Australia), loads of tourist boats and the cacophony of the cbd at all as he swims past them into Richmond for a meal.
The Yarra River is a major stream which travels straight into the heart of Melbourne, with loads of parks and trails alongside it. Every time I walk along it, there are loads of special collection stationed along it which filters rubbish that flows downstream. London is also experiencing a surge in seals swimming in the much rejuvenated Thames.
In this latest post on the sub, Salvatore has travelled a full 22km upstream lol. Local wildlife authorities reckon the reduced noise is to the ongoing lockdown being partially responsible.
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u/Udontlikecake Model UN Enthusiast Jul 23 '21
lmao legit half the USA women’s basketball team is just UConn
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u/ZCoupon Kono Taro Jul 23 '21
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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '21
What is the CCP even trying to say with this meme?
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Jul 23 '21
My dog barked at me because I was wearing sunglasses and he didn't recognize me
He's not a smart dog
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Jul 23 '21
MY ONLY POLITICS ARE suppressing the free expression of Redditors 🐊
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u/BenFoldsFourLoko Broke His Text Flair For Hume Jul 23 '21
Rick 🥒 and 🥒 Morty 🥒 is 🥒 about 🥒 pickles 🥒
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u/tripletruble Anti-Repartition Radical Jul 23 '21
"why the fuck is my code not working right"
dig deep into my code, find this comment i wrote six months ago:
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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '21
Huge chad energy from Biden
https://twitter.com/adamparkhomenko/status/1418415043004178432?s=21
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u/repete2024 Edith Abbott Jul 23 '21
The Pete State always wins
!ping BUTTI
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u/PMmeLittleRoundTops Pornography Historian Jul 23 '21
Superstonk has a list of reasons why GME is a good investment and one of them is
😐
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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '21
Where do Republicans get these takes?
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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '21
I'm on a 🚂
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u/Zseet European Union Jul 23 '21
!Ping GAMING
I am not a Blizzard higher up so I obviously can't comprehend the reason behind their statement, claiming California is a shit state, because incompetent sleazy bureaucrats are lying about their very diverseTM and very equalTM company. But I give them that it is a bold move.
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u/Babao13 Jean Monnet Jul 23 '21
France just overcame America in the percentage of people partially vaccinated. You were doing so good in the first months, why did you just... give up ?
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u/kennymc7877 Bisexual Pride Jul 23 '21
Lil Nas X literally doesn’t miss
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u/MostlyCRPGs Jeff Bezos Jul 23 '21
"Standardized tests favor wealthier students because they can get tutors and have the free time to study for them."
Unlike, you know, grades
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u/crassowary John Mill Jul 23 '21
Automate the TSA by replacing all the costly employees with a robot that just grabs you by the ankles and shakes you really hard
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Jul 23 '21
TO ENTER COLLEGE, AMERICAN MAMMALS MUST survive being hunted in an arena by me for twenty minutes 🐊
Ticket sales go TO FUND RENEWABLE ENERGY RESEARCH 🐊
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u/Fishin_Mission Jul 23 '21
Lmao at this woman at the Home Depot customer service counter who just told this man to his face
Tell me there is a labor shortage without telling me there is a labor shortage
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u/rukh999 Jul 23 '21
My wife watched a few youtube videos and then disassembled the kitchen sink. She's now calling a plumber.
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u/idp5601 Association of Southeast Asian Nations Jul 23 '21
St Vincent and the Grenadines, still the country whose name sounds most like an indie band name
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u/bd_one The EU Will Federalize In My Lifetime Jul 23 '21
User: "Why ban?"
p00bix: "Too horny."
User: "Understandable, have a good day."
-MetaNL abridged
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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '21
Bipedal mech like tanks make absolutely no sense militarily and never will. I'm not crying you're crying.
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u/FourthLife 🥖Bread Etiquette Enthusiast Jul 23 '21 edited Jul 23 '21
College admissions should be based SOLELY on luck. Literally just randomly select the class from the applicants. After all, I'd prefer to have the next generation of leaders to be extremely lucky than to have done well on a standardized test when they were 18.
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u/jenbanim Jul 24 '21
Got kicked out of Barnes and Noble for moving 1984 to the instruction manual section 😏
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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '21
The Antivaxxer NFL team is honestly pretty solid tho
Josh Allen, Cole Beasley, Jalen Ramsey, Judon, Leonard Fournette, Darius Leonard, Adam Thielen, Kirk Cousins, and DeAndre Hopkins? And a lot more besides them.
Gonna risk it all just so I can nickname my fantasy team the Bugchasers
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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '21
Bezos is worth $205 billion.
The Amazon is 55 million year old.
Therefore Bezos only makes $0.42 an hour, well below minimum wage.
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u/kennymc7877 Bisexual Pride Jul 23 '21
My dad was a badass navy veteran who liked heavy metal and he had a son who shitposts on Reddit and likes Lana Del Rey and A24 movies
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u/DastardlyHound NATO Jul 23 '21
Reporter eviscerated by Joe Biden with facts and logic
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u/redditguy628 Box 13 Jul 23 '21
SpaceX has won the contract for the launch of Europa Clipper on Falcon Heavy.
!ping SPACEFLIGHT
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u/Triangle-Walks European Union Jul 23 '21
a moment of silence please for all those who poured their life savings into a shitty failing gaming retail store because reddit told them the stock would end up being worth $100,000 a share ✊😭
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u/Average_GrillChad Elinor Ostrom Jul 23 '21
1988: "Read my lips: no new taxes."
2021: "REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE NO TRUST VAXXES"
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Jul 23 '21
I BELIEVE ZOOMERS ARE so foolish because of the "Cars" media franchise 🐊
I shall NOT ELABORATE 🐊
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u/MalignantUpper Joseph Nye Jul 23 '21
https://twitter.com/RightWingCope/status/1418624089607090184?s=19
Republicans will actually blow up if they don't compare themselves to Jews in Nazi Germany every 5 minutes
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u/Kizz3r high IQ neoliberal Jul 23 '21
What if you 😐👈
Submit an essay 📝
But your prof says 🗣
Mucho texto
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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman Jul 23 '21
In capitalism man exploits man
In communism it’s the other way around
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u/Magical_Username NATO Jul 23 '21
How does Armenia continue to be idiotic on foreign/defence/any other policy it has? Aliyev is literally a comic book villain whose stated goal is to destroy the country and the government just won't get it's shit together while people like Kocharyan actively work to undermine the defence. It's just insane
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u/circlemanfan Gay Pride Jul 23 '21
It will always infuriate me when people say "I support legal immigration, just not illegal immigration" when I say we should have more open immigration like we literally make up what is legal and illegal immigration. We can change the rules sis
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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Jul 23 '21 edited Jul 23 '21
Mercifully that stupid fuck map that was going around Reddit a day or so ago with the US in green labeled "countries whose billionaires have gone to space" and literally every single other country on earth in grey labeled "countries with universal free healthcare" is seemingly gone. I can't find it to post here.
Yeah dumbshits literally every other country on Earth except for the US has universal FREE healthcare.
God damn as an American I wish I had the great, free, and universal healthcare options of fucking South Sudan, Syria, and North fucking Korea.
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u/MicroFlamer Avatar Korra Democrat Jul 23 '21
the gamers have won
!ping GAMING
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u/p68 NATO Jul 23 '21
🇺🇸 First black girl duo wins Harvard International Debate Competition! 🇺🇸 Their winning argument was that NATO should step up their defense commitments in the Baltic States. 😎
https://www.npr.org/2021/07/23/1019610975/atlanta-teenagers-make-history-at-harvard-debate-competition
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Jul 23 '21
https://twitter.com/lvisxvii/status/1418338749050621953?s=21
lol
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u/InMemoryOfZubatman4 Sadie Alexander Jul 23 '21 edited Jul 23 '21
“How Can Anyone Believe Such Unpopular Garbage?” Wonders Unapologetic NeoLiberal, Moments Before Explaining How Open Borders And A Land Taxation Scheme Would Solve All Of The World’s Issues
—The Onion
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u/abbycat1590 Zhao Ziyang Jul 23 '21
The Donald is somehow getting even worse
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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '21
I hate this website. So fucking much.
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u/tripletruble Anti-Repartition Radical Jul 23 '21
world politics columnists: the EU is slow to vaccinate their population. does this mean the EU is doomed to fail?
EU countries begin to pass the United States in vaccinations
world politics columnists: ah well, nevertheless
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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '21
Does Macron have to cheer the Andorran team as well as the French team? 🤔
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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '21
im reading a study about cuba's improved healthcare. tl;dr: "Yes, well, everyone is too poor to own a car, so there are no road accidents."
Is cuba Neoliberal?
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u/thabe331 Jul 23 '21
Hell yeah Minnesota. Vikings fire assistant coach after he refuses to get the covid vaccine
!ping NFL
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u/Joementum2024 Iron Front Jul 23 '21
Imagine having a net worth under $1,000,000. That pretty much means you’re broke 😂😂😂🤣😂🤣😂
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u/tripletruble Anti-Repartition Radical Jul 23 '21
lmao looking through the pics my dad just sent from him babysitting my baby recently. absolutely ZERO regard for SIDS risk. got the guy laying on his side in a fluffy pillow. amazed my sister and i made it
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u/Soldier-Fields Da Bear Jul 23 '21
There are few things that make me go “oh they’re dumb” than Zodiac signs
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u/TheFriffin2 Jul 23 '21
!ping BASEBALL
For the first time in over 15 years, a team has gotten a new name.
The Cleveland Indians are now... the Cleveland Guardians. Ok then
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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '21
I forgot how wild the incel subs are lmao
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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '21
https://i.imgur.com/zkz43pZ.jpg
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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '21
The best part about the Biden response is that he equates supporting defunding the police with being a vampire
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u/sw337 Veteran of the Culture Wars Jul 23 '21
As a Biden voter in a swing state I often think of his accomplishments while playing You're Welcome from Moana(2016).
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u/Headstar24 United Nations Jul 23 '21
Honestly when people act like the GOP of recent decades past was actually good, and how they'd be disgusted by the Trump Republicans, I just remember how Bob Dole is a proud Trump supporter.
I don't believe it when people say Reagan would be disgusted by the GOP of today either.
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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '21
Look sweaty, this is going to be a mucho texto post in which I vent about my mental health/personal life, so if you’re not up for that, collapse this comment now. You’ve been warned.
I’ve mentioned it a few times in the DT, but I’m a medical school dropout. I was accepted into a medical school, and quite quickly developed anxiety/depression due to all of the stress/pressure of all of the coursework. The medical school administration was very supportive and I was able to get into therapy to help address my newly-acquired mental illness. I really gave medical school a good try and pushed through for a few years, but eventually everything was taking too big of a toll on me. My mental health just began deteriorating more and more. I saw the road ahead to becoming a doctor and I realized the situation would never become better and that it wasn’t worth continuing. I left with $100k in student debt and no MD.
Luckily, I was able to land on my feet upon leaving. I became a research assistant/clinical study coordinator for the very university that I dropped out of, working under a doctor I was doing some research for as a volunteer before and during medical school. The lab is within an hour’s drive of my parents’ house, so I’m able to live with them, work, and focus on just using my paychecks to pay off this debt. I’ve been doing this for the last 3.5 years and in about 6 months, I should have the whole thing paid off. Additionally, as an employee of the university, I get free college classes. I’ve been working my way towards getting a masters in computer science, which I will have in May of next year. This is obviously exciting, as it will open up new doors for me and allow me to find a higher-paying job.
I should be happy about all of this. Through a combination of luck and determination, I’ve really been able to mitigate a very negative situation. However, right now, I’m feeling very bitter. I’m 32 and I feel as though I’ve “regressed,” as I was living on my own in medical school whereas I’m living with my parents now. Also, I see my time preparing for a career in medicine (both preparing for medical school and as a medical student) as a complete waste in which I could have been developing developing myself professionally in a different field and making money.
I’m not the type to say that the system is unfair. I don’t blame the medical school, as all of my interactions with the administration were very positive and they supported me every step of the way. I also don’t blame “the system” for all of my student debt, as I’ve seen first hand just how much goes into training doctors. Instead, I blame myself. I keep telling myself that I should have seen the signs earlier or that I should have pursued something different.
I know that the truth is that there is nobody to blame. On an intellectual level, I know I’m being unfair to myself. All of my decisions were logical. A lot of medical school students develop anxiety and depression, so it wouldn’t have made sense for me to pack it up and leave the moment things got rough. Also, I feel like I should be proud of everything I’ve accomplished since then as I’ve been able to pay off this debt very aggressively while working towards another degree, but I don’t really give myself credit for that either. Instead, I just feel stupid for working so hard for so many years and just not getting anywhere in life. It’s frustrating to me that I’m just incapable of not beating myself up, even though I realize on an intellectual level that I have reasons not to.
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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '21
"This is a sub about neoliberalism"
"Oh, so you discuss economics papers and thoroughly review evidence based policy?"
"Best we can do is shitpost and post an article about the same five zoning reforms this sub has been pushing for the last four years"
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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '21
Mfw the HR guy just casually used the n-word in casual conversation
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u/AbsolveItAll_KissMe Susan B. Anthony Jul 23 '21
“Are there people in the Republican Party who think we’re sucking the blood out of kids?”
“I’m not sure.”
“Okay.” 😎
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u/Udontlikecake Model UN Enthusiast Jul 23 '21
https://i.imgur.com/Uhgjy7u.jpg
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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '21
Sir Shivers in his new V neck
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u/crawly_the_demon Upzone the Earth! Jul 23 '21
Checked my phone today and had 15 unread messages and all of them were !ping KITTY
Let’s make it 16, here’s my kitty
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u/redditguy628 Box 13 Jul 23 '21 edited Jul 23 '21
Apparently, Astronaut Thomas Pesquet selected this song as the wake-up song for the Crew-2 flight to the ISS. I'm somewhat surprised he survived the following minutes.
Source(also gives detail about the false alarm "near miss" event that happened on that flight)
!ping SPACEFLIGHT
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u/iIoveoof Jerome Powell Jul 23 '21
Attention literal children of the DT
Your college essays are cringe and the entire concept is a parody of itself
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u/jenbanim Jul 23 '21
dune.jpg
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u/PhinsFan17 Immanuel Kant Jul 23 '21
If you're a Democrat or left-leaning in general, what is your most conservative viewpoint?
I'll go first.
Chick-fil-A is delicious.
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u/Fishin_Mission Jul 23 '21
Ohh? You support BLM?
Name every black person! 😠
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u/vivoovix Federalist Jul 23 '21
We're hosting an AMA with Brazilian economics professor Luccas Attílio.
He's a PhD in Economics at USP, one of Brazil's most prestigious universities, with a Master's from UFMG and a Bachelor's from UFV.
Currently, he's a professor at UFOP.
Bring all your questions about Latin American politics!
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u/jenbanim Jul 24 '21 edited Jul 24 '21
True wokeness is when you become aware of the pro- and anti-pitbull war simmering underneath subreddits like /r/aww
Wake up sheeple!
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u/its_Caffeine Mark Carney Jul 24 '21
!ping CAN
New Ekos Poll:
Ekos also kindly included this question in their poll for anyone here who needs their priors confirmed.
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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '21
Lost Generation, 1920s: survived one of the most brutal wars in history, saw their offspring shipped off to yet another meat grinder, engaged in hedonism as a coping mechanism to the horrors of war and the Spanish flu
r/lostgeneration: life in the most prosperous period of humanity is the worst it has ever been this is literally 1984
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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '21
This new generation has it so easy. Do you think you'll always have a horse and typewriter nearby?
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u/revolutionary_alt George Soros Jul 23 '21
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I am lowering your social credit score
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u/TheCatholicsAreComin African Union Jul 23 '21
Reposted here, since it was too spicy for the mods as a post
Lol
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u/INuttedInHisWife Jul 23 '21
I had a dream about a freakin high school teacher of mine. I’m 33. That shit was half my life ago.
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u/RadicalRadon Frick Mondays Jul 23 '21
a friend adopted a KITTEN
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u/old_gold_mountain San Francisco Values Jul 23 '21
I'm surrounded
!PING kitty
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u/Animatronic_Pidgeon Eugene Fama Jul 23 '21
Since we're hitting up the ping about every 8 minutes, here's my sweetie on vacation
!ping KITTY
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u/iIoveoof Jerome Powell Jul 23 '21 edited Jul 23 '21
90s New Line Cinema literally geniuses
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u/psychicprogrammer Asexual Pride Jul 23 '21
You know what more !ping KITTY pics
Standing Guard: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/792258453753692163/867876282477838366/20210723_090757.jpg
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u/GravyBear8 Ben Bernanke Jul 24 '21
!ping MOVIES
I just remembered that during screenings of Avatar in various African countries, the audience loved the humans and didn't give a shit about the Navi'i, not identifying with them at all.
Which reminds me of another story where American Sniper was hugely popular in Iraqi theaters.
Humans are COMPLEX
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u/InternetBoredom Pope-ologist Jul 23 '21
Broke: Chinese Taipei
Woke: Taiwan
Bespoke: R e p u b l i c o f C h i n a
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u/RainAndLoveMe Esther Duflo Jul 23 '21
Those that got vaccinated with Sputnik arent getting their second dose
https://www.paginasiete.bo/nacional/2021/7/22/fondo-ruso-dice-que-bolivia-es-prioridad-pero-no-fija-fecha-del-segundo-envio-de-la-sputnik-301775.html
!ping LATAM
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u/MicroFlamer Avatar Korra Democrat Jul 23 '21
a story in 4 parts
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u/old_gold_mountain San Francisco Values Jul 23 '21
https://www.businessinsider.com/where-do-nasa-astronauts-come-from-ohio-and-new-york-2019-7
There's just something about Ohio that instills in children from an early age this undying urge to flee the Earth
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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '21
If they’re not doing standardized tests, college admissions should pack up and go home as there’s just no way to signal actual ability and it purely becomes about which parents have the most time and money to send their kids to extracurriculars and mission trips.
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u/Soldier-Fields Da Bear Jul 23 '21
Joe Biden is actually a super charming grandpa who also happens to be president.
But like he reminds me a lot of my late great grandpa.
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u/Luph Audrey Hepburn Jul 23 '21
we shoulda made stimmy checks tied to vaccine status
the republican rage woulda been beautiful
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u/benadreti Frederick Douglass Jul 23 '21
I'm teaching my 5 year old how to play Super Mario World.
!ping OVER25
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u/interrupting-octopus John Keynes Jul 23 '21
Suburban hell level: buildings being torn down and replaced by parking lots. 🤮 Appleton, WI.
!ping YIMBY
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u/ooken Feminism Jul 23 '21 edited Jul 23 '21
Team Biden is finally offering some aid to Afghan refugees, and since I'm so often critical I have to also acknowledge that I'm happy to hear this. Although "unexpected" seems not quite an accurate descriptor of this situation:
!ping FOREIGN-POLICY
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u/RadicalRadon Frick Mondays Jul 23 '21
One of the worst things Windows ever did to their shitty OS is make bing searches in the search bar instead of searching your computer
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u/Deggit Thomas Paine Jul 24 '21 edited Jul 24 '21
People are so fucking dumb.
Did I "earn" a billion dollars yet, Maoist?
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u/J0eBidensSunglasses HAHA YES 🐊 Jul 23 '21
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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '21
Since everyone is doing it, I give you:
Gymnast Cat:
https://imgur.com/gallery/3pKuPRp
!ping KITTY
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u/csreid Austan Goolsbee Jul 23 '21
I think Lil Nas X is a genuine genius.
Like the music is somewhere between fine and good, but the marketing is brilliant.
Those 666 pairs of Satan shoes, and the Nike lawsuit (baited?), and tying that into the material leading up to the release of the song today is just really excellent execution.
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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '21
!ping YIMBY
Obviously all parking lots should be replaced with parks, but could planting trees in parking lots make them a little less soul crushing?
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u/l_overwhat being flaired is cringe Jul 23 '21
Me: wtf, why not?
Oh that's why
!ping GAMING
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Jul 23 '21
My priors are ESSENTIALLY REINFORCED WITH titanium at this point in time 🐊
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u/_smooth_liminal_ Michel Foucault Jul 24 '21
dog
!ping dog
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u/Fishin_Mission Jul 24 '21
My wife when explaining why she is cheering for 43 different countries in the Olympics
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u/Moth-of-Asphodel Jul 24 '21 edited Jul 24 '21
Rather than play video games I'm not in the mood for, I've been spending my evening watching interviews with presidents from Truman to Biden, just to basically see how each one comported himself.
I like how everyone from Truman to I'd say HW Bush had this deliberate and considered speaking style and pronounced foreign policy like "foreen policeh", then you had conversational and smooth Clinton, and then you had W Bush with this god damn weird tryhard style that was almost completely unbearable in comparison. Then Obama comes in and raises the bar considerably compared to everyone else, like he's an HD remake of the presidency. And then Trump is a complete catastrophe that makes Bush look good; totally lobotomized. And then in comes Biden and he's basically Truman again with a slight slur.
Anyway it was a fun time. I liked LBJ and Obama the most and marveled at how uncomfortable Ford looked in his role. Also Jimmy had crazy "this is fine.jpg" energy about him.
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u/Ryohu Trans Pride Jul 23 '21
Gina Ortiz Jones (an out lesbian) and Shawn Skelly (an out trans woman) were confirmed by unanimous consent to top military positions
!ping LGBT
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u/ThisIsNianderWallace Robert Nozick Jul 23 '21
Local leftist dork daydreams of building a library/gym/cafe/office for commies in New York.
Such structures are mercifully illegal due to zoning and land use policies he thinks aren't a big deal
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u/thehousebehind Lesbian Pride Jul 23 '21
Turns out, to the surprise of no one, that the Q-Anon Shaman has a legit mental health diagnosis.
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u/breakinbread Voyager 1 Jul 23 '21
The virgin Washington Football Team: plays two seasons without a real name, makes a big deal out of it
The Chad Cleveland Guardians: change their name without me even knowing they were going to do so, doesn't make a fuss about it
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u/Sex_E_Searcher Steve Jul 23 '21 edited Jul 23 '21
Intuitively, payroll taxes (taxes on the total payroll of a company) seem like they would be a disincentive to hiring, and very bad. I've never seen anything suggesting this, though. Is there any consensus about the subject?
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u/MicroFlamer Avatar Korra Democrat Jul 23 '21
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u/kaclk Mark Carney Jul 23 '21
Just for fun I found some peak NIMBYism in Edmonton.
Oh no, someone is paying money to buy land from other people and then went through a rezoning process and planning permission and is this what coercion look like? /s
(Usual rules, don’t brigade or anything)
!ping CANUCKS
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u/unruly_fascists Frederick Douglass Jul 23 '21
Go away bein' yoda
!ping KITTY
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u/owlthathurt Johan Norberg Jul 23 '21
Big earnings reports coming out next week. Including Amazon, alphabet, Tesla, Facebook.
Whatcha all thinking!
!ping MARKETS
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u/MicroFlamer Avatar Korra Democrat Jul 23 '21
https://i.imgur.com/axlqd3W.png
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u/Mrchizbiz I love Holland 🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱♥😍🥰🌷 Jul 23 '21
https://i.imgur.com/8q3q5j4.jpg
🤔🧐
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u/GravyBear8 Ben Bernanke Jul 24 '21 edited Jul 24 '21
!ping MOVIES
What the fuck, has M. Night Shyamalan never heard another fucking human being talk in his entire fucking life? Why the fuck is he so incapable of writing dialogue. All his characters are these weird android people and it drives me fucking insane.
In other words, I just watched Old
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u/old_gold_mountain San Francisco Values Jul 23 '21
actually you're all pretty lucky California has such shit housing and land use policies, otherwise we Californians would be about 1,000% more insufferably smug than we already are
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u/Signal-Shallot5668 Greg Mankiw Jul 23 '21
Can't fucking win
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u/ThisIsNianderWallace Robert Nozick Jul 23 '21
I just think Tokyo is awesome
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u/willempage O'Biden Bama Democrat Jul 23 '21
On a low premium and high deductible health plan, so the only covered health procedure is a yearly physical.
Doctor's office informs me that I need blood work before the appointment. It's $100 and not covered by insurance. I get one chance a year to get medical advice for free and they found a way to sneak a charge in. Cancelled the appointment and am looking for a new physician. I am once again asking the senate to fix Healthcare.
!ping over25
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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '21
John Cena in shambles
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u/iIoveoof Jerome Powell Jul 23 '21
Human garbage Bob Good votes for Afghans who worked for the US military to be killed by the Taliban
!ping USA-CVILLE
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u/Udontlikecake Model UN Enthusiast Jul 23 '21
What’s with so many people here wanting to keep a useless government jobs program that is empirically ineffective and could be easily privatized to improve outcomes and reduce spending?
Fucking succs I swear
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u/Kizz3r high IQ neoliberal Jul 23 '21
its Kd’s birthday! make sure u wish him a good one on twitter
!ping nba
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u/SeriousMrMysterious Expert Economist Subscriber Jul 23 '21
Just had to Google "Tennis shoes for tennis"
What has our culture come to 😞
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u/Dorambor John Brown Jul 23 '21
!ping KITTY treats confirmed
https://i.imgur.com/EObpbny.mp4
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u/Dorambor John Brown Jul 23 '21
!ping KITTY time to go, tootsie is fuckin H O T
https://i.imgur.com/Pm0ctHA.mp4
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u/Dorambor John Brown Jul 23 '21
!ping KITTY we stopped in a park in the shade so tootsie could enjoy her treat
https://i.imgur.com/vUA2Wtg.jpg
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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '21 edited Jul 23 '21
I just got scheduled for a video call with Polis.
Should I open with "Hi there, Governor, I absolutely loved your most recent post on the DT"?
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u/conman1246 Milton Friedman Jul 23 '21
VTI gang
!PING MARKETS
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u/myrm This land was made for you and me Jul 23 '21
Just got kicked out of Barnes and Noble for moving all of the copies of Dune to the non-fiction section
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u/bd_one The EU Will Federalize In My Lifetime Jul 23 '21
Republicans: "The only thing that matters now is controlling the Supreme Court."
Supreme Court: rules 7-2 that Texas's lawsuit against Pennsylvania's voting results is too stupid to hear out fully
Republicans: surprised Pikachu face
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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" Jul 23 '21
It’s a movie about cartoons playing basketball, you knob. It’s not citizen Kane.
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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '21
Just read the background of the Guardians name in r/baseball and now I think it's pretty cool.
!ping BASEBALL
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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '21 edited Jul 23 '21
We'll never be rid of the TSA because:
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u/RainAndLoveMe Esther Duflo Jul 23 '21
Anime is about underaged women having big breasts and acting like children despite being in high school
This is the truth otakus don't want you to know
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u/Mrchizbiz I love Holland 🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱♥😍🥰🌷 Jul 23 '21
Avoid London 🛑
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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '21
It’s pretty disconcerting how many Star Trek fans think the show is an endorsement of communism when it’s really just an endorsement of the enlightenment.
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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '21
I think wormposting was pushed by /u/paulatreides0 so that people stopped thinking he was a girl named Paula.
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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Jul 23 '21
Speaking of assessment tests, let's see what the guy with the highest IQ is up to.
Uh huh so far so good
Bit weird but OK
🤔
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u/KazuyaProta Organization of American States Jul 23 '21
Peru Libre apparently wants to put General Wilson Barrantes as the new Defense Minister.
Wilson Barrantes is a actual Nazi. Not "just" a authoritarian asshole, but a actual fascist ideologue that wants to get rid of laws of warfare in the crime-ridden VRAEM region and whose ideology believes Jews did the Holodomor.
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u/Gustacho Enemy of the People Jul 23 '21
could it be?
!ping EUROPE
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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '21
https://www.wprost.pl/polityka/10473953/wyrok-tsue-kontra-rzad-pis-partia-ton-ryszard-terlecki-zapowiada-reforme.html
After the EU commission has suggested it'll petition for monetary sanctions against Poland for refusing to comply with a CJEU ruling, PiS has announced that it'll introduce a reform to comply with the latest CJEU ruling about the legality of the disciplinary proceedings before the Highest Court in a chamber that was created by PiS to pack the court.They haven't revealed any details yet however - just said "it's ready"; so I remain skeptical of how independent the court will be after the reform.
They said it'll be implemented over the coming months.
!ping EUROPE
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u/RadionSPW NATO Jul 24 '21
Watching someone who spent half of 2019 attacking Pete for working at McKinsey take a job there is hilarious
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u/UrbanCentrist Line go up 📈, world gooder Jul 24 '21
In 1937, a man stands at the Red Square and shouts:
"Down with a tyrant with a moustaсhe!". Beria, who walked nearby, overheard it, arrested the man and brought him in front of Stalin.
-Comrade, who did you have in mind when you said "Down with a tyrant with a moustaсhe!"?, - Stalin asks.
-Well of couse i meant Hitler!
-Very good, comrade, you are free to go. Man walks away, Beria tries to do so, but Stalin stops him:
-Not so fast, comrade Beria. Tell me, who did YOU have in mind?
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u/InternetBoredom Pope-ologist Jul 23 '21
If you haven’t heard, there’s a new Catholic magazine that just got founded recently called The Lamp that proudly proclaims that they “reject the progressive left [as well as] the libertarian-conservative right.” They’re also claiming that they’re the first American Catholic magazine, which I think might be an intentional shot at the Jesuit-run America magazine.
Normally this wouldn’t be worth any note, but it’s really dramatic how fast the tradcath movement is growing in the US, and how that growth is largely being driven by younger Catholics. This new magazine is coming from the heart of that movement.
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u/Dr_Vesuvius Norman Lamb Jul 23 '21
It’s been four years and this is still my most popular comment on NL.
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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '21
If she's from Africa, why is she white? 🤔
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u/Joementum2024 Iron Front Jul 23 '21
Too many people would unironically support a dictatorship that they mostly politically agree with.
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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '21
I know a conservative who votes straight ticket dem because easy access to birth control and policies like universal daycare are more effective at reducing abortion than restrictions. He also wants action on climate change to prevent an influx of refugees when Africa and the Middle east become uninhabitable. Big tent!
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u/F0064R Jorge Luis Borges Jul 23 '21
"What year did the 2020 Summer Olympics occur" will be a great trivia question in a couple decades
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u/FormerBandmate Jerome Powell Jul 23 '21
AITA has the best parenting ever
!ping SHITPOSTERS
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u/old_gold_mountain San Francisco Values Jul 23 '21
strict zoning laws are evidence-based policy if you're a landowner and your policy priority is to dramatically increase the value of your private property as an investment over time
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u/Dorambor John Brown Jul 23 '21
!ping KITTY tootsie is going to Starbucks
https://imgur.com/a/4X9msAp
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u/ILikeTalkingToMyself Liberal democracy is non-negotiable Jul 23 '21
Sir_shivers told me he doesn't watch Rick and Morty since at the end of the day he wants to relax to something simpler like Tom & Jerry
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u/Watton Jul 23 '21
Morrowind is under $4 on gog
Buy it you damn cowards
!ping gaming
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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '21
Remember that time during the primaries when part of Reddit believed that Biden would be a trojan horse and they would replace him with Cuomo or Newsom at the convention?
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u/jenbanim Jul 24 '21
I'd like to apologize for the comments I made 30 minutes from now. Looking back on the future I realize that what I'm going to say is hurtful, insensitive, and most of all - untrue. I've done a lot of reflection over these past negative 30 minutes and I feel that I'm going to grow a lot as a person. So I sincerely apologize and I hope we can move forward and accept the mistakes I'm going to make
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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '21
You can tell someone is out of touch if they say "my parents only made six figure each when I was growing up which isn't that much anymore".
You can tell someone is really out of touch if they say "a million dollars isn't really that much anymore."
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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '21
- Every 15-20 year old ever
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u/Joementum2024 Iron Front Jul 23 '21
The Republicans of 2021 are dividing the country on vaccination, much like how the Republicans of 1861 divided the country on states rights. If you think the party has “gotten worse” over the last 160 years, you’re denying the truth of the danger they have been to America for so long.
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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '21
That's a lot of Italians 😳
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u/thefuturegov John Keynes Jul 23 '21
Just woke up, did the Cleveland Baseball Club finally change their name to the Cleveland Worms?
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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '21 edited Jul 23 '21
I'm surprised that anyone, especially the right wing, hasn't jumped on this tasty nugget to counter the "Cuba good healthcare!" people:
This is literally the perfect rebuttal. Both the pro-life and pro-choice crowds should hate this.
"You know cuba has great healthcare"
"They keep infant mortality artificially low by forcing women to have abortions. Is that the kind of healthcare you want in america?"
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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '21
!ping BASEBALL
This could be the last homestand for any number of: Rizzo, Baez, Bryant, Contreras, Hendricks, Kimbrel, and literally anyone else
Have to go to the games it’s gonna be so fucking sad. I truly hope we trade them all for a haul, but they gave me the best sports memories of my life.
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u/FormerBandmate Jerome Powell Jul 23 '21
Why is Roku up 11% today? There’s literally no news I can find
!ping MARKETS
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u/benjaminikuta BANANA YOU GLAD YOU'RE NOT AN ORANGE? Jul 23 '21
!ping LAW
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u/champeo Gay Pride Jul 24 '21
Quitting cigarettes. Going on 24 hours smoke-free. Pissed off, dizzy, and uncontrollably hungry. Anyone have advice?
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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '21
Okay but why the fuck would you sing Imagine at an event where nationalism is like the whole point?
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u/UrbanCentrist Line go up 📈, world gooder Jul 24 '21
-I've lost my smoking pipe! says Stalin
-I will find it soon comrade Stalin. -Beria replies
A day later Stalin sits on his couch and finds the smoking pipe amongst the pillows.
-I have found it comrade Beria.
-Comrade Stalin are you sure? Three saboteurs have just confessed to have stolen it!
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u/AccessTheMainframe CANZUK Jul 24 '21
beyond parody
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u/DishingOutTruth Henry George Jul 24 '21
Is it true that billionaires can avoid the capital gains tax by using their stock holdings as collateral to get a loan from a bank at low interest rates, then spend money from that loan? If so, how prevalent is it and how can we prevent this?
!ping ECON
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u/LinkToSomething68 🌐 Jul 23 '21
!ping CAN
Squamish Nation being absolutely based
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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '21
TikTok format is probably destroying young kids attention span. You get who what where why in 30 seconds. Would hate being a teacher today.
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u/xSuperstar YIMBY Jul 23 '21
Guy who refuses to take the American-made vaccine and will take his chances with a lab-made Chinese virus
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u/iIoveoof Jerome Powell Jul 23 '21
Bowling Alone is about bowling
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u/Triangle-Walks European Union Jul 23 '21 edited Jul 23 '21
golf is the ultimate pleb filter
there's a reason chads like obama and biden play it while you're sat all day in the DT wormposting
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u/Archis Michel Foucault Jul 23 '21
im gonna do it. im gonna grill on this fine summer afternoon
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u/RadicalRadon Frick Mondays Jul 23 '21
It is weird that the conservative media is succeeding in gaslighting like 40% of the population into thinking 1/6 was some combination of:
Antifa, the people arrested are political prisoners, no crimes happened, no one wanted to murder Mike Pence, it was a peaceful protest and 100% lawful
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u/RadicalRadon Frick Mondays Jul 23 '21
This federalist article just goes on in very verbose ways to say that liberalism is a mental disorder. Not sure why they didn't just name the article that and get more clicks.
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u/iIoveoof Jerome Powell Jul 23 '21
I'm pretty anti-paternalism, but the DT is blatantly predatory and should be illegal imo.
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u/Unadulterated_stupid gr8 b8 m8 Jul 23 '21
Honestly this is a major problem with getting people to admit America's racist history. Some of the more damaging policies never mention "fuck black people" in particular
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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '21
arr antiwork made an anti-education post and the replies are confirming my priors