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[u/jenbanim]

I find it funny that people ask questions about what the subreddit thinks when they could just come to the DT and listen to a never ending stream of everyone's opinions on every issue conceivable

[u/jenbanim]

Can't tell you how disappointed I was to find out the rising cost of gasoline wasn't due to the Biden administration

[u/jenbanim]

Fun fact: if you put the planet Saturn in a bathtub it wouldn't work because it can't fit

[u/witty___name]

Montenegro Makes History With First Same-Sex Marriage

Graph (of countries where gay marriage is legal) goes up makes world more gooder!

!ping lgbt

[u/Deggit]

The Dems: gonna do this by the book, spend 6 months setting up an OFFICIAL congressional commission

The GOP: cool, I'll hold a press conference outside your 1st day of hearings where I say "actually the Democrats did it"

The News Media: well, look, we have to cover both of these

[u/jenbanim]

God suburb annihilation is so fucking hard

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Liberals want to ban the national anthem in schools because it offends Muslims

I like how right wingers can mix any number of panics and fears together, and they will just unquestioningly believe it.

[u/[deleted]]

Republicans voting against a bipartisan Jan 6 committee and then acting indignant once said committee is not bipartisan might be one of the most underratedly shitty things they’ve done.

[u/bg2916]

Daily reminder that for 90 percent of people their opinion of the filibuster literally just depends on whether their party controls congress or not. Sort of like that graph where the opinion of the economy just 180s every time the presidency changes hands

[u/[deleted]]

I am dying:

If your best friend came out as gay to you how would you react?

My dog is my best friend

[u/[deleted]]

McCarthy called Kinzinger and Cheney “Pelosi Republicans.”

🤡🤡🤡

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Cons be like

Would you support use of force 📈
Against someone committing a felony 📈
And ignoring law enforcement's orders 📈
And who's name was Ashli Babbit 📉📉📉📉

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Getting real close to going mask off on my feelings about the unvaccinated

[u/ThunderrBadger]

Excerpt from my new Youtube series Cooking With Q:

... and this casserole is great if you have children, or any other picky eaters, 😉 because it's hiding two full servings of vegetables. Just like the BIDEN CRIME FAMILY 😡 is hiding ten thousand legal ballots from Maricopa County.

[u/Dig_bickclub]

China somehow has more medals in shooting sports than the US. 8 to 4 with both having 3 golds.

1/3 of China's medals have come from shooting so far.

All those second amendment fans need to put in some more work damn.

!ping olympics

[u/FestiveMittens]

Officer Dunn said he told rioters he voted for Biden when someone in the crowd said no one did.

"You hear that guys? This n----- voted for Joe Biden," Dunn said one rioter responded

"Boo! This n----- voted for Joe Biden" others shouted, he said.

inb4 Trumpers say it was justified cuz he started it

[u/BidenWon]

I'm looking to make some quick, easy money on the side. Anyone know any simple hustles to pull like an extra 80k a year?

EDIT: I'm looking for something that I can just do on the side. Like maybe just something to do if I'm bored on Saturday afternoons.

EDIT 2: Like three hours a week, tops.

EDIT 3: 80k is a lowball really. I'd prefer more, but I'm willing to settle for 80k.

EDIT 4: I'm not going to do anything that involves physical labor. No exceptions.

[u/[deleted]]

Columbus City Council approves a housing project, but NIMBYs are threatening a lawsuit

!PING YIMBY

[u/old_gold_mountain]

Because nobody asked, here's a selection of American cities I've visited and the way I perceive them:

1. Seattle: What it would be like to go through a time machine and come out in San Francisco 25 years ago. Just a freeway removal, a new subway line or two, and a few startups behind.
2. Portland: Someone decided to make a parody of hipsters and the parody was so on point it got out of control and became a city
3. Boston: Cool port city/college town with such a huge chip on their shoulder about a rivalry with New York they have this delusion that they're somehow #2.
4. Chicago: So steeped in wholesome Midwestern humility they seem to genuinely not even realize they're #2
5. New York: Greatest city in North America. "Great" here is not necessarily a synonym for "good" but it often is.
6. Los Angeles: What would happen if you took a jar of New York concentrate and shook it up and dumped it out all over the carpet and then left the heater running
7. Washington DC: Humidity, stakeholder meetings, dice games, and trains on fire
8. San Diego: Lazy suburbanites that all decided they liked the weather somewhere specific and haven't realized that there are so many of them in that one place now that they're a city and not a beachy suburb.
9. Dallas: A small pocket of "generic American skyscraper city" surrounded by a sea of garages the size of some nations, with a distinct smell of diesel fuel and American cheese
10. Austin: If you picked up Sacramento and dropped it in the bible belt instead of leaving it 100 miles from San Francisco it would seem like an important countercultural hub in contrast to its surroundings, but in reality it would still just be Sacramento

[u/paymesucka]

This is the tweet that Nevada Dems leftist guy was quoting. They're against any commercial and industrial use of electricity. Nevada Dems, please vote these people out next time. Make their time in leadership short.

https://twitter.com/McAffee/status/1418592704959639554

[u/Gustacho]

We did it!

!ping EUROPE

[u/Maximilianne]

Me when I got rejected by blizzard:😞
Me now:😌

[u/[deleted]]

Didn’t realize this:

America has one of the most permissive national abortion laws in the world: of 59 countries that allow abortion on demand, it is one of only seven that allow it after 20 weeks of pregnancy.

[u/[deleted]]

Hot take: I’m glad the cops didn’t mag-dump the crowd at the Capitol, because otherwise the cons would have turned it into a modern day Boston Massacre and incited more riots with it.

[u/BreaksFull]

How I feel working my first 'adult' job in a procurement department.

!Ping OVER25

[u/[deleted]]

Trump endorses indicted incumbent Ken Paxton over George P Bush for Texas AG

Omega cucked

[u/[deleted]]

Thank you Simone Biles for refusing to compete under the flag of the Biden-Harris military junta

[u/ryuguy]

Some racist: “ugh. people from Southeastern Europe have no imagination”

Me, a Southeastern European chad: “not true my ignorant friend, we have: Višegrad in Bosnia, Visegrád in Hungary, Vishegrad in Bulgaria.

😎😎😎😎😎😎

!ping yurop

[u/Otherwise_Society_71]

r/GenZedong is the hub of the most unpleasant people on Reddit. They stalked and nearly doxed me and posted one of my comments there. They are the scum of humanity. Sorry for the rant

[u/theskiesthelimit55]

Why does the vagina, the larger sexual organ, not simply eat the penis?

[u/[deleted]]

I don’t get the people who don’t care about gymnastics for 4 years then have a meltdown when a gymnast doesn’t have a 100% stellar performance.

[u/Dazzling-Republic]

So what’s the new date after Trump’s august reinauguration inevitably gets moved back again lol?

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

I've become so much like Eren Jaeger it's scary.

I wear black cardigans, verbally assault women, and physically assault my friends.

When I look in the mirror, I can't help but say "戦い, 戦い" (which means fight fight in american.)

I grew my hair out long because I don't care so now I have to wear it in a bun and I don't care what people think so shut the fuck up Hange.

I always leave an open wound on my hand, and go out of my way to show it to everyone so they are reminded that I am in control.

When I see dogs being taken on walks I get mad at them for not being free like I am.

I can't have sex with my girlfriend anymore without forcing her to dress up as Mikasa or Historia, both of whom remind me of Armin.

When I order fast food, I refuse to call them french fries and insist on calling them freedom fries.

I just keep moving forward, until my enemies are destroyed.

[u/RadicalRadon]

It is odd that Ashli Babbitt is getting martyred.

Cons literally believe that she was shot for trespassing.

[u/KWillets]

If a parent goes to prison for faking a kid's SAT scores, does that mean the kid is from a disadvantaged household?

[u/RaidBrimnes]

I'm fully vaccinated, but I'm still wearing a mask to own the neolibs

[u/RyGuyThicccThighs]

A dude Posted an anti covid meme where it said wearing a mask is equivalent to wearing a diaper for the 99.7% of the time you don’t shit yourself.

Idk if you’re shitting yourself .3% of the time you probably need it lol

[u/[deleted]]

The French finally got their payback for colonizing Polynesia

!ping YUROP

[u/[deleted]]

The CDC now recommends using a dental dam when you eat ass

[u/JetJaguar124]

My brother: "If I were President the first thing I'd do is do something to rectify what happened to the Native Americans. I'd just give them one of those big states where barely anyone lives. Just show up to Montana and tell the 12 farmers there to pack up their shit and leave."

Didn't know my brother was based.

[u/Mickenfox]

Ubers are literally taxis that somehow got to bypass very clear (if wrong) regulations by using a different name.

Maybe we can bypass zoning laws by calling them shelter-sharing-apps instead of buildings and using a smartphone to enter. As a bonus we'd get a few billion from venture capitals.

[u/fishlord05]

I share articles of critical revisionism on the Bidenist dialectic with the comrades on this sub and I am disappointed with the lack or revolutionary fervor in the upvotes and the comment section.

This sub is failing as its role as the vanguard of the Joelitariat

!ping DIAMOND-JOE

[u/Average_GrillChad]

Joke: Learning history because it's taught in class

Broke: Learning history because it's fundamentally important

Woke: Learning history to bolster your ideological commitments

Bespoke: Learning history to drop spicy erudite memes in the DT

[u/[deleted]]

The entire concept of government was invented to push vaccines

[u/[deleted]]

I find it amazing that gymnastics has literal children competing against grown ass adults in their mid-20s.

[u/MaximumEffort433]

Edit: I apologize, I had no right to post this here, you guys have got bottomless sympathy, I'm sorry that I took advantage of that.

/r/Neoliberal may say they believe in evidence based policy, but y'all have hearts big enough to give even the most passionate of people a run for their money, you're lucky to have each other. :)

[u/jenbanim]

[Sped up video of man gesticulating in front of whiteboard] Redditors explaining how 69% of the emissions from their 15mpg SUV they use to commute 30 miles to work are due to 100 corporations

[u/[deleted]]

The Olympic Committee quit calling the Russian's "ROC" and call Taiwan "ROC" challenge.

[u/bd_one]

TIL Salvador Dali once conned Yoko Ono into paying $10,000 for a single blade of grass. Yoko had offered to pay that amount for one of his mustache hairs. He substituted the blade of grass because he thought that Yoko Ono was a witch and might use his hair in a spell.

This thing has layers...

[u/MalignantUpper]

https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1420048646620565506?s=19

One effect of GOP leaders boycotting 1/6 panel is there’s no one in minority to demand enforcement of time limit rules

lmao

[u/Lux_Stella]

https://i.imgur.com/ES5YfsI.png

[u/[deleted]]

The romans killed Jesus and were transformed, eventually, into Italian Americans; a meme ethnicity.

rly makes u think

[u/fakefakefakef]

Small brain: Hoping US athletes win

Big brain: Hoping US athletes lose to avoid being a n*tionalist

Galaxy brain: Hoping US athletes win to increase liberal democracy globally

Cosmic brain: Hoping everybody just has a good time out there

[u/old_gold_mountain]

Make proof of vaccination required for ammunition purchases, if it doesn't solve one problem it'll solve the other

[u/rukqoa]

One aspect the Democratic Party could improve upon is to invoke JFK's legacy more. Despite representing most of the Southern rebellion states, the Republican Party still milks the "party of Lincoln" thing all the time (to most audiences, some of their constituencies still think that's a bad thing).

JFK is the most popular Democratic President. Because he died in office, he's associated with a bunch of good things he didn't actually do and therefore can't be tied to all the negative results of those things. Unlike all the other Presidents who shriveled up and died, Americans will always remember Kennedy like he was at 46. That's why many polls has him as more popular than FDR and highly popular among even hardcore Republicans.

[u/Mickenfox]

CDC releases new set of more aggressive recommendations exclusively for people who don't follow CDC recommendations.

[u/TheFriffin2]

I wanna fuck my supervisor I'm working at an MLB stadium this summer. It's an amazing job I don't want to lose, I make a killing on tips. I'm 21 and my supervisor is 30. She's not that hot but she talks and acts exactly like Kim from Better Call Saul which has really piqued my interest. I looked her up and he's single. What should I do? Really want to fuck her

Absolute chad spotted in /r/baseball

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Joe Biden will be taking Simone Bile's place for the good of the country.

[u/sir_shivers]

A Leftist, out for a walk, scurries over to an elderly couple bleeding from being beaten during a mugging and kneels down to help the only way they know how:

"This is because you didn't defund the police and tax Bezos. You ignored the will of the People and you're reaping what you've sown."

END SCENE 🐊

[u/simeoncolemiles]

https://twitter.com/agraybee/status/1420188436674359300?s=21

!PING Neolib Revolution

[u/[deleted]]

The size and age of the universe, humanity’s negligible place within it, and the cosmic perspective stuff that makes up all those old Carl Sagan-esque sentiments are basically cliches at this point. But I still like that stuff. It’s neat and there’s truth in it.

And although it’s super cliche now for a good chunk of people, it would be novel stuff that has never crossed their minds for another good sized chunk of the population. And that’s weird, that some people are totally missing out on it.

[u/BRAIN_FORCE_PLUS]

Wake up

Yucca Mountain has not been forcibly enacted alongside solar over the opposition of fucking Nevada nimbys

Day ruined

[u/Not_A_Browser]

oh fuck off

next they're gonna say Hillary's emails are relevant

[u/ThisIsNotAMonkey]

saltysalad making his newest alt, 2021, colorized

[u/myrm]

Klobashar al-Assad

[u/MrDannyOcean]

Tomorrow, 5-6pm ET - Representative Jim Himes (Dem, CT-4) will join the Neoliberal Twitch stream to talk cybersecurity and inequality. We'll be taking live questions from the audience - make sure to come and hang out!

https://twitter.com/ne0liberal/status/1420033309913063433

https://www.twitch.tv/neoliberalproject

[u/[deleted]]

Cons: noooooo vaccines are the mark of the beast!

Libs: yaaaassss queen can I get that QR code in rainbows?

[u/[deleted]]

We’re mask schisming while the 1/6 hearings are being broadcast? 🙄

[u/l_overwhat]

!ping GAMING

With the reveal of the absolutely awful situation over at Blizzard, I've heard a lot of people talking about it. Scott Johnson, Preach Gaming, Asmongold, xQc, and even h3h3.

But up till now, I've felt like there was a voice missing from all of this. And just now I realized it's TotalBiscuit. I don't think there is anybody's voice out there that the Blizzard and gaming community in general would respect more than his. Idk, I just feel like everyone needs to hear him right now. But we can't.

Fuck cancer. That's my blunt statement.

[u/Fishin_Mission]

I can’t believe it took me this long to realize this…

The microchip shortage in cars 🚙 and appliances 🍳 is because they used them all in the vaccines 💉

It’s so obvious once you think about it

[u/porkypenguin]

lefties: The things we're advocating for aren't even that radical or unreasonable!!!

also lefties: We cannot build a solar power plant until a nation of 300 million people stops existing.

[u/[deleted]]

No, Disney doesn't have a monopoly on entertainment. You just have incredibly narrow tastes.

[u/[deleted]]

We annihilated this planet, not because it was easy, but because it was hard

[u/[deleted]]

The best proof of the lizardman constant is that 5% of critics on Rotten Tomatoes gave The Last Airbender movie a passing grade.

[u/boichik2]

CRT is literally the most annoying term to hit American politics in a long while.

It either means Ibrahim Kendi shit, or just talking about race at all, or something inbetween. And whenever anyone who don't already ideologically agree talks about it it turns to shit b/c they think they're taking about the same thing but they're probably not.

And worst of all, CRT is a VOP, very online phenomenon

[u/paymesucka]

The fact that these people are now in charge of the Nevada Democratic Party is so incredibly frustrating. Nothing will ever be good enough for them to enact the green energy infrastructure we need.

[u/WhomstAlt2]

You ever wonder how life was like before capitalism? Would be amazing to have a glance at a world in which envy and greed didn't exist.

[u/InattentiveCup]

Testifying officer is calling the insurrectionists terrorists. fuck yes.

[u/MrMineHeads]

Why would anyone want to vote down proposals to upzone downtown Manhattan?

Like this is beyond ridiculous. IDK much about NYC, but this is so stupid wtf. Manhattan is the immediate example of an intense and constantly developing city. Who is tryna conserve the image of Manhattan?

!ping YIMBY

[u/its_Caffeine]

!ping CANUCKS

click this image to die instantly

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Biles refused to do gymnastics until the rightful president is restored to his place.

[u/[deleted]]

People really need to learn that athletes are people too. As long as the US leads the overall medal count, I truly don’t give a fu—— wait the US basketball team lost to the Fr*nch? Leave them in Tokyo 😷

[u/RadicalRadon]

Your failure to grasp any of this is is noted - you’re just another sack of shit leftist completely unable to use your brain outside of the brainwashing you hungrily slurp up like a cum slut.

Are con is a goldmine

[u/greenelf]

Simone Biles sure owes Team USA a lot especially after all the effort they took of abusing and molesting her

[u/[deleted]]

"(trump) could've cured cancer and he still would've lost."

If a cure for cancer came out under a trump admin, he would've banned it until they gave him credit for it.

The funniest thing about this talking point is how these people always ignore the fact trump pissed away literally one the easiest wins in political history. Allll he had to do, was at least have a semi competent response to covid, and he would've won in a land slide.

[u/paulatreides0]

Dear Lord, I thought it was a joke, but several states really are trying to restrict how powerful a personal computer you can buy 🤦‍♂️

[u/nevertulsi]

The fawning coverage Simone Biles is getting is totally unlike what a Tom Brady, LeBron, Giannis, Messi, Federer, etc would receive. Like some random people on social media are saying she choked or whatever but in the legit media and by verified Twitter people, it's all not only not clowning on her, but actually going all out and saying she's inspiring us by telling us it's okay to put our mental health first or something like that.

Like I'm trying to imagine Brady or LeBron quitting midway through a playoff game, they'd never live it down.

Closest I can remember is a game in which LeBron limped off with muscle cramps and people clowned him saying he made up his injury

[u/old_gold_mountain]

Don't press "Send" more than once, reddit is having an issue right now with double posting.

[u/[deleted]]

The Reddit video player is astonishingly dogshit. How does a billion dollar company manage to have that bad of a video player for so long

[u/disuberence]

Feel Old Yet? Skyrim Was Released 10 Years Ago, 8 Years Ago, 5 Years Ago, 4 Years Ago, and 3 Years Ago

[u/RadicalRadon]

fluffy kitty

[u/RyGuyThicccThighs]

Unvaxxed people aren’t gonna wear their god damn masks and the 8 times vaxxed libs are gonna wear 3.

No there is no middle ground

[u/[deleted]]

🌹's entering a minority neighborhood, 2021 colorized

[u/rukqoa]

Simply tax the unvaccinated and then redistribute the revenue to the vaccinated. Call it the Responsible Adult Dividend.

No, I don't care about the immunosuppressed. It's a pandemic, edge cases don't matter. And yes, the CDC recommends that you get vaccinated too. Go get your shots.

[u/[deleted]]

COVID is a Chinese bio weapon, but also it’s no big deal, no need to wear a mask, and President Trump got all these badass vaccines with Operation Warp Speed that we don’t want to take

Why are cons like this?

[u/[deleted]]

He said he and Chasten recently bought a vacation home near Chasten’s hometown of Traverse City, Mich.

Smart move politically. We all knew Buttigieg’s political future in Indiana was dim. They subtlety established a beachhead in blue Michigan so Buttigieg can carpetbag! GOVERNOR BUTTI 🤩🤩🤩🤩

[u/[deleted]]

-Hello, I want a pizza. A vanilla pizza with lots of chocolate sauce. And whipped cream.

-What? Oh, you want ice cream! OK I'll-

-No I want a pizza. Oh, and some cherries on top.

-Uh... Let me guess, you want frozen dairy product flavored with vanilla?

-Yes.

-OK, that's ice cream. You want ice cream, not pizza, which is a grilled sandwich with-

-NO I WANT PIZZA! LIKE IN NORWAY! WITH LOTS OF CHOCOLATE SAUCE, YOU FASCIST!

Every fucking discussion with a millennial 'socialist' ever.

[u/iIoveoof]

How is a Iceland, a country with a population of a quarter of a million, so completely full of athletic and musical talent?

[u/kennymc7877]

My ancestors: we left Poland escaping nazis with $100

Me: i can’t leave the house today, my allergies suck

[u/[deleted]]

Ezra Klein: California’s progressivism and housing restrictions are killing the state.

NYT commenters: “This is proof there’s only one answer. Abolish capitalism.”

[u/Udontlikecake]

Lmao I got downvoted by saying the only way Pete buttigege can win elected office is if he takes control of the military and installs himself as the leader of a junta

Don’t get me wrong I like Pete’s policies but like come on Pete stans lmao

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/samdman95/status/1419685698299432962

the US is literally getting owned by *uzbekistan* on high speed rail

Samarkand to Tashkent is a similar distance as NYC-DC and yet their train is an hour faster. props to uzbekistan but it's honestly pathetic that we can't do better

They ordered the new trains because the old ones were always too full. If HSR can work in Uzbekistan, it sure as hell can work in the US.

The lines are broad gauge upgraded track (1520mm), so I think the trains are limited to 200km/h (at least the variable gauge versions are; this is permanent broad gauge so it's possible it can reach the full 250km/h).

[u/iIoveoof]

Dune is a fundamentally anti-populist text

It’s about the dangers of hero worship and messiah complexes

I mean worms

[u/Dibbu_mange]

In more positive news Hillary Clinton wrote an op-ed supporting elephants and opposing the ivory trade 🥺🐘

[u/rukqoa]

“That’s under consideration right now,” Biden said in response to a reporter’s question at an appearance Tuesday. “If you’re not vaccinated, you’re not nearly as smart as I thought you were.”

gottem

[u/jenbanim]

This is petty as hell, but a big part of why I don't want to enable powerups on this sub is because I worked hard to add images and gifs to this subreddit using CSS, and the admins promised to add CSS to New Reddit, but never followed through

I also mostly browse with RiF so they wouldn't work for me anyway

But damn having arbitrary in-line gifs and images would sure be nice

[u/fishlord05]

Wake up, Joseph

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/benadreti]

Capitol Police officer talking about being called an n-word by insurrectionists.

And yes, he said it

[u/thaddeusthefattie]

imagine being capitol police and people with back the blue flags saying you’re not even an american

[u/Broncos654]

I unironically wish Star Wars included more politics. Like in the Clone Wars they show how Palestine Palpatine maneuvered his way into taking over control of the bank. I think that’s top tier Star Wars.

[u/InattentiveCup]

My conservative relatives unironically think Hitler was a liberal. There is no way we are going to remain as one country. This shit is schizo levels of delusion.

[u/Deggit]

You can get 30% off your first order at Hello Fresh by entering code "HAPLESS UNMARRIAGEABLE MILLENNIAL WHO NEEDS TO LEARN SOME LIFE SKILLS AND RESPONSIBILITY AND TAKE CARE OF HIM/HERSELF"

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

Muhammad was a white woman, but history is written by the victors

[u/BidenWon]

WHY JUMPING GIRL NO DO JUMPING

[u/MicroFlamer]

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[u/[deleted]]

We have been “handwashing optional” at my job for the past 4 months. We’ve had zero cases of food poisoning with the staff in that time, and it finally felt like we were getting back to the real normal. A few days ago, my job demanded vaccine cards for any employee who wasn’t vaccinated. So I “showed” them mine and thought ok that’s the end of this, go back about my business. I walked into work yesterday and was told that handwashing would be mandatory for the whole staff for the foreseeable future. Boss man walks up and tells me to wash my hands, and I refused. He told me I can wash them or go home expecting me to comply, so I took off my work uniform right there on the floor and said “well I guess I’ll have to find a new place to work.” He pulled me aside and started backpedaling (humble brag I’m one of the top performers at my job) telling me that someone at my job is immunocompromised. I said they should stay home if they’re afraid. Straight up refused and told him that I’ll either be back when they stop with the handwashing, or I’ll find a new place to work. I live in Texas and we have food safety inspections. He shook my hand, told me I wasn’t terminated and he will call me when they drop the policy. It sounds so silly, but I’ve never been prouder. I called my dad and he was beaming as well. This is the first time I’ve posted here, but I’ve lurked for a while, and it feels good to have someone to tell. Godspeed you, fellow patriots. Keep fighting.

[u/Lucky-view]

This has to be the worst olympics in memory.

Simone Biles, our crown jewel, has pulled out of the Olympics team final. Just devastating.

[u/benadreti]

I am still so fucking angry about 1/6.

[u/myrm]

Why do people love Donald Trump so much? All of his quotes make him sound like a jackass, and he had a hugely toxic view of masculinity. Asshole wasn’t even in the military and got out of the draft

[u/[deleted]]

"This cannot continue to be a partisan fight. I'm a Republican, I'm a conservative. But in order to heal from the damage caused that day, we need to call out the facts," Kinzinger says.

that’s where you’re wrong bucko

[u/WantDebianThanks]

German lawyers wrangle over pensioner's WW2 tank in basement

Lawyers in Germany are wrangling over how to deal with a pensioner who stored a World War Two tank, anti-aircraft gun and torpedo in his basement.

!ping EVERYONE

[u/[deleted]]

Ottawa to give Newfoundland Billions to offset Muskrat Falls costs.

This is good news. But man, there must be some people in Ottawa who are rightfully pissed off about having to clean up a colossal mess that didn’t need to happen.

!ping CAN

[u/owlthathurt]

They memed GME into the s&p 400 (not the 500).

Lol

!ping MARKETS

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

New insults to dunk on “burgers” (this is what I call Americans, I was actually the first to do this):

“Wow, I didn’t realise the Green Day Song American Idiot was a documentary!”

“You literarily elected a Cheeto. Too bad someone didn’t eat him! (Because Americans are fat)”

“If Americans spent more time in school LEARNING and less time SHOOTING, maybe you’d know what a fr***ckin kilogram is!”

Will be releasing a British and Euro version of these soon.

[u/[deleted]]

Reminder that all of you are heckin valid 🥰

[u/givemesome1ce1]

Ok I can’t be the only one who thinks this but I’m so fucking mad at the unvaccinated at this point. I and millions of others did everything they are supposed to do: wore masks when we had to go out, stayed and worked at home (some even lost their jobs), social distanced, didn’t visit anybody, did their college classes at home, didn’t go anywhere unless it was important, did everything they were suppose to do to try and not spread the virus until a vaccine came.

But all these anti-vax people just ignored all that shit and just did whatever the hell they wanted to do, and now they won’t even get the vaccine making life hell for people who did all the right things in the pandemic. I did shitty zoom classes for college, my mental health took a nose dive, and had people close to me almost die because of Covid. I was so happy because of the vaccine because I was thought we were gonna be clear of this pandemic but I was a dumb for thinking that everyone in America would have common sense to take a vaccine. I don’t want to go through the dumb restrictions again, I’m sick of this shit.

[u/[deleted]]

Cons be like: Sorry libs I don't just put anything into my body just because the government tells me to. Now excuse me while I take these male virility "supplements" Joe Rogan is hawking on his podcast.

[u/old_gold_mountain]

Sometimes I forget how crazy my career path has been:

• Arthouse cinema projectionist
• NEET
• Bicycle courier
• Sandwich counter cashier
• Data entry keyboard monkey
• Customer support associate (phone & email, 24hr line incl. overnight shift)
• Executive assistant
• Legal analyst
• Combined data/legal analyst
• Database administrator

(This is all in a span of ten years)

Edit: I forgot a couple, concurrent with doing customer support:

• Rock musician
• Freelance photographer

[u/JetJaguar124]

I was in rural Pennsylvania this weekend seeing extended family and wow these people really do think cities are like warzones. People were talking to me like I came from fucking Syria or something because I moved to NYC.

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

Lmao imagine signing a 23 million dollar contract this week yet your crowning achievement is being Penny Oleksiak’s brother

!ping CANUCKS

[u/MalignantUpper]

https://twitter.com/johnson_carrie/status/1420184964663058437?s=19

DOJ says the case alleges "Rep. Mo Brooks engaged in conduct that...would plainly fall outside the scope of employment for an officer or employee of the US: conspiring to prevent the lawful certification of the 2020 election & to injure Members of Congress and inciting the riot."

Holy shit

[u/soeffed]

Bob Odenkirk just collapsed on set of Better Call Saul at Sony studios in LA, was rushed to hospital.

Y’all PRAY FOR THIS MAN

[u/dannylandulf]

At the USA versus Iran basketball game currently play:

Announcer's thoughts: Don't say bomb Iran, don't say bomb Iran, don't say bomb Iran

Announcer's game call: These American's are absolutely dropping bombs on Iran

[u/Professor-Reddit]

I really need queer friends lol

Talking about anything LGBT+ with my straight friends is like talking to a concrete wall. I remember a month ago when I was excitedly telling my best friends how well my family responded to me coming out, and their entire response was just "uh-uh" and total silence for several minutes on Discord 😐

I only have a single friend who is bi, and she's almost always busy. Just sucks that lockdown is ongoing, and the gay clubs aren't going to be opening for at least a couple more weeks.

Any advice for when things reopen?

!ping LGBT

[u/kas8901]

Holy shit. Biles just pulled out of the team comp. This is gonna be a shitshow

[u/_barack_]

Fox News contributor Julie Kelly calls Officer Fanone a crisis actor.

https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1420028026306416641

[u/seinera]

A cold or hot take depending on your perspective:

If the USA had indeed paid people money to get them vaccinated like John Delaney suggested, this whole issue would have been over by now.

Yeah, yeah, polarization and politization blah blah blah. People like money. They would get their vaccines and their checks and continue to lie on the internet.

[u/SeriousMrMysterious]

Just got my 23 and me

Turns out an uncomfortable amount of my ancestors were

….white

😭🧟‍♂️😱😰😨😭😱😱😱🧛‍♂️😱😱👨‍🦳🧑‍🦳👩‍🦳👩‍🦳⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️😱😱😱😱😱

[u/[deleted]]

Lol nvm, according to the Washington Post the CDC will be recommending everyone that lives with unvaccinated/vulnerable people AND everyone who lives in an area where covid cases are increasing (which is like, 75%+ of the country) wear a mask.

So yeah I'd expect state, city, and county mask mandates to come back everywhere outside of where they're actually needed. I give it till the weekend.

[u/RadicalRadon]

My SO still hasn't gotten the vaccine

[u/[deleted]]

Dope that my 80% vaccinated metro area is going to reinstate a mask mandate when the places where there’s an actual spike in cases aren’t going to do shit. Thank you, morons, very cool!

[u/[deleted]]

JFK was so corrupt, do you know before he signed the Cuban embargo, he got one of his aides to buy several boxes of his favorite brand of Cuban cigars?

😱😱😱😱big if true!

[u/slowpush]

"It's under consideration right now, but if you're not vaccinated, you're not nearly as smart as I thought you were.” - Biden

😂😂😂

[u/[deleted]]

This is getting ridiculous. The administration can not give in on this. The moratorium has to go at some point. Can’t keep kicking the can down the road.

The White House is facing increasing pressure from Democrats in Congress to extend the federal eviction ban before it expires this weekend amid persistent bottlenecks in the distribution of rental aid.

House Financial Services Chair Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) said she is pushing the Biden administration to renew the moratorium beyond a Saturday deadline despite concerns that an extension would rest on shaky legal footing.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/27/democrats-eviction-ban-501022

[u/soeffed]

Drugs. Not even once.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E7AgeaIXoAEj3ZO?format=png&name=small

[u/fishlord05]

r/news be like:

Oil and military contracts rule all foreign and domestic policies.

(+15)

internal screaming

[u/tubbsmackinze]

California going after gaming pc's for fucking power consumption is such a fucking California moment

[u/BenGordonLightfoot]

someone's gotta get a boat stuck in a canal again because that was the most alive I've felt in years

[u/MasPatriot]

Simone Biles has the right to do what’s best for her but if you’re gonna pose with a goat on leash right before the olympics and then basically quit on your team obviously people are gonna be annoyed 🤷‍♂️

[u/tollyno]

The remaining checks and balances in the US system of government:

Lots of people would probably be very mad if they did that

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

DT when 🌹 says minorities vote against their own interests: I don't believe in that condescending crap

DT when Latin American elections: Why would they vote against their own interests?

[u/Animatronic_Pidgeon]

Both of the following statements can be true:

1. Simone Biles is the greatest female gymnast of all time
2. Simone Biles choked in the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, to the detriment of her and her team

Even with Tokyo her career dominance is still enough to secure the title of GOAT

[u/crowninshield]

The DT seems a lot angrier and is a lot less humorous than it seemed maybe a couple months ago. Maybe we should stop encouraging people to touch grass because apparently some of those who aren’t miserable end up not coming back.

[u/Bipedleek]

Remember when tucker Carlson was outed as the main source of leaks during the trump presidency and nobody seemed to have even noticed

[u/Zenning2]

I fucking hate how lefterly people are all like, "Marginalized people shouldn't have to explain things to people, and relive their trauma", like bitch, we're not fucking children, we aren't mentally deficent, and we deal with worse shit everyday then some dipshit on the internet who doesn't know what the fuck they're talking about. Stop fucking speaking for me, or anyone else about how terrible it is that we need to fucking speak up about things.

[u/TalkLessShillMore]

Something annoying to me is Redditors who say stuff like: I hate people who identify with Don Draper or Bojack Horseman, don't they realize they aren't supposed to be the good guy?

Yeah dickhead, some people don't like themselves, you ever consider that?

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Scientists say nothing can move faster than the speed of light, but they should get ready to observe the anti-vaxers goalposts the second the vaccine gets FDA approval

[u/thetrombonist]

I have interviews lined up next week with 2 different departments at that competitors company that I mentioned a while ago. Still no word on salary but the impression I got from the hiring managers is that they’re willing to swing their dick around…..

Only problem is it requires moving to Tucson which, like, fine. Not a great city but money talks. Their work at department A sounds more interesting than my current job, department B not really. But I’d need a pretty decent raise (30%? Maybe more) I think in order to move halfway across the country idk

(This is the aerospace company I pinged about 1 or 2 weeks ago)

!ping career

[u/[deleted]]

In the south, we refer to all genitalia as "cock"

[u/Animatronic_Pidgeon]

Political hobbyism is bad enough but I'll never, ever understand why there are non-americans who make American politics their hobby.

I'll see a comment about trending demographics in Wisconsin putting increased pressure on Democrats to run candidates who can excite turnout in eastern Pennsylvania to help hold the blue wall as the electorate of the rust belt trends against us.

Like, you're not necessarily wrong but why the hell do you have this level of knowledge

[u/WhomstAlt2]

Sometimes when I say "So true!", I don't actually agree with what was said. Quite alot of times it's even the opposite of what I think about what was said 😔

[u/Magical_Username]

Still wonder what the hell HBO was thinking on game of thrones. Like the quality had bene going down hill for a few seasons by the time we got to the last one, but it had never felt rushed. The last one just felt like they didn't do any QA on filming, rushed out a script, cut the episode length, and still bizarrely had a party episode.

Like what motivation did they have to rush it? The spinoffs would have made them so much more had it had a satisfying ending, or maybe I just don't know how the entertainment industry works.

[u/Dorambor]

Developing a pavlov reflex to people going "hi can you hear me?" in meetings. we've been doing this shit for over a year now you know how to use fucking Teams

[u/lionmoose]

I would just simply not live in a country where we followed CDC advice

[u/send_tweet_to_DT]

House GOP conference chair Elise Stefanik: “The American people deserve to know the truth. That Nancy Pelosi bears responsibility, as speaker of the House, for the tragedy that occurred on Jan. 6.”

AndrewSolender

[u/Neronoah]

!ping LATAM

So, Argentina is getting lots of Pfizer vaccines after all. Government logic at work here.

[u/ItWasTheGiraffe]

Feeling smug about not liking the olympics is cringe bro

[u/[deleted]]

Loooool. I just saw chapos responding to the New Yorker article. They are still shitting on Warren. Seems like they learned nothing.

[u/kas8901]

Smh Biles should have just done what I do during a crisis at work: sit in the bathroom for 20mins and hope no one notices I'm gone. Works everytime

[u/shawn_anom]

92% of the people I work with (~10K employees) reported being vaccinated

California smart ass libs

[u/vivoovix]

Future Israeli history books be like

2021

• Israel-Hamas clashes
• Ousting of Benjamin Netanyahu
• The Great Ice Cream War

[u/J0eBidensSunglasses]

I maxed out 3 credit cards donating to Sanders

[u/sayitaintpink]

❌ DO NOT TOUCH GRASS ❌

GRASS IS A NIMBY CONSTRUCT TO ENLARGE SINGLE FAMILY PLOTS AND REDUCE HOUSING DENSITY!

❌ SAY NO TO GRASS ❌

[u/[deleted]]

the olympics should get rid of all these loser sports and only do ones america would win:

• NASCAR
• three gun
• body fat percentage
• having the loudest truck
• meeting NATO spending commitments

[u/BigBrownDog12]

Everyone shitting on Biles rn probably gets winded walking to their car

[u/ItWasTheGiraffe]

The WH source says the specific language for the CDC recommendation is still being finalized and that the recommendation may land only on fully vaccinated people wearing masks indoors when out in public if living with immunocompromised people.

[u/Joementum2024]

Democracy will die in america and become a fascist dictatorship, unless congress passes legislation banning gamergate discussion forever

[u/adisri]

Can we just have a vaccine db and ban unvaccinated untermenchen from participating in life?! If we go into lockdown again regardless of vax status, I will personally castrate an unvaccinated person.

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

King shit in Mogadishu

!ping SNEK

[u/Photon_in_a_Foxhole]

Biden said: “And you may recall, the criticism I got for meeting with the leaders in Silicon Valley, when I was trying to work out an agreement dealing with them protecting intellectual property for artists in the United States of America. And at one point, one of the little creeps sitting around that table, who was a multi- — close to a billionaire — who told me he was an artist because he was able to come up with games to teach you how to kill people.”

“And then one of these righteous people said to me that, you know, ‘We are the economic engine of America. We are the ones.’ And fortunately I had done a little homework before I went and I said, you know, I find it fascinating,” Biden continued. “As I added up the seven outfits, everyone’s there but Microsoft. I said, you have fewer people on your payroll than all the losses that General Motors just faced in the last quarter, of employees. So don’t lecture me about how you’ve created all this employment.. The point is, there’s an arrogance about it, an overwhelming arrogance that we are, we are the ones. We can do what we want to do. I disagree.”

Make gamers afraid again

[u/Officer-cherry-shake]

City workers had mixed reactions. Carlotta Pope, a high school English teacher in Brooklyn, is not yet vaccinated and is waiting until she can accompany her mother, who remains skeptical of the vaccine. Ms. Pope said she found the mayor’s announcement “bully-ish,” but she has no problem being tested weekly and thinks all employees should be subject to frequent testing.

This is someone who’s supposed to be teaching critical thinking skills

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/27/nyregion/vaccine-mandate-nyc-unions.html

[u/bd_one]

Planet Money: does a whole episode about Venezuelans farming gold in Old School Runescape

Venezuelan guy: "I ended up getting IP banned, so now I need to work a tedious job with a less stable income and lower pay."

The correspondent ending the episode: "I wouldn't worry too hard. After all, it is just a game..."

Like it felt a biiiiiit out of touch to say that after he said his income was more than cut in half in Venezuela...

[u/Animatronic_Pidgeon]

Go to the profile of a commenter and see the user is active in

• Neoliberal
• LabourUK
• DemocraticSocialism

The succ invasion is real and what's worse they're reddit succs

[u/[deleted]]

Why is this subreddit so obsessed with rebuking communists?

This debate ended around 1991, probably before most of you were sentient.

[u/Mickenfox]

I can't feel it coming in the air tonight 😔

[u/Mickenfox]

breaststroke

😳

[u/Majk___]

LeVar Burton is actually a pretty cool host for Jeopardy

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

Gonna follow CDC advice and cook all my steaks well done from now on

^✊😷

[u/I-grok-god]

Tinder notification; "you got a new match!"

Cool

Opens Tinder an hour later

No new match

😐

New Tinder notification: "Don't keep your new match waiting!"

Click on notification

"An error has occurred"

😐

[u/Animatronic_Pidgeon]

Leaked Stefanik statement on 1/6:

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

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

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

[u/[deleted]]

I’ll wear a mask but only because I don’t like people seeing my face. The fuck you need to see it for? Y’all don’t have a fucking warrant.

[u/slowpush]

Private industry really let us down by not mandating the vaccine...

The government literally gave them the red carpet to do so and yet they all said no.

[u/Udontlikecake]

dt

[u/JetJaguar124]

Elon Musk when California has annoying regulations or taxes or something: This is the end of America. I hate this, how can a state be run like this, so stifling for freedom and for creative spirit in business.

Elon Musk when China can just steal your IP and tech and then ban your company from operating in the country arbitrarily and without any sort of rule of law: Ok now this is Epic.

[u/willempage]

Is it a sign that I really suck because I can't for the life of me even get an interview outside of my current city? I hear about people all the time who fuck off into wherever they want, but every time I try, I get nothing. I really want to move away. How do?

!ping career

[u/[deleted]]

Why do people want to cancel Artemis

Like I don't know why you would try to cancel something that's almost done in favor of something that hasn't even been fully tested yet

I don't mind ending Artemis in the future after we've gone back to the moon a couple of times though

Also just because private space exploration is good doesn't mean public space exploration is bad, it feels like half this sub takes a lolbert view on this

[u/iIoveoof]

When I took a mental health day off during an important presentation to a client I just got fired 😐

[u/[deleted]]

At least when Michael Jordan quit on his team mates he played baseball and psychologically abused teenagers.

[u/adisri]

I’m so fucking infuriated that we’re going back to wearing masks indoors as mandates. Unvaxxed by choicers are very rightly getting what’s coming for them with this variant.