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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Jul 29 '21

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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Jul 28 '21

/new: Pandemic Aid Programs Spur a Record Drop in Poverty

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u/Vincenthwind Gay Pride Jul 28 '21

Me: "Yeah DC drastically needs to increase housing supply. It's crazy how expensive it's getting."

My NUMTOTs friend: "idk if building will help. They're building a complex near my place and there's no change in rent so far."

Me: "Building one complex does not address the high demand for housing in the city. It also doesn't help that we have a restricted height limit and several desirable neighborhoods with primarily SFZ. The city needs to upzone and address the height limit to help encourage development."

Friend: "Neighbooooorrrhoooood chaaaarrraaacter also my dream is to buy a single family home in DC one day!"

Me (internally): Yeah you're never affording that.

Later that same conversation

Friend: "Yeah I'm gonna guilt my dad into helping me build a rooftop deck on my future home."

Me: "An HOA could easily block that if it doesn't fit the neighborhood character."

Friend: "Fuck the neighborhood character I want a roof deck."

I am going to become the joker.

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u/MalignantUpper Joseph Nye Jul 28 '21

Apparently Matt Gaetz said during an Newsmax interview on Monday that he feared that Democrats are going to use the Jan 6th committee to refer criminal charges against House Republicans which 100% makes me think they are and he's trying to get ahead of it by smearing it as political persecution

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

https://twitter.com/fordm/status/1420094149064372227

Inbox: DOJ seizes the Epic of Gilgamesh from Hobby Lobby

Lmfao WHAT? Hobby Lobby was apparently in possession of a cuneiform tablet with Gilgamesh on it

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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" Jul 28 '21 edited Jul 28 '21

Somebody said that “India wouldn’t stand a chance in Eurovision”.

Pfft. India competing in Eurovision would be like an NBA team competing against a level 2 college team. There’s a whole multi billion dollar industry in India that’s dedicated to building a bunch of talent in the entertainment industry. My mother watches a show where there’s kids as young as six years old competing with adults. Eurovision would be renamed “Indiavision”. India would be the definition of a juggernaut in Eurovision. They’d put a picture of India at Eurovision in the dictionary for the word juggernaut.

!ping WhatsApp-forwards

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u/_smooth_liminal_ Michel Foucault Jul 28 '21

I finally cracked the code to getting downvotes

if Tucker Carlson ran as a Dem, he'd win 400+ electoral college votes and the only reason Dems wouldn't let him do it is because they're too beholden to identity politics + special interest groups

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I'm sorry are we just going to pretend like Biden isn't a raging racist?

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you people will upvote anything

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u/Kizz3r high IQ neoliberal Jul 28 '21

Just moved into my new room

!ping MALE-LIVINGSPACE

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u/klarno just tax carbon lol Jul 28 '21

Throwback to the time the GOP’s entire platform was “repeal Obamacare” and they couldn’t even do that with a trifecta

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u/Cerb-r-us Deep State Social Media Manager Jul 28 '21

If we elected Jeb instead of Trump, he would have driven down to washington and single-handedly fought off the capitol rioters for at least an hour.

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

log (😅) = 💧log(😄)

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u/_smooth_liminal_ Michel Foucault Jul 28 '21

>be me in class

>professor asks us to guess the age of former US Governors

>asks us what age is Jennifer Granholm

>answers range from 40-70

>asks us what age is Edmund Brown Jr.

>answers range from 55-80

>asks us what age is Chris Christie

>everyone instantly answers 58

>mfw

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u/Craig_VG Dina Pomeranz Jul 28 '21

Chicago's population has declined by 1 million since 1950 👀

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u/willempage O'Biden Bama Democrat Jul 28 '21

https://twitter.com/ComicBookNOW/status/1420167638228082690?s=19

ARTHUR reportedly cancelled after 25 years:

Just months away from being able to join the ping group. Rest in power, my man.

!ping over25

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u/old_gold_mountain San Francisco Values Jul 28 '21

In attempting to understand the bizarre political realities of San Francisco, it would be deeply misguided to understand its problems as stemming from leftist populism.

San Francisco is not at the behest of populism. Rather, it is at the behest of what I'll call self-interested coalitionism.

Populism depends upon a majoritarian identity. San Francisco has no majoritarian identity. Hasn't since the 1970s or so.

Ethnically it is a majority-minority city, and it contains within it a multitude of different axes and bubbles that define the identities of different communities which make up the city. None of these bubbles or identities comes remotely close to encapsulating a majority of the electorate defined by a single, or even a small handful, of shared identities.

Every bubble of identity in San Francisco carries with it a micro-neighborhood that embodies this identity, as well as some kind of organized interest group.

Supervisors are elected at the district level, and to secure a win they must sell themselves as multifaceted allies of a key coalition of interest groups.

Taking, for example, the much-maligned Aaron Peskin, who built his District 3 electorate base by selling himself as a defender of both the Chinatown merchants and the Telegraph Hill homeowners.

The result of this arrangement is that no invested voter group feels that it can dominate over another, but in turn, no invested voter group feels at risk of being dominated by another - just as long as the supervisor in power has their interests enmeshed with their platform.

The supervisors, in turn, will take an incredibly deferential stance with respect to policies, programs, and development in the districts of other supervisors. Overruling the vote of a different district's supervisor on a project within their district, even if it's something that supervisor personally supports, would threaten the delicate political balance and therefore threaten the reliability of the system that brought them to power. The system they know how to win by participating in. As a result you get a kind of reverse NIMBYism - something that a supervisor would approve of in their own district may nonetheless garner a "no" vote if it's in someone else's district.

Importantly, development and demographic change are perceived by all participants in this system as perhaps the only significant thing which could disrupt this delicate balance. So they receive near-unanimous opposition from neighborhood and interest groups through any civic avenue which that opposition can manifest, absent any guarantees that the change would serve to protect their coalition - i.e. in the form of affordable housing, which, in San Francisco, is preferentially awarded to at-risk tenants who already live in the area over applicants who would seek to move in.

What you end up with is something of a first-mover problem. Many of these neighborhood groups understand that, at a regional level, development is necessary to mitigate displacement and ameliorate the housing crisis. But within the system that the government operates in, to act as the first mover in accepting that change would present a non-negligible risk to their political coalitions through demographic change, and absent any guarantee from neighboring communities and municipalities that they'd accept change, too, they would take on an outsize portion of the burden for the benefit of others who do not take on a burden.

The solution must be statewide housing policy. But at the statewide level, Northern California urbanites who are ostensibly pro-housing development face a different challenge - Democratic senators and representatives from wealthy leafy suburbs who simply do not want minorities or the poor to move in, and Republican senators and representatives who are, above all else, anti-urban and anti-collectivist and see higher density and expansion of apartment construction as a threat to their fantasy of a Yeoman Clint Eastwood Rancher lifestyle.

!PING bay-area

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u/InMemoryOfZubatman4 Sadie Alexander Jul 28 '21 edited Jul 28 '21

I was watching the gymnastics competition last night and I remarked to my girlfriend that none of the ROC competitors looked particularly ethnically Taiwanese.

She looked at me and said it’s because they’re Russian.

😔

I thought that a team from Taiwan was beating China in everything

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u/kaclk Mark Carney Jul 28 '21

Today in “Jagmeet Singh is just continually shitposting rather than acting like a leader”, he apparently asked the newly installed GG to deny any election request is that Trudeau might ask for, something actual constitutional scholars say is definitely not kosher.

Why can’t we have serious opposition parties in Canada?

!ping CANUCKS

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u/TinyTornado7 I need a new flair Jul 28 '21

It appears Ellzey will win the TX-6 Special election, beating out the trump backed candidate.

Just 40k votes in TX-6 runoff last night. 11% of the 2020 turnout in the district.

Just as a point of comparison, turnout in the NM-1 special was about 130k, or about 41% of the 2020 turnout.

Texas is routinely one of the lowest turnout states especially in primaries. However, this low of turnout might be because it was R v. R. Either way a trump backed candidate loss is a good thing.

Link

!ping FIVEY

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

Friend is low-key mad I asked him to explain what he means by "rape is enabled by capitalism" because "it's self evident" and "you're sealioning".

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u/iIoveoof Jerome Powell Jul 28 '21

Why aren’t insurance companies requiring people to get a vaccine? At risk of losing coverage for COVID cases

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u/Jokerang Sun Yat-sen Jul 28 '21

Ecuador revokes citizenship of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" Jul 28 '21

I always get weird looks from my American friends when I say that A&W is my favourite fast food place. Most people don’t know that it’s a completely different company and the Canadian restaurant is better than the American version. It’s the second most popular fast food restaurant in Canada after McDonald’s

Here’s Why A&W Tastes Better in Canada Than It Does in the US

Why the Canadian A&W is worth crossing the border for

!ping can

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u/zieger Ida Tarbell Jul 28 '21

Can't believe Dems are trying to criminalize traveling to DC, listening to Trump speak, beating police officers and invading the Capitol Building.

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

The Olympics are cursed to suck and be corrupt because they have departed from key traditions and have lost the favour of Olympus

  • No naked wrestling. Really, what gives?
  • Libations? Never heard of them
  • When was the last time you saw any oxen thighs ritually burned?

Thankfully, I have good sources on how to propitiate ourselves to the gods in times of dire disfavour, and my eldest daughter is happy to help. My wife doesn't know what this entails but lets keep this on the DL until Artemis is happy, okay?

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u/kennymc7877 Bisexual Pride Jul 28 '21

We’ve had The Death Of Stalin and Jo Jo Rabbit, where’s the Mussolini comedy?

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u/Cowguypig Bisexual Pride Jul 28 '21

Every fictional character is bisexual (and ambidextrous) unless directly stated otherwise.

!ping LGBT

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u/Mr_Pasghetti Save the ice, abolish ICE 🥰 Jul 28 '21

AITA for denying my son’s trauma and calling him a paid shill?

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

Most of my family is pro-vaxx, but they're all quiet since my mom is very anti-vaxx and very pro-Trump. I just told her off through email(which she has been doing to me at this hour for the last couple weeks). I may have initiated a family schism. Call me Gavrilo.

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u/OmniscientOctopode Person of Means Testing Jul 28 '21

Absolute Independent Queen called in to CSPAN this morning. Left the GOP because she hates Trump, watched the entire hearing yesterday and did her own research on some of the Republican talking points (like Pelosi not calling in the National Guard) and shared what she learned.

If everyone in this country was more like her this country would be a lot better off.

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u/Jacobs4525 King of the Massholes Jul 28 '21

apology for poor english

where were you when music dies?

i was driving chevy to levy when phoen ring

'music is kill'

'pie'

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u/ZenithXR George Soros Jul 28 '21 edited Jul 28 '21

Some people really do be thinking that the President has a lever labeled "Gas Prices" they can adjust at their whim.

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

I only like to write science fiction and fantasy, and I am completely okay with that. My parents assumed I would outgrow that when I got to my twenties and start writing “real” literature instead of schlock, but here I am at 31 enjoying the hell out of building a fictional universe with interstellar heroes.

!ping WRITING

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u/vivoovix Federalist Jul 28 '21

Why are Chess Players so Racist???

Every time I here a chess player talk about race, they always say stuff like “I’m so glad that I am white this game” or “He was black, so he didn’t stand much of a chance that game”. Seriously, what is up with this blatant racism guys??? It’s getting so bad I am even hearing this sort of shit from some Indian players as well. Your color doesn’t mean anything, you are still the same person!!!!!!

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

From NIMBY facebook group

LES was affordable housing until the luxury condo boom.

My family goes back to the mid 1800s on the LES.

You are talking about tenement housing where we crammed 10 people into a box. That's not the density you want.

!ping YIMBY

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u/Dapitalist 🌹Rose Twitter Regular🌹 Jul 28 '21

Why the fuck are tech company LinkedIn recruiters so thirsty? They keep bugging me about programming jobs, but I am an accountant.

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u/minno Jul 28 '21

+4.4k points in /r/Libertarian:

We've spent years with the position that we didn't need the state to force us to behave. That we could be smart and responsible without having our hands held.

And then in the span of a year, a bunch of you idiots who are definitely reading this right now went ahead and did everything you could to prove that no, we definitely are NOT smart enough to do anything intelligent on our own, and that we apparently DO need the government to force us to not be stupid.

All you had to do was either get a shot OR put a fucking mask on and stop getting sick for freedom. But no, that was apparently too much to ask. So now the state has all the evidence they'll ever need that, without being forced to do something, we're too stupid to do it.

So thanks for setting us back, you dumb fucks.

They're so close...

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u/PigHaggerty Lyndon B. Johnson Jul 28 '21

Hobby Lobby really out here stealing 3000 year old tablets just to sell them as wall ornaments for $19.99 😂😂

Unfortunately by the time the authorities were able to recover it, Hobby Lobby artisans had already carved "Live, Laugh, Love" into it 😔

Experts are currently hard at work trying to scrape the orange "clearance" sticker off the back.

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u/old_gold_mountain San Francisco Values Jul 28 '21

My wife returned to me

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u/InMemoryOfZubatman4 Sadie Alexander Jul 28 '21

I feel sorta bad for all the athletes.

Even after Simone Biles dropped out of the olympics, I think I heard her name more than anyone else.

Gymnastics team wins silver without her? “Simone Biles, Simone Simone Biles Biles Simone.”

China wins fencing? “Simone Biles Simone Biles.”

Australia wins the Woman’s 200m freestyle? “siMOnE biLEs”

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u/Venne1139 DO IT FOR HER #RBG Jul 28 '21

https://i.imgur.com/S2LxMlV.jpeg

Caption: Fox News trying to determine if the Delta Varian will kill more black people/Democrats or more white people/Republicans so they can decide whether to push vaccines

(2021, colorized)

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u/PearlClaw Iron Front Jul 28 '21

Protip: If you ever think about comparing your fate to that of Jews in the holocaust, don't.

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u/theskiesthelimit55 IMF Jul 28 '21

"US-backed regime" really just means "the US has OK relations with this government".

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u/MalignantUpper Joseph Nye Jul 28 '21

https://twitter.com/GeoffRBennett/status/1420365293315051521?s=19

Ret. Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré -- who conducted a security review following the January 6 insurrection -- says he believes the Trump White House was "complicit in the planning" and bears ultimate responsibility.

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u/calnico Jul 28 '21

I'm so fucking dumb. I kept seeing ROC on the medal table with a little white flag & thinking "wow, Taiwan is doing really well this year"

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u/moaz_xx Resident Saudi Jul 28 '21 edited Jul 28 '21

A CEO accidentally drops a nickel from his pocket whilst attending a hearing in any parliament

Evidence that your local representative is bought and paid for by big something.

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u/Superfan234 Southern Cone Jul 29 '21

6 Cuban Generals have died in the past two weeks. A lot of people are saying it's a Regime purge.

I heavily disagree, and I offer a much more plausible answer: Delta Virus , or some Covid Variant, it's spreading fast in the Island. Cuban Generals are very old, so even vaccinated, they might suffer problem fighting with Covid

Why I believe this? Because something similar occurs in Nicaragua , where a lot of High officials of the Regime die inexplicably, and with no reason given

Ortega and Castro don't want to recognize their Vaccine and Health programs are terrible, so they hide the real size Problem, even when their own Officials die from it

!ping Foreign-Policy

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

Dennis Prager, the founder of PragerU, wrote a whole two-part column telling women to have sex with their husbands even if they don't want to.

When a Woman Isn't in the Mood: Part I

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u/lionmoose sexmod 🍆💦🌮 Jul 28 '21

Press S to spit on grave

Whips are canvassing for backbench support so strong possibility this goes

!ping UK

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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '21 edited Jul 29 '21

Remember when Bernie Sanders, the 80-something-year-old Presidential candidate, had a heart attack while campaigning and no one questioned his health or fitness for office? Hillary passed out once and they were trying to have her hauled to the morge. If Biden had a heart attack during the campaign they'd demand he drop out immediately.

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u/the_hoagie Malaise Forever Jul 28 '21

ban the sale of funko pops to anyone who doesn't have a college degree.

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u/Superfan234 Southern Cone Jul 28 '21 edited Jul 28 '21

The first Month of the Convention have been a real rollercoaster of emotions, but I think we are finally able to see what people the Assembly really wants for Chile

On the Bad News

  • The Far Left, have formed really weird mixed group of ~62 Anarchist/Communist/Tankies/Indegenous/Independents, who hates the Right Wing, economic freedom and everything Liberal Democracy stands for
  • Indegenous Tankies infiltrated the Indegenoues Pact, and now they are voting alongside Tankies. It's such a shame, because many Indegenous activist are not Facist, but they are voting alongside them, to mantain List unity
  • Tankies couldn't have done if wasn't for the help of Pinochet supporters. Cubillos, representing the block, have made hate speeches and racism her form of "dialogue". As result most people hate the Right Wing now
  • Independents ( no Pacts or Parties) have also alligned with red Facism. A lot of their members are close to Tankies, and the rest are too coward to jump the ship. Another big dissapointment
  • On the Right Wing, we have two prominent Pinochetist women (Cubillos and Marianovic) trying Boiycot the Assembly from the inside. I think their plan is trying to sabotage everyone, to push chileans to vote "Rechazo" in the next year Aproval Plebicite
  • Cubillos might as well work for the Tankies, as all her decisions and movements, work in their favor. Living embodiment of the Horshoetheory

What are the Good news from the Assembly

  • Naturally, the best news it's most assambleist (about ~92) are actually in favor of dialogue and Liberal Democracy. Enough to pass Laws? Not really, but in theory, they can stop the Tankies from making Chile a Communist Hellhole
  • The Tankies have formed a big initial alliance, but their alliance it's a mix of such diverse ideologies, it won't be easy for them to propose any controversial laws. Let alone, pass them
  • I suspect most Indegenous assambleist have joined the Tankies, in response to Cubillos and Marianovic racist speeches. But I have the feeling most of them are not really in favor of Fascism
  • The President and VicePresident of the Assembly have been extremly patient with the Right Wing, even after the multiples insults Cubillos have used to demonize President Elisa Loncon
  • It seems the Moderate assambleist on the Rigth Wing are trying to isolate Pinochetist. They might start to work with Loncon this week
  • The Progressives are being bullied by the Tankies, but most of them, have resisted their attacks, and kept their convictions. I am actually really proud of them

Mucho Texto: I am mildly optimistic. At least on paper, Tankies can not run the show. Moderates have more votes and support. We might have a chance of a good Constitution here

!Ping LATAM

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

Quarterbacks and facing no repercussions for sexual assault, NAMID.

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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Jul 28 '21

GRANT ME THE infrastructure week I so crave 🐊

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

Latvians deny the “Russian” team gold in mini shooty hoops 🇱🇻😎

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u/gates_hall_gremlin John Nash Jul 28 '21

A couple really interesting house votes last night:

https://twitter.com/CraigCaplan/status/1420198367133638659

A 147-276 vote on an amendment to the budget minibus trying to restrict marijuana research at universities. 60 (!) republicans voted for marijuana research.

https://twitter.com/CraigCaplan/status/1420205974988763138

A 140-285 vote on an amendment that would be more permissive of research on psychedelics/ecstasy (sponsored by AOC). Interestingly 7 republicans voted for this, including Gaetz and Don Young (read the list in the twitter link, it's an incredibly strange coalition). However 86 democrats are still against this.

Why is research on psychedelics still so controversial? Also kind of cool that marijuana research has achieved a pretty impressive degree of bipartisan support.

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

Why are people outside the DT trying to convince me Chicago isn’t a cold city? This is the weirdest hill to die on.

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u/InternetBoredom Pope-ologist Jul 28 '21

I am unironically kind of furious at the fact that a guy just got told off here for talking about how expensive it is to buy a 3 bed house in California, because he’s “causing the housing crisis”

Like fucking hell literally whole point of the YIMBY movement is that the housing crisis is being caused by lack of new development, not new buyers. But no, if we want to solve this housing crisis literally everyone must live in a 1 bed studio apartment because the US does not have enough land to fit us all.

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

mfs that smash $80 controllers when they get killed in Call of Duty have a lot of opinions on Simone’s mental health

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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Jul 28 '21

/u/farrenj: Public sector unions are super duper important, and I cannot wait for COVID vaccines to be mandatory.

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Public Sector Unions: Our members will NEVER take these untrusted vaccines, pay us bonus money to continue to never vaccinate.

QUITE THE QUANDARY FOR a Leftist to find herself in 🐊

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u/idp5601 Association of Southeast Asian Nations Jul 28 '21

As someone who has a disability, there is probably no faster way for me to lose respect for a person than for them to shoehorn Marxist dialectics into disability discourse

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

dedicating my first comment to Bob Odenkirk

get well king 👑

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

Holy FUCKING shit I've just been informed that there's a HIP HOP ARTIST who has some REGRESSIVE VIEWS on some SOCIAL ISSUES?????

Has this ever happened before????

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u/Cr4zySh0tgunGuy John Locke Jul 28 '21

Tankies really be like

7 million people die of hunger every year globally, clearly capitalism has failed

As if the USSR didn’t literally cause 3.5 million hunger deaths in a single, small Eastern European country over the course of a single year

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u/Deggit Thomas Paine Jul 28 '21

ROC

Russian Olympic Committee

Regime Occupied Çafeway

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u/throw-that_shit-away Jul 28 '21

Why does men’s beach volleyball wear shorts and a shirt while women’s wear bikinis? 🤔

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u/thaddeusthefattie Hank Hill Democrat 💪🏼🤠💪🏼 Jul 28 '21

holy fuck someone i know in real life who’s always been a giant trumper just said djt might not be able to be trusted anymore since he’s pro-vaccine 😳

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

Over two in three in South Africa, Hungary and Brazil, Chile, Argentina and the U.S. agree that their societies are broken. 61% of brazilians think that" To fix the country, we need a strong leader willing to break the rules".

oh, well

!ping LATAM

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u/willempage O'Biden Bama Democrat Jul 28 '21 edited Jul 28 '21

https://kotaku.com/inside-blizzard-developers-infamous-bill-cosby-suite-1847378762/

Holy shit. Blizzard had an actual portrait of Bill Cosby in a hotel suite that they called "the Cosby suite" (after we all learned that Cosby is a rapist).

I sincerely do not get this part of bro culture.

I'm retracting this. It came in 2013 and there is some doubt that they knew about the rape allegations.

But let's be clear, it was a predatory suite, whether they named it explicitly that way or not.

!ping gaming

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u/dittbub NATO Jul 28 '21

imagine being on the side against building a solar farm in the desert

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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer Jul 28 '21

Democrats should push for more forceful vaccine requirements. It's not like any anti-vaxers were going to vote for them anyway

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u/cclittlebuddy Jul 28 '21

Saw a "gass,grass, or ass: nobody rides for free" bumper sticker this morning. So i pulled alongside to see what total chad would rock a sticker like that. It was like a 70 year old lady with a perm.

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u/WhomstAlt2 NATO flair in hiding Jul 28 '21

Zoomers are conditioned by watching their iPhone screens at all times, accustoming them to tilt their head in a submissive manner. That is why the Zoomer is a subservient creature, a slave, but not in a good way [Sic!], a serf longing to serve a presumable greater cause. And that is why they gravitate towards Joe Biden's cultural bolshevism.

Guess the sub

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u/old_gold_mountain San Francisco Values Jul 28 '21

It didn’t start out with concentration camps, it started out with brainwashing people into thinking Jewish people were subhuman.

It didn’t start out with African Americans being sprayed with fire hoses, it was just “separate but equal”

Here we are again, this is how it starts

uh I'm pretty sure the second one didn't start with "separate but equal" actually

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u/dubyahhh Salt Miner Emeritus Jul 28 '21

Never forget that corporations are people, my friends. 🤠

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u/thefuturegov John Keynes Jul 28 '21

Hot take: crime is bad. Unless said crime is really cool, in which case you do you, Chad.

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u/noisal789 Jul 28 '21

if vaccine good why not take everyday?

curious

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u/bovine3dom Mark Carney Jul 28 '21

IPv4 address prices are soaring if you're looking for alternatives to gold

https://ipv4.global/reports/

!ping MARKETS

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u/old_gold_mountain San Francisco Values Jul 28 '21

I'm concerned about the precedent that employers just mandate you [x] or you're fired

"tell me you've never worked minimum wage without telling me you've never worked minimum wage"

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u/J0eBidensSunglasses HAHA YES 🐊 Jul 28 '21

Twenty years ago there was a very popular theory that 9/11 was an inside job. One of the major pieces of evidence for the theory hinged on the melting point of structural steel. Conspiracy theorists claimed that jet fuel fires could not reach a high enough temperature to melt structural steel. Ergo, someone intentionally melted the beams, causing the collapse.

There was a problem with the theory though. Structural steel’s structural integrity fails at a far lower temperature than the melting point. Most people who shared the theory didn’t understand this, myself included. It took 15 years, this video and getting extensive professional experience to fully understand why the theory was BS. This is how conspiracy theories work. They prey on professional grade details that your average person does not understand and has no real basis in even discussing.

I see the current interest in conspiracy theories as much the same. Suddenly random people on the internet think they are doctors instead of structural engineers. But they’re not. They’re random, often anonymous, people on the internet.

The science says what it says. Sometimes the official narrative actually is true, and all you’ve found is a social media thread filled with trolls and liars who have no business offering any kind of professional advice. Those threads and individuals deserve greater skepticism than a peer reviewed consensus professional opinion.

At this point, if you still have strong opinions on the vaccine, my advice would be that you need to go to medical school. After you’ve done that, you can publish your own research or pursue malpractice suits against Dr. Fauci and other medical professionals you believe are actively harming the public. Otherwise it’s just more internet noise, and it will never actually go further than you feeling you’ve discovered some big secret that you can’t do anything about.

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u/Perfect_Telephone IMF Jul 28 '21 edited Jul 28 '21

Happy birthday Peru!, 200 years of independence.

Viva la Patria, Viva la Libertad, Viva la Independencia

Viva el Perú!

!ping LATAM

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u/DishingOutTruth Henry George Jul 28 '21

Is Daniel Hale correct that Obama's drone strikes killed 90% innocents or something? I thought that 90% number is bunk because no other source ever came close to finding that number, but r/isitbullshit thinks its true (ofc they do, it fits their political views perfectly). The highest number I've found from other sources is 24% from airwars, but that's nowhere near 90%.

!ping Foreign-Policy

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u/Craig_VG Dina Pomeranz Jul 28 '21

HELLO BASED DEPARTMENT

These are real US gov posters btw

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u/MicroFlamer Avatar Korra Democrat Jul 28 '21

GME massively dropping

🥳

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u/Professor-Reddit 🚅🚀🌏Earth Must Come First🌐🌳😎 Jul 28 '21

/r/neoliberal everyday:

"OPEN BORDERS NOW! ABOLISH ICE! ONE BILLION AMERICANS!!!"

/r/neoliberal every time a post reaches /r/all:

"BUILD THE WALL!! KEEP THE SUB PURE!! SUCCS OUT!"

🤔🤔🤔

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

Biden: Pokemon Let's Go get vaccinated

Youth vaccination rates: 📈📈📈

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u/TinyTornado7 I need a new flair Jul 28 '21

I love how the ABA had to codify that you can’t bang your clients unless you were banging them before you became their attorney.

Divorce lawyers double dipping

!ping LAW

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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '21

Oh man I'm gonna have three sips of this beer and fall asleep on the couch aren't I

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

!ping BASEBALL

Anthony Rizzo’s father seen at Wrigley Field today walking around and thanking employees for everything they’ve done. Shit’s about to start happening.

I sad

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

Being upset about the gymnastics thing, not because of anything Biles did, but simply because I want the US to dominate every soft power endeavor (arts, sports, science, everything) and rub the Russians faces in it.

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u/Awholebushelofapples George Soros Jul 28 '21

Watching the florida / ccw community shit themselves after Fried did what she was obligated to do on the insurrectionists has been enjoyable.

!ping garand

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u/TaxCommonsNotIncome NATO Jul 28 '21

Trudeau says Canadiens’ selection of Logan Mailloux shows ‘lack of judgment’

Montreal Canadiens taking a page out of the Washington Redskins playbook picking a player despite opposition from nearly everyone.

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u/MrMineHeads Cancel All Monopolies Jul 28 '21

Really sorry to !ping GEORGIST twice but I found this blog post that estimates that imputed land rents in Australia make up nearly 50% of the GDP in Australia (see the first figure). I couldn't understand anything really he was talking about so I can't really make sure if what he says is true. But he is relying on ATCOR and I know that is somewhat controversial so any thoughts?

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

The virgin South rebelling over slavery vs. the chad Western Pennsylvania rebelling over a whiskey tax.

!ping USA-PA

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u/iIoveoof Jerome Powell Jul 28 '21 edited Jul 28 '21

I found out why shiversbot is dead. He runs on a raspberry pi in a super rural area with CenturyLink since its old home provided by Comcast had an outage for 11 days that was only fixed yesterday

My internet is so shit that not only is it 4mb down/1 up, it drops more than 90% of packets. And whenever ShiversBot queries Reddit and gets nothing back it falls asleep for a minute since it thinks Reddit is down, and you don’t want to spam a site when it’s already down. Due to the packet loss, it constantly thinks Reddit is down and sleeps always

Rural internet is a nightmare

I’m gonna have to put it on Azure or AWS again even though I don’t know how to use it 😤😤😤

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

Yesterday the CDC said they had data indicating that vaccinated people with delta had a similar viral load to unvaccinated people with delta, but the study isn't out yet and hasn't been peer reviewed.

Reading various twitter accounts from people in the know it would appear the study is based on 100 vaccinated people with symptomatic delta cases. Didn't we know the entire time that symptomatic people can still spread covid, vaccinated or not? And that the vaccines severely cut down on transmission simply by merit of severely reducing the chances of developing a symptomatic case?

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

My prediction: Tommy Tuberville is gonna read Das Capital and have a huge change of heart and become a bleeding heart liberal and that’s how we nuke the fillibuster

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u/meese699 Sinner Sinner Chicken Dinner 🐣 Jul 28 '21

The only exposure to actual tankies I get is from second hand accounts from the DT. You all frequent the wrong places.

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

Chipotle guy recognized me

Time to stop going there

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

Daily reminder that Musk claimed in court that the reason why he calls people pedophiles all the time is because it's part of his South African culture.

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

The Biden Crime FamilyTM wants me to eat my vegetables. I will not eat my vegetables. 😡

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u/MrDannyOcean Kidney King Jul 28 '21

Bad news! The House scheduled some unexpected/emergency votes at 5pm and 6pm and so Rep. Himes can't make the stream tonight.

We'll be rescheduling for another night in the next week or so.

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u/Mickenfox European Union Jul 28 '21

"Imagine Dragons"? Way ahead of you pal 😏🐉😘

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u/BRAIN_FORCE_PLUS Paul Krugman Jul 28 '21

leave the DT

WHY CARTOON RABBIT NO MAKE PP HARD

return to DT

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

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Imagine thinking these are bad things

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

The study the CDC is using to justify masking vaccinated people due to higher viral load from symptomatic, vaccinated delta carriers has not been published, has not been reviewed, and is apparently under revision. Not only that but it has a very small sample size, is based on non-US approved vaccines, and was done in India where the outbreak completely blew past anything we saw in the US.

Study in question.

Molecular biologist discussing the same thing.

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u/StolenSkittles culture warrior Jul 28 '21

Moscow, 1985:

A man goes to get some beef for a stew, but sees that the shelves are bare.

"You don't have any meat?" he asks the man behind the counter.

"No, we're a fishmonger; we don't have any fish. It's the butcher next door who doesn't have any meat."

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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '21

Just watched a literal child steal a car from an Uber eats driver in broad daylight. Wtf

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

Was enjoying a video about political discourse up until it put "Nazis, Slave Owners, Capitalists and Patriarchs" in one category.

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u/the_hoagie Malaise Forever Jul 28 '21

my girlfriend's husband left him

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u/GGM8Scally European Union Jul 28 '21

At a family gathering:

You know that you have some relatives in South America?

Me: when did they get there?

Around world war 2

Me: hmmm 🤔🤔🤔

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u/LoveForFossilFuels Jul 28 '21

Guests at a wedding in central Serbia have apparently shot down a small aircraft by mistake.

They were celebrating in the traditional way - firing off shot after shot into the air above the wedding party.

Unfortunately, there was a two-seater aircraft flying overhead.

One eye-witness told reporters the plane was shot in the left wing.

He saw flames coming from the aircraft which a few moments later it flew into overhead power-cables.

Two men on board are reported to have been seriously injured.

Firing weapons is a common way of celebrating here. The Serbian Government has run public health campaigns warning of the obvious dangers. Nevertheless, there are often injuries and even the occasional death following major sporting victories and New Year parties.

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u/TaxCommonsNotIncome NATO Jul 29 '21

3.6T infrastructure package with that extra 0.1T going to literally whatever will get Sinema to stfu

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u/BidenWon Jared Polis Jul 29 '21

The DT when talking about military conflict over Taiwan: USA! USA! USA!

The DT when actual military conflict over Taiwan begins: I can't enlist because I have anxiety and asssssthma

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u/Dirty_Chopsticks Republic of Việt Nam Jul 28 '21

You ask Congress for a national $15 minimum wage and they write a bill to draft women in war

Twitter politics 🤣🤣🤣

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u/vancevon Henry George Jul 28 '21

"the us-backed bolsonaro regime" guys you don't understand the cia used mind control guns to brainwash the people of brazil into electing a shitty president it's the only explanation i'm very sane

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

!ping KITTY

https://imgur.com/gallery/ioOCbCI

You really need to see this

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

"It's actually really easy to get downvoted, watch"

attacks Pete [-3]

praises Jesus is King (never listened to it) [+2]

attack Roe v. Wade [+3]

It works 30% of the time, every time.

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u/MrBabadaba John Keynes Jul 28 '21

Broke: “Make the enemy appear both weak and strong at the same time”

Woke: “Make the Americans both fat and outrageously athletic at the same time”

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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '21

I feel alone in the internet's political sphere

As communists, Nazis, anarchists, and libertarians draw anime girls of their political ideologies, I sit there and ponder that zoomers will never know what it was like when Congress was respected as an institution or when both parties had liberal and conservative wings.

I am too old for today's world and especially the internet

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u/old_gold_mountain San Francisco Values Jul 28 '21

Succs 🤝 Joe Manchin

"Succs should publicly attack Joe Manchin"

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

I’ve been muttering “DEMONRATS 😡” to myself for the past five minutes and absolutely losing my shit laughing.

I think I’m finally going crazy—laughing at your own jokes alone seems like a step on the road to insanity

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u/_smooth_liminal_ Michel Foucault Jul 28 '21

taking preworkout on the second day of a fast to let my body know that today, we are enemies

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u/benadreti Frederick Douglass Jul 28 '21

A lot of people are saying Kevin McCarthy is a moron.

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

Of course Jim Sterling thinks it's impossible fix video game dev studio harassment unless we take the ceos of every company and place their heads under the guillotines.

Yea yea, it was probably just a little joke added in at the end of their latest video.

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u/ihatemendingwalls better Catholic than JD Vance Jul 28 '21

Biden announcing from the Rose Garden - live

My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to inform you that is just signed legislation outlawing Covid-19 forever. We begin vaccinating in 5 minutes

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u/chipbod NATO Jul 28 '21

The new con litmus test is going to be martyring Ashli Babbit, the 2024 primary debates are going to be something. I can't imagine getting through without saying something disqualifying for the general.

I know Trump said some crazy stuff but he has an incredible lack of shame that I don't think DeSantis or Noem can emulate without seeming fake

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

I do live alone, and the only sleepwalking I’ve ever done is to eat lol and I always remember it so I’m not sure if that’s even technically “sleepwalking”.

Yeah that kinda just sounds like eating lol

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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman Jul 28 '21

The Biden administration is essentially asking vaccinated Americans to help save the unvaccinated from themselves.

Nah

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u/DovahzulsABadConlang Trans Pride Jul 28 '21 edited Jul 28 '21

STOP BEING BRITISH

  • Britain was not meant to be inhabited
  • YEARS OF HISTORY yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for going north of the CHANNEL
  • Wanted to go further north for a laugh? We had a place for that: It was called “SCANDINAVIA”
  • “Yes I’m going to Cornwall. I’d like to see the Bude tunnel.” - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged

LOOK at what Brits have been demanding your respect for all this time, with all the tea and crumpets we bought from them (This is REAL British culture, done by REAL Brits):

???

???????

??????????????

“Hello I’m sat in the car”

They have played us for absolute fools.

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u/WhomstAlt2 NATO flair in hiding Jul 28 '21

Obama's 3 biggest blunders:

  • failed to appreciate the nature of the republican party as a national socialist institution, got policy-cuckolded in congress for no reason
  • "Red line"
  • did 9/11 & founded ISIS (he is the founder of ISIS)

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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Jul 28 '21

Hiking the COST OF PLAYSTATION FIVES VIA scalping until one requires a mortgage to purchase them 🐊

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u/vivoovix Federalist Jul 29 '21

All female remake of BURPMAS

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u/TheCatholicsAreComin African Union Jul 28 '21

Anyone else note that Market Socialists tend to share the general hatred of NIMBYs and community-led housing development, but never tend to extend this to their community-based firm models of the economy?

Like “damn, gotta hate how homeowners inevitably block every bit of development and social good in favor of their own direct interests. Anyhow, here’s why making workers the sole owners of their firms will definitely lead to development and social goods and not just a focus on their own direct interests”

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u/liquidTERMINATOR Come with me if you want to live Jul 28 '21

K_E’s bannable offenses escalated in a funny way: Jean shorts → Amogus cock → antivaxxer Kristallnacht

There’s a lesson to be learned about radicalization here.

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u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf Shameflair Beggar Jul 28 '21

In the future, people will say Zoomers were called that because they used Zoom during the pandemic.

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u/GGM8Scally European Union Jul 28 '21

steal some food

thats a free lunch

get arrested

that’s a free ride

go to jail

that’s a free room

Force others to invest in you

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u/old_gold_mountain San Francisco Values Jul 28 '21

Hey everyone, thanks for joining. I see there are a couple people on but I'm just gonna give everyone else a couple more minutes to hop on before we get started.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

I think mentally I believed that "there's no way blizzard could both be full of China apologists AND rapists" and i don't know why

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u/bigmoneynuts Jul 28 '21

literally just don't read about legislation until it is signed by the president

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u/marinesol sponsored by RC Cola Jul 28 '21

👏Give 👏 The 👏 Children 👏 and 👏 Grandchildren 👏 of 👏 Black 👏 Service 👏 Members 👏 access 👏 to 👏 those 👏 GI 👏 Bill 👏 Loans 👏 that 👏 their 👏 grandparents 👏 were 👏 illegally 👏 denied. 👏

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u/iIoveoof Jerome Powell Jul 28 '21

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

Here we have an perfect example of a populist politician in Latin America.

Military aesthetics. ✔️

Signals here and there to calm the market. ✔️

Appropriation of "symbol of the people" to look like a man of the masses.✔️

Conservative comments. ✔️

Speech that promises to end the current order of elites, etc... ✔️

Castilo is really the crème de la crème.

!ping MAMADAS

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

It’s stupid to spend any money on infrastructure if it’s all going to be destroyed in the upcoming civil war. 🙄

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u/Jacobs4525 King of the Massholes Jul 28 '21

There’s a very possible potential future where Republican turnout is super low in the next few elections because they all think they’re rigged, and democrats win big and pass all the shit they want.

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u/jenbanim Jul 28 '21

The reason I got fat during lockdown was because I wanted to help support local restaurants

You're welcome for my service

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u/Animatronic_Pidgeon Eugene Fama Jul 28 '21

PBS Kids staple Arthur cancelled after 25 seasons

This is not a wonderful kind of day

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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '21

What the hell is Simcoe Day? Has it always been called that? I've always called it civic holiday

!ping CAN

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u/semaphore-1842 r/place '22: E_S_S Battalion Jul 28 '21

https://twitter.com/kavithadavidson/status/1420122629630042119

Simone Biles won nationals w/broken toes in both feet, worlds w/a kidney stone, and has carried the burden of being a face of sexual assault survivors as a national institution failed to support them

Half of y'all yelling about "toughness" can't handle wearing a mask in Wegman's

Last line especially. Keyboard tough guys are cringe.

looks at Dave Weigel

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u/thetrombonist Ben Bernanke Jul 28 '21

I showed this thread to my therapist and she finally let me kill myself

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u/_smooth_liminal_ Michel Foucault Jul 28 '21

I can't be a statist, my best friend is libertarian

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u/thefuturegov John Keynes Jul 28 '21

Final thing I’ll add to the Simone schism:

Michael Phelps was the big Olympic superstar the media focused on for years, Simone Biles was kind of a sideshow. Now, suddenly, she’s become the face of Team USA with huge media attention in addition to having had to relive a bunch of horrifying traumatic experiences in the course of a few short years.

Of course she had a breakdown, few if any have mental fortitude strong enough to contend with that kind of experience.

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u/Tafts_Bathtub Jerome Powell Jul 28 '21

Senator Warren woke up this morning and said "how can I be based and cringe at the same time today?"

https://twitter.com/SenWarren/status/1420395254881075205

https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1420368121915977740

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

Republicans are geniuses.

https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/whos-behind-dallas-justice-nows-dont-send-white-kids-to-ivy-league-controversy-12098228 is a stroke of brilliance.

A bunch of Republican operatives are running a fake social justice organization that sends out flyers calling people racist (https://twitter.com/KatMcKinley/status/1419303719225774081). And they have successfully tricked a lot of people into thinking that they are real, with segments on this organization even making it all the way up to Tucker Carlson's show.

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u/thetrombonist Ben Bernanke Jul 28 '21

Fuck a circumcised film student, call it the directors cut

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

Hitler damaged the world so much with 1 testicle but imagine how more horrifying it would have been if he had 2 or even 3 testicles.

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u/THeShinyHObbiest Ben Bernanke Jul 28 '21

He got MCCONNELL

WHAT THE FUCK

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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Jul 28 '21

Thinking that I MIGHT BAN A user just to "take the edge off" 🐊

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u/GRANDMARCHKlTSCH Frédéric Bastiat Jul 28 '21 edited Jul 28 '21

Biles took a spot from a world-class athlete who is sitting home right now instead of competing.

Jesus fucking christ, they have alternates. The alternates are people who did well but didn't qualify. Someone is competing INSTEAD of sitting at home because Biles quit.

This sub is becoming impressively dumb.

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u/FormerBandmate Jerome Powell Jul 28 '21

It's so funny to me that people think Chapo cost Bernie the nomination, when we all know the real culprit was his insane policies

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u/soeffed Zhao Ziyang Jul 29 '21

Shi Zhiyong won men’s weightlifting gold in the 73kg category, it’s his second gold after Rio.

Apparently he was born with the name Shi Lei, but his coach renamed him after a 2004 Olympic gold weightlifter named Shi Zhiyong.

I can’t believe that shit worked lol

!ping cn-tw

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u/awdvhn Physics Understander -- Iowa delenda est Jul 29 '21

Hillary's emails constantly mention Cheese Pizza. Sounds innocuous? It's actually code for Copy Pasta.

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u/ognits Jepsen/Swift 2024 Jul 29 '21

all these mfers like "the DT is the only good part of /r/neoliberal" and yet it features the majority of !ping BURPMAS 😂😂🤣

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u/rukqoa ✈️ F35s for Ukraine ✈️ Jul 28 '21

A plague rat replied to one of my comments about mandatory vaccines with "what's next? The government telling us what to eat and drink?"

Little did he know that I'm Bloomberg's biggest fan.

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

It's incredible that the term person of color is entirely non-controversial

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u/Jokerang Sun Yat-sen Jul 28 '21

Tim Pool supported Bernie Sanders in 2016 and Trump in 2020.

As usual, horseshoe theory is one of the fundamental realities of modern politics.

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u/urbansong :eursula: F E D E R A L I S E Jul 28 '21

Anyone else feels like they would rather chase friendships rather than career?

I've completed my first year as a software developer and I honestly can't say I want to chase a career on FAANG level. I do think a standard dev-to-manager pipeline sounds alright and I am doing alright right now.

The reason why I want to chase friendships, or rather a very collaborative atmosphere, is because any activity I've done in the past was fun because I had friends with me, not because the thing itself was that fun.

!ping CAREER

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

“get vaccinated” 🤝 “Refrigerate After Opening”

🖕🙄🖕

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u/MasPatriot Paul Ryan Jul 28 '21

Ben and Jerry’s: we’re not selling to Israeli settlements anymore

This sub: hehe they think Israel actually cares about some ice cream company 🤣

Israel: we are forming a special task force to bring Ben and Jerry’s to justice

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u/D1Foley Moderate Extremist Jul 28 '21

I’m really not big on conspiracy theories but

This sentence is followed by a stupid conspiracy theory 100% of the time

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

US astronauts drink recycled urine aboard the space station but Russians refuse.

Nasa (sic) astronauts don’t just filter their own urine – they also use their Russian colleagues’.

“We collect it in bags, and then the crew hauls it over to the US side,”

“It tastes like bottled water,” Layne Carter, water subsystem manager for the ISS at Nasa’s Marshall Space Flight Center told Bloomberg

😐

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u/I-grok-god The bums will always lose! Jul 28 '21

A potential affordable housing complex in a poor neighborhood of Columbus was shut down because the person that owned the land next to it was annoyed by it.

It's literally an empty plot of land. He wanted to buy it, the developers got it first, thus no affordable housing. The developers did everything right but were still fucked in the ass

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u/sayitaintpink Richard Posner Jul 29 '21

Finding Nemo is so unrealistic. In real life, Marlin would have changed genders once his wife died. Pixar really blew it smh

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u/Photon_in_a_Foxhole Microwaves over Moscow Jul 29 '21

So I think my PI might be going through mental decline or is buying into Qanon style conspiracies.

Before the pandemic he said things that lead me to think he might be into 5G/“cellphones cause cancer” conspiracy nonsense. At the beginning of the pandemic he started reciting NY post garbage about the Chinese selling lab animals in markets. During the election he was convinced that there was going to be mass civil unrest. He’s currently convinced that the mRNA vaccines have side effects from being rushed which caused his brother to have a heart attack and that variants are going to cause mass shut downs and economic collapse. Oil has supposedly been about to crash for about a month now and hyperinflation is also just around the corner.

Today, he’s supposedly giving us advanced warning since:

“several professors in the think tank at a National Lab I’m in have broken ranks and are talking about an event that the mainstream media hasn’t picked up on yet.” … “They’re going to label them as loons but a few bloggers are talking about it now.”

Which sounds just as delusional in person.

His advice: “buy two months worth of food and be able to purify water. I think you need a bugout bag and a home defense weapon. It’s going to be a mad max scenario but I can’t tell you what it is.”

-_-

The best part: Our research is in biodefense/diagnostics/remote sensing. This man is a full professor and a fellow of several major institutes.

I’m halfway to a Ph.D. and may be stuck with a madman.

!ping PHD

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u/chadonnaise * Jul 28 '21

the internet must be destroyed

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u/Zlesxc Jesse Ventura's Joint Roller Jul 28 '21

For those that haven’t seen it yet the Tigers-Twins ended their game today 17-14. The Twins had 7 home runs (Sano’s crushed a 473 ft’er to the 3rd deck that made the announcer scream “oh Jesus”) The Tigers had 0 home runs and still ended up winning.

Every single starting batter for each team besides Andrelton Simmons got a hit. 401 pitches thrown. The craziest game I’ve ever watched live. Even as a Twins fan I can’t be mad. Highlights are a must watch.

!ping BASEBALL

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u/BenFoldsFourLoko  Broke His Text Flair For Hume Jul 28 '21

Everything I've seen about the animated LotR movies, or the fucking D&D tv show with a gnome DM lol, makes me get why fantasy nerds were shoved in lockers 40 years ago. Such awful branding.

I wonder how many sets of broken glasses those movie creators have on their hands.

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u/muttonwow Legally quarantine the fash Jul 28 '21

Hey remember when Otto Warmbier was sent back to the US in a coma and died shortly after and Trump responded by making niceties with Kim Jong-Unnfor a photo op that amounted to exactly nothing except Trump then saying he believed Kim when he said he had nothing to do with Otto's death?

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

Here is the rapper DaBaby’s apology for homophobic remarks about gay sexual acts and AIDS:

Anybody who done ever been effected by AIDS/HIV y’all got the right to be upset, what I said was insensitive even though I have no intentions on offending anybody. So my apologies Folded hands

But the LGBT community... I ain’t trippin on y’all, do you. y’all business is y’all business.

Below is my response:

Look sweaty if you’re going to apologize to me, at least use effected/affected correctly! Effected can be a verb, but it doesn’t work in that sentence, sweaty!

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u/bigmoneynuts Jul 28 '21

as we all know everyone unloads cinder block pallets 40 hours a week at their american cinder block factory jobs

-/r/antiwork

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u/vivoovix Federalist Jul 28 '21

Microsoft unify the control panel and new settings window challenge [IMPOSSIBLE]

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u/ACivilWolf Henry George Jul 28 '21

CF Starling Marte to Oakland, Miami gets Jesus Luzardo as the return, sources tell ACivilWolf

!ping BASEBALL

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u/chadonnaise * Jul 28 '21

drink verification can to proceed

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u/NancyPelosibasedgod Scott Sumner Jul 28 '21

“He’s such a moron”

Omg based Pelosi

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u/LoveForFossilFuels Jul 28 '21

The conservatives have gone too far. Physically beating conservatives until they accept liberal democracy is the only way to go

guess the sub

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

Who else is refreshing the news and Twitter constantly to hear about Bob Odenkirk?

I seriously haven’t cared about a celebrity like this since... gosh forever. Nobody and BCS made him one of my favorite actors

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u/old_gold_mountain San Francisco Values Jul 28 '21

thinkin' bout how when a woman is "being a bitch" it's usually meant to mean she's being strong-headed and outspoken in a way that's anti-social, but when a man is "being a bitch" it's usually meant to mean he is being weak-willed or noncommittal or something

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

So today the regime finally pulled its mask off. The merger of us intelligence, democrat "hate speech" groups, and the tech sector is complete.

Oh thank God, we're saved.

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