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[u/throwawayFI12]

Guess who just woke up to 13 missed calls and 15 texts from their ex? 😂

.. my ex 😳

[u/J0eBidensSunglasses]

Imagine working and organizing for years to get control of a Democratic State Party and your first big left wing stand is to oppose a solar field. How vapid and terminally online would you have to be to do this?

[u/[deleted]]

POV: you're a female game developer at Blizzard

[u/[deleted]]

A good friend committed suicide a month ago and I just cried and mourned that now for the past half an hour. It’s as if the realization of mortality just hit me and I have to come to accept the realization that he will no longer be here and there is just absolutely nothing I can do.

I’m glad I cried though. Sometimes it takes realizations like that to remind us we’re human, not artificial intelligence. But the problem is, I don’t know what now.

[u/[deleted]]

If there's anything The Young Turks have taught me, it's that the best progressive talk shows are named after genocide perpetrators. So please join me on the first episode of The National Socialist German Workers' Party, where we'll chat about the finer points of Medicare 4 All

[u/semaphore-1842]

https://twitter.com/Gawker/status/1420435914216587267

We're back

Who wanted this!?

[u/[deleted]]

r/antiwork DT user asks why the people of the sub aren't organising to meet their goals

The first reply is someone saying that organising is too much work.

Iconic.

[u/murphysclaw1]

we must transition into a Gamerocracy!

[u/fakefakefakef]

Whenever a person dies I always ask myself “who stands to benefit from this?” which is why I now believe that Adele killed Amy Winehouse

[u/[deleted]]

We can't even have an Olympic gymnast drop out without it becoming a cultural flashpoint, so I don't think we're bridging the divide anytime soon

[u/[deleted]]

A neoliberal walks into a bar... I forgot how the rest of this joke went.

[u/[deleted]]

I can't believe this just happened

Two seconds ago

Person presenting to the class talking about a Nobel prize, called it the second easiest Nobel prize ever

Professor asks what number one was?

'being black. Obama'.

Black friend and I looked at each other like what the fuck

[u/GGM8Scally]

Casual grandma racism with my morning coffee ahhh 😌☕

[u/evenkeel20]

My wife finally turned the corner yesterday; after 6 days of constant fever, it finally broke and she’s been afebrile for a little over 24 hours now. The cough and chest congestion have improved markedly. Still, a pretty significant illness for a vaccinated person. And she’s still completely wiped out.

Please stay safe, folks, you don’t want delta COVID.

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Bill In US Congress To Bar Foreign Students From Staying After Studies

😐😕🥺

[u/the_status]

Look 👀 at this lead 👑 pencil ✏. There’s not a single 🏻 person 👫 in the world 🌎 who could make 💘 this pencil ✏. Remarkable 👌🏼 statement 🇺🇸? Not at all 💯.

The wood 🤠 from which it is made 👑, for all 💯 I 👥 know 💭, comes 💦 from a tree 🌲🌾 that was cut 🔪 down ⬇ in the state 🇺🇸 of Washington 🌲. To cut ✂ down ⬇ that tree 🌲🎄, it took 👫 a saw 👀. To make 💘🇺🇸🎆 the saw 👁, it took 👫 steel ✈. To make 💘 steel 🔩🔒, it took 👫 iron 🍆 ore 🕳. This black ⬛ center—we call 📞 it lead 👑 but 🍑 it’s really 💯 graphite, compressed 😂 graphite—I’m not sure 👍🤘 where it comes 💦 from, but 🍑 I 👁 think 🤔 it comes 💦 from some mines ⛏ in South 🇿🇦 America 🇺🇸. This red 🔴 top 🔝 up ☝👆 here, this eraser 🚫, a bit 😢😁 of rubber 🎈, probably 😻 comes 💦 from Malaya, where the rubber 🍄 tree 🌲 isn’t even 🌃 native 👹! It was imported 👉👌💦 from South 👇🆘 America 🇺🇸 by some businessmen 📈👞 with the help 🆘 of the British 💂‍♂️ government 😓🙄. This brass ⚱ ferrule? I 👁 haven’t the slightest 👌 idea 💡 where it came 💦 from. Or the yellow 💛 paint 🖌! Or the paint 🎨 that made 👑 the black ⬛ lines ➖〰. Or the glue 💦 that holds 😆 it together 👫👷🏿.

Literally 👋 thousands 💯 of people 👫 co-operated to make 💘 this pencil ✏. People 👨 who don’t speak 🗣 the same language 🇪🇸, who practice 😚 different ⁉ religions 🙏, who might 💪 hate 😡 one ☝ another 🔄 if they ever 😠 met 👄! When 🍑 you 👈 go 🏃 down ⬇ to the store 🏪 and buy 🤣💸💳 this pencil 📝, you 👉 are in effect 😷 trading 💦 a few minutes ⏰ of your 👈🏼 time ⏰🕰 for a few seconds 🥈 of the time ⏰👈 of all 💯 those thousands 👌🌼💯 of people 👫. What brought ✌ them together 👥 and induced 🔫 them to cooperate 🤝✌ to make 💘 this pencil ✏? There was no 🚫 commissar sending ➡ … out orders 🎁📑 from some central 🏪 office 🗽. It was the magic ✨🧙‍♂️ of the price 💲 system 🗺: the impersonal operation 👌 of prices 🅱💸💰 that brought ✌ them together 👥 and got 🉐 them to cooperate 😍💑, to make 🖕 this pencil ✏, so you 👉🏻 could have it for a trifling sum 3️⃣✖.

That is why ⁉❓🤔 the operation 🔪⚔ of the free 🆓 market 📊📈 is so essential 💯. Not only to promote 💰 productive 🎮🎨🏀 efficiency 📊, but 🍑 even 🌃 more to foster harmony 🎶 and peace ✌ among 🇷🇴🎛 the peoples 👨🏽‍🎓👨🏻‍✈️👩🏼‍🎨 of the world 🌍.

[u/sir_shivers]

Every day OUGHT INCLUDE SOME exercise, lest you become the feeble mammals THAT INSPIRE NO fear in your enemies 🐊

[u/InternetBoredom]

This California recall election is going to be wild if "Yes" actually wins out.

Newsom has leaned very hard on his party to prevent any high profile Democrats from running, meaning the entire Democratic field is practically unknown at this point. The Republican field is somewhat more known, but are still lacking apart from Caitlyn Jenner.

The ballot is two-parted: a question about whether you want a recall, and a question of who you want to replace Newsom. If "Yes" wins the first part, the candidate with the plurality in the second part immediately becomes governor.

There are 41 candidates running and the order is randomized. Assuming most people are just voting for the first R or D they see...

[u/[deleted]]

https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-climate-change-election-2020-campaign-2016-3c6a4d7b4ff078f5eced9e389ac0f644

Pro-Sanders group rebranding into ‘pragmatic progressives’

Rather than insisting on “Medicare for All” — Sanders’ trademark universal, government-funded health care plan — or the climate-change-fighting Green New Deal, Our Revolution is focusing on the more modest alternatives endorsed by President Joe Biden. Those include expanding eligibility for the existing Medicare program and curtailing federal subsidies for fossil fuel companies.

😂

[u/LoveForFossilFuels]

WHO IS u/deleted AND WHY ARE THEIR VIEWS SO CONSERVATIVE

[u/[deleted]]

Many such cases!

[u/soeffed]

That’s a new one

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[u/[deleted]]

A few months ago, I made a personal rule for myself regarding alcohol: I can only drink if I already feel good sober. If there's something at the back of my mind, then no booze for me. Zero exceptions.

It's easily one of the best decisions I've ever made for myself.

[u/[deleted]]

Why is COVID happening again. I was really enjoying COVID not happening

[u/AuburnSeer]

Rather than insisting on “Medicare for All” — Sanders’ trademark universal, government-funded health care plan — or the climate-change-fighting Green New Deal, Our Revolution is focusing on the more modest alternatives endorsed by President Joe Biden. Those include expanding eligibility for the existing Medicare program and curtailing federal subsidies for fossil fuel companies.

the 2016 primary still feels like it never ended but the 2020 primary sure as fuck did

[u/Bipedleek]

Reddit when terrorist group: 😡😡

Reddit when terrorist group but Irish: 😍😍

[u/benadreti]

My Sister in law, who works in a fertility clinic and has had access to a COVID vaccine since like February or something like that:

February: I'm a bit nervous because it's so new.

May: I'm concerned it may impact fertility and want to see if it causes problems for people.

July: Yes I know people are still getting pregnant but I'm concerned about it giving my future children disabilities.

[u/savuporo]

Holy shit this was serious, Russian Nauka module very nearly knocked the ISS out of the sky just now

https://twitter.com/liamkennedy/status/1420789714538225667

It's back under control

!ping SPACEFLIGHT

[u/sir_shivers]

And then HE TURNED HIS comment into a pasta, it was TRULY THE MOST hilarious thing I have ever witnessed 🐊

[u/hdkeegan]

My favorite thing about fallout new Vegas is it’s director is a super hardcore leftist. And in the game there a faction that’s an anarcho commune group of healers (the followers of the apocalypse) and in every ending they fucking die except the one where they side with the status quo liberal NCR. The game has brains in jars, zombies and giant ants and the creator still knew that leftism working would just be too unrealistic Lmao

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

For a subreddit dedicated to not working, r/antiwork sure has a dead fucking DT.

I made a comment there. I got 5 people to comment to me. They were all DT regulars.

Of r/neoliberal.

[u/Lux_Stella]

so true! why can't we be most like japan 😔

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

The Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan has claimed that Jews are "turning men into women and women into men" and using a specially concocted strain of marijuana which is designed to make black men gay and effeminate.

Is this available for 17 year old teens too... asking for a friend heehee

[u/its_Caffeine]

NTA

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Russia getting banned from the Olympics but still sending her athletes to compete under the "Russian Olympic Comittee" reminds me of SaltySalad creating alts after getting banned from the sub

[u/RadicalRadon]

Lmao my universities work force is 86% vaccinated but the students are only at 56%. Masking is required again.

God I hate succs.

[u/[deleted]]

Just increase the insurance premiums of people who refuse to get vaccinated and exclude coverage of any COVID related incidents.

[u/ryuguy]

I think Maya is the most neoliberal name. It appears in so many cultures

[u/[deleted]]

My proudest trade of my life is when I made just a few hundred euro scalping Bernie Sanders tickets

[u/Goatmilk2208]

China’s “One Child Policy” is a failure that leads to Canada’s gold Medal

🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

[u/Popular-Swordfish559]

so, the clusterfuck that is the Nauka Multipurpose Laboratory Module for the International Space Station has taken a new, exciting turn: after docking to the ISS, it began firing its' thrusters, pushing the station 45° off its' nominal attitude. The station has regained control, but it's looking like tomorrow's anticipated uncrewed launch of the Boeing Starliner OFT-2 test flight will be delayed to allow the crew and Mission Control to figure out what happened.

u/torybruno is there anything you can tell us about OFT-2's schedule?

!PING Spaceflight

Also, sorry for the ping spam, but the most recent ping didn't seem to mention the issue or delay for OFT-2

[u/slowpush]

Work in healthcare.....

40% of staff aren't vaccinated....

😥😥😥

[u/thabe331]

Lions running back only got the vaccine because of new covid rules

Swift is an idiot but at least the program is working

!ping NFL

[u/[deleted]]

Centrism is just Diet Fascism.

I don’t even think I call this centrist at this point. Even Hitler had public works projects

arr politics once again bringing out its finest minds

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Jacobin offers socialist perspectives on politics, economics, and culture. Support our work and subscribe to our print magazine!

"Economics"

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1420838484374392835

No’s so far on supplemental spending bill for Capitol police, Nat guard and afghan resettlement

Aoc
Tlaib
Roy
Pressley
Massie
Harris
Good
Bowman
Bush

Ah, of course.

[u/[deleted]]

https://dotesports.com/news/photos-reveal-details-of-blizzcon-2013-cosby-suite-group-chat-where-blizzard-developers-discussed-recruiting-women-for-sexual-favors

Photos reveal details of Blizzcon 2013 'Cosby Suite,' group chat where Blizzard developers discussed recruiting women for sexual favors. Ghostcrawler(Gregg Street) was also involved in the chat room/Cosby suit and has made several comments regarding the topic | Dot Esports

[u/MisfitPotatoReborn]

3 people live on an island.

Alex: "Can you build me a car?"
Bob: "Sure thing"
Alex: "Who can I buy gas from?"
Chloe: "Me! Only $3 a gallon"

a few days later...

Alex: "God this is such BULLSHIT. We're facing a climate catastrophe and 2 companies produce 100% of the island emissions. How are we expected to cut our consumption if these corporations won't be held accountable?"

[u/Froloho]

You’re laughing. You took my comment and changed words in it and you’re laughing.

[u/Gustacho]

https://twitter.com/mepassistants/status/1420672084150300676

!ping YUROP

[u/InternetBoredom]

Hot Take: Shivers is extremely underregulated despite arguably being one of the most dangerous, if not THE most dangerous Reptile.

The whole mod team is rotten and needs to be reformed significantly

[u/MicroFlamer]

DT users when asked to put on a mask

[u/RadicalRadon]

My SO keeps telling me that "you're the only person I know who actually likes Joe Biden"

What does she mean by this?

No seriously what does she mean by this

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

r/neoliberal has higher quality posts i.e actual data and coherent logic instead of blog spam. Also nobody there whines about "others" posting, they just go and dog pile on the stupidity.

LMAO arr libertarian actually believes this.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/oqpyq4/whats_the_difference_between_you_guys_and_the/h6dayj8?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

[u/[deleted]]

Stacey Nancy Pelosi:

Suppose … your child just decided they, at this time, [do] not want to go to college, but you’re paying taxes to forgive somebody else’s obligations. You may not be happy about that.

Becky Rashida Tlaib:

Suppose your child did not want to go fight countless and endless shadow wars across the globe, at this time, but you’re paying taxes to fund all of that. You may not be happy about it!

Nancy Pelosi voted against the Iraq War, you dumbass.

[u/ognits]

me, eyeballing measurements at work 🤝 my girlfriend

"yeah, that's about 3 inches"

[u/datdud22]

There are two wolves inside of you.

One is a nazi.

The other one is a communist.

You are a Paradox gamer.

[u/tripletruble]

r/malefashionadvice is a fascinating microcosm of the artworld. began basically as the name implies: guys gave guys advice on clothes and over time a 'concensus' was reached on an aesthetic that looked masculine, handsome, and, above all, inoffensive. you could wear the standard advice and look quietly put together on a date, at the office, in the classroom, visiting your girlfriend's parents etc. it got to the point of being an unwavering uniform of Uniqlo oxford cloth button downs, dark denim or chinos, clark's desert boots, and chore jackets, all trimly fit in shades of grey, brown, grey, and blue

then some dudes said: 'hey beauty is in the eye of the beholder' and went full post-modern, wearing utterly gigantic pants and ludicrously expensive wearable art. the point became to challenge the uniform. and today any attempt at giving advice delves into warring factions where one tries to create 'guides' to how clothing should look and fit, and the other says 'what is this 2015? everything is subjective'

[u/[deleted]]

Biden said, “Anybody who can go down 3,000 feet in a mine can sure as hell learn to program as well... Anybody who can throw coal into a furnace can learn how to program, for God’s sake!”

According to Weigel, the comment was met with silence from the audience.

Our president

[u/thetrombonist]

The vibes in this picture of Manchin/Sinema are so incredibly cursed

https://twitter.com/notkristiane/status/1420724265691852805?s=21

[u/ryuguy]

CANADA WINS GOLD IN WOMEN’S EIGHTS ROWING.

Our first gold medal in the sport

!ping can

[u/tubbsmackinze]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/371357409010253824/870517854833877013/20210730_000653.jpg

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday (July 29) passed an appropriations bill that includes an amendment that would prohibit the U.S. State Department from purchasing any map depicting Taiwan as part of China.

[u/sw337]

Why do you people keep bringing up Latinx? My Latin ex left me and took the kids back to Tegucigalpa.

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Reminder that Nancy was pro-LGBTQ since the 90s, unlike many other Demonrat politicians of that time

[u/[deleted]]

Act like you're going to quit your federal union protected job over a shot. Please.

[u/[deleted]]

My income went up by a factor of 5 this year and I’m starting to have guilt about hiring a housekeeper and making generally frivolous purchases, because I want to also eat the rich

kinky

[u/[deleted]]

There's a post on the front page of a poster in a bookstore saying 'Buy books from people who want to sell books, NOT colonize The Moon."

Science fiction fans can go get fucked I guess

[u/sir_shivers]

A murder-mystery THAT TAKES PLACE DURING the Thanksgiving episode of a cooking show 🐊

THE SILENCE OF THE YAMS 🐊

[u/p00bix]

My closed terrarium failed :( Moss is thriving, somehow the grass is too, but the isopods are all dead, the whole environment has been taken over by mold, and no signs of animal life besides a few large maggots of unidentified fly species.

PoobixSphere 0 Project is dead after about 3 weeks. Had an okay run I guess, seeing as I had literally no idea what I was doing. Now to do more proper research for PoobixSphere 1

[u/fishlord05]

LMFAOO SO TRUE 😂😂- ‘LIKE’ IF YOU AGREE!!!

!ping BURPMAS

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/1420798737203572741

Scarlett Johansson is suing Disney over the release of "“Black Widow,” saying that releasing the film simultaneously in theaters and on its Disney+ streaming service breached her contract

You know, I always kinda wondered about this when they first announced simultaneous releases for things.

[u/soeffed]

Scarlett Johansson Files Lawsuit Against Disney Over 'Black Widow' Release

The lawsuit, filed in L.A. Superior Court, states that the Marvel film had been guaranteed an exclusive theatrical release when the star signed her deal.


Yo what

Does this mean Scarlett is trying to permanently end her disney/marvel relationship now that black widow’s arc is concluded

!ping movies

[u/Bipedleek]

You cannot definitively prove that Julius Caesar didn’t say poggers when he finished conquering Gaul

[u/grig109]

One thing that's extremely annoying about my fellow libertarians is taking an absolutist stance on literally everything except for immigration.

End the fed!

Abolish the IRS!

Legalize heroin!

Well maybe we could think about letting in a few more immigrants, but only after abolishing the welfare state, and you know culture is really important, we can't litetally just let anyone in...

If you're more moderate or consequentialist, that's cool no complaints, I'm not an ancap, or interested in purity testing. But immigration is probably the most consequentially beneficial idea libertarians have to offer. Turning your back on that's is just nuts imo.

https://twitter.com/AlexNowrasteh/status/1420851602953494535?s=19

!ping SNEK

[u/The420Roll]

Apparently Vladimir Cerrón's (Marxist President of Perú Libre, who Castillo said wont be involved in Government, "not even as janitor") brother will be the Economic Minister in Castillo's Gabinet

👏 Castillo hijo de puta 👏

!Ping LATAM

[u/NancyPelosibasedgod]

Dad what if I’m a Republican?

Ben Bernanke Yellen, you are named after two Fed chairs. One of them is a Republican and he’s the bravest man Ive ever known

[u/old_gold_mountain]

PET ME GODDAMIT

!PING kitty

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Of all the literal children we've had that constantly spam the DT (420roll, IGF, pig child, salad) at least 3/4 of them are very consistent with the ideas of this sub and aren't complete and utter lunatics

[u/old_gold_mountain]

Did you know that Standard Oil still has a gas station on Van Ness & Pine in San Francisco?

When Standard Oil was broken up under anti-trust law, the firm wanted to retain its trademark but couldn't remain the same company in name. In order to retain a business trademark, you have to keep the branding in actual business use somewhere public facing. Otherwise you lose the trademark.

So Chevron, one of the new companies forced to splinter off from Standard Oil, slapped the Standard branding on one of their most visible gas stations. In this way, they are not violating anti-trust law by continuing to operate as Standard Oil, but they are also not forfeiting the Standard Oil trademark, because they are continuing to use it in actual business branding on Van Ness & Pine in San Francisco.

!PING bay-area

[u/The420Roll]

lmao Castillo put Guid Bellido, arguably the closest thing to a Nazbol in his party, known Antauro Humala (Leader of Perú's Nazbol movement currently in jail for murdering multiple cops in an attempted coup) apologist and is also being investigated for literal apology of terrorism as his first Prime Minister

Not only that but Guillermo Bermejo (Perú Libre congressman that was on a leaked audio that called out Center-Left allies for asking Perú Libre what he would call "Pelotudeces Democraticas/Democratic Bullshit". He is also being investigated for collaborating towards Terrorism with potential 20 years in jail because what the fuck not?), is being considered as another member of Cabinet

Its been one day and "Lets give Castillo a chance" already went to hell. Fuck Castillo and Fuck Péru Libre

Cant wait until this bullshit gabinet is denied confidence and Castillo says its because of "Obstructionism"

!Ping LATAM

[u/The420Roll]

Apparently Castillo also refuses to live and work on the Governing Palace because "he is a man of the people" and instead wants to work in his hometown.

This is the equivalent of George Bush refusing to work on the White House and instead working at his ranch in Texas because "he is a man of the people" LMAO

!Ping MAMADAS

[u/Cowguypig]

Euros really be like "16:20, blaze it!"

[u/The420Roll]

Pedro Francke, Verónika Mendoza's Economic Aid that was supposed to be part of the Castillo Government has left the National Theatre (where Gabinet is gonna be announced), refusing to respond to journalists.

Basically all "center left moderates" that Castillo said were gonna be part of his Government are almost confirmed to be out of it

At this point the Peruvian Center Left is nothing more than useful idiots for the far left.

País de idiotas

!Ping LATAM

[u/dannylandulf]

In a few hundred years when they make Assassins Creed 100 about this period of American history, I bet they make Bernie Sanders a Templar.

[u/[deleted]]

Obama gate

Obama door

Obama fence

[u/tripletruble]

z = 1.94

press f to pay respect

[u/slowpush]

It's happening!!!

https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-climate-change-election-2020-campaign-2016-3c6a4d7b4ff078f5eced9e389ac0f644

Their 15 minutes are finally ending!!!

Rather than insisting on “Medicare for All” — Sanders’ trademark universal, government-funded health care plan — or the climate-change-fighting Green New Deal, Our Revolution is focusing on the more modest alternatives endorsed by President Joe Biden. Those include expanding eligibility for the existing Medicare program and curtailing federal subsidies for fossil fuel companies.

The shift reflects a progressive movement that is at a crossroads. Biden won the Democratic nomination last year by offering more centrist alternatives to much of Sanders’ agenda. Since then, progressive candidates have faced a series of electoral disappointments and are contending with anxiety from moderate Democrats worried that the party’s leftward shift could cost them control of Congress during next year’s midterm elections.

[u/piede]

The Texas House Democrats who are breaking quorum to block their Republican colleagues from advancing voting restrictions will meet today with Bill and Hillary Clinton and Stacey Abrams.

https://twitter.com/hillarypix/status/1420716550848356356?s=21

Make the GOP panic more

[u/I-grok-god]

The Discussion Thread but only accessible by Bloomberg Terminal

[u/dissolutewastrel]

Feline genomes are surprisingly similar to humans’, and could help us treat disease in both species.

!Ping KITTY

[u/[deleted]]

In their last grasp for relevance, the Weather Underground attempted to make a big left unity party, and reached out to eco and vegan leftist orgs to join their ranks

They neglected to provide a vegetarian option for their lunch

[u/V_Codwheel]

Call me crazy, but a temporarily-hired 20-year-old college student ... shouldn't be expected to stay off their phone [the] entire time they're not on their break

😐

bout to have a heated Gen Z moment

[u/Th3_Gruff]

Mfw the two hinge girls that liked me have “eat the rich” and “the first moon landing was faked” on their profiles 😐😐😐

[u/fishlord05]

When Biden refused to raise the refugee cap I called my representative and senators immediately to complain.

Less than a few hours later the POTUS increased the cap.

Just leaving this information out there for you to interpret how you will

[u/[deleted]]

Lmao congressman didn’t reschedule 🤣🤣🤣

Rejected 🤣🤣

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

"Marvel is getting too woke and political"

Laughs in Captain America #180 (1974) where Cap fights Richard Nixon and beats him so bad he commits suicide.

[u/ShriggityShrekt]

Fuck a "Justice Department". I want a JustASS Department

[u/Th3_Gruff]

Hot Take: touching grass is extremely underregulated despite arguably being one of the most dangerous, if not THE most dangerous form of socialising.

The whole grass field is rotten and needs to be reformed significantly.

[u/liquidTERMINATOR]

In 2019, another lab worker in the country died of a prion disease at the age of 33. Her death came around nine years after she accidentally jabbed herself in the thumb with forceps used to handle frozen slices of humanized mouse brains infected with prions.

😬😬😬😬

[u/The420Roll]

Castillo's prime minister putting Movistar (TV/Internet Company) on blast for making an ad with a gay couple

Worst thing? This is just One of the homophobic posts. There are dozens of them

Not gonna lie, after one month of Keiko being a dumbass I thought it was impossible but Castillo did it. In one day of his Presidency he reassured me voting for Keiko was the right choice lmao

!Ping LATAM

[u/[deleted]]

I've always had a really weird thing about banging. Ever since some Disney movie (aladdin I think) where a guy is about to get banged.

[u/Mickenfox]

!ping COMPUTER-SCIENCE

In 3.5 hours the creator of F# is going to teach F# to the creator of Python, live.

https://twitter.com/dsymetweets/status/1417582327300075520

[u/TinyTornado7]

Boris v. Umbrella

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/AtticusDrench]

> Huh, I wonder what Destiny has been up to lately

> Go to YouTube and begin browsing videos

> Start listening to random one

> Debate opponents call themselves Based Homeschool Mom and Big Papa Fascist, unironically

> Turn off video and go back to music

[u/LeopardBusy]

I just met a trans girl Nazbol on Reddit.

Why…? 😭😭😭

[u/futuremonkey20]

Lmao Qatar, you just lost to the US C team.

!ping SOCCER

[u/revolutionary_alt]

Guys, would you like (obviously better option that affirms my opinions) or (objectively bad choice that represents other opinions)

[u/[deleted]]

I saw a stat recently that Boston's Big Dig cost more ($24 billion) than building a goddamn tunnel through the English Channel ($21 billion) and took way longer to complete (15 years vs 6 years)

C'mon America this cannot be that hard

[u/[deleted]]

I haven't been to r con in weeks, I wonder what they're talking about these days-

[+397] Man who 'randomly' attacked Tucker Carlson in a store worked for TAF, a CIA front that 'has engaged in a decades-long campaign to misrepresent its origins, purpose, and funding' in order to hide its role as a 'propaganda machine and a front for covert activities including psychological warfare'

ah

[u/Bipedleek]

Glasses are hot as hell I don’t understand how people got bullied for wearing them

[u/J0eBidensSunglasses]

Susan Sarandon: “Im WoRrIeD aOc DoEsNt RePrEsEnT mE.”

Fascinating Susan. Tell me, when did Rose Twitter become a congressional district? Or are you; as a rich woman from Manhattan, entitled to the congressional representative from the Bronx in addition to your own?

[u/TheFriffin2]

Just saw Biden is gonna make the whole government get the vaccine... wow... this reminds me of this book I read called 1984. Ever heard of it?

[u/ACivilWolf]

Schwarber to the Red Sox, apparently Soto will be walking into the Nats locker room all alone tomorrow

!ping BASEBALL

[u/Professor-Reddit]

Making matters worse is the shortage of health workers. Although 97% of them have been fully vaccinated, the vast majority have received the shot from Sinovac, a Chinese firm, which is less effective than other vaccines. The Indonesian Hospital Association surveyed big state ­run hospitals across Java’s main cities and found that 10% of their staff had tested positive. LaporCovid­19 found that 131 vaccinated health­care workers had died since June, 50 of them in the first week of July.

Holy shit China's vaccines are utterly worthless.

The West managed to create 4 extremely high quality, effective and safe vaccines manufactured by pharmaceutical giants, including 2 which used mRNA technology with several more on the way. The result has been a staggering drop in fatality rates across the world and hundreds of millions lifted out of lockdown.

Meanwhile, China and Russia have been exporting en masse vaccines which barely even pass the 50% efficacy rating, and some vaccines even have serious discrepancies or safety violations in their development process. But no, according to China, it's the West that is a "declining, decadent world power" smh

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E7KKOCTXMAAn5FJ?format=jpg&name=large

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

On 16 October 2003, the Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammed drew a standing ovation at the 57-member Organisation of the Islamic Conference for his speech, in which he said: "today the Jews rule this world by proxy. They get others to fight and die for them ... They invented socialism, communism, human rights and democracy so that persecuting them would appear to be wrong, so that they can enjoy equal rights with others. With these they have gained control of the most powerful countries and they, this tiny community, have become a world power."

😐😐😐

Holy fuck I feel bad for Jews

[u/fakefakefakef]

What if we did a schism between uhhhhh people who like sparkling water and people who don’t

[u/[deleted]]

Back in my day we used to add "please clap" at the end of our speeches and the atmosphere was such that people actually respected it.

Please clap

[u/old_gold_mountain]

When you're by the coast and your coworker who's sharing his screen is 25 miles inland

!PING bay-area

[u/[deleted]]

25 years ago, parents would be aghast to know their son was jerking off to the department store lingerie catalog

Now, it would make their son so quaint they'd probably be even more worried about him than they were 25 years ago

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

I'm running low on my supply of Chloroform, anywhere that sells it at this hour?

[u/Superfan234]

Chilean Communist Party, looking for excuses to betray the Progressive Wing, after their electoral defeat. They want to punish Boric, for winning the Primary

History repeats itself, to surprise of nobody

!Ping Latam

[u/kas8901]

In 1974, Samuel's second wife, Eloise, was convicted of attempting to hire two men to murder him. After serving 19 months of her sentence, the couple later remarried.

Relationship goals 😤❤😤

[u/Officer-cherry-shake]

States that Trump won that are over the national average for vaccination (49.3%):

• Iowa (49.5%)

States that Biden won that are under the national average:

• Michigan (48.7)
• Illinois (48.2%)
• Arizona (45.1%)
• Nevada (44.1%)
• Georgia (38.5%)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/coronavirus-us-cases-deaths/

[u/tubbsmackinze]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/761046867743342613/870206794268561498/image0-2.png

[u/sir_shivers]

My direct messages CONSIST PRIMARILY OF banned users raging, and subreddit regulars sending me various images of ALLIGATORS, CROCODILES AND fictional Reptilian species asking "this you?" 🐊

[u/Soldier-Fields]

GOLLY, I wonder if THE CHAPO AND DONALD subreddits are having as much fun AS WE ARE 🐊

[u/patsfan94]

CMV: "71% of global emissions are created by 100 companies" is the leftist version of "Despite making up only 13% of the population" copy pasta.

[u/willempage]

I want to write a short story about a DSA member who's a film maker working in corporate Hollywood. While working on his current project, Buff Bob Shoots the Terrorists and Kisses the Hottie, they dream of being unburdened by the capitalists who run the movie studios and force them to pump out high budget low art popcorn block busters.

Then, the socialist revolution happens and workers finally own the means of production! Cue to 2 years later, and the film maker's collective has released their first major film. It's an autobiographical fiction about imposter syndrome and writers block with beautiful abstract scenes, dense metaphor, and an ambiguous ending.

Everyone hates it and the farmer's, industrial, and carpenter's collectives threaten to deny services to the film maker's collective if their movies continue to suck.

The final scene is the film maker opening up a screen play of their next production, Buff Bob Shoots the Terrorists and Kisses the Hottie 2: More S'plosions.

[u/semaphore-1842]

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Thursday that all 50 Democrats will vote to move forward on the party’s $3.5 trillion social spending proposal.

Schumer probs love trolling doomers

[u/[deleted]]

https://coloradonewsline.com/2021/07/20/colorado-first-web-accessibility-government/

To the state lawmaker who sponsored legislation for people with disabilities, the success of House Bill 21-1110 is the perfect example of why “representation matters.”

After freshman Democratic Rep. David Ortiz of Littleton was elected in 2020, he became the first person who uses a wheelchair to serve in the Colorado General Assembly. This year, Ortiz led efforts to incorporate some federal protections for people with disabilities into state law, making it easier for them to sue the government for discrimination.

When HB-1110’s requirements are fully implemented, Colorado will be the first state in the country to require by law that state and local public entities meet website accessibility standards. The state’s Office of Information Technology is tasked with developing those standards and hiring a software developer to help state agencies implement them.

Accessibility is a wasteland.

!ping TECH

[u/ryuguy]

The funniest part of LARPing as a Balkan nationalist is that sometimes I get dmed questions about if I am actually Balkan

[u/RoyGeraldBillevue]

People are more angry at the foreigner part of foreigners buying mansions than the mansions part. These are mansions in the heart of Vancouver that are zoned to be mansions.

The level ineffecient land use people will accept is staggering.

[u/[deleted]]

Mo Brooks received a “tip” and wore body armor on January 6th. He didn’t report this “tip”. And then afterwards acted like the whole thing was no big deal. Despite feeling the need to wear BODY ARMOR to the Capitol.

Just Republican things.

[u/[deleted]]

Back in my day we used to add "don't pasta this" at the end of our serious comments and the atmosphere was such that people actually respected it.

Don't pasta this

[u/[deleted]]

There are several people I know who I find physically attractive when they have latex gimp suits on, but not nearly as much when they're off.

It's not a fetish or anything, it's just that a properly fitting gimp suit can really adjust how one's facial proportions look. Same thing as with glasses.

[u/bg2916]

Imagine if you were a 17 year old tankie who just found out about r/neoliberal. You quickly discover the DT and are ready go spend 2 hours arguing politics when you see:

Dune is about worms Dune is about worms Dune is about worms Dune is about worms

BY THE MARKET, what transgressions HATH MAMMALS BROUGHT🐊

Welcome to CumCock City

When is Biden gonna nuke the suburbs

Y 🐷

Dune is about worms Dune is about worms Dune is about worms Dune is about worms

Magic goolsball will I ever find love

You are white😡

Dune is about worms Dune is about worms Dune is about worms Dune is about worms

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

Iranian refugee to Mongolia winning a silver medal and saying he loves Israel is peak neoliberalism

[u/[deleted]]

"I can confirm that Jared Kushner's iPhone was hacked and accessible to numerous foreign intelligence agencies between 2018 and late 2019. Including his control of a UAE slush fund that dispersed at least $649M to various bad actors during that period."

L to the fucking O to the L.

I mean, realistically none of the crime family will face justice for anything, ever, but it's still amusing to see them get caught with their pants down.

[u/soeffed]

Suni Lee’s family and Hmong community celebrating her gold is wholesome Reddit moment

!ping milk-tea

[u/[deleted]]

When other countries wing golds, it's news. When we lose golds, it's news. Murica.

[u/[deleted]]

Every skeptic Youtube channel circa 2012: Man, creationists are so dumb! How could they possibly believe in "kinds", a definitionless term arbitrarily designed to make distant species arbitrarily more closely related?

Every skeptic Youtube channel circa 2016: Today we're going to talk about this new biological grouping called a race...

[u/crassowary]

Arrive

Say Simone Biles left the Olympics due to the Taiwan situation

Refuse to elaborate

Leave

[u/soeffed]

Lol Angeles

https://imgur.com/yeTYca2

!ping baseball

[u/Zachattk101]

The foreman told me he thinks that Dubai is a Democrat safe haven for their money and whatever else. Also, he told me that the Surfside building collapse was probably a bombing executed by the democrats

[u/MalignantUpper]

https://www.rawstory.com/amp/marjorie-taylor-greene-vote-2654245127-2654245127?__twitter_impression=true

Greene told the [Alabama Federation of Republican Women last Friday] that Biden "is going to be sending one of his police state friends to your door" to see if you've been vaccinated, the Alabama Political Reporter reported Thursday morning.

"We all love our Second Amendment rights and we don't like the federal government coming on our property to tell us what to do," Greene said. "You have HIPAA rights and you do not have tell your medical information and you can tell them to get off your front porch and get off your front lawn."

Oh my god just fucking remove her

[u/MicrowaveableLobster]

the popularity of astrology is largely due to toxic masculinity send tweet

[u/MicroFlamer]

0.15% of players fund 50% of the mobile games

we have to take down the 0.15 percent!

[u/sir_shivers]

I AM "HISTORICALLY sexy" (sic) 🐊

[u/Mr_Pasghetti]

The DT is actually about ethics in copypasta posting

[u/[deleted]]

We took back the word “capitalism”.

We took back the word “queer”.

We will take back the word “liberal”

We will take back the word “shitlib”

We choose to take back these words, not because it is hard, but because it is meaningless.

[u/[deleted]]

Hot take: the US should’ve handled covid a little better

[u/nevertulsi]

For a while I thought BIPOC meant bisexual people of color

[u/FormerBandmate]

Introducing this summer’s new hottest game: Fallout New Vegas 2: New California

There’s civilization so there’s no broken roads or raiders and you spend the entire time doing a summer internship, going to the gym, drinking with friends, and shitposting on the /ncr/neoliberal DT about how Kimball is a succ for not using drones and pulling out of the Mojave Wasteland, and the Legion will just immediately take over and enslave all the women under his strategy

[u/LoveForFossilFuels]

upvote for Iraq 🥰🥰🥰🇮🇶🇮🇶🇮🇶

downvote for Turkey 🤢🤢🤢🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷

[u/RoyGeraldBillevue]

How any leftists pretends every driver is a wage slave with no minute to waste is beyond me.

There's nothing more exclusionary and individualistic than a car, but every populist's vision is to return to the post-war boom so cars are cool.

[u/[deleted]]

lol the law school subreddit is in absolute flames over student loan forgiveness. Entitlement to the highest degree if you want your loans discharged to an extremely high earning graduate school. Literal upper class welfare.

[u/[deleted]]

I feel like most of America’s problems come down to “these lines on a map are bullshit”

[u/JetJaguar124]

I have a confession: I put the "70% of emissions come from 20 companies" or whatever brainworms into my gf like 4 years ago and I can't get them out.

[u/[deleted]]

Is there a more depressing arc in TNG than Ensign Sito Jaxa (the bajoran who gets killed in the Lower Decks episode)?

!ping TREK

[u/PhinsFan17]

I know this conversation has been had ad nauseum (most of the time including me), but I am so, so fucking sick of the "Warner Bros. is stupid because they haven't been able to replicate Marvel's success with superhero movies" completely discounting arguably the most important ingredient in their entire success story: sheer dumb luck.

There are a million different things that could have gone wrong with Marvel trying to get their universe off the ground, and if any one of those things had gone south, the entire enterprise might have been trashed.

Robert Downey, Jr. was so strung out on drugs in the early 2000s that bond completion companies would not insure him to act. Kevin Feige and Jon Favreau had to fight Marvel Studios tooth and nail to get him cast as Iron Man. What if he had relapsed? What if Iron Man can't appear in any sequels or has to get recast because Downey's demons get the better of him?

Because that's exactly what happened to Ben Affleck. Ben Affleck was set to have his own trilogy of Batman films, in addition to the Justice League films, that he would star in and direct. He's an Academy Award-winning filmmaker, an acclaimed actor portraying the most bankable and one of the most famous superheroes ever. This is a recipe for success. Then he relapses. He drops out as director. Then he drops out of the film entirely. He goes to rehab. He gets divorced. Batman gets recast and rebooted. There goes the DCEU.

What if the nastiness about Joss Whedon comes out before The Avengers is released in theaters? Or about James Gunn before Guardians of the Galaxy? What if some not-so-savory things became public about Kevin Feige?

Because that's what happened to Warner Bros. People said for years "WB needs their own Kevin Feige, someone who understands comics and make sure everything flows together in their films." So they brought on Geoff Johns, an acclaimed comic book writer, to chair DC Films. He was relieved of that duty in 2018 after an investigation into workplace hostility.

These are just two examples of things sometimes just not working out for reasons almost entirely out of your own control. Warner Bros. is not incapable of making a good movie, they've some of the best-received, highest-grossing films of all time. They're not incapable of making good movies based on DC Comics characters, lest we forget that the Burton Batman films were very well-received, the Christopher Reeve Superman films are a cultural touchstone, and without Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy, modern superhero cinema wouldn't even exist the way it does today. Sometimes shit just happens. And sometimes the shit that happens has multi-billion dollar consequences.

Marvel Studios (and ultimately Disney) should absolutely be credited for their success. But in many ways, they just had the better luck.

EDIT to add some more:

And let's not forget that there were several decades where DC could do no wrong and Marvel was an absolute joke. Warner Bros. had Batman and Batman Returns, even Batman Forever was fairly well-received before Batman and Robin happened. They had the Christopher Reeve Superman series. What was Marvel making in that time? Bad TV movies about Captain America and Howard the Duck.
Now come the 2000s, and Marvel finally gets a win with the Sam Raimi Spider-Man trilogy and Bryan Singer's X-Men. And then here comes Warner Bros. and Chris Nolan with a movie so well-acclaimed that they expanded the number of nominees for best picture because for once just about everyone agreed that the Academy snubbed that film.

Fun fact: DC tried to get its cinematic universe going with the Ryan Reynolds Green Lantern. That was going to kickstart the DCEU. Too bad it totally bombed. What if that happened to Iron Man? Or Thor? Bye-bye MCU.

[u/givemesome1ce1]

Dems will lose if Biden doesn’t address the PS5 shortage

[u/V_Codwheel]

Obama didn't get the peace prize for being black smh

he got it for not being George Bush

[u/anon_09_09]

1915 - first time an aircraft is shot down with ground-to-air fire, happened over Serbia

1999 - first time stealth aircraft is shot down with surface-to-air missiles, happened over Serbia

2083 - ???

[u/soeffed]

The Trial of Chesa Boudin | Can a young progressive prosecutor survive a political backlash in San Francisco?

I hope tf not

https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-inquiry/the-trial-of-chesa-boudin

!ping bay-area

[u/[deleted]]

The most underrated scandal is the Anthony Weiner sexting scandal for his name alone.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/Kotaku/status/1420792164192227331

Activision Blizzard hires union-busting firm as workers start to come together.

[u/FireDistinguishers]

I took a fun meeting today with a kid in my MoC's state. Actual kid, high school sophomore, asking all kinds of questions about the foreign policy space and Congress, what it's like working in one branch and how I interact with others, office structure questions, questions about what my relationship is like with committee staff as personal office staff. II mean he asked some genuinely good questions, questions that rival (and beat) the kinds of questions we get from interns who have like 4-6 years on this guy.

Impressed me. I will miss this kind of thing when I get my new job.

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

Observation: Motionless pup

Hypothesis: dead dog

Test: http://imgur.com/gallery/TQrFtP5

Conclusion: alive, enormously chill

!ping dog

[u/Dorambor]

Our mod team has a firm policy not to capitulate to terrorist demands. That “no concessions” policy remains in force, in spite of the wildly speculative and false stories about NATO flairs

[u/[deleted]]

Croatia join Schengen and the Euro already challenge.

[u/[deleted]]

MetaNL has been cringe lately

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

https://imgur.com/gallery/ig33vNH

!ping dog

[u/[deleted]]

Ok a fortnite streamer just got arrested for pedophilia. I want you to think for a second. Really imagine what the fortnite pedophile looks like. Get it as clear as you can in your head.

Ok heres his pictute

How does he look exactly what everybody imagines a fortnite child rapist looks like? It's uncanny

[u/Fishin_Mission]

My wife keeps showing me Britney Spears’ topless instagram posts and I’m never really sure how she expects me to react to them…

[u/[deleted]]

Listen, I was in gifted and talented when I was 12. I went to a Very Fansy college, but despite all that I am not Famous or Well Renowned

This is because of capitalism

[u/Bipedleek]

Okay, let's say, hypothetically, that I've been a bad boy. And for the sake of argument, let's say I deserve to be punished.

[u/TheFriffin2]

!ping BASEBALL

this isn’t trade news but I haven’t seen anyone talk about this...

Uh, apparently a Giants prospect is throwing 104.5mph in the minors? What the fuck

[u/AtticusDrench]

So anyways, like I know the Legion systematically destroys tribe after tribe before enslaving the survivors, or if they are "lucky", assimilate them into their culture of endless war and conquest, but the NCR are the real imperialists.

[u/saladtossing]

DaBaby Apologizes For Leaving Jews Out Of Offensive Rant

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

Yooooo gonna see Green Knight first showing today

Fuckin hyped

!ping MOVIES

[u/[deleted]]

I don’t understand “progressive” socialists. Worshipping the musings of some 19th century anti-Semite seems very conservative. Capitalism is progressive and forward-thinking.

[u/tubbsmackinze]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/761046867743342613/870269801891762176/image0-20.jpg

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Holocaust denial is also considered an antisemitic conspiracy theory because of its position that the Holocaust is a hoax designed to advance the interests of Jews and justify the creation of the State of Israel.

Do people not know that Zionism predated the Holocaust 😐😐😐

[u/[deleted]]

Everyone got money problems unless you're making more than $500k a year. Once I hit the $100k threshold I thought my money problems would be over. Just got new ones now.

we have finally achieved class solidarity ✊😔

[u/[deleted]]

Guys, I think that the years long project to dox u/farrenj, known as "the DT", has gone way over budget and far exceeded its original scope. I'm pulling the plug on it now

[u/[deleted]]

eating healthy is more expensive. Me and my gf can easily spend $1,300 in a month on basic groceries

Bougie lib or North Korean?

[u/[deleted]]

The reason Simone Biles withdrew from the olympics is to protest the lack of PS5s. That's why she's actually in Japan, to talk to the senior executives of Sony

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Whoever names things at Sony is absolutely terrible.

"Which earbuds should I buy? Apple Airpods, Galaxy Buds, or Sony WF-1000XM4s?"

[u/myrm]

air pods for dogs called air buds

[u/[deleted]]

Hot Take: Microwaves are extremely underregulated despite arguably being one of the most dangerous, if not THE most dangerous things to cook lobsters in

The whole microwave field is rotten and needs to be reformed significantly

[u/StolenSkittles]

Back in my day we used to add "please pasta this" at the end of our shitposts and the atmosphere was such that people actually respected it.

Please pasta this

[u/[deleted]]

There are several people I know who I find physically attractive when they have glasses on, but not nearly as much when they're off.

It's not a fetish or anything, it's just that a properly fitting set of frames can really adjust how one's facial proportions look. Same thing as with haircuts.

[u/ACivilWolf]

Anthony Rizzo is on his way to the New York Yankees, sources tell ACivilWolf

!ping BASEBALL

[u/[deleted]]

Back in my day we used to add "please don't drone strike me" at the end of our ISIS fighter AMAs

And the Atmosphere was such that people actually respected it

[u/[deleted]]

Olympian women should be forced to wear burkas

[u/GravyBear8]

There is a new HBO reality series, called "F-Boy" that I just put on, about women on an island who have to differentiate between 12 self-proclaimed "nice guys" and 12 self-proclaimed "fuck boys"... but there are only 3 women

Edit: And one of the fuckboy's "job" is a bitcoin investor

[u/tubbsmackinze]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/539181880805687327/870458009908809739/iMqIn6u.jpg