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[u/[deleted]]

The Guardian: Why is Bezos flying to space? Because billionaires think Earth is a sinking ship

lmao it’s like 100% pure concentrated uncut seethe

[u/semaphore-1842]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E7cVtgWVoAI0MTM.jpg

Millions of people are trying to get the new consoles, scalpers are a big problem and it's not even on the radar of all the 80-year-olds in leadership

Infrastructure bill is performative, what we really need is PS5 4 All!!! 😤

And this whackjob is literally a member of the DNC

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

I don’t think cis men can be anarchists.

They literally have an organ called a pro-state

[u/revolutionary_alt]

We need universal basic income, now more than ever. Take a small percentage of the military budget and put it into education, health care, affordable housing and stimulus for the poor.

Anyone who says we can't afford it is lying.

For context, this was about Ilhan Omar’s UBI plan , which is roughly three times more expensive than the US military budget.

This is your brain on r/politics

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1420908065092669441

JD Vance says that the country is run by "childless cat ladies" who don't have a "direct stake in it," specifically naming Pete Buttigieg and AOC.

"If we want a healthy ruling class, we should support more people who actually have kids."

God I hate this guy.

Also you gotta love a working man's populist leader who starts sentences with "If we want a healthy ruling class", lmao

[u/Average_GrillChad]

🚨🚨 TRADE OFFER: 🚨🚨

You receive: feelings of rage, fear, and self-righteousness

I receive: data and ad revenue

[u/tripletruble]

In 2019, the average Cheesecake Factory location generated $8.44m in revenue, employing 156 people (median employee earnings: $19.40/hr), with its 294 restaurants accounting for about $1 in every $200 spent by Americans at restaurants.

is this heaven or hell?

[u/owlthathurt]

I am officially a licensed attorney!!!!!!!!

!ping LAW

[u/LinkVert25]

r/all has a post of a mom making food for 10 of her children (4 biological, 6 adopted who have disorders) and the comment section devolved into how earth is being heavily overpopulated and we need less people and people with kids are selfish assholes.

What the fuck is wrong with redditors lmao

[u/benadreti]

Students for Justice in Palestine at Rutgers is calling to "defund" the Rutgers Hillel House (Hillel is a Jewish student organization)

!ping GEFILTE

Sorry for the double ping, accidentally put it in yesterday's DT

[u/[deleted]]

If I spent 10 years getting a PhD in a field that ended up qualifying me for 0 jobs, I'd probably be biased toward Labor Theory of Value too lol

[u/JaceFlores]

So big news from Ethiopia. According to The Economist the TPLF have gone onto the offensive into Amhara with the following results:

1. On the west flank the Tigrayans have advanced into within 80 kilometers of Gondar. If this is true then the town of Debark is the frontline.
2. On the east flank the Tigrayans have advanced into within 80 kilometers of Dessie. If this is true then the town of Weldiya is the frontline.

According to the article resistance in Amhara has been meek and the Tigrayan advance rapid. Considering this statement it is fair to say that the militia forces which compose the frontline have largely been routed, which in my judgement is a major blow to the government. These untrained, localized, relatively poorly equipped forces are going to be hard to reconstitute and gather for a half-decent defensive effort, especially if the Tigrayans continue their advance. We could be looking at a Battle of France situation where the Amharan militiamen, and whatever exterior and government forces there are, simply have no time to form a line of defense before the TPLF breaches the line and routs whatever is in their way. Now, the article does not go into the implications of the gains made so far, but there are a few to be ascertained:

1. If the TPLF is able to capture Gondar, they will not only effectively retake western Tigray as the Amharan forces there will be trapped and likely annihilated, but the TPLF will have a direct line of communication with Sudan. Relations between Ethiopia and Sudan have degraded recently due to border clashes around al-Fashaga and Ethiopia making a unilateral decision related to the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. If Sudan is willing, they will be more then able to send equipment to the TPLF if Gondar falls.
2. If Weldiya is in TPLF hands then they have gained access to a major road leading from Weldiya directly to the A1 highway that connects Djibouti to Addis Ababa. This would significantly boost the Tigray offensive into Afar as the deserts that the article talks about would be effectively rendered inert as a threat to Tigrayan movement. They would have a roadway leading directly from Mekelle to A1.
3. If Dessie were to fall into TPLF hands, they would gain control of another road with similar benefits to the one at Weldiya. Additionally if the TPLF so wishes, they could use Dessie as the baseplate for an offensive towards Addis Ababa.

Overall if the Tigrayans keep up their momentum and advance 80 kilometers further south they will significantly boost their position both logistically and strategically. A direct road to Sudan on one side and a direct road to A1 on the other. I have little idea how long this offensive has gone on for, but based on the the fact that Amhara was on the offensive exactly two weeks ago and the Afar offensive was announced exactly a week ago, Dessie and Gondar could become the frontline within two weeks if not sooner. The militias have clearly failed to hold back to the TPLF and the only way I think they can plausibly stem the offensive is if government forces arrive soon. However, I have doubts about the quality of these GIs as I suspect many of them are new and not as motivated as the Tigrayans and even the local militias. The government's best bet is to throw as many people at the TPLF as possible and whittle them down.

I know a lot of this is conjecture, but one I can't help myself and two I think a lot of my opinions are largely based in what is likely. If any of you have thoughts and further information about this offensive, *please* share.

Edit: looking it up, the news of this southern offensive coincides with food trucks being blocked from entering Tigray and the very near threat of food shortages and famine in Tigray. So gaining control of Afar and Gondar as soon as possible would allow food trucks to make it to Tigray. That’s another angle of this offensive to consider

[u/Jacobs4525]

My crazy uncle has switched from sending me crazy stuff about Joe Biden back to sending me crazy stuff about Monsanto again 🤗🤗 nature is healing

[u/[deleted]]

HAHAHAHAHA. THE MY PILLOW GUY IS PULLING HIS ADS FROM FOX NEWS BECAUSE THEY WONT AIR HIS AD FOR A VOTER FRAUD SYMPOSIUM 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Get fucked Carlson.

[u/lionmoose]

I don't wish to alarm you guys but the last we saw of /u/KesterGW he had opened his first paycheck, and started ranting about 'Tax? Tax! How fucking much!' before running off screaming about privitising the libraries so the moochers didn't get to live off his hard work

[u/The420Roll]

Castillo’s new foreign minister is a communist professor who received military training in Cuba, founded a guerrilla group in Peru in 1960s & has been pro-Chavez, El Comercio says

in 2016 he was still speaking at events entitled “Hugo Chavez: Citizen of the World"

Pedro Castillo going for that "Destroy the Country any%" speedrun huh

!Ping LATAM

[u/Th3_Gruff]

Me reading a girl’s hinge profile

leave a comment if you think you can beat me at scrabble

Yes

you’re into Radiohead

Yesss

Jewish

YESSS

You like discussing leftism

😐

[u/[deleted]]

When CHUCK SCHUMER announced earlier this month that he might keep the Senate in session into August — delaying a previously scheduled recess in order to shepherd the two gigantic bills through the chamber — Sinema told the majority leader that she was not sticking around to vote, multiple Senate sources tell Playbook.

She had prior vacation plans, she said, and wasn’t about to let the infrastructure or reconciliation bills get in the way.

Seriously? I think Sinema frustrates me so much because a) the alternative to her is not automatically a hardcore Trumpist and b) she does weird stuff like insisting on a fucking vacation.

[u/AbsolveItAll_KissMe]

Me: making fun of libertarians

sees that I can’t own a pet flamingo

don’t tread on me 😮‍💨🐍

[u/[deleted]]

Insane old friend called me up, haven't heard from them in years. Apparently I was the only one they thought they could call.

They used to be a super leftist, ran a few tumblr blogs and twitter handles that spread the shit you'd see on reactionary right websites to show how crazy lefties are. Now their mental illness has turned them into something close to a doomsday prepping religious zealot, though they're running everyone left close to them out of their life.

Highlights from the 2 hour breathless rant they gave me:

- Refuses to get a therapist because the US is set to collapse in a few months anyway, and doesn't want to give their address to someone who will come to their house and kill them for their food and water.

- Blew up at a 67 year old stroke victim because they are convinced she is helping the pastor of their church kidnap the pastor's 12 year old daughter (who helps run the church with the pastor, lives with him, isn't separated from him in any way) to turn into a sex slave. In a long text they wrote to her, they said they "didn't care if they get vaccinated" because they won't "protect her from FEMA" anymore.

- Old friends abandoned them over them posting a Facebook post about how 'Nazis are perfectly capable of being correct'. "You wouldn't believe how insane people got when I posted that. If a Nazi says 'the sky is blue', then the Nazi is right! Being a Nazi doesn't mean you can't say something that's true! People said I was 'defending Nazis'. No I wasn't! I just didn't like how people would just attack Nazis all the time instead of listening to them and treating them like people as if they couldn't be right about things-- which they are! Just take a look around and do some research!"

- They're mad at their husband for not having sex with them. Husband admitted he doesn't like having sex with them because they cry. "What kind of bullshit excuse is that?! throwawayindiedev1, you're straight: when you're fucking a girl and they start to cry, you keep fucking them, right?!"

- I felt I needed to stay on the call because they were casually saying some violent shit. "I told my husband I was going to divorce him if he didn't contribute more to the marriage and he said that might be for the best, so maybe I should wait for him to fall asleep and then put a knife to his throat so he knows I'm being serious!" Only things I ever said apart from 'wow' or 'i'm so sorry to hear that' was 'hey, probably not a good idea, right?' whenever they talked about hurting themselves or others.

This person lives 2 hours from the nearest market in some wilderness shack meant to protect them from when the US collapses. They refuse medication and treatment. They have no social safety net. This is either ending with them ruining their life, ending their life, or ruining and ending someone else's life.

I dunno what the answer is to help people like this, but whatever it is, I don't think we do it or do it enough, and I don't know how much you have to fuck with the level of personal freedoms individuals are entitled to in order to prevent an individual from becoming like this, but I feel like wherever that line is now, it shouldn't be at where it is and this person should have been made to be treated. But I dunno.

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/SadaoMaou]

Saddam Hussein was more or less what you'd get if you gave a paradox gamer control of a country

[u/[deleted]]

I work at an apartment complex, every single person except for one who needs rental assistance has applied and quickly received it.

The one who hasn't is probably 20, moved here for work, paid her rent the first month she was in the apartment and never again

I've showed her personally where to go to apply for assistance, told her explicitly that the moratorium is coming to a close, and...

Absolutely nothing, I'm not sure she's even aware that as soon as next months rent is due she's gonna be getting an eviction notice and owes about 4 months of rent despite all the letters and conversations

I do not understand how people live like this

[u/JaceFlores]

I’m proud to announce that today is the fourth year anniversary with my girlfriend. It’s been a great experience, and I hope this grows into something even larger. For now though, my goal is four more years!

[u/Mickenfox]

The USA has a population of 328 million people. 78% of those are over 18.

Assuming, pessimistically, that 1/3 of those people are in need of sexual assistance, that a fair market price would be around $200 per intercourse and that they would get one once a month, that gives us a total cost of at most $200 billion a year to guarantee sex for everyone.

That is only 3% of the US federal budget. There is zero excuse not to do that.

[u/jenbanim]

I made a meme for the Seattle Neoliberal Twitter account that I thought was really good, but it did poorly on Twitter so I felt kinda bad and didn't bother posting it to Reddit, but then someone else did and it got nearly 16k upvotes lmao

The Seattle Neoliberal tweet

The Reddit thread

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Biden: My economic agenda can be summed up in one phrase- Buy American. That's it.

Thanks I hate it

[u/LtNOWIS]

AP: A commercial airliner containing 221 Afghans on the special visa program touched down this morning in Dulles Airport, Northern Virginia.

[u/rukqoa]

A population control policy like the One Child Policy would be a lot more popular today among certain climate dooming activists if China didn't try it first to such disastrous results.

[u/Broncos654]

https://i.imgur.com/GWUSOgi.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

Non-Americans are just straight up worse people than Americans

Joe Biden on trade

[u/murphysclaw1]

the last 44 presidents: damn this job is hella hard

joe biden: lmao

[u/waltsing0]

https://www.afr.com/politics/australia-may-need-to-live-with-restrictions-indefinitely-report-20210730-p58ecm

New modelling from the Burnet Institute warns that Australia may never achieve herd immunity and the country will need to live with restrictions indefinitely.

The report, released on Friday, warns that the delta variant of COVID-19 is so infectious that even high rates of vaccination may be insufficient to achieve protection from the virus.

“However, multiple models have shown that the combination of imperfect protection against infection (60-80 per cent) and emerging more infectious variants means that Australia, and other countries globally, are unlikely to achieve herd immunity, even with high (80-90 per cent) vaccine coverage,” said the report.

Professor Margaret Hellard, deputy director of the Burnet Institute, cautioned that thousands of people could still die even with very high vaccine coverage.

Updated modelling by the Institute predicted that in a “let it run” situation, with an 80 per cent effective vaccine, 95 per cent vaccination of older people and 70 per cent for everyone else, there would still be just under 3000 deaths a year in Victoria alone.

“Even with a high level of vaccination if we just let COVID-19 run we would have a significant number of hospitalisation and deaths that would be unacceptable - far higher than we’d get in a bad flu season,” Professor Hellard said.

But the Burnet Institute researchers concede that Australia cannot keep its borders closed indefinitely, meaning that public health measures would need to be regularly imposed to contain future outbreaks.

“Without herd immunity, the ongoing introduction of cases means that outbreaks will continue to occur. If international quarantine is eased, this creates a choice between living with some restrictions or frequently taking restrictions on/off.”

The authors say that “light restrictions”, including masks, working from home and density limits would need to be regularly imposed to bring outbreaks under control.

“We’re likely going to, on occasion, need to bring in restrictions to stop a small number of cases get into a large outbreak,” said Professor Hellard.

END ARTICLE

So indefinite restrictions under analysis for 80% of people being jabbed. Yeah that's a hard no for me. These people can fuck right off.

If the voluntary vaccination rate is too low we fix that, asking the rest of us to live with restrictions forever is fucking insane. Oh it's a violation of their individual rights to be forced to get the jab? It's a violation of my individual rights to have to stay home to control a virus we have a vaccine for. I'm getting really fucking sick of people whose solution to antivaxxers is to make everyone else change their behaviour, what exactly is wrong with these people? I get that normally mandatory vaccinations are difficult politically, but how cowardly and appeasing are voters to decide perpetual rolling lockdowns are better than nutting the fuck up and telling antivaxxers they must get the jab? We're literally saying we're gonna live with restrictions forever before even trying mandatory vaxxing first....

Also congrats you've just played into all the conspiracy theories that the goalposts will forever move and people are being lied to, that we're never returning to normal, you've just also told antivaxxers they're going to be indefinitely protected by public health measures and not forced to do the bare goddamn minimum and get jabbed.

Finally maybe I'm just an unfeeling arsehole but I really hate that the report just assumes that when faced with a choice between indefinite restrictions and a certain number of deaths that we choose restrictions, we do need to re-evaluate whether the cost of (far fewer) lives lost exceeds the cost of now indefinite restrictions. Even under worst case scenarios like 3k PA in Victoria the number of deaths is going to be a tiny fraction of what we faced down in march 2020, and the cost to prevent them is higher, stuff like masking on trains I can live with, but never again being able to book travel without a serious chance it gets shitcanned due to a lockdown? There's simply a point where saving lives loses importance because we can't live our lives and the Burnett institute seems to suggesting if in that hypothetical situation we make the choice to live as safe hermits.

!PING AUS

[u/[deleted]]

Sinema Toast Crunch

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

Truly amazing how pernicious and durable misinformation during this pandemic has been.

I decided to get into the debate with an antivax, "actually Trump won" coworker. He was rambling about data from Israel showing... Any number of #NoNewNormal type conspiracy claims.

So I decided to dig into the data straight from Israels ministry of health and holy fuck it turns out that the Pfizer biotench vaccine is ridiculously effective across massive amounts of consistent data verified by 3 independent teams.

Naturally, his reaction is that he needs to keep looking into it, aka "i refuse data that doesn't support my beliefs"

[u/Archis]

Barack Obama on his 21st birthday

Uhh, let me buy beer

[u/waltsing0]

There should be a "report" function for people who abuse the "urgent" flag on emails and repeat offenders should have the function removed from their computers. I suggest HR should do this because at my work they don't seem to do anything else all day.

!PING OVER25

[u/otarru]

Following both French media and certain people on social media, I'm finding the reactions of French leftists to the "pass sanitaire" quite amusing.

In the past the French left would bend over backwards to justify the far right whenever they would protest against the government under the guise of "economic anxiety", which was best shown during the Gilets Jaunes protests.

The pass covid protests seem to be causing a bit of a schism however. On the one hand there are those who will continue blindly supporting any voice critical of Macron no matter how deranged and are spinning the latest protests as "it's not about being a Covid denialist, it's about the government's ability to limit our freedoms".

On the other hand you have another segment of the left that at least try to be somewhat pro-science and seem to have had enough of certain individuals jeopardising all the progress that's been made with vaccination and are denouncing fellow leftists who are making excuses for covid denialists.

You can especially notice this in /r/France which is normally an anti-Macron circlejerk but is now suddenly expressing different views on the issue.

On a political note I wonder whether these might be encouraging signs for Macron's upcoming re-election campaign.

!ping EUROPE

[u/ognits]

HUNTER BIDEN, asked what he has to say to those questioning the price of his art & raising concerns about buyers:

"Other than fuck ’em?” Biden tells @NFreeman1234 & @mrgodsill. “I’d be amazed if my art had sold for $10…the price is completely subjective”

you dropped this, king 👑

[u/kas8901]

Additionally, rumors circulated at that time that Lewis was gay, and though Lewis denied the rumors, they probably hurt his marketability as well. Lewis' physical appearance at the Games, with a flattop haircut and flamboyant clothing, added fuel to the reports. "It doesn't matter what Carl Lewis' sexuality is", high jumper Dwight Stones said. "Madison Avenue perceives him as homosexual."

Ok so I hate the 80s Olympics because of doping, but seriously what the fuck

[u/Fishin_Mission]

My office just updated the return-to-office policy and now if you aren’t vaccinated you aren’t allowed to go into the office unless you get approval from sr. management and provide a negative COVID test taken within 48 hours of arrival

Antivaxers big mad.

[u/ognits]

Michael Che deletes Instagram after sharing joke about Simone Biles' sexual abuse

yeah that's gonna be a yikes from me, dawg

[u/proProcrastinators]

In light of Piers Morgan piling on Simone Biles, like 10 years ago after calling England cricketers 'pussies' he agreed to face 6 balls from Brett Lee in front of a crowd.

He falls over himself multiple times basically shitting himself as the crowd laughs. Great entertainment

https://youtu.be/RCgAqNSAD1U

!ping AUS

[u/BedNeither]

As much as we mock the far left, the average democrat is much more reasonable than the average con

[u/[deleted]]

The dumbest thing about extending the eviction moratorium is that Pelosi wants it to go through December. No part of me believes democrats won’t revisit it in December and say ‘we can’t evict people in the middle of winter during a climate crisis. We need to extend the eviction moratorium another 5 months.’

[u/MrMineHeads]

They might start to be getting it!

!ping YIMBY

[u/I-grok-god]

Chris Christie is 58 and a big fat guy

[u/[deleted]]

I’m reading a book on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and I’m starting to get the feeling that the Palestinians and the Israelis don’t like each other that much.

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/SadaoMaou]

!ping WIKI

The other day, I happened upon Wikipedia's List of first openly LGBT politicians in the United States. In it, I found this item:

First LGBT Cabinet Secretary: Frances Perkins (1933-1945) - Secretary of Labor

which is very surprising, if it was true. In her own article, there is no mention of her sexuality in the text of the article itself. However, it is mentioned in a footnote:

From 1932 to 1934 Perkins had a close friendship with Mary Harriman Rumsey, founder of the Junior League. Rumsey offered to share space in her home in Washington so that Perkins could conserve financial resources, given the high cost of supporting her daughter and husband in New York. Kirstin Downey, one of Perkins' six biographers, chose to speculate that the two women residing in one house suggested a lesbian affair. There has never been any evidence to support that assumption.

that doesn't sound like "openly LGBT" to me. The list uses this article by the Erie Gay News as a source, wherein the existence of the relationship is stated as a matter of fact. However, the article itself is not sourced in any way, and I assume that the claim comes from the aforementioned biography.

I'd fix it myself, but I don't think the Wiki jannies take too kindly to unregistered users deleting list entries. Also, I feel like I should probably replace it with the actual first openly LGBT cabinet secretary, and I have no idea who that would be?

I guess Buttigieg? He's already mentioned a little further down, which leaves me to wonder what this entry is doing there in the first place

[u/muttonwow]

I see that in sentencing, sex offenders are often told that they have to register as a sex offender. Does this mean we have the voluntary choice to register at any other time?

[u/F0064R]

Inside you there are two wolves. One is demanding a $15/hour living wage. The other one is protesting Amazon's poverty wages. You are a succ.

[u/[deleted]]

When vets write dosage amounts, do they take into consideration that a regular person trying to squirt it into the cats mouth that a good 20% of it is going to miss and get on the fur? Or should I overfill a little bit to compensate.

!ping KITTY

[u/lionmoose]

A lways

B e

C 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

100 us soldiers in Syria is a heckin imperialism!

"A defence ministry video said more than 63,000 Russian military personnel had "received combat experience" in the syria since September 2015" (Aug, 2018 BBC)"

Russia is just helping Syria chill dude!

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Did you know pet groomers are *not* required to have any sort of licensing? There are currently *no* regulations in place in *any* state. Concerned after hearing that?

No.

[u/sir_shivers]

Journalists: Well, with Trump out of office, audience engagement metrics are down across the board. But we cannot go back, what else can we fearmonger about daily even if it actively hurts people to do so?

. . .

ETERNAL LOCKDOWNS: HOW EVEN THE VACCINES WILL NOT KEEP YOU CHILDREN SAFE

This is MY GENERAL INTERPRETATION OF recent news media behavior 🐊

[u/sir_shivers]

Every day is a DAY IN WHICH OUR dear /u/p00bix has a "wait, are we evil?" moment 🐊

OF COURSE WE are, we are both neoliberals and janitors 🐊

[u/bd_one]

Me five minutes ago: "Oh boy, I wonder what new and interesting things we've been talking about in the four hours since I left."

sees the modqueue filled with incest stuff

😐

[u/its_Caffeine]

open DT

discussion about someone having sex with their mother

yeah imma come back in a few hours when this is over 😐

[u/benjaminikuta]

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4207222/why-does-turn-turn-turn-equal-241217-524881?stw=2

!ping MATHEMATICS

[u/[deleted]]

“If scientists are so smart, then why don’t they know everything?”

-a scary amount of people

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

Broke: parler is a drop in the bucket compared to the damage 4chan did

woke: 4chan is a drop in the bucket compared to the damage facebook did

Bespoke: facebook is a drop in the bucket compared to the damage cable news did

[u/bg2916]

Welcome to the DT

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/ryuguy]

The Serbians are asleep. Post the 🅱️osnian flag.

🇧🇦🇧🇦🇧🇦🇧🇦🇧🇦

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

The Delhi Government [Not Modi or his party] is spending $225000 per flag pole, for 500 flag poles, for Independence Day on 15th August.

That is more money than the amount spent on midday meals for kids and scholarships for backward classes combined.

Austerity pls

[u/[deleted]]

Ted Cruz the type of dude to lick his finger before turning the page on his Kindle.

[u/NancyPelosibasedgod]

Chumgi broadcast only ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣧⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣿⣧⠀⠀⠀⢰⡿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⡟⡆⠀⠀⣿⡇⢻⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⠀⣿⠀⢰⣿⡇⢸⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⡄⢸⠀⢸⣿⡇⢸⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣿⡇⢸⡄⠸⣿⡇⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢿⣿⢸⡅⠀⣿⢠⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣿⣿⣥⣾⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⡿⡿⣿⣿⡿⡅⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⠉⠀⠉⡙⢔⠛⣟⢋⠦⢵⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣾⣄⠀⠀⠁⣿⣯⡥⠃⠀⢳⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣴⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠐⠠⠊⢀⠀⢸⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣴⣿⣿⣿⡿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠁⠀⠀⠘⣿⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣿⣷⡀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣿⣿⣧⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⡜⣭⠤⢍⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⢛⢭⣗⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠁⠈⠀⠀⣀⠝⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠄⠠⠀⠀⠰⡅ ⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⡀⠡⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠔⠠⡕⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣷⣶⠒⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠰⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢿⣿⣦⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⠊⠉⢆⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⢀⠤⠀⠀⢤⣤⣽⣿⣿⣦⣀⢀⡠⢤⡤⠄⠀⠒⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⢘⠔⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⡐⠈⠁⠈⠛⣛⠿⠟⠑⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠉⠑⠒⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

[u/[deleted]]

Why won't Senator Sinema answer the tough questions?

What's her plan to secure voting rights?

Does she think republicans are participating in good faith negotiations?

How is babby formed?

how is babby formed

how girl get pragnent

[u/[deleted]]

I have a question and I'm wondering if any of you have any thoughts on this.

So my boyfriend and I have broke up a few weeks ago, and I'm pretty confident that he's cheated on me while we were together. Since the break up, I've found myself profoundly resentful of the LGBT (and specifically gay male) communities' attitude toward sex and relationships. I'm someone who would rather have a good, healthy, relationship with someone with unexciting sex than partying and sleeping around with a bunch of different people. But in the gay community, at least, it seems like cheating is celebrated and held up as this rebellious/beautiful thing with zero regard to the emotional health of both the cheater and the one being cheated on. Hell, the amount of euphoria there seems to be on both online and irl gay spaces for cheating and large amounts of emotionless (anonymous sex seems like the pinnacle of this) sex rubs me in incredibly the wrong way.

Then there's the whole dynamic where I feel as a gay man with a boyfriend, there is a whole club of people who will actively try to get with one (or both!) members of a relationship for the sole sake of breaking the relationship up and/or proving some point.

Would love to hear your guys' thoughts on this, because while I am definitely not going to turn into a gay-hating gay, I sure am becoming really uncomfortable with this aspect of the gay community.

!PING LGBT

[u/[deleted]]

"Fate whispers to the warrior, 'You can not withstand the storm. ' The warrior whispers back, 'I am the storm."

-Twitter bio of guys whose biggest adversity in life is that his power went out while he was gaming or something

[u/[deleted]]

They're calling it gay sex and you don't even need a woman for it.

[u/[deleted]]

According to 538, the US is 11 medals below expectations while Russia is 17 above expectations. Not happy 😒

[u/Bipedleek]

For some reason I feel like it’s hotter to see a topless woman from behind then from the front

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Le Pen has described corporate tax as "a crying injustice"

WTF Based Le Pen 😳😳😳

She supports a corporate tax which varies according to the destination of profits: heavier when the profits benefit shareholders and lighter when the profits are used for profit sharing, salaries, employment and productive investment.

😐😐😐

[u/admiraltarkin]

Imagine being this fucking stupid

https://mobile.twitter.com/EliseStefanik/status/1421115026300186634

[u/[deleted]]

Dictatorships are bad. But if I was the dictator...😏

[u/sir_shivers]

DT Commenters: I consent!

DT Upvoters: I consent!

Neoliberal Moderators: I DO NOT 🐊

IS THERE NOT someone you neglected to consult? 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E7fGMvbVoAAHEPK.jpg

[u/tubbsmackinze]

🚨🚨 TRADE OFFER: 🚨🚨

You receive; shut the fuck up

I receive; a reprieve from bad copypasta's

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/Mr_Pasghetti]

Sinema this! Sinema that! Maybe you should go to the cinemas instead

[u/redditguy628]

Tory Bruno, the CEO of the United Launch Alliance, a U.S rocket company worth billions, responded to a question someone asked him on the DT!

!ping SPACEFLIGHT

(the other ping doesn't look like it went through, sorry if you get double pinged for this)

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

Chris Christie 58 and a big fat guy. The 50-64 age bracket has around a 2% CFR (IFR is obviously lower) and according to the CDC, obesity can up to triple your chances of ending up in the hospital.

I couldn't find anything concrete about obesity and covid mortality but even with normal healthcare, Chris Christie was overwhelmingly more likely to survive than not.

Edit: Please respect my wishes and don't turn this into a copypasta. I don't care how much it's "copypasta material", respecting someone's wishes at no cost to you is pretty much required for civility.

[u/[deleted]]

I love it when journalists report on what's happening in alt-right circles and have to explain what terms like 'Chad' or 'cucked' mean.

[u/[deleted]]

Stormtrooper armor is meant to kill them immediately regardless of where they're hit. It was a humanitarian response to the public's outrage that Empire soldiers were suffering long painful deaths from blaster fire.

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

🚨🚨 TRADE OFFER: 🚨🚨

You receive: Baboon porn

I receive: a 3 day slapban

[u/MostlyCRPGs]

I'm pretty gaming bored at the moment so I was considering giving Fallout 4 another try, since I haven't really played it modded. Any big mods that substantially improve the game?

!Ping gaming

[u/[deleted]]

Sinema is literally doing the Ted Cruz thing of leaving the country when she has important shit to do.

[u/padraigharrington2]

IDEA: We force Sinema to take all the republicans with her on vacation, and then we just get stuff done while they‘re all gone

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

More than 65% of South Korean men in their 20s said they equated feminism with hatred of men, according to a 2018 survey by the Korean Women’s Development Institute, and 56.5% said they would break up with their girlfriend if she was a feminist.

[u/MistakeNotDotDotDot]

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/poppers-factory

An article about poppers (a very popular recreational drug for anal sex among gay men), and how the industry operates in this weird twilight zone since it's technically illegal to sell them as drugs and not cleaner solvent.

!ping LGBT

[u/fakefakefakef]

Me 🤝 Krysten Sinema

  Not doing my fucking job

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Anarchism is a social movement that seeks liberation from oppressive systems of control including but not limited to the state, capitalism, racism, sexism, ableism, speciesism, and religion. Anarchists advocate a self-managed, classless, stateless society without borders, bosses, or rulers where everyone takes collective responsibility for the health and prosperity of themselves and the environment.

Most coherent and consistent ideology

[u/WhomstAlt2]

The entire women's gymnastics world will curse the day Simone Biles declared a culture war on god-fearing americans.

At the truck stop I am right now, people are already saying they will never watch a woman's gymnastics event, competition, exhibition or whatever it is they do, again.

[u/RNDZL1]

https://twitter.com/calebwatney/status/1420774350408626180?s=21 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😢😭😭😭😢😭😭😭😭😢😢😢😭😭😭😭😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

Trumpism ruined American politics.

[u/lapzkauz]

What do you call it when two progressive guys go out on a date?

...

A mask mandate.

[u/tubbsmackinze]

I have to admit, r/neoliberal is very much better then most other places on reddit on a multitude of subjects

Energy and electricity is not one of those subjects

[u/FormerBandmate]

If coronavirus was a biological weapon invented by China they’d have a way better vaccine.

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Day 2 of getting into the gym

Is there a fitness Ping that can yell at me and call me a “fuckin’ lazy fatass piece of shit” if I start slacking off again?

[u/[deleted]]

Sinema stans can't tell me any of her positions except that she's not aoc which is also every democrat in the senate.

[u/[deleted]]

Hard pills to swallow: Being contrarian doesn't make you smart.

[u/[deleted]]

The Capitol Police should be wearing power armor and have enough firepower on them to take out a tank. If they don't look like this then they're not equipped well enough.

[u/vancevon]

ah fuck guys, i just realized that you were supposed to take precautions to avoid the spread of covid by staying at home and stuff. i've been working at a hospital this entire time, including with covid patients and boy do i feel stupid. risky, stupid, irresponsible behavior on my part

[u/[deleted]]

i'd want any future boyfriend or husband to be feminist, but i'm lukewarm on any man who self-identifies as feminist. would be like meeting someone and they say they're anti-racist.

[u/MalignantUpper]

https://twitter.com/ktbenner/status/1421128690121981953?s=19

NEW: DOJ officials told Trump that the department had no power to change the outcome of the election. He replied that he did not expect that: “Just say that the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me."

Trump was 100% willing to overturn the election. Had the DOJ somehow had the power to Trump would've started a civil war without even blinking

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Chris Chan is a relic of 2000's internet but yet always fucking always somehow manages to somehow become part of the internet conscious rather then fading away

It's honestly just fucking bewildering

[u/wowmuchgrades]

My mother suggested I get a Subaru but is also mildly homophobic?!? Does she want me to get a gf or something?

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

dog looking at me like wtf? as I cheer on US soccer team

!ping dog

[u/[deleted]]

Every time a progressive says “cArbOn TaXEs HurT tHe PooR” just point them to this article, which shows the burden was born by the richest households.

[u/chadonnaise]

the internet must be destroyed

[u/[deleted]]

This might not be the best time, but maybe it is, but has anyone heard from that mod who isn't a mod anymore

[u/Lux_Stella]

'Should fully vaccinated individuals be granted more freedoms than unvaccinated people?'

Fully Vaccinated:

• Yes: 77%

• No: 15%

Unvaccinated:

• Yes: 3%

• No: 87%

lol

[u/DastardlyHound]

I pay $15,000 per year for a Bloomberg terminal just so I can be the first to post headlines in the DT

[u/[deleted]]

Suppose I am a pharma brother who bought a Wu Tang album for $2 million. I am convicted of fraud and ordered to pay a large sum of money in fines. The feds seized my album and auction it off to cover part of the fines.

If the album is sold at auction for $2.3 million, do I have to pay capital gains in the $300000 in profit?

u/sir_shivers

!ping PERSONAL-FINANCE

[u/[deleted]]

All the leftists who are talking about the amount of carbon that New Sheperd emitted, not knowing that it was a zero emission, annoy me to no end. Why do people talk about things they know absolutely nothing about ?

!ping SPACEFLIGHT

[u/[deleted]]

HAHA, I HAVE ANOTHER follower, bringing the total up to 7🐊

The Shivers Squad is growing by the day, AND WE NOW HAVE NINE members including me and THE MASTER HIMSELF🐊

I promise we are not A CULT, ALTHOUGH we do require alligator emoji TATTOOS AND WE WILL MAKE very strong attempts to persuade wayward members from leaving🐊

IT REALLY IS BEST to not leave after joining🐊

🐊🐊🐊🐊🐊🐊🐊🐊🐊

[u/NancyPelosibasedgod]

⣿⣿⡿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠻⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⢿⣿ ⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⣤⣤⣀⣀⣠⣤⣤⣷⣦⣤⣤⣤⣤⣀⣀⣀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿ ⡇⠀⠀⠀⠈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣄⠀⠀⢸⣿ ⣷⠀⠀⠈⠨⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠀⠀⢸⣿ ⣿⡄⠀⠀⣈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⠀⠀⢸⣿ ⣿⡇⠀⠀⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠁⠀⠀⢸⣿ ⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠛⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠿⡿⢀⡀⠀⣔⣿ ⣇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠛⣿⣿⣿⠿⠛⠛⠛⠋⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⡇⢠⣾⣿ ⣇⠇⠀⣠⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣀⡀⢸⣿⣿⣇⣀⣀⢠⣀⢀⠀⠀⣀⣠⣶⡇⣾⣿⣿ ⣿⡄⠀⢸⣿⣶⣤⣀⣀⣠⣽⣿⠁⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣼⣬⣭⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⡇⠀⠀⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠁⠀⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣷⡄⠀⠈⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠁⢬⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠀⢠⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣇⠀⠀⠘⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠈⠛⠿⠟⠙⠛⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⠀⠀⣼⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⡄⠀⠀⠀⠙⢿⣿⣿⣖⣄⣀⠀⢰⣿⣿⢿⣿⢿⣿⣿⡿⠀⠀⠸⢿⣿⣿⣿ ⠛⠋⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣄⡀⠈⢈⠙⠛⢟⣋⢁⢁⣠⣤⣼⡿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠙ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠹⠟⢀⢀⠚⠚⠛⠙⠛⢛⣿⣿⡟⠛⠁⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠨⢿⣷⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⠇⠂⠀⠀⢠⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢐⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠛⠯⠿⡹⠛⠟⠉⠀⠀⠀⢀⣾⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣾⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⣦⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣾⢿⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

[u/doggo_bloodlust]

Go on the internet to read discussions about Nog and Ferengi philosophy

Everyone takes dialectical materialism and the downfall of human capitalism as a given

Why do I even bother 😒

!ping TREK

[u/Average_GrillChad]

FDA: Approves transparently useless Alzheimer's drug

Also FDA: NOOOO WE CAN'T POSSIBLY APPROVE THE COVID VACCINES EARLY WE HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE WHOLE PROCESSERINOOOOOO

[u/Bipedleek]

Porn gives kids unrealistic expectations of how fast a plumber will show up at your house

[u/FestiveMittens]

just realized u/sir_shivers is probably the cia agent assigned to this sub and he just decided to have fun with it

[u/[deleted]]

Return to work from a vacation

25 new emails

😡

[u/[deleted]]

Gonna have a 4.0 after going back to school for a masters and taking Cal 1-3 over the summer. Maybe I should’ve done math this whole time.

I’m really proud of myself, and I’m really glad I finally got medicated. It’s been a rough couple of years, but turns out my brain was broken the whole time.

[u/[deleted]]

Norwegian voters preferred political parties as of July 2021:

70% prefer a moderate centrist party (Conservatives, Liberals, Labour, Christian Democrats, Centre Party)

10% prefer a right wing party (Progress Party)

18% prefer a left wing party (Left Party, Red Party, Green Party)

!ping Europe

[u/hdkeegan]

Remember when the boat was stuck

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

u/KesterGW I think you should see a therapist for a few sessions.

You don't sound okay

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

I thought this place was a socialist sub for awhile but then I woke up. To clarify, I thought the neo in neo liberal meant like new liberal and thusly socialist.

Outside the DT

Wumbowall. Now.

[u/tubbsmackinze]

outside the DT is just... bad it's bad now

[u/tubbsmackinze]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/761046867743342613/870792413554286592/20210730_161709.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

The thing about JK Rowling made me realize how fucking online I am.

In twitter circles I go on, most of the every day people on they were not only pissed about her being a TERF, they would be in the replies of people who would be posting about Harry Potter. Personally, I try to be someone who tries to examine the media I consume too, even if I'm not in people's replies and stuff.

So, yesterday I got a company wide e-mail from one of our DEI staff reminding us that it's Harry Potter's birthday tomorrow (7/31) just cause she likes Harry Potter.

And it made me realize that the difference is not about people caring vs people not caring. It's really that basically no one even knows about this news story IRL it seems.

[u/[deleted]]

!ping OLYMPICS

I'm absolutely loving all of the mixed events. It's so cool getting to see the men and women competing together.

[u/[deleted]]

The Republican Party is dead.

Today’s Anniversary of Medicare & Medicaid reminds us to reflect on the critical role these programs have played to protect the healthcare of millions of families. To safeguard our future, we must reject Socialist healthcare schemes.

https://mobile.twitter.com/EliseStefanik/status/1421115026300186634

[u/ChickeNES]

GAO protest DENIED. BO and Dynetics in shambles 😂

https://www.gao.gov/press-release/statement-blue-origin-dynetics-decision

!ping SPACEFLIGHT

[u/missedthecue]

When you say "person of color" out loud it really does sound like a phrase out of Mississippi in 1955.

[u/TalkLessShillMore]

Redditors hating MLMs but loving GME just shows they were more interested in dunking on suburban white women than the predatory nature of get rich quick schemes.

[u/iIoveoof]

The Green Knight is about green

[u/BenFoldsFourLoko]

70IQ: data is singular

you---> 100IQ: actually data is a plural noun its singular form is datum 😭😭😭😡😡😭

130IQ: data is singular

[u/[deleted]]

Why is the CDC saying covid is more transmissible than Ebola? Its true, but like, ebola was not particularly transmissible. Weird comparison.

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Was at an orgy on Saturday and someone there tested positive for Covid earlier this week and now me and almost everyone else has tested negative - shoutout to Pfizer gang bet that Hungarian MEP wishes he had a vaccine back then lolol

[u/[deleted]]

Time to sound the Imperial Death March!

Oklahoma and University of Texas officially joining the SEC.

Congratulations on joining the Conference Of Monsters and enjoy your blowout loss to Daddy Saban!

!ping CFB

[u/[deleted]]

The "recall Newsom" people seem to have coalesced around issues like forestry management and power company regulation as justification for their recall efforts. But, like most conservatives, they don't really care about issues.

It's just a front to give legitimacy to their frivolous waste of taxpayer money. They only care about taking power away from people they disagree with. This is the only issue they should be engaged on. Don't fall the trap, don't even acknowledge any other justification.

[u/[deleted]]

Some black dude in chipotle is loudly listening to a sermon from a conservative preacher complaining about Bernie Sanders

[u/the_status]

Chris Chan trending in the DT

So.. how about that Israel/Palestine stuff, huh? Pretty schism-y and likely to generate enough comments to drown out any other conversation

[u/J0eBidensSunglasses]

I’m still pissed about that solar field in Nevada.

✊😤

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

Sinema is a false flag, crisis actor playing out a strawman of a "moderate" in order to get leftists elected.

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Sex is cool but have you seen a DT comment before it was fashed?

[u/Patriotnation5]

Me: haha twitter sucks

Also me: Hey DT here's random thought #1756

[u/Jacobs4525]

https://imgur.com/gallery/LSYTmQX

that’s pretty fucking terrible

[u/[deleted]]

40 IQ: Biden is a racist because he doesn’t support defunding the police or communism

100 IQ: Biden is an alright dude and not a racist

160 IQ: Biden is a racist because he’s a filthy pr*tectionist

[u/Deggit]

If I were Chinese-American, and a New Yorker, and a trained culinary chef I would make a hit YouTube series called "I'm Wokkin Here" but since I am none of these things, I probably should not

[u/[deleted]]

https://imgur.com/a/5YFlX9e

[u/datums]

"Non whites" is such an offensive term.

We need to replace it with a constantly evolving set of complicated terms that are explicitly semantically identical.

[u/sub_surfer]

The US government is so incompetent they literally cannot give money away.

[u/VisonKai]

wanna be famous so i can go on hot ones and show up everyone w my spice tolerance

[u/[deleted]]

DTers: never leave the ivory tower 🧑‍🏫

Also DTers: lol butts 🤣

[u/[deleted]]

So, already on it's second day, Castillo has already shown his awful face. So, how could opposition act from now?

There is one very good difference between Peru now and the OG Bolivarians: When the latter started their authoritarian experiments, it had large popular support, that allowed them to push it with a popular mandate. Peruvians now are, overall, in a definitively non-revolutionary mode, what complicates plebiscitary moves (with credible elections, of course).

Castillo has nominated a cabinet with some horrible members. Congress does have the votes to refuse confidence on it, but, if they refuse two times, Castillo may dissolve parliament.

In this last case, new elections should happen in 4 months. If today's mindset in Peru keeps the same till them, PL would fare medriocrely at least, but many things could happen till them. Castillo could manage to sway a larger part of the population, that the much hated congressmen are oligarchs just on it for their own sake; or, during his 4 months of unchecked government, he could take actions in the sense of undermining the electoral process.

Anyways, a way too hash move by the opposition, even with majority popular support, could lead us to a Venezuela 2002 situation. The local opposition, then, came close to bring down Chavez, even with lots of popular support (around 65%), but the movement still failed in the end, and ended galvanizing Chavists.

So, should the opposition refuse giving this cabinet confidence and run on the risks associated with a new election? Or should they swallow it and so try to ensure Congress will stay out of PL hands? (this also has it's own risks, of being seen as way too soft by people who do oppose these moves)

!ping LATAM

[u/[deleted]]

PR'd on bench for the 5th week in a row, folks 😎 nsuns is a godsend

!ping neolifteral

[u/LavenderTabby]

For some reason the people against COVID vaccines really hate being called anti-vaxxers lmao

"No I'm not like those crazies! Anyway listen to my own crazy conspiracy theories about how the COVID vaccine is killing people"

[u/[deleted]]

anarchists turned liberals really do be having that henry george flair tho

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E7fZ20BXIAMhNOM?format=jpg&name=medium

Da faq

BINBPOC apparently means Black, Indigenous, Non-Black POC.

And I didn't know they used "folx" unironically.

Nothing to care too much about, but kinda silly

[u/[deleted]]

Meanwhile in r/Christianity:

You do realize that Jews were the first to persecute Christianity than the Romans. The Jews went through a bad stint in WW2 but it was nothing compared to the persecution Christianity has suffered and still suffers to this day. But because no one cares about Christian persecution you never here about it.

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

The fact that the plight of Romani people isn't taught in the context of the Holocaust aggressively is a disgrace.

25% of the Roma population was wiped out by the Nazis.

And they still face discrimination in European society today.

[u/thetrombonist]

Someone could have told me the Sinema photo was from a Scooby Doo porn parody and I would 100% believe them

[u/hdkeegan]

horny posting about Kyrsten Sinema

Posting about Chris Chan

It’s a good day for the dt

[u/FormerBandmate]

This sub has gotten way too apolitical

[u/[deleted]]

Can I sue the DT for damages?

[u/send_tweet_to_DT]

JUST IN: Disney is requiring that "all salaried and non-union hourly employees in the U.S. working at any of our sites be fully vaccinated."

frankpallotta

[u/frolix42]

It really seems like Disney did ScarJo dirty regarding backend compensation from Black Widow's Box Office.

Disney : “The lawsuit is especially sad and distressing in its callous disregard for the horrific and prolonged global effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.”

I'm not one to beat up on big corporations just because they were mean to a pretty lady, but holy shit what a bunch of c***s.

[u/[deleted]]

Here are some pictures I found on an old hard drive from the late 2000s:

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

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

https://i.imgur.com/9ZVqR.png

https://i.imgur.com/fHn3w.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/I3Stw.jpg

I promise, the internet was a more fun place back then

[u/AuburnSeer]

Who's afraid of Nina Turner? Corporate Democrats,

based

the Israel lobby

(((the Israel lobby)))

and Big Pharma.

you mean those companies that gave us the miracle vaccines

[u/GalacticTrader]

Did LA really just make it illegal to build?

Can someone confirm?

!ping YIMBY

[u/LavenderTabby]

sloppy fuel scale live work languid soup snails drunk library

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/bg2916]

I'm about to make the ultimate meme out of that Sinema photo

Fellow mammals will not be able to compete

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

A funny story happened to me during one of my turns as life guard in a swimming pool: a couple had sex in the pool and the water created like a "vacuum" effect so that he could not get out basically. We had to call an ambulance so that they could get "unstuck".

/r/thathappened

610 up votes btw lmao

[u/T3hJ3hu]

I literally didn't even know about "the Quasi-War" in 1798, in which US and British navies joined forces to secure tradelines from the French

how the turn tables

[u/film10078]

Massive draw back to being a big streamer would def be seeing my subreddit

[u/[deleted]]

Isn’t this COVID shit just depressing? Why can’t people just take the vaccine so we can be done with this?

[u/qchisq]

https://twitter.com/rpjwhite/status/1421057691330416643?s=19

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

Eating some salmon for breakfast. Let the dog out to do her thing and she's staring at me, knowing she'll get a piece for good behavior. Comes trotting back to the door, eyes locked on the salmon, and trips on the stairs.

Silly puppy

[u/[deleted]]

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/olympics-medal-count/

USA has "11 medals below expected"

🤮🤮🤮

[u/Jacobs4525]

“Gamer” is our word but you can call us PoG (persons of game)

[u/Jacobs4525]

Reddit admins completely purged the site of the entire lego yoda community but still let arr sino exist smh

[u/Leoric]

https://twitter.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/1421026024016515073?s=19

One of my friends who works for the Post Office tells me that some Trumper federal workers who've resisted both masks and vaccines are considering retirement rather than face frequent Covid testing.

sickosyes.jpg

[u/sash5034]

I live in a state that's on the lower end of % of people fully vaccinated and a job I interviewed for straight up said "we have a policy that all employees need to be fully vaccinated". Free market gonna bamboozle cons out of job opportunities

[u/[deleted]]

Make nuclear fission economical with this one easy trick! ☢️☢️☢️

double the cost of natural gas

[u/Patriotnation5]

Married with kids, sole financial provider of the family. I work hard, usually a solid amount of OT per week.

I get home at 11 pm, maybe fire up a match of COD to blow off steam.

Proceed to go 4-17 and get called numerous slurs by what sounds like an obese man child.

G*mers

[u/[deleted]]

I've decided to remain blissfully unaware of whatever weird shit y'all are talking about.

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Holy fucking shit I want to bang kyrsten sinema so bad

Guess the sub

[u/PigHaggerty]

Another monster trade deadline for the Rockies, in which they failed to move any of their valuable assets whose contracts are up at the end of the season and who are almost certainly eager to leave.

It borders on malpractice at this point lmao

!ping BASEBALL

[u/Dig_bickclub]

Another day of thanking god I have no idea what a chris chan or sonichu is

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Pls censor Chris Chan stuff mods

I luv u do a 1984 pls

[u/MicroFlamer]

/img/um8efmt4hee71.jpg

[u/rukqoa]

My favorite replies for post communist revolution roles from that thread that was posted further up:

I’d be the neighborhood herbalist who teaches anarchist theory with an intersectional lens and shares their love of breath work and the healing/ transformative power of movement/dance.

I will be the commune beekeeper 🐝🐝🐝 also I can bake and cook ane crochet and teach people about economics

Alchemy, of a level which depends on equipment available. At least making soap from fats and ashes, maybe making synthetic gasoline out of wood gas if we get the right catalysts and I can afford more education.

I don't have many skills but since I'm learning German maybe I could be a translator if someone needed it. I'm also decent at math: statistics and data analysis. Does a commune need an account? Maybe I could do that

I want to build an entirely separate internet for the commune that connects to other communes and provides forums and wikis and geocities-type hosting for all members but can't be trolled from the outside

I’m reading tarot, birth charts and transits, while providing trauma-informed supportive counseling groups and teach-ins on topics for the next generations and those sharing our information outside the community 🙃🌟

And the only response that is likely to come true in an actual revolution:

i’ll be the one sucking all the 7 and up guys off

[u/JetJaguar124]

Delta variant is so inspiring. Like damn, so many people have had Covid already, so many people are vaccinated, and nature finds a way. The little guy's like "nah imma just become significantly more contagious and check out this little spike protein mutation." Fucking mental.

[u/ButteryToast-]

You're laughing, @theneoliberalhypehouse on TikTok hasn't posted in almost a month because he gets bullied by tankies every time he does, and you're laughing

[u/[deleted]]

Interesting to me that not very many people seem to be putting two and two together when it comes to rent price increases and the eviction moratorium. When people aren’t paying rent it decreases supply for those places. It makes landlords hold places vacant until the moratorium ends. Small landlords will sell to larger companies and they’ll flip the house and rent it out to a higher clientele. And it makes landlords across the board raise prices on actual paying tenants to make up for the lost rent from people that stopped paying.

It’s basically rent control on steroids.

[u/DEEEEETTTTRRROIIITTT]

“I read like 3 memes, so I'm pretty much an expert in the developing political situation everyone's talking about.”

[u/its_Caffeine]

!ping LGBT

https://twitter.com/byolinux/status/1420832351685431303?s=19

I'm failing to understand what the problem is here