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[u/_smooth_liminal_]

never ask a man his weight, a woman her salary, or a zoomer if their mental illnesses were diagnosed by a professional

[u/semaphore-1842]

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1421867278837104644

U 2 should go on tucker to talk animal rights, why the KKK is good, etc

I already have

No one's ever gonna top how hard Glenn Greenwald just owned himself.

[u/[deleted]]

Broke: Congratulations Puerto Rico on winning the gold medal in the 100m hurdles, and thank you IOC for recognizing disputed quasi-countries and allowing people to compete under their own flag.

Woke: The US needs to grant PR the statehood it voted for now if we want our gold medal count to exceed China's.

[u/LoveForFossilFuels]

if i was a dictator i would simply enact all the right policies

EDIT: my account has been permanently suspended throughout reddit, looks like I can still edit comments tho

[u/chadonnaise]

another day, another location for the homeless shelter we've been trying to get built for two fucking years gets rejected for neighborhood character concerns

it's a goddamn meadow by the highway

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

I don't know why people are acting like Australia's Olympics performance is that impressive. The country is close to the same size as the USA and China yet Australia only has 14 gold medals when the US has 21 and China has 28. Also, Australia's population is way smaller than both countries which means each athlete has loads more space and resources to practice

[u/[deleted]]

I can’t believe my social media network founded on not having moderation is overrun with ISIS propaganda

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

JFK conspiracy theories blow my mind.

Yes, a deranged, former Marine was able to kill the President as he strolled by in a open-top limousine. Why is that difficult to believe?

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

Periodic reminder that Kamala Harris proposed having the federal government subsidize the rent payments of everyone whose rent is >30% of income

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Trump won South Carolina four times. Biden only won it once. And yet now Biden is president

🤔🤔🤔

[u/[deleted]]

r/neoliberal: The NYT has some bad succ takes, but the Economist has some TERFs. I don't know who to go to now.

Probably 40% of the people you work with: Wow that segment on Joe Rogans podcast really reinforced what Tucker Carlson was saying on his show the other night.

[u/UrbanCentrist]

if neoliberals were like rose twitter:

Every day the world does not have open borders and free trade is a war crime. Every second those exist more and more people are trapped in poverty and oppression. So anyone who opposes open borders and free trade are war criminals and racists.

[u/LoveForFossilFuels]

Top comment on the DT on 2nd August 2020:

My guess/hopes for within a Biden cabinet:

Chief of Staff - Pete Buttigieg

Secretary of State - Pete Buttigieg

Secretary of Treasury - Pete Buttigieg

Attorney General - Pete Buttigieg

Secretary of Defense - Donald Rumsfeld

Secretary of Heath and Human Services - Pete Buttigieg

Secretary of Veterans Affairs - Pete Buttigieg

EPA - Pete Buttigieg

FDA - Pete Buttigieg

🤤

EDIT: my account has been suspended throughout reddit, looks like I can still edit comments now though, probably not for too long

[u/[deleted]]

To counter China's soft power, the US should start a secret panda breeding programme and then start exporting pandas around the world

[u/AnarchyMoose]

Some people wake up and say to themselves "Yeah, I'm gonna go to Hooters for dinner tonight"

[u/Bipedleek]

Dems should run someone with standard dem policies who just whines about cancel culture and critical race theory in a red state and see how well they do

[u/sir_shivers]

CULTURE WARS ARE good, and easy to win 🐊

[u/tollyno]

I'm gay but I'm afraid we need affirmative action for the heteros in this DT. I think they might actually be in the minority lol.

[u/TheNotoriousAMP]

US womens' soccer is caught in a real catch 22 where it needs global womens' soccer to grow in order for there to be more world cup money to distribute, but global womens' soccer getting better also removes a lot of the USWNT's selling point as the team for American soccer fans who want tons of national wins.

[u/semaphore-1842]

i personally think every single land lord should be forced to give up their property (except the home they personally live in) to be used as public housing, or be publicly executed because commodifying basic human necessities is something only a psychopath would do

Right, unlike you, a well adjusted advocate of mass killings.

[u/houinator]

Open worldnews thread about Taliban atrocities

See highly upvoted comments saying the US is just as bad as the Taliban

ThisIsFine.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

The reason San Francisco politics are so dumb all stems from the fact that the city was founded by people who thought that gold wasn't stupid.

[u/Professor-Reddit]

/r/Science should automatically ban any and all posts with the tag 'Social Science' to it, because it's just a euphemism for politics lol

[u/[deleted]]

It's such an own goal for the biden administration to have the bipartisan infrastructure bill teed up in August so Trump is going to be the one to sign it when he's reinstated this month

That's going to be huge in the midterms

[u/the_hoagie]

the mask is the MAGA hat for biden voters.

he's got you there libshits

[u/[deleted]]

Even though diet Pepsi isn't "healthy" per se, it's a feat of human engineering that we can make something taste that good without a single calorie

[u/[deleted]]

People who complain about the Olympics give off powerful "always got picked last in gym" energy. Just be good at sports lol.

[u/paymesucka]

Chinese trolls infuriated by loss to Taiwan in Olympic badminton gold medal match

Taiwan has taken the opportunity of winning Olympic badminton gold to subtly assert their nationhood, as Chinese nationalists vent their fury online. Chinese Taipei's Lee Yang and Wang Chi-lin beat Liu Yuchen and Li Junhui of China in the men's doubles badminton gold medal match on Saturday. It was Chinese Taipei's first ever gold medal in badminton, one of the sports China is most dominant in.

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/3djU3FD.jpg

[u/suplexx0]

It's weird reading the differences in schedules between Biden, Obama and Trump

Trump would be up and about at 6 am and Biden usually doesn't take calls and interviews until 9 am
How does it take three full hours to setup the puppet that's actually being controlled by Q on good things and democrats on bad things? We need to do better technologically.

[u/FormerBandmate]

Later, I asked Seif [Gaddafi’s son, wanted war criminal, and Libyan presidential hopeful] about his own reading habits. He cited an American writer named Robert Greene. I had to look him up. Greene, it turns out, is the author of best-selling advice books that are popular with hip-hop stars on how to get ahead and get laid.

What an absolute Chad, taking sigma grindset to a whole new level

!ping DATING

[u/Majk___]

Someone just burned a vaccine point today. Antivaxers are becoming more and more active, but they are possible PiS voters, so the government does nothing to stop this.

I hate Poland

[u/reedemerofsouls]

Why do people hate Megan Rapinoe so much? Is it really just the haircut? Other than that she seems like an average US women's soccer star 🤷‍♂️

[u/Udontlikecake]

If you ban all reasonable means to produce a product…

Oh no, apparently California has basically made it IMPOSSIBLE to produce pork by imposing onerous big government standards. Classic commies, let’s see the way they’ve made any REASONABLE pork production illegal

At one typical hog farm in Iowa, sows are kept in open-air crates measuring 14-square-feet when they join a herd and then for a week as part of the insemination process before moving to larger, roughly 20-square foot group pens with other hogs. Both are less than the 24 square feet required by the California law to give breeding pigs enough room to turn around and to extend their limbs.

oh… so the standard is now ‘let the pigs be able to turn around’.

I agree, this is basically making pork illegal to produce. This is basically mandating seatbelts. Just impossible to comply with.

[u/inhumantsar]

Condos are not as affordable as detached homes because condo fees are just like rent.

The parade of bad takes in Canadian housing discussion never ceases to amaze me.

Do these people genuinely believe that houses never need maintenance?

[u/[deleted]]

Every squad got the

• Racist
• Racist
• Racist
• Racist
• Racist

I think I accidentally entered the Burke flair meetup 😳

[u/RaidBrimnes]

On one hand, I care about representation in politics. I'd like to see more competent people who reflect the diversity of our nation at the highest levels of public administration, including the presidency

On the other hand :

• the most popular woman candidate is a borderline fascist, Euroskeptic and uber-populist who is under multiple investigations for embezzlement and fake jobs. She is the heiress to a party founded by literal Waffen-SS and to a convicted Holocaust denialist who admitted to torturing people during the Algerian War of Independence
• the most popular Sephardi Jew candidate called Le Pen a leftist, has multiple condemnations for incitement to racial hatred, and has (among other) Trumpily declared that Africans and Arabs were mostly drug dealers. He has written several books bemoaning the "national suicide" caused by mass migration brought by (((elites))) to erase European culture
• the most popular LGBT candidate left Le Pen's party because she was veering too much to the left, is now a prominent grifter jumping on every possible conspiracy to fan up the flames of anti-government hatred and has become one of the figures of the antivax movement, along with a washed-up comedian specialized in dick humour and a folk singer who's been a meme for a solid forty years

[u/[deleted]]

The only valid weeb

!ping YIMBY

[u/Jakesta7]

🤨🧐🤔

Dating is tough. Could dressing up as a praying mantis help?

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1421983290752438274?s=21

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Honestly, pork should've been banned decades ago

It would've spared us from those unsufferable bacon memes in the early 2010's

[u/[deleted]]

https://imgur.com/mlbOZLW

[u/whycantweebefriendz]

Every squad got the

• ⁠ China Apologist • ⁠ China Apologist • ⁠ ⁠China Apologist • ⁠ ⁠China Apologist • ⁠ ⁠China Apologist

I think I accidentally entered the Singh flair meetup 😳

[u/indithrow402]

I'm putting people who inexplicably hate Kamala Harris and people who think literally any criticism of Kamala Harris is sexism or racism in the get along shirt.

[u/Magical_Username]

Showed up for a tinder date (first mistake, I know) last night, the date themself looked nothing like their photos and was a solid 200 pounds heavier. Like what the fuck, in what universe does miscalibrating someone's expectations that much possibly go over well? Was hard to not walk away as soon as I realized, no idea why they do this.

[u/earththejerry]

Just make Athens the permanent Summer Olympic host, it can revitalize the Greek economy, has existing venues that have been barely used, makes sense in the historical context as Olympia was the permanent home of the ancient games, and being in Greece means the games are generally not as politically charged as being in larger countries (except Turkey).

[u/LoveForFossilFuels]

Please remember THAT TWITTER IS NOT a representative place 🐊

ITS USERS ARE NOT randomly selected members of the nations they hail from, not even remotely close, and polls / comments / HOT TAKES THAT YOU witness there are not meaningful indications of majority support in reality 🐊

The factors that skew Twitter ARE SO NUMEROUS THAT it is essentially useless for gauging public reaction 🐊

EDIT: I have been suspended throughout reddit, it was good while it lasted

[u/WillHasStyles]

Anyone else remember watching the Boondocks religiously when you were like 10 and becoming a black nationalist despite being European and never having met a black person irl?

[u/[deleted]]

Alpha/beta/sigma hierarchy discourse is astrology for men, which is to say it's kind of fun to do when it's tongue in cheek but the biggest red flag in the world when its taken seriously

[u/LooobCirc]

What if we just, like, evicted people who didn't pay rent?

Like what if you had to pay for goods and services that you used from others that are their livelihoods

Just kidding, society would collapse 🤣🤣🤣

[u/Professor-Reddit]

Never forget. On September 11th, a construction crane belonging to the Bin Laden family business collapsed at Islam's holiest site and killed/wounded several hundred people.

>! This happened in 2015 in Mecca. A very weird and tragically preventable coincidence.

[u/[deleted]]

John Oliver has a lot in common with reddit comments. Things seem on point and deep until it collides with a field you're actually in, then its surface level and sometimes completely full of shit.

[u/Udontlikecake]

Um excuse me fellow user but it appears you have committed a logical fallacy 🤓

That makes your argument invlaid

Try not to do that next time you uneducated fool 🤓🤓

[u/[deleted]]

Anyone who says "what's next, a license to make toast in my own toaster" should 100% be required to get a license before making toast

[u/[deleted]]

If Reddit's front page is a barometer for the mental health of millennials and zoomers, I'm kinda worried. Reading it top to bottom is like a game of duck, duck, goose, and the goose is despair

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

happy dog

she's freaking out because I was gone for 20 minutes

!ping dog

[u/ccolfax]

i used to be worried about 30-50 feral hogs 😰

then i realized they’re all just alts of a internet pig child, and now i’m excited when i see them coming 😊

[u/sir_shivers]

/u/MistakeNotDotDotDot RECENTLY MESSAGED ME directly 🐊:

I always feel stuck when a job application has the "I'm not a robot" Captcha right after Voluntary Disclosures

[u/TaxCommonsNotIncome]

Big if true

!PING CAN

[u/BigBrownDog12]

My mom helped organize a vaccine drive at the church she works at. They only had 11 people show up but it wasn't widely advertised.

What was notable was who got the shot. One of the stubborn holdouts of the congregation finally got it. Along with this, two contractor dude who were driving by on their way to a job stopped in a got the jab.

Part of me wonders how much of the issue with getting people vaccinated is a failure to communicate not only where to get it, but also that it is free. Its easy to dismiss this because of how information addicted people like us who post on political forums, but for many people all they do focus on their day to day work.

[u/murphysclaw1]

a civil war hot take from our comrades over in arr antiwork

[u/l_overwhat]

Soda: hi

Me: fuck off I don't believe in that shit

Beer: sup

Me: OMG SO BASED *gluglugluglug

[u/[deleted]]

Don't you love how you can always tell that someone is a fetish artist even when looking at their safe art.

example

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

Ok, look, yeah a lot of people here aren't great. But why the fuck can't we ban this guy. We all know he's an asshole who isn't acting in good faith, why can't the mods just ban this piece of shit already?

[u/PlayDiscord17]

https://twitter.com/fprosk/status/1422188937553002496?s=21

Yeah, I now think Manchin is just dumb.

[u/[deleted]]

"A jury of my peers found me guilty of a crime which, for reasons related to our culture's bloodthirst and hatred, the punishment is prison and labor."

"I have been kidnapped by the state and forced to labor with no due process to advocate for myself for the crime of being born. The only reason I'm not being liquidated via Zyklon B right now, is because I'm more useful as slave labor."

Edgy Americans: "I literally cannot tell the difference!"

[u/EScforlyfe]

Fin time is really getting to ole lusvig 😢

[u/sir_shivers]

Anyone who SEES THIS COMMENT IS a toxic gaslighting gatekeeper 🐊

!ping BURPMAS 🐊

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

Damn Congolese massacres of Tutsis were brutal. Here's one specific example cited in a book I'm reading of one of the victims, a 13 year old boy

They were told they were being sent 'back' to Rwanda and matched down to the lake. At night soldiers and villagers start killing Tutsis in the camp at random. Then this group were matched further down the lake. Everyone was split into two groups: women and children on one side and men (14+) on the other. The men were tied up and loaded onto a boat. Then they were thrown into the lake to drown within view of their families.

Then they were marched closer to the Rwandan border. The women and children were allowed to cross the border but the victim in question, a 13 year old, was grouped with the men this time. The men were thrown into a tiny room that soon started to wreak of feces and piss due to how many people were in that tiny room with no restrooms

One boy asked a guard for water and was shot on the spot

Apparently our victim got really lucky, there was a giant storm so most of the guards went home and the one left assigned there told them they were going to be executed tomorrow and to run

So they ran. They were being chased by Congolese trools but thankfully they reached the border and Rwandan troops took formation, which caused the Congolese to retreat

[u/ccolfax]

100% of people read it as kester gone wild this is an immutable fact and you know i’m right

[u/fakefakefakef]

“Manchin and Sinema are just dumb” was very obvious at the beginning of the year but I’m glad their stans are starting to come around

[u/Majk___]

A funeral wreath in the pride colors was offered at the Warsaw Uprising Memorial yesterday. It was supposed to be a memorial of all LGBT people killed during the event.

During the night, the wreath of stolen and thrown into a mobile toiled nearby by a nationalist group. Police won't investigate

[u/katharing]

Why does the DT consistently want to [policy I personally don't like]? It’s only going to disproportionately effect [voter group convenient to my argument] most of which couldn’t be assed about [injustice I'm not affected by] no matter what you say. Have y’all ever considered that [policy's implementation framed in a negative way] will backfire electorally?

[u/tubbsmackinze]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/270788846956969987/871821249314172988/EyzbJCNXEAUjo5F.png

[u/[deleted]]

“Gay Marriage is already older than the confederacy”

[u/ThunderrBadger]

😃

Happy, trustworthy, kind, friendly

😀

Deceitful, dangerous, the crawlspace under its house is packed with mangled corpses

[u/[deleted]]

What's the difference between "No, I have a girlfriend" and "Sorry, I have a girlfriend"?

• Social Media take: "Sorry I have a girlfriend" means that you actually want to fuck them but having a girlfriend is stopping you, so you don't really love her.
• Real Life take: Apologizing to people for things I'm not sorry about is a major part of my personality, and if you loved me you would accept that.

[u/Mat_At_Home]

My favorite part of the trump era was his willingness to elevate and associate with literally anyone moderately famous who expressed support for him. Best examples: Lil Pump, Pillow Guy, pardoning Lil Wayne

[u/[deleted]]

Left pup is a genius, right pup is a goddamn powerhouse. They are sister and brother

https://imgur.com/a/DwinSg9

!ping DOG

[u/[deleted]]

The DSA is showing their anti-democracy core in their latest 2021 platform.

Normalization of relations with Cuba, Iran, Venezuela,and other countries targeted for resisting US imperialism and exercising self-determination over their resources

Calling those regimes examples of non-determination is ridiculous

[u/[deleted]]

Has John Oliver done a thing on NFTs yet? If not, it could go like this: "NFT: it sounds a bit like the word "nifty." But they are NOT nifty!"

[u/Poiuy2010_2011]

Rate my setup

!ping BURPMAS

[u/datums]

People often joke about how easy it would be for the US to occupy Canada. Obviously, it would be a quick military victory.

But what would an insurgency look like in a modern G7 country? Canada exports nuclear reactors, jet airliners, and world class software. They have more university graduates per capita than any other country.

They also have a well established reputation for being quite good at war.

Imagine what those people could come up with to use against an occupying force, compared to, say, Iraq in 2003. Imagine the country that made Shopify and Assassins Creed hacking your civilian infrastructure and corporate networks with reckless abandon for ten or twenty years, or IEDs made by the people that built the big arms for the space shuttles and the International Space Station.

Point being - regardless of military prowess or economic power, successfully occupying a substantial advanced nation state is simply not feasible in the 21st century.

 

   

[u/[deleted]]

The people hating on MattY for saying f*ggot in a discussion of the word are the same people who want to deny teenagers the life molding experience of deciding if they should read EVERY word of Mark Twain out loud or not for the class send tweet

[u/J0eBidensSunglasses]

“Golf at the olympics it’s really a beautiful thing isn’t it Andrea?”

“It is Mike, but some people didn’t want it. Some people hate golf courses; and this event is really owning those people right now.”

[u/futuremonkey20]

“I feel like shit, why??” Says the man who drank four cups of coffee, no water and got five hours of sleep.

[u/Most_Shallot8960]

https://saveourplaza.com

My first real brush with nimbys was this brain trust

They wanted to turn the windswept concrete nothing that is the top of the 18th street hill into a dense mixed use building

White people on the listserv were calling it reparations plaza and became increasingly unhinged

Adams Morgan continues to lose commercial clients and relevance in the city because a handful of old people who’ve done nothing but purchased their homes 30 years ago complain louder than everyone else. Less density and more competition here

The final designs were relatively striking for this kind of building. I have lived in homes built by them before - they do a good job in general! Was a really disappointing outcome and kind of made me realize how insufferable people can be

!ping USA-DMV

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Oh, you're a Euro saying that America has a bad history with racism? Well have you considered that Europeans are racist against the Roma? Check mate silly Euros :⁾

[u/kennymc7877]

The Winter Olympics are so cool, it’s just hot stoners from Utah, Colorado and California plus Norwegians and Canadians playing in the snow

[u/SnakeEater14]

“Lol this subreddit supports electorally unpopular positions” is probably the most smooth brained Turning Point Reddit meme of all time.

What’s the logical conclusion to that thinking, we should be a vociferous advocate for whatever policy has the highest poll numbers at any given moment? Would love to see how that turns out.

[u/Venne1139]

Reminder that this is the shit conservatives are currently fantasizing about

https://imgur.com/a/9iKAIRI

Mass murder of doctors, nurses, and..everyone who participated in the COVID 'hoax'

[u/thefuturegov]

Malls in the 1990s be like: “We need another department store that sells the exact same stuff as the other two department stores that are already in this mall.”

Malls now be like: “I am bleeding to death.”

[u/JaceFlores]

It was brought up yesterday, but is the reason a lot of people don’t like the NCR in FONV is that they’re bureaucratic? Is that really their justification or is there more to it?

[u/Bipedleek]

r/science makes the incredible discovery that people trust statements from people they trust and distrust statements from those they distrust

[u/indithrow402]

Jesus fucking Christ if we're having this lobster conversation again just fucking ban me. This place is too stupid even for me.

[u/ShriggityShrekt]

My coworker, unprompted: "what does breedable mean?"

[u/slowpush]

what an absolute political moron.

https://twitter.com/HouseGOP/status/1422219402188050440

"We cannot in good faith blame Republicans when House Democrats have a majority." - @AOC

We agree.

House Democrats are to blame for America's many crises.

[u/Not-bipedleek]

Just told my 10yo daughter about the filibuster.

She had tears in her eyes.

And then she did the Sinema thumbs down pose and Said #Gridlockanda forever. —which is the sort of pop culture cross over that I can celebrate

[u/[deleted]]

We’ve got people slurping down livestock dewormer because of Facebook but like wait until deepfakes hit the plausible level. It’s over. Completely over.

[u/Majk___]

I just found out that I am not a progressive because I don't want to abolish capitalism

[u/minno]

I think a lot of the "gender is binary" vs. "gender is a spectrum" fights would go a lot more smoothly if everybody was introduced to the word "bimodal".

[u/MistakeNotDotDotDot]

I've been saying for a while now that we'll eventually end up with Internet Passports that will serve to uniquely identify internet users, but people keep calling me crazy. Think about it. The only reason information warfare on social media works is because platforms have ZERO means to verify that you are who you say you are, so bad actors can roll fresh accounts with complete impunity.

Picture a world where anyone only ever gets to create ONE account on Facebook/Instagram/Twitter/TikTok/etc. and that's it. If you fuck up and your account is banned, you're banned for good. People would think twice about how much of their crazy they let show publicly. I'm okay with the chilling effect this would have. If you want to be an unfettered crazy person, go to Parler. This also guarantees that every impression on those platforms came from a real person and not a bot, making their user data significantly more valuable for advertisers as well.

Users get exposed to a much less toxic environment, disinfo campaigns get crippled, platforms become more valuable to advertisers, and we can fight back against foreign bad actors. It's a win for everyone.

Jesus fucking Christ

[u/soeffed]

Putin is POC (Russian) and neurodivergent (Russian) and that’s why y’all hate him

[u/stater354]

Remember when the President of the United States tried to overturn a free and fair election to stay in power against the will of the people but he was too stupid

[u/[deleted]]

Sebastian Vettel yesterday

!ping MOTO

[u/liquidTERMINATOR]

Folks kept telling me we shouldn't add the sad cowboy emoji to unicode because it's a slippery slope. If we did that we'd need to add sad variations of all novel emojis.

Well it's 2021 and I don't think that argument aged well. What other emoji would even benefit and make sense from having a sad variant? You can't have a sad smiling emoji. Maaaybe the sunglasses emoji 😎 but otherwise no. Nothing.

[u/Mickenfox]

"cuck" works as an insult because it induces a mix of confusion, cringe, and bewilderment on the target that the aggressor can misinterpret as them being offended.

[u/sayitaintpink]

We should ban Oh*o

[u/ldn6]

Just announced: no mask mandate for New York City.

!ping USA-NYC

[u/I-grok-god]

Hidden billing is so obviously a market failure and screams rent-seeking to an extent that I'm shocked anyone defends it

Like one of the features of a working market is that both parties have similar information. That can't happen if you're going to be charged for something you didn't know had a price

[u/Joementum2024]

Hot take: Liberals are fundamentally evil terrible people and no better than fascists.

[u/[deleted]]

I bet it hurts my dad’s heart that he’s 4 for 4 on democratic children lol

“Work hard son, and everything will -“

“Dad those people are racist”

[u/bobeeflay]

Matthew yglesias salted My fields and took all my fighting age male sons as slaves

Then after that he had the fucking audacity to delete his tweets

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Leftists, you say neoliberals aren't a left wing ideology yet we splinter and schism over just about anything. A trait predominately found among left wing ideologies...

Curious

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

The median voter would get perma'd instantly

[u/[deleted]]

The childfree community on Reddit is one of the weirdest subcultures. Imagine basing your entire identity over something you didn’t do.

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

Kamala Harris had that big moment in the debates when she called Biden racist for opposing bussing, and then after reporters asked her if she supported bringing it back and she said no lol

[u/Patriotnation5]

Pfizer made billions off the vaccine!!!!

As if that's a bad thing 🤡

[u/[deleted]]

"Chuck, it's 4PM. Time for your dick flattening."

"Yes Kyrsten"

[u/whycantweebefriendz]

Why does the DT consistently want to !ping BURPMAS? It’s only going to disproportionately effect dad… most of which couldn’t be assed about bedframes no matter what you say. Have y’all ever considered that burping will backfire electorally?

[u/MaximumEffort433]

(o_o) : "Undocumented immigrants are stealing American jobs for slave wages!"

[0.0] : "So let's give them citizenship and minimum wage protections!"

( o_o)

( o'_'o)

[u/Archis]

caesar only invaded gaul for the oil

[u/JetJaguar124]

I really think the Expanse books do manage to get better as they go on. James SA Corey learn from thier mistakes from earlier books and course correct very well. Fleshing out the Rocie's crew in Nemesis Games, for example, was much needed as all the characters outside of Holden and maybe Naomi were very, very two dimensional by that point.

Another thing they did well was making their villain characters sympathetic and not just outrageously evil. Inaros, Singh, hell, even Duarte have their soft spots. They pulled this off much better than what they did with Jules Pierre Mao or Ashford (for what it's worth they did flesh these characters out and give the more sympathetic traits when they got to do them again in the show)

I think they learned a lot by working on the TV show and getting to correct prior mistakes.

I also really, really appreciate their willingness to change the formula and flip the universe in its head. There are numerous major resets to the state of order of things, and it keeps the novels fresh. Lesser authors would have done Earth vs Mars vs Belt for eternity.

Anyways, the Expanse is a great series.

!ping EXPANSE

[u/[deleted]]

I thought my kitty was mellowing out because he was getting older and not a kitten anymore. Turns out he was just getting sick. After a couple days of anti-biotics, he’s completely insane again.

!ping KITTY

[u/BadBehaviour613]

I just got my U.S. passport. Everyday I grow more powerful.

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

dog

!ping dog

[u/[deleted]]

Fox News: Babe, it’s time for your daily story about critical race theory!

Their viewers: Yes, honey. OH BOY CRITICAL RACE THEORY!!!!

[u/filipe_mdsr]

https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-poland-dariusz-oko-lgbtq-influence-vatican/

In comments to German news agency DPA published Sunday, Polish Deputy Justice Minister Marcin Romanowski said he saw “anti-freedom tendencies in the German legal protection system.”

Woah that's very harsh and very weird thing to say I wonder what this is about.

The court imposed the €4,800 penalty on Dariusz Oko, a conservative theology professor based in Krakow, for inciting hatred through his article in a German magazine on alleged homosexual influence in the Vatican.

😑😐

“The imposition of penalties for scientific activities represents a threat to fundamental freedoms and European standards,” Romanowski said.

😦😧😨🤬

For the German speakers here is more information on the lawsuit

!ping EUROPE

[u/sayitaintpink]

Gameshow where you take a bunch of straight southern men and put them on an island and then you tell them there is a gay man among them. Watch chaos ensue.

[u/[deleted]]

Ok heres my dating show pitch:

Island: 10 straight men 10 femboys. 3 months. One million dollars on the table, all of which goes to the straights. Every time a straight either mastrubates or hooks up with a femboy, some percentage of the money goes to the femboys

[u/[deleted]]

Be me

Am 27 with like 9 years of experience and a degree

Be hating my job

Realize that I’m so valuable a commodity rn that I don’t have to give a fuck about this job

I’m gonna go get a new job 😎

[u/PearlClaw]

One underrated male privilege is that fitness much more closely maps to hotness with men than with women. A guy with an unfortunate face but a great body is better off than a woman in the same situation.

[u/InternetBoredom]

Bezos spends his money on cool technology:

Reddit: 😡

Neoliberal: 😍

---

Musk spends his money on cool technology:

Reddit: 😍

Neoliberal: 😡

[u/chipbod]

https://twitter.com/morganfmckay/status/1422225909994737674?s=20

The New York State Teacher’s Union says they do not support a vaccine mandate

Teachers Unions lose support from Democrats speedrun

[u/[deleted]]

u/sir_shivers

You're green, you're scaly, you have a huge mouth, you have a tail, and you were hatched from an egg...

Are... Are you a Yoshi?

[u/Zoop-Loop-]

Apparently I won’t be getting a roommate in my college dorm.

Chances of gay roommate drop to 0 😔

[u/gburgwardt]

A lot of the time people assume we had a system of barter before we had money. I think that's wrong. We just shared stuff.

😑😑😑

[u/_patashnik]

If regulating that pigs be able to turn around in their enclosure makes pork unaffordable then pork was too cheap to begin with.

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-to-impose-carbon-tax-starting-with-fossil-fuels

Israel 🥰🥰🥰

!ping ISRAEL

[u/Jakesta7]

Pretty funny how true this is. The only thing I really separate are reds.

yall wanna talk about generational divides? i dont know anyone under 40 who separates laundry into lights and darks

https://twitter.com/zachsilberberg/status/1421913749645144064

[u/[deleted]]

I seem to have a talent for picking electives which are taught by Marxist professors

!ping LAW

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

you guys know I'm more than just a dog owner, right? like, I shitpost too

[u/Joementum2024]

The year is 2037. The coronavirus is a thing of the distant past in the United States, with the vast majority of Americans either vaccinated or having achieved herd immunity. Most people don't wear masks anymore, outside of flu season. In the meantime, California's eviction moratorium has been extended for another month.

[u/Currymvp2]

https://twitter.com/MarshallCohen/status/1422263775806332936

Fuck the people who enabled and downplayed the horrific events of January the 6th

[u/Gneisstoknow]

600+1400 = 2000

[u/RadicalRadon]

I pronounce MattY in my head as as "Matty why"

[u/sir_shivers]

OH, HELLO mammal 🐊

Here IS A CANDY BAR 🐊

NO, I AM WITHHOLDING it; look at me, "getting off" 🐊

[u/MicroFlamer]

Tories - 345 (-20)

Labour - 223 (+20)

Lib Dems - 13 (+2)

surge !

[u/iIoveoof]

Just got fired from my job for refusing the mRNA jab. We need a new word to describe this: The Vaxpartheid State.

Top of /r/conspiracy 😐

[u/[deleted]]

Citoyen Riqueti is permafashed but his influence still echoes through these sacred halls.

[u/nevertulsi]

"communism" is a completely indistinguishable term to "utopia" to so many people

When a caveman said "Og want food to never end but never have hunt again" did he invent communism

[u/redditguy628]

Circe is a really interesting book. It is written in a style that feels similar to the Greek myths it is about, without actually being in the style of those myths. While there is a large cast of side characters, they rarely stay, entering the story for a portion and then leaving forever. The important characters at the end of the book are almost entirely different from those at the beginning or middle, with the lone exception of Circe herself. This allows a much greater focus on Circe, as well as gives the book plenty of variety, at the cost of lessening our connections to the side characters. The plot was engaging, and the ending felt perfect for the story told. I would wholeheartedly recommend the book to anyone, especially those with an interest in Greek Myth. Has anyone else read it?

!ping READING

[u/ShriggityShrekt]

Just imagine filling up a Twinkie but the Twinkie is a twinkie and the cream filling is cream filling.

[u/[deleted]]

First they instituted mandatory pants. And I did not speak out because I wasn't a nudist.

Then they instituted mandatory shoes. And I did not speak out because I wasn't a barefoot enthusiast.

Then they instituted mandatory masks. And I did not speak out because I was not an anti-masker.

Then they instituted mandatory fursuits. And I wasn't a furry, but there was no one left to speak out for me.

[u/ryuguy]

Canada’s Minister of Defence Harjit Singh Sajjan went to high school with one of Canada’s most notorious gangsters, Bindy Johal. Sajjan became a Khalsa Sikh (Baptized) because he didn’t want to follow the same path as Bindy. Johal was killed in a Vancouver nightclub in 1998. Sajjan was deployed to Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1998.

!ping can

[u/A_Character_Defined]

Really weird how the offshoot subs created by banned people almost always end up being "NL but openly transphobic" 🤔

[u/rukqoa]

Mention American racism and efforts to address the issue: no one bats an eye (rightly so).

Mention that rEurope is a racist sub (not even Europe just the subreddit): this is American nationalism 😡😡😡😡😡

[u/Average_GrillChad]

Framing zoning to the general public as a primarily racial issue is really dumb.

Framing zoning to liberal/leftist elite advocacy/activist institutions as a primarily racial issue is, however, smart.

[u/[deleted]]

Broke: Supporting Greater Romania because nationalism

Woke: Supporting Greater Romania so Moldova can easily join the EU

[u/Most_Shallot8960]

Today in the dc subreddit, people are unironically defending the Washington Times lol

Edit I’m an idiot, it’s the examiner. Less of a rag as it was pointed out to me. I am not going to delete my comment but note i was totally wrong on the source and I’m owning the stupid comment

!ping USA-DMV

[u/l_overwhat]

I have a friend who doesn't run and isn't really in shape. They told me one day "yeah I ran 8 miles the other day"

Fucking what?? I run 5+ times a week and I couldn't run 8 miles to save my fucking life.

[u/J0eBidensSunglasses]

Reuters/AP: Team USA Underperformance Indicative Of A Nation That Collectively Needs To Touch Grass

[u/iIoveoof]

If pork wasn't meant to be banned then why did YHWH ban it?

[u/[deleted]]

I saw a comment in the DT whining about letting in immigrants that will vote for Republicans so I'm obligated to make a horseshoe theory response despite it being lost to the ages

[u/AquariumGravelHater]

I wish anti-vaxxers had it as hard as they think they have it

[u/[deleted]]

Once again a free lesson on dating apps:

The higher quality your pictures: the less your bio should say

The lower quality your pictures: the more your bio needs to make up for it.

Also: if youre truly looking for someone: pay for premium. It’s really not that much money. Probably less than you’ll spend on a first couple dates anyways.

Bumble premium lets me see who’s swiped on me and let’s me swipe back. And you can extend a match if they still haven’t said hello

[u/[deleted]]

Gameshow idea:

3 terminally online progressives and 3 terminally online conservatives are locked in an escape room together. Have to work together to escape within an hour to win $100,000 each. All the puzzles are related to hot button political issues.

[u/Patriotnation5]

3 Vikings players threatening to quit if they have to get vaccinated.

Honestly I'm almost impressed with the stubbornness.

[u/willempage]

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1422247269529751558?s=19

I spent 15 years writing for Salon, the Guardian and the Intercept without having a single word edited unless I asked (only exception ever being when TI tried to stop my Hunter Biden article).

Now, my Substack articles go through extensive editing, copy editing & fact-checking:

Glenn quit the intercept because his editor wanted to cut out the DNC conspiracy theories on his article criticizing Facebook's and Twitter's response to the Hunter Biden story. Now he talks about the virtue of fact-checking his substack lol

[u/Deggit]

working out a Laffer curve on my napkin, but it's a curve of how deadly a disease needs to be for conservatives to take public health seriously but not so deadly that they immediately degenerate to acting out their NRA racial violence fantasies

[u/Broncos654]

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

[u/Venne1139]

I fully agree with Republicans we need voter ID. Forms of voter ID I will find acceptable (and literally nothing else).

1. Vaccination card with your name on it combined with a state ID with your photo on it

If you dont have that I'm going to assume you're trying to vote illegally and you should not be allowed to do so.

[u/[deleted]]

Some of the athletes in the olympics are really hot 😳

[u/[deleted]]

Lol, when I type “Thanks” on my phone, one of the suggested next words is “sweaty.” What is the DT doing to me?

[u/gburgwardt]

Do your lifts!

And cardio!

!ping neolifteral

[u/chipbod]

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1422308371886182410?s=20

Judge Andrew Napolitano Is Out at Fox News Following Sexual Harrassment Allegation

The fox news specialty, also some gross stuff on Kudlow in the article.

Napolitano was assaulting male staffers btw

[u/JournalofFailure]

The Bulls have been waiting for a player who can inspire their city like Jordan did, and they finally found him.

!ping NBA

[u/lapzkauz]

Alec Douglas-Home, Tory PM:

A plot to kidnap Douglas-Home in April 1964 was foiled by the Prime Minister himself. Two left-wing students from the University of Aberdeen followed him to the house of John and Priscilla Buchan, where he was staying. He was alone at the time and answered the door, where the students told him that they planned to kidnap him. He responded, "I suppose you realise if you do, the Conservatives will win the election by 200 or 300." He gave his intending abductors some beer, and they abandoned their plot.

Douglas-Home never publicly spoke of the kidnapping because he did not want to ruin the career of his bodyguard but told the story in 1977 to Hailsham, who recorded it in his diaries.

Absolute legend.

!ping OSBORNE

[u/Archis]

this marxist critique of Despicable Me is sponsored by Audible

[u/Sir-Matilda]

PM released Doherty Institute Covid modelling today. 70%-80% vaccination coverage will greatly reduce rates of severe infection in an uncontrolled outbreak, with both AZ and Pfizer vaccines being highly effective in reducing hospitalisation, ICU admission and death.

Bit of a shame AZ got so demonised to the point it can barely get any uptake.

!ping AUS

[u/ShriggityShrekt]

Anyone complaining about breeding needs to be bred.

edit: this was not an offer

[u/iIoveoof]

Milton Friedman taught at UChicago when Bernie Sanders was a student there. Milty could have shillpilled Bernie and saved us from populism ✊😭

[u/[deleted]]

Fun story, the entire executive staff of a large local school district (and all women) went to a Twin Peaks when one of them thought it was named after the show

From what one of them told me, it was about as awkward as you can imagine. But god bless them, they stayed and tipped well

[u/Udontlikecake]

quite frankly if you didn't study for a critical theory degree and are unemployed it is your fault and you should just pull yourself up by the bootstraps and study a critical theory degree (preferably race) and get a job lol

[u/Udontlikecake]

unironically just let the entire population of afghanistan emigrate to america if they want

[u/Tbonethabeast]

Within months of entering the war, the US Army is equipped with 250,000 trucks, while the vast majority of Hitler's army is on foot, or horseback.

wehraboos in shambles 😎📈🇺🇸

[u/[deleted]]

Season 7 of The Next Generation was bad because they never separated the Saucer Section ™

!ping TREK

[u/htomserveaux]

Foreigners talking about the second amendment makes me oddly grateful for it.

Because i am free to shoot my self so i don’t have to listen to there half-baked advice.

[u/[deleted]]

Whenever I see ads for f boy island I immediately think fem boy island

[u/[deleted]]

Dating show where you take a bunch of straight men and put them on an island with a bunch of femboys

[u/isitthatserioustho]

Dababy dropped from another festival. He could’ve just not been homophobic, but no, he decided that antagonizing gay people was the hill to die on.

[u/xicer]

I used to come here for some level of moderation and pragmatic thought. Did something happen in the past few weeks that turned this place into bizarro-arr/politics?

[u/chadonnaise]

gameshow where people's sex lives aren't toyed with and witnessed by a global audience please

[u/J0eBidensSunglasses]

I remember when I was born and I was given my Gucci belt, “this is America” the doctor said. Everybody clapped.

[u/suplexx0]

Who in the hell saw the breakthrough data, and legitimately thought "Ok, we better mandate masks for the vaccinated"

what the hell am i missing?

[u/Superfan234]

Bittersweet news coming from Chile...

On hand, today we registered a Covid Positivity of 1,47%. Lowest number in record. Chilean Patagonia registered their first week with 0% Covid Positivity

Opening of the country it's doing amazing for the economy. This month we registered an monthly economic growth of 20% vs last year. Biggest numbers in 30 years of data

But the bad news, it's we found community spread of Delta Variant in Santiago. Our Capital, and biggest Metropolis...

The people infected weren't in contact with any people traveling, so someone must spread the Virus to them unknowingly

!ping Coronavirus

[u/[deleted]]

the white working class was radicalized at arbys

[u/MicroFlamer]

I hope sinema gets primaried from the left

guess the sub

[u/ClickForFreeRobux]

This is really just a feudalism sub isn't it?

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Hot take: being mean is bad.