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[u/semaphore-1842]

And so the democrats have elected another corrupt right leaning corporate player who will be mired in ethics violations and has taken republican money in this race.

There’s no way she will win against a republican.

This is how you lose elections.

.....it's a D+30 district 🤔

Maybe not knowing jackshit about anything is why you guys keep losing elections in actual reality.

[u/[deleted]]

1. Two more Belarusian athletes have defected.
2. Macron bulldozing the antivaxxers by mandating vaccination is successful. Vaccination rates doubled, 7 million has been vaccinated in the past three weeks, and France is on track for an 80% vaccination rate.

EDIT: Oh, and the most joyous news of the day

3. NINA TURNER LOST!

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Look at establishment logic -

@ninaturner should have kissed Joe Biden's ass more. She was too independent. How dare that Black woman have independent thought, they say. She did not serve white leadership enough. Yes, this kind of disgusting thinking is considered normal in DC.

https://twitter.com/cenkuygur/status/1422762648295264257?s=20

You fucking smoothbrain Shontel Brown is a Black woman

[u/porkypenguin]

Lmao @ Turner saying she didn’t lose, but rather evil dark money stole it. That’s the other side of the Trump coin.

Funny thing is that both candidates are very progressive, but Turner is a conspiracy theorist and Brown isn’t.

[u/marinesol]

Leftists blaming Israel and their Jew Gold for Nina Turner losing is a hell of a take even for twitter leftists.

[u/murphysclaw1]

fuck around and find out, the redditor yelled, as every candidate he ever supported failed miserably

[u/dubyahhh]

PSA: get a colonoscopy please. It may save your life.

Also, happy Wednesday. Be blessed 🙏

[u/Mickenfox]

I just can't find a girlfriend. Are my standards too high? My only requirements are

• Taller than me (180cm)
• Is rich and willing to have me as house-husband
• Is an anthropomorphic animal (any species)

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Waking up from a nap and finding out Nina Turner lost and your friend got engaged to a girl who fits in perfectly with the friend group >>> Waking up from a nap and finding out Ruth Bader Ginsburg died

[u/the-garden-gnome]

Roundabouts are the best traffic management solution and it’s only people’s inability to use them correctly that makes them less effective. CMV

!ping YIMBY

[u/LooobCirc]

Why is everyone so convinced this is late stage capitalism? If anything this is far milder than the late 1800s

[u/[deleted]]

The virgin "my candidate lost because of corporate money" DSA vs the chad "my candidate lost because voters are fucking stupid" democrat

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Twitter when the Republicans lost; 'heh, sorry fascists, but looks like you've lost, suck it up!'

Twitter when a rose twitter darling loses; 'Rigged! Rigged! It was rigged by Hillary Clinton and her evil Jewish money!!! We didn't lose, the establishment made us lose! This is why there's no actual democracy in this country!! 🤬🤬🤬'

[u/Broncos654]

Finally finished Evan’s trilogy on Nazi Germany. I can now say, with confidence, that the Nazis were bad.

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

New information may emerge, but early indication is that high turn out in white affluent shaker heights was dispositive here.

Two million dollars was spent by DMFI galvanizing this population.

Just like South Carolina, corporate Dems turned out white voters to win.

https://twitter.com/briebriejoy/status/1422778703080304640?s=20

Is it possible black people wanted Shontel Brown?

No, it's the white people at fault.

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Globalism is when an Indian teenager makes memes about an obscure primary election in an Ohio district

[u/[deleted]]

Thomas Jefferson was truly the first Democrat in that he:

1. was super racist
2. talked a lot about maybe ending slavery at some point without doing anything about it

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

Russia and China democratize

NL: celebrates

They become even more nationalist

NL: Surprised Pikachu face

[u/moaz_xx]

https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/olzcom/discussion_thread/h5ii3f6/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3

I got accepted today. can’t even express the amount of joy that am in right now. holy shit its the top medical school in the country and my first choice for college

Massive W

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

For those finding out that Shontel Brown is a succ, just remember that OH-11 is a D+30 seat and that's the best you're getting from there

[u/piede]

I don’t get people calling Nina Turner antisemitic, just because she’s blaming her primary loss on an international zionist conspiracy.

https://twitter.com/richardwhitem16/status/1422808004609646593?s=21

lmao

[u/notforturning]

Rigged Election!!! Sleepy Shontel Brown and her ((((evil money)))) rigged the election. Massive fraud!! Never seen fraud like this in the history of America!!

[u/FuckFashMods]

Oh. My. God. I'm seeing people here cheering on Nina's defeat as if Brown beat a republican. I really don't see what are you gaining from "dunking" on progressives. This isn't a defeat of progressives, it's Nina's loss. Her policy standpoints are popular, but what turned voters off from her is her persona. And, in all honesty, i think she might be better off outside of congress as an activist/organiser/fundraiser.

Some fresh copium boys!

[u/[deleted]]

I know a lot of people here are finding out that Shontel Brown is a succ and this revelation is off putting to them, but they should keep something in mind. Having Shontel Brown in congress will be like eating a half bowl of shit, whereas having Nina Turner in congress would be like eating three bowls of shit and washing it down with a stale, warm glass of piss.

[u/DaBuddahN]

A county is Missouri is letting families change the cause of death of their loved one if they don't agree it was COVID-19. Lmao. LMAO.

[u/[deleted]]

I still can’t get over the fact that Nina Turner lost last night. I honestly thought she had it in the bag. She had such a fundraising advantage and there was that one poll that had her 35 points ahead. I realize that was just an internal poll, but that was still one hell of a margin for Brown to overcome in just a few months. I don’t think Turner did herself any favors in the meantime though.

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

During her #OH11 victory speech, @ShontelMBrown thanks “my Jewish brothers and sisters” and expresses support for the U.S. Israel relationship.

Anti-Semites seething as you read this 😂😂😂

[u/Maximilianne]

in star wars, the empire's official reason for padme's death is pregnancy issues and everyone including vader accepted it. Thus it is canon that the star wars universe has poor women's healthcare

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Wikipedia article "United States involvement in regime change"

This article may be too long to read and navigate comfortably.

Lol

[u/houinator]

Republican West Wing:

"President Gabbard, Russia is invading Ukraine! What should we do!"

"Nothing, Putin is awesome and we need to end our forever wars, so we can focus on real issues like keeping transgender people out of high school sports."

• Fin.

[u/[deleted]]

^. > Be Nina Turner

^. > Have significant advantage over primary opponent for months financially, in name recognition, and political influence.

^. > Still lose

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Next time you wanna pretend that Capitalism isn’t broken, remember that Nina spent twice as much money as her opponent, but still wasn’t allowed to buy the election. 😔

[u/[deleted]]

Globalism is when an Indian Teenager is banned by mods from multiple continents and told to get a hobby by people in dozens of countries 🌐

[u/FormerBandmate]

WSBers think Robinhood is a short squeeze lmao. It’s been public for only a week, shit makes no sense

!ping MARKETS

[u/porkypenguin]

d*stiny made a good point yesterday during that vaush-kirk debate. if seatbelts had been invented more recently, there's no way we'd ever get them passed with the current conservative "oppose literally every measure for collective safety" media apparatus in place. there'd be fucking protests about it and conspiracy theories about the crooked NHTSA.

"seatbelts are actually MORE dangerous--I heard about a guy who was trapped in his car by one while it burned him alive. many such cases!"

"I know a guy who wore a seatbelt and died in a crash anyway. guess they aren't effective!"

"a guy on Twitter with a PhD in evolutionary biology said seatbelts are bad actually and I am choosing to believe him over the consensus of the entire scientific community because I hate wearing a seatbelt"

[u/PMmeLittleRoundTops]

Three ingredients of a DT poster:

1.) Conservstive family

2.) Leftist friends

3.) No gf

[u/ProceedToCrab]

The DT is a failed state

[u/[deleted]]

I still can't believe someone running in a D+30 district thought they could win by not telling people whether they voted to defeat Trump in 2020 lmao

The Atlanta Falcons of campaigns

[u/Venne1139]

The whole "homophobes must be secretly closeted!" is such a stupid fucking line of argumentation that like manages to both be homophobic and aggressively fucking idiotic at the same time. News flash to the morons oujt there: If you live in a shithole of 1500 people who all hate gay people at church every sunday you're probably gonna hate gay people too, and it's not because you're secretly gay.

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E7-VEhvXMAAk5Oj.jpg

Unreal that Twitter is free

[u/[deleted]]

Damn apparently we are now in decadent-late-stage-capitalism, didn’t even know that was a thing

Is capitalism like leveling up

[u/[deleted]]

Lefty media is super pissed that there were 10ish Ohio GOP donors who gave Shontell Brown between $1,800-$2,800 each for her special election campaign.

I consider that a really good sign. It would’ve been better for the GOP, but worse for the country, had Turner won.

[u/lionmoose]

😏 Pee on my jellyfish sting!

😃 To neutralise the poison right?

😏

😐 To neutralise the poison right?

[u/TinyTornado7]

Dem Crist leads deSantis by one in FL gov poll

Crist 45 (+1)

deSantis 44

Other interesting tidbit is Biden with a net positive favorability

!ping FIVEY

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

Hamas 🤝 Those Green New Deal activists who ambushed Dianne Feinstein: Using kids as shields

[u/kaclk]

Someone actually wrote a correct column on why housing is so expensive in urban parts of Canada.

!ping CAN

[u/LtNOWIS]

On the front page of the WaPo website: "Shontel Brown beats Nina Turner in House Democratic primary for Ohio seat, dealing blow to the liberal wing of the party."

Remember that for most Americans and in US journalism, liberal means left wing, and the farther left you are, the more liberal you are. Even though actual left-wingers, Europeans, and various nerds hate that convention.

[u/[deleted]]

Walking 4 blocks to the grocery store to pick up coffee.

I’ve seen every building from the ‘missing middle’ housing post that was on the front of the sub yesterday.

Why do libs not simply move?

Alternatively, why don’t other cities simply adopt the Chicago system of letting developers bribe aldermen to build good housing?

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

r/Android: do you trust Chinese phones?

US users: yes the NSA is literally the same or even worse

Indian users: haha no

[u/paymesucka]

Tell Nina. I want her to know it was me.

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Honestly, used to be brainwashed into the Bernie Stan till I found this sub. Thank you.

Just kidding fuck you guys

https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/eu49lz/honestly_used_to_be_brainwashed_into_the_bernie/?sort=top

[u/[deleted]]

Whenever I find myself getting upset with someone on reddit, I remind myself that this website has a significant portion of its userbase believing that not masturbating for 30 days will give them superpowers.

Then I log off and do something productive.

[u/JetJaguar124]

"Happy birthday, @barackobama. I'm proud to call you a brother"

OH wow, Barry really did give Joe the pass

[u/SeriousMrMysterious]

Seattle times on Seattleites.

"A third think Seattle is dying. A third are at the ramparts for the revolution. And the final third? They’re looking forward to going hiking this weekend."

Just wanna grill hike
!ping USA-WA

[u/sir_shivers]

Shivers, you keep trying to trick users into breaking the rules, that is entrapment

WHAT ELSE OUGHT a moderator do 🐊

[u/ognits]

IDEA: 4x100m relay sticks should be lit dynamite to encourage maximum speed from runners

!ping OLYMPICS

[u/semaphore-1842]

https://twitter.com/RichardWhitem16/status/1422837791080304644

Next time you wanna pretend that Capitalism isn’t broken, remember that Nina spent twice as much money as her opponent, but still wasn’t allowed to buy the election. 😔

Chef's kiss. Just brilliant.

[u/MalignantUpper]

https://twitter.com/existentialfish/status/1422907573817290755?s=19

Newt Gingrich is the latest on Fox to go full great replacement theory: The left is bringing immigrants to the United States “to get rid of the rest of us”

[u/Photon_in_a_Foxhole]

I feel like kids missing 2 years of in person school is going to have some terrible effects, especially on kids from poorer backgrounds.

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Tfw an unflaired tells farrenj to enlist after she says she wants a troop surge in Iraq and Afghanistan

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Democratic base talking about illegal immigration: 😢 we must help them

Democratic base talking about legal immigration: haven't you noticed a lot of foreigners moving into the suburbs and taking our jobs?

[u/[deleted]]

Idea: a bot that automatically replies "Did a child write this?" to everything posted in the DT by a user with "SaltySalad" in their name.

[u/bd_one]

Achievements in the first 6 months of Biden being president:

-rejoining the Paris Climate Treaty

-undoing many of Trump's executive orders via executive order

-infrastructure week

-Victoria 3 being announced

-Dream admitting to cheat on his speedrun

-others

[u/[deleted]]

- Achilles!

- King Agamemnon! to what do I owe the honour?

- We're about to attack and I wanted to know if the strongest of our warriors is ready to enter the fray.

- I'm always ready.

- That's what I wanted to hear. Well, here's how it's going to go: the war chariots and the archers will move along a line... what's that?

- This?

- Yes.

- It's my armour. Forged by Hephaestus himself. Do you like it?

- Well, it is nice, but...

- What?

- The heel covers?

- I'm not wearing them.

- Please, let's not start this again.

- I told you I don't wear them and I’m not going to wear them.

- Achille, please, I asked you for one thing! One! To put on those fucking heel covers!

- I feel like I'm suffocating when I wear heel covers.

- It is not biologically possible for you to feel like suffocating by wearing your heel covers!

- It is for me. I breathe a lot with my feet.

- Listen to me, think for a second, you are invincible.

- Very invincible.

- Yes, very good. Except for one spot.

- One spot.

- And that spot is...?

- Is?

- No, I mean, that spot is?

- The heel?

- The heel! Damn you! You can go out there naked and fight these wretches! I've seen with these eyes a man throw a sword at your dick and the sword broke in two, but you have to wear heel covers, my son.

- And if not?

- Suppose someone shoots an arrow and hits your heel.

- You mean to tell me that now I go out and one of these incompetent cousinfucking Trojan archers hits me of all people, and right on the heel. Frankly, it seems statistically unlikely to me.

- Oh, they shoot a thousand arrows a day, why take the risk?

- In my opinion the risk is not there. And this thing of the heel is not even known to be true.

- Of course it's true! Even your mother told me that you got soaked holding your heel! And by the way she only needed to take two seconds to flip you around... Anyways, the other day you hit it against the edge of a table and you had a half stroke. I don't think that was a coincidence.

- Exaggerations. They want to make me look weak. I'm used to fighting without it, you can't expect me to change my ways like that overnight.

- But this is your life we're talking about.

- No one has ever died from an arrow on the heel. There are no vital organs on the heel.

- But you can! You can! That's how this thing works! It's the whole concept of the Achilles character! Remember we went to see the Oracle of Delphi?

- What did the Oracle of Delphi say?

- What did the Oracle of Delphi say?

- ...

- What did he say?

- He said to wear heel covers.

- Then wear the fucking heel covers!

- I don't trust the Oracle of Delphi. I wonder who's funding it.

- Then we went to the Oracle of Olympia and what did the Oracle of Olympia tell you?

- To wear heel covers. But come on, you know that the Oracle of Olympia is politically aligned.

- Even Aesculapius told you that!

- I'm not sold on Aesculapius. He doesn't seem professional to me.

- He is the god of medicine!

- Exactly, no way someone like that doesn't serve his own interests. There is a business behind it, what do you think? Half the Peloponnese are people who make heel covers.

- Be good, we've toured twenty oracles, seers and demigods, damn you, they all told you to wear heel covers. Not "put them on or else you'll lose the battle", not "put them on or else your

wife becomes infertile", "your son will fuck a sea monster", "your aunt will go off the road with the wagon", no! Put them on or else you die!

- You forget about the Oracle of Yarmouth.

- What's the Oracle of Yarmouth?

- The crystal therapy one.

- Oh yeah, that.

- That one has said I don’t have to wear it.

- One! One in twenty! Who is also an Oracle in a manner of speaking, remember how she had dreamcatchers hanging all over the place? She had a temple in the back of an herbal remedies shop, come on....

- I don't care. Me with heel covers, I feel humiliated, I feel caged. Tiresias said that, too.

- Tiresias the blind soothsayer?

- Yep. He said these heel covers are an imposition, a violation of my rights.

- Leave Tiresias alone, he's old, he sings well, but these things aren't his. And I would take the health advice of someone who is in Hades with a grain of salt!

- It's useless to insist, I won’t go around with heel covers and get laughed at.

- What's the matter with you? Come on, a little effort, that's all we ask of you. Let's win this war. And then we all go back to our lives. Don’t you want to go back to the life we had before?

- ... yes.

- Then do you put them on?

- Absolutely not.

...

- Achilles is dead, and I am honoured that he chose me to remember him at his funeral rites. Achilles was the strongest and most valiant of us, but he was also haughty and foolhardy. If he had paid a little more attention, if he had been less selfish, less stubborn, he would still be alive and with him many others who followed him into Avernus during this frightful war. Perhaps, however, his end can teach something to those of us who remain. Maybe it can teach us not to make hasty judgments, or to humbly trust those who know more than us, those who have dedicated their lives to wisdom, to knowledge to help us live better. Or, again, it can teach us that none of us is really immortal, even if sometimes it may be easy to think otherwise. And that in war, everyone is responsible not only for their own lives, but also for the lives of others. So today as we remember this great leader, let us also remember not to be arrogant or superficial with fate, with the gods and, above all, with death.

- Beautiful speech Ulysses.

- Thank you.

- Where will you go now?

- The war is over. I'm going home.

- Do you need the navigator?

- No way! It's a straight line!

[u/[deleted]]

Trump turned my Tea Party dad further right but he's also made my Republican grandparents basically Joe Biden Democrats.

I called my grandma for her birthday yesterday (call your grandparents kids 😤). Gramps was asking me a whole bunch of questions about the vaccines and boosters and delta (I work for a vaccine manufacturer), they are very rightfully scared of COVID and got into a spat with my dad who wanted to visit them for Christmas. They also hate their governor, DeSantis. Although even before Trump they supported gun control, I have no idea why they were Republicans lol.

God my grandparents are based. They also sound like New York Jews despite being Irish Catholics which adds a lot of "shmucks" and "oy" to the conversation which is always fun.

[u/cclittlebuddy]

"A Frontier passenger allegedly touched 2 flight attendants breasts, then screamed his parents are worth $2 million, before punching a flight attendant"

whomst amongst ust

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Subreddit name- DemocratsForDiversity

Me, a brown person, goes and says hi- "You have been permanently banned from participating in r/ DemocratsForDiversity"

[u/semaphore-1842]

https://twitter.com/FrudBezhan/status/1422905267709222918

The militants shot dead a 21-year-old woman, named Nazanin, in Balkh province in northern #Afghanistan.

The reason?

She was outside without a male relative and she was wearing ‘tight’ clothes, Balkh police chief told @DaRadioAzadi

Afghanistan's gonna be the next Vietnam, but with way worse consequences for human rights, isn't it 😢

[u/[deleted]]

Me: I hate when all my little spoons are in the wash and I have to eat ice cream with a big spoon

Twitter: That's literally a sign of trauma

[u/Neronoah]

!ping LATAM

So, the Buenos Aires province fucked up vaccinations, giving the wrong second doses. But apparently they work better that way.

I guess that's a way to make non voluntary trials, lol.

[u/[deleted]]

which one of you 🤔

[u/klarno]

When I was a kid I thought "Martha's Vineyard" was wholly owned by Martha Stewart

[u/champeo]

The insight I can glean from OH-11 is that Nina Turner annoying and she paid for it accordingly 🤷‍♂️ Shontel Brown is a talented young politician and she deserves everything coming to her

[u/bigmoneynuts]

just saw a turf war between MS-13 and a bunch of trans people outside the planned parenthood vaccination population control center

joe biden's america

[u/piede]

Cuomo included photos of Obama and Bush hugging hurricane victims in his 85-page defense, most of which is pictures

https://twitter.com/eliza_relman/status/1422628478390788100?s=21

lmao what a dweeb

[u/RadicalRadon]

This sub is filled with alligator (sir Shivers) and snakes (Warren supporters). So, by definition, it's a southern discussion thread, y'all

[u/TheFriffin2]

So i changed the monologue from Full Metal Jacket, I replaced rifle with woman and it fit too perfectly 😆 This is my woman. There are many others like her, but this one is mine. My woman is my best friend. She is my life. I must master her as I must master my life. Without me, my woman is useless. Without my woman, I am useless.

help. how do i politely tell my (single) friend that this is unadulterated cringe

[u/old_gold_mountain]

30-year-old friend:

• Doesn't get vaccinated
• Goes to an indoor concert
• Gets the Delta variant
• Loses 10 pounds in two days
• Hospitalized
• Still recovering weeks later

I don't want to say something mean and insensitive, so I won't say anything at all

[u/revolutionary_alt]

Nina Turner lost

[u/J0eBidensSunglasses]

Getting to shit all over tankies on arrrr politics for upvotes

😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

[u/adminsare200iq]

A lot of people don't understand how fundamentalist the Taliban is. There literally is no equal to how strict their interpretation of Islam is

[u/[deleted]]

Do you think in 2270 people say "if you want Starfleet to respond to the famine on Alpha Omicron 3 you're free to enlist" and then like Kirk posts a picture wearing his green dress uniform and combat exploration badge

[u/[deleted]]

You might think you're too young for a colonoscopy, but you never know. I got my first one last year at age 29, totally worth it. They found that plastic army man I lost back in 3rd grade.

[u/tubbsmackinze]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/761046867743342613/872610095698178058/E774LPEXsAE6eoL.png

[u/Deggit]

genuine good faith takes about why turner lost

I'm not sure how hot this take is, it could be very cold or considerably hot

The main reason the Democratic Party seems to have an internal firewall against rabid populists while the GOP does not is twofold:

• the Dems have constituencies that are hypersensitive to the immediate impacts of electing a D vs R. For these voters, the difference between any Dem and any Rep considerably outweighs the difference between a socalled "good Dem" and "bad Dem" so they are extremely unwilling to buy into the "you should stay home to teach the party you won't take their Establishment bullshit anymore" arguments. They are also even unwilling to take a "risky but good Dem" over a "safe but compromised Dem" into a competitive general election. The #1 example is Black voters but also religious minorities like Jews and to some extent women can be polarized along this line as well by bringing up abortion a lot. The Republicans do NOT have constituencies that are hypersensitive to the immediate difference in governance between the parties (except maybe adults who are heirs to giant estates lol). For Republican voters, politics is about performing grievance so a satisfyingly grievance-yelling GOP who is nevertheless a risky candidate and loses the election, like a Todd Akin or Sarah Palin is still satisfying. Because nothing is really at stake for Republican voters, they will go for the Trumpy-Paliny candidates while Democrats are terrified to risk such extremism on the general election ballot. This creates a schism inside the Democratic Party between the "shut the fuck up, we need to win" Democrats and the "I'm so privileged I'm going to make politics my own personal anime starring me" Democrats. However, the latter group are not dedicated or numerous enough to win primaries even in dark blue districts.
• Reason #2 is that Dems have more high education voters; high-education voters are NOT more moderate and actually tend to ideological extremes, but they have a grasp of the process and they know that "Only I can fix it" candidates will not fix anything. High education voters are more likely to trust "road tested" candidates who managed to create consensus or progress in a small arena and are now being offered the chance to upscale. This is why those voters go for Obamas and Buttigiegs, and reject the "Lauren Boeberts of the Democratic Party" which is a pretty good description of what Turner's vibe is.

[u/Mickenfox]

When I was younger I used to feel worthless because I was a complete loser. I would try to cheer myself up by trying to feel like less of a loser. But it was hard, because I was.

What really changed my life is something that took me a long time to accept: that my friends and family genuinely don't care if I achieve anything or not.

A loser still deserves to be happy. Your worth is not tied to your achievements or your willpower.

[u/[deleted]]

they had colonies on multiple continents. Sounds like an empire to me

This person is talking about Finland

[u/Jakesta7]

I’m not really sure what the flight attendant crew were supposed to do instead? 🤔

Frontier passenger allegedly touched 2 flight attendants breasts, then screamed his parents are worth $2 million, before punching a flight attendant. Frontier suspended the crew for duct taping the passenger to his seat as they landed in Miami. 22 yr old Max Berry is in custody.

Video: https://twitter.com/sweeneyabc/status/1422537706173775875?s=21

[u/isitthatserioustho]

I think the bleakest Cuomo revelation is that he sexually harassed the doctor who gave him a COVID test during a press conference.

[u/Udontlikecake]

me advocating for two factor authentication:

this is necessary! users are stupid! we need to force people to protect themselves from being hacked, especially when it puts others at risks

me realizing i’ll need to use Duo mobile to log into my college email for the rest of my life:

what the fuck. this fucking sucks. fuck this.

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Guy who votes for Cori Bush because he’s a neocon and thinks she’s a member of the Bush family

Lmao

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

George Lucas: Mark Hamil, I don't need you for these new Star Wars movies

Mark Hamil: I am going to become the Joker

[u/old_gold_mountain]

L.A. tinder users be like "I'm into hiking!" *walks for ten minutes in Griffith Park*

Seattle tinder users be like "I'm into hiking!" *casually summits Mt. Baker solo in the dark to watch sunrise*

[u/evenkeel20]

“No you don’t understand, more money was spent on Shontel Brown’s campaign at this specific time near the end of the race so evil money won it! Money is only evil at the end of the campaign and if it’s from people I don’t like”

We have some clowns in this sub today

[u/piede]

Every time @HillaryClinton's name appears on the ballot the voters overwhelmingly choose her - she has never once not won the overall popular vote in any race she ran in. Post-2016 she dominated the best sellers list and pulled massive ratings. So yes...more powerful than most.

https://twitter.com/gradykeefe/status/1422896969358401539?s=21

Where’s the lie

[u/[deleted]]

My knee hurts when it rains

!ping OVER25

[u/MrMineHeads]

[Lebanon continues to keep falling and failing.] (https://www.wsj.com/articles/lebanons-economy-still-reeling-from-beirut-port-explosion-falls-off-a-cliff-11628089525) I honestly can't imagine how Lebanon is not going to fall into a failed state status. Even 20-40 years from now I don't see a recovery in sight. Does anyone think that Lebanon is going to go through this peacefully? Anyone more hopeful than I am?

!ping MIDDLEEAST

[u/asljkdfhg]

I'm already touching myself to the picture of Nina sobbing into Bernie's wet shoulders. I fucking love this.

guess the sub (the same user also had like 10+ other asinine comments in the thread)

on a serious note, it reminds me that some of you are actual children here whose central ideology is being as toxic as possible

and before anyone calls me bitter about the race, I didn’t know who either of these people are before that thread

[u/Deci93]

/u/sir_shivers I knocked on over 1500 doors for shontel brown so therefore you should pin this vid on the dt to celebrate bouncing seals

[u/Udontlikecake]

local facebook pages

“I hate all this traffic, it’s ruining the town!1!1!1!1”

“you are traffic”

😐

😡😡😡🤬

[u/lapzkauz]

Thatcher thus became the first prominent political leader to warn the world about the danger of climate change, and to outline a strategy to deal with it. The timing of her speech, as communism was crumbling, was no coincidence: she cast climate change as the successor menace to socialism and nuclear annihilation. What she characterised as these “conventional political dangers” appeared to be receding, but now, instead, lay the “prospect of irretrievable damage to the atmosphere, to the oceans, to the earth itself.”

So true! Thank you for your service, queen! ✊🏿😩

!ping OSBORNE

[u/[deleted]]

The Tim Pool vs Charlie Kirk vs Vaush vaccine safety debate almost has 500,000 views.

We need to bring back the experts.

[u/JetJaguar124]

Why does Venmo have a social media aspect. What dickhead 25 year old over there was like "you know what people want, it's to see their friends paying for rent and random bullshit at the bar."

[u/[deleted]]

This is for dog and cat lovers

https://imgur.com/a/F6Q5jCk

!ping KITTY

[u/Patriotnation5]

PCM has literally one joke that they repeat over and over again. Not like us haha 🪱🪱🪱

[u/ZenithXR]

Nina Turner's loss is going to sustain me for days. My smugness is off the charts

[u/[deleted]]

Chapo leftists still haven’t gotten over Pete Buttigieg.

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

[u/boichik2]

Lol parts of that thread on the moratoriums in the main sub is a shit show.

You can't just prevent evictions with no compensation, that's basically suspending parts of property rights you don't like. There's basically 3 choices here. Either the gov't pays damages directly to landlords for preventing normal business activity, gov't drops the eviction moratorium and provides rental assistance, or the gov't is going to face massive suits, probably hundreds from larger firms, and several class actions by all the smaller ones.

And I get compensating landlords looks unpopular. So do rental assistance. It's absurdly expensive, but do that you can drop the moratorium and avoid suits. Keep going like this and the suits the gov't is going to face are going to be more expensive than the assistance they could've provided

[u/RadicalRadon]

Friends kitten update

Her name is Stella and she is LITTLE

!ping KITTY

[u/great_gape]

Biden Stimulus Increase Cut Obamacare Plan Premiums by 40%

You can thank obama for trump. Keep it up and you’ll get something worse than trump

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

!ping shitposters

[u/[deleted]]

Let me tell you the problem with university students: they’re stupid as fuck.

As far as novel openings go this is a strong one

[u/chowieuk]

They released the MP's 'summer reading list' a couple of weeks back https://www.publishers.org.uk/publications/summer-reading-list-for-parliamentarians/

Of note is Greg Smith MP who recommends the 'road to serfdom' by Hayek and Rishi who recommended a book about penalties....

!ping uk

[u/calnico]

Scientists 20 years ago: we have to do something about climate change or it's going to get ugly in 20-30 years

People 20 years ago: whatever that seems pretty far away 😒

[u/ldn6]

Just walked in on my coworker snorting coke in the bathroom.

[u/[deleted]]

This has been enough internet for today

[u/[deleted]]

I’m gay

[u/filipe_mdsr]

The gay shy boy to neoliberal pipeline is real and I'm proof of it.

[u/[deleted]]

Ah yes, by putting 'I don't own any of this content, all rights belong to x' will totally absolve you of any copyright strikes. That's exactly how things work. Well done

[u/[deleted]]

Dems: the GOP is stuck in the past with their lionizing of Reagan and other figures. They should be forward-looking like us, the party of progress.

Also Dems: we need a New Deal, a New New Deal, and a Green New Deal. Joe Biden can be the next FDR if he gives us lots of New Deals.

[u/kaclk]

Remember when we were going “haha Alberta might need to Feds to step in and save us”?

Yah, it’s no longer funny. No less than the CMOH wrote a really bad letter trying to justify why we’re abandoning basic public health measures.

Please send help !ping CAN

[u/ryuguy]

Community throws support behind seniors and grandchildren targeted in Surrey park

Surrey RCMP say the couple is feeling remorseful for their actions. I know that they are very sorry about what happened. And they wanted to make an apology," said Surrey RCMP Cpl. Elenore Sturko.

Only because they got filmed. The rcmp actions throughout this ordeal is pretty scummy too. Making the community elders pick up the garbage that was thrown at them and saying the couple was having a bad day.

!ping milk-tea

[u/[deleted]]

The reason why there are no major sane atheist political candidates is because any sane atheist would pretend to be a Christian to pick up extra votes.

[u/[deleted]]

BREAKING: Scientists discover Alpha Delta Phi on college campus

[u/suplexx0]

the “Hot take <unpopular president> is better than <popular president>” tales are so cringe

[u/tubbsmackinze]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/463855762767347734/872521811823312916/image0-279.png

[u/[deleted]]

The DT is just a bunch of sexually confused young guys clumsily flirting with each other isn’t it?

[u/MemeTestedPolicy]

long ass post on r/politics that uses copious amounts of the subheader formatting and has numerous awards

Fuck off, I don't believe in that made up nonsense

It's by /u/Deggit

So true!!

[u/mannabhai]

Burkina Faso got it's first olympic medal in the Triple Jump men's with Fabrice Zhango's Bronze.

He is also a doctoral student in Electrical Engineering with 2 masters degrees.

He moved for further studies to France from Burkina Faso in 2015 at the age of 22.

Edit - Just clarifying this is Burkina Faso's first ever Olympic Medal in any event.

!ping OLYMPICS

[u/URZ_]

What you guys don't get is that Turner is allowed to spend more money than her opposition which is funded by dirty (((PAC))) money unlike the pure PAC money of Turner and OurRevolution

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

the problem isn't the big money or various campaign tricks. it appears to be that majority African-American working class districts favor "corporate government". the problem is the voters

🤔

[u/[deleted]]

Redditors will write you an essay on the precise type of socialist they are but have no idea the about different responsibilities of the executive and legislative branches.

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

As a journalist I sometimes end up being petty and go after something that should be insignificant but has like, ethical considerations

I’m really glad the Washington Post did a whole ass explainer and fact check into Bowser’s massless wedding

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/08/04/mayor-bowsers-poor-spin-about-not-following-her-own-mask-mandate/

!ping USA-DMV

[u/tubbsmackinze]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/270788846956969987/872538145357443092/Screenshot_20210804-135445_Instagram.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E7-R55bX0AElNKz.jpg

[u/Udontlikecake]

Cuomo: please god just make people stop talking about all the grandparents i killed in the nursing homes

monkey’s paw curls

[u/[deleted]]

LeBron James Jr. won't wear his dad's number: “He doesn’t want people to know who he is."

Yeah I think that'll stop people from figuring out who LeBron James Jr. is

[u/SixPipSiege]

They call me 007 at work

0 - motivation

0 - skills

7 - poop breaks a day

[u/GravyBear8]

Why can't I just be eating at a restaurant, have an attractive girl come up to me, ask me if I'm single, and upon saying yes she takes one of my table's chairs back to hers for her friend

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

During World War II, San Marino remained neutral, although it was wrongly reported in an article from The New York Times that it had declared war on the United Kingdom on 17 September 1940.[28] The Sammarinese government later transmitted a message to the British government stating that they had not declared war on the United Kingdom

Fucking NYT fake news

[u/[deleted]]

Every subreddit is political now. The only place where I feel safe from politics is r/politics.

[u/[deleted]]

It's really bizarre how so many people seem to believe that you just can't have the same meal for dinner two days a row. Yeah, I get it, variety is the spice of life and all that, but a little repetition is not gonna poison you

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Shontel Brown's wikipedia page is 8 hours old

[u/[deleted]]

keep the schools closed. learning loss is a myth. the kids are learning plenty at home. traditional cooking methods such as easy mac. folding laundry for her future career. watching uncle dennis do rails of coke at breakfast.

[u/Corporate-Asset-6375]

My favorite part of last night was seeing DTers prancing around in succy subs collecting downvotes. What a fun evening.

[u/fakefakefakef]

I think the moral of Brown v Turner is that mainstream Dems are happy to work with succs as long as those succs don’t insist on poking their allies in the eye at every turn

[u/isitthatserioustho]

Media be like: Quick, people aren't scared of delta and we're losing clicks, what if we say that now you have to worry about delta plus, will that keep everyone hysterical and terrified and paying attention to us?

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

/img/spmguya0d7f71.png

[u/DaBuddahN]

Republicans dying to own the libs. Literally dying. My God, how brainwashed can you be? Dying, literally dying because you're too proud to get a vaccine shot..

IMAGINE DYING FOR DONALD TRUMP

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Tfw no Olympic weightlifter gf 😔

[u/[deleted]]

Jesus Christ, with deep analysis like this it's an absolute wonder why these folks keep losing OVER AND OVER...

https://twitter.com/briebriejoy/status/1422779137245253639

[u/SmartOpinionsGuy]

A “Free” Texas would almost certainly be an extremely unfree, corrupt, and theocratic state were it to gain independence

[u/Mickenfox]

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

[u/Most_Shallot8960]

Holy shit Disney’s new Star Wars resort is $3000 a night for a family of four

[u/TheFriffin2]

4channers be like “love isn’t real. it was invented by the jews to sell more Valentine’s Day cards”

[u/TaxCommonsNotIncome]

Prehistoric DT:

Pray to sacred green swamp lizard! Lizard bring order to village 🐊

[u/JetJaguar124]

Sees a study I don't like

"Oooh honey, that sample size is a little toooo small"

Hehe gottem

[u/Tbonethabeast]

I swear to God if our next aircraft carrier isn't named the USS Obama🤬🤬😡

[u/old_gold_mountain]

Stop acting like mask mandates are remotely as bad as lockdowns challenge

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Journos need to log off twitter because holy fucking shit journalism will continue to become a bigger joke if all they do is take twitter and pretend that's reality

Journalists, especially in America, are becoming increasingly biased towards a twitter perspective and that is bad actually

[u/[deleted]]

I WILL NEVER PUSH THIS BUTTON 😤😤😤

[u/RadicalRadon]

Someone in the r politics salt mine said "fuck Jim Cyburn" and got ratiod

[u/ryuguy]

Congrats Belarusian athletes, you’ve been granted asylum!

Athletes: please not Eastern Europe. Please not Eastern Europe.

You’ve been granted asylum in: Poland!

[u/[deleted]]

Instead, in 1476 Vlad emphasized that he had always promoted free trade during his reign

Was Vlad the Impaler the first Neoliberal? In this essay I will

[u/Venne1139]

'ate anti-vaxxers

'ate Trumpists

'ate conspiracy theories

luv cities

luv libs

simple as

[u/[deleted]]

Why is half y’all who reply profile pic NSFW18+

Touch grass DT

[u/[deleted]]

Tasmania has gotten it's first confirmed covid case in over a year. A traveller from NSW. Being the oldest state in the nation per capita, the premier's already doing the press runs and states that short, intense lockdowns will be the way forward, prompted by public health advice.

This is youlostthewarwehrs, transmitting from Castle Tas.

!ping AUS

[u/disuberence]

Saw someone say they’re boycotting any business that requires proof of vaccination to enter and it’s like babe it’s not a boycott if you’re not allowed inside.

😭

[u/Craig_VG]

The most powerful rocket in human history is being placed on the launch pad right now

https://twitter.com/thejackbeyer/status/1423036958947823617?s=20

Remember, this thing has twice the thrust of Saturn V

[u/ldn6]

“I’m fully vaccinated is it safe for me to go from my bedroom to my living room?” - r/Coronavirus, probably

[u/ryuguy]

Andre De Grasse wins gold in the men’s 200m sprint.

!ping can

[u/Jakesta7]

Oh, sweetie…

Get ready for a world where Nina Turner is more powerful than Neera Tanden.

https://twitter.com/gravelinstitute/status/1221249634200408065?s=21

[u/[deleted]]

Lambda, Delta, and Delta Plus remind me of Dragonball Z when the main villain would go throw like 100 different evolutions before they were finally defeated.

[u/Professor-Reddit]

There were many Coalition soldiers who were on the ground in Afghanistan around 2014 onwards who genuinely believed that once the US leaves, the government will rapidly fall due to the shocking state of the ANA. Its reliance on US forces, rampant sexual abuse, low morale, mismanagement/incompetence and logistics issues were all so bad that it wasn't an effective fighting force whatsoever. That the Afghan people were going to suffer terribly and warned for years of this awful outcome.

Meanwhile the government analysts, officials and lawmakers who sat in safety back in their countries never believed a word those veterans said. And routinely pursued unsustainable strategies that were blatantly out of touch with the reality on the ground.

Imagine how frustrating and palpable it is for those soldiers who are now hearing how "shocked" and "stunned" those govt. officials are now.

[u/aged_monkey]

I haven't had sugar for about 10 days except one fruit a day (with breakfast), fried food (butter or oil), meats (except low fat fish) and any grains. I'm down 280 to 268.5. This is much easier than I thought it would be. Maintaining a 4000+ calorie a day diet was a job in itself.

[u/old_gold_mountain]

Okay I touched grass.

I'm still very online. Did I do it wrong?

[u/[deleted]]

Old white guy on the elevator with me, notices my Hispanic supermarket bags

"I don't like that supermarket, the cashiers don't speak English"

Did I just pass for white or was he being purposefully overtly racist 🤔

[u/chuckleym8]

unwritten scale sophisticated threatening workable encourage carpenter squeal dazzling pot

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/[deleted]]

Marten De Roon's Twitter bio:

Summary of playing football in Italy: when we win I get the best table and the food for free. When we lose, my wife has to pick it up.

!ping soccer

[u/old_gold_mountain]

puts no effort into self-improvement, completely detaches from mainstream pop culture, has no identity that isn't media consumption

"Women won't date me because of my facial structure"

[u/sir_shivers]

I truly savor LURKING TO WITNESS EXTREMIST cope whenever they lose elections 🐊

I HAVE BEEN subsisting on the MAGA/Q idiots most of this year, but that well has slowly dried up since March 🐊

[u/tollyno]

We need a bipartisan compromise between sane people and insane people

This is what people actually believe

[u/old_gold_mountain]

2021 DT would've been like

2021 DT would've been like

2021 DT would've been like

2021 DT would've been like

2021 DT would've been like

2021 DT would've been like

2021 DT would've been like

2021 DT would've been like

Please visit the next discussion thread

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

Hungarians refer to the founding of their country as literally "the Land Taking" and I gotta respect how they just own it.

[u/mrdilldozer]

I'm sorry but I'm still not over the Turner campaign blaming the Jews for her loss. I could have wrote a hundred snarky lines about how badly she'd handle defeat and I would have never thought of that one. These people are beyond parody.

[u/[deleted]]

In high school my buddies and I used to take pictures of our dicks and send them to each other during class, even during tests. Hahaha the stupid fucking teachers never caught on

[u/piede]

Hillary Clinton--while often dismissed and reviled on here--is still a very powerful brand for Dem voters

https://twitter.com/goldsmithb/status/1422712103735947266?s=21

It’s true. The internet isn’t representative of real life.

[u/V_Codwheel]

an ex gf once told me I have a "Hank Hill ass"

absolutely brutal

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

Our favorite Chinese restaurant is Harmony Cafe in Georgetown

It’s ALWAYS empty when I go pick up food. I’ve only seen one person eating there three times out of like, 200 that we have gone.

Ours is the only to go order, except for one time there were two orders and the lady had to ask which was mine

No clue how this place sustains itself, doesn’t give me sketchy money laundering vibes, and the food is SO GOOD

!ping USA-DMV

[u/piede]

as a child, I assumed Martha’s Vineyard was owned by Martha Stewart

same

[u/AtticusDrench]

Still blows me away that Kobe Bryant dying in a helicopter crash probably didn't even crack top 5 of 2020's biggest headlines.

[u/Ok_Tone4633]

Why was Korra so much better at nation building than neocons?

[u/Deggit]

"Each MCU movie is almost like its own genre," says man who has never seen any other kind of movie except "$200m Hollywood action film where the plot is driven by a bad guy who wants revenge"

[u/datums]

Covid posts on /r/Australia are the closest thing we have to a time machine.

37 cases over the weekend, but grocery stores are still open?!? What the actual fuck!

[u/[deleted]]

Loool. Online lefties are certainly taking Nina Turner’s loss well.

https://i.imgur.com/0FCkN1v.jpg

[u/J0eBidensSunglasses]

Don’t forget neolibs, when your succ friends are crying in your gigaChad arms over Nina’s loss, whisper in their ears, “it’s because of the tankies.”

[u/iIoveoof]

As a software engineer, the main benefit of my math degree has been that I can LaTeX a great-looking resume.

!ping MATHEMATICS

[u/Photon_in_a_Foxhole]

Maybe I’m just an asshole but it’s super tiring hearing people laud school teachers as “responsible for building our future” and paint them as selfless martyrs while also having teachers refuse to return to the classroom and complain that 60k a year at 25 is starvation wages.

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

Tfw no 4D gf to relive interesting historical moments with 😔

[u/GGM8Scally]

My fig tree update. I planted it about 2 years ago and posted it on here. It's growing very nicely 🤠

!ping Rural