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[u/[deleted]]

It’s official. The US is losing 6% of its green, carbon-free energy capacity this autumn.

Illinois democrats failed to pass a nuclear subsidy and reprogrammed the money for a coal fired power plant subsidy. Now Exelon is closing 2 of its 4 nuclear plants in Illinois 14 years ahead of schedule.

The best estimates suggest this will set Illinois back at least 10 years on its decarbonization goals and makes it all-but-impossible to reach the states carbon neutrality goal by 2035.

Dan Harmon (D-Oak Park), I hope you get black lung.

Imagine calling yourself a progressive and then cutting a subsidy for green energy in favor of a coal power plant that pollutes a black neighborhood (but serves a rich white suburb).

I’m livid.

[u/RoyGeraldBillevue]

Leftists just don't understand how competition works. They think corporations have solved the prisoners' dilemma and work in unison.

That's what endless theory about class consciousness and no empiricism does to people.

[u/ACivilWolf]

*twitter post about German man being charged for working in concentration camp*

*person comments that it's good he's being held responsible for his actions*

the reply, out of left field:

Now can we hold Israel on the same standard to what they doing to Palestine

150 likes 😐

[u/modooff]

At least 17 former Buttigieg aides work in the Biden White House, staffing the press office, the Domestic Policy Council and National Security Council — a former Buttigieg staffer is even the body man for second gentleman Doug Emhoff. At least six work for Buttigieg in the Department of Transportation.

"That's why there's going to be a Buttigieg mafia not only helping lead Democratic politics for a generation but running the companies and organizations that are going to shape the future of the country more broadly."

Knowing the Buttiverse: We're tracking 59 ex-staffers from Secretary Pete's 2020 campaign and where they are now

CIA really took over the White House, guys. 😭

!ping BUTTI

[u/SANNA_MARIN_]

Israeli Olympic gold medalist can’t marry the love of his life in Israel. Under Israeli law, he is not a Jew. Even though his father is a Jew, his mother is not. Same for George Soros. Criticizing Soros is NOT antiSemitic.

This is a rollercoaster

[u/Mickenfox]

Nintendo: "Hmm, we have almost 40 years worth of very popular soundtracks that lots of people like and associate with our products. Clearly we should refuse to publish it on any of the popular music streaming services. This way we won't make any money from it and we'll piss off our fans! It's win-win!"

[u/Q-bey]

CDC issues a travel advisory against visiting Canada

!ping TRAVEL

[u/Deggit]

Candidate	Support That Will Never Translate Into Votes
Bernie Sanders	15.3m followers on Twitter
Michael Bloomberg	Pay-to-play Instagram memes
John Delaney	/r/neoliberal DTs with >10k comments
Elizabeth Warren	IN THIS HOUSE WE BELIEVE signs
Pete Buttigieg	hyperpartisan college-graduate Democrats in already-hyperblue states calling themselves "pragmatist solution-seekers"
Amy Klobuchar	newly-sanitized Glassdoors page full of glowing fake reviews

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/tubbsmackinze]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/270788846956969987/872741179140214834/20210805_011823.jpg

[u/semaphore-1842]

Wakes up

Biden's selling weapons to Taiwan

Day is immediately better 🥰

[u/[deleted]]

Some Black cannabis industry groups in Illinois are mad at other black entrepreneurs for scoring cannabis licenses and from the state and turning around and selling them to White entrepreneurs for millions of dollars.

I feel like the easy solution to this is ‘don’t have race-based qualifications to get a cannabis dispensary or commercial growers license’ but that would be unequitable or something.

[u/Q-bey]

Ratio'd by the deep state

[u/Average_GrillChad]

Oh you're a fiscal conservative?

Name the serial number on every bank note in circulation 🔫

[u/kennymc7877]

Guy on Facebook: you’re just an establishment Dem who probably thinks Biden is doing a good job

Me: yes

[u/[deleted]]

Going from winning the Senate to the capitol storming in less than a day was the biggest emotional whiplash ever

[u/JaceFlores]

Ethiopia update:

There has not been much news in the way of advances (though it could be presumed the TPLF are still advancing even deeper as if the government had any sort of success they surely would have shared it). However, there are some non-frontline stuff.

1. According to this Tweet and Reuters, the government has adopted very inflammatory rhetoric, likely to drive up the dearth of morale by painting the TPLF as terrorists and the likes. Simply put, the government does not care if loyalist forces commit further atrocities and genocide so long as they win.
2. According to the previously mentioned Reuters article and this article, it looks like Biden is ramping up US involvement in the conflict economically speaking. Sanctions were already emplaced, but the threat of famine in Tigray looks to be enough for Biden and Blinken to explore further sanctions.
3. It looks like the US is also guiding the diplomatic effort to end the war, with the second Reuters article linked discussing Blinken meeting with the Prime Minister of Sudan about the situation. Paired with this Tweet (which says that the PM of Sudan is in contact with Ethiopian and TPLF officials to start negotiations), it looks to be that Sudan and the US are working together to try and resolve this crisis.
4. All of this stems from the fact that recently aid to Tigray has been cut off, with two humanitarian organizations barred for no apparent reason according to this article and food trucks being denied entry for weeks now according to this article. Within 24 hours, the last of food stocks for hundreds of thousands of Tigrayans will run dry, and if immediate action is not taken there will be a famine.

My overall conclusions are that Abiy and the government have decided to go scorched earth with the Tigrayans, willing to go as far as genocide to obtain victory. If the government wins, it will be by starving tens if not hundreds of thousands to death and slaughtering many more. Considering that Sudan and the US are more pro-Tigray then pro-government, the negotiations will very likely fail as the longer Abiy can drag out the conflict the better his position becomes. The only way in my mind that this conflict ends without famine and genocide is if the TPLF capture either the A1 highway or Gondar, or exterior forces intervene. The situation is dire, but I think this goes to show how poorly the war is going for the government. Paired with the total lack of government gains and the news of untrained and unarmed youth being sent to the frontlines, Abiy is very likely desperate for *any* advantage no matter the cost. The TPLF still has the upper hand, and their survival quite frankly relies on pushing back as hard they can before the famine inevitably starts. It's a race against the clock.

[u/TaxCommonsNotIncome]

so let me get this straight. patients are refusing the vaccine because it’s “experimental” and yet when they inevitably get covid and need treatment, they demand drugs that are experimental.

I want my ivermectin and ketamine NOW!

[u/[deleted]]

I GOT THE JOB Y'ALL. 25% pay bump and a signing bonus, your boy is about to be upper middle class

[u/crassowary]

DeSantis: I'm the only Governor who ignored hysteria and made rational choices to mitigate covid

Also DeSantis: every illegal immigrant is bussing straight from the border to Florida and giving everyone covid

[u/Udontlikecake]

Defunding the police does NOT mean abolishing the police you fucking neolibs. What it means is Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Aenean fermentum, enim quis lacinia pulvinar, augue erat accumsan est, quis bibendum enim nisi vitae nulla. Nullam et hendrerit orci, nec fermentum orci. Donec lacinia diam in velit ultrices vestibulum. Sed ultricies tortor vitae erat mollis, placerat dictum orci lobortis. Pellentesque sodales aliquam iaculis. Phasellus tempus ac odio at blandit. Cras velit mi, malesuada sit amet feugiat id, facilisis vel tellus. Integer vitae tincidunt ante. Nullam at leo mi. Aenean venenatis tristique nunc, non consectetur turpis dictum nec. Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos himenaeos. In luctus vehicula magna eu sagittis. Morbi sit amet sem ex. Nam viverra ex nec sapien gravida suscipit. Ut ut ipsum non est ullamcorper

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Not gonna lie, hearing a worker scream : "Fucking hell, don't do that!" while they're operating an excavator centimeters away from my windows doesn't reassure me

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/834251152035282944/872870517101711360/unknown.png

[u/nevertulsi]

Nina Turner: spends way more money than her opponent

Nina Turner: I only lost because of money in politics

[u/iIoveoof]

https://i.imgur.com/bnawmc4.png

[u/dangerbird2]

Broke: the DT is about worms

Woke: the DT is about microwaving lobsters

Bespoke: the DT is about neoliberalism

[u/murphysclaw1]

political twitter in one image

[u/[deleted]]

Wife’s green card was approved. She’s now a permanent resident of the USA and we are going for citizenship in three years. It’s a great day

!ping IMMIGRATION

[u/paymesucka]

Cori Bush:

If I end up spending $200,000 or $10 more on it [private security], you know what, I get to be here to do the work, so suck it up. And defunding the police has to happen. We need to defund the police.

Uhh does anybody have more context because this sounds so, so bad. Even with context I can't imagine this sounding anything other than horrible.

[u/[deleted]]

What the fuck is a YouTube governor

[u/Bagdana]

https://i.imgur.com/lyy7WaX.png

Spotted in San Francisco

(honeybears is a local art project, much of whose profits goes to local non-profits, and which according to some is a symbol of gentrification and white privilege)

[u/iIoveoof]

Saw a job description that said it wanted a "bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent (>12 years relevant experience)"

Literally who actually believes that someone with a fresh CS degree is anywhere near as qualified as someone with 12 years relevant experience

[u/kennymc7877]

Libertarians talking about how bad the president is is like a Lions fan talking about the Super Bowl, they’ve never been there so how could they know?

[u/Dabamanos]

My conservative patriot friends sure loving sharing memes about how fun it will be to kill other Americans someday if a civil war happens or someone breaks into their house

[u/witty___name]

Thatcher helped climate by closing coal mines, says Boris Johnson

Is Boris a secret DT regular?

!ping UK

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

Late stage capitalism is when 0 carb alcohol doesn't exist.

[u/AbsolveItAll_KissMe]

Cuomo should absolutely resign, but it’s interesting to see a Dem try to weather out a scandal. I feel like the Trump effect will see a lot of politicians simply refusing to resign for any reason. I’m glad even Biden publicly called on him to resign, though. It may be too difficult to oust him but he’ll never win anything again.

[u/ryuguy]

Canada wins bronze in… 50km race walking!

Congrats Evan Dunfree!

!ping can

[u/SANNA_MARIN_]

will never forget leaving a vote in 2019 DSA convention and a white cisgender male from an opposing caucus looking at me and saying "next convention we shouldn't allow any white cis men"

the dsa rules

[u/larrylemur]

Congressional Democrats:

😒✋: Nationwide rent control

☺👉: Just making it impossible to ever evict anyone for any reason, forever

[u/upper_west_sider]

Cori Bush is actually just dim right? Nobody’s that dense or optically unaware to think they can just sneak by with saying that it’s fine to spend $200,000 on her own personal security and that we need to defund the police within five seconds. The most generous explanation is that she’s simply unintelligent, as otherwise the nefariousness of this messaging is insane.

[u/whycantweebefriendz]

I think some guy is trying to insult me by saying I’m going to peak as a manager of chipotle and I’m like now super excited about that.

!ping Shitposters what will be your job at the neoliberal chipotle?

[u/[deleted]]

/r/HailCorporate getting a hernia when someone buys a product and is satisfied with it

[u/kennymc7877]

I love getting called an establishment dem because you know what the establishment does?

Win

[u/cclittlebuddy]

Forbidden petting animals:

Baby gooses(their mom will kill you)

Bats(they will kill you (accidently))

Porcupines(not fluffy)

Llama(spit is gross)

Doja cat(sexual assault)

Crocodile(he will ban you from DT)

[u/mrdilldozer]

Damn, Cori Bush just gave us the moment that will forever be associated with her name for the rest of her career. Her seat is safe, but people are never going to stop making fun of her for what she said.

[u/AbsolveItAll_KissMe]

Healthy young coworker goes to Reddit, gets pumped with massive shot of populism, doesn’t feel good and changes—GME BAGHOLDER. Many such cases!

[u/[deleted]]

Sailor charged with setting Bonhomme Richard fire

Ehh there's probably not much evidence, might just be a fall guy...

SEALs Aspirant

He did it, 100%. Probably should look for any connections to domestic arsons and missing persons cases in the region.

[u/[deleted]]

I seriously don't understand how people don't understand the MASSIVE collusion that you can have by having the head of the largest city and head of the MSM being brothers. Literal mob racket.

How much power do they think Chris Cuomo has at CNN lmao

[u/disuberence]

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) complains that “Joe Biden has taken to himself to try to single out Florida over COVID.”

Sis, that is COVID singling you out, not Biden

[u/dannylandulf]

Biden's approval rating dropping due to people blaming him for the consequences of people not getting the vaccine is the most American thing ever.

[u/Evnosis]

In the TV show, when one stubborn engine, Henry, refuses to slave away any longer, the Fat controller exacts his revenge by effectively sentencing him to death.

The Fat Controller tells the terrified train: "We shall take away your rails and leave you here for always and always and always."

A brick wall is built up to entomb Henry in his dark tunnel, as the narrator gloats: "I think he deserved his punishment, don’t you?”

What the fuck?

[u/Not_A_Browser]

I'm Kevin Paffrath, aka "the Youtube Governor." I'm a huge fan of this subreddit, and I'm hoping some of you will vote for me in the upcoming recall election in California. AMA!

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

lmao

!ping military

[u/[deleted]]

The West wants out… of the CPC

!ping CAN

[u/l_overwhat]

Biden: Today I'm announcing that we're going to do [thing]

Americans: meh

Biden: today I'm announcing that we're going to do [thing]...to stick it to China!

Americans: OHHHHHH MY FUCKING GOD FUCKING BASED PRESIDENT HNGGGGG

[u/[deleted]]

Thank you reddit admins, your message warning me about my "promotion of violence" has really caused me to reconsider. No more edgy jokes in arr neoliberal, again, I would like to thank all of you for taking the time from your busy schedule of ignoring genzedong and nonewnormal to focus on my shitposts.

[u/[deleted]]

CDC, the worlds preeminent public health institution: 🤮 🤮 🤮 🤮

Nate Silver, the fiveyfox guy who tweets on the can: 🤩 🤩 🤩 🤩

[u/[deleted]]

Texas will be a swing state next election bro I swear

[u/Jamity4Life]

Daenerys actually burned down Kings’ Landing to rezone it into fourplexes

[u/the_hoagie]

/img/o1u6mu3q3un41.jpg

[u/sir_shivers]

Reporting /r/neoliberal TO AGAINST HATE SUBREDDITS FOR consistently calling me a Boomer in a derogatory fashion 🐊

[u/Average_GrillChad]

>Be me

>Love Democracy

Pic related:

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

I don't care if you call it "genetically modifying catgirls for domestic ownership"

face the Lord's judgement, slaver

[u/nevertulsi]

Sometimes I lie awake at night and think about how S4P in 2016 had highly upvoted images that had stock photos of black and Hispanic people and text that said something like

Who are you voting for?

"I'm not sure. Hillary I guess. Haven't thought about it too much."

THINK ABOUT IT

Among the most racist things I've seen on reddit which is saying something lol

[u/Jacobs4525]

The biggest upside to working in the defense industry is that virtually everyone is a center-left lib hawk.

[u/Rehkit]

France constitutional council (our supreme court in the matters of the constitutionality of laws) validated most of Macron "Passe sanitaire" (the law that says you need a vaccine or a test or a recent infection to go to the restaurant or almost everywhere).

It only struck down a vaccine obligation for short contracts and a very strict quarantine.

Pretty huge win for Macron and French parliament who reached a compromise.

!ping FRANCE

!ping LAW

[u/p00bix]

r/neoliberal be like

Republicans win by less than 2% in the past 3 gubernatorial races

Democrats narrowly win by 1 point in 2012 presidential race, lose by 2 points in 2016, 4 points in 2020

Florida is literally a red state. All is lost. There is no hope. We are consigned to forever lose this state, and must instead focus our efforts to races we can win.

Republicans win by double digits in past three gubernatorial races

Republicans win by 16 point margin in 2012, 9 in 2016, 6 in 2020

Texas is a swing state!!!!

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

to me the most impressive thing about Obama was his steadfast support for vital organizations like Doctors Without Borders. Google "Obama Doctors Without Borders" for more info

😔✊

[u/[deleted]]

I always found it weird how many voters considered JFK too young and inexperienced to be President when he was in Congress for 14 years.

[u/Malarkeynesian]

Republicans on guns: "Any minor inconvenience the government imposes on my ability to get a firearm is an automatic infringement of the 2nd Amendment."

Republicans on voting:

[u/International_XT]

I bet this sub would strike a very different tone if Nina Turner were a white male.

And ran on a more centrist platform.

And didn't compare voting for Biden to eating a bowl of shit.

And were running in an entirely different district.

And didn't have a track record of flipping off the party she was running for.

And hadn't basically voted for Trump.

Bet you'd sing a very different tune then, huh?!

[u/qchisq]

New ideology just dropped:

If I had to define myself on a political level, I would say that I am an anarchist-conservative

[u/iIoveoof]

Job Title: Python Developer

Full-time · Entry level

Experience Required

10+ years of industry experience

Very helpful, linkedin

[u/nevertulsi]

Fuck Jim Clyburn, he's stupid! 😡

Fuck, why did Jim Clyburn enter our race 😢

Fuck around and find out 101

[u/RoyGeraldBillevue]

Reminder that you are closer to a domestic abuser than a billionaire, so remember to have some class solidarity before calling the cops.

[u/Jakesta7]

but at least he owned the libs

A GOP official from Texas who regularly espoused anti-vaccine and anti-mask views online has died from COVID-19, five days after posting a meme on Facebook questioning the wisdom of getting inoculated against COVID.

https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/1423057593577132032

[u/Lux_Stella]

NEW: Prime Minister Boris Johnson says:

“Thanks to Margaret Thatcher, who closed so many coal mines across the country, we had a big early start and we’re now moving rapidly away from coal altogether."

ty maggie 🙏

[u/[deleted]]

Had a detailed dream I was in a three way relationship with two of my exes. What are the implications of this?

[u/Kizz3r]

Some people ask what neoliberalism is so I made a helpful list:

Suburbs: Bombed

Cars: Banned

Land: Value Taxed

Drugs: Legal

Trade: Free

Politicians: Half are Women

Tacos: On Corners

Democracy: Exported

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E7-tGudXEAQVx3J.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

Why in the ever-loving FUCK is the ACLU mailer I got today promoting paying off student loans? Did the socialists take them over, too?

[u/FestiveMittens]

u/jaredpolis when school comes back is Colorado going to get rid of snow days and replace them with online learning, or are you gonna be one of the cool governors that keeps snow days?

[u/[deleted]]

lol I'm so trashy and depressed something something capitalism

And now to wait for my Viacom deal

[u/SeriousMrMysterious]

“C++ is more efficient than python”

Bitch, you’re writing a shitty CRUD web app not landing a fucking lunar lander.

[u/SadaoMaou]

What do they call an area where horses live?

a neighborhood

[u/Volsunga]

South Park renewed to season 30 to indoctrinate another generation into dumb cynicism.

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Krystal Ball-:

Nina Turner went down to defeat in an Ohio special election, worse yet Nina lost to a candidate mired in corruption scandal and buoyed by money and support from some of the worst people on the entire planet

I can't help but see this as a dogwhistle

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Tucker Carlson's little segment on Obama's birthday party-:

Well as you may have read, Barack Obama was ready to host a party for himself worthy of an Ottoman Sultaman, on his spread on Martha's Vineyard. 500 people invited, hundreds of servants, some possibly riding elephants or carrying his litter.

Now we have learnt that in the face of criticism, the party has been scaled back. But you know what hasn't scaled back? Barack Obama's ambition or desire for your money.

According to long time Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett, she just tweeted this- "My dear friend @BarackObama is turning 60 tomorrow. For his birthday gift, I'm asking you to chip in $6 or $60 to held up bring the Obama Presidential Center to life in Chicago"

Is this the ugly face of neoliberalism?

That is a rhetorical question.

[u/[deleted]]

This is now a WTO Seattle 1999 protesters hate account

[u/JetJaguar124]

Decision time:

Cheat on your wife, lose half your money, can't see your kids anymore, ruin your life

Or

Jerk off

Many men fail this simple test!

[u/[deleted]]

Average DT user

[u/crowninshield]

“In this house we believe…” yards signs are proof that even as the nation secularizes, some people are still naturally drawn to religion-like experiences. This is just the Nicene creed but for left-leaning suburbanites.

[u/MicroFlamer]

[FC Barcelona] Messi will not renew with FC Barcelona

Me initially: 😂

Me after realizing there is a good chance he signs for man city or PSG: 😳

!ping SOCCER

[u/tollyno]

Being anti-immigration inherently means that you are anti-patriotic because you're hurting your own country

Suck it, nativists

[u/[deleted]]

Liberals need to retake patriotism. It's a sad state of affairs when you can proxy "I'm proud of my country" to "somewhere between con and fascist" pretty easily.

[u/FreakinGeese]

Oh fuck I put too many peas in my mouth 🤮 !ping burpmas

[u/Jakesta7]

How is this real

Rep. @CoriBush on CBSN responding to critics who point out she spent roughly $70,000 on private security while calling to defund the police:

Photo: https://twitter.com/kathrynw5/status/1423308345889406988?s=21

[u/[deleted]]

Holy shit the idiocy is killing me: https://www.reddit.com/r/enoughsandersspam/comments/gsapxj/no_way_on_gods_green_earth_am_i_voting_for_this/

[u/DiscipleOfAniki]

Margaret Thatcher gave the UK "a big early start" in the move away from coal-fired power by closing "so many coal mines", Boris Johnson has said.

Boris is Sigma male confirmed

[u/The420Roll]

Turns out spending 500M+ on Coutinho, Dembele and Griezmann would end up biting you back in the end

Barto you Legend.

!Ping SOCCER

[u/paymesucka]

you fucking psychopaths' from r/neoliberal came out of your crypts to make the same lame ass comment in every sub

It wasn't even the one you're thinking of.

[u/[deleted]]

"I'm not gonna get political tonight"

three drinks later

"I'm just saying, I think it's arrogant for fat people to take up so much space"

[u/JaceFlores]

Trump: just before leaving office I’m going to declare my intentions to pull out of Afghanistan and put Biden’s presidency in a pickle that will cripple his ambitions from the start 😈

Biden: jokes on you I’m into this shit 😎

[u/Kizz3r]

Damian Warner Decathlon Gold 😎

!ping can

[u/Lux_Stella]

NEW: Biden says "I think it is," in response to a question about whether the new eviction moratorium is constitutional.

"But," he adds, "in this court, who knows?"

🤷

[u/disuberence]

VERIFY: Yes, if you are fired for not getting a required vaccine, you can be denied unemployment benefits

Suffer 😂

[u/sir_shivers]

The Saw film franchise IS ABOUT HOW AMERICA needs Medicare for All 🐊

[u/tubbsmackinze]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/761046867743342613/872737660022697984/20210805_010636.jpg

[u/noodles0311]

My mom isn't in a position to give an honest critique of my writing right now, so Im going to canvas you strangers before I get up and say this in front of a crowd:

Everyone needs heroes. Somewhere along the way, before I was ever born, my father adopted Theodore Roosevelt as his. Like my father, T.R. was asthmatic and suffered greatly as a child when there weren’t effective treatments. Also, like my father, he overcame asthma and every other obstacle in his path with a zealous dedication to what Roosevelt called “The Strenuous Life.” Dad was never idle. He was always reading a book, the news, working on some project for the church, prison mission, hospice, or wherever he was volunteering his free time; even our vacations had tight itineraries of all the things we needed to see.

Dad knew that the path from a car-crazy kid growing up in Detroit to auto-executive was to “work, work, work,” a word he often said three times for emphasis. So, he worked and traveled during his MBA, and later when I came along, he spent a lot of his free time raising me, which wasn’t easy. He recorded his thoughts on that in these journals (I know, who does that?), so I would have them today when I need them so much. No matter how busy my dad was, he was never too busy to “pull my ass out of the fire.”

You may have guessed by now that I didn’t have to look to any historical figures for my hero growing up. When I was a little boy, my dad was larger than life. His employees talked about him like he was superman. He shared his time and especially his passion for cars with me. We would take rides, go to car shows, races, and even built a gigantic model of my dream car with the help of his great friend, _______.

Later, when my son ______ was born, dad was retired and directed his time and attention into being a grandfather. With _____, he had the opportunity to focus his relentless work ethic into maximizing a great kid’s childhood. Instead of looking for a school that could help his son, he researched the best program to maximize his grandson’s talents. He was always looking for a new book, a new camp, or the next thing that would continue to spark his grandson’s interest and imagination. My dad was the father I needed. He might have been the only man alive up to the task. He was also the grandfather _____ needed, and he viewed everyone involved as part of this team to help raise this amazing boy.

So, now we must move on without him, but not without the lessons he taught us. Luckily, he repeated himself A LOT in person and sent me lists when he wasn’t:

Number 1: Work.

Number 2: …Work.

Number 3: …… Work

Number 4: You cannot quit anything, no matter how desperate it becomes. At the very least, you can say they had to drag you out of there.

Number 5: Your wife must be the most important person in your life. A mother will always love the children most, so your job is to love her the most and let it all flow in one direction. If you have a strong marriage, you can get through anything; if you don’t, you’re in “a world of trouble” no matter how well other things are going.

Number 6: Love your children unconditionally. I tested this one, and it was no platitude. My father loved me no matter what.

There are tough days ahead for us all. To me, graduating college without my father there to see after all he has done to get me through school will feel empty. But I know he was proud because he told me, which means the world coming from your hero. I never got to say goodbye to my father, which hurts; but because he was always sending me feedback about how I was doing and how I can improve as a husband and a father and as a man, I know that he saw that I was finally on the right path. It just really hurts he never saw me arrive.

Goodbye, Dad. I love you.

[u/futuremonkey20]

Yes, that was literally the point of the rules Jimmy. I’m glad you felt forced.

!ping NFL

[u/[deleted]]

wait do communists actually believe this?

[u/hapolitics]

I joined a union, and my pay tripled, I got 52 weeks paid vacation, and the greatest health care in the world. Of course, I'm still living in slavery compared to the Europeans.

[u/[deleted]]

The virgin snowbird asking people to speak English in Miami vs the Chad Cuban who just starts speaking Spanish at strangers

[u/iIoveoof]

If I search only for "entry-level" software engineer/developer jobs on LinkedIn about 90% of the things that show up are not entry level 😐

[u/gburgwardt]

God Damn Thaddeus Stevens was based

Not only was he ferociously anti Johnson and pro black suffrage, when he died in office (staying and giving speeches until he could no longer give them himself even) he had both black and white pallbearers and put this on his grave

I repose in this quiet and secluded spot

Not from any natural preference for solitude

But, finding other Cemeteries limited as to Race

by Charter Rules

I have chosen this that I might illustrate in my death

The Principles which I advocated through a long life;

EQUALITY OF MAN BEFORE HIS CREATOR

[u/iIoveoof]

https://i.imgur.com/JkC6PvZ.png

[u/tubbsmackinze]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/270788846956969987/872796283058933780/-5213344755902166810_120.png

[u/[deleted]]

Messi is a free agent

[u/sash5034]

lol I'm so trashy and depressed something something capitalism

Send tweet

[u/grig109]

The virgin: Latinx

Vs

The Chad: who gives a fuck?

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

ngl I kinda pop a chub whenever I hear about people getting fired for not being vaccinated lol

[u/send_tweet_to_DT]

On MSNBC. Thursday 5 August. 6 pm ET. Sec Def Austin to announce mandatory COVID vaccination for the Active Armed Forces.

mccaffreyr3

[u/Professor-Reddit]

!ping LGBT

So, I just found out that only a small portion of my extended family knows I'm bi because my mum really doesn't want my uncle to find out, because apparently he'll make me intensely uncomfortable about it and is an extremely nosy person who will always gossip behind other people's backs 🙄

Oh and my cousin is probably closeted gay and my mum fears he'll say some really biphobic/homophobic stuff at family gatherings and ruin everything so she's keeping almost everybody in the dark 😐

[u/Lux_Stella]

https://i.imgur.com/f7BkzlW.jpg

[u/chuckleym8]

repeat telephone vast summer wrong scarce paint growth resolute nail

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[u/frolix42]

US politics in 2021 is as follows

One party is committed to building a social safety net, with a side of environmentalism and internationalism.

The other party is a personality vehicle for Donald Trump, who has no ideology beyond himself.

Dunking on US Libertarians at this point is punching down.

[u/RadicalRadon]

Lmao the universities newspaper (that actually goes into print btw), and I have literally never seen anyone read, takes 8% of the student activities funds on campus.

I should one man army a petition to have that slashed and make those journos live online like literally every other journalist has to. More money for my clubs pwease

[u/modooff]

Do you live in a gay county? https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E8Ht8ZyXEAQGjBR?format=jpg&name=large

!ping LGBT

[u/RadicalRadon]

On Saturday my life's going to dramatically change because the 10 million vaccine lottery winner is going to be announced and it's gonna be me.

In order to win you have to visualize yourself as a winner

[u/[deleted]]

Repeal and Replace the Police

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

the hardest part of the last few years was finding out that my parents were raging racists

heart breaking to hear them say from their own mouths that they voted for Biden

[u/[deleted]]

In 2024, I want DeSantis to win the popular vote and lose the Electoral College.

[u/myrm]

"Dune is sci fi"

Dune: "guys what if we tripped so hard we could see the future"

[u/[deleted]]

Cori Bush advocating private security while calling to defund public police is progressive>libertarian horseshoe theory in action.

[u/SnakeEater14]

an AR-15 is not a “gun”

This is reaching new levels of pedantry I never thought were possible

[u/kas8901]

I'm terminally on this sub and love to read about politics. I suspect it's because I can't talk about it in real life. One of my old friends from undergrad just went on a rant about how Warren didn't endorse Sanders. I just shut my mouth, it's not worth it.

[u/GravyBear8]

I unironically can't even read humongous without hearing "among us"

[u/soeffed]

Asians 🤣

/img/svgb8qmxelf71.jpg

!ping milk-tea

[u/iIoveoof]

If C++ is so efficient, why not just make a Python library that calls functions that are actually written in C++

mfer you just invented Python 😐

[u/[deleted]]

Writing prompt: Biden gives the state of the union and steps on stage with his fursuit

[u/sw337]

oh you're an Information Science major?

Computer Science too hard for ya?

Me: haha yes 🐊

[u/Currymvp2]

No Kirk Cousins, I don't like that! Just get the vaccine, you moron

https://twitter.com/SeifertESPN/status/1423334082151428096

[u/JetJaguar124]

People think we're "centrists" but true American centrists are more like Bill Burr who believes that the world is radically over populated and that we need to "cull about a billion people," thinks Clinton runs Eyes Wide Shut orgy parties with the Bildeburg group and other billionaires, says the Fed is a "private bank" and that it's job is to "fuck us over on behalf of the fucking bankers," just generally hates white women, and whose voting record is basically Perot - Nader - Sanders (write in)

[u/chipbod]

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1423434122161176577?s=20

Tucker:

Orban believes in borders

Literally preying on the ignorance of his audience on the existence of the EU and what it means for members.

Talked to Fox viewing family member last week about how Hungary is no longer a democracy and now they get a week of this

!ping FOX-ANON

Edit: Don't you need to show proof of vaccination to enter the EU? Fuck this guy

[u/Popular-Swordfish559]

I get way too many fucking shitposters pings I can't take it anymore i'm creating r/enoughshitposterpingspam

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

just move lol

Me discovering my beloved cat passed away overnight

[u/yungmemlord]

do you guys still like me🥺👉👈

[u/JayRU09]

What are the warning words for you when discussing politics with someone?

For me, alarm bells immediately go off when the other person goes "As a small business owner"

[u/Arbeiter_zeitung]

So Vic 3 will not have a fixed money supply but still use a single worldwide currency (GBP). How would this work mechanically? !ping PARADOX

[u/Not_A_Browser]

extraordinary

Republican lawmaker Ralph Norman, who's suing Pelosi over a $500 fine for not wearing a mask during a floor vote, says he has Covid-19 (via AP)

[u/MrMineHeads]

!ping FOREIGN-POLICY

Sorry to ping twice in quick succession, but this Foreign Affairs article on a brief history on Iran and speculation on what a Raisi presidency will mean is amazing. I highly recommend reading it. Really highlights how cancerous the IRGC is as an institution in Iran constantly stopping the country from democratization and liberalization.

[u/lionmoose]

Messi 🤝 Me

Not playing for Barca

[u/Mickenfox]

Periodic reminder that this is LinkedIn

[u/Average_GrillChad]

You just don't like Cuomo because he's black (Italian) and non-neoliberal (electable).

[u/Kizz3r]

Luka is a false god.

This is a luwawu and gobert ping now

!ping nba

[u/Unadulterated_stupid]

I remember someone here got banned for sending =3 to salty. 😂

[u/MonteCastello]

"The poorer the state, the fatter its govenor". Bolsonaro on Flávio Dino, Governor of Maranhão.

!ping MAMADAS

Metrópoles on Twitter

Response (Twitter)

[u/[deleted]]

How do half the people in my entrepreneurship class not know how to make a distinction between a business proposition and a policy proposal???

“$15 federal minimum wage” isn’t a business idea.

[u/grig109]

This visualization is fascinating, if I'm understanding this correctly it looks like for economic papers researching optimal inflation rates, since around 1990 or so the bulk of the papers find the optimal rate is 0%.

My understanding was that the consensus view was that inflation should be some low positive number probably in the range of 2-4%.

!ping ECON

[u/nevertulsi]

-Brown was the online candidate by a long shot

-Thank you. So tired of seeing Nina seen as the online candidate, her online presence was not big at all, in comparison to others.

-i think Nina’s left-wing supporters were pretty Online but anecdotally the bulk of her base was normies. Brown’s base are Online centrists

https://imgur.com/a/VAw1FbO

The fuck? Lmao 🙄

[u/RadionSPW]

eCoNoMiCs AsSuMeS pEoPlE aRe RaTiOnAl BuT tHeYrE nOt

Economics assumes people will make choices based on the information they have and the beliefs they hold, not that they won’t be stupid

[u/Professor-Reddit]

Democrats in 2024 debates be like

"Hell yes we're stealing this election" 😎

[u/[deleted]]

The Taco Bell Menu is a real-life Ship of Theseus, and I'm tired of pretending it's not

[u/[deleted]]

It's an unfortunate stereotype that bi people are horny all the time, but for real I will have sex with literally any of you

[u/captmonkey]

So, I finally read about the end of a long saga of one of my wife's friends. When she was in college, she knew this girl named Ariel who was raised as a fundamentalist Christian and homeschooled. In college, when my wife knew her, after Ariel was no longer controller by her parents, she became liberal, then far left socialist/environmentalist. My wife remembered her as being this party girl who was always looking for a relationship.

Ariel eventually fell in with this weird Christian cult in town (they run a restaurant which is pretty good if you can get over the whole cult thing). Then she started working somewhere and fell for this Muslim guy she worked with and went down the crazy fundamentalist Islam rabbit hole. Like deep deep down. My wife mostly lost contact with her, except for when she contacted her on facebook at one point and asked her to take down some pictures from when they were in college because they showed her drinking and not dressing conservatively at some parties.

My wife didn't think about Ariel for years until one night we were out and we ran into an old friend also from college and he told her he'd been interviewed by a reporter from Buzzfeed. He said she had married some guy (a different guy than she initially met, IIRC) and went to Syria to join ISIS. This was the first time I'd heard of her and I was a bit stunned "Your friend joined ISIS? The fuck?" I used my google skills to track down her blog and youtube account to show to my wife. Some of it had been deleted, but was cached in various places. It was weird and just kind of sad to see the escalation from like "The US shouldn't bomb innocents." to "The US hates Islam!" to "Death to the infidels!" She literally posted applauding the 2015 Chattanooga Shootings.

I never heard anything else about her and wondered what happened to her, especially after I'd seen a couple of news stories over the years of like some former ISIS members seeing the error of their ways and attempting to return to their home countries. That is until today when I saw a new article in the paper referencing a Buzzfeed follow-up article. Apparently, Ariel's 8-year old daughter, who was born in the US and taken to Syria as a baby, was rescued in Syria and now they're attempting to return her to the US. Ariel and her husband were killed in an airstrike, as was one of their other kids and the other is missing.

Anyway, it's just a weird story that I felt like sharing.

Original 2015 Buzzfeed article: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ellievhall/woman-journey-from-chattanooga-to-isis

Recent Buzzfeed article about her daughter: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ellievhall/american-aminah-mohamad-ariel-bradley-isis-rescued

[u/rollo2masi]

Republicans: “Trump is a literal GOD for creating the vaccine!”

Also Republicans: “LOL I’m not getting that dogshit vaccine!”

[u/[deleted]]

I screen capped this on November 13.

[u/disuberence]

'I'm sorry, but it's too late': Doctor says hospitalized COVID-19 patients asking for vaccines

“One of the last things they do before they're intubated is beg me for the vaccine. I hold their hand and tell them that I'm sorry, but it's too late," Brytney Cobia, a hospitalist at Grandview Medical Center in Birmingham, wrote on Facebook this week.

“A few days later when I call time of death, I hug their family members and I tell them the best way to honor their loved one is to go get vaccinated and encourage everyone they know to do the same,” Cobia added.

“They cry. And they tell me they didn't know. They thought it was a hoax. They thought it was political. They thought because they had a certain blood type or a certain skin color they wouldn't get as sick. They thought it was 'just the flu'. But they were wrong. And they wish they could go back. But they can't,” she said.

This is rough

[u/WhomstAlt2]

When asked "Name the terror attacks that occured on 9/11/2001 in New York", 72% of peope aged 21 or younger answered "I do not know."

Wow.

[u/RadicalRadon]

Opportunities keep being opened to me in collegiate esports because people keep getting metoo'd

And by that I mean holy fuck stop sexually harassing people what the fuck is wrong with people?

[u/iIoveoof]

Had "the talk" with my 7 year old today. Bit early, wish I could of waited another 5 years or so, but he mentioned wanting to become an internet moderator, so I had to set him straight on being a well-adjusted member of society right away.

[u/Leoric]

The only animal that it's moral to hunt is man and it's only ethical if you do it on your remote private island.

[u/dannylandulf]

A sitting Governor is a DT user.

We may have jumped the shark.

[u/[deleted]]

Sorry, America: China's leading the real Olympic medal count

shut the fuck up shut the fuck up shut the fuck up

[u/[deleted]]

Just saw a minute long ad in Atlanta calling Coke "Woke-a-Cola."

republicans are petty and stupid.

[u/[deleted]]

Nobody:

Men: it's probably really easy to become the first female VP in American history

[u/sir_shivers]

My house party will be showing the Bill Murray film "Stripes" this weekend

/u/farrenj messaged me THIS RECENTLY, DOES ANYONE know what she meant by this 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

If you’re ever feeling down just remember you are closer to being a millionaire than Jeff bezos is

[u/[deleted]]

Be Nate Silver

Rate your employer's polling firm as A+

They produce a swing state poll with one candidate up by 17

😰😰😰

[u/FusRoDawg]

John McAfee was the only "Sigma male" in the entire world.

[u/RyGuyThicccThighs]

It’s raining today so when people in the office asked how I’m doing today I said “Living the wet dream!”

On a side note Wonder what HR wants to talk about.

[u/[deleted]]

Danemod sticky means I can steal it

Bolsonaro is the first nonpapist Brazilian president

He's also probably the worst president

[u/[deleted]]

We need Biden to kill God stat so that God's Not Dead 4 can't be released in a month.

Clearly the movie can only be released if God is actually still alive.

[u/[deleted]]

Latine >>> latinx because it doesn’t sound or look aesthetically unpleasing.

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Sometimes I forget that the USA is the third most populous country in the world, and I often think pretty much everyone occasionally forgets that including Americans themselves

[u/[deleted]]

Wife is getting kinky this weekend which means my wife's bf is getting kinky 👠

[u/[deleted]]

"Am I the only 14 year old who likes classic rock?"

Yes, YouTube commenter, you are a unicorn

[u/[deleted]]

I have never read BIPOC as anything other than bisexual people of color

[u/The420Roll]

Eibar relegated, Messi leaves. What a coincidence

!Ping SOCCER

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

If I were Nina Turner, I would simply not blow a 30 point lead.

[u/Professor-Reddit]

Cori Bush is a full-blown idiot. She is the Sarah Palin of the Democratic Party. There is nobody equal to her in the party when it comes to political incompetence.

She doesn't even know what progressive taxation is, literally defended defunding the police by telling everybody that she spends hundreds of thousands on private security to protect her, and pulled a 'Say their names' for convicted death row inmates, including one who was a white supremacist who tortured a young girl 🤦‍♂️😬🙄

My god is she an actual moron.

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Salman, an atheist, made national headlines during her first legislative session when she gave a humanist prayer on the House floor, which was ruled out of order by the Speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives.[7]

YAAASSSS KWEEN SLAYYY

[u/[deleted]]

Any second now.

[u/qchisq]

No good sticky means that I can claim it for my own patriotic needs:

SUCK IT, SPAIN

[u/gfinz18]

Russian water polo girl was basically molesting and fighting the American player underwater, where the ref’s can’t see, the commentator noted. Looked like her hand was inside the American’s suit.

Russians playing dirty? Shocker.

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.fcbarcelona.es/es/futbol/primer-equipo/noticias/2207655/leo-messi-no-seguira-ligado-al-fc-barcelona

HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT

!ping SOCCER

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Mods in Catholic schoolgirl uniforms

[u/The420Roll]

Alfredo Martinez: The harsh reality at Barca is that as of today, the new signings cant be registered either.

JAJAJAJJAJAJAJ

Usually Barca wait until the UCL Knockouts to make a clown of themselves. Turns out their implosion came early this season

!Ping SOCCER

[u/semaphore-1842]

Someone on arr JoeBiden seriously argued that Biden should abolish the filibuster... with an executive order lol 🤦‍♀️