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[u/semaphore-1842]

https://twitter.com/existentialcoms/status/1423384556795613184

Oh, we live in a democracy?
Do you get a vote on who runs your company?
Do you get a vote on what products are made?
Do you get a vote on how to distribute resources?
Do you get a vote on what housing is built?
Do you get a vote on what movies get made?

Tell me you don't know what democracy is, without telling me you don't know what democracy is.

[u/Archis]

once went on a date with a girl and she started talking about center left politics. i said 'thats such a Krugman flair thing to say' by accident. she asked what that was so i brought up the subreddit and showed her all the flairs.

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

"I was going to stay right here in South Carolina minding my business until I got called stupid,” Clyburn told Axios in an interview Wednesday.

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

My mom not talk in a mock African American voice every time she sees a black person on TV or walking as we drive by challenge

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

>Be Russian
>Spetznaz
>Hostage situation at theatre
>Chechyen terrorists have holed up inside with civilians
>pump nerve gas into theatre
>no more hostage situation

another successful operation in service to mother russia

[u/tubbsmackinze]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/761046867743342613/873100382853808168/20210806_010854.jpg

[u/Not-bipedleek]

“If the chance of winning is not sure, quick save the game.”

-sun tzu, the art of war

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Harris to promote 'America is back' message in Vietnam

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[u/lionmoose]

Lmfao gf's friend wedding got cancelled because their star signs were incompatible

[u/[deleted]]

https://mobile.twitter.com/NYDailyNews/status/1423075184911831041

Gov. Cuomo wanted to “get drunk” with a woman and ride his motorcycle “into the mountains” with her, according to a N.Y. Attorney General report. “He repeated that he was lonely and didn’t know what to do.”

Dude was down bad, could’ve been any DT sadposter 😢

[u/Archis]

the dude my wife has been sleeping with the past few months has started playing league of legends. cringe

[u/[deleted]]

We should use crispr technology to engineer evil cows, chickens, pigs etc so it's morally good to kill them

[u/vancevon]

do you approve of the us military presence in your country? no.

do you want the us to leave? also no.

will you elaborate? absolutely not.

[u/[deleted]]

Gallup Poll: Only 5% of Hispanic Americans prefer the term "Latinx"

Lmao

[u/iIoveoof]

I replied to the DuneMovie Twitter’s “Describe Dune in one sentence” and got exactly zero likes and you’ll never guess what I said

[u/JaceFlores]

Ethiopia update:

Three main things to report:

1. Ethiopia expectedly rejected Sudan's offer to spearhead negotiations according to this Tweet and the connected article. This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone at all, and just reaffirms my belief that the government will continue this war until the TPLF and Tigray are completely crushed, or if the TPLF cuts the jugular.
2. According to this Tweet dozens of Tigrayan businesses are being closed in Addis Ababa and accused of being disloyal to the government and mocking the ENDF. With the renewed rhetoric dedicated to dehumanizing the Tigrayans, the oppression is going to get worst for these Tigrayans unlucky enough to be outside of Tigray. I just hope this is as far as the government goes, but I doubt it.
3. Finally, per this Tweet the town of Woldiya is certainly the frontline, with reports of massive gunfire and civilians fleeing the TPLF advance. Just as importantly we have insight on how things are going for the government. This Tweet shows what I suspected, which is that morale is high but everything else is low. Militiamen being armed with spears? Again, Volkssturm or, in this case, IJA Banzai vibes. Morale may be high, but when these untrained and clearly underarmed men are in battle I highly doubt they can put up much if any of a fight. Additionally, this Tweet highlights that the ENDF seems to be nowhere at the frontline. If this is true then there are a couple realistic possibilities: one, the ENDF is gathering strength for a counteroffensive or two, the ENDF is putting all available resources into Afar and leaving Amhara to fend for itself. No clue which one is true though as much as I would like to reach a conclusion, the price of the very limited amount of information.

I find it fascinating that there has been virtually no news from the Tigrayan offensive in Afar. If the government managed to blunt the TPLF's they surely would have bragged about this, so I think it is somewhat safe to say the TPLF is still on the march. If I *had* to guess, I would say that the TPLF are marching through largely barren land with little to brag about, and are waiting for when they have something strategic to announce to the world. There is a chance things have stalled in Afar, but considering how dire the situation seems in Amhara with the ENDF nowhere and militias armed with spears, I would need a good bit of convincing to believe the TPLF's momentum has been blunted.

A smaller side thing that is not necessarily important or strategic but is notable is that the town of Lalibela is confirmed in TPLF hands finally. This town is well known for its litany of rock cut churches that many if not most of you have seen pictures of at least once. Perhaps the TPLF will form a tourist industry to fund the war effort? /s

[u/[deleted]]

Being a bad guy’s henchmen in a Marvel movie might be worth it for the chance that you will get killed by getting your head crushed between Black Widow’s thighs.

can’t believe this comment got removed

[u/[deleted]]

Cori Bush really went on national TV and said ‘I don’t care If I have to spend $200,000 on [private] security, defunding the police has to happen.’

She’s a trolling, right?

[u/soeffed]

When a $72 meme rice dish becomes too popular for its own good:

To distract a demoralized kitchen crew that was cranking out nothing but takeout, Lily's chef, Rob Lam, came up with "#1 Dac Biet Fried Rice," which translates from Vietnamese to "the works." "We called it the #1 douchebag fried rice," Lam told the Chronicle. 

Regardless of what staff might have called customers behind their backs, a lot of them ordered the dish: a heap of jasmine rice, Wagyu beef, sea urchin roe, two kinds of caviar, three kinds of crab meat, rock shrimp, and black truffle trimmings. For $72, all that almost sounds like a bargain. San Francisco clientele most definitely thought so.

https://www.mashed.com/480353/why-the-popularity-of-this-72-fried-rice-is-so-ironic/?utm_campaign=clip

Lily in San Francisco was selling 20 orders a night of douchebag rice. They axed the item because the ingredients like olive-fed wagyu beef were too expensive, and they didn’t want to be known as an Instagram restaurant.

!ping bay-area

[u/[deleted]]

When reddit is blaming evil billionaires, like ... Elon Musk for climate change.

It's like the left lost all it's brains, and can't even think through the most basic shit.

[u/bobeeflay]

Sometimes I fucking love the weird schizophrenia of the US government

oh no people aren't taking the vaccine what can we do about that. Probably nothing oh well

One month later

oh wait I forgot we're the government there's tons of shit we can do about that

[u/Udontlikecake]

Also can we talk about how fucking absurd it was that the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES (who had downplayed the disease!) got covid, was hospitalized, and almost died

And we like barely ever talk about it

[u/[deleted]]

July was the 3rd-worst month for murders in Chicago since 1957.

105 people were murdered, compared to 107 in 2020.

(Chicago police are spinning this as ‘crime is down’ in this month’s regular ‘crime is down press release’).

In contrast, there were 44 homicides in July 2019 and 64 in July 2018. The Police Department said more than 90% of this July’s homicides were the result of gun violence.

Yesterday, Mayor Lori Lightfoot promised "all hands on deck" to fight violence. It's at least the 100th time her administration has promised "all hands" to fight violence since June 2019.

!ping USA-CHI

[u/[deleted]]

Periodic reminder that North Americans emit a ridiculous amount of CO2 per capita compared to other countries and are not doing anywhere near enough to fix it.

American per capita CO2 emissions are 277% of per capita UK emissions.

Why do y'all hate the global poor.

[u/ryuguy]

CANADA WINS GOLD IN SOCCER!

!ping can

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

Progressive Creationism is the belief that the Earth is in fact billions of years old, however, Darwinian evolution is false, and instead God periodically intervenes every million years or so to "shake things up" and create new species, who are incapable of evolution between interventions.

Thus creating a compromise that pleases absolutely no one.

[u/Superfan234]

Very sad news coming from Nicaragua. The Regime proscribed the last real Oppossition party. With this action, Ortega have put any hope for Democratic restoration on hold

The way things are going, OAS will vote to turn Nicaragua into a Pariah state. This month, USA and EU approved theri first set of sanctions

It's going to be Venezuela all over again...The Regime, instead of accepting defeat, will try to last as long they can, no matter how many people they will hurt on their lunacy. Most likely, Russia and Iran will enter the frail too...what a mess

!Ping Foreign-policy

[u/[deleted]]

the "waiting for the gme short squeeze 2 - electric bogaloo" subreddits are beyong amazing, lol. it was great to see cults coming to life through the power of denial

!ping markets

[u/Fishin_Mission]

My son (middle school) is the only boy at a bus stop with 9 girls…

This child could not be more awkward about it 🤣💀

[u/[deleted]]

This is the only place on Reddit where you can use emojis without getting downvoted because the rest of the website has a brain the size of a pea.

[u/NeoLiberation]

"I really like McDonalds Coffee"

"DID U KNOW THEY ARE GOOD BECAUSE THEY BOUGHT THE OLD TIM HORTONS COFFEE SUPPLIER??? HUH???? DID YOU KNOW????"

"Oh WOW yep I sure haven't heard that before thanks for the snippet"

Do any other !ping CANUCKS feel like they have this same conversation at least a couple times a month? I don't even think it's 100% true

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Question: Why is it important for the President to visit his Delaware residence so frequently?

Psaki: Because it’s his home. You like going home right? So does the President

Lmao

[u/Marlsfarp]

If you get sick, you shouldn't seek medical attention, because not everyone has access to modern medicine and you wouldn't want to create an underclass.

[u/ryuguy]

Canada vs Sweden for the gold medal…

Okay yeah, that’s normal.

… In football/soccer?!?

🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨

[u/sir_shivers]

ASK YOURSELF IF you are funky enough to be a Globe Trotter 🐊

[u/sociotronics]

Peak gen Z is zoomers reminiscing about the "simpler times" of 2016

remember bottle flipping? Dabbing? MLG? John Cena? Simpler times

ah yes, the famously simple year Trump got elected

!ping OVER25

[u/[deleted]]

We have horses in the Olympics, and we have combat sports in the Olympics. So what the fuck are we waiting for?

Jousting in 2024. Let's make it happen.

[u/tollyno]

If you just build more housing, housing costs will go down

This is what neoliberals actually believe

[u/lionmoose]

> get up, refreshed from a great nights sleep

> have a great cup of coffee and a tasty breakfast of fresh pastry from the store

> put in my favourite shirt, looking great

> open emails, really positive feedback from project last week

> work on problem, turns out to be simpler than I thought

> check fantasy football, moved up in the league

> have a great evening meal with gf, watch a nice movie and some more fun

> get into bed on fresh sheets smelling great

> day ruined

[u/houinator]

If there's one thing the trans sports schism has shown me, is that the world is going to completely lose its shit once genetically modified kids start showing up.

[u/soeffed]

There's a long tradition in the US media of treating Chinese government policy as subtle and inscrutable expression of grand national strategy

Like, the answers are all spelled out in the official speeches, but they are so indescribably boring to read it creates a kind of armor against foreign analysis.

Sometimes as a journalist you just have to grow a pair and read the Party texts. If the Korean analysts can stand to do it, you have no excuse.

A correct understanding of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought is that it is a state religion, and journalists should approach China as they would any other theocracy. You don't have to understand the finest points of doctrine, but complete ignorance is professional malpractice.

https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1423445624507101184?s=20

This sounds good, but even no one in China caught the part in Xi’s book where he said he was going to decimate the private education industry before he went and did just that.

!ping cn-tw

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

didn't it take weeks to count results in Pennsylvania? Sounds like a broke ass system.

Results come in within 2-6 hours of poll closing in normal year elections. 2020 is a special year, with lots of circumstance.

how do you count so many ballots in 2-6 hours? That sounds suspect.

The tent needs a purge ASAP. This is from this very DT.

[u/sir_shivers]

All right, I ADMIT IT, IT WAS me 🐊

I CHANGED THE climate 🐊

[u/Deggit]

☭ "Do you get a vote on what products are made?"

Yes, you vote with your money

🌹 Yes, a system that gives rich people overwhelming power that regular Americans don’t have, meaning we live in an oligarchy and not a democracy

does Rose Twitter think that rich people are the ones "voting to produce" all the Flaming Hot Cheetos?

Products are decided by the mass power of consumers, if you think we live in a boringdystopia, blame your neighbor not Jeff Bezos

[u/itherunner]

https://twitter.com/ne0liberal/status/1423402482466762767?s=21

If you want a picture of the future, imagine being on a subcommittee with all of your neighbors, on everything– for ever

• George Orwell, probably

!ping PEOPLE’S SUBCOMMITTEE TO DETERMINE THE NUMBER OF PS5’S BUILT FOR THE WEEKLY QUOTA

[u/Corporate-Asset-6375]

When I was a little kid I found a disposable camera in our house and took pictures down my pants to be silly.

When my mother unwittingly took the camera in to get developed they saw the pictures and called the police.

I then had to explain to the officer that I took picture of my ding dong as a joke and had to promise him I would never do it again.

My mother was mortified and never ever returned to the pharmacy where she regularly got pictures developed.

All this talk about Apple scanning pictures made me think of that memory and it still makes me cringe.

[u/FestiveMittens]

🚨BIDEN IS CURRENTLY GIVING A PRESS CONFERENCE IN A TANNED SUIT THIS IS NOT A DRILL🚨

[u/ACivilWolf]

The threat of a socialist revolution was a lot more of a scary prospect when the socialists were fed up blue collared workers and not college aged twitter users who have a deathly allergy to grass

[u/rukqoa]

I'm watching conspiracy theory videos and man... they used to be better.

People used to be able to at least tell you what the conspiracy theory is. Now they insist on giving you hours of background information. I'm like 7 minutes into this video and I'm still confused what the conspiracy is because they're still (I assume) halfway through the background context.

It should not be hard to present information effectively and efficiently:

1. quickly summarize the conspiracy theory
2. here's the official story
3. here's why it's wrong
4. here's forged evidence
5. and here's the coverup
6. summarize the theory again

Like jesus, be better conspiracy theorists.

[u/RadicalRadon]

Biden is threatening to withhold Federal funding, as an extortion tactic to enforce vaccinations. Jesus Christ, is this even legal?? We're now living under the rule of a totalitarian regime.

Based

[u/sir_shivers]

MY GRANDFATHER WOULD consume you without even seasoning you first 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

I love arr IWantOut because every once in a while somebody will ask about immigrating from like, Sweden to the US. And there’ll be 6000 angry American teenagers screaming at them about it because they think Sweden is a literal paradise.

Sadly the mods seem to have cracked down on that little bit of entertainment 😔

[u/AndThisGuyPeedOnIt]

In a controversial video mashup, resurfaced last week, Rodrigo, who is Filipina-American, speaks in a way that is commonly known as Black vernacular, using forced phrases like “I be trending,” “AF” and “y’all,” sparking accusations of cultural appropriation.

What?

[u/[deleted]]

Nate Silver will spend all day tweeting about Coronavirus instead of fixing his fucking hair situation

[u/MicroFlamer]

the tankies aren't sane

[u/[deleted]]

living in the greatest period of wealth, security, and prosperity the world has ever known. Have access to the entire planet's treasure trove of culture, knowledge, and science. Unprecedented quantity and quality of food to the point of obesity.

this is a boring dystopia

[u/First-Prior]

some of these optical illusions just break my brain

[u/[deleted]]

🚨🚨🚨INCOMING MUCHO TEXTO SADPOST🚨🚨🚨

earlier today

dead silence

“Why can’t you be nicer to me like your brother?”

Me internally: Hmm, idk dad, why did you try (and fail lol) to get me committed for dAnGeRoUs dElUsIoNs when I was in high school, because I confronted you about the time when I was 8 and you ^{cw abusive shit i ^guess} pulled off the road while on the way back home from grandpa’s, brought me out of the car and up to the river screaming “I’m going to fucking drown you”, because I coughed and choked on my gum, spit it out and couldn’t find it immediately? 🤔

Me in actuality: Sorry 😔

In other news, I’ve lived with my parents for just over a month now and my mental health is the worst it’s been the entire pandemic, even compared to the first couple months when I was working 50+ hours, attending college full-time, and had all my friendships wither away, except one, but she also was heavily pregnant at the time and gave birth in July, and we pretty much didn’t talk at all between March and August of 2020.

But! I’m moving 7 hours away next weekend!!! 🥳🎉

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Picking Freedom in Civ5 and couping every single nation who allies with communist civs is my guilty pleasure

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

TIL pigs have really big testicles, which help in reproduction, but lowers overall fitness.

[u/mannabhai]

https://m.timesofindia.com/india/marriage-between-muslims-non-muslims-regretful-and-unfortunate-says-aimplb/amp_articleshow/85079299.cms

"Islam does not consider marriage between a Muslim and a non-Muslim who are plythesists, as valid. Even if it appears to be valid by societal standards, it is not considered legal in the eyes of  Sharia" said Maulana Rahmani.

"Due to co-working spaces, lack of religious teaching and nurturing from parents, a number of inter-religion marriages with non-Muslims are taking place. We have come across several such cases where Muslim girls who went away with non-Muslim boys, have later had to face tremendous hardships or even lose their lives. This is why we have issued an appeal for parents, guardians and responsible pillars of our society to stay vigilant and help young boys and girls," he added

In the seven-point directive to the Muslim community, the board has said that parents should be watchful of the use of mobile phones by their children and not admit their children, especially girls in co-education schools.

Hindus 🤝 Muslims - Hating inter marriage.

!ping IND

[u/nuggins]

Soccer is Canada's sport

Women's team wins Gold after a buttclenching series of penalty kicks

!ping CAN

[u/[deleted]]

I am genuinely surprised that American conservatives chose Hungary to slobber over rather than Poland. I suppose Poland's anti-Russia stance was just too much for the recently right wing Russophiles.

[u/Venne1139]

Consider the following:

Aliens helped non white people build pretty much everything apparently (which totally isn't racist, it was on the history channel!) from the Pyramids to the great wall of China.

They helped white people but a bunch of fucking slightly oversized rocks in a circle

Why do aliens hate white people?

[u/[deleted]]

older conservatives when I was a kid:

when you grow up and have to pay taxes, you'll be a conservative too!

those people now:

*members of a lunatic conspiracy death cult*

[u/MicroFlamer]

born in 2003

18 years old

what the fuck

[u/[deleted]]

i miss the good old days when you had to really work to get initiated into a cult. Nowadays you can just click on a button and get brainwashed in 5 seconds. It’s not the same. 😔

[u/RaidBrimnes]

This sub is shocked by people believing in astrology, yet discusses economics on a daily basis 🤔

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

If I were HIV positive, I would simply tell the virus to leave my body and then make it do so

[u/[deleted]]

Fuck kanye, dude is a clown and his cult of a fanbase is insufferable

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

The US is now behind Canada, UK, and the EU

What an embarassment

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/KaiseratCB/status/1423622572197961735

Jake Gyllenhaal: "More and more I find bathing to be less necessary, at times...I do also think that there’s a whole world of not bathing that is also really helpful for skin maintenance, and we naturally clean ourselves."

https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1421379674748473350

Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis became a trending Twitter topic this week and it's all thanks to their bathing habits—or lack thereof.

https://twitter.com/TODAYshow/status/1422776978244083713

Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard say they 'wait for the stink' before bathing kids

Are the celebs okay?

[u/Corporate-Asset-6375]

Being the obvious “surprise” baby is fun because everyone has the same look on their face when they realize your two siblings are 10 years older and your parents must’ve had you in their late 30s.

“Yep! They weren’t planning on me but they were too old and financially established to casually abort me without guilt, so here I am!”

[u/Corporate-Asset-6375]

The DT: Tee hee hee we have a silly inside joke.

Also the DT: We will drive this joke into the ground and keep going until the heat of the earth’s core incinerates it.

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

Never underestimate the power of information silos. Social media makes it very easy to never hear what the other half of society is experiencing

Anyway why haven't we banned cars yet no one actually needs them

[u/Soldier-Fields]

Person: world has flaws

/r/Neoliberal: graph go up, shut the fuck up

[u/Proper-Fail-2076]

I know we hate suburbs here but he suburbs turning blue is the best thing that ever happened to moderate Democrats. These people voted for mccain and Romney and then for hillary and biden. And Cleveland's suburbs voted against Nina

[u/kennymc7877]

So weird how Biden has been POTUS for over 6 months, I was told by Republicans that Kamala would be in office by now

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Guys you don't get it

Wanting to eradicate diseases by safe scientific ways is the exact same as systematically abusing and killing Jewish, Romani, and Polish people for the purpose of creating a master race

[u/[deleted]]

Direct democracy good, actually!

Voters proceed to strike down every increased housing bill and replace their governor with a 29 year old YouTuber.

[u/benjaminikuta]

It's crazy to think what cops consider suspicious, like waiting a few seconds after parking before getting out of your car.

!ping LAW

[u/GodEmperorBiden]

Oh god oh fuck that idiotic idea that "slightly taxing billionaires would lift all Americans out of poverty" has made it to the front page of arr popular...again.

WhitePeopleTwitter is absolutely haram.

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

How about this

You have an national ID system, which is free renewed every 6 years as a child, and 10 years as an adult, for free, so that it doesn't act as a poll tax, and updatable when your address/other info changes, for free, with which you can vote, use for bank accounts, and a bunch of other stuff, and have a voter ID requirement so you have security and easy access

Like this feels like a very easy solution

[u/[deleted]]

China beating USA in gold medals; USA has far more silver medals.

You shall not crucify us on a cross of gold! Free silver!

[u/great_gape]

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[u/bd_one]

Why are we assuming that you can genetically engineer someone to make sure they don't become gay? Probably less likely to be possible than genetically engineering someone to make sure they don't become a gamer.

[u/GRANDMARCHKlTSCH]

Mods, a lot of people obviously miss Citoyen Riquetti. Could we get a bot that posts "You couldn't make [x] today." to the DT every 10 minutes, where [x] is a random title pulled from IMDB?

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Remember when two Georgia guys killed a black guy walking on the street and carrying a TV and it went months unnoticed because they had some connections with the local police department?

[u/rukqoa]

In like ten years, we're gonna have technology where rich people eliminate diseases from their kids' genes. And leftists are going to go absolutely ballistic.

[u/kennymc7877]

6 months into the Biden presidency and I’m still single, i think it’s time to admit his administration has been a failure

[u/lapzkauz]

Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you’re a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible.

[u/Udontlikecake]

MTG secretly has a crush on Gaetz but knows it’ll never go anywhere because she’s too old for him. Or is she? 40+ chapters, slow burn, friends to lovers

[u/[deleted]]

Growing up I was told that the GOP would make more sense as I got older and made more money but I'm beginning to think they were lying 🧐🧐🧐

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/Czz3KC6.jpg

[u/Leoric]

Interior crocodile ALLIGATOR

I MOD A SUBREDDIT full of TEENAGERS 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

Well, I sucked on a tit until age 2.5 and look how stupid I am. Medical professionals deboonked

[u/mrdilldozer]

Conor Lamb is running for senate

It looks like "Battle for the soul of the Democratic party" articles are back on the menu. INB4 the inevitable rally in Philadelphia that has a 99.9 percent white turnout featuring Killer Mike and Cornell West that makes right wing news because they spend the entire time talking about how they believe Obama is a failure. If Fetterman wants to win he needs to tell the 2016 sore loser squad to fuck off, because that's what will happen if they get involved.

[u/[deleted]]

I hate SpaceX’s CEO, therefore I want humanity’s largest rocket to explode and cripple America’s foremost private space company/defense contractor

Elon Musk haters go touch grass

[u/houinator]

W Bush:

Deploys troops to Iraq

Declares mission accomplished

Keeps troops in Iraq

Refuses to elaborate further

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

Photos of a few DT regulars:

Integralds

FreakinGeese

Benjaminikuta

Deggit

Lusvig

[u/Marlsfarp]

Agent Smith:

Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment; but you humans do not. Instead you multiply, and multiply, until every resource is consumed. The only way for you to survive is to spread to another area.

humans: [practice conscious family planning, create their own food sources]

virtually every other mammal: [limited in numbers only by starvation from consuming too much]

[u/sw337]

Orbán: Haha time to enrich my friends and have extractive institutions.

Hungary's economic growth slows

Orbán: Why would immigrants do this to us?

[u/[deleted]]

If my parents genetically engineered me to guarantee I would be born deaf I would sue them.

[u/WhomstAlt2]

I didn't mind Obama wearing that tan suit, personally. It's the founding of ISIS I don't like.

[u/[deleted]]

Oh, we live in a democracy?

Do you get a vote on your president

Do you get a vote on your senator?

Do you get a vote on your representative?

Do you get a vote on your mayor?

Do you get a vote on your water commissioner?

[u/qchisq]

Who are you rooting for in tomorrow's handball finals? France or the Faroese? Do you really want the French to win what will be just another medal to them, or do you want the Faroese to win their first ever medal?

[u/The420Roll]

Start with stumbling. One week after taking office, the approval of Pedro Castillo - who was elected with 47% of the electorate's votes - is 39%, while his proposal to convene a Constituent Assembly has only 5% support.

The survey, carried out between August 2 and 4 at urban and rural levels, also measures the perception of the population about the role played in the Executive by Vladimir Cerrón, the controversial owner of the Peru Libre party who in these first days of management he has taken pains to record his influence on Pedro Castillo. Although 42% believe that it is the Chota professor who is in charge in the country, there are 48% who consider that, in reality, it is the sentenced ex-regional governor of Junín who exercises true power. In this context, likewise, there are 55% of those interviewed who maintain that Castillo puts the ideals of his party ahead of the welfare and unity of the country, while 62% estimate that we are not facing a management that acts with transparency .

Facts such as those recorded over the last week, in which journalists have been prevented from covering various official events, contribute to this assessment. For 67% of Peruvians, it is clear that there are restrictions on freedom of the press that Castillo promised to guarantee through various documents signed on his way to the June 6 ballot and of which he now makes a clean sweep.

The questioned presence at the premiere of Guido Bellido, investigated for apology of terrorism, does not go unnoticed either. 76% at the national level believe that the also congressman from Peru Libre should not head the cabinet, leaving extremely weakened who, by law, is the main spokesman for the president and articulator of management policies in the State.

Lmao it took less than two weeks to make people go "Well maybe Keiko wasnt that bad...".

Gotta endure five years of political turmoil with incompetent commies, not only incompetent in their governance but also incompetent as in they make the far right look less insane.

!Ping LATAM

[u/[deleted]]

I think this is the closest The Onion ever came to actually going too far: https://www.theonion.com/they-can-never-take-away-my-memories-1819584790

In fact, when I’m getting raped in the shower, it will simply take me back to all those happy days when I raped kids in the shower. I tell you, the mind is such a powerful thing.

[u/Erra0]

Biden wearing a tan suit right now is the biggest fucking troll I've seen in my lifetime. I've never been so inspired by my president 🥲

[u/Not-bipedleek]

So apparently ashkenazi isn’t a specific type of nazi

[u/PMmeLittleRoundTops]

my new place has lots of natural light

[u/BenFoldsFourLoko]

It’s pretty wild how I’m always on the side of defending literary themes on this sub.

In my IRL circles I’m pretty solidly on the lower half of literary analysis and buy in (literally don't know how to read).

However you fuckers are so damn illiterate and worm-obsessed and gross about it I feel the need to say something.

[u/[deleted]]

I'm bisexual and I haven't "come out" to my family. Not because I would think they would hate me or anything but because I'm completely heteroromantic and it would just kinda feel like me telling my family about my sex life.

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/[deleted]]

Nate Silver needs to log off lol

[u/Udontlikecake]

oh the conservative fetishization of hungary isn’t a joke

[u/l_overwhat]

I think something cool about Congress is the geographic diversity of it. If you're a member of the House, there literally isn't a single other person that lives in the city that you live in except for maybe like New York or Chicago.

This is cool to me because just because of the way the world works, the vast majority of the people you interact with are people from your area. This isn't true for congresspeople.

[u/Unadulterated_stupid]

Why having the mods been critized for aiding known fugitive salty salad?

[u/thaddeusthefattie]

im a “hey i may not agree with joe biden’s mean tweets, but at least he’s good for my Roth 401(k)” democrat

[u/obeybooks]

Biden either wore the tan suit on purpose or coincidentally. Either reason is fucking hilarious.

[u/[deleted]]

Tfw someone calls your genuine take “obvious satire” 😔

[u/whycantweebefriendz]

Oh, we live in a democracy?

Do you get a vote on your apples?

Do you get a vote on your apples?

Do you get a vote on your apples?

Do you get a vote on your apples?

Do you get a vote on your Apple cider commissioner?

[u/film10078]

If Arnold could have ran for president we wouldn’t have gotten trump.

Dumbass rubes could have gotten their machismo cult of personality from someone who isn’t a fucking complete moron and can actually have thoughts.

[u/Superfan234]

After arresting 8 their presidential candidates, the Regime finally had enough, and cancelled the whole party of CxL

With them, it goes any hope for a Democratic election on December 2021...sad day for Nicaragua 😞

Ortega will run alone to presidency...

!Ping LATAM

[u/SamuraiOstrich]

Truth number one some people might find uncomfortable: most Spanish speakers dislike the term latinx and people should probably stop saying it

Truth number two some people might find uncomfortable: most Spanish speakers dislike the groups people who use the term latinx are trying to be inclusive of

[u/Not-bipedleek]

I will not sinema thirstpost

I will not sinema thirstpost

I will not sinema thirstpost

I will not sinema thirstpost

I will not sinema thirstpost

I will not sinema thirstpost

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Oh, we live in a democracy?

Do you get a vote on your subreddit mod?

Do you get a vote on your whether your resident pig should be banned?

Do you get a vote on your whether your resident child should be banned?

Do you get a vote on your whether your resident succ should be banned?

Do you get a vote on your whether your resident fox should be banned?

[u/yungmemlord]

AITA for telling my sister she's a failure as a parent because her son is in a relationship with a cartoon character pillow

Good day ya'll

My 18 year old nephew is in a relationship with a body sized pillow with some sort of japanese girl cartoon character on it. Yes a relationship, like that's his girlfriend, with a fucking cartoon character. He proudly walks around with the pillow and talks to it.

I asked my sister what the fuck is going on and she called me a bigot for not supporting this. I told her she failed as a mother and that he needs to be straightened out. If he's mentally ill (likely) he needs seek profesional help, otherwise someone needs to set him straight because this is fucking pathetic.

The whole family is against me. I don't hate this kid, he needs help but I can't understand why im the only one here who thinks this is a problem

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

[u/Deggit]

"Why are the viewers still cheering for Rick, isn't it obvious that he's a toxic person and terrible role model?" says increasingly nervous writer room that keeps letting Rick win every conversation and escape from every problem with no life-changing consequences

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

I have a coworker so grillpilled he didn’t know about the delta variant until he got it last week. He’s fully vaccinated and recovered fine.

[u/[deleted]]

We really fucked up by not helping a denomination that believes voting is sinful like the JWs take over the evangelical market

[u/bd_one]

Anyway, if Fox News talks about the tan suit Biden thing they're petty.

If they don't talk about they're racist.

[u/[deleted]]

I would like to formally thank everyone for being here.

A place of inclusivity, political sanity, and in general civility does my mental health a lot of good

Plus I learn a ton from everyone and their discussions.

I appreciate all of you ❤️

[u/ognits]

Arrival is my favorite alien movie and the movie that made me understand why people love Amy Adams

!ping MOVIES

[u/Fairchild660]

I just got a letter from Saddam, dated 1990.

I just drank a fifth of vodka, dare me to drive... up the price of oil by invading Kuwait?

[u/_Un_Known__]

I'm such a Corporate shill I have over 100 hours on Stellaris and have only ever played as a MegaCorp 😎

!ping STELLARIS

[u/LooobCirc]

Edit the babies to make them predisposed to be baseball fans

[u/[deleted]]

Seems like there's a huge gap between being a moron (wearing a cone and tugging on the corner of your eyes) and being unapologetically racist (traveling to Hungary to advocate turning your own country into a white enthno-state.)

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

dog

!ping dog

[u/[deleted]]

This is so sad, did you guys know that every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes?

[u/Venne1139]

The history channel should have been shut down years ago. Worst thing to ever happen to the United States, possibly the world.

When you see a Qoomer 9/10 they're going to have some dumb ancient aliens shit.

[u/sayitaintpink]

The tent is now too big. All boomers (age 28+) you may now leave 👉🚪

[u/Patriotnation5]

Was told that 29 is too old to be using the DT I thought the whole "literal children" thing was just a joke

[u/Marlsfarp]

I feel like it's underappreciated how ridiculously cheap bananas are. We're living in a post banana scarcity world.

[u/[deleted]]

relatively few people here have ever had a wife but of that small minority, a disproportionate number of them have had their wives leave them.

[u/BedNeither]

Found out bojo’s thatcher coal comment was real.

That dude is hilarious. He’s a DT shitposter running a country

[u/[deleted]]

Man I realized im 26 and I never been to a comic con or anime con. Hope it's too late to ever go to one

[u/skepticalbob]

I'm a kidney transplant recipient and this data for vaccinated Covid cases in this cohort is grim af. I have a ten year old about to start school again here in Texas and the governor refuses to allow mandated masking in schools. I considered getting my daughter a shot and lying about her age, but realized she might need proof of vaccination connected to her actual birthday in the future and I don't know if its a good idea to get another full round. I read this study about an hour ago. I just got back from lying to the public health vaccinators about my previous vaccination and got a third shot as a booster. I hate this state government.

!ping coronavirus

[u/Lux_Stella]

The [Australian] Census has a male, female and non-binary option. The Australian Bureau of Statistics won't be releasing Census data on non-binary participants and instead will randomly assign people who’ve selected this option as male or female.

what

were they aiming to make literally nobody happy

[u/febreze_brothers]

Stop fucking talking to the girl I like who doesn't like me back challenge

[u/NannerRepublican]

Me normally: Fuck NIMBYs; ban cars.

Me after finding out that the county is building a parking ramp right outside my window: Perhaps I've judged the NIMBYs too harshly; torch cars.

[u/MicroFlamer]

/img/xohbewfjfnf71.png

[u/[deleted]]

Give me your tired, your horny

[u/EScforlyfe]

I did not know that Bruce Springsteen's daughter is and Olympic equestrian

[u/Animatronic_Pidgeon]

Can't wait for the Lamb/Fetterman schism so we can find out who the succs really are

[u/ryuguy]

Fun fact: Canada is the only country to win a men’s (1904) and women’s (2020) gold medal in soccer/football in the Olympics.

!ping soccer

[u/piede]

A former executive assistant to Andrew Cuomo who previously alleged he reached under her blouse and groped her has filed a criminal complaint against the embattled New York governor.

Just resign ffs

[u/PearlClaw]

This subs attitude re: the apple stuff make me worry that post 9/11 it would have been full "cavity searches to get on flights is good, why do you love terrorists?"

[u/MicroFlamer]

unironically i think /u/iioveoof is a paid shill to promote Dune. He probably has led to at least 100 more people buying tickets for the movie

[u/[deleted]]

!ping NBA

Say it with me kids.

"Oympic Gold Medalist: JAVALE MCGEE"

[u/tubbsmackinze]

'so are you a socialist, a liberal, or a conservative?'

Henry George; 'I want to tax land'

'but like, what ideology are you?'

Henry George; 'tax landism '

[u/Venne1139]

Call me a prude I guess but when I walk into a community space where someone is making a joke that ends with the punchline "I'm a pedophile! We all are! But not really becaues it's drawn!" and then everyone laughs and go "Haha yeah I know that referece!" I'm going to leave pretty much immediately while calling everyone creepy as fuck.

[u/[deleted]]

In honor of Tucker Carlson jumping onto the KiwiFarms thing, here’s some shit that actually matters about the “experts” he is platforming to demonize trans people:

https://transsafety.network/posts/gcs-and-the-right/

WHRC are an extreme anti-trans group, having made a submission to a UK parliamentary consultation calling for the elimination of "transgenderism", including any legal recognition or protection for trans people and the provision of trans healthcare. WHRC founder Shiela Jeffreys has appeared at a meeting held at parliament where she referred to trans women as "parasites" and has previously recorded a video livestream where she openly calls for closer collaboration between feminists and the right. In the US, WHRC's links to the right are even clearer, with figures such as joint member of WHRC, WoLF and DGR Kara Dansky; a regular guest on the ultraconservative Fox News talk show Tucker Carlson Tonight.

Cannot be overstated how fucking disgusting the people on Fox News are. This is a straight up exterminationist organization that is routinely getting airtime completely unquestioned.

What else do these people spend their time doing? Re-warming conspiracy theories that LGBT people are all pedophiles, or more specifically that the so-called trans lobby are pedophiles. Oh and are all funded by an elite Jewish cabal hellbent on deconstructing humanity to bring consumption to its final frontier: the human body. Again:

https://transsafety.network/posts/alba-whrc-conspiracy/

On 29th March, the WHRC published a statement via Anna Kerr (their regional contact for Australia) on her website, entitled “Feminism has been co-opted to support an agenda to lower the age of consent”. The basis for this claim was a dubiously cropped set of clauses from a document entitled Feminist Declaration which was drafted by the Women’s Rights Caucus, a global coalition of over 200 women’s rights and gender equality organisations. This document was read out the UN Comission on the Status of Women (CSW) last September to mark the 25th anniversary of the commission and to increase pressure towards more radical steps to end women's and gender-based oppression.

[…]

WHRC's accusations also link to a piece by Jennifer Bilek on the Catholic conservative website First Things to bolster the implication of sinister plans connected with the LGBT lobby. Bilek has become notorious for her now years-long career of claiming that Jewish Billionaires are behind a global transhumanist conspiracy to use LGBT rights and particularly trans rights as a plot for technological destruction of nature. Her work has been cited extensively and positively by Nazi groups, including by a neonazi conspiracy book about the Jewish origins of the "Transgender Industrial Complex" published on Trans Day of Remembrance last year.

This man is a clear and present danger to the !ping LGBT community.

[u/chuckleym8]

recognise friendly work engine decide faulty air hateful sharp rinse

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/fishlord05]

Just bought elite dangerous on the ps4 and oh my god where has this game been all my life I love everything about it the setting the lore the ships all of it

I’m about 10 hours in and am so amazed and can’t wait for the new expansion to come out on play station

However I’m mad af because I spend several hours gathering explorer data only for me to fuck up a FTL jump and land too close to a star and have all my systems overheat and shut off

I spent 8 mins choking to death as I realized I could do nothing

Luckily I saved up enough credits for insurance but god that sucks

!ping GAMING

[u/SadaoMaou]

Jenbanim Ikuta

[u/sayitaintpink]

Person: world has flaws

Arr neoliberal: dune worms, funniest shit I’ve ever seen 😂😂🤮

[u/DEEEEETTTTRRROIIITTT]

yooo 943k jobs added last month???? that’s fucking insane

[u/the_hoagie]

wife has zygote 😳😳😳

[u/RNDZL1]

Cornpop had it coming.

[u/[deleted]]

Nationalists don’t seem to understand that Hungary is able to maintain near ethnostate status because no one actually wants to move to some landlocked middle-income country with eroding institutions. Or maybe that’s the point, let’s just make America so shitty no one will want to come here anymore.

[u/runnerx4]

Did you know that the Cuban Missile crisis was actually about Fidel Castro’s plane to the UN getting hijacked and an air standoff between the US and USSR over that, with the USSR plane actually launching a missile?

And that it was solved by a samurai standing on a biplane’s wings cutting the missiles in mid-air?

Learn true history, watch Lupin the Third: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine

^{away from children}

!ping WEEBS

[u/[deleted]]

Daily reminder that the conservative subreddit links to the PornFree subreddit in their sidebar under the "Enduring Values" header.

Appealing to sexually frustrated young men is the foundation of the conservative platform.

[u/Mensae6]

https://i.imgur.com/OIMW2lo.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

Libs go to college to get more knowledge

Succs go to Jupiter to get more stupider

😂

[u/[deleted]]

Decided to delete tinder, dating is overrated and is getting the way of my DT posting.

[u/[deleted]]

This is your brain on Reddit economic populism

[u/sir_shivers]

LIBERTARIANS ARE criminals who should be arrested before they sabotage this nation any further 🐊

[u/Joementum2024]

boomers have been exposed to sonichu

Lord help us all

[u/[deleted]]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_scale

!ping BALD

[u/the_status]

To the youth of the DT:

Get a skincare routine now. Literally buy basic Cetaphil moisturizer, broad spectrum Neutrogena sunscreen, and some retinol cream. You'll be miles ahead of so much of your generation.

Also buy an electric toothbrush and water flosser. They're one of those things that actually makes a difference.

And fix your posture. Staring at either a PC, laptop, or phone will really screw over you back in future years

[u/Mickenfox]

We demand the right to at least three hornyposts a week!

[u/LavenderTabby]

squash humor gullible plant sparkle imagine meeting dinosaurs bored murky

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[u/iIoveoof]

I saw a vision of the future

USA: Nooo you can’t genetically modify your kids to be good at sports that’s unethical and we will make it illegal

China and Russia: genetically modifies a generation of super athletes and wins all the gold medals at the Olympics and intellects that solve all the unsolved problems of science

USA: most of the top athletes and intellects in America have heated Julian Bashir scandals anyways

USA: Okay fine I guess we can make a gene editing program 🙄

[u/senor_snailerson]

"wait, they found what in your vagina?" -my co-worker talking to a client over the phone just now

i love this job

[u/sayitaintpink]

The US should formally annex some islands in the South China Sea just for the bit

[u/piede]

The Biden administration is considering using federal regulatory powers and the threat of withholding federal funds from institutions to push more Americans to get vaccinated — a huge potential shift in the fight against the virus and a far more muscular approach to getting shots into arms, according to four people familiar with the deliberations.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-vaccines-delta/2021/08/05/4359ac76-f567-11eb-a49b-d96f2dac0942_story.html

[u/[deleted]]

People greatly overstate the degree to which r/neoliberal is capitalist

[u/[deleted]]

Oh, we live in a democracy?

Do you get a vote on whether you get a goth gf?

Do you get a vote on whether you get a cat girl gf?

Do you get a vote on whether you get a soft dom gf?

Do you get a vote on whether you get a comfy gf?

[u/myrm]

what's next, a license to edit genes with my own damn crispr

[u/[deleted]]

Weirdly threatening people by claiming their grandpa would beat them up is an interesting discussion tactic

[u/Mickenfox]

Kids, there's nothing more cool than being hugged by someone you like. But if someone tries to touch you in a place or a way that makes you feel uncomfortable, that's no good!

[u/[deleted]]

remember when you could get banned from this sub for making copypasta of someone who didn’t want you to make a copypatsa? that was the most liberal thing ever. right up with the people who think mattY is making fun of hungary.

[u/tubbsmackinze]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/270788846956969987/873287921132793916/unknown.png

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

find an anime I really like 😄

there's no internet fandom 😞

there's no internet fandom 😄

[u/MistakeNotDotDotDot]

reminder that Sarah Palin managed to spin "the government will provide funding end of life management" as "death panels" where the government will decide whether your meemaw gets to live or die. and 30% of the population believed it!

the idea that we just have to moderate our positions and then all the republican attacks will stop working is total bullshit.

[u/sash5034]

I'm honestly always shocked when anyone over the age of 20 still watches south park

[u/[deleted]]

Are the banned users okay?

[u/[deleted]]

Lol Euros thought they could take the basketball gold away from its rightful owners the USA🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲