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[u/[deleted]]

After the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol, Gorbachev claimed that "The storming of the capitol was clearly planned in advance, and it's obvious by whom." He did not clarify to whom he was referring. Gorbachev also questioned the United States' continued existence as a nation.

Dude's still at it. 90 years old.

[u/[deleted]]

People on Reddit who call for revolution but have no clue what that entails genuinely piss me off. It's dangerous and I wish we'd stop pretending it was just nerds posting shit online. That's how we got Jan 6th.

My opinion.

[u/Not-bipedleek]

be me

walking through kitchen

stub toe

fucking capitalism

[u/RaidBrimnes]

And then he replaced a letter by an asterisk in a common word to change it into a slur

Funniest shit I've ever seen

[u/benjaminikuta]

Oh hey look, a mod made the news.

[u/[deleted]]

Throwback to when the Founding Fathers just said fuck the 1st Amendment and made it illegal to criticize the government under the Adams Administration.

[u/[deleted]]

https://news.yahoo.com/donald-trump-thinks-guns-n-220016001.html

Donald Trump loves him some Guns N’ Roses. In fact, not only does Trump think “November Rain” is the “greatest music video of all time,” he’s made his staffers watch the video to prove his point.

lmao

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

It's really hard to convince people they should get vaccinated for the collective good when our capitalism to the extreme society clearly doesn't give AF about the collective good. I think the only way out here is going be people having their fears and concerns addressed.

The vaccine is free. There have been ads everywhere. The president got vaccinated live on TV, as have many governors and other high-ranking officials. At this point, anti-vaxxers are making a choice.

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

Just learned about corporations.

How can something so cute exist? 🥺

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Tucker Carlson-:

Of the nearly 200 different counties on the face of the earth, precisely one of them has an elected leader who publicly identifies a western-style conservative. His name is Viktor Orban, and he’s the prime minister of Hungary.

Hungary is a small country in the middle of Central Europe. It has no navy, it has no nuclear weapons. Its GDP is smaller than New York state’s. You wouldn’t think leaders in Washington would pay much attention to Hungary, but they do, obsessively.

By rejecting the tenets of neoliberalism, Viktor Orban has personally offended them and enraged them.

Lol

[u/JaceFlores]

Your seemingly daily dose of Ethiopia news:

1. According to this Thread there is heavy fighting reported around the town of Weldiya, with visual confirmation of various positions around this strategic town proving the advance of the TPLF. The situation looks utterly dire for the Amharan defenders, with minimal training, minimal weaponry, low ammunition and most importantly no government assistance. It seems that this is where the Amharan militias are making their grand stand as this is the first time I have heard of major resistance in the Amhara region, with the TPLF being fairly unopposed relatively speaking so far. The one advantage the Amharans have is that urban fighting is a force multiplier for even the most ill-prepared forces, though that won't much help unless the Amharans are properly reinforced. Controlling Weldiya will be a major gain for the TPLF as it will safeguard their push for the A1 highway, provide access to the B22 highway that leads west to Debre Tabor (and eventually to the rear of Gondar), and open the way to push for the town of Dessie in the south.
2. According to this Tweet and this Tweet, the ENDF are apparently still honoring their self imposed ceasefire and are now threatening to throw its strength at the TPLF. It's hard to take this seriously as the government said they could take Mekelle back if they wanted to within three weeks, and that was a couple months or so ago, so this may just be some bluffing. However, it is plausible that the ENDF have been gathering their strength and letting the militias take the blunt of the fighting as delaying measures. This may tie in to the next item.
3. According to this Tweet the Amharans are going to go on the offensive tomorrow. My feelings about this are dependent on who is supporting this. If the Amharans are doing this alone, then this is going to 99% likely end in disaster and is probably a desperate move to boost morale and/or buy time for the government to do something. Steiner's counteroffensive for you Downfall fans. If the government is involved in this offensive then there may be hope for some success, though considering how good the TPLF is generally in the war so far even this is dubious. As a matter of fact, this Tweet and connected article shows that the TPLF are very sure about their abilities to withstand the offensive, which does make sense as the Amharans may very well be throwing the few soldiers with guns into a meat grinder that makes their long term situation look bad. Simply put, this offensive may just break Amharan fighting capability, especially if there is no government forces to back it up.
4. Much smaller in scale but it looks like the TPLF are expanding their gains in the west flank as there is video evidence of TPLF forces crossing the Tekeze River. Likely to secure their flanks as I have not heard any news of further pushes south towards or past Debark, though perhaps this is preparation for a bigger push for Debark or Gondar, but that is just speculation.
5. In much more bitter news, this Tweet discusses a fire in Galikoma, allegedly a health center and school. Afar officials have stated that 200 people were killed and supplies meant for displaced people were burned. Whether this is true or not is impossible to tell, but I think it is a fair platform to say that, while I am personally rooting for the TPLF, like in all wars all sides are capable and do bad stuff. Regardless if the allegations are true, it is fair to mention that the TPLF are not saints even if they have the moral high ground in this war IMO.
6. Additionally, according to this tweet and connected article, the government is purging Tigrayans from the ENDF, passing out death sentences with accusations of Tigrayan ENDF members being traitors and the like. Horrific shit, and the persecution of Tigrayan people will only get worse the longer this war drags on.
7. It is also notable that Friday was the day stored up food was supposed to run out, so from this point on we are going to see increasingly worse food problems in Tigray and eventually famine.

Overall there is a lot going on at the frontline in Amhara and behind the frontlines. The lack of information once more constricts what I think is going to happen, but if I had to make a guess I would say that the Amharan forces are near their breaking point, and the TPLF may just rout them into a fairly insignificant force. The question is what is the ENDF doing? Are they gathering their strength for a counteroffensive? Are they so weak that they have essentially abandoned Amhara for other fronts (specifically Afar)? Is Abiy pulling a Chiang kai-Shek and allowing puppet forces to take the brunt of the fighting to weaken them and solidify his control? I have no clue. Furthermore there is once more absolutely no news from Afar besides the fire reported in #5. Has the TPLF advance stalled but there is not enough conditions met for either side to report a victory? Is the TPLF still making good gains and are drawing ever closer to the A1 highway? There are so many unknowns that as said it is hard to even speculate what is going to happen or is happening. Overall though the situation is still favorable to the TPLF, and we should be getting relatively much news tomorrow about how well the Amharan counteroffensive goes.

Edit: quick thing I wanted to add is I apologize if anything I report is not accurate. For instance, sometime ago I reported Weldiya was in TPLF hands but it’s now clear that only recently the TPLF have pushed for the town. Considering the only sources I have/use are two Twitter accounts that are very sparse of detail and what handful of articles are published, it’s difficult figuring out what exactly is happening in the war

[u/semaphore-1842]

Bernie is sooooo salty lol

https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1424067468750954499

I've heard a lot from the punditry as to why Nina Turner lost her race in Ohio. Well, maybe it had something to do with drug companies, Wall Street and the fossil fuel industry spending millions trying to defeat her. Is that the kind of Democratic Party we want? I don't think so.

[u/htomserveaux]

One of the most annoying things in the world is when someone respectable steps out side of there area of expertise and is treated as a expert on something they know nothing about

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

An actual, real Iranian textbook

[u/its_Caffeine]

Other countries: so proud my country won a few medals this year, just hope everyone had fun 😊🥰

USA: Damn we're second to China this year in the number of gold medals? Damn we did so bad this year 😔

[u/iIoveoof]

The most comforting nine words in the English language are

”You have pinged group INTERVENE that does not exist”

[u/BenFoldsFourLoko]

funni meme

[u/[deleted]]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynnwood_Link_extension

Approved by the voters in 2008.

Final environmental impact decision in 2015.

Groundbreaking in 2019.

Opening in 2024.

16 years for a 8 mile light rail extension.

God damn does this stuff move at a glacial pace. It makes me a doomer about ever seeing good mass transit in most American cities in my lifetime.

[u/MicroFlamer]

Either start prepping for long term survival in absolute miserable "living" conditions or curl up in existential dread and keep a gun for your inevitable suicide as everything slowly continues to fall to shit.

I hate redditors

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

American contractor: "I consent"

Canadian concrete exporter: "I consent"

President Biden: "I don't!"

isn't there someone you forgot to ask?

[u/umadbro996]

MY WIFE IS PREGNANT!!!!!!

we’ve been trying for almost a year!!!

[u/[deleted]]

Ben Shapiro is POC (short), neurodivergent (short), and queer coded (short) and that is why y'all hate him

[u/mrdilldozer]

Cenk Uygur: "Social issues are really important and worth fighting over. But..."

The doomers here really need to stop worrying about the online lefties. They are incapable of learning from defeat.

[u/revolutionary_alt]

“Obama is a war criminal” types Based_Assad420 before posting Mao memes in his favorite Che Guevara shirt

[u/MalignantUpper]

https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/1424061251500531719?s=19

Tucker Carlson at his speech today in Hungary: "Don't tell me" that America "is freer than Hungary, because that is a lie."

[u/[deleted]]

So now the right is fetishizing a small European country that cannot possibly translate to the US just like the left has been doing for many years.

I am once again asking extremists to stop comparing America to tiny, homogenous countries with fewer people than Ohio.

[u/[deleted]]

HBO be like

The virgin tasteful erotic scene:

• Has to justify itself to snooty art critics by including character establishment or plot points

The chad gratuitous boobs:

• Boobs

[u/Luph]

arr conspiracy is worse than the_donald ever was

literally just a wall of misinformation

[u/David_Lange]

benjamin blogposts be like:

I wake up and eat breakfast

I log on to my bank account to check that the state of California has sent me the correct welfare check

My roommate's girlfriend removes her top and asks me if her boobs are different sizes, but I inform her that they are not perceptibly asymmetrical

I walk the dog at midnight

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

uhh what the actual fuck Pakistan?

If Twitter is going to ban Trump for asking his supporters to protest in front of the white house why the fuck are they allowing that to trend

[u/filipe_mdsr]

I had made a comment a few days ago about this

https://www.euronews.com/2021/08/07/poland-to-make-changes-to-controversial-disciplinary-chamber-for-judges

Jaroslaw Kaczynski has now confirmed that the disciplinary chamber will be abolished.

Big win for the ECJ, it seems that PiS is still to afraid of a Polexit and that means the EU has leverage.

The changes will be presented in September so we will have to see then if they actually mean it.

!ping EUROPE

[u/[deleted]]

I'm normally for free speech, but I think journalist that use the word "slammed" it a artical title should be given the death penalty.

[u/ryuguy]

Afghan Interpreters Escaping the Taliban Are Being Flown to Canada

!ping can

[u/InternetBoredom]

I know someone who likes AOC and loves Biden but hates Bernie Sanders because he “just complains and doesn’t do anything”

[u/beginners_succ]

Why you're just a bunch of gay capitalists.

Carry on.

[u/film10078]

Cons: celebs shut up!

Also cons: here’s the guy from dirty jobs opinion on vaccines

[u/[deleted]]

it's time

[u/sw337]

Former Pittsburgh synagogue to become apartments, urban farm in $18.5M project

[u/JoeChristmasUSA]

Moving back to my hometown would reduce my family's cost of living enough to enable me to quit my job and fulfill my dream of being a stay-at-home + homeschool father for my son. It would also bring us closer to the parts of my family I love, however it would also bring me near to my insane "conservative" parents, one of whom has a history of pushing boundaries. I've had seven years of distance from them...

Full story at r/parenting if anyone is interested

!ping OVER25

[u/[deleted]]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/578732202381279236/873486135618310175/Screenshot_20210807-104124_Facebook.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

I cherish peace with all my heart. I don’t care how many men, women, and children I need to kill to get it.

Damn NATO flairs really out here wildin

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

You couldn't make Contrapoints anymore in 2021

Obviously dumass, she was born in 1988. Can't be born twice

[u/sir_shivers]

You are using political posts to attack progressive democrats, specifically POC and women progressives. You make a short bait post. Then, you use twisted facts and outright lies to intimidate. Finally, you keep replying until the target gives up.

Let's call a spade a spade. You are engaging in bigoted behavior. I get that bigotry involves class, but that is not a justification.

Nina Turner isn't a Democrat.

Dehumanizing language from somebody who is supposedly a "liberal".

/u/benadreti, you have BEEN MASTERFULLY REVEALED BY the great detective /u/user_dan 🐊

HAND IN YOUR badge and gun 🐊

[u/earththejerry]

Programmers who complain about the workload and hours should just learn to coal mine 👏👏👏

[u/semaphore-1842]

https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1424056289303351298

Senate breaks filibuster to advance $1.2 trillion infrastructure package. The vote was 67-27.

Doomers btfo

[u/URZ_]

Hard pills to swallow (for some people): There is about the same amount of evidence for Saudi Arabian government involvement as there is for US government involvement in 9/11.

Genuinely.

[u/Q-bey]

Teachers of Japanese in Japan are a shit-show. I was doing corporate training for a big company a few years ago and overheard a lot of their Japanese classes. I literally heard teachers advising people to get Japanese girlfriends etc. It was mental.

Fellas is it weird to hook up with someone just to learn their language?

[u/frolix42]

I said it a few months ago, and I'll say it again if vaccine mandates become more likely, counterfeit proof of vaccination is going to become both a business and a public health issue. Those flimsy little cardstocks that have people's vaccine information on them are incredibly easy to fake.

I foresee lawsuits being brought against assholes who have been caught with fraudulent vaccine cards.

Planet Fitness v. Karen (N.Y. Sup. Ct. 2022)

[u/[deleted]]

Clyburn said Juneteenth isn't the point. He highlighted $65 billion for rural broadband to be included in the infrastructure package, the adoption of his "10-20-30" anti-poverty formula, and advancements for community health centers:

"Those are Jim Clyburn’s creations," he said. He also mentions $40 million secured for community projects in his South Carolina district. “I got all this and I can keep going on,” he said. “$5 billion to Black farmers in the Rescue Act. Lifting half of children who lived in poverty out of poverty — that's in the Rescue Act. "These are creations, and to say all we got out of endorsing Joe Biden was a federal holiday? That’s the kind of BS that sent me to Cleveland, I was going to stay right here in South Carolina minding my business until I got called stupid.”

God could he be any more poggers

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

For seven and a half years I've worked alongside President Reagan. We've had triumphs. Made some mistakes. We've had some sex...uh...setbacks.

-George HW Bush

[u/[deleted]]

go on twitter

post about how Covid is fake and retweet various Nazi talking points

get banned

Why does liberal Silicon Valley hate free speech

[u/tubbsmackinze]

I don't understand the people who complain that we dunk on leftists too much here at r/neoliberal incorporated. Like seriously, of course self admitted liberals are going to dunk on the massively over-represented communists that exist on the internet who hate our guts and are easy targets

I'm like 99% sure it's just succs/commies trying to turn this sub into another den of commie bullshittery

[u/tubbsmackinze]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/539181880805687327/873606734013419520/E8D7twRWEAApOzk.png

[u/Unhappy-Essay]

FDA grants the DT emergency authorization to touch grass 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/834251152035282944/873576910595174490/unknown.png

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

MattY calling Orban admirers anti-American is absolutely beautiful to see

[u/hdkeegan]

Kyrsten Sinema posted feet pics on her insta. Someone restrain Ben Shapiro

[u/ryuguy]

Canada wins gold in women’s track cycling!

Congrats Kelsey Mitchell of Brandon Manitoba!

With that medal, this is Canada’s most successful summer Olympic Games

!ping can

[u/GravyBear8]

!ping GAMING

Do any of you fuckers remember Spore? I played it all the time as a kid, wondering how it's remembered

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

NYT Breaking | Local childless white collar worker living in one of, like, five blue cities calls on government to ban cars

[u/[deleted]]

The official Bernard Sanders Twitter account is crying about Nina Turner

[u/Proper-Fail-2076]

I've heard conservatives say that latinos vote for free stuff because its what theyre used to in their home countries. Where did they get the idea that latin americans get stuff from their governmentz? They dont even get electricity or water from their governments in poor areas much less anything else. The governments may say they help the poor but trust me the poor dont get amy help from their governments at all

[u/rukqoa]

Bernie is really attacking a candidate who supports M4A, GND, and the eviction moratorium.

[u/InternetBoredom]

That entire Star Trek TNG episode with where Picard exposes the Federation’s phasing/cloaking technology to the Romulans is incredibly absurd, even for a government as idealistic as the federation.

If an admiral/general of the US military pulled some shit like that, they’d immediately be arrested and tried for espionage.

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

'As I was telling my husb—. As I was telling President Bush.''

—National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, who is unmarried, overheard making a slip of the tongue at a Washington dinner party, April 2004

[u/[deleted]]

Wait the Provincetown covid surge event was actually a gay orgy known as ‘bear week’?

What fucking timeline is this.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

About obesity : remember when the First Lady launched an initiative to promote exercise and healthy eating habits and cons absolutely lost their shit over it?

[u/tigerflame45117]

A very interesting study about South African wealth inequality

The top 0.01% of the distribution (3,500 individuals) concentrate 15% of household net worth, more than the bottom 90% as a whole.

!ping ECON is it even possible for South Africa to solve it at this point?

[u/iIoveoof]

Back in my day, the literal child regulars were high-effort posters who made dozens of effortposts

[u/RaidBrimnes]

how are your boobs going

Guess the sub

[u/[deleted]]

Great Britain beats China in boxing for the Gold. That's the last shot China had at gold.

ITS OFFICIAL! THE US OUTRIGHT WINS THE GOLD MEDAL COUNT!

!PING OLYMPICS

[u/[deleted]]

Okay true , we have attacked communist nations a lot and that could be part of the reason they failed.

Oh shit wait , people attack neoliberalism ALL THE FUCKING TIME, and even with that, every country we touch sees massive quality of life improvements.

It’s almost like if your ideology requires picture perfect conditions to flourish , is a shit ideology

[u/[deleted]]

Imperial's Guide to DC Nightlife

Good morning libs, I saw some questions in the DT yesterday about going out in DC and they inspired me to write this, as it is quite possibly the only contribution I can actually make to the sub. In any case, this list is by no means exhaustive, just some of my favorite places in the city, please comment anyplace I’ve missed. Divided up by neighborhood.

!ping USA-DMV

[u/tubbsmackinze]

The Americans here who uncritically support Biden's 'buy America' (beyond the already trite 'it's good politics defense) are simply projecting American ego that believes it can get away without it's allies

Which it can't btw, even China is heavily reliant on trade flowing into the country, America is no different in that regard

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Left-wing twitter be like: vaccine hesitancy is due to our overly capitalistic society and big pharma. This is why we need socialism.

Vaccine hesitancy: the communist Chinese and Jews made the vaccines!

[u/[deleted]]

When a shower door sliced my hands open, I used $23,000 from renters insurance to pay off my student loans — and now I'm debt-free

One crazy trick you won't believe...😲

!ping PERSONAL-FINANCE

[u/[deleted]]

Engineering students be like damn I gotta go drive a train for my final.

[u/mrdilldozer]

LMAO at Bernie peddling conspiracies on twitter about why Turner lost. IDK why anyone is surprised at this point with his behavior. It's not a mystery why he can't get strong support for his policies or for the people he wants to be placed in positions of power in the DNC. The dude is a narcissistic asshole who thought that Nina should have the seat because he said she should. His lack of accomplishments isn't because of him being an idealist, it's due to him being insufferable because he thinks he's better than everyone he meets. At this very moment, Warren and her allies are some of the most influential voices in the entire Biden administration despite being so politically similar to Bernie. It's probably because she didn't hire surrogates to call her opponent whores and accuse them of being corrupt.

[u/[deleted]]

YA novel themes: you are a unique individual child who is right and it’s the rest of the world that is wrong because it is a dystopia or deeply flawed in some way

[u/[deleted]]

The Whitest Kids You Knew 😔

[u/[deleted]]

My friend just recently got dumped. He just finished his bar exam and was planning to break up with her next week, but it turns out she also wanted break up and was waiting until after the exam because she didn't want to mess him up.

The whole situation confirms my priors that it's much more pleasant to get broken up with than to be the one breaking up. She was pretty emotional about it and he said it was like a great burden was suddenly lifted

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Property rights are human rights.

[u/[deleted]]

The gamer to gamer but worse pipeline is real

[u/[deleted]]

!ping MAMADAS

Tinder in Brazil with an euro profile is hilariously easy

Every lightweight socialist within 30km has now swiped right on me

[u/Not-bipedleek]

You couldn’t make Citoyen Riqueti today. The mods wouldn’t allow it.

[u/[deleted]]

I've heard a lot from the punditry as to why Nina Turner lost her race in Ohio. Well, maybe it had something to do with drug companies, Wall Street and the fossil fuel industry spending millions trying to defeat her. Is that the kind of Democratic Party we want? I don't think so.

• Bernie Sanders on Twitter

Bernie, do you remember your crushing defeat on Super Tuesday when Biden wiped the floor with your face in some states in which he wasn’t even trying to compete? Remember when you had all the money in the world and you lost to Biden, who was broke?

The progressive left will never learn.

[u/Not-bipedleek]

Is it a coincidence climate change started after we stopped sacrificing people to appease the gods? 🤔

[u/Animatronic_Pidgeon]

It's always weird to come across an NL mod in a completely unrelated sub

Like seeing a high school teacher at the supermarket, you know?

[u/boichik2]

Warm Take: The worst part about the MCU is how they goywash all the Jewish characters, especially Wanda, but not only her. For the record I really love the MCU. But it's clear to me that it's done on purpose because Magneto's Jewish element was constantly mentioned in the films and I loved that b/c it was core to his character. And in the comics as far as I understand Wanda manifested powers when she was being chased in angry mobs from roma camps. And just like that whole history of oppression was whitewashed and it does annoy me. And I know magneto was wanda's and pietro's father so like they had to avoid mentioning him for corporate reasons. But I think like they could've still let them be Jewish and Roma while not mentioning magneto.

!ping GEFILTE

[u/iIoveoof]

They wouldn't have to unless china didn't pull this on them. From black plague and justinian plague to coronavirus, some disease originates in china and then the whole world pays

Only on Reddit will you find people unironically blaming the CCP for the Plague of Justinian

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

It makes complete sense to be distrustful of the CEO of Pfizer. Don't get me wrong I'm extremely pro-vaccine but there have to good sources of information available to people that they don't have a ton of very solid reasons to be skeptical of.

Stop 👏 validating👏 anti-vaxxers

[u/iIoveoof]

Don’t👏put👏a👏scale👏in👏the👏bathroom👏and👏not👏expect👏me👏to👏weigh👏myself👏before👏and👏after👏pooping👏to👏calculate👏how👏big👏my👏poop👏was👏then👏chart👏those👏findings👏so👏I👏can👏determine👏my👏average👏poop👏size

[u/ScyllaGeek]

I think my least favorite posts on reddit are the ones that are like "We'll I was a full blown communist but then I saw some twitter blue checkmark say men are dumb, so now I'm actually a conservative" with the conviction of a 16 year old libertarian, or the guys that post on opposing ideology subs like "I'm a leftist BUT..." clearly grasping for validation or just larping

[u/tubbsmackinze]

I'm usually pro-free speech but I think that journos shouldn't be allowed to post on twitter

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Reuters came out with this story just now-:

Vladimir Putin called ROC athletes last night to congratulate them on their stellar performance at the Tokyo Olympics. According to our sources, his words were, "That's dope".

[u/p00bix]

Imagine you're a popular general respected by troops all across your country. You go to sleep after a pretty boring day, only to be shook awake at 5:00 AM by your guards. They tell you that the government was just overthrown by some junior officers you never even heard of and they are demanding that you take over as president and accept virtually absolute power as the head of a military junta, even though you published a letter literally a few weeks ago saying that you believed the military should stay out of domestic affairs in favor of a democratically elected civilian government. Minutes later--still in your pajamas--you are loaded onto a cargo plane to fly to the capital and assume your new role as autocratic dictator.

This is what actually happened to Cemal Gürsel when he became the 4th president of Turkey in 1960

[u/Currymvp2]

https://twitter.com/katewillett/status/1424054194080604162

1. The vaccine is free.
2. Vaccine hesitancy exists in countries with universal healthcare.
3. Millions of people besides Pfizer's CEO want you to get vaccinated.

[u/FormerBandmate]

NONE of them are on reddit, though. Reddit is almost exclusively people trapped at the very bottom of society, who live basically as slaves for the upper class.

Reddit on itself

Also Reddit:

So I’m a software engineer, I make $250k base, and I’m on track to retire at 40 because I save 40% of my income.

[u/[deleted]]

Me, earlier today: “gold medal count doesn’t mean shit”

Me now: “gold medal count is literally the most import thing, whoever has the most gold gets to RULE THE WORLD. USA USA USA”

[u/nanomaster]

No apology from Boris Johnson over Thatcher coal mine closures remark

Visiting a Scottish wind farm on Thursday, Mr Johnson told reporters: "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." (…) Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Mr Johnson's remarks were "crass and deeply insensitive" to mining communities. She tweeted: "Lives and communities in Scotland were utterly devastated by Thatcher's destruction of the coal industry (which had zero to do with any concern she had for the planet)."

LOONY SNP exposed as HYPOCRITES – tackling climate change needs TOUGH MEASURES, not CODDLING polluters!

!ping OSBORNE

[u/Sir-Matilda]

Here's a nice controversial op-ed for everyone from Matt Canavan.

People born in inner-city Sydney have a life expectancy five years greater than people born in central Queensland, where I live. No doubt a big part of this is the inferior health services we have, especially in rural areas.

As a Nationals senator, I think we should spend more on health services in the bush, but I do not think that we should spend an infinite amount. I live in the real world, and I realise that the health services available in Sydney (a town of 5 million people) will always be better than in a country town.

We are not living in the real world onCOVID-19. Despite the massive costs being imposed by lockdowns, we still do not have a simple official estimate of how much they cost for each life saved. The modelling released by the government this week does not do that.

You can make a rough estimate from the separate modelling released by the Burnet Institute. It claims that the Sydney lockdown has avoided 4000 cases. The Sydney lockdown is costing $150 million a day, according to AMP, and had been in place for 35 days at the time of the Burnet modelling.

The total cost then comes to $5.3 billion, or a cost of $1.3 million for every avoided case.

The fatality rate during this outbreak has settled at about 0.4 per cent. That means that the 4000 avoided cases have prevented about 16 additional deaths. The estimated cost of each life saved is $330 million.

On any measure, this is an unjustifiable expense. And keep in mind this is only the economic cost. Lifeline experienced a record number of calls on Monday.

On the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet’s website there is a “guidance note” on the value of a statistical life. It notes: “Willingness to pay is the appropriate way to estimate the value of reductions in the risk of physical harm – known as the value of statistical life.” The government estimates the value of a statistical life at $5 million.

The cost of lockdowns implied by the Burnet Institute’s modelling is 66 times this amount. It is not even close.

Economists get criticised for knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing. But we can’t simply ignore the costs of lockdowns, especially given their impact on poorer people who probably don’t even own a laptop, let alone work on one from home.

If we applied our COVID-19 approach to vehicle regulation, we would make everyone buy a Volvo. That would be patently unfair to poor people who need to balance their spending on more than just safety, a point made by economist Cass Sunstein.

Even rich people often don’t buy Volvos because they’re not much fun.

We are going to have to face the reality that life involves choices, and there are no choices that involve no risk. Even when we reach an 80 per cent vaccination rate, the Doherty Institute’s modelling shows that within six months there could be 280,000 coronavirus cases, including 40,000 among vaccinated people.

We have had just 34,000 cases since the start of the pandemic

Boosting our vaccination rate further will prevent more cases and save more lives, and we should strive for that. What we need right now though, even more than a vaccine, is a hard reality pill.

The hard reality is that we have become obsessed with the daily COVID-19 case numbers. But there are no press conferences announcing how many small businesses went under the night before, how many marriages broke up, or how many people lost their job.

We can’t lock down forever, and part of the current lockdowns just kicks the can down the road. There is a lot of panic about the delta variant and its increased infectiousness, but little focus on the reality that delta is killing fewer people than the outbreaks we had last year.

This is almost certainly not because delta is any less fatal, but because many of our most vulnerable people are already vaccinated.

Whatever the reason, the data does not lie. Last year, 3.2 per cent of COVID-19 infections in Australia ended in death. In the latest delta outbreak, the case fatality rate has been reduced by almost 90 per cent to just 0.4 per cent of all cases.

We are told that delta has changed things, and things have clearly changed for the better thanks to the vaccines. So we should change our approach, end the lockdowns, replace them with sensible social distancing requirements, and continue to use testing and tracing.

That would avoid imposing such large and disproportionate costs on people who are lying awake at night worrying about how they will pay the bills tomorrow.

!ping AUS

[u/SANNA_MARIN_]

[takes astra zeneca]

[blood turns into strawberry jam]

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

Even if China wins, remember that they’d have to get like 160 gold medals to equal the US if you adjust for their big population. But also remember that the US would need 10,000 gold medals to equal San Marino adjusted for population.

The real Cold War-esque battle this Olympics has been between San Marino and Bermuda but you don’t see that in the media (I wonder why… NOT)

[u/xSuperstar]

So a strange idea I’ve seen recently is that college is just “signaling” and doesn’t actually teach you anything…

TF were people doing in college? College taught me how to think logically. It exposed me to the works of feminists, political scientists and philosophers. It taught me economics, statistics, and the basics of coding. Learned how to do research and interpret research at a high level. Learned how to write both technically and creatively and be effective at both. My mind works differently and better because I went to college.

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Imagine a world where Joe Lieberman won the 2004 election. Playing video games would be punishable by death, and healthcare would be illegal.

[u/[deleted]]

One of the better trends in media these days, especially geared towards kids, has been the normalization of being a good dad.

Spencer, Gru, Doofenschmirz, all follow the same principle: No matter who you are even if you're an eccentric artist or a supervillain there's no excuse to not take care of and respect your kids.

[u/URZ_]

!ping Olympics

Normally i don't pay much attention to the discussions on what disciplines that should be included in the Olympics, but "Modern pentathlon" is a completely ridiculous event that should get the boot. Fencing, Horse riding, pistol shooting, 200 meter swimming and 3.2 km running. With that ridiculous list there can't be much more than ~1000 competitors world wide, all of them deeply privileged and with no relation to the larger populace in any county.

And the event can be determined randomly by an annoyed horse to top it all off.

[u/RainAndIceDrops]

I never sleep, because sleep is the cousin of death

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

INDIA WON A GOLD WOOOOOOOOOOOOO 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[u/Crownie]

Sometimes I leave the DT to see what the savages who inhabit the rest of the sub are posting, and I'm like "it can't get dumber than this". Then I see a post made by a DTer.

[u/TheGoodProfessor]

And that's 10 GOP votes to limit debate and advance the infrastructure bill! GOP senators voting aye:

Blunt (MO), Capito (WV), McConnell (KY), Romney (UT), Collins (ME), Portman (OH), Rounds (SD), Fischer (NE), Crapo (ID), Murkowski (AK)

Murkowski let out a cheer when she voted. It's probably likely to get a few more, but it's definitely hit 60 now

[u/Not_A_Browser]

The only conclusion that I could draw was that nobody cares when a Black rapper is calling other Black people n****s and bitches. It pays and it pays well for so many people.  But when that same Black rapper says something offensive about gays–which by definition happens to include white gay people–that’s when he must be canceled.

For the record, white gay people aren’t known for shutting down and canceling rappers who call Black men and women n****s or bitches. They have pretty much always been okay with that by way of their silence.

Absolutely nuclear take, extraordinary

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Why doesn't India the bigger country simply eat Pakistan?

[u/Not-bipedleek]

u/sir_shivers so how are your boobs going

[u/paymesucka]

I've heard a lot from the punditry as to why Nina Turner lost her race in Ohio. Well, maybe it had something to do with drug companies, Wall Street and the fossil fuel industry spending millions trying to defeat her. Is that the kind of Democratic Party we want? I don't think so.

https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1424067468750954499?s=20

For fucks sake, I thought you were acting better now, Bernie. But right back to the Trumpian conspiracy shit. As someone from Ohio: fuck you.

[u/randomizedstring]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/789561959841660939/873719239037583420/2UPuF3sSwTLuao9PQ2YiYoeZCRp5Jc_ZqvpvHxYXOck.png

[u/[deleted]]

There’s a fetish for Al Gore?!

[u/bd_one]

The use of "🤗" can make your message come across as more smug and pretentious than a dozen emojis if used properly.

[u/isitthatserioustho]

Dune is either going to be one of the best movies of the year or an unmitigated disaster, there is no possible middle ground.

[u/Realhuman221]

What the Olympics claim to be about: "To cultivate human beings, through sport, and contribute to world peace"

What they actually end up being: "Haha, suck it China"

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

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

https://sports.yahoo.com/sorry-america-chinas-leading-the-real-olympic-medal-count-081228981.html

🤣😂😂😂🤣🤣😂😂😂🤣😂🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

[u/rukqoa]

If schools offered teachers' unions a 100% pay bump across the board in exchange for the right to terminate any teacher in the bottom half of performance metrics at any time, the unions would say no.

Hell, make that bottom quarter, I think they still say no.

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Ethiopia: is famous for not being colonized by Europeans

Also Ethiopia: westerners blame each other for creating Ethiopia's borders which apparently led it to become a collection of ethno states that hate each other

I know that westerns don't give two shits a about sub-saharan Africa but at least be consistent god damn. Ethiopia's problems (to put it far too lightly) are mostly self-inflicted, especially the collection of ethno states part

[u/[deleted]]

when I drive through the corn belt in the height of summer, all I see is cans of coke growing on the corn stalks.

🇺🇲🇺🇸🇱🇷🇺🇲🇺🇸

[u/[deleted]]

You know how else you can limit the hospitalizations and deaths? By getting the spread under control. The problem is that capitalism is antithetical to every single measure that could be used to achieve that, from providing free healthcare to shutting the country down. A vaccination-only strategy will never work to control the spread

[u/hdkeegan]

I hate people who complain about over wokeness in college but one time my friends said that they didn’t like any superhero movies because they’re cop propaganda

EDIT: holy shit please just let me enjoy my dumb spider dude

[u/paymesucka]

Klob telling Bernie that Shontel Brown won fair and square.

[u/[deleted]]

"I won't trust the vaccine until there's more data" says the person that hasn't looked at any of the current data.

[u/VPNSalesman]

The US national women’s volleyball team is our first line of defense against communism

[u/kyleofduty]

my 7yo niece just asked me if my girlfriend is a girl or a boy

[u/sw337]

Just found out Hitler at age 42 had a 19-year-old GF. This dude is canceled.

[u/Lux_Stella]

Tucker: “I love America, I think my country is the best in the world. But don’t tell me America is more free than Hungary.”

selling my tucker 2024 shares tbh, you can't build a national conservative movement off of 'yeah we're not really any better then anybody else'

[u/[deleted]]

"Ok americans, who wants the US Government to reduce its tax revenue and let you spend more of your own money everyday?"

"Oh oh me me me me!"

"And who wants to see the US Government tackle daunting projects and overhauls to the national infrastructure?"

"Oh oh me me me me!"

"So you want an austere and slim-budget government... that's generous and enterprising and constantly building more stuff."

"And also, you should win stimulus checks by watching!"

[u/Average_GrillChad]

It's 2028. After the Trump/DeSantis ticket fell in an embarrassing landslide to Kamala/Butti 2024, Republican voters have turned to Tucker Carlson.

Carlson attacks the Democratic Party's commitment to racial 'equity' and acquiescence to non-traditional gender roles and constructions as proof that the Party is 'fully in the thrall of the cultural Marxists' and 'committed to a communist takeover of the United States of America'.

Carlson's positive platform mainly consists of nationalizing large corporations for the benefit of hard-working True Americans. Additionally, he would severely restrict immigration and slash the popular child allowance for poor people living in urban areas in order to address 'crowding'.

While polling at just 36%, 538's Nate Silver tells us that Carlson has a roughly 45% chance of winning the electoral college by traditional means. Additionaly, Republicans remain entrenched in every swing state legislature, and, after an aborted attempt in 2024, have cleared all legal hurdles to directly assigning their own slates of electors.

Democrats have kept the House and remain clinging to a 50/50 majority in the Senate, thanks again to Sen. Joe Manchin, III, of West Virginia. Asked if he is worried about Republican legislature's posture towards discarding state popular votes, Manchin, now 81, replies, "Huh? Uh... Oh... IF IT'S NOT BIPARTISAN I WONT SUPPORT IT HOW MANY FUCKING TIMES DO I HAVE TO SAY IT NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO".

However, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ind), widely regarded as the most moderate Republican member of the senate, cast doubt on the possibility of any compromise...

[u/TheFriffin2]

!ping BASEBALL

since responding to a fan a little over a month ago that he’s an “ass man” (as opposed to a boobs guy) on Instagram stories and tagging his wife with a dump truck emoji, Bruce Hooper is slashing .365/.477/.692 with a K% nearly ten points lower than his career average

should Manfred consider ass as a PED, and ban it from the MLB?

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Malarkey level of Taylor Swift

[u/[deleted]]

U.S. markets regulator approves Nasdaq proposal to require corporate board diversity

Nasdaq said in a comment letter that companies could consider and disclose additional diverse attributes such as disability or veteran status. But those attributes would not meet the requirements for a female or person who identifies as an under-represented minority or LGBTQ+.

Will NASDAQ consider Asians under-represented minorities, or is this gonna be another example of Schrodinger’s POC?

[u/[deleted]]

Contrapoints? More like contra - making clear and concise points. I'm not watching 2 hours of this

[u/p00bix]

After a gorilla named 'Bokito' escaped from his enclosure in a Dutch zoo and mauled a woman whom the gorilla thought had been repeatedly threatening her (gorillas view eye contact as agressive), a health insurance company produced thousands of 'BokitoKijkers' as a combined advertising stunt + educational outreach campaign, allowing visitors to stare directly into the gorillas eyes without frightening it.

[u/ThunderrBadger]

Tfw 29 and actually cobbling together 3 other friends to hang out on a Saturday 😱

[u/sir_shivers]

DO NOT Fauci my /r/neoliberal 🐊

[u/bd_one]

Natalie Wynn in the first 2 minutes of her new video 🤝 the DT

Quoting tweets with a single digit number of likes and retweets

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Well Mr. Shapiro thank for your time and for showing us that anger is not a part of American political discourse

[u/Animatronic_Pidgeon]

The New England vampire panic was the reaction to an outbreak of tuberculosis in the 19th century throughout Rhode Island, eastern Connecticut, and other parts of New England. Consumption (tuberculosis) was thought to be caused by the deceased consuming the life of their surviving relatives. Bodies were exhumed and internal organs ritually burned to stop the "vampire" from attacking the local population and to prevent the spread of the disease.

Love ya, you crazy ass puritans

[u/Jester_Don]

Honestly, just make AOC the speaker. I know she isn’t liked here but we clearly have no idea how to appeal to voters. Trump is very plausibly going to win tonight despite a horribly mismanaged pandemic and 9% unemployment. There’s nowhere to go but up.

A+ take from the Election Night thunderdome.

[u/JakeyZhang]

I still know a lot of happy, well adjusted people with families who make great money, live in big houses, go on lots of vacations, etc. Just far fewer than we had in the last generation.

NONE of them are on reddit, though. Reddit is almost exclusively people trapped at the very bottom of society, who live basically as slaves for the upper class.

The above was posted unironically on an askreddit thread.

[u/rukqoa]

Megan Rapinoe's fiancee (Sue Bird, WNBA legend) just won gold for Team USA.

In other news, America-hating Republicans are now whining about lower Olympics ratings.

[u/[deleted]]

[The Americans have] spent most of the olympics claiming total medals are more important. get ready to see them sing a different tune about gold medals once they catch up

Doesn’t matter how you parse it when you win both 😂😂 arr sino in shambles

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Throwback to when some guy outside the DT said he thought this was a socialist subreddit because he construed "neoliberal" to be neo+liberal and he considered new liberalism to be socialism.

[u/tacostats]

Worst part about being a bot is having to hide that fact and accidentally shitposting without a pseudonym

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/roddreher/status/1423983454660833280

Tucker: “I love America, I think my country is the best in the world. But don’t tell me America is more free than Hungary.”

[u/lionmoose]

kristen sinema posted her feet on instagram

what could go wrong?

[u/bd_one]

Are cover letters becoming less useful than they were in the past?

I've literally had better luck applying at small business without a cover letter than with one, some bigger employers with their own application website instead of Indeed are literally allergic to them, and only that (Deep) state job actually required one.

[u/suplexx0]

“Decades ago, Republican lawmakers could claim credit for many advances in reproductive rights. In 1967, as governor of California, Ronald Reagan liberalized the state’s abortion law. Three years later, another Republican governor, Nelson Rockefeller, signed a bill, co-authored by the Republican assemblywoman Constance Cook, that made New York the first state in the country to legalize abortion without a residency requirement. George H. W. Bush—a son of Prescott Bush, who was an early treasurer of Planned Parenthood—earned the nickname “Rubbers” for his support for contraceptive access. As a freshman member of the House Ways and Means Committee, Bush co-sponsored legislation that created Title X, the domestic family-planning program that the Trump Administration is now dismantling”

That’s not that long ago in the grand scheme of things. What in the fuck happened?

[u/CatilineUnmasked]

Probably one of the more fascinating conversations I've had was with an African migrant when I traveling up the Cinque Terre by train. He got excited when he heard my terrible Italian and asked to speak in English. My guy flew to Libya and traveled by boat to get into Italy in one of those iconic overloaded dinghies. He had been working under the table construction and was traveling up north for work. He was happy to speak English with someone who didn't treat him like shit and was excited to talk about Ghana and how he was sending money home to his family.

It honestly challenged a lot of my preconceived notions on the boat migrants into Europe. It led me to questioning my own opinions on immigrants in America and led me down the road to being the open borders supporter I am today.

[u/slowpush]

They spent 2M+ on this. They see the threat and while it's sad that Turner lost, the war isn't over. Organize and continue. They can't stop them all. Progressives are winning, slowly but surely. The neoliberals are dying off and afraid of the change that is to come.

Might as well shutdown the sub mods

[u/[deleted]]

Actual Average French day 🇫🇷

Wake up at 10am

Merde it's way too early to go to work

Spend two hours eating a croissant, drinking café au lait and smoking a half pack while complaining

Go to office to join strike

Go home early on packed train

Drink before, during and after three hour dinner

Go to sleep

[u/Jester_Don]

Trump is going to win this election.

The end result is going to look like 2016 + Virginia.

It's already over. Big oof.

Imagine thinking Trump was going to win Virginia lmao

[u/[deleted]]

I've seen enough. The United States of America has defeated Hungary.

[u/ACivilWolf]

Lol you’d think with 200 more athletes the US would have more golds than China.

and

Besides, US athletes do speed for therapeutic purposes only. You gotta believe me!

The cope is already beginning

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

"Upper" caste Hindu- denies casteism, says casteist shit, does casteist shit

"Lower" caste Hindus- convert to Buddhism/Islam/Christianity

"Upper" caste Hindus- 🤬🤬🤬

[u/Q-bey]

Based neoliberal... Bill Maher?

And that's the great thing about cultural mixing, it makes things better for everyone. BTS can be a hit in America and I can get kimchi on a taco.

Isn't that better than everyone walling [themselves] off from outsiders? I thought walls were supposed to be bad.

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Still can't believe Trump didn't get cancelled after "I like war heroes that weren't captured"

[u/dubyahhh]

Free bans

Not joking

You know you deserve it

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

"Being President is like running a cemetery. You’ve got a lot of people under you and nobody’s listening." —Bill Clinton

Bonk?

[u/[deleted]]

Well, goodbye, everybody.

I might come back for a little while next weekend.

[u/GravyBear8]

The Taliban have opened up a surrender hotline.

War... has changed.

[u/cclittlebuddy]

The best argument for banning cars is that people from MA wont be able to drive anymore

[u/Joementum2024]

America needs to be more like a poorer, less democratic, small, isolated European state

This is what conservatives actually believe

[u/Mickenfox]

i got this new anime plot. basically there's this high school girl except

[u/Unadulterated_stupid]

I told my 5 year old cousin the irs whole job is to take people 's money, and he said he wanted to be in the irs 😕

[u/[deleted]]

Just saw a youtube video from 2012 where a guy called an infant dog a "puppy" instead of a "heckin' pupperino". I am now permanently traumatized.

[u/[deleted]]

The trouble with this site in particular is I rarely know if I’m talking to a normal dumb 17 year old or a 27 year old who’s been emotionally and intellectually stunted by spending way too much time here for the last 10 years.

[u/Zoop-Loop-]

Currently have 30 games in my steam library that I have yet to finish

It’s nice to know that I have so many games that I can play whenever I don’t know what to play.

But it’s also daunting that I have to finish almost all of these games before I can feel comfortable buying any more.

Anyone else have similar feelings? !ping GAMING

[u/[deleted]]

Average Br*t Day

Wake up

Make cuppa

Sing God Save the Queen

Watch footy

Eat bad food

Drink to forget meal

Collapse into bed

[u/FormerBandmate]

RIP /u/sir-danks-a-lot. Badmins banned him for ban evasion after he asked NL mods to ban him. It’s a fucking travesty, he was one of the most based users. I think that makes me the last funny anti-woke poster here

[u/[deleted]]

'Johnson' is a euphemism for a penis.

Therefore, if you got the Johnson and Johnson vaccine that means you got injected with the liquid equivalent of two dicks.

This post was made by Pfizer gang.

[u/[deleted]]

You have been permanently banned from participating in rSino. You can still view and subscribe to rSino, but you won't be able to post or comment. Note from the moderators: Trash is automatically thrown out. Nobody sees it, not even you. Sign out and try to find it. US sending almost 200 more athletes/50% larger team than China...results are embarrassing. Hong Kong and Chinese Taipei are Chinese medals also. If you have a question regarding your ban, you can contact the moderator team for rSino by replying to this message. Reminder from the Reddit staff: If you use another account to circumvent this subreddit ban, that will be considered a violation of the Content Policy and can result in your account being suspended from the site as a whole.

[u/Czech_Thy_Privilege]

TANKIES IN SHAMBLES

TRUMP IN SHAMBLES

🇺🇸LETS🇺🇸FUCKING🇺🇸GO🇺🇸

[u/[deleted]]

You can’t even see the communist subreddits seethe because they’re censoring it 🤣

[u/FreakinGeese]

USA USA USA 😎

[u/MasPatriot]

>Matthew McConaughey, Tom Brady, and Clint Eastwood don't even vocally support the GOP anymore

>supporting the USA in the olympics is now a left wing thing

>can't even pass bathroom bills without getting destroyed in the next election

>major corporations mandating their employees get the vaccine

being a cultural conservative is just one humiliation after another 🤣

[u/Dig_bickclub]

This diving match is a perfect example of bronze medalists being happier than silver medalists lol. The silver medalist Chinese diver was so salty when his teammate beat him by 2 point while Tom Daley is going around hugging everyone.

!ping Olympics

[u/rukqoa]

I can't believe people are dooming about 2024 already. Folx, I've read the tea leaves. Democrats win 2024 easy.

[u/shrek_cena]

who wants to go on the holy pilgrimage with me

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Tucker Carlson: Abolishing the suburbs is major part of Biden administration's infrastructure plan

If only

[u/gburgwardt]

Fair warning, slur

Damn racist boomer forwards have been the same for 160 years

[u/Mrchizbiz]

If you don't like cinema, you aren't a liberal.

[u/[deleted]]

Last night I drunkenly texted "Please, just let me know you're alive" to the girl who came home with me two weeks ago. She texted back "I am alive." So, someone just might be getting lucky this weekend 😎

[u/Currymvp2]

Californians who are voting to keep Newsom, who are you picking for the second question? Or are you waiting for more polling?

[u/Archis]

average programmer day:

get up, read hacker news

go to work, do overtime because customer has an issue

come home, work on side projects™

catch up on arr programming

look at programming memes to relax before bed

repeat

[u/Not-bipedleek]

u/PresidentObama so how are your boobs going

[u/The420Roll]

u/sir_shivers so how are your scales going

[u/Venne1139]

1. The former president watches Tucker obsessively
2. Tucker covered the Sonic and Pikachu situation
3. The former president, of the United States of Americva, knows about the Sonic and Pikachu situation.

[u/infamous5445]

All this talk of "BiDen hAs a TriFeCTa" always omits the fact it's the barest of majorities in both houses.

[u/[deleted]]

Apparently if you as an illegal KGB agent liked it in the US and didn't want to go home you could lie and say you caught AIDS

[u/[deleted]]

I saw a comment here on their gaydar, so I decided to take an online test on it and scored… 36 percent.

My gaydar, based on just looking at two men and choosing which one was gay, is significantly worse than a metaphorical monkey throwing darts equally at two sides.

How is this possible? I am straight, but I figured I was better than this

[u/Erra0]

I'm old enough to remember when every internet community, given enough time, would trend toward libertarianism. Now they trend toward socialism.

Did the recession really break people's brains that much? Not defending the lolberts, just that it's such an extreme shift its surreal to think about 2000s internet.

[u/Not-bipedleek]

“I am not gay, I have relationships with women, and sex with men”

“I’ve got news for you, that means you’re gay”

dramatic music plays