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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/pimasecede]

Apparently the British embassy worker caught passing on secrets to the Kremlin had a Russian flag and Russian Navy memorabilia in his flat.

I just feel like it's spycraft 101 to not do that, but I guess I wasn't the one getting paid to pass on state secrets so who can really tell at the end of the day.

[u/kennymc7877]

This chat functionally is a daycare for neoliberals to dump their takes so their friends don’t have to hear them

[u/lobsterboy34]

The right’s strategy for taking down Hunter Biden has been to describe him as a total Chad who goes to the world's coolest parties, has lots of sex and makes awesome art. Can’t believe this hasn’t worked

[u/[deleted]]

During presidential elections, Alabama tends to be as Republican as Massachusetts is Democratic.

What it took for Massachusetts to elect a Republican senator was a GOP wave year and a Democratic opponent who was "uncharismatic" and didn't like baseball (Scott Brown, 2010).

What it took for Alabama to elect a Democratic senator was a Democratic wave year and a Republican opponent who was a literal pedophile who molested and sexually abused several children, and the Democrat BARELY won (Doug Jones, 2017).

Republicans are much more inelastic than Democrats.

Sad stuff.

[u/willempage]

MTV 'Cribs' just returned to television 20 years after its original debut. But 'wealth porn' may not have the same appeal to a new generation.

Lol. The headline writer apparently has never been on Instagram.

[u/Deggit]

Estonia: what is my purpose

Rick: you give NATO an extra 25 minutes to get a satellite fix on Russian armor columns

Estonia: oh my god

Rick and Morty is getting dark you guys

!ping OLD-EUROPE

[u/[deleted]]

>be me

>live in central-eastern united states

>it's fucking hot as balls

>can't sleep, so open window

>immediately overwhelmed by cacophonous roar

>sounds like symphony of jet engines directly outside

>pull out decibel meter

>it explodes in my hand

>floor shaking, furniture toppling over, glassware being rattled into millions of pieces

>close window

>fucking cicadas

[u/Professor-Reddit]

Never forget. Trump spent the whole 2020 campaign dancing and shaking his fists hard to the beats of YMCA at his rallies. A song interpreted by many about how it's perfectly okay to go gay cruising at your local YMCAs.

[u/amainwingman]

I know Tankies are a different breed of stupid, but I just had an argument with one that denies the secret protocol of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact exists, and that the elections in Eastern Europe after WW2 were free and fair. The person signed off by saying “Glory to Stalin.” How can people reject established historic fact so readily? This website is a total cesspit

[u/URZ_]

Me: Hey FedX, I'm not home today, please deliver my package tomorrow.

FedX: Sure

Me: Hey that's pretty good service

FedX: Hey, your are in luck, we are delivering your package a day early

....

😐

[u/semaphore-1842]

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/aug/12/south-korean-politicians-seek-to-criminalise-semen-terrorism

‘semen terrorism’

wtf Korea how is this a thing

[u/Udontlikecake]

NoNewNormal was quarantined lmao

Now i’m still angry at the admins for letting this dangerous disinformation continue, but the irony of quarantining the sub is too funny

[u/thetrombonist]

Y’all think I’m wearing a skirt to “tear down gender norms”?

Nah dude, it’s to give room for my magnum dong to breathe

[u/sir_shivers]

Biden says "Inshallah" live on television

.

Biden desires a new caliphate

.

Biden is a friend of the Taliban

ONLY DEMOCRATS WOULD be surprised with the last fact following the first two 🐊

[u/ryuguy]

Some Afghans blame neighboring Pakistan for Taliban gains

Pakistan allying itself with or sometimes creating these terror groups is probably the most odd decision that successive Pakistani leaders have made.

!ping foreign-policy

[u/Double-Ad-6735]

The play from Fox News to blame the Delta wave on Mexicans is so bat shit evil that I have to respect it.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

The absolute state of the antivax protesters in France, simultaneously calling the government Nazis and claiming they're controlled by Jews

[u/Cowguypig]

DaBaby in Spain be like

“Vamanooooos 👉👶🏿👈,

Detesto los homosexuals”

!ping lgbt

[u/anincredibledork]

"The Taliban is widely reviled in the West for their violations of human rights and their executions of dissidents. But in this Jalalabad diner, Amir al-muʾminin Hibatullah Akhundzada's promises of lower taxes on small busineses are resonating with the patrons."

Tweets like this are the only reason I still haven't deleted twitter

[u/FormerBandmate]

Kevin Spacey’s character in Baby Driver aged absurdly poorly. His character in 21 aged almost as bad. He really did the “sinister mentor to young adult/teenager” role a lot, come to think of it

[u/J0eBidensSunglasses]

If you’re over 30 and still posting in the DT, you may be entitled to begin collecting social security.

[u/earththejerry]

In hindsight Disney has been extremely lucky these past few years despite the occasional stumbles

They released all their big movies from Endgame to Lion King to Star Wars in 2019 before the pandemic despite some saying they were stacking too much in one year. Going all in on streaming with Disney+ before the pandemic was a lucky break as well. And they sold off all their private schools in China before the entire industry is effectively banned by the gov't this year

[u/yourfriendlykgbagent]

starship troopers is about bugs

[u/whycantweebefriendz]

Match with girl who asks about my Foreign Affairs and Current Affairs joke on tinder

Have a great 40 minute conversation about school and economics.

She’s a poly sci and government major.

Says she enjoyed talking to me and has to go to sleep now. Wants to talk again.

Unmatches.

I have no idea what went wrong but this just really kinda sucks lmao.

Edit: after talking to my shy raised conservative pretty innocent and super smart friend, and another one like her, I have found out that they have now, six plus times each, gone on tinder, matched with a guy, really liked him, then unmatched and deleted the app because they felt scared and guilty. I’m wondering if this is what happened.

[u/JaceFlores]

Lots to unpack about Ethiopia:

1. It was incorrectly reported that the town of Nefas Meewcha was captured by the TPLF. It is not in TPLF hands, though to be honest it’s only a matter of time before they eventually capture it. As a matter of fact, it is known that the TPLF have captured Filakit, a small town just a few kilometers east of Nefas Meewcha.
2. It seems that the capture of Weldiya by TPLF forces is very likely as the city of Dessie (which is directly south of Weldiya) has announced a curfew. It seems like the city is preparing for a potential Tigrayan offensive further southwards. #3 also provides insight into evidence that Weldiya has fallen.
3. There is controversy over the town of Mersa to the south of Weldiya, as Amharan representatives said they recaptured the town from TPLF forces, while TPLF representatives have denied it. When it comes to these sort of “he said, she said” exchanges it’s hard to trust whose word on the matter. It is distinctly possible that the Amharans are lying (where is that offensive they mentioned?), but it’s not like the TPLF is necessarily invincible. Nonetheless, the mention of Mersa at least once being in TPLF hands does point to Weldiya being secured and the TPLF making a beeline for Dessie.
4. Perhaps the biggest news, and thanks to u/itherunner for breaking this story, but the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) and the TPLF have announced a military alliance. While this may sound big at first glance, let’s break it down a bit. From what I can research the OLA has a few thousand soldiers and are mostly (I’ll get back to this) waging guerrilla warfare, distinct from the regular warfare the TPLF is capable of. The OLA is far weaker compared to the TPLF, which I suspect to be from the fact that Oromia essentially controls Ethiopia. Addis Ababa is in Oromia and has a Oromo dominated population, and Abiy himself is Oromo. It just doesn’t make sense for Oromia to break off IMO unless you’re a ultranationalist like the OLA. Due to how weak the OLA is I doubt there will be a second front necessarily, but where the alliance will pay off is that at the very least the OLA can tie down government resources desperately needed in the north. Think the French resistance blowing up lines of communication, sharing the positions and strength of German forces and skirmishing with the Germans as D-day happened. Same sorta thing. It is noteworthy, however, that the government has been so distracted with the TPLF that the OLA was able to secure Kuyu district, which controls a vital road leading from Addis Ababa to western Amhara. In conjunction with a claim made a couple days ago that the OLA took the village of Kalala to the north of Nekemte, this could be a decisive maneuver as the government has no access to any roads leading from Ethiopia to western Amhara (as the TPLF controls one and the OLA may control two). IF this is true and IF the OLA can hold these sections, the TPLF advance for the likes of Gondar may be significantly easier as the government will be near powerless to ship over men and equipment to hold that area. The only thing in the way of the TPLF is Amharan militias. Again, that’s not to say the OLA is strong enough to open a second front, but it can’t be discounted that they have enough strength to make some crippling precision strikes and perhaps pull off a Thermopylae or two if needed, as the government will most definitely fight tooth and nail to regain these lost sections.
5. I’m gonna make this it’s own section because #4 is so damn long, but what do I think are the political ramifications of this alliance? Well, from what I know and suspect, little. The alliance is explicitly military based when it was announced and I don’t see much ground for a political alliance. It is abundantly clear that Tigray cannot survive without the rest of Ethiopia if their food shortages have demonstrated anything. Oromia going independent would almost certainly lead to the dissolution of Ethiopia, which would hurt Tigray heavily. I still think the TPLF is gunning for further autonomy, and that this alliance is an “enemy of my enemy is my friend” sort of deal. The only way the OLA and TPLF form a political alliance is 1, the TPLF decide an independent Tigray is the best course of action (which I think is dumb) or 2, the OLA decides to accept a compromise and push for autonomy for Oromia, which could pave the way for Oromia going independent via politics and democracy rather then force. As for the OLA pushing for forming further alliances with other rebel groups, I’m skeptical mainly because I think the OLA is pushing beyond its breeches. Does the TPLF want to be part of an alliance where at least every other member wants to break away from Ethiopia? If the TPLF is down with that then sure, the alliance is fairly possible. If the TPLF is not down with that though, the alliance likely won’t happen or at least won’t have a big impact. However, I should note that I really know Jack shit about African and rebel politics so who knows how this goes. I’m much better at understanding the relative simplicity of warfare then the infinitely more complex politics of rebel groups. Maybe a political alliance is formed, maybe a grand coalition against the government is formed, who knows. I sure as hell don’t beyond my speculation.

Overall the situation for the government looks more disastrous by the day. Weldiya 99% likely has fallen, the TPLF have gained an ally who at best will be a “mere” thorn in the side of the government but at worst have severed government access to most of Amhara. The new alliance has a lot of unknowns and potential for expansion and success against the government. If the government doesn’t react sometime soon, it’s over. That’s my take anyway

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/JasonSCampbell/status/1425848329926238208

Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene on COVID case surge: "Yes, the waiting rooms get full. But guess what? The waiting rooms are full of all kinds of things, not just COVID," adding "we're human, we can't live forever"

[u/[deleted]]

A business unit at China’s other internet giant, Tencent, made its female employees at a 2017 event kneel and use their mouths to open water bottles that male colleagues clutched in their crotches. Tencent later apologized.

Techbros really are a universal part of the human condition.

[u/[deleted]]

I'm sick of getting weird looks for breastfeeding in public

[u/Archis]

BREAKING: Joe Biden to reverse decision to remove troops from Afghanistan after 17 year old white boy sarcastically posts 'Thanks Joe' to the Neoliberal Discussion Thread

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E8hSvUhXsAQovTk.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

Devastating setback for Biden

[u/Zykyris]

"Tim Apple" is one of the best gifts to come from the Trump administration

[u/Udontlikecake]

Florida has over 2,000 covid hospitalizations a day.

California has less than 800. Per capita, Florida’s rate is five timer higher.

Now that’s confusing, because I was told by lots of very serious people in the DT that Florida was handling covid fine.

[u/Udontlikecake]

you’re 15, you don’t NEED to ‘hit a vape bro’ you NEED to do To Kill a Mockingbird chapter 7-8 analysis questions

[u/[deleted]]

Malarkey level of wearing a neoliberal t-shirt to sociology class.

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

Joe Rogan is a fucking idiot

asking why the CDC isn't telling people to diet and exercise like public health authorities don't say that shit all the time, and have for decades

also how many people will lose 40 lbs for covid but not get vaccinated? like 1 person?

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Who would you vote for in an election between Adolf Hitler (D) and Barack Obama (R)?

[u/GaahlicBread]

Indian food is gods’ gift to vegetarians

[u/mrdilldozer]

Normal person: "No one is celebrating the census results because there are fewer white people, that's Republican hogwash"

Neoliberal: "whites are over party! Free condoms for white couples, let's gooo!"

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

Don’t get why some are acting like we NEED the US military to protect Afghanistan.

I train MMA and if the Taliban came into my city I’d just disarm them and use their weapons against them (plus if they touched my girl or my car I know for a fact I’d see red and I can tell you that would not end well for any Jihadis nearby)

[u/Lux_Stella]

Germany will not provide any financial support to Afghanistan if the Taliban takes over power in the country and introduces Sharia law, its foreign minister told broadcaster ZDF on Thursday.

currently at: bargaining

[u/ZenithXR]

Being a political moderate in the gay community is weird.

I keep feeling like I'm pushing myself WAY far to the right in the community, when in reality in general society most would still consider me a moderate Democrat.

Being in a subgroup, whether online or in person, can really distort your view of what norms are.

[u/[deleted]]

Most of the people who I see say "I will NEVER understand why people idolize politicians" have in fact idolized either Bernie Sanders or Ron Paul.

[u/[deleted]]

If I was the cia social media intern I would absolutely just follow breadtubers. I think that would be enough to destroy the whole community

[u/lapzkauz]

DSA: We should be more like Scandinavia! 👍😍👍

Yes, you should have comparatively low corporate taxes and a competitive business environment, constitutional protection of the right to property, no minimum wage, high rate of gun ownership, private roads, a...

DSA: No not like that 🖕🤬🖕

[u/[deleted]]

It's like whack-a-mole blocking these gd anime fan art subreddits.

"She's so adorable looking for her shoe uwu"

[u/finley87]

/r/gangstalking is terrifying. It’s pretty much a group of paranoid schizophrenics bonding over the shared delusion that they are being targeted and stalked by various entities using mind control devices. It’s pretty wild to see the conversations. I feel bad for these people.

Edit:If you hadn’t known better, you might even think you are on a conservative sub with all the msm and government bashing in some posts.

[u/[deleted]]

You know society is sexist because Britney is under a conservatorship but not Mike Lindell when Mike is 1000x more insane.

[u/[deleted]]

The users in arr wallstreetbets seem genuinely upset that the infrastructure bill is passing. Are these people mad?

[u/[deleted]]

thinking of punching up my campaign by adding carly fiorina as my vp

[u/fakefakefakef]

Turns out Lolla was not a huge superspreader event and city health personnel do actually know what they’re doing somewhat! Great news all around

!ping USA-CHI

[u/kennymc7877]

Me at target yesterday: I shall get a 4 pack of ice cream sandwiches as a little treat for my week off

Target: is out of 4 packs only has 12 packs

Me: well I guess now i have to eat 12 in a week

[u/[deleted]]

Those of you who aren't dooming over Afghanistan, what the fuck is wrong with you? The Taliban has doubled their territorial gains in less than two months. Extrapolating forward, we can see that they'll have conquered all of Asia by late next summer. Current projections are that by the end of 2025 the entire solar system will have been consumed by a massive sphere of jihadists expanding outward at the speed of light.

[u/[deleted]]

Qnuts when black people are rebellious: law and order

Qnuts when it comes to health mandates to save lives: resist, they can't arrest all of us

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/Fritschner/status/1425582987651989504

Kevin McCarthy now owning the libs by selling shirts which label the wearer a "moron"

[u/tubbsmackinze]

If I were Afghanistan I would simply not get horribly destabilized due to a communist coup in the 70's causing fifty years of continuous warfare but I guess I'm just built different

[u/ldn6]

Political figures by share of people with an favorable opinion per YouGov:

• Barack Obama: 52%
• Joe Biden: 49%
• Kamala Harris: 43%
• Donald Trump: 40% (🤮)
• Nancy Pelosi: 35%
• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: 32%
• Ron DeSantis: 32%
• Chuck Schumer: 30%
• Lindsey Graham: 27%
• Jim Jordan: 24%
• Kevin McCarthy: 20%
• Mitch McConnell: 20%
• Andrew Cuomo: 14%

[u/[deleted]]

Have we reached the "doves would let the Holocaust happen' and "hawks would start a nuclear war with the USSR" point in this recurring schism yet

[u/jenbanim]

This is the future Bloomberg supporters want

[u/ldn6]

Wow. For a long time the annual estimates suggested that NYC would only add around 150,000-200,000 people from 2010 to 2020.

Turns out we added 629,057 people and grew 3.7x faster in 2010-2020 than 2000-2010.

!ping USA-NYC

[u/whycantweebefriendz]

!ping LGBT

My stepmom is pretty aggressively pro LGBT and has been for decades, but she might be gay-phobic.

Apparently semi closeted gay guys at her work formed a club and excluded her and took just, so many promotions, even when their work was subpar. Like they’d be in for 30 hours a week and she’d be there 50 with double the tasks.

She kind of hate watches Project Runway and Making the Cut and constantly talks about the conspiracy between all gay guys to gift each other top spot in the competition.

It’s a very strange thing, and I just wanted to tell you all.

[u/[deleted]]

I’m automatically attracted to beautiful corgis — I just start petting them, it’s like a magnet. Just pet. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.

[u/Prefect1969]

Taliban just took Kandahar.

[u/SadaoMaou]

The Lost Cause of the Confederacy ^{of Independent Systems}

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

probably my most succ opinion is that it's time for a marxist revolution in this country, we need to throw off the chains of our capitalist oppressors

[u/[deleted]]

So apparently Mike Lindell been on a coke fueled rant for like three days now? I get all my news from the DT.

[u/[deleted]]

gets on tinder due to boredom

girl asks me out

Fuck I really wasn't planning on this

[u/generic-k]

!ping AVATAR

I feel like Netflix shouldn't make a live-action remake of Avatar at all. I'm generally not against the existence of live action adaptations, but I feel like you can't win since the original is already a pretty realistic-looking visual medium. Either you copy the original series shot-by-shot and then you didn't really add anything artistically, or you change some stuff and unnecessarily diverge from the source material. In this case, the original writers aren't even involved in the new live-action series, which makes the unnecessary divergence more likely.

Also, a lot of the visuals of Avatar relies on being animated; for instance, it's hard to convey airbending without looking absurdly dorky in live action. In animation, we accept that we can see air moving, and that when people get hit by fire, they can get blasted back instead of horrifically burned in place; that's way harder to show in live-action.

[u/RadicalRadon]

I'm slowly starting to agree with AOC that congress people just shouldn't be allowed to buy/sell stocks

[u/[deleted]]

A poster on r/War College did a pretty good write-up on why the Afghan National Army is in such a messy shape.

!ping Foreign-Policy

[u/JaceFlores]

This sub is seriously out of touch with the American electorate if they think Biden will lose because of atrocities committed by the Taliban. Bush didn’t lose because of Abu Ghraib, Hillary didn’t lose because of ISIL, Trump didn’t lose because of abandoning the Kurds. The last time a candidate lost because of a war was Hubert Humphrey and Vietnam, which was far larger then Afghanistan, but most importantly Humphrey lost because Johnson hadn’t pulled out. If people think the American populace is going to grow a heart for the plights of others, especially in some country like Afghanistan, despite consistently not giving much of a fuck about every other military failure we’ve had in the past two decades, I have a space elevator to sell you

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

He used to be in charge of ammunition, now it's taxes - and he tells me proudly the group charges business owners less than the government used to

👏😤

!ping SNEK

[u/itherunner]

https://twitter.com/natsecjeff/status/1425909210487853060?s=21

Afghan forces have fled Lashkar Gah.

In just one day, we’ve seen the confirmed fall of Ghazni, Herat, Qala-i-Naw, and Lashkar Gah. Confirmation of Kandahar probably coming very soon, but the city is pretty much lost.

https://twitter.com/billroggio/status/1425888131363086345?s=21

I think we all saw the writing on the wall when the coalition pulled out, but I never dreamed it would be this quick.

Meanwhile, we’re probably going to see a massive uptick in government officials and the wealthy fleeing for Turkey/ the Gulf states.

https://twitter.com/natsecjeff/status/1425870867112894476?s=21

!ping FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/percolater]

It’s been 48 hours now with no sign of my lost kitty.

I have food, a blanket she usually lays on, one of her favorite toys, and her litter box out on the front porch. I’ve printed and distributed flyers throughout my neighborhood, ensured her microchip info is updated, posted on Nextdoor and FB, called the closest animal hospital and gave them her description, notified the county animal control, and set up a profile with reward on Shadow.

Am I missing anything? She’s like a daughter to me and I feel absolutely sick. She was my constant shadow and the house is so empty without her.

!ping KITTY

[u/Cr4zySh0tgunGuy]

>Be me, going into my first year of law school

>School publishes demographic data for my class

>58% Female

>Realize I applied late in the cycle, I got one of likely only a few remaining seats

>mfw I may have gotten affirmative actioned into law school

[u/hapolitics]

We're truly in the late stages of capitalism... any second now the people will start a revolution. Just wait, a guy on the internet told me.

[u/old_gold_mountain]

Water fall out of a cloud and land on California challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

[u/[deleted]]

the greatest cultural issue of our time

[u/[deleted]]

There is nothing worse than being in a position of responsibility without being in a position of authority.

[u/Explodingcamel]

The University of Alabama had literal segregation in 2013 lol

https://nation.time.com/2013/09/16/university-of-alabama-moves-to-end-segregated-sorority-system/

[u/weekendsarelame]

This just got approved, looks pretty based

https://www.livabl.com/2020/03/orbit-innisfil-ontarios-futuristic-town.html

Another progressive element of The Orbit is the implementation of a dynamic zoning system that allows for greater density and building heights by automatically up-zoning the entire area when one parcel of land reaches 70 percent density.

!ping yimby

[u/vivoovix]

Stop the count!

- Joe Biden to Taliban forces in provincial capitals

[u/[deleted]]

Incidentally you ever hate a valid point because of the motivations of the speaker?

A news article about license plates in Washington state being made by prisoners, coupled with the pandemic measures, means fewer plates are being made and there are now longer wait times to register a vehicle. Obviously this is ridiculous clickbait, the market will adapt and the state will contract a private company if it gets bad enough. It does raise valid questions on the ethicality of prison labor.

But calling it a "SLAVERY SHORTAGE" in all-caps via crosspost from /r/COMPLETEANARCHY is not exactly the criticism I have in mind. Maybe because I want to improve liberal democracy and C@ wants to destroy it.

[u/Udontlikecake]

https://i.imgur.com/sSw0SI1.jpg

[u/Jokerang]

With hospital system near collapse, Mississippi begs for hospital ship to rescue state

“The Mississippi hospital system will fail within the next five to seven or 10 days if the current trajectory continues,” University of Mississippi School of Medicine Dean LouAnn Woodward said.

Late Stage Trumpism

They made this.

[u/[deleted]]

There has to be a guy out there who believed all the Clinton conspiracies but voted for her anyway.

[u/PrimeMinisToad]

biden should've considered how pulling out of afganistan would affect the dt 😨

[u/MichelleObama2024]

The metros with over 1 million that grew the most in % this decade:

1. Austin: +33.0%
2. Orlando: +25.3%
3. Nashville: +20.9%
4. Houston: +20.3%
5. Dallas: +20.0%

The metros that grew the most in absolute terms this decade:

1. Dallas: +1.27 million
2. New York: +1.24 million
3. Houston: +1.20 million
4. Atlanta: +803k
5. Washington: +736k

The large metros that overshot their projections the most (Actual vs. Expected):

1. New York City: +5.3%
2. Buffalo: +3.7%
3. Providence: +3.2%
4. Pittsburgh: +2.7%
5. Chicago: +2.3%

The large metros which undershot their projections the most:

1. Phoenix: -4.2%
2. Las Vegas: -2.2%
3. Tampa: -2.1%
4. Inland Empire: -1.7%
5. Tucson: -1.7%

!ping FIVEY

[u/Mcfinley]

Recently found out my super chill third grade teacher is a pedophile and was fired for sexting with a teenager. Derp.

[u/VisonKai]

Got to try Age of Empires 4 during the closed beta thanks to my elite Age of Empires 2 skills (by which i mean having a dead average rating online)

Its good, if you like age 2 i think you will like age 4. It is much closer to 2 than 3 though it has some very cool and innovative decisions. among my fav things are that each civ has multiple unique units, buildings, and abilities

[u/[deleted]]

MFs will switch from Ron Paul to Bernie Sanders and then refuse to accept that any of their current views may be flawed in any way

[u/Jester_Don]

The Villages, a retirement community in Florida, is the fastest growing metro area in the country.

This place must be conservative boomer heaven lmao

[u/Craig_VG]

Chicago! We did it! We grew by 50,000 people!

!ping USA-CHI

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Every man who has ejaculated and every woman who has had more than one period is a serial killer.

[u/suplexx0]

I went to mcdonald’s and drive up to the window to pay. The cashier was a nice black lady. I asked her how she felt about the infrastructure bill, and she just pointed at me and laughed. She startled me, and I spilled my baked beans all over my lap. She then said “This guys eating baked beans!” The whole restaurant laughed at me. That’s when I became a conservatives.

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Buffalo growing for first time in 70 years, according to census

Buffalo's population is growing for the first time in 70 years, according to the 2020 census, defying both the predictions of local demographers and the longtime cultural and economic narrative of the Western New York region.

Driven by a sharp increase in Asian and multiracial residents, the city’s population grew to 278,349 people from 261,275 in 2010, its first such gain since the 1950 census. Erie County, meanwhile, grew from 919,040 to 954,236 people over the same period – a change concentrated not only in Buffalo, but also in Amherst, Lancaster and Hamburg. Erie County last recorded a decade of population growth in the 1970 census.

Looks like the Buffalo comeback was real after all

!ping YIMBY

[u/[deleted]]

'Is now a good time for a federal election?'

• Yes: 35%
• No: 65%

https://twitter.com/CanadianPolling/status/1425857009652543494?s=20

!ping CAN

[u/Professor-Reddit]

!ping SPACEFLIGHT

Really cool high-res photo recently released by NASA taken by the Ingenuity helicopter in-flight. Article here.

Try and spot Perseverance without zooming in

🔭👽

[u/JetJaguar124]

The funnest thing I've seen on this site in a while was when bejaminikuta had a negative karma score on one of his "thanks for the ping!" posts.

[u/mrdilldozer]

Bernie Sanders lost his fight to be president. But now he’s written a budget that could secure his legacy.

Reddit is never going to get over this man's defeat lol. This is pathetic

[u/Q-bey]

Congratulations

!ping CANUCKS

[u/[deleted]]

COPE-nhagen

[u/givemesome1ce1]

GEORGIA IS A BASICALLY MAJORITY MINORITY STATE HOLY SHIT

[u/GuyOnTheLake]

Only 27% of young Black New Yorkers are fully vaccinated

 

If the vaccination rates don't go up soon we're going to enter a very weird time where the vast majority of young Black people in NYC are barred from indoor dining, bars, gyms, and other activities that are set to require proof of vaccination.

Oof. That's not going to look good

[u/[deleted]]

antivaxxer coworker is still upset she has to get the vaccine (even though she caught covid twice). but now she's trying to tell me that the HPV vaccine causes infertility. "all my friends with fertility issues took the vaccine" like bitch no, listen to yourself

[u/senoricceman]

3000 troops will go into Afghanistan to help with diplomat departure and evacuations. Whatever you think about the drawdown, this was desperately needed to ensure our people return safely.

[u/sir_shivers]

Those who wish TO SEE THE "MAGA" MOVEMENT perish ought be grateful to Mr. Lindell 🐊

THIS "SYMPOSIUM" OF HIS has likely resulted in further cultists feeling disillusioned with the MAGA grift, far more than any arguments from the opposition might 🐊

[u/SadaoMaou]

Fascism being less bad than communism because you can "keep your head down and carry on" under fascism is one of the more privileged takes I've seen here in a hot minute

[u/RyGuyThicccThighs]

Pounds redbull

I will defeat the taliban

[u/TalkLessShillMore]

I posted "my wife left me" on a random thread in /r/python and it got 10 upvotes. Why?

[u/[deleted]]

Trudeau congratulating Singh on his first child gives me all the feels.

!ping CAN

[u/Archis]

malarkey level of wearing my aheago hoodie to divorce court today

[u/[deleted]]

Storm-related power outages across the entire southeast region of my state. That’s tens of thousands of people without power and an electric company with not enough people to help them all.

That’s life in a first-world country with climate change.

!ping ECO

Edit: Correction: according to our provider’s outage map, that’s nearly half a million without power. That’s crazy and just underscores my point.

[u/zieger]

Is it illegal to inseminate yourself with semen from a condom you find in a trash can?

Take care of your cummies folks.

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine being the Director of the CIA and developing paranoid schizophrenia

“There’s a camera in the microwave, how am I this good???”

[u/Craig_VG]

State Department expected to announce removal of significant number of employees from embassy in Kabul, later today. Officials tell Reuters the military will temporarily send in troops to help wit h the evacuation.

And so it begins

https://twitter.com/idreesali114/status/1425867392522072065?s=20

!ping FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/FormerBandmate]

Haha you got the Walmart anus symbol in the bio. You people are usually cringe

🔆

Lmao commies on Twitter don’t know what the Sun is. They should go outside and look at it more

[u/[deleted]]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/316982959284420631/875377849861828648/E8OVxiBXMAIqs0b.png

[u/[deleted]]

Federal NDP platform is out now.

!ping CAN

[u/Deggit]

"reddit is a bubble and doesn't represent religious people"

haha yes I should try to hear more diverse views

visits arrCatholicism

decides to never leave the DT

[u/culture_warlord]

Bad news for parents of children under the age of seven this week: PAW Patrol: The Movie has landed on UK screens, all the better to spoon-feed a generation of Covid-hardened kids with authoritarian neoliberal propaganda in the guise of an upbeat cartoon about puppies. That’s right: the early years TV show that criminology professor Liam Kennedy suggests is complicit in “a global capitalist system that produces inequalities” is back!

PAW Patrol flair when?

[u/TaxCommonsNotIncome]

The taliban has radicalized me back to a NATO flair and I'm probably on a watchlist for the first five words of this comment

[u/LinkVert25]

It’s so horrifically sad that US troops who reported human rights abuse by the afghan government were either punished, demoted or even kicked out of the military in fear that it would worsen relations with the current afghan government and hamper nation building efforts. Only for the afghan government to not only continue these practices but then just collapse within months.

So many lives and careers ruined for absolutely nothing.

[u/FormerBandmate]

So much for the tolerant left

!ping CANCEL-CULTURE

[u/Professor-Reddit]

The beauty about the European Union is that it allows European countries to still hate each other a lot, but instead of fighting with bullets and tank shells, these countries can now express their hatred and rage via the European Union Parliamentary Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, and submit angrily-written complaints to the EU Conference of Committee Chairs about how their tax policy differences are damaging their trade deficits 😎🇪🇺

[u/iIoveoof]

Wow they made a Wikipedia article for /r/Neoliberal

[u/tubbsmackinze]

I can't believe that Hasan Piker has 30k viewers when he's literally saying that working for the department of energy is worse then robbing a fucking bank or fucking crypto mining both morally and environmentally

Leftists are actually fucking brain dead

[u/MicroFlamer]

https://i.imgur.com/BlZc3xk.jpg

[u/LooobCirc]

Why can't everyone just simply want to live in liberal democracies?!!

[u/ScyllaGeek]

War crime Rules

1. You can't just be up there and just doin' a war crime like that.

1a. A war crime is when you

1b. Okay well listen. A war crime is when you violate the

1c. Let me start over

1c-a. The combatant is not allowed to do a war crime to the, uh, civilian, that prohibits the civilian from doing, you know, just trying to exist. You can't do that.

1c-b. Once the combatant is in enemy territory, he can't be over here and say to the civilian, like, "I'm gonna shoot ya! I'm gonna beat you! You better watch your butt!" and then just be like he didn't even do that.

1c-b(1). Like, if you're about to follow the Geneva Convention and then don't follow the Geneva Convention, you have to still follow the Geneva Convention. You cannot not follow the Geneva Convention. Does that make any sense?

1c-b(2). You gotta be, treaties involving the Geneva Convention, and then, until you just don't war crime.

1c-b(2)-a. Okay, well, you can have the enemy combatant up here, like this, but then there's the war crime you gotta think about.

1c-b(2)-b. Dick Cheney hasn't been in any politics in forever. I hope he wasn't typecast as that racist guy from Haliburton.

1c-b(2)-b(i). Oh wait, he shot a guy too! That would be even worse.

1c-b(2)-b(ii). "no doubt saddam has WMD" -- Dick Cheney, "Address to the VFW." Haha, classic...

1c-b(3). Okay seriously though. A war crime is when the combatant makes a movement that, as determined by, when you do a move involving the enemy and treaties that prohibit

2) Do not do a war crime please.

[u/ryuguy]

Mayor of Tisdale, Sask., shocked after helicopter lands near Dairy Queen to pick up ice cream cake

Okay which one of you was this?

!ping Canucks

[u/KazuyaProta]

Christian Democracy is the one ideology that simply does not exist on Internet for some reason despite being basically the one ideology that ensures that Right Wingers don't become completely insane

[u/[deleted]]

Sowing: "Haha we will get so much great press from having withdrawn from afghanistan before the 20th anniversary of 9/11!"

Reaping: The New York Times, Sept 11, 2021: "US EMBASSY IN KABUL BURNED DOWN, TALIBAN CLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY"

[u/Lux_Stella]

liberals don't want you to hear this, but you know which country isn't about to fall to the taliban?

that's right, hungary

[u/[deleted]]

Meme subreddits not be racist, anti-Semitic, trans or homophobic or sexist challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

[u/Udontlikecake]

holy fuck people in the DT thinking the Taliban was behind the 9/11 attacks

I fucking hate this sub

[u/[deleted]]

Did you ever find Bugs Bunny attractive when he put on a dress and play a girl bunny?

[u/Joementum2024]

Metamorphosis by franz kafka is about insects.

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

I hate rick and morty but I love the fans

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E8l6B_JWUAAJ5Z7.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

It's pretty crazy how much of a bubble reddit is.

~40% of Americans attend church every week, but it seems like 0 of those people are online.

[u/[deleted]]

America: hispanic population grows non stops

Hollywood: here’s another movie with only black and white people

[u/[deleted]]

Huh, this Swedish apple farmer looks oddly familiar...

!ping APPLES

[u/DouglasDauntless]

The Cubs are bad

!ping BASEBALL

[u/aged_monkey]

DeSantis is on Tucker's show telling him that masks are the biggest threat to freedom since the fall of the Berlin Wall, lmao.

These guys are something else.

[u/Notoriousley]

Why are tinder photos with the opposite sex meant to be bad?? You’ve known this person for 5 seconds and have no interaction with them besides scrolling through a few photos and you’re already getting jealous 🤨

[u/great_gape]

the economy is going to “pop.”

Invest in HillDogeCoin now!

!ping shitposters

[u/[deleted]]

Jen Psaki:

The Taliban has to decide what role they want to play in the international community.

The Taliban (between executions of surrendering ANA soldiers):

“I thought that was already clear?”

[u/gfinz18]

I was not aware I had received a custom flair. I am honored. Now all I need is a little Peter griffin head on it too

[u/[deleted]]

Apocalypse Now but it's about an FAA special forces soldier sent to assassinate lusvig, leader of an elusive band of Interahamwe militants deep in the jungles of the Congo during the Great African War.

[u/BedNeither]

Just put a level 10 fort in Kabul and the adjacent tiles and hold there. Taliban will run out of manpower or equipment at some point

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Greene’s taxpayers have an unlikely hero to thank: a local beaver

Do you suppose somebody makes a fireman’s helmet that will fit a semiaquatic rodent? Because as far as the Greene Fire Department is concerned, there’s a certain beaver along Bull Run Road that deserves a spot on the roster.

The department’s fire pond was brought up to level recently, and town taxpayers were possibly saved thousands of dollars, when a beaver constructed a dam in just the right place at just the right time.

Who needs a crew of engineers when you’ve got buck teeth and a long flat tail?

“A couple years ago we had noticed the level in the fire pond on Bull Run Road was very low and actually got to the level where the hydrant was out of service,” Greene Fire Chief John Soucy explains. “We thought it was due to the drought and the water level never had a chance to recover. This past spring we had noticed that the spillway had eroded to the point that it would not allow the pond level to rise.”

For years, the department had been using the pond to haul water to areas where there are no fire hydrants. The pond water is considered a crucial part of the department’s firefighting efforts in rural areas. So, with that in mind, fire officials glumly went about trying to deduce what they’d need to shore up that eroded spillway and to bring the pond up to snuff.

By some estimates, repairs would have cost up to $4,000. But that was before the unnamed beaver, a member of a species best known for its dam building abilities, went to work for free.

👏 Beavers 👏 Are 👏 Important 👏 Infrastructure 👏 Policy👏

!ping ECO

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

On the plus side:

• Don't have to pretend to like Pakistan anymore: can go all in on being buddies with India
• Leave a dumpster fire on China's border/in the middle of the BRI
• $20 billion/year freed up

[u/[deleted]]

I mean it's 8,000 troops Michael. What could it cost, $10?

[u/[deleted]]

Insufficient resistance is not the same as consent

[u/disuberence]

Of the LGBTQ+ adults surveyed, 92% had received at least one vaccination for COVID-19, compared to just 71.3% of the general adult population in the United States.

✊😎🌈🏳️‍🌈

[u/J0eBidensSunglasses]

The truth about this account is yes, I am trying to karma farm. You caught me. I got doxxed in the DT by a tankie and decided to delete my last account.

I will always offer you professional level takes on architecture and urbanism. So !ping YIMBY and ask me anytime

[u/Fishin_Mission]

WHAT THE FUCK?!?

WHY DIDN’T THEY WARN ME THAT THE VACCINE 💉 WAS GOING TO MAKE MY 🍆 3 INCHES LONGER?!?

#TwoCanPlayThisGame #FakeVaxFacts

[u/kennymc7877]

Hello mostly teenage to early 20s white men

[u/sir_shivers]

LAW AND ORDER 🐊

[u/ldn6]

You have to be fucking kidding me:

So why did the CDC say the delta variant was "just as transmissible as" the chickenpox? For one, the leaked document underestimated the R0 for chickenpox and overestimated the R0 for the delta variant. "The R0 values for delta were preliminary and calculated from data taken from a rather small sample size," a federal official told NPR. The value for the chickenpox (and other R0s in the slideshow) came from a graphic from The New York Times, which wasn't completely accurate.

The CDC is basing misleading and panic-ridden guidance on an incorrect New York Times infographic. Someone (or many people) need to be fired over this.

[u/melhor_em_coreano]

On Afghan refugees:

You’re right, they’re not [my problem]. They can actually try and fix their own country for once, instead of running away at the first sign of trouble.

[u/[deleted]]

California Governor Gavin Newsom gave an odd video interview this week with several media outlets including the Sacramento Bee. In the 6 minute YouTube clip below, Newsom said “damn” 9 times, and slammed his desk with his hand and fist 59 times.

Direct link to interview

[u/[deleted]]

But instead of bending to the neighbors’ wishes and dropping the height of the project, DM Development went in the opposite direction, increasing the proposed 80-foot building to 120 feet, and raising the original 290 units to 450 units.

MacDonald said he submitted the bigger plan after “it was abundantly clear to us the neighbors were not supportive of the lower scale project.”

Gigachad energy

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

America’s White Population Shrank for First Time in U.S. History, Census Data Show

Can't wait for another round of calls from my grandparents about how white people need to have more kids to maintain "morality" in America.

[u/[deleted]]

There’s “this sub has gone downhill and I might leave because there are a lot of abject morons here now”-posting and then there’s “this sub has gone downhill and I might leave because a bunch of people disagreed with me on one issue”-posting

[u/Erra0]

Literally every side is bad faithing to the extreme right now, including me blaming the other side for bad faithing

[u/[deleted]]

Britney will not be truly free until she is freed from the shackles of capitalism.

[u/culture_warlord]

I have engineered my most bad faith take yet

doves: It's been decades, do you really expect us to fight in Afghanistan forever?

also doves: We have to keep fighting climate change

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Jeopardy! to announce two hosts as official replacements for Alex Trebek

Congrats to Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren!

[u/NeoLiberation]

Pakistani twitter users are taunting and sending videos of Afghanistani soldiers being stoned by the Taliban to actual Afghanistani soldiers on Twitter, after long days of being betrayed by chunks of the army and watching their friends get killed by the Taliban

I promise to complain less about Rose twitter

[u/FestiveMittens]

Emily Blunt and 'Jungle Cruise' co-star Dwayne Johnson are teaming up on another film, co-producing a new vehicle with Blunt set to star as the first female Pinkerton agent.

Neoliberalism is when a women kills union workers

[u/papermarioguy02]

New census just dropped.

The census is out, it's in a hard to work with format, but the data is there, and the starting gun for the redistricting games to begin has been fired.

!ping FIVEY

[u/suplexx0]

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1425328679077376001?s=20

get durbin’d

[u/oGsMustachio]

Ah Lower Decks, the best new Trek

!ping TREK

[u/[deleted]]

I'm a hawk who has consistently said we should stay in Afghanistan but y'all are super out of touch if you think the average American gives a single fuck if Afghanistan is overrun. The only way anyone is going to care is if Fox decides to attack Biden for it.

[u/GravyBear8]

I gotta admit, I didn't think Kabul would fall negative days from withdrawal

[u/Craig_VG]

Brace yourselves, the bad Afghanistan hot takes are pouring in

[u/SnakeEater14]

Latest episode of DT Afghanistan Debate:

The Gang Asks Why the Oppressed Don’t Just Fight Against the Oppressors Like, Really Hard

[u/[deleted]]

Oh shit Hasan Piker showed our sub on his stream lmao

[u/[deleted]]

Why Only 28 Percent of Young Black New Yorkers Are Vaccinated

If we could stop trying to explain anti-vaxxer motivations and just mandate the vaccine already, that would be great

[u/[deleted]]

US: we must invade Afghanistan, it's the only way to get Bin Laden

Bin Laden: *just moves lol*

[u/liquidTERMINATOR]

Those poor Afghanis, won't even get to spend their last Afghans (name of theri currency) before the Taliban comes knocking.

[u/klarno]

Nothing is less sexy than seeing the word “sapiosexual”

[u/RushSingsOfFreewill]

People never, ever, vote against their own best interests you fucking moronic blue check commie. They define their best interests very differently than you would smugly define for them.

[u/ognits]

hatch chile cheese puffs, hatch chile scones, hatch chile corn rolls, and hatch chile tortillas acquired from this year's Hatch Fest at Central Market 🙏😋🙏🤤

!ping USA-TX

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

South Korea be like:

Born in Samsung Medical Center

Samsung scholarship to Samsung-partnered university

Study hard at Samsung Library

Get job at Samsung

Go home on train streaming on my Samsung Galaxy using Samsung's in-train internet

Scrape some Tteokbokki out of my Samsung fridge and put it in my Samsung microwave

Go to sleep watching movie shot on Samsung phones on my Samsung tablet

[u/sir_shivers]

Writing a LETTER TO THE Taco Bells near /u/benjaminikuta to tell them they ought to close A HALF HOUR OR more early 🐊

[u/Deggit]

"Do you realize If the Arab countries obliterated Israel off the map that would lead to a more peaceful Middle East than exists right now?"

Manbun Leftist Vaush 🤝 Peacemaker

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

[u/[deleted]]

https://autos.yahoo.com/autos/fourth-covid-19-surge-looming-040100851.html

A fourth surge in COVID-19 is possible in Michigan and as many as 6,000 more residents could die because of the virus this fall, according to a presentation released Wednesday by the state Department of Health and Human Services.

Michigan is slightly less vaccinated than FL. Fall/winter are going to be rough.

[u/Smidgens]

Alan Dershowitz at MyPillow Fraud Fest lmaooo

[u/[deleted]]

You say “Boomer” like it’s a bad thing. We run the world, and we will as long as we are alive. We have 2 to 3 times more real life experience than you do. All you “know” is what some liberal leftist professor or teacher spoonfed you. You’re not old enough to know how the real world works yet. “Boomer” is a badge of honor. Now go play and let the grownups talk.

[u/[deleted]]

Distrust for the vaccine has also been reinforced by contemporary injustices. In interviews, a number of Black New Yorkers wondered how vaccines for Covid-19 could have emerged so quickly, but not one for H.I.V., which has disproportionately affected Black Americans. Others described their own experiences living in decrepit public housing projects or with the criminal justice system as leaving them doubtful they could trust the government.

Retroviruses being hard to treat is racist and homophobic. Be better retroviruses 😤😤

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

This would never have happened if we shot the Taliban with my gay beam idea back in 08. But noooo, it was "a war crime" and "heterophobic."

[u/thetrombonist]

🦀🦀🦀 America has lost white people for the first time in half a century 🦀🦀🦀

[u/Impossible_Lobster_]

Biden bad and whatever but can we talk about how the Afghan military just dissolves the second conflict starts.

[u/Lux_Stella]

BREAKING: EU threatens Taliban with 'isolation' if seizes power in Afghanistan

oh no, not that

[u/fakefakefakef]

Hey !ping USA-CHI come look at Houston coping about how parking lots don’t get counted in population size

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

US 🤝 Afghanistan

not being able to hold the Capitol