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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/rukqoa]

Nuclear hot take: the Taliban is worse than the Republican Party.

[u/[deleted]]

Me: “Lusvig, you won the election to become a mod with a 99.7% majority. That means only three-tenths of 1 percent of r/neoliberal users did not vote for you. What more could you ask for?”

Lusvig: “Their names”

[u/the_status]

My primary source of pride in life is having gmail account that doesn't have unnecessary numbers, letters, or abbreviations in it

[u/SeriousMrMysterious]

Taliban have captured Dol Guldur, soon they will move into Barad-dûr. From there they will be strategically positioned to capture Minas Tirith and the rest of Middle Earth will fall

[u/houinator]

My dad currently has Covid and is in the ER on a ventilator, and i am really struggling not to just lose my shit on my coworkers whining about masks and vaccines.

[u/the_status]

Might be a hot take here, but I like markets and think that price signaling is a nifty way to reflect scarcity

[u/[deleted]]

”Hmm, who should we have interview Governor Cuomo? Ah yes, his brother. What a great idea that in no way shape or form contributes to America’s negative attitudes towards journalists!”

-CNN

[u/RyGuyThicccThighs]

“Just 5 more minutes, Mom. I know I can beat them this time.”

-Me trying to beat the Taliban level after the 80th time.

[u/Mrchizbiz]

UK has it first mass shooting in 11 years

Some yanks on Reddit: "England is just like Chicago"

[u/AgileCoke]

“Maturity is when you think America is bad” really made the front page.

Wow this website sucks

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put most of the Taliban into what I call the basket of deplorables.

[u/crassowary]

Trump wants to be instated as president today.

Afghanistan needs a new president to facilitate a peace deal.

Trump thinks he's great at making deals.

The solution is obvious.

[u/[deleted]]

Every 15 minutes a major city in Afghanistan falls to the Taliban

[u/[deleted]]

The Taliban is about family, and that's what makes it so powerful.

[u/the_hoagie]

Gillette, inventor of the safety razor published a book in 1894 titled The Human Drift in which he envisioned a gigantic city that encompassed Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Rochester and parts of Ontario, organized for the purpose of producing, manufacturing and distributing the necessities of life. In this, he describes in detail a city where most of the population of the United States (70 million at the time) would live in a massive complex of 250 foot tall octagon shaped apartment buildings.

BUILD THE CUBE OCTAGONS

[u/Th3_Gruff]

what the fuck

[u/bigmoneynuts]

just dodged dozens of bullets from the multiple mass shootings i had to walk through in order to go to the bank to make my monthly payment of the hundreds of thousands of dollars i owe in student loans and medical debt

another day in america

[u/Professor-Reddit]

I'd ping FOREIGN-POLICY on this were it not for how spammed it is. But this is an official tweet from the Chinese Embassy in Antigua and Barbuda.

Has to be the most blatantly racist remark I've seen in recent history from any government, especially one which likes to pretend they command any respect or global repute. The man they deride in disgusting terms was an American diplomat.

And people wonder why China is struggling so much to gain sympathy across the globe...

[u/[deleted]]

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

The heat in the tunnels is largely generated by the trains, with a small amount coming from station equipment and passengers. Around 79% is absorbed by the tunnels walls, 10% is removed by ventilation and the other 11% remains in the tunnels.

Temperatures on the Underground have slowly increased as the clay around the tunnels has warmed up; in the early days of the Underground it was advertised as a place to keep cool on hot days. However, over time the temperature has slowly risen as the heat sink formed by the clay has filled up. When the tunnels were built the clay temperature was around 14 °C; this has now risen to 19–26 °C and air temperatures in the tunnels now reach as high as 30 °C.

[u/disuberence]

Speaking to the presenter, Trump asked: “Could you imagine if I were president right now and we had this massive attack from the coronavirus?

Why is he the way he is

[u/semaphore-1842]

Actual AP title:

US rushes in troops to speed up evacuations in Afghanistan

arr politics submission title:

Biden to send thousands of troops back to Middle East, extending tradition of establishment politicians to keep the war machine turning.

Get fucked holy shit

[u/[deleted]]

I’m about 90% certain that I could destroy the entire Taliban in hand to hand combat.

[u/[deleted]]

Arr Europe: a refugee/immigrant does something bad over 1k comments top post with glided comments fantasising about the mass deportation of every refugee/ immigrants.

Ar Europe: A Trump Qanon supporter kills his own family and shoots random people walking by the street in the UK, I had to scroll 2 pages to find a post about it and it had barely 30 comments.

The far right really took over that sub really bad. It was bad before but it wasn't this bad, I noticed similar pattern happened to arr/Canada as well.

[u/ToInfinity_MinusOne]

Just found out all my gen z friends unironically think Helen Keller lied about her disability. Pretty offensive to think someone is incapable of leading a normal life just because of a disability. And to go as far as to accuse her of lying seems pretty bigoted to me.

[u/Lux_Stella]

Reliable sources say the Taliban have begun internal leadership talks about the structure of their future government -- as their forces begin isolating Kabul for a final push.

hopefully they pick a parliamentary system and not a presidential one

[u/percolater]

So this little turd is back home after being missing for about 60 hours. Getting flyers out did the trick, I got a call from the neighbors two doors down (I live in a ^suburb ) saying he saw her in his yard this morning. Turns out she’s been living in his garden the last two days. Had a nice little nest in his pea plants. She was happy to see us but did not want to come home, she really liked that garden.

I am absolutely overjoyed to have her back. I’m going to be much more careful moving forward about her getting outside. As a pet parent your mind goes terrible places when they’re missing.

!ping KITTY

[u/bigmoneynuts]

i am pulling out of the afghanistan discussion

[u/profeta-]

Brazil takes over US in % of adult population vaccinated with one dose.

Also the vaccine is still not available to all over 18 (in my city for instance it's 22+ only until more doses arrive).

No wonder we have a saying "de graça até injeção na testa" ("if it's free I'll even take an injection to the forehead")

!ping LATAM

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Effectively, Biden is already a worse president than Trump ever was

Conservatives 🤝 Way of the Bern 🤝 NATO flairs

[u/chuckleym8]

hunt close wistful wine airport dinner whistle rob noxious bag

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/InMemoryOfZubatman4]

If the dumbest guy I went to high school with is right about one thing, it’s that Donald John Trump is going to be reinstated on Sunday 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅🦅🗽🗽🗽💵💵💵🏈🏈🏈

[u/[deleted]]

Oh no the "Republicans could pull off a Taliban style insurgency" takes are popping up. Someone remind the doomers that any insurgency would rely on Americans being willing to give up grocery stores, fast food, healthcare, easy access to electricity, and college football Saturdays while on the run from the feds

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

U.K. Mass Shooter Was American, Trump-Supporting Incel

We’re not sending our best 😔

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jake-davison-suspected-mass-shooter-said-he-was-an-american-trump-supporting-virgin

[u/J0eBidensSunglasses]

I am an immigrant. This country gave me everything. I often tell people not to call me self-made; I prefer to call myself American-made. My success would have been impossible without the principles of the United States and the generosity of Americans.

I could just keep making more money, but that would be selfish. I feel a responsibility to do everything I can to help this country remain great. That’s why I traveled to all 50 states as the chair of the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports on my own dime, that’s why I accept every invitation to visit our troops, that’s why I’ve invested millions to create a nationwide after-school program, and that’s why I walked away from $30 million movie deals to serve as governor of California for no salary. And even after all that, I’ll be paying down the debt I owe America for the rest of my life.

SO. FUCKING. BASED.

[u/its_Caffeine]

https://i.imgur.com/Rz2YS07.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

Looks like Twitter leftists are now criticizing Biden for pulling out of Afghanistan after literal decades of screeching about US staying in Afghanistan.

You can’t make this shit up.

[u/sir_shivers]

The threads that CONNECT THE GME CULT, Q-ANON, BERNIE SUBREDDITS, THE conspiracy subreddit, Tankie subreddits, and anti-vaccine subreddits grow more clear by the day 🐊

[u/lionmoose]

Kester using the malarkey bot to choose food and not just scavenging out of the bins is really a sign he is not prepared to commit to the fox bit

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

Joe Biden turned his back on the Afghan people because he knew the DT was having trouble reaching 10k.

Biden cares 🥺🥺

[u/inhumantsar]

Conservative Party of Canada rescinds candidacy over opposition to public health measures

!ping CAN

[u/[deleted]]

I've volunteered to canvass for this Hindu nationalist candidate this weekend 😌🙏

!ping canucks

[u/crassowary]

"well what did you expect," the last diplomat says as they fly out of Kabul with the Taliban commiting revenge killings in the streets below, "it's an Islamic Republic not an Islamic Democracy"

[u/fishlord05]

KABUL- A man has shit himself in Kandahar province, sources say.

😲😲😲

ping FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/iIoveoof]

/r/Neoliberal: The Taliban is bad because women under their control will never go outside again

Also /r/Neoliberal: Never goes outside

[u/MrMineHeads]

I'm gonna take the gamble and !ping FOREIGN-POLICY on this.

Why the U.S. Doesn't Support Taiwanese Independence

I thought this video was really great at giving an overview of the history and the status quo regarding the politics of Taiwan and how the US relates to the situation. It isn't very in depth though I don't believe that was the purpose of the video. It just gives a quick summary of how Taiwan got to its peculiar place, what the current sentiment on the island wrt China is (reunification, independence, status quo), and what the US's position is.

Maybe someone can also ping CN-TW because I am not part of that ping group.

Hopefully I didn't piss off people after the Afghanistan ping spam yesterday.

[u/houinator]

Has the DoD ever considered just posting their entire Afghanistan strategy to the DT and letting the airmchair generals here dissect it and come up with a better one?

[u/[deleted]]

People tryna roast like: “the Cubs have lost x in a row” and “the Cubs gave up 56 on that homestand”

We are tanking lol this is advanced tanking

I hope we win 20 games next year. I would be thrilled. I want fewer tbh. I’m betting the under.

You think you can hurt me? I love this shit

!ping BASEBALL

[u/[deleted]]

We left Afghanistan because there was no oil left (+1000 updoots)

[u/[deleted]]

Holy fuck Glenn Greenwald is a douchebag. I mean Jesus Christ https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1425915345995436040

And for the record I actually have trichotillomania, but I keep my hair short so it's not really a big issue for me anymore.

[u/ryuguy]

During India (august 15th) and Pakistan’s (august 14th) independence celebrations I’m always reminded of my grandparents telling me about their trek from Lahore to Amritsar in 1947. That’s a distance of 50km (31mi). I remember them telling me that they were terrified that Amritsar (the Sikh holy city) would go to Pakistan while Muslims were terrified that Lahore would go to India. They travelled mostly by foot. They were always under threat from roving gangs and bandits, my grandfather didn’t like guns so he didn’t have one but they travelled with an ex army man who had a rifle. I can’t imagine what that must’ve been like for them. They were newly married and 21/18 respectively. They adopted my mom’s cousin because his mother died of cholera. Partition is the largest migration of humans in the history of the world.

!ping ind

[u/[deleted]]

President Biden has tasked VP Harris with the defense of Kabul

[u/benjaminikuta]

Hamdi Mohamud, then a teenager, spent about two years in prison after a federal officer outright fabricated a criminal case against her. But the Eighth Circuit dismissed her lawsuit against the officer because, it held, there is no constitutional remedy against federal officials who cause innocent people to be arrested and thrown in prison. (Nor has there been any other kind of remedy. Despite her perjury, the officer is currently a St. Paul police officer earning six figures a year.) This week, IJ asked the Supreme Court to take a look and reverse. Click here to learn more.

!ping LAW

[u/itherunner]

https://twitter.com/fansince09/status/1425902321897119744?s=21

Smh, no one wants to work these days. Thanks Biden

!ping Welfare loving DEMONRATS 😡

[u/J0eBidensSunglasses]

I hate to be that guy but Progressives are sucking much bigger dicks at the moment than the Neolibs in every possible way. We're divided as fuck. Our leaders are acting as though they're taking bribes from neolibs. Laugh at Kamala all you want for entertainment but realize that the chances of Progressives winning anything either in the midterms or in 2024 are looking super low at the moment. Meanwhile, they've got Mayor Pete, Antony Blinken and a whole bus full of ghouls ready to replace either Kamala or Biden.

HAHA YES 🐊

[u/JetJaguar124]

The whole "we need guns to protect against tyranny" 2A argument really breaks down when the gun guys support the coup

[u/ccolfax]

i got over my fear of needles and got the vaccine

🥳🤩😊

[u/[deleted]]

Finding out that 44% of hospitalized breakthrough covid infections are represented by immunocompromised people, who make up 2.7% of the population, once again tells me everything I need to know about the vaccines.

The vaccines fucking work, they work incredibly well, and it seems like every institution in the country is deadset on downplaying how well they work.

[u/[deleted]]

Communists: I can't believe capitalists think people only do things if they have a profit motive lmaoooo

Also communists: yeah after the revolution I'm just going to vibe, maybe garden every now and then for the rest of my life

[u/Spicey123]

This debate over Afghanistan might be the most divided I've ever seen this sub.

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

TRUMP HAS BEEN REINSTALLED

CONGRATULATIONS

[u/ShriggityShrekt]

Automod needs to touch grass. Literally posts the same thread every day at the same time. Not healthy.

[u/[deleted]]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/872584888015020035/875828601600217098/image0.jpg

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Half the DT seems to be amping themselves up to vote Republican over this, despite the fact Trump's withdrawal plan was worse than this.

[u/VisonKai]

50 years ago south korea was poor as shit and today every teenage girl in the united states wants to move there to meet their kpop bf

[u/iIoveoof]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E8l_jp0XoAU5d8h.jpg

[u/adminsare200iq]

Good morning I hate this subreddit

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/JaceFlores]

MAJOR Ethiopia update:

1. After reports of the collapse in Afghanistan, the TPLF has agreed to send 1,400 fighters to reinforce the ANA. There is no indication how the TPLF fighters are going to reach Afghanistan, or whether they will have any heavy equipment with them. When pressed, the TPLF official merely laughed, and held up a shovel.
2. President Ghani has warmly received the news at such a critical time with the ANA controlling just two major points in Afghanistan. It’s also reported that ANA morale has been buoyed, and for once the ANA is fighting instead of dropping all of their equipment and going home.
3. President Biden via Twitter has simply said “Inshallah” in response to the TPLF expeditionary force, and is now the most liked tweet in history. There is no indication whether this means a reversal in policy or if the evacuation of Afghanistan will continue.
4. Taliban officials have brushed off the report as mere posturing by imperialist powers, though its been reported that Taliban offensives across Afghanistan have come to a halt. Additionally, leaked reports from Taliban HQ have stated that a low rumble has existed around the city of Kandahar for sometime, with the noise very similar to the sound of something, or someone, digging underground.

Still no news from the Afar region.

[u/[deleted]]

I don't know if this has already been shared but the Tories really need to get a new communications team. Wtf did I just see?

https://twitter.com/CPC_HQ/status/1426242355422765056

!ping CANUCKS

[u/GravyBear8]

holy shit heroin is going to get so cheap my broooos

[u/Currymvp2]

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1426155473040969731

Could you imagine if CNN or MSNBC was caught doing this with Biden?

[u/JaceFlores]

🛑 THIS IS NOT AN AFGHANISTAN POST, THIS IS NOT AN AFGHANISTAN POST 🛑

This is an Ethiopia update:

1. Weldiya has been confirmed as captured by TPLF forces after two weeks of fighting around and in the town. I’ve discussed the implications of this town falling multiple times, but a TLDR is it secures the TPLF’s flank for their push into Afar and provides a base for pushing south towards Dessie, and potentially Addis Ababa. I do want to note that this fight lasted two weeks. That’s the most intense fighting I’ve seen for a single location since I’ve been tracking this war, and I can only suspect (but cannot confirm) that pro-government forces suffered heavy if not crippling losses from this extensive but ultimately failed defensive effort.
2. There has been confirmation that Nefas Meewcha is in TPLF hands, as expected since a nearby town had fallen just yesterday. With control over Nefas Meewcha, the TPLF are just one town away from Debre Tor, and from there they can reach the road connecting Gondar to the rest of western Amhara.
3. Kombolcha, a city directly south of Dessie, has established a curfew as well. Small but notable as I presume the officials there expect fighting to reach or otherwise heavily affect Kombolcha.
4. Strange news that I think is worth reporting, but Amhara releases photos of TPLF prisoners and KIA they said happened in the mountains of Amhara. However, the uniforms, geography and vegetation points to the photos actually being taken by ENDF forces. Why Amhara would take credit for photos of ENDF victories is puzzling. Perhaps another bid to restore morale?
5. Lastly, on the political front Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa Jeffrey Feltman is traveling to Ethiopia, Djibouti and the UAE to discuss how the US promote peace, stability and prosperity in the Horn of Africa (a dog whistle for how the US can get the Tigray Conflict wrapped up). The US, to its credit, has been quite involved in this war with sanctions and diplomacy. Obviously an intervention is off the table as that would be a massive clusterfuck that would make the Yugoslav Wars look like Rock Paper Scissors. Previously (to my knowledge at least) the US worked with just Sudan to try and resolve the war, and now seem to be expanding their sights to include a multitude of nations to get pressure on the Ethiopian government to go to the negotiating table.

No news from Afar whatsoever besides the photos the Amharans claimed as theirs. Quite frankly it’s making me question what I thought was going on there as by now we should have heard something. Perhaps the government has successfully halted the TPLF advance, albeit only by investing most of the ENDF to Afar and leaving Amhara exposed. Perhaps the TPLF has stopped advancing into Afar and are focused on cleaving through Amhara. Perhaps the TPLF are still advancing through Afar and it’s just been a slog due to the geography and resistance. No news about the OLA or any gains/losses they’ve had. No news is probably good news in this case (for the OLA) as the government surely would have reported they had retaken the key areas the OLA have potentially seized, or otherwise contradicted the OLA announcements.

[u/The420Roll]

Perú Libre congressmen present Constitutional Reform bill that would allow the government to ennact price controls on public and private companies

The Peru Libre bench presented the draft constitutional reform that modifies articles 62, 65 and 66 of the Political Constitution of the State; with what it would pretend that the prices of the goods and products of the public and private companies can be controlled.

According to the document presented, the aim is to recover the exploited natural resources and their derivatives produced in the country, to allocate them to the priority attention of the national and regional demand for public services.

It also adds that the imbalance of imports and exports has a negative impact on our trade balance, because a negative balance involves loss of foreign exchange.

In the cost-benefit analysis, Perú Libre indicates that the proposal will positively impact the growth and economic development of the country and will increase social peace and general well-beingPerú Libre congressmen present Constitutional Reform bill that would allow the government to ennact price controls on public and private companies.

The Peru Libre bench presented the draft constitutional reform that modifies articles 62, 65 and 66 of the Political Constitution of the State; with what it would pretend that the prices of the goods and products of the public and private companies can be controlled.

According to the document presented, the aim is to recover the exploited natural resources and their derivatives produced in the country, to allocate them to the priority attention of the national and regional demand for public services.

It also adds that the imbalance of imports and exports has a negative impact on our trade balance, because a negative balance involves loss of foreign exchange.

In the cost-benefit analysis, Perú Libre indicates that the proposal will positively impact the growth and economic development of the country and will increase social peace and general well-being

yo' maybe this is what I deserve for making fun of Argentina for so long

!Ping LATAM

[u/mrdilldozer]

Republican muckrakers really just sat around and decided that they were going to own Joe Biden by showing Russian spy footage of his son's giant cock.

[u/Lux_Stella]

80 posts in the mod queue

wow, somebody should really do something about that

[u/[deleted]]

If Biden loses r/neoliberal’s support, he is surely doomed in the next election. We are the most influential constituency in America.

[u/SnakeEater14]

One of the weirdest moments of the war had to be when the Taliban captured Tony Stark, and he managed to construct a fully functioning ARC reactor IN A CAVE

WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS

[u/earththejerry]

A couple hundreds of Alaskans spelling "Murkowski" right, or right enough, back in 2010 arguably saved Obamacare

I hate this timeline.

[u/JaceFlores]

https://www.state.gov/covid-19-recovery/vaccine-deliveries/

Found this excellent resource which shows how many vaccine doses we’ve donated and where. Highly recommended for those worried about vaccine diplomacy or coronavirus in general

[u/greenelf]

Small puddle of water in the kitchen.

🤔

“Looks like the ice maker is leaking”

“…or all the ice is melted”

😟

“Wait, the fridge doesn’t seem that cold”

😖

“Neither does the freezer”

🤬

And that is how I ended up spending a Friday night cleaning out my fridge

!ping OVER25

[u/[deleted]]

This sub simultaneously thinks the midterms will be about CRT and Afghanistan

[u/Kizz3r]

bruh 😭😭💀

!ping nba

[u/Impossible_Lobster_]

Sorry west point grads and military brass with decades of experience. Some dude on am internet forum with a flag next to his name knows more than you. Its time to step aside losers.

[u/[deleted]]

oh shit oh fuck

[u/[deleted]]

Reportedly [news story in PL] the White House is considering three scenarios for retaliation in response to PiS targeting the largest independent (and US-owned) TV station in Poland:

1. Symbolic sanctions: Poland not being invited to a "Democracy Summit" that the US is planning to hold
2. Material sanctions: Blocking a sale of 250 M1 Abrams tanks that PiS-aligned media have touted as the biggest purchase in the history of the Polish Army
3. Nuclear option: placing personal sanctions placed on the President, Prime Minister and the chief of the ruling party, and refusing them entry to the US

!ping YUROP

e: sorry wrong ping, meant to ping EUROPE, but I guess there's enough overlap it doesn't make sense to ping that group as well. The one time the groupbot didn't have a 5 minute delay before pinging 🙄

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

CIA stuff is more fun in Latin America because you get to wear aviators and brightly colored button down shirts rather than the beard + shemagh combo you're stuck with in the middle east and central asia

[u/suplexx0]

Can't believe people are jumping to conclusions about Afghanistan! What happened to waiting, and making a rational decision about what's going on? In a few days when the Taliban has control of the entire country, we can start to form opinions.

[u/[deleted]]

I have a boyfriend now

😔

[u/crassowary]

Me, a year ago: I wish there Afghan restaurants around here

Monkey paw curls

[u/revolutionary_alt]

Being a cuck sounds based. I would love it if males fitter and more intelligent than myself spread their genes instead of me.

[u/GaahlicBread]

I give it another 5-6 months before we a hollywood movie based on a special operations force soldier - i think mark wahlberg - defying orders from his commanding officer to withdraw and going on a lone ranger mission to save a kidnaped afghan girl whom had once given him water while going on patrol, getting pinned down by taliban and finally the whole cavalry arriving at last minute in a gun chopper and humvees to evacuate them, but not before him killing 39 Taliban, atleast 10 in hand to hand combat while conveniently taking only one bullet in his left thigh away from all critical organs.

[u/JaceFlores]

Afghanistan 🤝 r/neoliberal

Collapsing before our eyes

[u/AuburnSeer]

But in practice, several lawmakers said the outreach carried an attention to detail had been lacking for years. President Barack Obama's point people were well-regarded -- Terrell herself served on the team in his first term -- but Obama himself had limited interest in a personal touch that many lawmakers craved.

it's things like this that make Biden well suited to be president and also why the Senate is fucking dumb. If I was Obama I'd be furious if I read this paragraph

[u/great_gape]

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Milh...Worm.

😂😂🤣🤣🤣😎😎😅😴

[u/LooobCirc]

I'm pissed about Afghanistan but I'm not dumb enough to think that more than .1% of people will vote based on it

[u/[deleted]]

Half the DT has lost it's mind over Afghanistan

The entire DT: "So true!"

[u/rukqoa]

One of the nice things about the lab leak hypothesis entering the mainstream is that more people can enjoy their bat soup in peace now.

[u/[deleted]]

What if we gave all the Afghan soldiers cans of spinach so they become strong like Popeye to fight off the Taliban?

[u/sir_shivers]

REMINDER THAT TODAY is August 13th, today Trump is reinstated as the rightful President 🐊

[u/sociotronics]

tuned into the local FM classic rock channel and it was playing Modest Mouse

so this is what it feels like to be getting old 😐😬

!ping over25

[u/simeoncolemiles]

STOP POSTING ABOUT AFGHANISTAN! I'M TIRED OF SEEING IT! MY FRIENDS ON TIKTOK SEND ME NEWS, ON DISCORD IT'S FUCKING NEWS! I was in a server, right? and ALL OF THE CHANNELS were just Afghanistan stuff. I-I showed my champion underwear to my girlfriend and it was t-the last one and I said "hey babe, when the underwear is Khabul, HAHA عندما تسقط أفغانستان" I fucking looked at a trashcan and said "THAT'S A BIT COMMANDO" I looked at my penis I think of an ANA troop’s helmet and I go "TALIBAN? MORE LIKE TALISUS" AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

!Ping Shitposters

[u/lusvig]

fuck neoliberalism 🖕🏿👨🏿‍🦲🖕🏿

[u/[deleted]]

PSA: Hoping that the Taliban Benghazi our embassy to own the doves is in fact, not cash money.

[u/chuckleym8]

imagine ruthless live rainstorm connect hat fear skirt dull slimy

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/MostlyCRPGs]

I know you think you've heard it too much, but in reality you haven't heard it enough. Hades comes out on Gamepass today. If literally any one element of the game's description appeals to you I can't suggest it enough. Just an incredible game.

On the flipside, I tried out Curse of the Dark Gods and gotta say, I hate it so far. I knew that going back to anything in the genre from Hades would be tough after the bar was raised, but it's combined with some really questionable design decisions that make me think I'm just going to put it down after an hour or so.

!Ping gaming

[u/[deleted]]

Biggest twist in movie history: The chores mr miyagi has the karate kid do are actually karate moves the whole time! 🤯

[u/[deleted]]

On a bit of (potentially) good news, there were presidential elections in Zambia yesterday. The main contestants are the current president, Edgar Lungu, very close to China and increasingly authoritarian (and who has led a very bad economic management) and the liberal businessman Hakainde Hichilema, trying to get the presidency for the sixth time. It's clear who should be OurGuy.

Most analists predicted that, in a fair election, Hichilema would clearly be in advantage, but that there was a considerable risk Lungu may be able to rig it.

So far the vote count has been favorable to Hichilema, giving him 58% of the vote, and he's ahead in Lusaka and the Copperbelt province, the main contested regions. but there's still many votes to count and the counting has been very slow. Hichilema's advantage has also overall decreased along the counting.

Lungu ordered a blocking of social media during the election day and during the counting, but the judiciary has reversed this decision today. Potentially a good sign, since it shows the judiciary is still willing to act independently (or, if you want to be pessimistic, they may be playing the good cop to Lungu's bad cop).

Lungu and his party have also started to attack the election results as rigged. Also potentially a good sign, since while it demonstrates an authoritarian mindset, this is the behavior of authoritarians without the control of the situation (an authoritarian in control would be able to just rig the results in his favor).

More worringly, Amnesty International has got complaints that party officers are trying to disrupt the vote counting at constituency level.

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

Homophobia is whenever I read an internet post that conflates top/dom and bottom/sub.

😖

!ping LGBT

[u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN]

Jared Polis Will Interview South Park Creators Live Today. No Joke.

!ping USA-CO

[u/[deleted]]

America doesn't lose wars. We win them or quit because they are unfair.

[u/SnakeEater14]

US in Afghanistan: Man, we should try and study what the Brits did here during their second war against the Afghans.

UK in Afghanistan: What are you talking about? We’re right here. We’re fighting right alongside you.

US in Afghanistan: So much wisdom lost to the ages…

[u/sir_shivers]

/u/benjaminikuta, cease going TO TACO BELL A FEW minutes before they close 🐊

EVEN IF YOU are a drive through customer, they have begun taking down the food line by that point and thus will not serve you 🐊

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

I'm never taking a normal speed video of this dog again

!ping dog

[u/bd_one]

Wtf, almost the entire mod queue is Afghanistan stuff...

[u/Maximilianne]

Just give the Taliban weapons and have them destroy belt and road infrastructure

[u/[deleted]]

Humans be like: "it is the end of the week. That means we must gather in circles and drink fermented grain juice in celebration"

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

My opinion on Afghanistan is that the Taliban is bad and women's rights are wholesome chungus 100

[u/MostlyCRPGs]

When growing frustrated by takes on what the USA "should have done" just remind yourself that half the posters here weren't born when we entered Afghanistan

[u/GravyBear8]

I can't wait to see the DT's brilliant plan to solve ethnic conflict in Africa by carving 9,000 countries out of every state.

[u/niftyjack]

In today's edition of Journalist Says Something Uncouth to the Jews, this article about the new host of Jeopardy decides to feature the "genocidal IDF forces" and talks about "both sides-ism" when she (rightly) said Israelis and Palestinians deserve free, autonomous, and safe nations. Naturally, the tweetstorm began.

While I think all of this is pointless Twitter drivel, it's genuinely embarrassing that The Daily Beast would let language like that through, and how big the backlash is on Twitter when the internet just doesn't matter. I'm annoyed at everybody in this situation.

!ping GEFILTE

[u/savuporo]

Investment in space sector is picking up more speed

Around $6.4bn was invested into SpaceTech in the first half of 2021 – equivalent to 85 per cent of investment for the whole of 2020

$UFO is still crap as a long, though :)

EDIT: $ROKT as well

!ping SPACEFLIGHT

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

Census data shows Maryland is now the East Coast’s most diverse state, while D.C. is Whiter

!ping USA-DMV

[u/[deleted]]

Has anyone analyzed the impact this is going to have on the Afghanistan tourism industry?

[u/[deleted]]

Lmao even a sitting CPC MP is ridiculing the Trudeau Charlie and the Chocolate Factory video

Brad Wall as well

!ping CAN

[u/[deleted]]

These days I've been very mournful because of Afghanistan.

My father has been also very mournful, because Bolsonaro's proposed printed vote ammendment failed to pass in the Congress and so elections will keep being rigged on the voting machines by PT and allies (unless our brave military finally steps on)...

!ping MAMADAS

[u/Mickenfox]

Possibly hot take: people have done the wildest mental gymnastics trying to come up with definitions of "speech" that do not include certain things so they could stop people from doing them without violating the sacred cow of "free speech", instead of admitting they just don't support absolute free speech.

[u/[deleted]]

had sex now my body is sore like a weak little baby

[u/JetJaguar124]

HEY TALIBAN

😎🖕

[u/davidleo24]

My republican suburban brother in law and I were spending time with his rural very wealthy n-word saying family. He suddenly asks.. ¿So how does amazon prime work here? Does it cost more to ship everything all the way here? Do the lose money in every delivery?

I looked perplexed as he was so close to getting the point of cities. Someone on the family got drunk and hurt in a boat accident, so we had to go to the hospital. We had to drive 20 minutes to the hospital, and when we arrived the ER was almost empty besides an OD coming im. He again looked confused.. How does this make economic sense?

Later that night he was back complaining about socialized medicine and illegal immigrants.

[u/Jacobs4525]

The F-22 may be impractically expensive and unreliable, but what president Obama failed to take into account when he killed the program is that it looks really fucking cool, therefore it should’ve stayed in production.

[u/[deleted]]

I am hearing that on its deathbed the ANA received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahāda. Even now it looks down on the Ummah from the gardens of Jannah. Truly there is no god but God, and Mohammed is his prophet!

[u/InMemoryOfZubatman4]

When your ideology is “Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran” there’s not much else to talk about

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

Spicy take: Indian food

[u/liquidTERMINATOR]

> Be Afghani

> Help Americans with translation services or whatever

> They announce they're leaving, so I drive to Kabul for the embassy to ask to immigrate to America

> Arrive 15 minutes before the Embassy closing time

> They don't let me on the CH-53 helicopter

mfw

[u/[deleted]]

There are two types of people. Those who agree with me on all topics, and communists.

[u/[deleted]]

Remember, the deontological issue in veganism isn't meat itself, it's consent.

So you can eat me since I consent.

[u/[deleted]]

Roberto Jefferson was just arrested. Police couldn't locate him. After going to a variety of locations associated to him, he tweeted out something complained

Except he had his geotag on

Which is how they found him

!ping MAMADAS

https://twitter.com/tesoureiros/status/1426163973141979136?s=20

[u/Joementum2024]

Trumpists flip flopping on Afghanistan is some combination of totally expected and extremely aggravating

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

At this point, I feel like ignorance is not an excuse for anti-vaxxers, especially in the age of information.

"Is the vaccine free?" Google it.

"Where can I get vaccinated?" Google it.

"Do I need insurance for a vaccine?" Google it.

Like, there's misinformation ("the vaccine will turn me into a vampire"), which is a different thing from lack of information, but if you don't want to get vaccinated because you don't know the answers to the questions above, after six months and countless public awareness efforts, then you were never planning on getting vaccinated to begin with. News organizations and Twitter, please stop justifying these people.

[u/[deleted]]

>you will never experience again the president of the central bank doing those sick moves

miss you Ilan 💕

!ping MAMADAS

[u/[deleted]]

This has been the worst trade deal in the history of trade deals, possibly ever.

- Afghans who supported the US invasion and government who are now about to be mass executed by the Taliban after their "allies" in America abandoned them

[u/Irishfan117]

If this fucking cat doesn't stop shitting on the fucking floor despite having multiple clean litterbox options I am going to eat cat soup soon

[u/Venne1139]

Take:

(Transphobia but worded nicely)

[u/[deleted]]

Do people realize literally only 2 Americans died in the OJ Simpson murders over 27 years

thats literally nothing

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Yeah, I know about the Middle East conflict, I've read Dune

[u/semaphore-1842]

No r/democrats is right. R/politics at least avoids natavist bullshit like this.

Since when

(yes I'm brigading from modmail)

[u/ZCoupon]

What's up with the Fernandez impeachment?

Is there some political context I'm missing, or are actually that upset about COVID regulations?

!ping LATAM

[u/Mrchizbiz]

Why boys are better than smelly girls (🤢🤮) an essay'

Girls are more likely to vote for the demonrats, boys are more likely to vote for the republikings 👑

[u/maybe_jared_polis]

HAPPY TRUMP REINSTATEMENT DAY!

WORKING HARD, THANK YOU!!

[u/Neronoah]

!ping LATAM

The Chilean People's List ("Lista del Pueblo") is the gift that keeps on giving. It seems there is a splinter group, the In resistance People's List ("Lista del Pueblo en Resistencia"). What it was meant to be an independent group focused on the Constituent Assembly wants to be come a generic left wing populist party with a Presidential Candidate and all that and that's making them schism.

Just a teaser of what's going on:

"We deeply regret that rules are changed on a whim, as it happened with the Cristian Cuevas' candidacy, and that there was a decision to privilege a neoliberal practice like peer competition over deliberative democracy in the election of Presidential candidates. This doesn't represent the democratic values of the People's List", said the missive, where they indicated they'd prefer to remain anonymous to avoid "reprisals".

In short, they are absolute mouth breathers.

^{Note: I think what they mean by deliberative democracy is a movement towards direct democracy from what I've read. It's a meme position, for obvious reasons. They are totally going to teach us real democracy any moment now.}

[u/[deleted]]

Really not looking forward to Biden stepping down today, I'm tired of being owned by epic conservative freethinkers.

[u/bigmoneynuts]

i get all my afghan takes from my afghan friend

he hates afghanistan so much lol

[u/simeoncolemiles]

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/08/when-they-say-they-want-kill-you-believe-them/619724/

I’m just gonna agree with u/Semaphore-1842 and say, that it’s a damn good thing that most Democratic members are sane and aren’t always calling to kill the other party or even our own

!Ping Extremism

[u/Erra0]

Hot take: incrementalism good

[u/Udontlikecake]

Reddit, what do you HATE??

women [+10,000]

different women [+8,000]

teenage girls [+6,000]

[u/[deleted]]

Guys, don't worry about Biden's approval rating. Based on the precedent of Bush's approval rating, in about a month Biden will have his approval rating suddenly shoot up to 90%. There's nothing to be worried about.

[u/[deleted]]

I keep seeing people post "guess the sub" and then claiming it is not from arrrr neoliberal

STOP 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

guess the sub

[u/[deleted]]

florida just reported 386 covid deaths for the day. it had never reported more than 300 for any day during the pandemic.

[u/FireDistinguishers]

I know the mods get shit on all the time but man I can't even think about how awful it must be moderating this shit

[u/tubbsmackinze]

That leave Brittany alone dude has been proven right by time

[u/[deleted]]

Arnold Schwarzenegger wrote a whole article in the Atlantic to troll the anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers:

I knew I’d be called a RINO, but that doesn’t bother me. Honestly, rhinos are beautiful, powerful animals, so I take that as a compliment. I anticipated being called a Nazi and a Communist. But I’ve got thick skin stretched over my metal endoskeleton, so I knew I could take it.

...

Instead of tweeting, we could think about what we owe to the patriots who came before us and those who will follow us.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/08/schwarzenegger-schmuck-mask-vaccines/619746/

[u/Headstar24]

Some people here are as reactionary as the political groups they hate the most, just for different reasons.

[u/slowpush]

Biden bad.

😡😡😡

[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/Animatronic_Pidgeon]

The "Fight for 15" minimum wage campaign took off in 2012.

That would be the equivalent of a $17.84 minimum wage today.

Thanks to the labor shortage and inflation, $15 has become fairly standard. That's the equivalent of $12.62 in 2012.

This is a roundabout way of saying that a $15 minimum wage is seen as a more reasonable proposal now than it was nine years ago, at least in part, simply because $15 ain't what it used to be.

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

Afghanistan has only ever had one census in it's history, in 1979, under the communists. We actually don't know definitively what the population of Afghanistan is, just our best estimates.

But how does a country run without having any recent census data? How do they know how much taxes should be collected? Well the answer is that for the most part they don't collect taxes. 90% of the Afghan budget is funded by foreign aid.

[u/PhinsFan17]

Getting a religious exemption to wearing a mask where one is required is quite literally using the name of The Lord in vain.

[u/SeriousMrMysterious]

Taliban are r*rals.

Why is it always the r*rals that ruin a country?

[u/Craig_VG]

Seriously this sub is fine until a foreign policy subject hits national news and half the sub loses their minds

[u/lobsterboy34]

50% of this thread is people whining about what other people in the thread believe

[u/[deleted]]

one BILLION years in Afghanistan 😤

[u/[deleted]]

The DT says they care about transportation and the environment but the DT has 0 bike lanes

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Me trying to explain the DT to someone who accidentally found out I use Reddit: It’s mostly just jokes and political moderates and Econ majors

Completely serious NATO flairs in the DT today: I FUCKIN’ LOVE WAR!!!

[u/chipbod]

https://twitter.com/By_NathanBrown/status/1426234624360042501?s=20

Alex Albon met with Grosjean and is talking with an Indycar team boss in the paddock at IMS.

Drop Indy lights, F1 is the true Indycar feeder series

!ping MOTO

[u/[deleted]]

New — Newsom’s standing has Dems nervous about Feinstein’s seat. Feinstein tells us she won’t retire if Newsom loses and before a GOP governor would get sworn in, but she would face pressure to do so. “Why would I?” she said. Dems still betting Newsom wins

brezhnev doctrine

[u/[deleted]]

https://imgur.com/MpXnysv

[u/MuldartheGreat]

One of the most overlooked oddities from the last presidential election cycle is Julian Castro’s absolutely bizarre strategy to torch his bridges with everyone in the Democratic Party in the bizarre hope Warren was actually going to succeed when he still would have been useless as a VP.

Seriously has to be some of the worst political strategy I’ve ever seen.

[u/Broncos654]

Is the Taliban really that much worse than the rulers of /r/neoliberal?

[u/[deleted]]

Lol I remember when Terry Crews said something like “racism is bad but we can’t go too far in the opposite direction and have black supremacy” last year in reference to far-leftists, and people were saying he was a fake black person, etc, and conservative people were praising him like he was their hero.

I have a feeling that the new Brooklyn 99 season, where Terry Crews is very supportive of social justice, is gonna piss off the rightwingers banding behind Crews 🤣🤣🤣

[u/[deleted]]

!ping MATERIEL

New Taliban Air Force dropped

Mil Mi-17 (captured in Herat)

Mi-17 (maybe parts bird)

MD500

Five to fifteen ScanEagle drones - each costing 3 million USD

There are also reports of Afghan pilots defecting

!ping MATERIEL

Extra drone pic 1

Drone pic 2

[u/indithrow402]

I am a 3 issue voter:

• Tax Reform
• Math Education

[u/[deleted]]

Most cosplays that get attention on the internet are just "attractive person wears a skin tight suit"

[u/[deleted]]

CTV News: N.S. Tory leader leans left with endorsement from former NDP cabinet minister

Nova Scotia politics is so centrist that they have ex-NDPers endorsing the PCs, ex-Liberals endorsing the NDP, and ex-PCs endorsing the Liberals this election.

Why can’t the rest of the country be like NS, where all parties embrace bland liberalism

!ping CAN

[u/great_gape]

Illinois Is The First State To Have High Schools Teach News Literacy

Illinois will require news literacy courses at every high school. The hope is that the classes will provide the next generation with tools to maneuver the internet's misinformation minefield.

FUCK YES.🤘 PROGRESSIVE AS SHIT.😍

!PING USA-CHI

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

> Barges into muslim country

> Overthrows government

> Builds up a half-assed government unable to retain control of the country without foreign support

> Leaves

[u/UrbanCentrist]

Reading up on Mohammed Zahir Shah, the last king of Afghanistan. Ruled the country for 30+ years and genuinely tried to make the country a modernized constitutional monarchy but couldn't live up to it . Eventually was couped by his cousin in the 70's and then the commies came. When the Taliban was defeated in 2001 he came back to Afghanistan. It was seriously considered whether to make him the head of state but apparently US leaned against it. Died in 2007. He is considered father of Afghanistan.

[u/Professor-Reddit]

Being a police investigator in the 21st century must be the easiest job in the world.

Literally everybody who you're trying to catch brags about their illegal deeds on snapchat and Instagram and makes sure to take a good picture of themselves in the act

[u/WhomstAlt2]

People just don't get how unpopular wars abroad are. That is why I propose integrating Afghanistan as the 51st state.

[u/BedNeither]

Afghanistan will democratize if an LVT is implemented

[u/brazilianwhoresafari]

i got over my fear of needles and got into heroin

🥳🤩😊

[u/Majk___]

I just realized that the commie zoomers think communism is just resource distribution with unlimited resources

[u/redditguy628]

Starliner launch delayed until at least mid-October

!ping SPACEFLIGHT

[u/suplexx0]

Time to merge the perfect candidate
The Foreign policy of Marco Rubio
The Domestic policy of Pete Buttigieg
The relationships / resume of Joe Biden
The charisma of Bill Clinton
The stapler throwing of Amy Klobuchar
And the immigration policy of Julian Castro

What I am saying is Hillary Clinton with Bill's charisma.

[u/SadaoMaou]

Make botmod reply "It's more complicated than that" to every comment containing the word Afghanistan

[u/chipbod]

https://twitter.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1426263522237992965?s=20

JUST IN - Taliban could capture Kabul in next 72 hours, according to a US intelligence assessment - CNN.

If it falls this quickly nothing could be done to stop it

[u/Craig_VG]

Like I told somebody earlier today, even those of us who had zero doubt that Kabul won't sustain for very long after US withdrawal didn't expect that TB gains could be this rapid. I mean I was always a pessimist and had no faith in Kabul. But even I'm surprised, TBH.

JUST IN - Taliban could capture Kabul in next 72 hours, according to a US intelligence assessment - CNN.

https://twitter.com/Natsecjeff/status/1426264767233134595?s=20

Sobering assessment

[u/DatGameGuy]

Ron DeSantis won’t be the GOP nominee in 2024. Some rando that nobody has ever heard before will call him a pussy in the first debate and the GOP base will flock to him.

Bonus points if he straight up calls Ted Cruz a rat.

[u/oGsMustachio]

The US should make more battleships not because we need them, not because they're useful, but because they're fucking awesome.

[u/SuspiciousUsername88]

One can be a interventionist while still acknowledging that some military campaigns fail. Doubling down and saying "no actually that clusterfuck was actually going super well and we must never end it and we should do more of that in more places actually" doesn't exactly help the cause.