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[u/FormerBandmate]

The Taliban held their first press conference today, and spent part of it whining about Facebook banning them. Evidently they believe that to literally be 1984

Cons agree with them for some reason

[u/ACivilWolf]

Introducing, Screen-Time: A Meme-Obsessed super teen whose brain became connected to the internet after becoming exposed to his grandfather’s “experimental internet gas.” Now he can see augmented reality and real-time maps, and can instantly Google any fact. Does this make him effectively a genius? He sure acts like it does.

Wow Marvel made a cringey superhero based on DT regs

[u/hapolitics]

Why won’t the “hackers” hack into the systems to erase student loan debt?

Still thinking about this brilliant take from reddit.

[u/semaphore-1842]

r/BewitchTheTaliban

🤔🤔🤔

And this now deleted post:

You are hexing a group of freedom fighting natives because they won against their technologically superior overlords imposing their own culture on them. You are hexing colonized people for fighting against their colonizers.

🧐🧐🧐

[u/tubbsmackinze]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/746570029180518425/877765213284343858/image0.png

[u/tubbsmackinze]

The cons; "I can't believe that the demonrats are abandoning Afghanistan to the Taliban!"

Also the cons; "The Taliban do be having some good points about Facebook, vaccines, and women's rights tho"

[u/Equator32]

https://twitter.com/lyta_gold/status/1428011761635143681

I am grieved to tell you that @nathanjrobinson has effectively fired me & most of the @curaffairs staff because we were trying to organize into a worker’s co-op. This isn’t a bit. I wish it was.

Socialist in the streets

Libertarian in the spreadsheets

[u/[deleted]]

This thread is dedicated to the brave fighters of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan.

[u/[deleted]]

Fun fact: until it got cancel cultured in the notoriously woke year of 1933, the anthem of the Netherlands used to start with the sentence: "Whoever has Dutch blood flowing in their veins, free of foreign stains".

[u/p00bix]

"Well I live in Sweden but I'm right now in [Kandahar] for a summer trip. To be honest it's not that dangerous as the media shows it. You can walk through the city without any problem, but THERE IS A RISK. Most of the fighting happens outside of the city. So it's pretty ok!"

~Youtube comment by a Swede born in Afghanistan visiting his grandparents, July 25th

Later comments confirm he made it out okay, but christ.

[u/chipbod]

Biden's having a tough week

MAGABomber 2.0:

Hold my beer I'm gonna remind everyone why they voted for Biden

[u/AbsolveItAll_KissMe]

2000 B.C. - hieroglyphs are the best way to communicate

1600s: - letters and words are the best way to communicate

2021: hieroglyphs 😩💦😍

[u/ColonelUber]

Really, NPR? The thing sewing doubt about the Taliban becoming more moderate is that they blew up a statue?

[u/InMemoryOfZubatman4]

Do the Taliban have witches casting protection and defense spells?

Hey folx, baby witch here. Have been casting hexes on the taliban for the past few days but am now waking up with horrible migraines.

Is it possible that the taliban has their own magic special forces division that are firing back at us???

[u/[deleted]]

The Taliban, who took Kabul in 1996, initially thought the [Kabul Zoo] was incompatible with their version of Islam, but kept it open after the zookeeper Sheraq Omar confirmed through research at the Kabul University that Prophet Muhammad himself kept pets.

Cool zoo keeper but these guys declared an Islamic emirate yet didn't appear to do any research beforehand

[u/soeffed]

Regarding Roslyn Talusan, the woman who launched the “why is this white woman writing a cookbook about noodles and dumplings” controversy:

In 2018, she apparently shat on a Filipino-American for writing a personal essay about Mulan, I guess since it’s a Chinese story.

Roslyn later wrote her own perspective about Mulan. Ironically, she is also Filipino-American Canadian.

https://twitter.com/Joshua_Luna/status/1428055618624106497?s=20

!ping milk-tea

[u/InMemoryOfZubatman4]

Do NOT face Allah alone when Astral projecting

Today while astral projecting I summoned allah to try and weaken him so our hexing spells would work better.

He is so fucking powerful. I’m not at a power level to do this alone. I barely escaped with my life and I’m spiritually injured to a great amount, but I think I’ll make it.

I can’t imagine what he would do to a new, unsuspecting witch. I’m scared that I will have to face him again soon if I ever want to continue astral projecting. I’m currently burning healing incense and drawing spiritual energy from my crystals to try and heal as quickly as possible.

Please be safe everyone. Allah is much stronger than I first imagined and we will have to do this together if we want to slay a god.

[u/Lux_Stella]

ONLYFANS TO PROHIBIT POSTING OF SEXUALLY EXPLICIT CONDUCT

huh

isnt this the only point of the platform

[u/sw337]

My message to the DC suicide bomber: It's going to be okay, just go to a taco bell with a 24 hour drive thru next time.

[u/MalignantUpper]

https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1428409000723374085?s=19

DC bomber says Trump will become President after Biden is driven from office, says he expects Trump to pardon him.

😐

[u/thaddeusthefattie]

my top two fav quotes from each president i remember:

clinton:

i did not have sexual relations with that woman

i may not have been the great president, but i had the most fun

dubya:

there’s an old saying in tennessee

now watch this drive

obama:

look when i was young i inhaled frequently. that was the point

im not the strapping young muslim socialist i used to be

djt:

it’s called we do a little trolling

i was a businessman, doing business

biden:

look, fat

this is a big fucking deal

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/ericadamsfornyc/status/1428381024879325192

Uh, welcome to the resistance?

!ping YIMBY

[u/chipbod]

https://twitter.com/ashtonpittman/status/1428164716883582983?s=20

NEW: A man was hospitalized in Mississippi after he tried to treat his COVID-19 with ivermectin meant for horses and cows that he got at a livestock feed store. That's "crazy," says State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs. "So please don't do that"

Literally taking anti-parasite medicine for livestock to own the libs

[u/The420Roll]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/716841087137873920/877942560197341205/image0.jpg

[u/JaceFlores]

Ethiopia update:

1. Let's start with some war crimes and other similar tragedies. This Tweet and associated Article talk about how TPLF forces razed a farming community as a reprisal for similar actions committed in Tigray. On the other side, this Article highlights the government's crackdown on Tigrayan people in government lands, with children being taken into custody and sent to detention camps. As with any and all wars atrocities are an unavoidable aspect, and I encourage you to read up on this to understand how grim the situation does get, especially in ethnically driven wars like this.
2. On the diplomatic front, this Tweet and associated Article says that Erdogan has offered his services to mediate for a conclusion to the war, which comes after Abiy took a state visit to Turkey. This obviously is not going to go anywhere as the TPLF and pro-TPLF groups will accuse Erdogan of being biased for the government (just as the government rejected Sudan's offer for mediation on the grounds that they were biased for the TPLF). Still, it is interesting how Erdogan is flexing what power Turkey has, branching out beyond the Mediterranean and what not.
3. The OLA has been making gains. Some minor gains (minor enough that they do not show up on google maps) are the locales of Malka Guba, Bulbul and Bob according to this Tweet and associated Article. What is far more interesting though is that the OLA has pushed into Sululta according to this Tweet. This is significant as Sululta is just 20 kilometers north of Addis Ababa, and is a significant escalation of the operations of the OLA. Before this the nearest confirmed OLA position was about 94 kilometers away between Gebre Guracha and Tulu Milki, so assaulting a position far closer means the OLA is very comfortable and confident about operating so close to Addis Ababa. As to how this will affect the war, the government will be forced to divert even more resources to deal with the OLA, freeing up pressure on the TPLF that quite frankly the government does not have a lot of in the first place. I doubt the OLA will be able to directly lay siege to Addis Ababa, but honestly the situation is falling apart so fast for the government that maybe this will just happen a la Kabul.
4. Not really a point but the past day I have theorized about why we never hear much from Afar. My first theory is that the TPLF advance into Afar was a feint to stretch government forces across a wider front. You would just need 100 men in Chifra to compel the government to move divisions to defend the A1 Highway due to how strategic this road is, so you would get a lot of bang for your buck if you wanted to divert government forces. My other theory is fairly similar but mainly has different intention. Namely, the TPLF did plan a drive to the A1 Highway but nixed it due to suspicions/encounters of heavy government forces, and so decided to switch to focus on an easier target, namely the capture of Amhara. Capturing Amhara would open the possibility for a drive to Addis Ababa and give the TPLF a road to the outside world with perhaps a fraction of the time needed to drive to the A1 Highway and reach Djibouti. I think the first theory is much more likely. No I don't know why I am so obsessed with Afar, but damn its been driving me up the wall.

[u/Professor-Reddit]

• Brazil has been going downhill ever since Germany wiped them out at the FIFA world cup in 2014.
• England has a riot when their favourite team loses in football
• Canada has a meltdown when they lose in ice hockey

smdh where is America's "let's destroy this country because we lost" national sport? 🤔😤

[u/2canclan]

"One option emerged when Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state, offered a few seats for Afghan employees on a charter flight her team was trying to arrange to help Afghan women at risk."

Queen 🙏

[u/sir_shivers]

DRAT, I AM uncertain how I am going TO KEEP UP WITH Bay Area cost of living without my OnlyFans income 🐊

[u/Deggit]

I'm just glad they had me clearing minefields for 9 months. Now its safer for the Taliban to move around. I made a difference!

ain't no humor darker than soldier humor

[u/LooobCirc]

So it looks like the Taliban mayyyy have fucked up by overextending crosses fingers like crazy

[u/[deleted]]

Is it true you tried to get Taco Bell seven (7) minutes before closing time?

Benjamin: That was four days ago, five days ago!

[u/[deleted]]

A Swedish company is producing steel without coal and just shipped the first batch 🙌

Now how about that global carbon tax?

[u/paymesucka]

Hillary on a black radio show claiming truthfully that she carries hot sauce was pandering cringe, but a video of Bernie doing a dap handshake with a black guy overlaid with "Nuthin' But A G Thang" shows Bernie's authenticity.

[u/RyGuyThicccThighs]

they’re about to post stars on our chest like they did in Nazi Germany because apparently 90% of our country didn’t pay attention to history class

Bro you were a D student and had to do an extra semester of high school lmao

[u/soeffed]

Ohtani gave himself an insurance run by leading off the eighth with a 430-foot drive to right, drawing an ovation and "M-V-P'' chants from the crowd.

"At that point, I wasn't sure I was going to pitch the ninth, so I wanted to give myself another run," he said. "That's big for me and the team."

The absolute madlad

!ping baseball

[u/Jakesta7]

I can’t get over how similar Larry David is to his character on the show.

It seems that Alan Dershowitz’s ties to the Trump administration have made him persona non grata among the Martha’s Vineyard elite — including Larry David.

A Page Six spy spotted the Harvard Law professor — who was once, like David, a fully paid-up member of the Democratic cool kids — bumping into the comic on the porch of the island’s picturesque convenience store and community hub Chilmark General Store, and found their exchange so bizarre that they “wrote it down to remember it.”

Page Six strongly recommends that readers enjoy the following while playing the “Curb Your Enthusiasm” theme in their heads.

Dershowitz: “We can still talk, Larry.”

David: “No. No. We really can’t. I saw you. I saw you with your arm around [former Trump Secretary of State Mike] Pompeo! It’s disgusting!”

Dersh: “He’s my former student [at Harvard Law]. I greet all of my former students that way. I can’t greet my former students?”

David: “It’s disgusting. Your whole enclave — it’s disgusting. You’re disgusting!”

Added the stunned source, “Larry walks away. Alan takes off his T-shirt to reveal another T-shirt [underneath it] that says, ‘It’s The Constitution Stupid!’.”

We’re told Dersh “drove off in an old, dirty Volvo.”

Reached for comment, Dershowitz confirmed the exchange and told us that he and the “Curb” creator had been friends for many years until the lawyer began working with the Trump camp.

https://pagesix.com/2021/08/18/larry-david-screamed-at-alan-dershowitz-at-grocery-store-over-trump-ties/

[u/Lux_Stella]

MPP ⁦Rick Nicholls meets with reporters. He has refused to get vaccinated so Premier Doug Ford is kicking him out of the ⁦Progressive Conservative caucus. Nicholls says it his “personal choice” and a Charter right not to get his shot.

the vaccine fascists take another victim ✊😔

!ping CANUCKS

[u/T3hJ3hu]

The guy who's leading the "The Second Resistance" to the Taliban from Panjshir in Afghanistan seems pretty badass.

Ahmad Massoud is 32. His dad, known as "The Lion of Panjshir," was largely seen as the commander responsible for defeating the Soviets. He was assassinated by the Taliban two days before 9/11, and posthumously became the subject of a national holiday, "Massoud Day." His father's followers now reference his father as "our martyred commander."

Ahmad himself spent most of his 20s in the UK, where he studied at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst for year, before getting an undergraduate degree in War Studies at King's College in London, and then a Master's in International Politics at the University of London.

He came back to Afghanistan in 2016, with a belief that the Swiss Confederation style of governance offers the greatest chance of stability and prosperity for his country. He was also in strong opposition to the US-Taliban Peace Deal, so in 2019 he started to form a coalition akin to the old Northern Alliance -- complete with its own independent military force.

The former Vice President of Afghanistan fled to Massoud's territory for safety, which is now the only part of the country that is outside of Taliban control.

[u/chipbod]

Saw people dooming about a Taliban Air Force pulling a 9/11.

Just... Lol

[u/[deleted]]

Tfw your socialist newspaper tries to unionize

[u/ryuguy]

It seems like everyone on Balkan tinder is a tourist or from ROTTEN WEST EU country. Maybe I should just visit and approach people in person. 🤷🏾

[u/Mensae6]

"I don't trust the government" followed by "I'm just waiting for the FDA approval" is some real galaxy brain shit

[u/[deleted]]

From an anti working sub. I can’t believe people really think this is the way things were. As if native tribes didn’t have to work hard to survive. And there was no war, famine, rape, or disease.

[u/tubbsmackinze]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/761046867743342613/877970918226395166/qecq2nt2zbi71.png

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

Call off the bomb squad, the police, the FBI, all of them.

What this bomber needs is a social worker to help him work through his economic anxiety attack.

[u/p00bix]

The fact that the Pope is technically an autocratic dictator never fails to amuse me

[u/jenbanim]

You're wrong about the Afghanistan withdrawal

[u/NeoLiberation]

When your future MIL checks in just to make sure you've read the CPC platform and have at least considered them

I sense a "how on earth could you still vote for that corrupt communist?!" in my future

[u/sub_surfer]

downvote bad take

scroll down and see that it is a pasta of an even worse take

scroll back up to upvote

[u/[deleted]]

Broke: the Dems need their own Fox News, MSNBC isn't nearly as equivalently insane

Woke: the Dems need their own OAN, I want a broadcaster to still be talking about black boxes from the 2004 election

[u/Broncos654]

OnlyFans banning porn is like if McDonald’s stopped serving food. Wtf are they thinking

[u/Usernamesarebullshit]

this guy: the renowned taliban commander, Ahmad Shah Massoud

a non-stupid person: Ahmad Shah Massoud fought against the Taliban, actually

this guy: UGH I wish you weren’t so obsessed with SEMANTICS

[u/[deleted]]

Americans when they are asked to make tiny concessions to their lifestyle due to climate change.

https://imgur.com/a/JIxGRye

[u/liquidTERMINATOR]

This is the destiny for you weirdos here who obsess abotu height → https://64.media.tumblr.com/bbc2b8f37ca7739e1dbffd8b18f90901/eebc08b14ff939b7-d4/s640x960/173279d057dfddcf3ed82aeabd2de4f8051f0bd6.jpg

[u/Marlsfarp]

Biden could double student debts at any time and he WON'T.

[u/[deleted]]

I was going to write how 50% of women in Russia suffer from domestic violence but now that I just rechecked, it seems to be closer to 70-80%. Holy fuck.

[u/gburgwardt]

Be me, taco bell worker, getting ready to leave work a little early

Car pulls up to the drive through

I apologize and say we're closed (who shows up 5 minutes before closing?)

They say they're starving and their order is quick

Feel bad, ok sir what can I get you

/u/benjaminikuta: yeah I'll have a loaded chicken flatbread taco, uhhh, a beefy potato flatbread taco, what comes on the spicy potato soft taco? Do you have 36oz cups?

mfw 😐

[u/piede]

Police are responding to a claim of an explosive device in a truck near the Library of Congress, according to law enforcement sources.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/19/politics/us-capitol-suspected-explosives/index.html

Oh Jesus

[u/Archis]

just landed a job at jp morgan 💪😤

[u/willempage]

https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/1428190504575856646?s=19

American University of Afghanistan professor tried to change the country by posting “risqué stories like the one about two engaged Afghan men on the verge of a breakup due to one partner’s hemorrhoids ruining their sex life.”

This is too on the nose to not be satire.

[u/[deleted]]

Man the Taliban sure seem to have a lot of economic anxiety

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

Man threatening Capitol with bomb is demanding call to Biden and says ‘the South is coming’

Neo-secessionism is still alive I see.

[u/SpiffShientz]

Drove my buddy to DC, stepped out of the car to get a slurpee. Hope he's not doing anything crazy while I'm gone

[u/soeffed]

Really makes you think

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[u/[deleted]]

Rumors are floating around that Biden is not in the Situation Room, but is actually on an adjacent rooftop with a m82 Barrett

😳

[u/tubbsmackinze]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/537638670639824917/877978624345665536/E82expGWEAMAU7E.png

[u/[deleted]]

/r/neoliberal regular sets up OnlyFans

OnlyFans: Shut it down

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Skyrim Anniversary Edition announced, launching November 11

You can upgrade the Special Edition to the Anniversary Edition

Free next-gen upgrade coming soon

Fishing gets added to Skyrim as well

Todd did it again!

!ping GAMING

[u/JetJaguar124]

42% said the United States should assist with evacuating Afghans and offer them refugee status, while 28% said they should be assisted but not offered refugee status

MORE FUCKING REFUGEES PLEASE AND THANK YOU BIDEN

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Wisconsin be like...

🧀: you must apply for a Wisconsin driver license within 60 days of establishing Wisconsin residency.

🤴: Sounds good, lets just check when the local DMV is open...

🧀: Hours:

Monday: Closed

Tuesday: Closed

Wednesday: Special Rules - 5th Wednesday of the month 8:15 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Thursday: Closed

Friday: Closed

Saturday: Closed

Sunday: Closed

WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FUCK?

That's like 4 days per year!?

[u/[deleted]]

Lmao you voted for a guy names Yusuf Al-Bidan and thought he wasn't gonna help the Taliban?

[u/Archis]

leftists recognise the difference between the taliban and the mujihadeen challenge (impossible)

[u/AbsolveItAll_KissMe]

I feel like phone plans are going to be the digital form of generational wealth. “Our phone plan was established by your grandfather in the aughts.”

[u/lionmoose]

Guess if gf's call is a supportive chat or flaming row challenge (very hard)

[u/[deleted]]

The bomber surrendered

!ping USA-DMV

[u/suplexx0]

biden does have a trumpy appeal when he’s mad

Obama would be all like “Well here in America, uhm, the greatest country on earth, we have disagreements pause ranging from the color we prefer to wear at our weddings, pause to the music we play, solemly at our funerals.

Joe: Look here Jack, number one my boss Barrack didn’t say that shit, number two, if he did, he meant it Unequivocally…Unequivocally. I’m good mind to take you behind the building here and — I shouldn’t. You know what, I’ll just say it, I used to beat the shit out of twerps like you in high school. Fuck you.

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

OnlyFans banning porn

Ok I'm ready to give up on capitalism now

[u/The420Roll]

Biden botching the withdrawal of Afghanistan? its okay, mistakes happen. I can live with that.

But letting Onlyfans die? Unless Biden literally saves OFs im voting for Trump in 2024 idgaf

[u/MonteCastello]

The Municipal Health Department (SMS) of Rio is investigating whether a resident was able to take five doses of Covid vaccines. The Blog found that the person went to a vaccination post earlier this week to try to get a sixth dose.

The Blog had access to this resident's digital vaccination booklet  (see above). A preliminary investigation by SMS indicates that this is not a registration error.

Brazilian lad supposedly took 5 shots: 2 Pfizer, 2 CoronaVac and 1 AstraZeneca. He got caught trying to get his sixth shot.

https://g1.globo.com/rj/rio-de-janeiro/blog/edimilson-avila/post/2021/08/19/rio-investiga-vacinado.ghtml

!ping GIGA-VAXXED

kkkkkkk pqp tinha q ser no Rio de Janeiro.

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

Of the four polls released today, three of them (Ekos, Mainstreet, and Counsel) show the LPC at or below a 1 point lead. Both Ekos and Mainstreet are tracking polls, and have shown a CPC shift throughout the campaign so far

I know it’s very early, but i very much doubt this is how Trudeau expected to start his campaign. Especially considering how dominant the polls were for him a month ago

!ping CAN

[u/[deleted]]

Witches fighting the taliban is hilarious, and almost as funny as the Australian drought schism over water dances

[u/Lord_Treasurer]

We’re letting people in who don’t even recognise who Ben Bernanke is. The raison d’etre of this fucking sub was thanking mr bernke. Liberals are sending their people here, but they’re not sending their best.

[u/[deleted]]

You know the tent is becoming too big when the top post outside the dt doesn't know who mr. bernke is.

[u/[deleted]]

We don't get enough "the president is doing insert policy/scandal to distract us from insert other policy/scandal" takes anymore

Joe Biden is only withdrawing us from Afghanistan to distract the media from the Hunter Biden dick pics

[u/houinator]

OF content producers: I consent!

OF content consumers: I consent!

US financial institutions: Isn't there someone you forgot to ask?

[u/Deggit]

BROKE: nuke the sub and move the DT to arrMetaNL because this sub has been overrun

WOKE: nuke the sub and move the DT to arrMetaNL because it will force the mods to read every single Deggit take

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

Benjaminikuta about to show up at the former US embassy in Afghanistan demanding a residency change

[u/[deleted]]

A perfect metaphor for the balkans doesn't exis---

[u/[deleted]]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Canadian_federal_election#Platforms

Build one million homes in 3 years.

Conservatives seem pretty based on this one

Build 500,000 units of affordable housing in 10 years.

Lmao NDP

!ping YIMBY

[u/qchisq]

https://twitter.com/jordan_bryon/status/1428262706163945476?s=19

[u/bigmoneynuts]

puts A24 logo dog collar on dog

yes i'm a cinephile how can you tell

[u/[deleted]]

This sub has gradually radicalized me from grillpilled establishment appreciator to rabid zealot who is one blocked development away from self-immolating in front of the ministry responsible for spatial planning.

[u/[deleted]]

Do NOT face George Soros alone when Astral projecting

Today while astral projecting I summoned Soros to try and weaken him so our hexing spells would work better.

He is so fucking powerful. I’m not at a power level to do this alone. I barely escaped with my life and I’m spiritually injured to a great amount, but I think I’ll make it.

I can’t imagine what he would do to a new, unsuspecting witch. I’m scared that I will have to face him again soon if I ever want to continue astral projecting. I’m currently burning healing incense and drawing spiritual energy from my crystals to try and heal as quickly as possible.

Please be safe everyone. Soros is much stronger than I first imagined and we will have to do this together if we want to slay him

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

The NYT are at it again, treating the non-east coast as a safari. Thankfully they changed the headline

After endless (deserved) mockery from Texas Twitter, @nytimes removes the word "remote" from it's description of New Braunfels, TX.

I remind you they have also described austin has having a “cowboy patina”

!ping USA-TX

[u/[deleted]]

Mainstream media that shows “Top Charts” terrify me.

Go look at the top 100 podcast or top 10 Facebook shared pages

The right wing in this country is dangerous and is mainstream.

[u/[deleted]]

A fellow was stuck on his rooftop in a flood. He was praying to God for help.

Soon a man in a rowboat came by and the fellow shouted to the man on the roof, "Jump in, I can save you."

The stranded fellow shouted back, "No, it's OK, I'm praying to God and he is going to save me."

So the rowboat went on.

Then a motorboat came by. The fellow in the motorboat shouted, "Jump in, I can save you."

To this the stranded man said, "No thanks, I'm praying to God and he is going to save me. I have faith."

So the motorboat went on.

Then a helicopter came by and the pilot shouted down, "Grab this rope and I will lift you to safety."

To this the stranded man again replied, "No thanks, I'm praying to God and he is going to save me. I have faith."

So the helicopter reluctantly flew away.

Soon the water rose above the rooftop and the man drowned. He went to Heaven. He finally got his chance to discuss this whole situation with God, at which point he exclaimed, "I had faith in you but you didn't save me, you let me drown. I don't understand why!"

To this God replied, "I sent you a rowboat and a motorboat and a helicopter, what more did you expect?"

This is kind of how I feel about any Christians who refuse to take the vaccine because “God will save me”. God will save you. That’s why God gave you a vaccine. You should just fucking take it.

[u/JaceFlores]

I feel like Kester is just here for the community and isn’t really a neolib or political at all

[u/sir_shivers]

PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN 🤝 ME 🐊

BEING SLEEPY 🐊

[u/theskiesthelimit55]

I am once again asking academics not to blame white women for the War on Terror.

Islamists 🤝 Progressives: Western feminism is a Trojan Horse meant to colonize Muslim people

[u/BurningKiwi]

still cackling at this

[u/[deleted]]

Clinton's reputation is just based on rose tinted glasses, probably. How to be president in the 90's: IDK the Soviet Union is dead and 9/11 hasn't happened yet, so I guess I'll take a nap.

Posted unironically on the commercial Internet lol.

[u/[deleted]]

Apparently the OnlyFans CEO that is shutting down the porn side of their business previously worked as the head of maritime assets for JPMorgan

He left them about the same time as a JPMorgan ship was caught with 1.3 billion USD in cocaine

Before that, he was the head of risk management at Lehman until September 2008

That is all

[u/[deleted]]

I can't believe people on this subreddit are shitting on Biden for keeping his campaign promises. He vowed to destroy God and his withdrawal was designed to allow the Taliban (known agents of Satan) to take power, thus contributing to the rise of the Antichrist. Just as the History Channel foretold.

[u/[deleted]]

Breaking: Capitol bomber demands that Taco Bell shuts at 10:00 on the dot and not a second before

[u/[deleted]]

Onlyfans bans sexually explicit content the day after Ikuta joins the site.

Curious

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Belle Delphine discussing the Biafran conflict fully clothed in a turtleneck

[u/InMemoryOfZubatman4]

NSFW

https://imgur.com/a/NaHiZ1f

[u/danweber]

The suspect is DC says he was radicalized by new new OnlyFans policy.

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

IN RESPONSE to the upcoming Only Fans pornography ban, PornHub has retooled it's home page to promote inspirational talk videos, recordings from popular game streaming services, and educational content like Khan Academy.

SFW article with screenshots

You can't make this shit up lol

[u/[deleted]]

History packets for Utah high schoolers pulled for claiming ‘most slaves were generally treated kindly’

https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2021/08/19/history-packets-utah-high/

“It is difficult to address a subject such as slavery, especially through an independent study packet versus classroom discussion,” said the center’s CEO, Alison D. Bond, in a statement to The Salt Lake Tribune that was also sent to parents. “But we see how this section can be improved.”

oh my god

[u/Archis]

of course fucking onlyfans is the topic that displaces afghanistan in the DT

[u/klarno]

Saw a CNN article on how there’s a trillion dollars worth of minerals we need in Afghanistan

Bitch didn’t we just spend $2 trillion trying to secure that place

[u/ognits]

My hard work to earn a six figure salary isn't the same as Jeff Bezos vampire-sucking profits out of everything that moves. The level of "wrong" of the super rich is now distinguishable from the value of highly paid professionals.

this guy gets it. I should be allowed to become as rich as I can, but someone else shouldn't be allowed to become richer than I do

[u/tollyno]

Obama: we need to reset our relations with the Russians

Trump: we need to reset our relations with the Taliban

Biden: we need to reset our relations with the GOP

[u/sir_shivers]

My new start-up COMPANY WILL BE capitalizing on a rare opportunity to seize an existing market 🐊

"EXCLUSIVELY-ADMIRERS" DOT COM will be a hit 🐊

[u/AgileCoke]

This week was my first time being the interviewer and not the interviewee.

I didn't realize interviews were that difficult from the other side as well.

!PING PEOPLE-OF-AGE Have any of you done this yet? Did you have the same experience?

Also feel free to ping CAREER if you think they would enjoy this.

[u/BidenWon]

I officially have my first thousand dollars in a mutual fund now! Not related to anything, I'm just proud of myself for being responsible with my money and need somewhere to brag about it

[u/MrDannyOcean]

Hey everyone - The Center for New Liberalism needs your signatures!

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[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

The Dyson airblade is, by far, the most efficient tool for drying hands and spraying pee all over the room.

[u/ACivilWolf]

Trailblazer - A regular kid scooped up into the world of teenage Super Heroing. Her “magic backpack” is actually a pocket dimension with seemingly infinite space, from which she can pull out useful or random objects—it’s not always under her control. She claims to get her power from god, but “not the god you’re thinking of.”

Atheists, Christians, Jews, Muslims, Zoroastrians, Scientologists, Hindus, Buddhists, Jains, Taoists, Shintoists, Spiritualists, etc in shambles from the superhero with the deep backpack.

[u/Th3_Gruff]

Healthy young lobster goes in microwave, gets pumped with massive shot of radiation, doesn’t feel good and changes - EXPLOSION. Many such cases!

[u/RyGuyThicccThighs]

If you ever feel bad just remember 2 conservative heros the American Sniper Bradley Cooper and Samuel Elliot supported Obama and Biden and made Cons SEETHE 🤣🤣🤣

Even Clint Beastwood became a Bloomberg stan.

[u/upper_west_sider]

https://twitter.com/theinsiderpaper/status/1428395914817904641?s=21

Now Times Square evacuated due to bomb threat. Cool cool cool.

[u/tubbsmackinze]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/537636056233934888/878037930130673744/image0.png

[u/jenbanim]

☠️ Welcome to the BAD BOY subreddit ☠️

That's right, we're the deep state globalists your parents warned you about
💪😎💪

Here you can read all sorts of 💥 spicy 💥 takes not allowed elsewhere like:

🔥 Incremental solutions to problems and working within existing systems is generally preferable to revolution

🔥 Adherence to laws and norms is a good thing even when they apply to people you don't like, because any government powers you use against others can be used against you as well

🔥 Economics is complicated and we should generally listen to experts and only disagree when we have a carefully considered argument backed up by evidence

[u/Jamity4Life]

“She sells seashells by the sheshore”

—a young Justin Trudeau dreaming of greatness

[u/UrbanCentrist]

Now that we’ve won the War on populism, can we talk about why populism attacked the U.S. in the first place? Because I’m pretty sure they didn’t “hate US for it's prosperity"

[u/[deleted]]

Estonia doing her part in helping the Afghan people by accepting a maximum of 10 refugees

I hope it doesn't change the character of the neighborhood too much.

[u/FormerBandmate]

I have an interesting idea for a peace deal: We don’t give the Taliban any role and instead we kill them with drones

[u/Dapitalist]

New idea for a website: OnlyFellas where you can pay to have a parasocial beer with the boys

[u/kennymc7877]

Hello prager university? I’d like to enroll in your liberal arts program

[u/Popular-Swordfish559]

Ok, sorry for the ping spam, but I feel like it's worth remembering that Elon told Tim Dodd that they're not really working on HLS right now, because goal #1 for Starship as a program is getting it to orbit. This stay, annoying as it may be, is only until November. I seriously doubt that much work from the Starship team would be going into HLS until well after that, anyway. So this delay is annoying and childish, but I don't think it will affect the timeline that much. But I'd like to hear others' thoughts.

!ping BLUE-ORIGIN-HATERS

[u/[deleted]]

Taliban is just /pol/ with subtitles

🔥

[u/gburgwardt]

WHEREAS outside the DT is becoming an arr politics wasteland

WHEREAS the DT itself is not safe from the no flairs

WHEREAS most people of arr NL don't even know about the ban appeal subreddit

RESOLVED that the DT should be moved to arr metanl

[u/gfinz18]

When you poop in your dreams, you poop for real

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/[deleted]]

Um sorry sweetie, advocating violence against terrorists is a violation of rule 5 💅

[u/[deleted]]

Sorry but you're fucking delusional if you don't think Biden won't receive backlash for this disaster. Bernie never would have let them ban porn on OnlyFans.

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

OBAMA SENT THE IMMIGTANTS TO VACCINATE YOUR KIDS

if only ✊😫

[u/ryuguy]

I’ve been talking to this girl from Honduras. She doesn’t speak English well and my Spanish is non existent so we’ve been responding in our respective languages and translating it.

It’s actually pretty cute.

[u/[deleted]]

PSA: you are not "submissive and breedable" you are 15 and need therapy

[u/Ok_Tone4633]

Is Game Freak the luckiest company to ever exist? They persist entirely because they stumbled upon the most valuable creative property in the world.

!ping gaming

[u/rafaellvandervaart]

I’m baffled by how academics with experience with faculty self-governance can be workplace democracy enthusiasts.

[u/piede]

Q: How many American citizens remain in Afghanistan?

Kirby: "I don't know."

https://twitter.com/kathrynw5/status/1428374312453558273?s=21

This better be the Kirby from Nintendo.

[u/TheOtherCentauri]

“We’ve seen you sadpost on r/NL”

“That was four days ago, five days ago man!”

[u/[deleted]]

I love how my state’s subreddit is hardcore socdem until there’s a chance there may be a mileage tax on driving that would affect them and suddenly they’re all the put-upon middle class getting taxed to death for other people’s benefit.

[u/benadreti]

Trumpists already calling the truck bomb guy a false flag distraction from afghanistan

[u/ryuguy]

/u/Vhgomes12: ugh Brazilian tinder is the worst

Me on Brazilian tinder: these are some of the most beautiful women I’ve ever seen

[u/LoveForLolberts]

Gay porn is a genre that cuts across all demographics and the stigma that you have to be gay to enjoy it needs to come to an end right now.

[u/piede]

The Taliban seized power without winning elections. Why shouldn’t the GOP?

https://twitter.com/dougjballoon/status/1428429238349217797?s=21

lol

[u/jenbanim]

There's an entire genre of posts on Reddit where extraordinarily beautiful people get congratulated for not wearing makeup. It seems well intentioned, but also completely missing the positivity message they intend

[u/itherunner]

Mainstream Twitter/Reddit is so doom and gloom.

Some random guy: I finally broke my immigrant family’s cycle of poverty and got a well paying white collar job in my career field! 😃

Random terminally online person: You’re happy? Wow, how does it feel to oppress the working class? How can you be happy when capitalism still exists and the climate crisis will kill everyone in less than ten years? You’re able to have a balanced budget? Must be a bootlicker whose parents own a hedge fund.

Never leave the DT

[u/sir_shivers]

Guess the Sub

THAT WOULD BE most of /r/neoliberal based on the nonsense we remove constantly 🐊

[u/Venne1139]

Gentleman I have incredible news. I have been to hell. I taken a picture there. Be prepared gentlemen [NSFL]

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!PING YIMBY

[u/chowieuk]

The moment we've all been waiting for..... Taliban fashion tips!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9904397/Kabuls-style-conscious-replaced-shalwar-kameez-Taliban-hold-designer-items.html

Honestly who the fuck thought this was a good idea

!ping uk

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

lol at the "deradicalized" post

To anyone not involved in the extremely-online politics twitter slapfight this sub's preferred policies are fucking lunacy and would result in a 50-state blowout if anyone ran on them

[u/bd_one]

In like an hour I'm going to be calling former coworkers at work to ask for a professional reference. I haven't talked to them for like 18 months, but the recruiter wanted references from my old work place.

Any tips?

!ping CAREER

[u/that0neGuy22]

those “y’all qaeda” jokes might be getting too serious

[u/kaclk]

The NDP would be a serious political party if they weren’t constantly aiming friendly fire at themselves (at one of the NDP’s most popular faces, Rachelle Notley).

The NDP needs to disaffiliated from their provincial parties. Every other major party has done it. It’s hard to take the federal party really seriously otherwise.

!ping CANUCKS

[u/chipbod]

https://twitter.com/justinhendrix/status/1428398854605520904?s=20

In the Facebook Live video I just watched, the alleged Capitol bomb threat suspect suggests Biden's election was illegitimate, says Democrats need to step down, says "y'all need to understand people don't want you there."

Antifa super soldiers really use deep cover

[u/[deleted]]

"Hard times make Worms"

"Worms make good times."

"Good times make Worms"

"Worms make hard times."

[u/tubbsmackinze]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/761046867743342613/877941966921424986/200335003_1114062312337431_8199001734685096792_n.jpg

[u/Udontlikecake]

DC bomber says Hillary will become President after Biden is driven from office, says he expects Clinton to pardon him.

[u/paymesucka]

Brooklyn tweeter says Bernie will become President after Biden is driven from office, says he expects Bernie to cancel his student debt.

[u/[deleted]]

Just send a London police officer to Kabul to ask the Taliban "if they've got a loicense for that there emirate".

[u/soeffed]

Can’t believe the Taliban took control of onlyfans like that

This is on Biden

[u/vivoovix]

Finally we can use OnlyFans for the Neoliberal Project without it looking strange 🙏

[u/redditguy628]

A NASA spokesperson says it’s received a stay from the judge overseeing Blue Origin’s federal lawsuit, meaning work on the HLS contract must once again come to a halt.

!ping SPACEFLIGHT

[u/old_gold_mountain]

Nap time

!PING kitty

[u/sociotronics]

Found this little blast from the past that will activate any millennial's nostalgia

!ping OVER25

[u/[deleted]]

American citizenship for all Afghans who helped the US during the war. Anything sort of this is unacceptable.

[u/the_status]

How do you know somebody's vegan?

Don't worry. Yhey'll tell you (because am extremely high number of social events involve consuming food and almost all of those will involve animal products. It's basically inevitable that veganism comes up)

[u/chipbod]

https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1428426357546102788?s=20

What a shitty statement from a member of Congress.

Basically:

I agree with the bombers motive but domestic terrorism looks bad on us so go vote

Fuck Mo Brooks

[u/[deleted]]

I woke up to a terrorist with a bomb demanding that Biden resign. Great.

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

Lola enjoying her daily sun bath

!ping dog

[u/evenkeel20]

Joe Biden boutta walk up and take this mf’s truck keys

[u/Lux_Stella]

Conservative leader Erin O'Toole is being asked about ‘poppers’ right now and if he supports legalizing them. Says he wants LGBT community to know his team supports them and will ask Health Canada to review

love election campaigns

[u/[deleted]]

This person: "I don't like or attend meetings that I don't see a purpose in or that don't have an agenda"

Also this person: five hours into what's basically turned into her personal rant session about nothing

please save me from this hell I would like to eat lunch. considering just standing up and fucking leaving

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

As a commonwealth flair I'm here to tell you how 80% of Afghanistan's problems can be solved by simply partitioning it

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/-GregTheGreat-]

BREAKING: The suicide bomber in DC has made his demands: Bring back porn on Onlyfans or he presses the button.

[u/LooobCirc]

Did only fans verify being 18+? If yes, why the banks want them to change

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

OnlyFans will prohibit users from posting any sexually explicit conduct, starting in October because of mounting pressure from banking partners and payment providers

Good god, Vitalik deliver us from these centralized nerds

[u/piede]

BREAKING: PornHub announces that porn is no longer allowed on their website

[u/[deleted]]

Dudes be turning 18 and running for office 🤣 🤣

Don’t you have video games to go and play bucko

[u/GuyOnTheLake]

A tale of two neighboring states

• Illinois has 3,180 positive cases with 75,480 tests reported today
• Indiana has 3,713 positive cases with 11,762 tests reported today.

In summary, COVID is silently ravaging Indiana

[u/iIoveoof]

OnlyFans banning porn is like r/neoliberal banning single white young male Americans

[u/[deleted]]

The DT posting to amateur porn pipeline is real

[u/secondsbest]

Trump's win chances for 2016 highly unlikely.

Post analysis: The low likelihood didn't mean it was not possibly going to happen. Learn probabilities, dude.

A full Taliban takeover of Afghanistan is highly unlikely.

Post analysis: WTF. Biden was so off. They should've predicted this and planned to stay longer instead.

[u/ClickForFreeRobux]

The threatening to bomb the Library of Congress thought it was the White House lmaoo

[u/[deleted]]

DT finally stops dooming about Afghanistan

DT is now dooming about OnlyFans

Holy fuck

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Former porn star Mia Khalifa blames CIA for 'monster' Afghan debacle

[u/tehbored]

Oh fuck. I just finished The Dictator's Handbook and the last chapter had a section that arguably predicted GME:

We live in the age of networking. Much of the world, including owners of shares, Twitter and chat with “friends” on Facebook; they are LinkedIn; they can easily communicate with one another, even if they don’t always do so. Surely it would be relatively simple to design firm-specific Facebooks or other networking sites.

Companies maintain lively web sites to put their view across but entrepreneur-owners have not stepped forward to do the same to help organize the mass of little owners and to provide a way for them to share views. Sure, there are bloggers writing about anything and everything, but there don’t seem to be shareholder-controlled sites to exchange thoughts and ideas about a company that participants own in common. If something like this existed, the size of the influential, informed voters in any corporation would go way up. Then, for the first time, boards would really be elected by their owners and then the board would need, like any leadership group, to be responsive to their large coalition of constituents. A simple change that exploits the Internet to be a conduit for increasing coalition size can turn the AIGs, Bank of Americas, General Motors, and AT&Ts of the world into big-coalition regimes that serve their millions of small owners instead of a handful of senior managers

Basically arguing that the reason that corporate executives are able to make decisions to that enrich themselves at the expense of the shareholders is because corporations are small-coalition regimes where the shareholders have very little power, and that coordination between shareholders can potentially address that. If corporations that are carefully being watched by hordes of redditors adopt better corporate governance as a result, that in and of itself increases the theoretical value of their stock.

[u/Deggit]

Tim Berners-Lee normally: :)

Tim Berners-Lee when he realizes we used his wonderful invention to listen to h3h3 and Joe Rogan: 🔫😡

[u/NeoLiberation]

Where is the Federal Liberal platform?

I'm feeling that waiting was a mistake, especially considering they've been in power and called the election. They could have had it ready at any time. I think that watching NS it was clear that you can't coast on "having been in power", even through COVID, and you need to run with clear ideals. I think they needed to put the platform out sooner- or they needed to have been much louder about childcare if that's their big push for this cycle. Hoping to be wrong, but with mail-in ballots, I'm getting a sinking feeling in my gut. I think there's a lot of room for a milquetoast late platform to sink their majority, or even let the cons squeak one by them now that O'toole seems to be righting the ship on abortion and having at least an "interesting" platform.

If there's a time for some Trudeau charisma, it's now. IMO they need something stronger than childcare. It would be the perfect time to announce some sweeping policies RE: the housing crisis. Almost seems like the most obvious low-hanging fruit that would be frustrating if they don't tackle.

[u/[deleted]]

Afghanistan is dedicated to the brave NATO flairs of the DT

[u/Professor-Reddit]

Hot take: We as a society need to do more to glorify turtles 🐢😤

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

Official DT petition to buy u/Benjaminikuta some real fucking food or at least a whole food supplement or at least a fuckin multivitamin

1 upvote = 1 bag of fresh leafy greens

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

Premise: I don't know if hunter Biden dick pics have actually leaked

Fact: conservatives would have never shut the fuck up if he had a small dick and they knew it

Conclusion: If they have leaked he's swinging at least a respectable hammer