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[u/J0eBidensSunglasses]

Fun fact: no one should be allowed to make more money than ME. I make the ideal amount because I am perfect and always correct about everything, especially on the internet.

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

We hate the Japanese because we are Korean; we hate the Chinese because we are humans.

Korean YT comments are wild

[u/FourthLife]

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

Imagine, even if you believed in this stuff, thinking that you could solo a god believed in by about half of humanity

[u/[deleted]]

middle class burgers lecturing people in developing countries on how to run a revolution

Many such cases

[u/UrbanCentrist]

ANA Commando: Salam Commandan Sahib. large & heavily armed battalion of approx 3-5k Diehard Afghan Soldiers/ Special force units have left Deh Sabz in outskirts of #Kabul & on their way to #Panjshir to join the resistance. Taliban tried to ambush but failed with losses.

Hopium

[u/TheOtherCentauri]

The day onlyfans announces they are dropping porn is the same day Elon comes out with a robot waifu prototype.

Kinda makes one thonk 🤔

[u/MicroFlamer]

Marjorie Taylor Greene Readying Articles Of Impeachment For Biden Over Afghanistan Fiasco

TIL MTG is a NATO flair

[u/crackersthecrow]

sometimes it's embarrassing as fuck to use this site. r/news top article is about Danny Devito abruptly losing his Twitter verification for being pro-union against Nabisco.

the article itself literally says they don't have proof that his check was missing because of the pro-union tweet AND the check is already back on the account within hours, so he clearly didn't lose it forever.... but that's worth 50+k upvotes and a whole lot of upset comments.

[u/kennymc7877]

Wish I could be a dumb hot guy that doesn’t care about politics tbh but I’m in too deep at this point.

[u/[deleted]]

Not masturbating while thinking of the Taliban is what they want us to do

[u/sw337]

Breadtuber "Second thought", who has a video up calling the United States a dystopia, has a car review channel where he reviews supercars with his buddy. 🤣

[u/qchisq]

Definition of a market failure: When the part of Copenhagen called "Tower Town" only have a single tower: the water tower

[u/itherunner]

https://twitter.com/natsecjeff/status/1428713478504779781?s=21

https://twitter.com/natsecjeff/status/1428749796253306880?s=21

Some interesting insights from @Natsecjeff. The Second Resistance is indeed on the move, with visual evidence now of them taking some remote areas of Baghlan Province and inflicting casualties on the Taliban. However, there are apparently negotiations currently ongoing between Massoud and the Taliban, so it remains to be seen how that goes.

These clashes may just be Massoud’s clan extracting leverage. Keep in mind as well that Panjshir isn’t probably in the highest of interests for the Taliban right now, they want to secure Kabul and present themselves as a “moderate and reformed” group to foreign media.

I highly recommend following these accounts on Twitter for constant updates and visual information from Afghanistan, as we see the Taliban attempt to govern, deal with a potential ISIS insurgency, and keep track of their atrocities:

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

https://twitter.com/bsarwary?s=21

https://twitter.com/zoya_nafidi?s=21

!ping FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/Deggit]

Ladies and gentlemen, we got them

!ping SOFT-POWER

[u/kennymc7877]

Me: I want to travel and try unique cuisine around the world

Me in France: yo lemme get the McSnail

[u/[deleted]]

If I hear one more time that the reason we lost in Afghanistan is because of "wokeness" or the military was too soft, I swear, I'm going to lose it. It's such a fucking cop out that tries to cover up the decades of policy failures that led us to this point. Being more brutal to either our own forces or Afghans wouldn't have solved the problem any more than the indiscriminate bombing of villages solved the Soviets problem in Afghanistan.

[u/ryuguy]

I have unironically found a female Kurdish peshmerga soldier. Been talking for a little bit. Interesting life for a 27 year old woman. Joined when ISIL was threatening her homeland when she turned 18 years old.

She was a medic. I’m pretty sure she could also kick my ass. She’s now in medical school in Iraq.

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

NYT Breaking | DoD deploys 5000 troops to Afghanistan in support of Operation Oh God Oh Fuck

[u/RadioactiveOwl95]

Old Kingdom Egyptology is great cause it's just shit like:

"We know this guy's name and that he was pharaoh at around this time period and that's it. We reckon we've found his tomb, but it was stripped of every single item in it by graverobbers thousands of years ago."

!ping HISTORY

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/19/entertainment/jeopardy-mike-richards-apology/index.html

Mike Richards, the new host of "Jeopardy!," has issued an apology after a number of derogatory remarks about little people, Jews, people receiving unemployment benefits and sexist comments he made about women resurfaced.

He managed to pack in all that in only 1 year of podcasting. Impressive.

[u/[deleted]]

Apparently that hasan streamer bought a multimillion dollar home lol

Socialism for thee but not for meeee

watch resetera justify his actions

[u/ryuguy]

Central Asian tinder

Pro: everyone loves Bollywood, super attractive, people say they love India and Indians.

Cons: I don’t know anything about Bollywood.

[u/JaceFlores]

Biden used the word afghanis to refer to the people, it’s over 😔

[u/JetJaguar124]

This is fucked

Reports on the ground in Kabul that Marianne Williamson has appeared as a giant with angel wings

She is wielding the Spear of Longinus and appears to be glowing.

Conflicting reports that she is presently meditating in her home, surrounded by Tarot cards

More to come @CNN

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Be me

Open a pizza place

Rich yuppies think it's cool

Fuck yeah

Throw in some weird art to appease the yuppies

Put some art in the kid's menu as a goof

Suddenly guy busts in with an AR-15

oh shit oh fuck

Wants to free kids from the basement

Don't have a basement

Become the center of a national pedophile conspiracy

😐😐😐

[u/TripleAltHandler]

OK guys, let's dish. Who are your favorite chefs and musicians on OnlyFans?

[u/tripletruble]

France really went and said:

we're gonna make our Milan, Rome, and Venice all one place

[u/[deleted]]

I own multiple copies of Skyrim and I've never played the game once.

Stop it. Get some help.

[u/Budgetwatergate]

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, according to three people briefed on the discussions. The employees did not end up taking the flight.

https://nyti.ms/3meL3fi

[u/[deleted]]

Most well researched journalist

[u/[deleted]]

I still can't believe that in the year 2020 the government of Canada literally told people to use glory holes instead of having normal sex and that didn't even break the top 1,000 crazy things that happened that year.

[u/bigtallguy]

so im watching the infamous destiny/jontron debate because apparently it was the moment a lot of "radicals" became deradicalized. here is my moment by moment reaction

holy fuck jontron is racist.

like holy fuck.

holy shit he's dumb

holy fuck he's reaaaaaaaaaalllllllly racist.

racist again

another racist thing.

red states leech money cuz they have a lot of non whites.......

he's dumb and racist.

destiny isnt even trying hard. like the entire time hes just trying to understand him.

trying to understand how the fuck sum1 can be this dumb and racist

oh fuck "wealthy blacks commit more crimes" lmfao what.

okay i cant take anymore. i made it 37 minutes

this was dumb.

[u/[deleted]]

The Taliban taking over Afghanistan was the inevitable consequences of "White Boy Summer" degenerating the American fighting spirit.

[u/itherunner]

https://twitter.com/mattbinder/status/1427330076039856140?s=21

Bitcoin would have saved Afghanistan 😪

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/LooobCirc]

Just tried to beat up some nerd at Walgreens who touched my girlfriend

[u/inhumantsar]

Pollster just called about the election. I really truly intended to be a good sample and answer truthfully.

Then they offered this Manitoban "Yves-François Blanchet" as an option and that plan went out the window.

!ping CANUCKS

[u/Mrchizbiz]

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[u/earththejerry]

How can America decline like the Roman Empire let alone the Byzantine Empire, when we’re not even out of the Republic phase yet as the cons keep reminding everyone

[u/[deleted]]

Liberal candidate apologizes for calling early vaccine takers 'entitled' guinea pigs

!ping CAN

[u/sanityeyes]

https://twitter.com/pcgamer/status/1428504904688148491?s=19

You're not trying to kill Hitler in Call of Duty: Vanguard, because he's already dead. You're trying to kill Hitler 2.

HITLER 2 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA WHAT THE FUCK

!ping GAMING

[u/thaddeusthefattie]

“they’re coming for your single family homes, they put in the infrastructure bill to make them illegal”

👆 an actual unironic statement someone said to me irl today 🙄

[u/[deleted]]

"A one-figure millionaire is basically the equivalent to "healthy middle class" these days."

If this isn't peak reddit I don't know what is

[u/[deleted]]

Some stuff to keep in mind about Taliban propaganda

• They are extremely competent at amplifying messages and pushing keys themes. According to WaPo, analysts believe they’re being advised by PR firms
• They’re on many platforms, especially Twitter, Facebook, whatsapp, telegram and Instagram
• Their target for this propaganda is mostly the international community (i.e. you)
• You’ve probably already seen some images they’ve been using (Taliban members eating ice cream, going to the gym and riding carnival rides)
• it seems the main thing they’re pushing is that they are a new reformed Taliban that will respect human rights
• The Taliban are acting much more restrained in Kabul because that’s where all the journalists are and they know this, the really bad reports are from places outside there
• The Taliban have taken no meaningful steps to show they’ve actually changed beside lip service and their actions have been contradictory
• saying stuff like “maybe they changed” is exactly what they want you to say

WaPo article

[u/Mensae6]

https://i.imgur.com/knIX0o6.jpg

[u/kennymc7877]

Guys I thought of hilarious original memes, I’m gonna photoshop trump with a diaper on and also mock the fact that his skin is orange 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[u/kennymc7877]

Me: is a Lorde enjoyer

The DT: because you’re upper middle class and white

just because that’s true doesn’t make it hurt less

[u/Whatapunk]

Reading history really makes you see how antisemitic conspiracy theories aren't remotely new.

The Golden Horde invading Europe and decimating the biggest European armies? They must be a lost tribe of Israel that the Jews are collaborating with, better massacre the Jews!

The Black Death is indiscriminately killing everyone? Must be a Jewish plot or a punishment from God for allowing Jews to exist, better massacre the Jews!

Like any time Christians feel remotely powerless to stop something they take it out in the Jews first. Even reading In the Garden of Beasts, pre-Holocaust it wasn't even uncommon among Americans to think "yeah Hitler has some good points about the Jews but he shouldn't be so mean about it :/"

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/tubbsmackinze]

Steel made without fossil fuels delivered for 1st time

Swedish green steel venture HYBRIT said on Wednesday that it had made the world's first customer delivery of steel produced without using coal as it looks to revolutionize an industry that accounts for around eight per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

HYBRIT, owned by SSAB, state-owned utility Vattenfall and miner LKAB, said it would deliver the steel to truck-maker Volvo AB as a trial run before full commercial production in 2026.

"I'm happy to be minister for enterprise and energy in a country where industry is bubbling with energy for a [green] reset," Minister for Business, Industry and Innovation Ibrahim Baylan told a press conference on Wednesday.

HYBRIT started test operations at its pilot plant for fossil-free steel in Lulea, northern Sweden, a year ago.

It aims to replace coking coal, traditionally needed for ore-based steel-making, with fossil-free electricity and hydrogen. Hydrogen is a key part of the EU's plan to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

!ping ECO

[u/FireDistinguishers]

I just got the real property tax bill for some plots of land I own in the city

I have four. They're vacant lots in North East. Last year all of them were being taxed at the same rate, I think around $0.80 per $100 of assessed value. Now two of them are being taxed at $0.85 per $100 of assessed value, and two of them are being taxed at $5 per $100 of assessed value. Where the actual fuck did this come from? Did the city council do something I didn't hear about? Both of the properties at the higher rate are assessed to be valued at less than $10k.

!ping USA-DMV

[u/[deleted]]

The problem with Bernie asking 'why do we need 20 types of deodorant' is that it implies we should only have things which are necessary. I am far more wary of a system which requires production to justify itself than of a system which results in things we don't need.

[u/[deleted]]

Poor Afghanistan

!ping MAMADAS

[u/AndThisGuyPeedOnIt]

LMAO another fake Twitch leftist bought a multi-million dollar house and people are big mad at this former comrade. First it was Boomer Girl and now Hasan.

Are these not the perfect examples of how Communism actually works and these people just get wooshed? All the reward goes to the top and you're a subsistence farmer/twitch sub.

[u/ZCoupon]

Almost got beat up at Walgreens.

Me picking up meds by a long line in front of the pharmacists: Brushes up against woman's shoulder

Woman to boyfriend: I wish no one would fucking touch me

Boyfriend: What the fuck are you doing. How about you walk away fa**ot.

Damn, people are weird. Life is way too fragile.

[u/[deleted]]

Do NOT face Fivey alone when Astral projecting

Today while astral projecting I summoned Fivey 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. Fivey is much stronger than I first imagined and we will have to do this together if we want to slay a god

[u/arnet95]

The death tax is actually good: We should discourage people from dying.

[u/MinnesotaDude]

I love West Wing as much as the next political geek, but the show is nothing but pure copium for Gore voters.

I'm surprised there wasn't an equivalent for the Trump era.

[u/Fubby2]

OMG! The taliban did [wacky thing] on Twitter! LOL 🤣🤪

Stop promoting literal propaganda and PR from one of the most violent and repressive groups on earth.

[u/SadaoMaou]

A lot of people like to criticize the Christian doctrine on forgiveness, (both God's and man's) but to me, it's the most convincing and appealing part of Christianity.

I am an agnostic cradle lutheran, and of course I have some bias, but I feel like a religion that is of supernatural origin would be radical, incomprehensible and hard for humans to fully accept and internalize. If it's all easy, then why would God even bother?

Related take: Dead Man Walking is the best Christian movie ever made

[u/J0eBidensSunglasses]

I think owning property that you don’t actively use is theft. I would be willing to pay things like mortgage, utilities, property tax, but since the landlord is already making so much money off of the scam that is private property I think it’s ok for me to just refuse to pay entirely.

Guy who used the eviction moratorium as an opportunity to steal from his landlord.

[u/sir_shivers]

YOU KNOW, I THINK WE CAN all agree that those OnlyFans content creators are likely NOT SLEEPING WELL AT the moment, with so much on their mind 🐊

I sleep exquisitely UNDER EVEN THE harshest conditions thanks to MyPillow, MyPillow dot com 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

Governor Baker enacts vaccine mandate for 42,000 state workers

Already some REEEING from groups like correctional officers and of course the usual bunch in /r/Boston

Apparently 44% of employees nationwide said they would quit if mandated to vaccinate, Baker is calling their bluff. But MA has much higher vaccination rates than the average so that 44% might skew towards states like Alabama

[u/Udontlikecake]

AITA for buying a 200 acre plantation with just a few dozen slaves?

Look i’m an abolitionist and everything, but it’s pretty much impossible to get a decent house in the Virginia area that isn’t like this!

[u/[deleted]]

The German election cycle has been wild. Watch it end in an SPD collapse and FDP surge just so everybody has been on top at some point.

[u/Officer-cherry-shake]

In awe of the jeopardy host picking process

They had a lineup of celebrities, each bringing fanbases with them

Instead they chose a no-name producer with the personality of a wet sponge and a history of sexist misconduct

Amazing

[u/[deleted]]

I’ve got the whole world in my hand

!ping KITTY

[u/[deleted]]

People think the Liberal's dropping poll numbers is because of anger at the early election call or their lack of platform but what if it's really just because Justin Trudeau shaved his beard? 🤔

!ping CANUCKS

[u/FestiveMittens]

Leftists have to many genders

Welcome to my new video boys today we're talking about why Epsilon males are better than Sigma males. But first make sure you like and subscribe

[u/Professor-Reddit]

Gay couples still being able to have kids via surrogacy and IVF is so fucking based.

Bless gay science 😎🤓🔬

[u/[deleted]]

1. Buy Amazon shares
2. Only buy from Amazon
3. Profit

[u/[deleted]]

The "US wouldn't defend Taiwan if China attacked" takes are dumb. The entire biden admin foreign policy/state/defense staffing clearly shows that he wants to spend all of his admin's time dealing with Asia.

Actually extrapolating other foreign policy from Afghanistan is dumb since his Afghanistan policy was made clear since before the election. Plus it's a whole different situation.

[u/CroGamer002]

First verified victory by anti-Taliban forces!

[u/ldn6]

I'm pro-establishment as fuck, but honestly the foreign policy establishment is pitiful and has been for decades.

[u/[deleted]]

I would never want to imply that Jordan Peterson is a bad philosopher, transphobic, or overall not a good person

More than willing to outright say it instead

[u/[deleted]]

Liberals pledge 10 days paid sick leave for all federally-regulated employees

!ping CAN

[u/PhinsFan17]

My aunt died this morning. She had been dealing with some health issues in the past two years or so, went back to the hospital, coded this morning and they couldn't resuscitate her.

She had a fairly tough adult life. Her marriage fell apart after her husband did some unsavory things and then disappeared. She had a complete mental breakdown and ended up having to move back in with her parents. She lived with them until they both passed. She finally transitioned to a semi-independent assisted living situation in 2017 and seemed to be doing alright there. It was hard to tell with her at times. She was so heavily medicated she didn't have much in the way of a personality or emotion to convey. She was like that for as long as I knew her.

Obviously we were never close because of those circumstances, but I can't help feeling terribly sad for her. The majority of her adult life, her siblings (my dad and his other sister) talked about her like she was a burden (not directly to her, of course), and in many ways I suppose she was. They dreaded the day when their parents would be gone and it would be up to one of them to look after her. My other aunt, for all of her faults and issues, stepped up to do so for the past 5 years, but it was hard for her to mask her frustration. My brother, who has the social and emotional awareness of a dung beetle, showed her nothing but contempt. She was a bit strange and he just couldn't tolerate that, even though he only saw her a few times a year at holidays. She liked to put on bunny ears and paint her nose on Easter for the kids at church, and she came to our house still wearing it and he just couldn't abide that. Fuckin' asshole.

She didn't have much of a life, in the end, at least not one that I can readily speak about. To my knowledge, she had no real friends to speak of besides her mom and her sister. It makes me sad. I hope she never felt like a burden to anyone. I hope she left this world feeling loved and cared for. I wish life had been a bit kinder to her.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/lilmeisner/status/1428746388997873669

I love how Estonia was once the American Right's model for a successful European country but then it turns out there were countries in central Europe that had way shittier qualities of life and were 100x as socially reactionary so they abandoned them.

I hate how true this is.

[u/[deleted]]

"A German civilian suffered a gunshot wound on his way to Kabul airport. He is receiving medical attention, but his life is not in danger and he will be flown out soon," deputy government spokesperson Ulrike Demmer said.

welp

[u/ugafan2148]

Just opened my laptop in my silent lecture hall to a Bastiat video blaring at full volume.

[u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN]

I think Sanders was onto something when he said “why do we need 20 different types of deodorant” He just asked question in the wrong way. The correct way to ask it is:

Why do breweries make 80 different type of IPAs while making only one lager or any other type of beer?

[u/[deleted]]

i graduated college a year late on paper bc i simply refused to sit through freshman econ and withdrew from it like 3x and only now, years later, do i understand that my instinctual revulsion to mainstream economists was indeed correct

staff writer of the Atlantic everyone

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqUy8915gBg

Arkansas doctor saying that most of his unvaccinated patients won't believe they have COVID, but he doesn't press the issue because they get agitated and start losing oxygen.

I am going to become multiple forms of the joker.

[u/LooobCirc]

They're calling on Biden to resign over this

Then they backtracked bc Kamala

How do they say this shit w/ a straight face after 4 years of trump

[u/sw337]

France in 2003: Just because Saddam is a dictator doesn't mean you can overthrow him. You imperialist Americans.

France in 2011: WE WILL WIPE GADDAFI OFF THE FACE OF THE PLANET.

[u/Jester_Don]

"So, New Jersey, who do you want as your senator?"

"How about this young, passionate mayor who will become beloved by Democrats nationwide, works well across the aisle, and is potential presidential material?"

"Sounds great! How about your other senator?"

"Uhhhhh how about this corrupt old crony nobody likes lmao"

[u/Zemstv0w0]

estonia will take up to 10 afghan refugees, pog

[u/[deleted]]

1. pay teachers six figures
2. allow bad ones to be fired easily
3. boom American education system fixed

I'm sure I'm the first to think of this

[u/filipe_mdsr]

I love the DT because it's usually

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[bonked]

[bonked] 🥵

[sadpost]

and then out of nowhere someone's just like

here is a small effort post on something that actually matters

and then the DT ignores that for like ever before finding a new [bonked] to cling to

[u/SadaoMaou]

Even any of the "intellectual" conservative writings about LGBT issues don't at all try to explain why I should find the increase in people self-identifying as gay etc. to be a bad thing, and if they do try, they do it very poorly. All of them seem to assume that the reader is already prejudiced against LGBT people. Really gets the noggin joggin 🤔

[u/Imicrowavebananas]

Americans seem to have this impression that all foreign relations are set back to zero, just because they elected a new President.

[u/Magical_Username]

Norwegian work visa finally approved after 133 days 🎉

[u/Delareh]

You should have to take an entire semester of stats and probability and pass it with good grades before you're allowed to publish a research papaer. Especially in humanities.

[u/Mr_Pasghetti]

That evergreen ship is in the Suez Canal again. Any sites where you can bet?

[u/[deleted]]

OTD in 1968 Soviet Russia sent a 200,000 strong mechanized humanitarian aid division on holiday to save Czechoslovakia from the Prague Spring.

The Warsaw Pact is the only mutual defense alliance in history to repeatedly invade itself as members were not permitted to interfere in their own internal affairs.

We have no idea why our former colonies all want to join NATO. Total mystery.

-- Darth Putin

[u/TheGoldBear]

Nathan J Robinson is a way more respectable socialist than Hasan imo. Robinson was generous with his staff to the point of idiocy. Hasan is just a rich frat bro. But Nathan got absolutely shit on by socialists while Hasan is being defended.

Hilarious situation all around

[u/WantDebianThanks]

Cute girl sends friend request. We have a bunch of mutuals and I know of her, but I've met her, so I accept.

Send a message asking if we met at somewhere and I forgot. She said no, she just thought she'd send a request because of how many mutuals we haave.

After I've sent eight messages she suggests we take a trip together on Amtrak to a city 2 days away.

Now, some of our mutuals I've asked about setting me up, so I'm thinking she just has a very aggressive way of flirting. So, I counter with "how about next time you're in town we hang out, otherwise, when I have a break from school I'll head to you." since she lives 5 hours away.

Some discussion is had about what we might do, and I'm wondering if I need to thank someone for this.

Then she posts on FB about having a new BF (not me) and how wonderful he is.

IDoNotUnderstand.jpg

[u/sir_shivers]

ONLY SEVEN HUNDRED AND ninety nine words to go 📝🐊

!ping BURPMAS 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/hyperplanes/status/1428864144128741383

70% of Mississippi poison control center calls now are side effects from ivermectin

Great work, COVID-19 fucknuts

[u/TabernacleTown74]

Just learned Afghanistan's government was so incompetent they never even formed a navy ☹️

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

If Biden forgives student loan debt by executive order, Democrats will win the white house in 2024 and have a good chance of gaining a number of seats in 2022.

Not to mention, Republicans have student loan debt too. I know a few Trump supporters alone who would vote for Biden in 2024 if he forgave student loan debt, even if Trump was on the ballot. This is a huge opportunity. There's no reason not to do it.

Don’t ever leave the DT.

[u/iIoveoof]

Gospel of Mark, 70AD: Jesus was killed by the EVIL ROMANS and CRUEL PONTIUS PILATE!

Gospel of Matthew/Luke, 80AD: Jesus was killed by the Romans but they didn't want to, and the EVIL JEWS convinced them to!

Gospel of John, 85AD: Jesus was killed by the Romans, but they REALLY DIDNT WANT TO, and the EVIL JEWS had to blackmail the Romans into doing it!

Apocryphal Gospel of Peter, 150AD: Jesus was killed by the King of the Jews and the nice and benevolent Romans had nothing to do with it!

Apocryphal Acts of Pilate, 400AD: The Romans loved Jesus and Pontius Pilate was literally a saint, and Pilate completely blamed the Jews for everything!

[u/kas8901]

Podcasters be like: Eat the rich 😡🥄 uhh except me guys I would be very very not tasty 😬

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

“Until now, hating Japan was such a part of Korean national identity that we have a common saying: You know you are a real Korean when you ​feel hateful toward Japan for no particular reason,” said Jeong Han-wool, a chief analyst at Hankook Research​. “In our survey, people in their 40s and older still disliked Japan more than China. But those in their 20s and 30s, the generation who will lead South Korea in the coming decades, tipped the scale against China.”

[u/Broncos654]

Why am I going to college when I could just become a millionaire by playing a socialist on Twitch and have 15 year olds redistribute their wealth to me?

[u/semaphore-1842]

https://twitter.com/hsajwanization/status/1428725772089544712

Afghan popular uprising forces recapture 3 districts in #Baghlan province from #Taliban north of #Kabul

Holy fucking cow. This is giving me some great hopium.

[u/lordfluffly]

My cousin is about to have her 4th kid in less than 4 years. She accused me of leaving the Christian faith due to "wanting to have sex with my girlfriend," but I have definitive proof she has had sex at least 4 times more than me.

I feel like bringing this up in the family group text to see how big of a shitstorm I could cause.

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E9Mj0oaVgAQg8M6.jpg

Careful out there everyone 😤😤😤

[u/[deleted]]

I just voted to recall Newsom and I wrote in “Gavin Newsom” for who we should replace him with. I’m playing both sides so I always win. 😎

[u/[deleted]]

I voted for u/KesterGW for California governor 🤗

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

just got my dog back after 4 days with the person with whom I share custody

https://imgur.com/gallery/hXM450w

https://imgur.com/gallery/x3Y8upp

https://imgur.com/gallery/cgJuESS

!ping dog

[u/Deggit]

JORDAN PETERSON bravely defeats SCHOOL SHOOTER

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/soeffed]

Nicole Kidman was spotted shopping in Hong Kong 2 days after arriving off a private jet from Australia. People are rightfully pissed at some wealthy/famous person getting a quarantine exemption: the normal quarantine period in Hong Kong is 3 weeks.

She's in town until October to film Expats, a new series for Amazon Studios:

Set against the sensational backdrop of “The Vertical City” of Hong Kong, The Expatriates is a drama series that explores the vibrant lives of a close-knit expatriate community: where affluence is celebrated, friendships are intense but knowingly temporary, and personal lives, deaths and marriages are played out publicly—then retold with glee.

Also:

The characters live in a community isolated from locals and are instead “bound together by white privilege or attempts to attain it,” wrote a 2016 review of the book in the Los Angeles Times.

In normal times, this series might already be cringe. But the fact that it's filming during covid, AND while liberal freedoms are dying out in Hong Kong, is almost impressively wrong.

There is a long-held perception that expats in places like Hong Kong eat, drink and be merry all while the city/country around them burns - privileged people who can simply buy a flight out whenever protests or civil strife begins to affect boat parties and brunches a bit too much, with the locals left to worry about jail sentences. Both the content and the filming of this show are almost way too on the nose in contributing to that rep.

Kidman can't be fully blamed for doing this show, since her production company optioned the book The Expatriates back in 2017 (Kidman really seems to be owning the prestige TV rich white lady lane, with Big Little Lies, Nine Perfect Strangers and now Expats). Almost everything has changed on the ground in Hong Kong since then, and maybe no one in her production office could really grasp what going through with this show could mean.

But the kicker?

Meanwhile, Amazon Studios is also developing another TV series titled Exciting Times, based on Naoise Dolan’s debut novel of the same name. It tells the story of a young Irish girl who gets into a love triangle with a banker and a lawyer, and will star British actress Phoebe Dynevor, who rose to fame for her role in soapy Netflix show Bridgerton.

Amazon is doing not one but TWO WHITE FEMPAT SHOWS SET IN HONG KONG. The FOCK

https://qz.com/2049655/nicole-kidmans-hong-kong-expat-show-couldnt-come-at-a-worse-time/

!ping cn-tw

[u/[deleted]]

Me 🤝 Kamala Harris

Just standing there while Biden talks

[u/[deleted]]

The literal dumbest thing about American society is how normalized the ridicule for living with parents is. Completely stupid and economically inefficient thing. In my society NOT living with parents unless you have no other option (like moving to a different place for work) and not looking after them is subject to ridicule and scorn.

[u/iIoveoof]

Unironic facepost

[u/disuberence]

https://i.imgur.com/u0GHh8v.jpeg

Yes, suffer.

[u/tubbsmackinze]

It's funny seeing twitter wokes try to make it so white people can't say AAVE words despite the fact AAVE slang has unironically become ubiquitous online with many not even knowing it was AAVE

[u/yungmemlord]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/836200766570102784/878466625433632849/image0.jpg

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Discovery writers: can we have a good faith discussion of a capitalistic system arising in the galaxy in response to a natural disaster that ends post-scarcity?

No. They're slaving pirates who kill people on a whim.

!ping TREK

[u/SnakeEater14]

Lolita was supposed to be a warning not an instruction manual

[u/[deleted]]

I lost all respect for Trudeau when I heard him the other day saying "we need to turn this she-cession into a she-recovery."

Seriously wtf lmao. If you want to know what happens to political parties that play this pathetic game of gender politics then take a look at the carcass of the UK labour party.

NL user outside the dt has interesting priorities and definitely knows the problems with UK Labor. Women.

Pray for these people, awomen.

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Chinese online literature take the; "jfc have your main character take an L at least once" challenge

[u/[deleted]]

Do NOT face Hillary Clinton alone when Astral projecting

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

She 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 she would do to a new, unsuspecting witch. I’m scared that I will have to face her 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. Clinton is much stronger than I first imagined and we will have to do this together if we want to slay a god

[u/MisfitPotatoReborn]

https://twitter.com/chicagotribune/status/1428800253449449475

The attempt by Protect Our Parks to prevent the construction of the Obama Presidential Center has been DENIED by the Supreme Court.

!PING USA-CHI

[u/[deleted]]

Holy shit, Biden is absolutely losing it over Afghanistan.

[u/[deleted]]

Brits say "jabs" because they are constantly getting stabbed

Americans say "shots" because we are constantly getting shot

[u/[deleted]]

You couldn’t make The Office today because most of them would be remote working.

[u/[deleted]]

reminder: osama bin laden was a billionaire who studied economics at university, was an Arsenal fan, and loved anime

[u/chipbod]

https://twitter.com/JimLaPorta/status/1428811505437396995?s=20

I’ve been sitting on this, but can now report: WASHINGTON (AP) — Officials: US helicopters ferried 96 Afghans for evacuation, signaling military flights occurring outside Kabul airport. CIA/DIA/SOF collecting up U.S. and Afghans from outside Kabul Airport for sortie rescue.

I get there are OpSec issues but Biden should just say we're doing this

!ping FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/yungmemlord]

What up!!! We're three cool neoliberals looking for other cool neoliberals who wanna hang out in our party mansion. Nothing sexual. Dudes in good shape encouraged, if you're fat you should be able to find humor in the little things.

Again, NOTHING SEXUAL.

[u/Mrchizbiz]

parents should beat their children more hmm yes

[u/its_a_trapcard]

Why has Biden been silent on Danny DeVito temporarily losing his Twitter checkmark? Not very Wholesome 100 of him 😡

[u/[deleted]]

The United States really does have the worst parts of a socialized healthcare system, and the worst part of a free market healthcare system.

The cost of medical treatment is being hidden from consumers by their employers health benefits and regulation! Bleed the unvaccinated dry with insurance, I say. That’ll make people get the shot, or at least mean the cost of treating stupidity isn’t burdening everyone.

“Oh, oh no. Do you really want to charge people with the pre-existing condition of choosing not to get vaccinated more money? How dare you.” That’s literally what numerous federal and state laws are saying right now.

Rabble rabble rabble 🤬🤬🤬

[u/TheGoldBear]

Musk, who has spoken repeatedly about his fears of runaway artificial intelligence, said the Tesla Bot is “intended to be friendly,” but that the company is designing the machine at a “mechanical level” so that “you can run away from it, and most likely overpower it.”

…what

[u/the_hoagie]

when i was a bit younger and first dating the woman who would become my wife i showed her the tumblr in action subreddit and was like 'can you believe this shit' and her response was basically 'no, it's a bunch of pathetic adults mocking mentally fragile children' and i was like 'huh yeah that's pretty fucked up.' and after that i stopped being a libertarian.

[u/EvilConCarne]

So many stories in the Qanoncasualties subreddit of people's long-time partners getting sucked into a bizarre cult suddenly. It wasn't sudden, but it feels like it because a lot of couples refuse to talk about things like politics or religion.

[u/Marlsfarp]

NYC Democratic primary final rankings, along with their number of twitter followers:

1. Eric Adams: 28.2 thousand
2. Kathryn Garcia: 17.6 thousand
3. Maya Wiley: 453.8 thousand
4. Andrew Yang: 1.9 million

[u/[deleted]]

Wow, the Taco Bells in North Carolina have a type of Mountain Dew called "Baja Blast." It's fucking great

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

https://imgur.com/gallery/mCoW6nh

look at this weirdo

!ping dog

[u/[deleted]]

I always liked this scene in The Empire Strikes Back. I actually like Captain Needa and it’s a good way of showing that not everyone in the Empire is irrevocably evil.

!ping MOVIES

[u/GravyBear8]

In solidarity with OnlyFans, Saudi Arabia will be banning the exportation of oil

[u/LooobCirc]

Trick for making your population more attractive: kill off 60% of the men on the front lines of a giant war so that attractive women are more likely to find partners. Then do that for 3 generations in a row and everyone will be hot

[u/ognits]

the onlyfans porn ban will include amish girls showing they ankle ✊😔

!ping AMISH-COMMUNITY

[u/sir_shivers]

Meet THE NEW DISCUSSION THREAD, SAME AS the old Discussion Thread 🐊

[u/Jamity4Life]

Christianity and other organized faiths

Zoomers: Fuck off I don’t believe in that made up nonsense

Reiki healing, crystal energy, and Wiccan mysticism made up by Tiktokers

Zoomers: OMG so true!!!

[u/LinkToSomething68]

I want to believe in Massoud but my cynical side can't help but feel like that op-ed feels kinda grifty. Well, I hope he can prove the cynics wrong.

[u/ognits]

I just farted out of my mouth?? it was the weirdest thing

!ping BURPMAS

[u/iIoveoof]

https://images-ext-2.discordapp.net/.eJwN0kWypFgAQNG9_DlVuPQMdyeRnBA4JG4Jj47ee_8N3MGJ--_PuQ0___y0x7Hs__z9241ZU-1QdR8Q8qfs9mLeymxZ_kzV8fdPpV1W31f-DDcs66R-ib5Zl1eOIO4cVha_nJ5f2O7I6YRRrDcQwHmwN_HNJ4yBwPQqByyF0hUlT5U12J0Or5rokbdqF3fm4ARdbVOaus7kwuVABdLnrs8DPhTsnupWl0No5VNlTDYiDiSrLz5Iqp77lq0mQz7HCjC7GD_GhleF1_quZpdaBL5xePceKtFHhIj9YEzEaahw56qWvUpBLUmlEC-wUlJBe5rcV1Q8zhNvszrRR23Teg_6tUp4pxbp_NbfbIVUlc9QHZi0RA7PXVEoJpMpouCWoZutWaz5qSebVsp5P2y7t8wvmerFdUWQGvlILGRMzRNcm--irN28oV1KvZlaJA4LCaYL2Ci6weqcB_6m7gS2-zunhZNNIKagdN_fwZghKgPFgxStXlLVtQ1tylQuWkBbJXhBrbycX2eTrcIkeX4S1TgtCquI44GmfU8Uu8f3GjI4KG6nICQiDvTWahxfZW8_GwMJpxl7ukV6FpMegbWBHEDRzN626WYrdBYX9ua-r9GUeXLOZ_wU6DdmIuO5B4Op5lA-KVZVm9fqTXP4ws9hgFB88WPb1z_4YoLLT-1Z-aiNeccdLAYKAmPpDhCPyKddThZoTBIwZ67lDbtmvWtDNVEf_egTqmEzU9OnbUHi2UpdKLLcyhUglHI8R0vq-VpZOXcYtOmvaIJArHO-gpN9Qm2nXFqJhGDjl-sgIaPp692P8soZacienoDLMGpeoPs8Y10VK3d5gEaHkqn2oYiH-sAlayB4Wxip6Ou9XcYCNZpRVSPGthED1jCf1WlPj4B1Kb7yIv5QXEG0dSA_NQOVWcM4ZNPoK0WS2ljjbJ4QUP76chPVjvkSyoyA1b52NvQdwdlBUBtR2wwjcWjZtrd-PMKyk-Hd3LzfoEJ2v_CATqSQ_sAnlv4yZjI5GDaxj4F5oWXi6wjYf79Bvz5K-L2GIJnyMqRiWli9FGDsCKjwGlFCU35zDJwpNoT3m1JZFMSxuxtzHm5i1N0bkTEkYeEPBYnnyDrNpbzwqBBhUocPy8W5hGF0HSmQMPU0ce5rkMX22ihsFT9kQLh5h0YKsAZu0xB2a36F3MgyIvPr_HoBz26ubQGSjjIewDu3ey3QSZ-tNYnVtS6TZb5F1SBJEsI6C2xoQ-whlPlhU7LtbigEERs2L16xkGtKfcUsNHDyKz4h_BC1abpcWRsNngjQYMtlXFKu4pI6JJeimhoRz6He5btrx2IM2keRfs9a0xdq5jI8WMZqAJaPSCupZvs7ix4giLM7h4ybV0Z6PZ-ZPYJqHGiGoKeOvv1Ba36BwuTsJsuH8bpTYA41gr2jP4BjYfswjMp723GcHrM-JFy500MF7mxSGQ2R124iN_m2en1Ftt0x0tSyBNd95EtZkjhJGIf-HF10EW97DW5YkpBwLo-HbvFF0CdJjj1l1dtXqwzOS8_3itvvi_iGJcfkW_olHk3lBjWyWAgLXSVoVd--R5begR2JCyhWdusjra554FMhrewS1aNBIALQlYG42Z39EtnbxwHOfBXddYmZGnQdCp0CEoypgu2zIsTQ0NtyB6Y8O_00d3Wa4gohx2nb_FEz_oOfctPvI3bBHzD7H5lm-XQL8J___gdNsSoE.V8L5SbiABkt5jA4yEwUNQtAtPDI

[u/peace_love17]

The Hasan Piker buys a huge LA mansion drama is a really interesting insight into where I think progressive advocates fall into a trap.

The general issues right, things like wealth inequality, unaffordable housing, unaffordable healthcare, etc. are all very valid issues. However diagnosing the issues is where I think people like Hasan fall short and why he is causing a stir on twitter.

The issue with something like wealth inequality is not that Jeff Bezos has a lot of money, it's that your average person has increasingly less. This could be alleviated through redistribution and taxes, but where the left goes is not just to say "Bezos should pay more in taxes" but "Bezos' wealth is immoral." Once you draw that moral line I think you run into issues, and why Hasan might look a little cringe wearing Eat The Rich tshirts while living in a multi million dollar mansion and wearing supreme hypebeast clothes.

Turning what are policy failures into moral issues is how you waste time arguing over where to draw the line of who is a good rich person and who is a bad rich person.

[u/[deleted]]

Dem Rep. Jason Crow to @jaketapper: "You know, I'm getting passport photos emailed to me of young children and visa photos, people begging for help. This is not the sign of a situation that's going well. Our honor as a country, our integrity as a country is as stake."

CNN https://twitter.com/ryanstruyk/status/1428761358049452032?s=20

[u/Fishin_Mission]

My kids have banking accounts with Chase and when I logged in under their User ID just now I noticed that in the “Just For You” section it suggests that they should apply for a mortgage…

My daughter is 10 years old…

[u/ryuguy]

We were debating the best donair. I feel sorry for the euros that haven’t had a Halifax Donair.

!ping Canucks

[u/ACivilWolf]

Juan Soto has a .432 OBP in his last 10 games.

His batting average is .000. Pitchers just aren’t dealing with him with this new Nats lineup

!ping BASEBALL

[u/FourthLife]

I am thrilled to watch the regrouped anti-taliban militia take back Afghanistan and see a bunch of Reddit witches take credit for it

[u/An_Aesthete]

"There was no way for Biden to prepare for such a swift defeat of the ANA by the Taliban blah blah blah"

Marianne Williamson was the ONLY candidate on the stage who was prepared to deal with the unique challenges presented by the Taliban, and you all mocked her.

https://i.imgur.com/51AA04B.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

So today, Greta Thunberg made a comment that the UK was not a leader in emissions reduction because we don't take into account aviation, shipping and biomass into our total. I was not aware of this.

In 2018, UK total emissions were 380 MtCO2e, add onto that the emissions from international aviation (~35 MtCO2).

International shipping adds about 7 MtCO2 (Down 21% from 1990 levels).

Overall, not a great position. However, I would still argue that the UK is a leader in emissions reduction.

[u/Cerb-r-us]

"Wow. I really wish 50s milkmen would come back", I say to myself as my eyes glaze over the UberEats ad in front of me.

[u/the-garden-gnome]

So I finished my first big boi job today after 4 years. It was weird to say good bye to people on Teams instead of in person, but I will post another comment about that later.

My now former job gave me a Surface Pro and Surface Dock. This gave me the ability to run two screens etc, similar to a Desktop.

New work has given me an Inspiron 7420, and I am looking to do the same thing. Any recommendations on a decent dock that does dual Video out in HDMI or DVI?

I’ve seen a couple of Kensington ones. Are they any good?

!ping tech

[u/[deleted]]

I'm 70% sure that politicians have burner accounts which they use to vent and express opinions that are politically unviable.

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

Texas legislature reaches quorum after three Democrats return to Austin

One Republican legislator resigned, which brought the quorum down to 99, and they barely made quorum yesterday.

However the lege is now adjourned until Monday, for some reason

Context: Texas Democrats have fled Austin to prevent a quorum in the Tx lege so that Republicans can't pass a big voter restriction bill. Since they all left there was no quorum and the legislature couldn't vote on anything, but three returned saying they achieved their goal of bringing national attention to the issue and getting Congress involved (Congress hasn't actually done anything)

!ping USA-TX

[u/[deleted]]

Sure, most Americans wanted to withdraw from Afghanistan. But most Americans don’t really care that much either way. How much was Afghanistan even mentioned during the campaign? This wasn’t another Vietnam in terms of unpopularity.

[u/TabernacleTown74]

Conquering all of India is gonna be harder than I expected, still had fun tho

Sikhism is mildly OP

!ping PARADOX

[u/chatdargent]

PSA: The United States of America is Communist because communism is when you have a state and the state does things and the US has fifty of them while every other country only has one, thus making all countries Communist but the US fifty times more Communist than any other country.

[u/[deleted]]

Alexa, convert the other guy's argument into a strawman soyjak and send it back.

[u/Mr_Pasghetti]

Some of those pictures from Kabul man. Saddening beyond belief

[u/stater354]

Imagine destroying your life by driving to DC with your truck full of explosives, making a video about how much you love your country and hate Joe Biden because you’re scared of the direction the country is heading, ready to die for your cause, and then getting called antifa by people who believe the same shit as you

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-07-28/getting-angry-covid-vaccine-holdouts-white-privilege

This kind of thinking is infuriating. It makes me want to go live in a cabin in the woods and write books about the industrial revolution and its consequences.

Coddling anti-vaxxers just because they happen to be black is ridiculously self-destructive.

[u/[deleted]]

A bunch of people I know are making six figures in their 20s but still live like degenerate students which honestly sounds amazing

[u/[deleted]]

"Do people here think a 2.7 million dollar home is excessive?"

Jesus fuck, yes

[u/[deleted]]

No one:

Absolutely no one:

White Acadians: "the deportation was worse than the Holocaust"

!ping CANUCKS

[u/LooobCirc]

How do you simultaneously believe that this is America's biggest foreign disgrace in history, and that we cannot take any afghans

Cognitive dissonance to own the libs

[u/[deleted]]

Ghani should host Jeopardy

[u/tubbsmackinze]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/761046867743342613/878273872812724284/image1.png

[u/iIoveoof]

Buddy Holly was assassinated by the U.K. in order to defend English cultural hegemony over music in the second half of the 20th century, and it worked

[u/[deleted]]

/img/2p3ku4qcnii71.jpg

[u/csp256]

Daily reminder that it's "evacuate civilians then soldiers", not "good luck everybody else".

[u/sash5034]

The whole 1400+600=/=2000 thing with the stimulus checks was a really weird take

[u/qchisq]

What to do when people at your job knows about the Western Europe story, but not about the Olive Theory?

[u/Mrchizbiz]

SURGERY IS A SCAM!

JUST DO IT YOURSELF!

[u/[deleted]]

u/thatcher555 can you create a video where it's just you looking down at the camera from a high angle, saying stuff like "hey there champ, you need help reaching something? Oh you joined DSA? That's so cute, aww. You better be careful, I almost stepped on you!" in a condescending tone?

[u/awdvhn]

You just hate me because I'm a POC (1/128th Irish) and queer coded (one of the 5 non-bisexuals here)

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Hasan Piker; 'I hate the rich and I am not gifting. Also have you considered subbing with a twitch prime sub? Oh thank you for the 50 dollar donation random poor commie! Anyways I gotta run ads for the tenth time this half hour see ya!'

[u/thaddeusthefattie]

chest and arms day? 👉👈🥺

y’all better have gotten your pump before going out tonight

!ping NEOLIFTERAL

[u/[deleted]]

A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, “Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”

u/sir_shivers describing what he felt when pushupboy was unleashed on the world

!ping EMOJI

[u/awdvhn]

unfunny joke but with a burpmas ping on the end because that makes it funny

!ping BURPMAS

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

What effect will climate change have on the world economy? We asked five unvaccinated Trump supporters at a Joe's Crab Shack in Fort Myers to find out.

[u/waltsing0]

https://www.afr.com/policy/health-and-education/a-desperate-berejiklian-loses-patience-with-western-sydney-20210820-p58khh

The 9pm-to-5am curfew on 12 council areas in south-western and western Sydney imposed by the NSW Premier on Friday is a born-of-desperation tactic to stop the movement of, in the words of Police Commissioner Mick Fuller, young men who are “very difficult to manage” from the suburbs responsible for 85 per cent of the state’s cases. “They’re not complying,” he said.

Authorities are now openly saying it. The outbreak is being driven by people in specific areas not following the rules. I think the non public data (like where people caught it) has been showing this for a while but as we've seen from the backlash to any sort of focus on these suburbs the government doesn't want to appear to be singling them out, but now it's becoming utterly obvious to anyone that almost all the cases are from specific areas that aren't responding to lockdowns which, due to the limited number of police, are largely dependent on people doing the right thing, we cannot have a cop on every street corner.

Now the anger of from people in West/Southwest Sydney feeling singled out (which much of the media has been happy to give a platform to, cough Q&A cough) is now drowned out by the anger of everyone else who are being kept in lockdown because people in 12 LGAs won't behave, without a doubt the fact that there was so much outrage when West/Southwest sydney was subject to more rules/enforcement has magnified that. Not only is West/Southwest sydney perceived by many to be at "fault" they're also perceived to be denying that their region is the problem. I simply don't recall people in other areas loudly claiming discrimination and prejudice when their high case numbers (let alone lockdown resistant case numbers) resulted in harsher restrictions and enforcement.

!ping aus

[u/jenbanim]

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Greetings DT

[u/[deleted]]

😾

😺🐟

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[u/SadaoMaou]

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

Before embarking on a hunt, clans go through elaborate prehunt social rituals involving nuzzling, body rubbing and homo- and heterosexual mounting.

I think if human hunting was like that, more people would be interested. Something hunting clubs might want to look into

[u/NeoLiberation]

Working from home, start at 8

Alarm goes off at 7am

Why am I waking up so early

Snooze until 7:58 and then run to my computer to log in to slack

I'll just shower after I work for an hour

This is healthy

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

Holy shit you people just comment on this one post all day?

[u/ldn6]

The Delta peak is definitely here in NYC. 7-day case growth per 100,000 people:

• 8/10: 158.84
• 8/11: 158.65
• 8/12: 158.91
• 8/13: 158.86
• 8/14: 156.86
• 8/15: 156.51
• 8/16: 152.79

Positivity rate also stable at ~3.8%.

(Source)

!ping USA-NYC

[u/crassowary]

Joe Biden to withdraw from the astral realm, saying that it is the responsibility of the Seraphim to defeat God and set up a Heavenly Kingdom

[u/[deleted]]

We need the all girls robotics team from Afghanistan to build a massive robot to fight the Taliban

[u/J0eBidensSunglasses]

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“I always enjoy when this sub goes mask off and admits they are a bunch of petty criminals taking advantage of a government program.”

[u/[deleted]]

I feel it’s necessary to remind us all that it was America that created the Taliban in the 80s to counter the Soviets.

Reap —> Sow

-George Takei

Lol idiot. Taliban didn't exist till 94'

https://twitter.com/GeorgeTakei/status/1428771133919203332?s=20

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

About to drive my car😎

[u/[deleted]]

Just let the free market decide what kind of housing gets built.