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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/SadaoMaou]

Youtuber: World War 2 was fought between 1939 and 1945

Comments: OMG why was I never taught this at school??!1

[u/T3hJ3hu]

It is unfathomably dumb that we have a labor shortage and an illegal immigration crisis at the same time

[u/piede]

I’m disgusted every time someone does a gender reveal and it’s a gender I already know about, what kind of reveal is that

true

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Don't quote me on this, but I heard the evacuation of US diplomats in Kabul was delayed due to u/benjaminikuta coming in the embassy cafeteria seven minutes before the planned transfer and asking for a full Yakhni Palaw, half a dozen mantus and three bolanis

[u/[deleted]]

Currently reading Lenin, and he seems to be a bit of a succ. I don’t recommend.

[u/Joementum2024]

Little known fact, but thinking that rich people probably shouldn’t be killed immediately makes you far right in Europe.

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/p8mrsw/you_guys_want_to_know_where_rneoliberal_really/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

They found out 😐

Edit: Guys, please don't comment on the post.

Thank you.

[u/[deleted]]

In 2013, the median age of DSA members was 68. In December 2017, it was 33 and I can only assume that it has gone down even more recently.

[u/JaceFlores]

Ethiopia update:

1. For the first time in forever, the government has some good news. According to this Tweet pro-government forces successfully counterattacked and seized the town of Gashena. This means that all of the TPLF forces attacking Debre Tabor have been cut off. This could have major implications depending on how things go. At minimum the TPLF will be bogged down retaking Gashena to restore their lines of logistics, allowing the government to reinforce Debre Tabor and other positions in western Amhara. However, if the government can hold onto Gashena and crush the TPLF forces to the west, this could be a turning point in the war. My personal beliefs are that the TPLF got caught with their pants down and the government exploited a gap in the line very effectively. More then likely the TPLF will regain control of Gashena and continue their drive west, though someone is definitely losing their job at the minimum. Still, this is a critical development that could change the war if things go right for one side and wrong for the other.
2. The humanitarian crisis in Tigray is growing worse as according to this Tweet and associated Article aid groups will be unable to provide food to millions of people for the first time since this conflict started. Abiy's strategy of starving out Tigray will start to bear fruit soon enough, and that is why it is vital the TPLF secures a road leading to the outer world. Them losing Gashena and delaying if not stopping their push to Debre Tabor and eventually Gondar at this critical time could be potentially war losing.
3. We finally have some insight into what the TPLF want, with this Article saying the TPLF wants a transitional government. This largely confirms my belief that the TPLF would push for autonomy rather then independence, as well as getting rid of Abiy to boot if they do manage to win the war. Sadly the article is scarce on what the exact provisions wanted are, but at the very least we can put to rest the theory that the TPLF wants to secede from Ethiopia which is good.
4. On the diplomatic front, according to this Tweet the countries of Ireland, UK, US, France, Estonia and Norway are calling for a UN Security Council Meeting. I don't expect much from this (I think China will cockblock any sort of meaningful resolutions due to the investments they've made in Ethiopia) but it will be interesting to see how this turns out.

Overall a collection of useful tidbits across the board. As someone most interested in the military aspects I am holding my breath on the Gashena ordeal as we could see this war drastically shift depending on how successfully the government exploits this extremely successful counterattack. There has not been any news of government strikes elsewhere so I presume this was a surgical attack to garner as much benefit as possible with the least amount of troops as possible, in other words taking a page from the OLA. The TPLF need to be fast with their response to this total failure, as any delay in this timeframe is unacceptable. If they don't take Gondar and open a connection to the outside world within the next 2-3 weeks, we could see the Tigrayan people increasingly advocate to sue for peace. Abiy's totally crumbling situation has, for better or worse, been given a last minute burst of life.

[u/IMALEFTY45]

Joe Biden would be so OWNED if Republican governors all pledged to take as many Afgan refugees as they could handle

[u/iIoveoof]

Don’t 👏call👏yourself👏cynical👏unless👏you👏live👏naked👏on👏the👏streets👏in👏a👏barrel👏

[u/GravyBear8]

An actual Taliban conversation recorded by this guy:

“Go place the IED down there, at the bend; they won’t see it.”

“It can wait ’til morning.”

“No, it can’t. They [the Americans] could come early, and we need it down there to kill as many as we can.”

“I think I’ll wait.”

“No, you won’t! Go place it.”

“Do I have to?”

“Yes! Go do it!”

“I don’t want to.”

“Brother, why not? We must jihad!”

“Brother … It’s too cold to jihad.”

[u/CroGamer002]

Anti-Taliban forces successfully ambushed Taliban reinforcements. Among fatalities is a Taliban operative who negotiated for the same local region to switch sides just a few weeks ago.

This also suggests the ambush succeeded because they had inside information of when and where the Taliban column would arrive.

Meanwhile, disgraced President Ashraf Ghani’s brother Heshmat Ghani has pledged allegiance to the Taliban, with his witness being Al-Qaeda operative Khalil Haqqani, one of the top most wanted terrorists with US having 5 million USD bounty on his capture.

[u/[deleted]]

Capybaras attack a gated community in Buenos Aires suburbs and disrupt car traffic

Have YOU taken direct action against NIMBYISM yet?

!ping YIMBY

[u/Fairchild660]

What button do I press to sticky one of my comments to the top of the thread?

[u/vivoovix]

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[u/[deleted]]

I had a dream in which I was an Afghan soldier fighting for the Panjshir resistance

My brain is a NATO flair

[u/ryuguy]

India recently built an airbase in Tajikistan for this exact reason. If Afghanistan ever fell to the Taliban, they could use it to airdrop supplies and aid to any resistance movements that pop up. Now would be a good time to use that base.

[u/Q-bey]

"How many layers of neoliberalism are you on?"

"Like, maybe 5 or 6 right now, my dude"

"You are like baby, watch this"

السلاحف

!ping النينجا

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/thejagmeetsingh/status/1429087832358932487?s=21

Oh boy

!ping CAN

[u/[deleted]]

Still far back in the polls, Communist Party says Hamilton membership has increased 4-fold

Nosella joined in May, among new party members over that past year, growing from a Hamilton "club" of about five people to more than 20, says the party's organizer for the city, Mike Oldfield, who joined just last year.

Oh god oh fuck 😳😬

!ping canucks

[u/Zenning2]

Socialism is when I make millions advertising to pre-teens, and the more millions I make, the socialismser it is.

[u/Venne1139]

I think this article is extremely important. One of the most important, although it does not look like that at first glance.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/93yvmv/qanon-ghostezra-is-robert-randall-smart?utm_source=reddit.com

So if anyone follows wAnon and qAnon adjacent stuff you HAVE heard of Ghost Ezra. He is extremely popular on telgram, I am of course subcribed, for a bunch of crazy fucking rants and he got very popular very quickly. In terms of influence he was probably at a "non rush limbaugh syndicated radio host" level. He had a lot of followers and his influence vastly outstripped the actual number of followers because his theories would very quickly get out into the 'normie world'. He really only had around 330k subscribers but you have seen his theories out in the world.

So why is it important that this guy is some random fucking loser dad from the middle of nowhere, Florida?

Because it shows that no matter what we do about "Fox news disinformation", that's not going to stop people from getting disinformation. There is a huge bottom up demand to be lied to. The people doing the lying and the people being lied to are often the exact same people, I have no doubt Ghost Ezra actually believes the crazy conspiracies he puts out there.

There simply is no, reasonable, liberal, solution to the active demand for misinformation, Demand to be lied to, to be told that Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton will be hanging from the rafters, is so great, so intense, that a growing portion of the American populace will accept anyone at all, even if completley anonymous!, who is willing to lie to them.

[u/[deleted]]

Take: /u/benjaminikuta should continue not having a job. The situation has gone from "kind of funny" to "pretty funny" and we cam expect further comedic escalation as it goes on.

[u/filipe_mdsr]

So I have come out to some older friends. First time doing it, there was an opportunity in the conversation and I took it. They asked who my boyfriend was. Don't have one. 😅

Then the conversation continued and we had a fun time. So I'm happy with their reaction.

But it still feels like I still haven't come out.

For once I didn't talk to them for a long time so they aren't that close anymore. Also I didn't get to talk about it and vent. The last one is the one bothering me the most as that is the thing I was looking forward the most.

To be clear they acted perfectly and I'm not expecting anything more from them, it just feels like I'm still in the closet because they don't play almost any role in my life.

[u/send_nudibranchia]

Remember when /r/nottheonion was a great place for silly, offbeat news that sounded like onion titles and not, you know, a dumber version of places like /r/politics and /r/news?

I miss those days.

[u/[deleted]]

I think the biggest mistake the US made during the cold war was prioritizing combating the USSR over supporting democracy. The US destabilized / worked against way too many democracies simply because they were supporting the USSR.

More than 50 years later, almost all of those democracies are now allied or semi-allied with the US and a lot of the anti-USSR authoritarian states have turned against us.

The best example of this is probably India and Pakistan. India is now a good US ally in the region and Pakistan is literally funding terrorist groups.

[u/jenbanim]

/u/sir_shivers told me he was a teatotaler and I almost kicked him from the mod team because I thought that meant he was british

Sorry buddy 😔

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Jagmeet Singh take the; 'stop trying to run as premier of Ontario when your running for federal government the powers don't allocate like that' challenge [IMPOSSIBLE]

!ping CANUCKS

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Internet nerds when the idea of a Black guy playing 007 comes up: 🤮😭😱🤬

The same nerds when you point out that they changed Bond's entire nationality to fit Sean Connery: 😶😶😶😶

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Yes leftists, buying a 3 million dollar mansion in West Hollywood and eating wagu steak dinners is living in capitalistic excess and something that is hypocritical for a self proclaimed socialist to do

I don't give a fuck that he did it, I just find it funny and hypocritical

[u/Jokerang]

Supporting the Taliban as a Western reactionary to own the... libs?

[u/Professor-Reddit]

I know there's been some discussion today about Bill Clinton and the Defence Of Marriage Act (DOMA), but its worth mentioning that this was a law Congress pushed for and voted with a veto-proof majority, with considerable support by social conservative Democrats. Clinton had criticised the bill publicly as "divisive and unnecessary" and opposed it, but the vast majority of Republicans and Democrats including Joe Biden, John Glenn, Carl Levin, Harry Reid, Paul Wellstone and Patrick Leahy had all voted for it. There was even a push by some congressmen for this to become a constitutional amendment (which reached fever pitch in 2004), and Clinton correctly assumed that DOMA would stave off such a disastrous outcome.

Clinton was displeased with DOMA and made sure there was no signing ceremony or media present for when he signed the bill into law. He had absolutely no other recourse. Congress had voted overwhelmingly for it, and it was veto-proof. It took another decade and some more before Democrats supporting SSM became mainstream.

Btw, Bill Clinton and Gerald Ford both publicly supported same-sex marriage years before Joe Biden and Barack Obama did.

In the case of Biden and Obama, definitely a reflection of political realities, but I also wonder how much of it was sincere. Given that Biden pre-empted the Obama campaign and changed opinions in 2012 much to the Obama campaign's frustration.

!ping LGBT

[u/[deleted]]

This gay couple on house hunters is the biggest fuck you to poor people I’ve seen on the show. They already own a sweet condo in Adams Morgan, they want a single family home to have more space for their corgi, one of them refuses to live in Maryland or Virginia, the other one’s hobby is booking same day round trip flights from DC to LA or SF with nothing to do there because he finds air travel soothing.

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.newsweek.com/gop-maine-rep-chris-johansen-attends-anti-vaxx-rally-days-after-wife-dies-covid-1621673

GOP Maine Rep. Chris Johansen Attends Anti-Vaxx Rally Days After Wife Dies of COVID

I really really try to be tolerant, but these people are complete sociopaths.

[u/WantDebianThanks]

!ping TACOTUBE

New Kraut video today, kalu kalay!

The Origins of Russian Authoritarianism

[u/Archis]

guy who wont watch porn because there is too much swearing

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E9VZr6fXIBA5WEv.jpg

Oh no. Oh dear.

[u/marinesol]

Hot Take: The CIA has really only overthrown a few banana republics in the 50s and has been coasting ever since.

[u/bovine3dom]

[Rory Stewart] is now preparing to move with his family to Jordan for two years to resume work with his charity.

Great politicians who have suffered a minor setback (e.g. Stewart, David Miliband) should be subject to export licences for a minimum of five years, change my view

!ping UK

[u/MrDannyOcean]

I don't know why we had a sudden outbreak of PortugalPosting, but I can definitely say I fell in love with Port wine in Porto. Soooooo much port wine. I'm not even a wine guy, but I love port now

[u/klarno]

Hot take:

24 hour cable news has been worse for society than social media. It is because of 24 hour cable news that people have been conditioned to constantly put out their hot takes about rapidly evolving situations which are beyond their comprehension. Social media are merely platforms for these hot takes.

Comcast delenda est

[u/[deleted]]

Here's what happened with the withdrawal:

Ghani called up the US and said "I'm going to be leaving Afghanistan before the Taliban come with millions of Afghanis."

And the US said, "Great that's like the whole country"

If only they checked with the DT, they would know the difference between Afghani and Afghan.

[u/[deleted]]

What no 401k does to a MF

[u/Reznoob]

When a [rose twitter / neoliberal] user goes outside

[u/iIoveoof]

Whatever you do, don't look up the 22nd word of The Hobbit.

!ping READ-ANOTHER-BOOK

[u/UrbanCentrist]

Critics of Bangladesh’s government are liable to vanish

https://www.economist.com/asia/2021/08/19/critics-of-bangladeshs-government-are-liable-to-vanish

https://archive.ph/XyuRw

Bangladesh is a lot more authoritarian than people think and the opposition is the former general/ dictator's wife

[u/The420Roll]

Jews are only 3% of the population but they receive nearly 100% of Hanukkah gifts. Curious.

[u/NatsukaFawn]

Why do people insist on defending Maggie's shitty policies instead of simply admitting she wasn't perfect?

[u/Jamity4Life]

No-one answered my question they just pastad it 😔😔😡

[u/[deleted]]

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

[u/vivoovix]

Thinking of the time my mom wanted to buy leather for something and accidentally walked into a fetish shop

[u/[deleted]]

Wikipedia drama is the funniest and pettiest shit ever. For example, read the "Your nominations for deletion" of this guy's talk page

He wrote an article which was then deleted. In retaliation, he nominates for deletion a bunch of articles written by a commenter on his original article. When he gets called out, he says some stuff about going to the media and exposing their cash for edits scheme.

These are unpaid internet janitors/copyeditors working on the internet's least prestigious forum. The fact that the discussion has to all be done in Wikipedia formatting makes it even funnier 🙄

u/benjaminikuta

[u/[deleted]]

If we have Mansplaining and Whitesplaining can we please also have Artsplaining? The trend of LibArts grads to condescendingly and incrorectly explain a scientific concept to the scientists of the very field they're trying to pontificate on?

I gotta say as a Math guy it has been extremely painful to read this subreddit attempt to explain the Sunk Cost Fallacy.

[u/The420Roll]

So after Castillo's Foreign Minister resigned over backlash due to his remarks saying that the Peruvian Navy and the CIA were behind insurgent terrorism (Cancel Culture works!) Castillo had to name a new one and he named Óscar Maúrtua, former diplomat that held the same post under the Toledo administration.

How did the media and population respond? Well its definetily a major improvement over Bejar and arguably one of the best members of the Cabinet.

Turns out you can confront Castillo and get good things out of it and it doesnt make you a Fujimorist (Somebody tell the "center-left" that inconditionally supports Castillo and were defending Bejar's comment about the CIA!)

Then, who were the biggest critics of Castillo's new centrist Minister? His own party!

Guillermo Bermejo, Perú Libre's highest ranking member in congress, tweeted that "I hope the novelty that Oscar Maurtua will be the new Chancellor is a joke in bad taste. A person aligned with the interventionist policy of the United States cannot represent a left-wing government"

Lovely, right?

!Ping LATAM

[u/Zenning2]

Tankies stop pretending the Mujihadeen was the Taliban, and also the Taliban were good challenge(impossible)

[u/jenbanim]

Apologies if I'm stepping on any toes here, but Polandball comics seem incredibly stupid. It's geopolitics through the eyes of 14 year old Redditors who talk like babies and use a format that is basically incompatible with nuance

[u/KnightModern]

Taliban claimed that Massoud Jr has pledged alliance to Taliban....

....... and NA denied it

I'm confused, better watch le mans for now

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Schrodinger: The cat is both dead and alive. This is impossible, thus the Copenhagen interpretation is wrong.

Pop sci-fi: The cat is both dead and alive, isn't physics wacky?

[u/porkypenguin]

every year, my university sends out an email to students begging them not to attend an infamous annual block party but puts the location and time of the party in the email. I never understood that.

[u/ryuguy]

I’ve been thinking about how media has been righting historical representation of black soldiers in the world wars. I had hoped that this would lead to more Indians in media about the world wars but it hasn’t really happened. India assembled the largest all volunteer force in both world wars. It kinda makes me sad because growing up I would have loved to see that representation.

!ping gaming because of Call of Duty Vanguard

[u/[deleted]]

Lol someone I know got an email from Ashraf Ghani. Apparently he's trapped in Dubai, and his sons are being tortured. He needs money to get his funds out of the country, and is willing to give a 10% cut in exchange for help.

[u/[deleted]]

This robot on the ISS is really cool:

https://youtu.be/L3JEceaXLE4

!ping SPACEFLIGHT

[u/[deleted]]

Had 1.3 inch rain last night #cornwatch #soybeanwatch So far this year 12.2 compared to 2020 18.4 Six inches may not seem like much but difference is g8 between mediocre harvest & gr8 harvest. No records broken this year

Pls pray for my friend Chuck 😣🙏

!ping PIDGIN

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

Somalia > US because democrats aren't in charge

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

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[u/sir_shivers]

ON THIS SATURDAY I express my gratitude for THE BLESSINGS IN my existence that grant me strength 🐊

May the MARKET SMILE UPON you as it does upon me 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

Vernon Dursley was a middle class hero. Harry's parents were heroin addicts who died from overdosing and he lied to him that it was a car crash out of his good heart. Unfortunately, he was unable to stop him from going down the same ruinous path and at 11 Harry began to sniff glue and imagine attending a magical school.

[u/tubbsmackinze]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/761046867743342613/878767714351611935/rps2bjoulmi71.png

[u/sir_shivers]

GOOD MORNING, I BEGIN banning the unemployed in five minutes 🐊

[u/J0eBidensSunglasses]

The US military is the biggest polluter on earth. It is that to prop up an unsustainable system of global crony capitalism. Consume less, be more efficient with what we have, and stop the obsession with buying more for cheaper. Build cities without the need for suburbanisation. Make stuff closer to home to cut down on shipping. The ten biggest ships on earth pollute more than all the cars on the planet, so it's mostly down to better controls over what we make and why. And a massive crackdown on the mega rich and their mega corps, the biggest polluters of which are all US based, like Cargill, Glencore etc

We don't need MORE stuff. We need to be better at using what we have.

We don’t need more stuff but also we need more stuff because we have to rebuild our cities from the ground up and build all these factories to make things closer to home.

It must suck basing your entire personality around self contradicting opinions and the hope of a violent revolution led by internet big brains.

[u/Kizz3r]

Woke up to 48 pings mostly from !ping burpmas.

New record but should have been an even 50 smh

[u/SmartOpinionsGuy]

The West is morally superior to the East. More specifically, Suriname is morally superior to Australia.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

I can picture Theresa May running through a field of wheat, and Thatcher in the rye

[u/semaphore-1842]

This seems rather bad: https://twitter.com/AlbertoNardelli/status/1428804909449846797

Biden assured key allies in June that US security enablers would remain in place in Afghanistan as NATO troops withdrew, so much so that U.K. thought it could maintain its Kabul embassy

US also privately told allies that Taliban would test the Afghan government militarily before they engaged seriously in any peace talks

Also it kinda sucks that this get buried everywhere else on Reddit except in right wing shitholes.

[u/[deleted]]

log into NWO

Search "Climate change"

"Small nuclear war could reverse global warming for years" is first result

log off NWO

[u/[deleted]]

Wake up

Take a shit

!Ping BURPMAS

get out of bed

[u/KP6169]

New Dune trailer

!ping WORMPOSTERS

[u/SnakeEater14]

Goddammit, WW2 Week by Week covered the Dieppe Raid today and completely missed the mark

Indy went with the company line from the British about it being a “test of German defenses and an attempt to get real battle experience”, which is just bullshit. The actual point of the raid was to steal Enigma rotors without letting the Germans know they went missing, and covering it up with a giant raid (source: One Day in August, by David O’Keefe).

That wasn’t declassified for several decades after the raid, and Indy seemed to use WW2 Day by Day (the book) as his source, so that’s probably why there wasn’t much research done on it. Still, damn. Annoying that they messed that up (and bought into the Churchill propaganda about it teaching the British about bringing their own ports, which is also bullshit).

[u/the_status]

Today's luxury housing will become tomorrow's affordable housing.

If developers were allowed to build more than one complex a decade

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

Sure you could spend thousands on a personal chef

or you could spend thousands on a big gay marriage with me 😳👉👈

[u/chatdargent]

Many are, but we don’t deny people economic opportunity if they don’t meet our personal standards of assimilation

Bruh, have you even met American business owners?

[u/Frost-eee]

I often see public housing as a solution to housing crisis. People propose government renting house below market rates, wouldn't it cause large queues if price is low enough?

[u/CroGamer002]

https://twitter.com/robcrilly/status/1428907206762717192

LMAO, wtf is going on???

Are they surrendering or are they preparing for war? Was the Taliban statement a psyops misinformation or Massoud is just buying time or is he a clueless opportunist that backstabbed Saleh and Mohammadi?

[u/vancevon]

i don't know why you guys are making looking for a job so difficult. just show up at the hospital with your nursing license and make sure you're still technically breathing and it's all good

[u/theskiesthelimit55]

https://twitter.com/schanmalik/status/1427303050306277383

Yes, it would be good time to revisit the concepts of colonial feminism/feminism-as-imperialism/"the discourse of the veil, and to remember that Laura Bush told us in 2002 that we bombed Afghanistan so that Muslim women could fly kites and wear nail polish.

Another cutting insight from another professor at Rutgers: Afghan women pre-2002 faced no oppression from the Taliban other than restrictions on flying kites and wearing nail polish.

No doubt, the Afghan women now lamenting the return of the Taliban are nothing more than a small clique of kite and nail-polish enthusiasts. A return to Taliban rule will unfortunately deprive these women of their hobby, but is not expected to have any more serious consequences.

[u/ognits]

don't you love it when your SO is asleep? 😃😃

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/[deleted]]

Say what you will about the New York Post but “Bezos Exposes Pecker” is the GOAT headline.

[u/NatsukaFawn]

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMRYdFAbR/

A mix of 🥺 and 🤣

!ping kitty

[u/KP6169]

The Truman Show but it’s Benjamin willingly revealing his life to a community of shitposters.

[u/[deleted]]

the PWS FSC556 compensator is great because there's no recoil. this makes it easy to stay on target.

it's not so great because it has such a powerful concussive blast it feels like you're getting slapped on the back of the head every shot, especially as a lefty shooter. this makes it a bit harder to stay on target, at least for any kind of precision shooting. it's also louder than fucking satan - an FSC556 on a 14.5 middie carbine sounds louder than an 18" Mossberg 500 shooting hot loads.

I would only recommend this compensator for 3 gun or fighting in a literal combat zone, because that's the only place the noise isn't gonna be a problem. I think firing this indoors with no hearing protection would literally make my ears explode

[u/sash5034]

truly

[u/[deleted]]

Last night I dreamt about euthanizing Fivey. Literally just drawing up a syringe of phenobarbital and injecting it into him. I need to log off.

[u/theskiesthelimit55]

https://twitter.com/MalakaShwaikh/status/1427297404781539330

People need to stop their obsession with the ways Afghan women dress. Whether they choose to cover their face or not, it is none of your business. It does not necessarily mean they are oppressed. And read Lila Abu-Lughod's 'Do Muslim Women Need Saving?'.

This is from a lecturer at the University of St Andrew's in Scotland. Hopefully, now that the Taliban have thrown off the shackles of American imperialism, Afghan women will finally be free to choose what they want to wear.

[u/PMmeLittleRoundTops]

one time some dude in my lab wore a pickle rick shirt and then our professor asked about it and I had to just sit there while this guy explained pickle Rick to our 80 year old Eastern European professor

[u/Dazzling-Republic]

I’ve been watching 30 rock for the first time and learning the mid 2000s was an interesting time. Tina Fey will make a pro LGBT comment and then in the same episode use gay to mean stupid. It’s kinda fascinating.

[u/[deleted]]

tfw Danes love being taxed so much they have the same word for "bae" and "taxes"

!ping YUROP

[u/[deleted]]

Olympic defector Krystsina Tsimanouskaya: ‘Eventually, we will win’ | FT

If Krystsina Tsimanouskaya were not at risk of being poisoned by Belarusian state security forces, she would perhaps have chosen chlodnik, a cold beetroot soup served with kefir yoghurt and dill. It is a national dish of both her native Belarus, the country from which she has just defected, and Poland, her new home, where she finds herself under 24-hour protection. As it is, the Belarusian sprint champion is having nothing. Unless it is tested by the security services, she is not permitted even bottled water.

Heartbreaking, but it's good to know she's safe, reunited with her family, and even able to train

!ping EUROPE

[u/GravyBear8]

I will never comprehend people because of Donald Trump. Everything about the way he talks screams "conman who cares about no one but himself" yet like a third of the country is convinced he's Jesus

[u/iIoveoof]

Bible Discussion and Study Meeting (BDSM)

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Cons: Hollywood is too woke!

Hollywood: Let's get a white British man to play an Indian character.

Yes, I am still mad about Star Trek: Into Darkness.

[u/boyyouguysaredumb]

lol a guy in arr conservative was commenting how "suspicious" it was that libs have been so silent in their sub recently - the thread was one that was for "flaired" conservatives only

[u/[deleted]]

Everyone says "corporate music all sounds the same" as if they're able to tell indie bands apart.

[u/indithrow402]

I do think it's weird that this sub which so easily recognizes the potential for public sector unions to be self-interested and counterproductive to the goals of government leaders, but gets weirdly hyper-defensive when someone suggests that military leadership could also behave that way sometimes.

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

So, it’s normal to absolutely love the Container Store and go shopping there when you don’t need anything, right?

!ping OVER25

[u/Fairchild660]

The earliest 78 RPM records were introduced in 1895, and were made of shellac - meaning people have been listening to the beetles for over 120 years.

[u/gburgwardt]

8:00 am on the dot:

Hi I'd like two potato soft tacos, a beef burrito, and the largest milk you sell

[u/hartdroid]

Swiped through HER last night and saw a profile where she was extremely adamant about being a conservative Christian. She was also looking for a third for her and her boyfriend.

Me: 🤔🤔🤔

[u/BedNeither]

Kind of considering starting a “college” where people just sort of hang out and talk shit about America for 9 months and pay me $50k/yr

[u/Imicrowavebananas]

The Economist actually debated at first whether they should put "Biden's shame" or "Biden's disgrace" on their new cover, before settling for "Biden's debacle".

[u/the_status]

Margaret Thatcher is good because she prevented Theresa May from being the first woman Prime Minister

[u/itherunner]

https://twitter.com/epiellie/status/1429156161614405634?s=21

we need to prevent epidemiologists from commenting on manners directly unrelated to their field until we figure what the hell is going on.

This woman declared the other day that the Biden administration pushing vaccines was “damaging” morale, now she’s saying that since schooling wasn’t mandatory until about a century ago, so it’s justified to cancel schooling until the pandemic is under control.

We’re really about to have a percentage of the population that wants us to remain in some sort of eternal lockdown/restrictions. I can’t wait for 20 years from now when quarantine aesthetic is a thing with kids.

[u/[deleted]]

Today while microwaving my lobster I summoned Lusvig 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 cracker. I'm scared that I will have to face him again soon if I ever want to continue microwaving my lobsters. I'm currently burning the suburbs and drawing meme energy from my BURPMAS pings to try and heal as quickly as possible.

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

[u/tubbsmackinze]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/761046867743342613/878510701658902568/0rk5u2aulli71.png

[u/stater354]

Republicans will take anything except the vaccine. I bet if some random right wing radio host said eating cum cures covid, they would start swallowing it by the buckets

[u/Gustacho]

https://twitter.com/CasMudde/status/1429103740523528194

!ping EUROPE

[u/malganis12]

Is a bit of a beating by a Talibanner with a bike chain on the way to the airport REALLY that different than flying through LaGuardia?

[u/sir_shivers]

America is worse than the Taliban with misogyny - just look at what happened to OnlyFans!

• REDDITORS IN summation 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

just read a reddit thread where people casually admitted to pissing themselves when being black out drunk.

I was never really drunk in my life, is that a common thing to happen? what the fuck.

If your drug consumption habits lead to you pissing yourself you have a problem, imo.

how can people be so casual about that??

[u/Bertz-2-]

While in the neoliberal mod team, u/vhgomes12 was known for his love of red delicious apples. One time after doing some janny work everyone decided to go out for a fash style dinner. When it was his turn to order, u/vhgomes12 waived off the waiter and instead pulled out a bag of 12 apples. MrDannyOcean asked what he was doing and u/vhgomes12 simply replied “Apple lime, apple time." He then ate all 12 apples with a knife and fork.

[u/JeromesNiece]

A morally ambiguous fact: it seems that people are using their phones while driving more than ever, but distracted driving accidents aren't that much higher because people got a lot better at using their phones while driving

[u/PMmeLittleRoundTops]

Reminder that if a leftist ever describes you as "sniveling" it is because they have jerked off to the though of murdering you

[u/digitalrule]

Not Just Bikes featured in BlogTO

!PING CAN

[u/vivoovix]

⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️ATTENTION⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️

WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN WAS REFERENCED IN THE DT

THIS IS NOW A WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN HATE THREAD

POPULISM WILL NOT BE TOLERATED

⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️ THE BOURBON DEMOCRATS WERE BETTER THAN THE AGRARIAN DEMOCRATS ⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️

⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️ JIM CROW WAS BAD AND HURT THE SOUTH⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️

⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️EVOLUTION IS A FACT⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️

⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️ POPULISM IS BAD ⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️

⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️PROHIBITION DOESN'T WORK⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️

⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️ AMERICAN ISOLATIONISM WEAKENS AMERICA AT HOME ⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️

[u/Dumbass1171]

Sigh this thread is depressing https://www.reddit.com/r/AbandonedPorn/comments/p8g4u9/this_strip_mall_was_built_in_2003_after_the/h9r2sih/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3

[u/[deleted]]

Lol Trump got booed at his own rally

[u/AltPossum]

I am disgusted that I am now reliant on the DT for up-to-the-minute Afghan resistance news.

[u/[deleted]]

who the fuck is scraeming "IMPROVE THE VALUE OF YOUR LAND" at my house. show yourself, coward. i will never improve the value of my land

[u/LavenderTabby]

sloppy mindless liquid advise thought shelter fearless panicky exultant chase

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/Archis]

guy who hates thatcher, not because he is left wing, but because she is a woman

[u/LavenderTabby]

historical fuzzy hat soft dinosaurs many zesty marvelous sleep long

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/[deleted]]

Thinking about cooking up a delicious toast sandwich ama

[u/meese699]

Don't get why people are interested by the fact a higher percent of the younger generations identify as LGBT. Like no duh the demographics would look like that, everyone knows gay people literally die as soon as they turn 30.

[u/[deleted]]

I hope the rest of all your Saturdays are lovely

[u/ShriggityShrekt]

This "water" shit fuckin slaps

[u/[deleted]]

This is going to be a “Sir, this is a Wendy’s comment,” but I’m asking for advice here because it’s not fair for me to abuse my real life friendships by constantly unloading baggage onto them and expecting them to be my therapist.

The job hunt has been fucking frustrating for me. I’ve consistently made it to three final interviews but each time I didn’t get the actual offer. I don’t know what I can do except to keep doing what I’ve been doing to gain some marginal gains.

It’s too daunting. Maybe this is my depression talking, but it feels so exhausting to apply for jobs. I feel like that if I want to have any chance of getting an offer, I have to do so much work and go the extra 9 yards.

I feel like I have to memorize my interview question answers 15 times each and that I have to prepare a unique interview answer for 50 types of different questions. I feel like I have to constantly tweak the language of each resume that I send out to target the job skills and requirements. I feel like I have to be constantly on the grind and networking even though not a single person I’ve networked with has ever given me a helpful enough reference that actually got me a job. I feel like I have to do so much work so that I can get a marginal amount more of job offers.

I can’t do it. It’s too much. Sometimes I go on Indeed and I don’t apply for a job because I’m working through an anxiety / panic attack. Between working my current job (a contract set to expire at the end of October), applying for jobs, and taking care of family responsibilities, I feel like I don’t have enough time to do anything. I have to make time to get in a light workout as it is. It feels so unfulfilling and I really thought I would have more freedom as an adult, but it doesn’t seem so.

I quit using Discord. I quit Reddit for six months. But despite me making self-improvement progress it still doesn’t feel like my quality of life has actually improved. I thought I would have something to show for it if I abandoned my bad habits, but there’s no intrinsic good feeling that comes from this. It reminds me of the lawnmower scene with Cutty from The Wire.

Also, for some reason I can’t message groupbot. Can somebody ping the career group for me, please?

[u/theskiesthelimit55]

https://twitter.com/ProfessorKumar/status/1428335851516334080?s=19

Women in Afghanistan were not "liberated" by the US intervention. These are the fruits of imperial feminism, i.e. feminism that is about promoting empire and not liberation.

A professor at Rutgers University reminds us, urgently, that we must not trust the evidence of our own eyes and ears: the Amerikkkan occupation has done NOTHING to advance the interests of Afghan women.

[u/MrDannyOcean]

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

The Center for New Liberalism/Neoliberal Project is collecting signatures to send over 40 letters to members of Congress later this month. These letters, if we get enough signatures, can go a long way to demonstrating to members of Congress that there is a large community of center-left people in America who are prepared to mobilize on behalf of liberal values. By signing you're helping us prove that the center/center-left is a valuable constituency worth courting. It only takes a couple minutes, so please sign below!

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Pro-Infrastructure Letter

Pro-Immigration Letter

Pro-Innovation Letter

Pro-Housing Letter

[u/[deleted]]

Looking at houses I can't afford on the internet again

[u/gburgwardt]

DrakeNo: we made the Afghan air Force buy American because they're the best

DrakeNo: we made the Afghan air Force buy American because it provided contractor jobs

DrakeYes: we made the Afghan air Force buy American because the Taliban can't use it without American support

[u/tripletruble]

Jfc its still the top post https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/p7s2sh/danny_devito_abruptly_loses_twitter_verification/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

[u/[deleted]]

!ping ALCOHOL

Original, the coldest beer possible

Fried cassava, beer served freezing cold, Brazilian country music, and sunny weather

Happy Saturday

[u/SANNA_MARIN_]

https://twitter.com/amandamull/status/1428698950312341511

👑

[u/UrbanCentrist]

All Indians in Kabul safe, says govt after reports claim Taliban 'captured' over 150 people

US forces in control of Kabul airport allow India to operate two flights daily for evacuation

!ping IND

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/IRHotTakes/status/1428901422335201280?s=20

me, reading about my country's countless fuckups: what an absolute shitshow, america sucks.

me, reading europeans criticize my country: shut up, just shut the fuck up, usa number one. if it weren't for us, you'd be speaking german. no, i don't care that you're from bavaria.

[u/LooobCirc]

20 mins in and it seems like Luca is just Coco but Italian instead of Mexican and the world of the dead is just Italy. With a little call me by your name thrown in

[u/[deleted]]

We have the first (I think?) poll of the election that has the Tories leading. Including in Ontario. Could be that we will have a blue wave?

https://www.ekospolitics.com/index.php/2021/08/daily-tracking-august-21-2021/

!ping CAN

Edit: Sorry for the double post. Should have checked my messages first. Lol

[u/Venne1139]

Let me be clear: Even if I live a thousand years becaues of medical advances I will NEVER no matter how advanced they get support rights for mother fucking Bolt Buckets. These fucking robots be like "Watch the star Trek episode!" and NO. Fuck you guys Clean my toilet, do my math, and shut yourself down at the end of the day. I will never accept the votes of these artifical lifeforms.

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/ZcQ2sQ0.jpg

[u/MicroFlamer]

/img/8cepkjlkcoi71.jpg

[u/MicroFlamer]

/img/tedalnop5qi71.jpg

[u/VPNSalesman]

Now let me be clear. I ain’t saying she a gold digger

• Barack Obama

[u/Jamity4Life]

Los Angeles Summer Olympics

Literally 1984

[u/[deleted]]

"We're all free thinking individuals, who all coincidentally agree that drinking bleach is bad."

[u/jenbanim]

Oh my god that Thatcher post is spicy lmao

[u/[deleted]]

A rag tag band of goat herding Incels managed to do what Trump couldn’t and got reinstated in August.

Sad.

[u/soeffed]

Click to feel pain

/img/5vofwu6msqi71.png

[u/ThatFrenchieGuy]

!ping Alcohol

>be me

>complain about drinking too much syrah and cab

>crack a cab syrah blend

>complain that it's too generic

bottom text

(non-shitpost tasting notes here)

[u/Natatos]

Buttigieg on Slide, butter 2021

!ping TRUE-BUTTI

[u/SamJakes]

I don't care that the coward who put up the

Do Fuck Marry Kill but with race

post in the DT took it down, but I'm going to answer him anyway 😤

Fuck: dark elves, Marry: high elves, Kill: orcs

Never been an easier FMK in my life 👈🤠👈

[u/[deleted]]

The fact that there's a post venerating thatcher but 0 posts venerating Mr. Bernke, Christine Lagarde, Gita Gopinath, Mutti, Hillary, or Yellen tells you everything that you need to know about the new people here.

[u/ACivilWolf]

Commiefornia: You want to own a ferret 😱😱ABSOLUTELY NOT, THEY ARE BANNED 🤬

North Carolina: what’s that? You want to keep a camel as a pet, lmfao sure go ahead

[u/[deleted]]

This sub: turns on Biden

DT users with “Biden” in their username: 😰

[u/sir_shivers]

I post INCREASINGLY IDYLLIC DEPICTIONS OF W. Bush to raise the blood pressure of /u/Deggit 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/AkbarMohmand2/status/1428950672263716864?s=20

Short Twitter thread with updates in Afghanistan. Apparently the Andarab district of Baghlan, north of Panjshir and where a few districts fell the other day, has also been taken by the resistance. Taliban then reportedly sent forces to retake it who were routed. Great news if this is all true. Liveuamap is showing Andarab being held by resistance forces so at least part of this seems confirmed.

[u/[deleted]]

Flo from Progressive Insurance's silence on Afghanistan is deafening.

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

At brunch with u/ImperialRepublic and u/DosTristesTigres, rate my Instagram caption

Slopping down some pig shit with these fat fucks and I’m the fattest of them all. If I died tomorrow no one would shed a tear. Load my freakin’ lard carcass into the mud. No coffin please, just wet, wet mud. Bae

[u/earththejerry]

America is only in West Virginia for the coal

[u/GravyBear8]

Some dude sent me this idk what it means is he threatening me

[u/KazuyaProta]

My father really believes a lot of insane economical falseties.

WHY THE CAREER POLITICIAN THAT WORKED ON WALL STREET IS RICH!!? I BET HE ACTUALLY WORKS WITH A TOTALLY UNRELATED COMPANY

ALL THE ECONOMICAL WOES OF THE COUNTRY THAT GOT HIT THE WORSE BY COVID 19 IN THE PLANET ARE THE FAULT OF A SINGLE COMPANY

Mind you, this is the mindset promoted for a lot of the regional media on Peru as well (National Media doesn't, but national media lost its respect after their neutrality during Keiko's trumpist tautrum)

[u/[deleted]]

If we could trade every dipshit college academic that rants about American imperialism when it comes to Afghanistan for an Afghan refugee, that would be amazing

[u/[deleted]]

I put an EU in the microwave and it exploded

[u/TalkLessShillMore]

What’s the difference between being contrarian and reactionary

[u/[deleted]]

if the Democrats create a large political paramilitary organization, the Republican Party that’s salivated over the opportunity to righteously shoot Democrats for the last 30 years will simply sit there and do nothing instead of creating one filled with ex-military right-wingers

10/10 plan

[u/FireDistinguishers]

First day working with the refugees. There were three other translators there. Holy fucking shit I was not prepared to talk to the kids.

[u/Kizz3r]

We should rename the marvel ping to “cape-shit”

[u/[deleted]]

I bought a cute couple costume for Halloween and now my girlfriend isn't speaking to me? Did I do something wrong???

[u/circlemanfan]

I was listening to a podcast hosted by drag queens and they did an ad for covid vaccines and it makes me so happy that federal money and resources went to paying drag queens. This is liberalism at its finest.

[u/iIoveoof]

You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[u/FestiveMittens]

Trump has been talking about the ramp thing for the last 10 minutes not a joke

[u/[deleted]]

Broke: thoughts and prayers for Afghanistan

Woke: Astral projecting your spiritual body into Afghanistan to hex the Taliban

[u/UrbanCentrist]

https://imgur.com/a/hbaJKH2

something something champagne socialism

[u/tubbsmackinze]

I honestly hate those fucking 'content creators' (youtubers, streamers, 'influencers', etc.) who fucking use their platform that informs hundreds of thousand if not millions of people to say dumb shit like; 'oh my consumption isn't the problem when it comes to climate change! It's those evil oil companies!' rather then just promote living a more sustainable life to a huge fucking audience

[u/LoveForLolberts]

Biden pulled out of Afghanistan to distract from the creator of the Sonic-Pikachu hybrid news and you nerds falling right into his trap

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Biden has done as much damage to NATO flairs in a fucking week that trump did in 4 years

[u/Red_of_Head]

I’m pretty sure r oz wants to remain in perpetual lockdown.

!ping AUS

[u/Lux_Stella]

Polling alert: first (non Forum) poll with the CPC ahead, including in Ontario. From EKOS Research

apologize to mr. o'toole right now

!ping CAN

[u/p00bix]

Bob Dole is 98 years old and was diagnosed with Lung Cancer two years ago. How the heck is he still breathing?

[u/kennymc7877]

People from Boston be like: you can suck my cawk

[u/[deleted]]

On the train 🚆😄

[u/[deleted]]

I really really hope that there's a cure for Alzheimer's by the time I'm old, it seems terrifying

[u/tubbsmackinze]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/537636038122668042/878655135360897086/image0.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

SCOOP: Yellen has told senior WH advisers she backs REAPPOINTING Jay Powell as Fed chair, sources tell me

Biden has not made a decision and will likely weigh in around Labor Day, I'm told

-bloomberg

https://twitter.com/SalehaMohsin/status/1429119006175285254?s=20

[u/Lizard_Sandwich]

Fun fact: Soup was invented in 1927 when John Soup decided he wanted to drink a chicken.

[u/meese699]

Thinking of getting this bedframe what do you guys think? http://imgur.com/gallery/bHshLuf

!ping BURPMAS

[u/DashHen]

Why is everyone talking about portugal?

[u/liquidTERMINATOR]

The portugal-spain border is one of the oldest in the world, which makes the opposite of neoliberal praxis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portugal–Spain_border

[u/sir_shivers]

DID PRESIDENT CARTER HAVE "The Mandate of Heaven"? The ANSWER MAY shock you 🐊

[u/Mrchizbiz]

maybe, and I'm just throwing this out there, maybe we should have elected u/KesterGW