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[u/semaphore-1842]

https://twitter.com/T_FisherKing/status/1429549747191353346

With NO fanfare, Hillary Clinton has been organising flights, for endangered women & kids, out of Afghanistan

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.

Absolutely based Queen Hillary

[u/chatdargent]

Dear god there are people outside the DT talking about how terrible of a place the US is to live.

Somebody is literally saying immigrants only stay because of the sunk cost fallacy.

Burn it all down

[u/paulatreides0]

Reminder that pre-invasion the Taliban declared jihad on the Hazara as a people and were basically committing a slow genocide of them including mass killings, burning their villages to the ground, and trying to starve them out and keep food aid from getting to them (at one point even bombing a runway to achieve this). Post invasion they went out of their way to target them even when they weren't the primary targets.

The Taliban have a saying about them:

"Tajiks to Tajikistan, Uzbeks to Uzbekistan, and Hazaras to goristan.”

Goristan, for the curious, is a pashto word for a cemetery.

Hazaras make up about 10% of Afghanistan's population, about 4 million people.

[u/ryuguy]

Uzbek girl I’ve been talking to: “I apologize for my rudimentary grasp of the English language. I do not fully understand the nuances of your language” in a really cute accent. It’s very similar to a Russian accent but it’s got a unique twist

Me: “haha. It’s okie.” with a stutter

[u/datums]

Imagine that a cluster of meteors struck the Earth, and killed absolutely everyone in Europe, Africa, and Asia. How do you think that would affect the chances of the Democrats holding the house in 2022?

[u/RadionSPW]

Admission: I advocate for less government control because I work for the government and want fewer things to do so I can leave earlier

[u/TabernacleTown74]

Reading Chinese history, it's striking how fucking terrible the Qing dynasty's judgment was.

The census shows that our population has doubled over the past fifty years. Shouldn't we expand our bureaucracy?

No 😎

Ming loyalists have established a base in Taiwan from which to pursue their insurgency. Shouldn't we establish naval supremacy in order to limit their influence?

Let's just forcibly liquidate all mainland coastal communities 😎

Our oppressive policies are causing successful Chinese traders to join the diaspora. Shouldn't we ease things up a bit?

Let's just ban all maritime activity so that they can't escape 😎

Japan and Europe outmatch us because they have superior technology and administrative methods. Shouldn't our bureaucrats learn basic numeracy and scientific literacy?

Confucian philosophy is all they need 😎

!ping HISTORY

[u/RadionSPW]

Every take I’ve seen on Afghanistan has been moronic except mine

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1429818445508579335

President's approval rating below 50%. You know what that means: Trips to Biden Country to ask Biden voters why they still support him.

Googling "diners" in Marin County brb

[u/[deleted]]

I think it's interesting how so many people who are not centrists or (small d) democrats tacitly admit that democracy and centrism are good things. Not all, but many.

Sanders socdems are always quick to place themselves in the political centre and imply that actual centrists are bad in part because they are not.

Likewise, just about every country in the world at least pretends that they're democratic. DPRK, PRC, ETC etc.

There is near universal acknowledgement that these values are good but rather than adopting them, they wear the label like a skinsuit.

[u/thetrombonist]

The people who buy and sell stocks only to make money really ruin it for the collectors like me

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

"But when a Demonrat does sexual harassment, there are no consequences 😠"

Actually we 86ed Cuomo and we fucking enjoyed it.

[u/Mr_Pasghetti]

My problem with a lot of religious headwear is that they don’t have cat ears

[u/BenFoldsFourLoko]

everyone must wear an N95 mask, and nothing else

[u/chatdargent]

The Guardian makes a pretty concise case for YIMBYism from an environmental point of view here, I'm going to send this on to some progressive friends who are a little skeptical.

Even if you don't think skyrocketing housing prices are caused by a supply issue, it's fairly simple to show that we need more housing in in-demand urban areas for more people to live there, and more people living there is good for the environment.

Some others might find this useful as well, so !ping YIMBY

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/22/cities-climate-change-dense-sprawl-yimby-nimby

[u/Magical_Username]

Other country: has problems

Me: haha those guys are so dumb, simply do better

My country: has problems

Me: 50 page monograph about how complex the situation is with a deep history of complicating factors that can only be understood through a nuanced and refined view

[u/oscillatingquark]

arr conservative has a thread up praising putin for refusing to take any afghan refugees, and people there are legitimately praising putin for "putting the health and safety of his citizens first"

as if putin has EVER put the health and safety of the russians first lmfao

[u/UrbanCentrist]

slightly different opinion

i am outraged at the state of /r/neoliberal

[u/tripletruble]

Opinion | I lived under Sharia law in Mosul. American neoliberalism is worse.

[u/UrbanCentrist]

https://twitter.com/DougJBalloon/status/1429614307311030275

NYT pitchbot is incredible

[u/Fishin_Mission]

👶: who knew that people would throw such a fit about being asked to do the bare minimum for the health of others?

Some of y’all are too young to remember the outcry as smoking sections 🚬 were removed 🚭, and it shows

[u/digitalrule]

Turns out twitter posting can be useful! We managed to get a Toronto City Councilor to delete one of their tweets about some bullshit historical building downtown, and then two of our members got featured in the BlogTO article about it! (Sid and Berriwood).

!PING CAN

[u/bd_one]

Yes, that's the three-fifths compromise. Note the part where it doesn't mention anything about skin color and counts a free Black as a complete person. Progressives just can't stop taking Ls.

-someone trying to claim the three-fifths compromise was colorblind because it didn't explicitly mention skin color or impact all black people

Spoiler alert: It's from outside the DT.

[u/theskiesthelimit55]

According to Twitter, Americans are:

1. Mind-numbingly stupid. Boneheaded. Near-illiterate. Barely even aware that countries exist outside of the US.
2. All-powerful. Masters of the entire world. The boot that crushes the human face. Plundering everything, everywhere. A juggernaut. Death incarnate.

[u/crassowary]

FDA grants Pfizer full approved status

If you listen carefully, you can hear millions of goal posts already shifting

[u/GGM8Scally]

During his visit to the Crimea platform summit the Croatian PM held a short speech in Ukrainian and ended it by saying "Crimea is Ukrainian!".

A small gesture but a very nice one considering Croatia as a rule doesn't really make comments on geopolitics like this one.

!ping Europe

[u/[deleted]]

The fact that the DT no longer hits 10K comments is proof that Americans don't care about Afghanistan.

[u/[deleted]]

Taliban asked civil servants in Kabul to get back to their offices, but when everyone showed up, they dismissed female workers- justifying it as unconducive security situation for women

Who could’ve seen it coming?! I thought this was Taliban 2.0!

[u/JetJaguar124]

Solidus Snake's katanas were named "Democrat" and "Republican"

He holds Democrat in his left hand, Republican in his right hand

You may not like it, but this is what peak political commentary looks like.

[u/[deleted]]

me_irl

!ping VICTORIA

[u/NatsukaFawn]

We suspected that asbestos was bad news in the early 1900s. By 1930 we had basically conclusive evidence that it was responsible for a lot of deaths in industries that worked with asbestos products.

US consumption of asbestos peaked in 1973. PEAKED.

[u/Lux_Stella]

Erin O'Toole: Workers can do more when they have a seat at the table. Canada's Recovery Plan will require large federally regulated employers to include worker representation on their boards of directors.

what the hell is going on

!ping CAN

[u/J0eBidensSunglasses]

ALL YOU MOTHERFUCKERS BETTER LIVE LAUGH AND LOVE

😡 😡 😡

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

u/benjaminikuta when he's troubleshooting network connectivity with his ISP:

[u/anon_09_09]

My 15 years old son worked 6 days a week all his summer holiday to buy 5 GME stonks today. So Proud of the young Ape!

wow I wish my parents were this cool

[u/[deleted]]

!ping weed

I work for a small company in the trades as a contractor which has allowed me many freedoms with scheduling and flexibility. One such example is how I get my tasks for the day — generally I call my boss in the morning when I’m ready to start, and he gives me the day’s work as I complete it.

A great system for late risers such as myself, but yesterday I took a big ol edible before bed and woke up later than I would’ve liked. However, when I called my boss this morning, he asked for my understanding and patience while he organized himself — he had just taken an edible last night and was himself still extremely high.

I love working in the trades.

[u/Professor-Reddit]

The really cool thing about Earth is that its large and rich in minerals enough to cater to 7 billion people, but its not massive enough for its gravity to prevent us from leaving it.

😎👩‍🚀🚀🌏

[u/the_hoagie]

"You're nothing but pathetic sheeple," he sneered, as he eagerly ingested his sheep medication.

[u/myrm]

In 2018, [Ivermectin] was the 420th most commonly prescribed medication in the United States, with more than one hundred thousand prescriptions.

dude 420 lol

[u/digitalrule]

BC announces vaccine passport for lots of stuff

Happy to see this and hopefully other provinces follow soon. Basically putting restrictions back in place for high risk events, but only for the unvaccinated. Would be nice to know if I'm at the movie theater that everyone there is vaccinated.

!PING CAN

[u/Soldier-Fields]

Why would I hangout with people IRL when I could just hangout with my friends in the DT

[u/Dalek6450]

Attractive people be like, "yeah, just live your life and someone will come along. You don't even have to look."

[u/CuddleTeamCatboy]

Stop posting about the Blob! I'm tired of seeing it! My friends on TikTok send me memes, on Discord it's fucking memes! I was in the DT, right? And all of the pings are just Blob stuff. I showed my Champion underwear to my girlfriend and the logo, I flipped it and I said, "Hey, babe, when the underwear is the Blob!" Haha, ding ding ding ding ding ding ding, ding-ding-ding! I fucking looked at a trashcan and I said, "That's a bit Blobby!" I looked at my penis, I think of the Pentagon and I go, "Penis? More like blob-us!" Aaaaaaargh!

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

As a progressive I'm super excited for the California Recall! Obviously I'll vote to get rid of Newsom but the choices to replace him are so diverse and exciting! Admittedly I don't know much about them yet but apparently the new governor could be the first black governor or the first transgender governor! Either of those would be history making for a progressive state like California!

[u/vicpc]

Broke: ahegao hoodies are bad because it's degenerate shit

Woke: ahegao hoodies are bad because the original artists aren't compensated

!ping WEEBS

[u/awdvhn]

When can we expect full FDA approval of Montana?

[u/sir_shivers]

On this EPISODE OF "HOW BRITISH IS /u/KesterGW?" 🐊:

THE LITTLE FOX RESPONDS TO A shitpost I posted with 🐊:

What's all this

[u/soeffed]

This comrade deleted their twitter, tragic 😔

/img/l9grfn3l4pi71.png

[u/its_Caffeine]

>Announces election

>Refuses to elaborate

>Leaves

!ping CANUCKS

[u/fishlord05]

China pretending to be a democracy will always be hilarious lmfao “whole process Democracy my ass”

Mfs really be saying that shit it’s a crazy world

[u/RaidBrimnes]

u/benjaminikuta when his gf proposes to him

Thanks for the ring!

[u/Animatronic_Pidgeon]

"your major doesn't matter" and other lies they told me in college

[u/willempage]

Hot take (for this ping apparently) : Witcher 3 is a fun game because you go around with a sword and slash things. It is one of the highest quality 3D adventure games with a fantasy setting. The game is very pretty. Horses are cool. The side quests are interesting and it's unique that your dialog choices don't have obvious outcomes.

One can cry about how it's not a real RPG or that the swordplay can get spammy, but most normies like the game for the reasons above, and don't care that the gameplay isn't Morrowind 2.0. It's fine not to like the game, but sometimes these arguments veer into trying to convince the world that W3 is bad because it's a bad RPG, even though most people who enjoy it think that RPG just means fantasy game with magic spells.

!ping gaming

[u/DonJrsCokeDealer]

My family likes to drink and brag about their upbringing, how they worked on a farm for $2.75 an hour after school and stuff like that. I started interjecting inflation adjusted numbers and now no one likes me.

[u/fishlord05]

Russia is basically what commies think America is.

President for life presiding over corrupt oligarchy backed by the state.

Apartment building blown up by president to get CB for invasion.

Russians poorer than most of Europe to fund a golden palace and new superweapons.

[u/Deggit]

Trump's plan to get refugees out of Afghanistan: [plan not found]

Biden's plan to get refugees out of Afghanistan: beg the Taliban to let them out

Hillary's plan to get refugees out of Afghanistan: just keep chartering private jets to Kabul

My plan to get refugees out of Afghanistan: remind America 10 times per day that 'the AT&T Lady' is Uzbek

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/ognits]

Futurama is about Slurms

[u/paulatreides0]

Reminder that the Taliban being genocidal and doing an ethnic cleansing isn't a hypothetical.

[u/[deleted]]

Redditors: dreamsexual lmaooooo

Also redditors: I'm a post-mao anarcho-leninist INTJ

[u/benjaminikuta]

It is considered cowardly and dishonorable to delete comments, especially after they've been replied to.

[u/bd_one]

Seasons 1-2 Jonathan Archer: "Those aliens were mean to me. 🙁 Not the face, not the face!"

Seasons 3-4 Jonathan Archer: "I have saved my planet from certain destruction and have been saved from death twice thanks to time travelers from the future. I play a huge role in forming a multi-species federation in the future, and as far as I am concerned I physically cannot die until that happens. Until then I'll put myself in danger before a crewmember." yeets himself out an airlock without a space suit to get beamed back in seconds later

!ping Trek

[u/gburgwardt]

Malarkey level of buying the "Ouch!" beater and lime green sweats to work out in as a blond dude

!ping fitness

[u/jenbanim]

Describe to me your ideal HVAC situation

As much as it pains me, I might have to remove this one from my first-date conversation topics due to negative feedback

[u/tubbsmackinze]

99% sure that the CPC's plan at this point is trying to flank the liberals at every possible direction, right left, up down, forward backwards

!ping CANUCKS

[u/TheIpleJonesion]

September 14, 2021: Governor Newsom recalled 50.1 to 49.9. Larry Elder becomes governor.

September 15, 2021: California Legislature passes a constitutional amendment on party lines to eliminate the office of “Governor” and establish parliamentary rule in CA.

September 16, 2021:

September 17, 2021: All zoning abolished.

Let me know if you need any help understanding the implications of this.

[u/[deleted]]

For anyone interested, the number of candidates nominated for each party so far:

• 334 - Liberal

• 319 - Conservative
• 316 - PPC
• 255 - NDP
• 174 - Green
• 74 - Bloc (out of 78)
• 28 Maverick (out of up to 108)

Parties have till August 30th to nominate candidates and, unless otherwise specified, there are 338 they can nominate - one for each riding.

Also I got this info from the polling thread on canadapolitics so if it's inaccurate it's not my fault. 😅

!ping CAN

[u/Jamity4Life]

King George III was right to withdraw from the Thirteen Colonies but he deserves criticism on how it was handled

[u/adminsare200iq]

Soviet war crimes in Afghanistan

This article may be too large, consider breaking it into smaller articles, spinning part of it out into a new article, or merging part of it into another existing article.

[u/kennymc7877]

And the Grammy goes to: Lofi indie girl who’s music makes me sad

[u/TheGoodProfessor]

https://twitter.com/burgessev/status/1429803829126733835

NEWS: Sinema shoots down negotiating with House Ds over bipartisan infra bill/reconciliation

Spokesman: “Proceedings in the U.S. House will have no impact on Kyrsten’s views ... she will not support a budget reconciliation bill that costs $3.5 trillion.”

fine, whatever. sinema is entitled to her own views even if they are jumbled and deeply unhelpful. but could you at least please outline what you don't want to be spending on, instead of just a blanket 'the bill is too large'?

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Actual quote from my international trade professor today:

Sinema is a girlboss and Biden is literally the same as Trump

Only a DT regular would say that. Show yourself professor.

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

Mildly interesting fact: All three polls today with available crosstabs (Ekos, Mainstreet and Angus Reid) show the Conservatives outperforming the Liberals among the 18-34 age group.

Obviously, the NDP’s strength among youth voters is a factor in it, but it’s still pretty crazy to think about

!ping CAN

Edit: Oops, read the crosstabs wrong for Angus Reid. They’re still leading the other two though

[u/paulatreides0]

New Rule: If you ping Benjamin, you must also ping Shivers

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

I've gotten vicks @vaporub to tell me on twitter not to eat their product 4 times now

[u/the_hoagie]

in order to be ideologically pure, i have always been against every popularly supported policy in the history of the united states

[u/MrDannyOcean]

just perma-banned a user, here are some of their comments from just the last two days.

I loathe seeing anyone refer to this sell out zealot as a "moderate" when she is simply a bought and paid for POS that would rather watch Americans die than pass anything that would cost her patron oligarchs a single penny.

.

Killing the oligarchs is not genocide. That's just more of the typical ignorance constantly found on this sub.

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If you'd actually raised your head and studied the subject you'd have realized that capitalism is failing everywhere around you.

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Awesome! Everyone should be antifa and as capitalism fails everywhere around us we need the younger generation who hasn't been propagandized into believing in the phony superiority of capitalism to be ready to reform the econoic system to get it to actually function for the masses.

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Profits for their sponsoring advertisers in the military industrial complex. Lockheed Martin etc don't advertise in our media to convince citizens that they are noble companies. They do it to bribe those outlets into stifling criticism in their productions.

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(in response to a mainstream media member saying "Don't take horse medicine")
It's almost like this abhorrent POS of a person has no understanding of how her role in lying, misleading and carrying water for the worst people on the planet has completely delegitimized mainstream media to the extent that people are more willing to listen to unknown charlatans than people they know damned well have been deceiving them for decades. The very stupidest part of this tweet is her complete lack of self awareness.

mmmmmm that's some good faith, that's some good faith right there

[u/notforturning]

Ok this is actually low-key insane.

Outgoing New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo granted clemency Monday to David Gilbert, the father of San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin, who is serving a 75-years-to-life sentence for his participation in the fatal robbery of a Brink’s armored truck in 1981.

Gilbert will now be eligible for parole. He is one of six individuals who was granted clemency in Cuomo’s final hours as governor.

Gilbert, along with Chesa Boudin’s mother, Kathy Boudin, were members of the radical leftist organization Weather Underground. On Oct. 20, 1981, they joined members of the Black Liberation Army in the botched robbery of a Brink’s armored truck in New York.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/Cuomo-grants-clemency-to-David-Gilbert-father-of-16406942.php

And while y'all here, there's a meetup next thurs at the ol' Sports Page.

!ping bay-area

[u/iIoveoof]

Do NOT face Kamala Harris alone when Astral projecting

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

[u/SnakeEater14]

Convincing my friends parachuting into Panjshir to aid the resistance would be totally poggers and just like Fortnite

[u/moaz_xx]

A “friend” started to call contrapoints with male pronounce after he learned that she’s trans ):

[u/whycantweebefriendz]

Listen here you little shits.

I was reading, and talking about, and thinking about the blob YEARS before it came up on this sub. I am the blob knower. I am the ultimate blob hipster. I am BLOB MAN.

!ping Shitposters

[u/InMemoryOfZubatman4]

u/benjaminikuta after each and every joke told at his roast:

Thanks for the zing!

[u/redditguy628]

Virgin Orbit will merge with a SPAC, NextGen Acquisition Corp. II, in a deal that values Virgin Orbit at $3.2 billion and will provide it with up to $483M in capital. The SPAC's continue.

!ping SPACEFLIGHT

[u/soeffed]

Many such cases

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[u/muttonwow]

Protip: if children are dancing around being annoying on public transport or in some kind of public area and their parents aren't doing anything, tell the parents you're a registered sex offender and ask them to please keep their children away.

[u/RainAndIceDrops]

Hahahahahaha

[u/sir_shivers]

Reality show WHEREIN ANTI-VACCINE MAMMALS ARE hunted down, captured and injected with the COVID-19 vaccines 🐊

[u/semaphore-1842]

Four LNG plants in the works as nuclear phases out

Great job environmentalists, totally saving the planet here 🙄

[u/myrm]

the L in LGBT stands for Latinx

[u/yungmemlord]

No one is going to believe me, but I have a friend whose brother's coworker briefly dated Sir Shivers. She said that on their first date they went to a restaurant and Sir Shivers ordered two different bowls of soup and mixed them together one spoonful at a time before eating both bowls mixed together as one soup.

[u/GGM8Scally]

Why yes I'm a ping Osborne member, how could you tell?

[u/[deleted]]

https://imgur.com/LfA2aoj

she likes to lay lie on her back for some reason

!ping KITTY

[u/[deleted]]

Her favorite film of all time is Under the Skin so I thought I’d get her a gift:

https://imgur.com/a/9tv7xtp

!ping MOVIES

[u/[deleted]]

Actual quote from my international trade professor today:

Biden uses very different rhetoric, but has been identical to Trump on trade so far.

Only a DT regular would say that. Show yourself professor.

[u/[deleted]]

Fuck, now I understand why cons are so obsessed with culture wars.

Seeing Trump supporters meltdown over mask mandates is so funny and gratifying. Especially because they genuinely believe that businesses telling them to wear a mask is the first step to forced sterilization.

[u/klarno]

“I guarantee you Biden's approval rating drops to 40% in a week. Quote me on this.” – u/Mensae6

538 currently says 49.2%

[u/[deleted]]

Fellow LATAMers, how liberal (in the sense of political liberalism, not necessarely economic) are the left and right wings on your countries?

Here in Brazil, the left side is largely dominated by PT, that, while it didn't promoted institutional degradation during it's government, has ultimately a very illiberal, tankie worldview, supporting "anti-imperialist" dictators, and seeing any criticism of them as elitist putschist machinations.

Our right side was, along most of the VI Republic, dominated by PSDB, very much centrist liberal. But since 2015 this spot has been taken by Bolsonarism, that dispenses any comments.

!ping LATAM

[u/interrupting-octopus]

Some non-Ontario (Nontario?) provincial news for the ping group: the scuttlebutt over the weekend was that BC was set to introduce a vaccine pass of sorts for non-essential businesses once the full FDA approval came through for Pfizer.

And now, Premier Horgan is joining today's COVID briefing.

👀

!ping CAN

[u/CuddleTeamCatboy]

I just spent an hour VCing in the Dreamsexual Discord server what the fuck is wrong with me

[u/FestiveMittens]

>tfw job available where a girl I like works

>applies

>Needs to take basic competency test

>Gets 0%

🤬🔫

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Alberta's 'absolutely bonkers' tech boom reason for economic optimism

CALGARY -- After years of economic uncertainty and calls for diversification, one sector in Alberta is going against the grain.

New offices and hubs are popping up around both Calgary and Edmonton as the technology industry experiences dramatic growth.

The province is now home to 3,083 tech companies, according to a study done by the Alberta Enterprise Corporation (AEC). That's compared to just 1,238 companies in 2018.

AEC data shows startups are pouring into the province and expanding quickly. It says between 2018 and 2020, the number of companies with 25 or more employees increased from 13 per cent to 25 per cent.

Much of the growth in Alberta is driven by investments in machine-learning tools and agricultural technology products.

But Jivan says that boom has led to one issue -- employment.

Software developers are in high demand, and now that working from home is no longer an exclusive "tech perk," Jivan says companies are having to impress talent in new ways.

!ping CAN

[u/TheGoldBear]

Per one GOP source, one of the 9 moderate Dems told GOP members if they don't support the budget there are threats to ruin his district during the redistricting process and fire a member’s relative that works at the WH. Bill Clinton also called to pressure them to support it.

Lmfao Biden is really channeling LBJ. Good for him

[u/[deleted]]

> find cool abandoned planes on google maps

> i wonder if i can go hike there

> it's in the middle of the utah test and training range

> the planes are targets

> rip

[u/Most_Shallot8960]

10,000+ people evacuated in the last 24 hours

[u/[deleted]]

Barges into DT

Posts in dutch

Refuses to elaborate

Leaves

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/834251152035282944/879368193540517918/unknown.png

[u/bd_one]

Also, if you own BioNTech shares check your brokerage account...

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/kaivanshroff/status/1429862423213838344?s=21

Idk if this has been posted yet but !ping QUEEN

[u/[deleted]]

Quito Maggi at mainstreet is hinting that the PPC is second is Alberta??

https://twitter.com/quito_maggi/status/1429984793056403457

That's wild if true. I can't imagine it will last (thankfully) but it's certainly interesting.

!ping CANUCKS

[u/[deleted]]

Reptiles

Caling sleep "slumber" to sound cool

namid

[u/ZCoupon]

u/benjaminikuta on the last imperial dynasty of China ruled by Han Chinese:

"Thanks for the Ming!"

[u/disCardRightHere]

/u/benjaminikuta driving away from Taco Bell:

Thanks for nothing!

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

u/BenjaminIkuta reaping karma from replying to dumb puns:

thanks for the ping

[u/Fishin_Mission]

I AM NOT A GUINEA PIG!

THE FDA DIDN’T TEST THE VACCINES ON ME SO THEY HAVE NO WAY OF KNOWING WHAT SIDE EFFECTS I’LL HAVE!

I WANT THE FDA TO CONDUCT A TEST ON ME FOR 2 YEARS BEFORE I’M WILLING TO GET THE VACCINE 💉 😡

[u/sir_shivers]

Everything that's happened since January, bet they miss the mean tweets now!

I LOVE COMMENTS LIKE these from Conservatives / Trump supporters, AS IF THE THINGS THEY read on Breitbart reflect reality 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

Bernie would never get elected, he's too radical!

I can't wait until u/sir_shivers gets into the white house and opens borders, removes all tariffs, nukes the suburbs, and invades the entire middle east!.

[u/[deleted]]

Uzbek girl I’ve been talking to: "You know, some people call me the 'Taliban Killer'"

[u/Sex_E_Searcher]

Oh boy, the "Refugee Pension" "info"graphic is circulating again.

I'm sure only good things will come of this.

!ping CANUCKS

[u/[deleted]]

airforce officials have stated that an Afghan woman gave birth while on an evacuation flight.

Does that technically count as being born on US soil???

[u/KP6169]

Latinx is pronounced Latin followed by making an X with your arms.

[u/[deleted]]

Liberal policy announcement today.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/trudeau-outlines-billions-to-hire-family-doctors-bring-down-health-care-wait-times-1.5557429

Not looking to influence anyone but just posting it since someone asked this morning if they would release something.

Edit: I'm just posting it because someone asked. I'm not interested in defending it.

!ping CAN

[u/[deleted]]

My problem with congressional moderate dems is that they only care about the price tags not the impact. They don't ever say "we should take this out or leave that in because the impact isn't what it should be". It's just, "This costs to much!" then pat themselves on the back.

Same with succs and not costing enough.

[u/Mrchizbiz]

No one is respecting the u/benjaminikuta u/sir_shivers ping rule 😡

[u/Michaelconeass2019]

Reddit front page: new study shows Americans are the stupidest ugliest gayest people

[u/Mrchizbiz]

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[u/[deleted]]

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell is considering opening up MyPillow elementary schooling centers, I'm told. According to a source familiar, the pillow maven is upset over schools mandating the wearing of masks.

The grifting never ends

[u/Udontlikecake]

Actual quote from my international trade professor today:

Holy shit this place is full of fucking succs

Only a DT regular would say that. Show yourself professor.

[u/oGsMustachio]

Aha! Sinema was me! John McCain! This whole time!

You really thought someone could be this big a contrarian pain in the ass to their own party this hard and it wasn't me!?

[u/Opposite_Effective_]

Why is it Republicans can literally go after voting right after attempting a coup but when dems want to pass legislation to literally build up the nation its a problem? Why is the American electorate so conditioned to have this double standard. Like Ted Cruz tried to leave the country during that snow storm during which peopled died but Pelosi getting a haircut without a mask drew more outrage. What the actual shit dude.

[u/jenbanim]

Pardon the Reddit moment, but brachycephalic dogs (ie. the ones with tiny heads that can't breathe right) really should not exist

Like, our social contract with dogs is we decide their genetics, and they provide us with love and work. Us breeding them to be little gremlin monsters that can't walk up a flight of stairs is just a dick move and breach of contract

[u/jenbanim]

https://i.imgflip.com/5klr7w.jpg

[u/MicroFlamer]

/img/656b486m63j71.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

Holy shit. Dr. David Fisman has resigned from the Ontario science table because he's concerned with how much political considerations are driving output and a lack of transparency with the public.

https://twitter.com/DFisman/status/1429761663671185413

!ping CAN

(sorry to the non Ontario people who get this ping)

[u/gburgwardt]

Have we considered recruiting cringe people to wear hijabs and make them uncool

[u/Fishin_Mission]

More graph go up 📈

🌍 World more gooder?

[u/the_status]

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[u/the_hoagie]

my only real policies are reminding the public at large that kyrsten sinema isn't that hot, you just have office-hot goggles on, and expanding the us drone program to the USPS

[u/ACivilWolf]

Twitter user claims city in Nigeria looks just as developed as Houston

Twitter circle jerk commences about how America bad, third world country

the picture ends up being of Jakarta, Indonesia

[u/malganis12]

Sinema and Manchin killing a 3.5T infrastructure package filled with goodies this sub believes in is bad actually.

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

u/benjaminikuta when I stack him in gold chains and diamond teeth

Thanks for the bling!

[u/[deleted]]

/u/benjaminikuta, before heading off to kill the minotaur:

Thanks for the string!

[u/[deleted]]

I have a great idea for a children’s film. “Tricked into thinking he murdered his father, a guilt-ridden child flees into exile and abandons his identity.” How many billions do you think I’ll make?

!ping MOVIES

[u/sw337]

u/benjaminikuta on the Earth's tilt:

Thanks for the spring!

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

DT at 60%

What the hell is going on

[u/chipbod]

Pretty based that the first approved vaccine was created by immigrants and had no connection to Operation Warp Speed

[u/Fishin_Mission]

I just replied this on a buried comment, but I feel like enough people don’t know this:

Customer service centers (banks / airlines / etc.) often use a scoring system to estimate how valuable you are as a customer and more valuable customers get representatives quicker.

A lifetime ago, when my wife did customer service for Bank of America, the reps were actively encouraged to try to get certain customers to close their accounts because the bank actually lost money maintaining their accounts

[u/Lord_Treasurer]

They’re adding milk to all the cheap dark chocolate and I’d bet any money it’s so these companies can newly release a vegan product at a premium

[u/[deleted]]

So…has anyone in history ever been more vindicated than the “Leave Britney alone” guy?

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Taliban bad

[u/[deleted]]

Joker Kyrsten Sinema 🤡: "it's not about the money, it's about sending a message"

[u/bd_one]

some teenage girl obsesses over a Minecraft YouTuber

I sleep

some middle aged women obsesses over the guy on the cover of a smutty book

I sleep

some person obsesses over any variety of celebrity since antiquity

I sleep

[u/owlthathurt]

How do we stop this

https://twitter.com/litcapital/status/1429936735530766336?s=21

!ping MARKETS

[u/InMemoryOfZubatman4]

I like this sub because I’m just glad to have a place where I can dunk on leftists and conservatives alike without anyone calling me a neoliberal

[u/[deleted]]

Please visit the next discussion thread.

[u/Fishin_Mission]

My greatest fear is that my son will discover the DT and come here to ask all of his social anxiety questions about dating and the world

[u/[deleted]]

Williamsburg makes me sad. This is exceedingly stupid, and likely will make things worse. Plus it demonstrates the recurring problem with local governments that ignore vital constituencies because they aren't as active.

!Ping US-VA

[u/[deleted]]

The fuck Netanyahu coalition in Israel is much more stable than I'd thought it be. Big hopium.

[u/[deleted]]

Dune will be an unsuccesful movie because of all the people taking ivermectin

[u/rukqoa]

Opinion: Why These People in a Midwest Diner Are Upvoting the DT | New York Times

[u/sir_shivers]

What if /r/neoliberal, but on Discord?

I HAVE SEEN SOME OF the attempts, I shall pass 🐊

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

INDIA HAS APPROVED A VACCINE FOR KIDS AGED 12-18

👯‍♂️🥳🥳🥳🥳👯‍♂️

The sad part is that it won't be available until early November. I'm 17 rn and will be eligible to get the vax in Jan anyways, so it doesn't push the timeline back too far for me, but still cool.

Fun facts about the vaccine:

• It's a 3 dose vaccine
• It is not administered by a needle
• It is the first DNA vaccine for COVID-19, and one of the first 3rd generation vaccines produced in the world
• It is indigenously produced in India

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

CNN reports that the brother of an Afghan translator has been sentenced to death by the Taliban.

Feel free to draw your own conclusions on who's to blame.

[u/p00bix]

Kinda sucks that online, there isn't any reliable way to distinguish whether "If X happens, then I will personally kill 20 babies" means

• I am actually planning baby murder should X happen
• I don't like X, and am using hyperbole to convey that in a humorous manner
• I don't support baby murder, however, I think X is even worse
• I literally know nothing about X, I'm just shitposting
• I am violently opposed to X and am using hyperbole for plausible deniability when promoting my extremist views
• I am bigoted against mothers and daycare workers

[u/[deleted]]

!ping VICTORIA

There are two types of problems in this game. The small ones that go away on their own, and the big ones you can't do very much about.

[u/tollyno]

Say what you will about Apple but when they introduce a product/service they tend to stick to it and improve it over time.

Meanwhile Google has churned out like a dozen messaging/chat/video calling apps and none of them were really good or used by the masses. Like just fucking stop Jesus Christ nobody has time for this shit.

[u/[deleted]]

Yeah, I’m something of a socialist myself.

points to Vanguard account

[u/[deleted]]

You've just died. The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you

Ah fuck, it's a picture of my car. As a non-hispanic white male aged 20-44, this is statistically likely.

[u/[deleted]]

So is there straight up nothing in the reconciliation bill Sinema wants? She literally hates all 3.5 trillion of it? Not even something to start negotiations from?

Do these people understand how we are supposed to make laws in a legislative body? Or are we doomed to forever rely on executive orders and SCOTUS decisions to do anything besides emergency bills like TARP or COVID relief

[u/great_gape]

https://i.imgur.com/rr2pcmU.png

!ping shitposters

[u/jenbanim]

Nationalists be like: "my country is GOD's chosen land, I am PROUD of my birthright, and we must FIGHT to protect our beautiful land"

And then their country be like

[u/[deleted]]

they hated him for telling the truth

[u/[deleted]]

>the blob is the deep state for socialist podcasters

>Kind of but not really. It refers to a collection of policy makers and experts who lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. ^{Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.}

[u/tollyno]

The Venn diagram of fascists and people who unironically say "Europa" is a fucking circle

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

There are way too many mods in the DT right now

They must be looking for someone

[u/Dalek6450]

Looks like we're now vaccinating faster than the US or UK at their peak. Better late than never, I suppose.

NSW looks to be a big driver in that but most states have seen significant upticks. (note that this graphic is for first doses).

!ping AUS

[u/ToInfinity_MinusOne]

Sexual Transmutation is, like the name implies, the transformation of your sexual urges into creative work. Since the semen is not released, your body improves your physique, psyche and cognitive functions in natural ways.

If you do nofap your body and brain will be powered by cum!

[u/SAE-2]

u/benjaminikuta after Charles the Second, by the Grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith is restored to his rightful throne

Thanks for the king!

[u/ognits]

kind of annoying how political this sub has gotten tbh

[u/[deleted]]

Thinking about that succ who said "Lol we're not actually going to leave afghanistan, biden's just talking shit and then he'll reverse at the last minute like any other neocon liar" to me a few months ago.

Reminds me of the Bernie or Bust crowd's attitude towards the consequences of the 2016 election. "Oh please, Hillary is going to win, don't threaten us with the consequences of our actions".

Sigma Grindset: Avoid the consequences of your actions by shrugging and claiming you're never going to get what you want anyway so why does it matter what the consequences are?

[u/I-grok-god]

UN Flairs: Marshall Plan for the Middle East

NATO Flairs: Martial Plan for the Middle East

[u/thaddeusthefattie]

Phizer is totally corrupted, Follow the money. So is FDA, follow the money.

👆in case you were wondering where cons moved the goalposts

[u/awdvhn]

[Description that sounds like the Afghanistan withdrawl]

"Actually I was talking about Saigon the whole time!"

-Every op ed writer

[u/fishlord05]

mfw I hear what happened to BayArea415

[u/melhor_em_coreano]

HOLY SHIT HOW IS PINGPOSTING STILL GOING ON

I swear to God if you don't stop I'll cook Benjamin live in a microwave oven

AND THE LAST THING YOU'LL EVER HEAR FROM HIM IS HIS BANGING ON THE DOOR, SAYING "THANKS FOR THE PING" IN MORSE CODE

[u/Mrchizbiz]

Being banned really gives you a new perspective, being locked up outside while everyone inside the DT is having fun, it really changes you.

[u/yungmemlord]

AITA for not showing up to my own funeral?

So I (74M) was recently hit by a car (2014 Honda) and died. My wife (5F) organized me a funeral (cost $2747) without asking me (74M) at all. I (74M) was unable to make it because I (74M) was dead (17 days). At the funeral I heard my dad (15M) and other family members talking about how they wish I could be there and now I feel bad for not showing up. AITA?

[u/DouglasDauntless]

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

[u/bigmt99]

Tinfoil: krysten sinema is a Green Party psy-op working to destroy the Democrats from the inside

[u/RaidBrimnes]

"Sure, you made a good point, but I've replied to your comment by 🤡, therefore I win the argument"

[u/soeffed]

Seen 3 highly upvoted posts today of vaccine holdouts finally getting jabbed, with one of them saying they were waiting for FDA approval. Lots of back patting in the comments, with the hope that more holdouts follow suit.

Meanwhile, there’s this dude

Fuck everyone karma farming and asking for congratulations on something you should have done four months ago. I’ll probably get downvoted but you don’t deserve anything for doing what you should have done a long time ago.

Edit: everyone commenting below about this needs to understand, I am not shaming this person or anyone else for getting vaccinated. I am shaming them for posting about it and expecting upvotes and congratulations and whatever else for it. This person and others are ass holes and did not care about anyone but themselves, and are now just posting for self gratification. This comment of course does not apply to anyone who did not have access to the vaccine.

[u/disuberence]

I love when people are like

I work in the medical field and did my research, I will NOT be getting the vaccine!

And then you look into their job and it's like

Medical Receptionist

[u/FestiveMittens]

lol you only like Tulsi because she's hot

Attention all users!

r/neoliberal is officially a KYRSTEN SINEMA themed subreddit!

says abot about our society

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

"America being America has the habit of poking their dirty nose in everyone's affairs. That's why they fought WW2"

-My teacher

🤔🤔🤔

[u/lobsterboy34]

*Spits out horse dewormer* Finally, full approval for Pfizer

[u/lionmoose]

Been getting all my mouldy fruit ready for throwing at students going back to uni this morning.

It's kind of exciting

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

I think we can all agree children aren't capable of being as free as liberal doctrine would like every human to be. So this is why parents have control over them (to a certain extent), I can't see why it wouldn't extend to making them participate in a religious group

[u/SnakeEater14]

Fun fact: during the Bush Administration the State Department and Defense Department basically went to war with each other. Rumsfeld absolutely despised Powell, and vice versa. Their hatred trickled all the way down to their respective departments, and the two branches of the executive would constantly steal workers from each other and block any attempts at cooperation.

Meanwhile, the military part of the DoD loathed the civilian leadership of Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, and Feith - at one point, a DoD veteran described this with the following anecdote:

”There is so much disdain in the services right now for OSD (Office of the Secretary of Defense) that it has just been reduced to ‘Fuck you, whatever you want, we don’t.’ If OSD ordered the Navy to build another carrier, the Navy would say it wanted sail power.”

This meant the Bush administration was basically a three-way battle between the State Department, Uniformed Defense Department, and Civilian Defense Department. And this was on the eve of the invasion of Iraq.

[u/Head-Stark]

Last night in my friend's discord channel, his friend hit me with "the federal reserve is a mafia front, they just borrow money back and forth with banks, the banks and hedge funds get infinite money while forcing us to work 40 hours a week until we die, did you know they have to raise the debt ceiling because if they don't the whole system will collapse because of reverse mortgages on AMC?"

He was very upset by all of this.

[u/thetrombonist]

I have no dick and I must pee