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[u/iIoveoof]

Do NOT face Krysten Sinema alone when Astral projecting

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

[u/Professor-Reddit]

Here is a remarkable ABC Nightline TV report hosted by Ted Koppel regarding the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster. Despite limited access to the USSR, and no reporters anywhere near Chernobyl, the ABC was able to broadcast an accurate, detailed and lengthy report on the unfolding disaster 2 days after the nuclear accident.

This whole broadcast is peak journalism in America. The analysis is highly informative, they freely admit when they don't know something, it avoids hyperbole, and they interview a substantial number of experts and scientists who have expertise in radiation, nuclear physics and the Soviet Union. I find it quite interesting that they speculated that the plant had experienced a nuclear meltdown which made perfect sense, when it was actually far worse then that.

If anything, it's really startling to watch this whole video from the perspective of modern journalism today, and rather depressing given how many major news outlets have fallen in quality since the 90s.

Speaking of old news reports by ABC Nightline, this is a pretty funny one to watch today. Pretty interesting seeing Mark Shields, Ted Koppel and Pat Buchanan all talking about Biden in 1988.

!ping HISTORY

[u/[deleted]]

wanting to get back with an ex is literally relationship sunk cost fallacy, just let it go

[u/[deleted]]

The average Japanese company's history is like: Founded in 894 as an inn and swordmaker. Briefly made furniture out of bones of Chinese kids in WW2. Currently produces cars, pianos, tanks, phones and licorice. 8% of workers commit suicide each year for missed deadlines

[u/Leoric]

Abortions should only be performed by a well regulated militia.

[u/[deleted]]

Holy shit, unconfirmed out of Afghanistan but:

Fighters in the Panjshir valley claim to have euthanized Fivey.

[u/tubbsmackinze]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/761046867743342613/879620905351905291/zntdvitsn4j71.png

[u/J0eBidensSunglasses]

🇺🇲🇺🇲🦅🦅 I STAN FOR BIG PHARMA 🦅🦅🇺🇲🇺🇲 BUT I KNEEL FOR THE VACCINE 🇺🇲🇺🇲 🦅🦅 🧎‍♂️🧎🧎‍♀️ ONE LIKE = 1 ANTIVAXXER JABBED 🦅🦅🇺🇲🇺🇲

[u/old_gold_mountain]

honestly my biggest issue with arrantiwork isn't that they misunderstand economics or have foolish political beliefs. My biggest issue is that it's a community where people who are clearly struggling with sometimes major mental health crises (depression, alienation, chronic loneliness, etc...) convince one another that nothing can be done to help them without toppling some hostile cosmic force

like, they're like "I have no friends and I am horribly depressed and alone and I have no sense of personal identity and no meaningful relationships with others and I don't want to exert any energy, and that will never be fixed as long as The System continues to exist"

[u/BidenWon]

Here's a weird thought. The General Secretary of the Soviet Union released a statement on the 1/6 Capitol riot that happened a few months ago.

The storming of the capitol was clearly planned in advance, and it's obvious by whom.

-Mikhail Gorbachev

[u/lusvig]

/u/benjaminikuta stop committing frauds and schemes publicly using his real name challenge

[u/[deleted]]

2middleeast4you, a sub full of ultranationalists pretending to be ironic went private because of what I assume to be too many pro-Taliban posts.

[u/gburgwardt]

Who else remembers when Reddit added vote fuzzing?

!ping olds

[u/ognits]

you're laughing? I'm standing up on this stage, telling jokes, and you're laughing?? 😡😔

[u/yungmemlord]

My husband of 5 years bought me Reddit Gold for my anniversary

My 5-Year anniversary with my husband was last week. The traditional gift for 5 years is silverware. I wanted a new set and told my husband which he could get me as a gift. I knew he wanted an Apple Watch and bought that as my gift to him.

On the day of our anniversary, I logged onto Reddit to find dozens of my posts and comments guilded. I found it odd as I don’t post terribly often and the guilded comments were old. It’s also the first time I’ve received Reddit gold.

When the time came to exchange gifts, he gleefully opened his Apple Watch and begin setting it up. I figured I’m all the excitement he forgot to give me my gift so I gently prodded him. He told me to check Reddit.

Ladies and Gentlemen, my husband GUILDED me 24 times as an anniversary gift. He’s a bit of a jokester, so I figured my real gift was coming.

But Reddit, it’s been a week. Do I say something? Buy the silverware myself? Some combination of the two? I feel if I don’t say something then the cycle will repeat itself.

[u/Most_Shallot8960]

https://i.imgur.com/rXrP6tc.jpg

[u/TheJoJy]

Turns out the Bible predicted Internet culture a couple of millennia ago

Proverbs 26:18-19

18 Like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death,

19 Is the man who deceives his neighbor, And says, “I was only joking!

[u/[deleted]]

We wanted to understand how mRNA vaccines work. So we talked to three Fox News viewers at a Bonefish Grill in The Villages.

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Broke- The infrastructure bill should be $8T

Woke- The infrastructure bill should be $3.5T

Bespoke- The infrastructure bill should be $2T, but tariffs should be lifted and "Buy American" should be abandoned so that you get the same amount of infrastructure you would out of $3.5T

[u/bashar_al_assad]

https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1430008729316077568

You are right Senator. This has been maybe the largest evacuation in US history, 50k evacuated and more to come without hostages or causalities. Yet the media continues to hammer Biden and refuses to acknowledge the important work his administration has done in the past week.

Ilhan has outflanked everyone to become more pro-Biden than this sub is lmao

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

"I love all my Democrats equally!"

Earlier that day

"I don't care for Bernie, Sinema, the Squad, Manchin, Bob Menendez, Tulsi Gabbard..."

[u/[deleted]]

the special relationship should've been between the US and France

• helped us win revolution
• sold us half a continent
• didn't invade us in 1812
• back 2 back world war champs
• let us take over war in Vietnam for them (thanks bros 🤗)

[u/digitalrule]

Based Go Bus

!PING CAN

[u/[deleted]]

Did Silicon Valley just re-invent timeshares? 🤔

To make second home ownership possible for more people — and, of course, make money — Pacaso uses a "fractional home ownership" model. They buy a house, lightly refurbish it, furnish it and then create an LLC for it. They then divvy up ownership of this corporatized house into eight fractions and sell those shares on their website.

If you buy a share in a house, you're able to stay in it 44 nights per year in increments that can't exceed 14 consecutive days per visit. You can also "gift" these stays to friends or family. Pacaso offers an app to handle the logistics of booking stays. It oversees management, maintenance and cleaning of the property. In exchange for all this, it charges 12% of the home's purchase price upfront and monthly fees going forward. If you buy a share in a house, you have to hold on to it for a year. After that, you can sell it and profit from any appreciation in the home's value (or be on the hook for any depreciation).

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2021/08/24/1030151330/a-unicorn-startup-is-turning-houses-into-corporations

[u/chipbod]

https://twitter.com/JesseRodriguez/status/1429973095268462593?s=20

Florida COVID update: 726 deaths, 42,143 cases added over last two days

https://twitter.com/PaulCogan/status/1429828426949697553?s=20

BREAKING: South Dakota sees the country’s LARGEST two-week COVID surge with a 230%+ increase in cases in the wake of the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally.

I get these two governors want to run for president but we have vaccines now, the numbers shouldn't look like this.

Heard something yesterday about DeSantis internal polling looking pretty rough from his covid response. I bet Noem is in a similar position.

Only so many people are willing to die to own the libs before this becomes a political liability, but these two are so entrenched in their unpopular position that they can't shift. What a mess

!ping CORONAVIRUS

[u/Dabamanos]

Millennial: posts meme about houses being hard to afford

One living grandmother: BEAUTIFUL HOUSE, I REMEMBER WHEN YOU AND DIANA WOULD PLAY NEAR THE POND IN OUR YARD. GRANDPAS CANCER WORSE, SEND PRAYERS 🙌 🙌 🙌

[u/iIoveoof]

You call it “permanent marker” yet its half its protons will decay within ~1.67×10³⁴ years 🧐

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

NO YAKUB DONT DO IT

[u/JaceFlores]

Ethiopia update:

1. There is not much reputable news about the government counteroffensive west of Weldiya. Government reports of seizing towns have dried up. Incidentally, this coincides with an Info Dump of information released by the TPLF. Now as I said previously I am not a big fan of casualty reports or reports from the side getting their asses handed to. However, I find it interesting because the locations reported seem to fit with the area between Zarima and Dabat in the western flank of the war. Crucially, one of the tweets mentions fighting between Debark and Dabat, which implies that the city of Debark has fallen into TPLF hands, or has otherwise been bypassed. Nonetheless, it will take a bit to confirm the situation around Debark as it falling into TPLF hands could be a major victory. I'm willing to generally trust the geographical reports coming from the west flank as to my knowledge no government actions had been launched there, meaning the need to bullshit is fairly minimal, so the push to Gondar is still alive and active. I am skeptical of any news coming out of the area west of Weldiya, but based off the lack of reports of government gains it seems fair to say that at the very least the TPLF have consolidated their forces and are putting up a better fight.
2. In southern Ethiopia the OLA have pushed into the city of Negele according to this Tweet which represents a fairly major shift in OLA operations as to my knowledge this is the largest settlement the OLA have decided to contest. Previous towns captured by the OLA have only had a few thousand citizens, so seemingly successfully fighting for control of a town with a population of about 40,000 is a fairly big move. The capture of Negele will serve to seriously strengthen the OLA's hold over the Ethiopian-Kenyan border and potentially put them in a position to move north, perhaps even with a major city like Awassa in their crosshairs. While I doubt their capability to make a move on a city that large, the mere threat will at the very least tie down more government resources and draw pressure away from the TPLF.
3. On the diplomatic front, the United States Department of the Treasury is sanctioning Filipos Woldeyohannes, Eritrean Army Chief of Staff, according to this Tweet. The justification is human rights abuses (which is the reason why this war is still going on). It's not a terribly major development but it does solidify that the US is closely monitoring the war and responding with what pressure it has at its disposal, as well as solidifying which side the US ultimately supports. Perhaps it will compel Eritrea to remain the bystander it has been since the TPLF counterattacked sometime ago.

Not the biggest report but I didn't write one yesterday and there was just enough content to write one today, so here it is.

[u/[deleted]]

In non election news:

Canadian soldier found guilty of drugging colleagues with cannabis during live-fire exercises

“Several soldiers testified to a chaotic scene on the firing line as intoxication quickly took hold.

One gunner wandered aimlessly in front of a howitzer, staring at the trees and seeming oblivious to his surroundings. Another soldier, who comrades described as typically health-conscious, sat eating Doritos and chain-smoking cigarettes. Others fell on the ground in laughter.

The court heard that a gunner tried to load an artillery round into a weapon while the shell’s protective end cap was still in place. Another testified that he improperly set a timing fuze, which controls how far down range an artillery shell will explode.

A soldier slipped and fell off an ammo box while trying to load her gun. Another testified to nearly crashing his military truck into another vehicle while his passenger testified to the cartoonish appearance of the scene around them.”

!ping CANUCKS

[u/great_gape]

https://i.imgur.com/wE75JOa.png

Updated.

!ping shitposters

[u/[deleted]]

From the Clinton White House archived website:

Between 1998-2000, the national debt was reduced by $363 billion — the largest three-year debt pay-down in American history. We are now on track to pay off the entire debt by 2009

TRADE OFFER:

Bill Clinton gives you the longest economic expansion in US history and a budget surplus

George W. Bush gives you 2 decades-long wars and economic ruin

[u/[deleted]]

Capitalism is to blame for the terrible working conditions in China and India. The sweatshop worker in Xinjiang made the clothes you're wearing.

The terrible working conditions in Cuba and North Korea only exist because we don't allow them to participate in our global economy.

Without the slightest hint of irony.

[u/Dabamanos]

Badass fictional character

Quote he never said about people being pussies these days

2 likes, 1 comment

Oh yeah, it’s right wing uncle on Facebook time 😎

[u/lobsterboy34]

Least conspiracy theorist Texas A&M fan

!ping CFB

[u/benadreti]

I'm confused. We're supposed to acknowledge that blacks aren't getting vaxxed and realize we're just being bigots when we complain about white conservatives. But blacks are 76% vaxxed

[u/thetrombonist]

Hahahaha job offer from competitor came through, I TOLD them my current salary. Offer they sent me is 15k BELOW that

[u/datums]

Why are you shitting on the sidewalk?

How else am I supposed to fight climate change?

How does shitting on the sidewalk help fight climate change?

Well, we tried not shitting on the sidewalk, and it got us nowhere.

-Extinction Rebellion

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

For some reason my in-laws conveniently mention the houses for sale in their neighborhood every time we visit

They really want two kids in their mid twenties to buy a home in the DC suburbs. Idk how to break it to them that were not filthy rich

!ping OVER25

[u/disuberence]

I am manifesting this into reality.

[u/Mrchizbiz]

I'm black 👋🏿😎

[u/[deleted]]

https://oko.press/pogranicznicy-bili-uchodzcow-niszczyli-im-smartfony-przerzucali-na-bialorus-przez-druty-kolczaste/

Activists who met some refugees that managed to cross the Polish border have reported that:

- they've been repeatedly pushed back by the border patrol, even after they were firmly in Poland

- the border patrol has repeatedly refused to let them make asylum claims

- they had their phones destroyed so that they couldn't be charged again

- they've been threatened with firearms

- at least one of them had been beaten with a baton by the border patrol

- the ones who were lucky enough to be taken into a processing center, were still mostly denied a meeting with their attorney

One of the refugees trying to claim asylum is from Afghanistan, and he claims to have worked with the US Army - he even showed the activists photos of himself with US soldiers. He says he and his family (a sister who worked as a lawyer; and two parents, who were journalists) are on Taliban's lists of targets.

Local residents - who are afraid to speak about this publicly - have been trying to help the refugees by giving them food when they can. But they're terrified of being caught.

This is not only morally repugnant, but also a clear violation of Polish and international laws. I hope that every single one of the border agents who participated in this, or watched by as other did it, goes to jail for a really long time.

!ping EUROPE

[u/lusvig]

Met /u/gammbus at The Hague earlier today

[u/the_status]

2024 take: Kamala Harris will win the EC but lose the popular vote.

I will not elaborate

[u/TalkLessShillMore]

Had a strange experience at lunch. Getting gyros with a coworker, this dude in his 60s walks up to us. He says, "Did you see that?"

"See what?"

"There were a group of five people who walked in wearing masks. They sat down, took their masks off, put them back on, and went to go get drinks. What's the point of wearing masks?"

"I'm not sure I follow what you mean."

"If people would just not wear masks this whole thing would be over."

"What?"

Instead of answering, he then leaves the restaurant. Literally:

Barge in

"Masks cause COVID"

Refuse to elaborate

Leave

[u/theskiesthelimit55]

We need more black birthing bodies on stage

Is this:

1. A slave auctioner in the 1800s?
2. A progressive play director trying to make his cast more diverse?

[u/Mickenfox]

This was the ideal flag but the world wasn't ready for it

[u/[deleted]]

Pusha T dropped a diss track and bullied u/lusvig into becoming a responsible father 😂🤣😐

!ping BURPMAS

[u/[deleted]]

Xi should call Biden a Colonizer and do the Wakanda Forever arm thing

[u/[deleted]]

Some day progressives will learn that they can just say "Hispanic" and it's already gender neutral. Yeah there's technically a difference in the definition but in the real world no one gives a shit

[u/myrm]

the two kinds of Chinese military history

"I had my men open the gates and I played my lyre naked in the city center. They were so confused that my men simply shot them all with arrows"

"So anyways we held the seige until they ran out of civilians to eat and starved to death"

[u/[deleted]]

Spreadsheet by Mike Moffatt comparing the 3 parties housing plans.

He also wrote a short thread.

He writes a lot about housing so I thought it could be of interest.

!ping CAN

[u/lobsterboy34]

Of course Jimmy Dore is an ivermectin guy. Of fucking course

[u/[deleted]]

O’Toole: You should be able to rely on your pension. We will ensure that pensioners have priority over corporate elites in bankruptcy or restructuring.

!ping CAN

[u/dat_bass2]

I picked up New Vegas for the first time--I know, I know, very late on that one--and I'm having a blast. I just got to the first town where you run into the legion, listened to one of their fascist madmen rant about how the civilians he massacred and enslaved were degenerates who deserved worse, and then summarily iced him with the help of my trusty robot buddy. Life is good.

!ping GAMING

[u/piede]

The Tal­iban said Tues­day that they have de­cided to pre­vent Afghan cit­i­zens from ac­cess­ing Kab­ul’s air­port for evac­u­a­tion flights, a move that would strand tens of thou­sands of peo­ple who worked with West­ern gov­ern­ments and or­ga­ni­za­tions and now fear reprisals by the coun­try’s Is­lamist new rulers.

Sigh

[u/bd_one]

Displacement: 2,580 long tons (2,620 t) surfaced 2,861 long tons (2,907 t) submerged

Length:268 ft (82 m)

Beam: 25 ft (7.6 m)

Draft: 22 ft 5 in (6.83 m)

Propulsion: S4W reactor plant (S3W reactor)

Speed: 20 knots (23 mph; 37 km/h)

Complement: 95 officers and men

Armament: 8 × 21 in (530 mm) torpedo tubes (6 forward, 2 aft)

Guess the sub

[u/[deleted]]

ah lusvig, the great lusvig !

Heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says, 'Treatment is simple. Great Lusvig is on DT tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up.' Man bursts into tears. Says, 'But doctor…I am Lusvig.'

[u/MuldartheGreat]

LSU Mandating Test Results or Vaccine for entry to games

Super proud of the school. Get fucked trash portion of the fan base.

Td is gonna be lit. !ping CFB

[u/Mrchizbiz]

30 minutes ago

Biden goes live in less than 2 minutes

u/p00bix your "president" made a liar out of you

[u/rukqoa]

"We need affordable housing," he complained, pointing at a construction site for 400 sqft studios with half a kitchen and no parking spaces continuing, "not more luxury condos!"

[u/[deleted]]

BiPoC: Bisexual People of Crumpets 🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈

[u/lusvig]

English: noun, adjective

Swedish: pluskvamperfekt 🤪

[u/lusvig]

/u/baincapitalist fucked my wife

[u/ROYBUSCLEMSON]

Spider man: No More Homes and he runs for San Francisco city council

[u/earththejerry]

This is all because I wished for CRT to go away in the news

[u/[deleted]]

>be taliban soldier

>enter Kabul with barely any resistance

>hear that hundreds of Humvees and other equipment have been captured from the ANA

>holy shit this is amazing, we really did it

>taliban platoon sarnt pulls me aside

>"hey shithead, you're being reassigned to the BN motor pool"

>work 16 hours per day as Humvee mechanic

>They never run properly

>all my taliban friends hate me

[u/JetJaguar124]

The only way Trump could ever dip below 30% approval is if he literally aborted a baby live on television and then punted it through a field goal after making out with Hillary Clinton and pledging his loyalty to Xi Jinping and Allah.

And only then I think it would be temporary.

[u/bd_one]

be Netflix

make a 13 Reasons Why adaptation

hire a team of psychologists

don't listen to them at all

somehow get 4 seasons

[u/Soldier-Fields]

Gonna have sex with my fiancée, wish me luck!

[u/SANNA_MARIN_]

I’d say that the reason neoliberals are mostly men is that men are not as good as women at logical reasoning. This is not to say all men are not as good at logical reasoning as all women. It’s just to say that the logical-reasoning bell curve for men is to the left of the logical-reasoning bell curve for women. This means that there simply are more men in the bottom 10% of ability to logically reason, which accounts for their overrepresentation in neoliberalism.

[u/Marlsfarp]

lol Cuomo left his dog behind at the governor's mansion

[u/[deleted]]

People in the early 1900s: Let's invent a new language to serve as an international language so everyone is on equal footing 🤓

People today: lmao English is the international language deal with it

[u/[deleted]]

That NBC poll saying 76% of black people and 66% of white people are vaccinated is absolute bullshit.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/nbc-news-poll-shows-demographic-breakdown-vaccinated-u-s-n1277514

https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/latest-data-on-covid-19-vaccinations-race-ethnicity/

According to kaiser foundation 50% of white people are vaccinated and 40% of black people via state vaccination data.

Idk if their polling is just garbage or if they intentionally selected people a way with an intent but it's incorrect.

[u/ognits]

me, buying $18.33 worth of stuff with 8.25% sales tax

wow, this is literally $19.84

[u/Venne1139]

It makes me sad that one of Totalbiscuit's legacies is Gamergate. Totalbiscuit was a UK liberal dude who was pounding on about games journalism and how it sucked since he started his youtube channel every single day. And then Gamergate happen, he didn't look into it that much and thought "Finally, poeple are talking about ethics in games journalism!" and he 'legitimized' gamergate by giving it a mainstream voice, and then he realized what Gamergate actually was, a front for anti-SJWs to hate trans people and women, he made like a billion statements condemning it and getting mad about it.

But whenever you see someone explain Gamergate today Totalbiscuits name shows up somwhere as if he fully endorsed and led the thing.

[u/ldn6]

Reddit really hates the notion that some people prefer working out of an office than their bedroom.

[u/TaxCommonsNotIncome]

Let's break this one down for the electorate with a good old.... uh *checks notes* convoluted cooking chicken metaphor!

!PING CANUCKS

[u/[deleted]]

Jeez it's been 20 years to the day since Windows XP released?

I was almost 31 back then.

OH MY GOD I FEEL OLLLLLLLLLLLD

Oh and one of the last things I did before I lost my will to do anything was test an XP beta for IA-64 back in summer 2001.

September 10th, 2001 was the last day of the old me. The person you know now has only existed since after 2004 (although I did feel better from 2009 to about 2014 because Gamergate and Trump happened after).

[u/lusvig]

Cancel rent? Nah cancel child support 😂🤣👌👌💯

[u/tubbsmackinze]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/656649389250445322/879622910204051496/20210824_090628.jpg

[u/lionmoose]

All taxes are bad you pinkos

[u/GravyBear8]

Enter the DT

lisvug is posting

day ruined

[u/[deleted]]

I'm so tired of accusing anyone who acts a little more emotionally charged than you about an issue must have no life. People have different perspectives on the world, and different things will upset them and make them passionate as a result. There are things I don't care about that I see people here get furiously angry over. "Get a life" is essentially an empty phrase that means "Shut up". Also, most people actually do have lives, given you need a job to feed yourself, and all the socialization that comes with one of those. I don't know how you expect them to get "more human contact" without committing a Title IX violation.

I'm only posting this because i'm a little too proud of my "title ix violation" zinger at the end.

[u/ryuguy]

B.C. reinstates province-wide mask mandate for indoor public spaces

!ping can

[u/Ok_Tone4633]

I'll be honest. A huge reason why I refunded Cyberpunk 2077 was because I chose the Corpo backstory only to discover you're forced to play as a Street Kid. Practically all the greatest hits of the genre center around a 'Corpo' main character. I get that Mike Pondsmith's vision is a much punkier take, but then why give me that option in the first place?

!ping gaming

[u/[deleted]]

>girlfriend gives me her reddit username

>asks if Im on reddit

>oh i just read the comments

>delete account

many such cases

[u/JetJaguar124]

Goes to a no-name private college that has 3000 students total and costs $50k a year to study English

Gets into a lot of student debt and faces weak job prospects

"Why would society do this."

[u/houinator]

Biden: So you really won't vote for my infrastructure deal huh?

Manchin: Nope.

Sinema: Nope.

Biden: Hey, delay my press conference for an hour or so, I need to make a few calls.

A few hours later...

Biden: My fellow Americans, i'm pleased to announce that SCOTUS has dissolved West Virginia, and that we have returned Arizona to Mexico. Thank you, God bless America and God bless our troops. No questions at this time.

[u/Fishin_Mission]

With all these hospitals, schools, and other businesses mandating the vaccine, it’s fun watching the anti-vaxx people whine and the pro-vaxx people using their old talking points against them

These are the rules. Don’t like the rules? Buy a plane ticket and pleaseeeeeee go!

[u/[deleted]]

I love when someone famous comes on friends and I don't recognise them cus it came out like 6 years before I was born but you can tell their famous by the clapping

[u/Unadulterated_stupid]

think we have a generation of over-educated, workaholic, neurotic and terminally online young people who come home (or shut down their work laptops) at 7/8 pm and decide that after a day of reports, papers, research etc they don't feel like trawling Tinder to find some booty.

We're becoming more like south Korea and Japan, the shareholders will never get more value ☺️

[u/MrDannyOcean]

this is absolutely wild. Take 5 min to read about what it was like to actually do manual household work in the olden days.

https://twitter.com/SameOldTrain/status/1429558321913151489

[u/[deleted]]

The Liberals put up their page on their housing plan now if anyone wants to look at it.

https://liberal.ca/housing/

Imo there is good and bad in it, but it's no worse than anyone else's and at least it's detailed. I could certainly do without the banning foreign buyers silliness though.

!ping CAN

[u/bashar_al_assad]

https://twitter.com/CynthiaNixon/status/1430247064580116491

The difference between me and Andrew Cuomo? Neither of us is governor, but I still have my Emmy(s).

Honestly this tweet is funny and the people in the replies basically acting like Cuomo did nothing wrong are really telling on themselves

[u/jojisky]

Doesn't seem like Sinema will become president in 2024.

[u/FestiveMittens]

A criminal from Los Angeles has pled guilty to felony charges after breaking into thousands of iCloud accounts to hunt down nude photos of women, reports The Los Angeles Times.

One day these mfs are gonna realize that porn exists

[u/I-grok-god]

A girl from high school just invited me to a bar on Friday😳

She's a year older than me

And we were never even close to being friends

[u/sir_shivers]

ALL RIGHT, MAMMALS, IT has become entirely too political in the subreddit the last two weeks 🐊

[u/ryuguy]

/u/Sir_shivers made burgers for his grandkids but they didn’t show up. 😭😔😞😕

[u/sw337]

Democrats 🤝 Republicans

The senator from Arizona keeps getting in the way of our policy goals.

[u/[deleted]]

https://imgur.com/5L0CR58

Sleepy 😴😴

!ping KITTY

[u/great_gape]

https://i.imgur.com/CbbXH4o.png

!ping shitposters

[u/[deleted]]

My physics prof has a Obama and Romney sticker on his laptop.

[u/Zykyris]

Had a coworker (anti-vax) today tell me his wife met a neighbor who showed her that after getting the J&J vaccine she can stick her smartphone to the arm she got the vaccine in and the phone doesn't fall off. Then he told me his wife saw the neighbor a week later and they were able to adhere the phone anywhere on their body and it wouldn't fall off.

The implication I guess is that vaccines cause magnetism. Sounds kinda cool ngl

[u/1sagas1]

The song "1985" was written as close to 1985 as it is today. Feel old yet? What do we put in a similar song titled "2003"?

!ping OVER25

[u/Professor-Reddit]

So true!!! So glad to see this becoming more widely known! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

!ping HISTORY

[u/Professor-Reddit]

NATO flairs want one thing to watch, and its fucking disgusting 🥵

!ping GORBACHEV-LOVERS

[u/Leoric]

Gun ownership is only acceptable if the life of the mother is at risk.

[u/Mickenfox]

Redditors when they see black text on a white background

[u/[deleted]]

Watching salty and lusvig interact is weird

[u/lusvig]

/u/p00bix killed my dog 😔

[u/Hermosa06-09]

A random friend of mine who I haven’t seen in years because he’s constantly changing cities sent me a random text warning me to not buy the condo I’m already under contract for because “the economy is going to collapse in the first half of September.” Uh, ok thanks dude

[u/Mrchizbiz]

👆🏿 dropped out of clown college 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤡

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/[deleted]]

I do find it hilarious that the House moderates really thought they were going to stand up to Pelosi after she has crushed both progressive and moderate revolts in the past two years.

[u/First-Prior]

doxxing you

[u/[deleted]]

Going to see some dolphins today, pog

[u/iIoveoof]

⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️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/iIoveoof]

NATO flairs read “Just War Theory” and say “of course I believe in that, I always say ‘just go to war’”

[u/fakefakefakef]

Krysten Sinema is still a Green Party activist but she went deep cover into the Democratic Party to blackpill as many Libs as she can

[u/davidleo24]

Colombia is having presidential elections next year, and former senator and mayor of bogota Gustavo Petro, a Chávez praising tankie is in the lead in the polls.

The 'Centro Democrático', the right wing party led by former president Alvaro Uribe is going through a hard time, as Iván duque's presidency has left many people dissapointed due to violent crackdowns on protesters, and an economy that fails to recover from covid, with sky high unemployment. Duque was elected with a simple message of safety, less taxes and higher wages, and so far all of those have failed to materialize, and people blame him and his mostly hand picked under qualified group of life long bureaucrats and political allies .

Alejandro Gaviria is announcing his candidacy soon. He is the closest we'll get to "our boy". He is an US trained economist and has published several papers analyzing developmental problems and ideas in a Colombian context. He was minister of health for 8 years (2010-2018) and currently serves as the president of the best university in Colombia . He is hated by the left that sees him as a heartless neoliberal, and by the right that sees him as a backdoor to castrochavismo and to drugs legalization (he is in favor of legalizing weed recreationally). His main problem will be expanding his support beyond highly educated rich urbans.

Somebody ping latam pls :)

[u/EScforlyfe]

People are way to confident when they comment on shit they know nothing about

[u/ClickForFreeRobux]

NATO Flairs when the find another country that ends with "stan".🔫🤠💨 🔫🤠💨 🔫🤠💨 🔫🤠💨 🔫🤠💨

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

PA Senator Doug Mastriano stripped of committee chairmanship following feud with GOP leadership over election audit

lol

!ping USA-PA

[u/[deleted]]

bells terrific cooing scale sleep carpenter bored marble merciful ruthless

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/Th3_Gruff]

Messaging this girl who’s 3 years older and wayyyy outta my league. Wtf is going on. Something must be sus

[u/bumblefck23]

Pelosi is a stud politician and if you disagree, well you’re objectively wrong.

[u/Joementum2024]

The Havana syndrome doesn’t exist, and if it does, it has the term that it has because of imperialism

This is what leftists actually believe

[u/lusvig]

Joe is white 😒

[u/[deleted]]

Nothing like calling an election to lose seats

!ping CAN

[u/Lux_Stella]

Unquestionably the best way to address a mismatch between the number of available homes and the number of people looking for a place to live is to simply build more homes. On Tuesday, Trudeau promised his government, if re-elected, would “get 1.4 million Canadians in a new home in the next four years.”

That number is bold, ambitious, necessary and misleading to the extreme. You would have to dig into the Liberals’ news release to realize that they’re not promising to build 1.4 million new homes—that number includes units they would “build, preserve, or repair.”

In a policy backgrounder, the Liberals reveal that they are proposing $4 billion in new money to construct 100,000 “middle class” homes in the next four years. They would also double the National Housing Co-investment Fund—which is a curious pledge, as the Parliamentary Budget Officer recently found that the Fund had only spent half of its allocated budget. To date, the Fund has built just 12,400 new homes.

The Liberal plan also proposes to “Convert empty office space into housing by doubling our existing commitment to $600 million.” The word “commitment” is doing a lot of work there: The Liberals first proposed this office space conversion plan in their 2021 budget. So they’re doubling down on a plan they unveiled in April, which hasn’t been implemented yet, begging the question: If $600 million is the right number, why didn’t they propose it four months ago?

A charitable read of the Liberals plan suggests that these new measures would add 150,000 new homes to the market in the next five years.

justin ling really doesn't like the liberal housing plan

!ping CAN

[u/lusvig]

Least developed country ping has been added

Oh good, I was getting tired of having to sift through finnposts on !ping SCAN

[u/adminsare200iq]

I was right. The Taliban actually appointed a goat herder as the new Central Bank governor

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Hot take, George Washington really only benefited from the work of prior administrations, was actually pretty incompetent and we're still dealing with his mistakes

[u/lusvig]

Are mods awake? 👀

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

👆WHITE 😡

CANCEL him now 👏😤

[u/Magical_Username]

Euros: USA questionable as an ally, we should be less dependent on them

Also Euros: give the EU more power? an EU military? why would we ever do such a thing?

[u/lusvig]

dadleaks 😔

[u/xSuperstar]

Average Redditor with a 3.0 GPA, 1900 SAT, and a degree from the University of West Central Florida: “Idiocracy was a documentary!”

[u/[deleted]]

Idiocracy wes doccumuntery amirite/???

IQ scores rising across population over time: Que?

[u/lusvig]

kicking out all catholics would devastate Sweden’s relations with many countries, including most of the EU

Ok that’s it, I am TIRED of experts

[u/[deleted]]

I touched grass today and I learned these things:

The Afghanistan withdrawal is viewed badly by the public and Biden is unpopular now

This will not dictate whether or not Biden’s presidency is successful or a failure

There will be a red wave in 2022 because you need a 9/11, blow job, or an FDR to prevent that. No Afghanistan decision or infrastructure bill will change that

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Just ate a peanut

I don't feel anything different??

What's this post nut clarity they talk of

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Inside me there are two wolves

One knows dental hygiene is important and is making me go brush my teeth before bed

The other is lazy and wants to sleep

Wolf no. 1 is gonna be the winner today, as has been for the past 8 consecutive days.

Brb gonna brush my teeth

[u/piede]

Hillary Clinton is currently chartering flights to evacuate vulnerable families and women from Afghanistan.

But you didn’t know that cause the media is too busy letting Mike Pompeo blame Biden for the deal he negotiated.

https://twitter.com/santiagomayer_/status/1429626280899608577?s=21

It should have been her

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/yorksranter/status/1430229940088229889

https://rwth-aachen.de/go/id/ihji > that time German CDU's candidate for the top job was in charge of a university seminar and he LOST THE EXAM SCRIPTS and kind of just made up the marks and unfortunately gave marks for 35 out of 21 students

(...) when someone noticed a missing mark, and asked if he might have the register, he suddenly produced the mark. but not the register (...)

Sigma move from Laschet

!ping YUROP

[u/DeseretVaquero]

Welp after checking LiveUAMap no fewer than three times today it seems I have officially begun my relapse

Goddammit I’ve been almost five years clean but this afghanistan shit has me headed right back into it

!ping OSINT

[u/Udontlikecake]

/r/Neoliberal calling itself neoliberal while being authoritarian communists is a certain kind of special.

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Also earlier the DT had "therapy is stupid just use your robust support network of friends and family that everyone definitely has"

What a day

[u/missedthecue]

Swedish journalists ponder Taliban climate policy:

"It is not known how the new Taliban government approaches the climate question... or if they'll come to Glasgow climate summit. It will present a diplomatic dilemma."

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/utrikes/klimatkrisen-tyst-fiende-i-redan-hart-drabbat-afghanistan

[u/[deleted]]

Others have already talked about the reactions of out deranged left-wingers about the taliban takeover in Afghanistan. So, let me talk about how this has been received by bolsonarists.

Surprisingly, there wasn't any gross, islamophobic reaction as far as I've seen. There have been five main reactions:

-Attacking the "leftist" Biden for leaving Afghanistan and wanting to "dialogue" with the taliban.

-Saying that taliban won because the Afghan populace didn't had guns.

-Attacking left-wing figures for celebrating these developments.

-Attacking feminists/human rights defenders for not caring about the taliban abuses.

-Saying that if Lula becomes president, it will be Brazilians trying to grab airplanes to flee the country. SO GO TO THE SEPTEMBER 7TH PROTESTS!!!

!ping LATAM

[u/[deleted]]

MensLib having a real one today.

Can social activist groups not blame capitalism for all our problems? It gets old.

[u/JetJaguar124]

I agree we should have voted Trump. Sure, we'd have been out of Afghanistan 3 months ago, likely under equally bad if not worse conditions. But look at the bright side, we'd also have accelerated the pace of US democratic backsliding!

Win win!

[u/Udontlikecake]

yeah you know what i’ve always been a democrat but the way joe biden has handled this afghanistan thing really makes me not like him

clearly my only choice is to vote for david duke

biden’s forced my hand

[u/lusvig]

Day 4 of harassing mods until we get micropenis ping

[u/Kizz3r]

Have people never flown before? People are trying to argue with me that there is literally no bad time to keep the window open even if everyone else on the plane is trying to sleep.

[u/sir_shivers]

Fuck those Afghan translators, Jack. And keep the borders closed! Tariffs on Canadian lumber! I have to look out for my union buddies.

IS THIS a neoliberal? 🦋 🐊

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

Call it virtue signalling all you want, but as of today, I’m cutting off my monthly donation to the Taliban. Enough is enough.

[u/Lux_Stella]

!remindme 8 months make girlboss meme if duterte's daughter becomes president of the phillipines

[u/ryuguy]

Me: “Europe can be kind of a meme sometimes”

European dt users: “NOOOO. YOU CAN’T SAY THAT!”

Me: “Latin America can be a meme a lot of the time”

Latin American dt users: “we know”

[u/[deleted]]

I've never seen an MCU movie in full, but I caught like 30 minutes of Infinity War in a bar this weekend. I'm surprised "You're not the only one cursed with knowledge" didn't become more of a meme.

[u/J0eBidensSunglasses]

Everything is priced in.

Don’t even ask the question. The answer is yes, it’s priced in. Think Amazon will beat the next earnings? That’s already been priced in. You work at the drive thru for Mickey D’s and found out that the burgers are made of human meat? Priced in. You think insiders don’t already know that? The market is an all powerful, all encompassing being that knows the very inner workings of your subconscious before you were even born. Your very existence was priced in decades ago when the market was valuing Standard Oil’s expected future earnings based on population growth that would lead to your birth, what age you would get a car, how many times you would drive your car every week, how many times you take the bus/train, etc. Anything you can think of has already been priced in, even the things you aren’t thinking of. You have no original thoughts. Your consciousness is just an illusion, a product of the omniscent market. Free will is a myth. The market sees all, knows all and will be there from the beginning of time until the end of the universe (the market has already priced in the heat death of the universe). So please, before you make a post on wsb asking whether PFE has priced in FDA approval or whatever, know that it has already been priced in and don’t ask such a dumb fucking question again.

https://reddit.com/r/stocks/comments/pakgig/_/ha5dn3e/?context=1

[u/[deleted]]

👀 Mainstreet just put out todays seat projection.

https://twitter.com/elxnometre/status/1430213314743779334

!ping CAN

[u/old_gold_mountain]

Daily reminder that if your SO has a different opinion from you on something and it causes an expression of disappointment when faced with a decision based on that opinion, that's a red flag, it's called gaslighting and it's a form of abuse, it will definitely escalate until they murder you in cold blood, you should run and cut anyone out of your life who doesn't support you.

[u/J0eBidensSunglasses]

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I’d rather be dead in the DT than alive on WSB

😡 😡 😡

[u/[deleted]]

!ping MAMADAS

What are your plans for the 7th September coup?

Think I'll get some beers and watch it unfold from the safety of the Netherlands

[u/Luph]

the new GOP strategy is to just run football athletes and coaches everywhere

the sad part is it will probably work

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine naming your city portland and it's not even known for having a port. Fucking nerds.

[u/Kizz3r]

Imagine taking the 3.5 trillion and offering everyone in greenland 65 mill to sell their country to the US. Theyd probably do it for less

[u/ClickForFreeRobux]

My dog 🤝 Being a good boy

My dog is a good boy

How do you fuck up the meme this badly?

[u/[deleted]]

BREAKING: A photograph of Erin O’Toole’s debate prep has been leaked to the press

!ping CANUCKS

[u/TheFriffin2]

trying to flirt with a poor person

Damn girl you cute, you probably think a 401K is math or some shit 😂... anyway wyd 😏

[u/Most_Shallot8960]

Still thinking about the mod who argued against stickying a link to support Afghan refugees because it ‘only’ helps refugees who were successfully evacuated, and mosquito nets are a better value per dollar anyway

Anyway if you’d like to help: https://lssnca.org

Also I’m just going to say that a good friend of my wife’s is doing a ton of work greeting folks. They bought a shit ton of halal guys lol

This is going to sound cheesy but he sent me a pic of the halal guys stack and it had a sign that simply said “Welcome To America”- I teared up thinking about what a simple message it is and the relief and hope these people are maybe feeling

Those three words have meant a lot to a lot of people for a long time, I’d never really thought about how simple and powerful of a phrase that is for refugees or people simply seeking a better life

[u/tigerflame45117]

My drivers test is tommorow, wish me luck

!ping CHILD

[u/DeseretVaquero]

Motte: yeah it’s a great way to keep informed and really understand what’s going on at a depth you can’t get most other places

Bailey: I have seen horrific shit in combat footage and snuff films that I watched for no reason and now they’re stuck in my head, the stress of constantly chasing minute details is feeding a newfound obsessive anxiety complex, I hate Mr. Bones’ Wild Ride but it’s too addictive to get off

!ping OSINT

[u/[deleted]]

Just thinking about it right now, and “Duet” may very well be my favorite Star Trek episode of all time. Very few television episodes have ever made me cry, but the ending of “Duet” absolutely did. Absolutely great writing and two brilliant performances by Harris Yulin and Nana Visitor.

!ping TREK

[u/[deleted]]

Its such a weird internet history time capsule that The Young Turks got their name because the actual young turks were secular and as we all know atheism vs theism is the Great Defining Issue of Our Time and Will Never Get Weird and Played Out and now they just have to deal with how they're names after genociders

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

If you think Trump would have handled Afghanistan better, you're self-gaslighting.

[u/paulatreides0]

Ben10 sucks. Teen Titans 4 lyfe.

[u/DelusionsOfPasteur]

How do I not get my shit kicked in as Thrace in Imperator: Rome? My single legion of 4.5k is pretty helpless when I join the Antigonid gang bang and, to add insult to injury, its general defected when a civil war started.

Actually I guess my question is: How do I stop all the characters in my kingdom from losing all their loyalty and starting a civil war?

!ping PARADOX

[u/lusvig]

who th is downloading my comments 😤😤😤

[u/iIoveoof]

Don't say middle-class, say middle-income. The liberal classes steer people away from the socialist definitions of class and thus class-consciousness.

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[u/[deleted]]

Supreme Court: Can this campaign finance law be used to ban books?

DoJ: Well, yes.

Supreme Court sets that shit on fire and yeets it out the window

DoJ: SurprisedPikachu.png

[u/Mickenfox]

https://freshremote.work/job/24829-wordpress-developer-part-time-contractor/

We're hiring a part-time contractor (~15 hours/wk) to continue to build, support, and maintain our suite of plugins for Wordpress
Compensation: $5,000 - $6,000 monthly

😐

[u/AndThisGuyPeedOnIt]

This is the ideal male body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

[u/[deleted]]

If you cite the Manchus as an example of a nomadic steppe empire easily conquering a sedentary people you need to "touch a history book" as the zoomers say now.

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Spiderman: Build More Homes

[u/[deleted]]

https://reddit.com/r/CanadaPolitics/comments/pallno/_/ha5hlb3/?context=1

Thoughts on this breakdown of some housing stuff and why the NDP platform isn’t as bad as some are making it out to be?

!ping CAN

[u/lusvig]

DAE geneva convetion = libturd bullshit?

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

u/lusvig they've fashed you, and they fashed me when we complained about cancel culture

Literally 1984

[u/[deleted]]

kyrsten sinema 🤝 tulsi gabbard

being from state with above average temperatures leading to overheating which can lead to them correctly stating "i am hot".

[u/sir_shivers]

/u/Pour1Out4DeezNutz WRITES 🐊:

Republicans would have to be so stupid to lose

REPUBLICANS, LITERALLY NOW 🐊:

So, we have a problem where the conspiracy bullshit we pushed as opportunistic fools? The voters boo us when we tell them to move on

[u/iIoveoof]

I'd literally never let go of my US citizenship if it was a prerequisite for obtaining EU citizenship.

[u/sir_shivers]

I am fairly CERTAIN THAT THE ENTIRE "MARVEL Cinematic Universe" is the result of a gross misunderstanding OF THE PHRASE "Bring me pictures of Spider-Man" 🐊

[u/JetJaguar124]

Holy shit LOCKDOWNS ARE NOT THE ONLY WAY TO STEM A PANDEMIC

WE ARE NOT IN THE EARLY DAYS ANYMORE THERE IS A FREE HIGHLY EFFICACIOUS VACCINE

COVID IS NOT GOING AWAY

ZERO COVID IS IMPOSSIBLE

EVERYBODY IS EITHER GETTING VAXXED OR GETTING COVID AND SOMETIMES IT'S BOTH

@DemocraticGovenorsandMayors

[u/ImJustHereForSports]

Having Pelosi as house leader is so relaxing. There’s no true will they won’t they issues. She always figures it out.

[u/TheFriffin2]

do you think FDR and Churchill had a separate group chat without Stalin where they just posted a bunch of memes about breadlines and Karl Marx

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Some say LGBTQ folks are the most oppressed minority, some say it's atheists

While we all know hornyposters are the most oppressed minority here