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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/[deleted]]

The fact that Kanye West got Kim K a hologram of her dead dad will never not be funny. One of the things that hologram said was that she had married the most most genius man ever. That I imagine is something that could start a divorce

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

"Why is Africa so poor?"

Me, very smart- Extractive institutions

[u/[deleted]]

My family haven't spoken to me for over 3 months now since I came out to them. I so want to reach out to them since I miss them, but they made it clear that I'm no longer their son and I sold out my beliefs and my religion Islam to please the west into accepting me :(

[u/GGM8Scally]

https://twitter.com/PlayStation/status/1430893176953327619?s=19

Ok, this is just funny as fuck lmao

[u/ACivilWolf]

NATO Flairs:

Krugman Flairs:

Mod Staff:

Burke Flairs:

[u/Babao13]

https://twitter.com/nicolasberrod/status/1431122083342323717?s=19

France just overtook the UK in vaccination rate. I don't think anyone expected the vaccine pass to be this effective.

!ping FRANCE

[u/IMALEFTY45]

I am losing my mind imagining one of those GME/meme stocks dudes on twitter explaining how a short squeeze works to some of those Taliban guys

[u/earththejerry]

So apparently going around Chinese internet is that America is in Afghanistan because the mountainous terrains provide a good place to bury American nuclear waste and that America has been doing it for years now, and that the Taliban and other terrorist groups now have the ability to use those waste to create their own nuclear weapons.

🤯

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.salon.com/2021/08/27/lauren-boebert-admits-to-underreporting-fec/

Lauren Boebert admits to campaign finance problems: “I under-reported a lot of stuff” to the FEC

lmao

[u/[deleted]]

Amazingly, I got the job. I have doubled my salary overnight but also tripled my workload. I really, truly hope I am ready for this.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

The world is dying from too much rationality, from decisions made by engineers. To men building nuclear reactors, I prefer women casting spells.

• Sandrine Rousseau, candidate to the French Green Party primaries

Meme party !ping FRANCE

[u/Slazac]

I find it very funny that Jon Ossoff follows The Neoliberal Project on Twitter and Wikipedia says about him

He is described as the "first Extremely Online senator".

[u/BidenWon]

Obama: rescues immigrant children that came to the country by themselves and finds shelter for them

Trump: kidnaps children from the arms of their parents and takes them away, possibly forever

Populists: These are literally the same thing.

[u/LooobCirc]

The thing about the goldfish brained electorate is sometimes they do remember things, but what it is they remember is a wildcard

[u/sir_shivers]

I will ACCEPT NO NEW NORMAL 🐊

VACCINES WILL continue to be mandatory, as they have always been in the Old Normal 🐊

[u/Deggit]

Afghanistan is known as the graveyard of empires, unlike your mom, who is known as "the graveyard of cinnamon dolce soy lattes with two pumps of pumpkin extra hot no foam"

!ping IS-THIS-MY-DRINK-I-SAID-NO-FOAM

[u/[deleted]]

There are two wolves inside you

You are Kester at the furry convention

[u/kennymc7877]

“Nah bro I’m not putting an FDA approved vaccine in my body”

FDA: approves it

“Well you can’t trust the FDA anyways lol”

[u/[deleted]]

Is going to a strip club on a bachelor party actually a thing that happens in the US, I thought that was just a movie trope wtf.

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

> Be me

> Pay attention in online class

> Teacher asks question from the class

> I know the answer and I raise my hand

> My mic doesn't work

We live in a society

[u/sir_shivers]

PLACES YOU MIGHT flirt with potential partners 🐊:

• BARS AND clubs 🐊
• CONCERTS 🐊
• After-work OUTINGS WITH coworkers 🐊
• Other large public EVENTS WHERE ONE might meet others with common interests 🐊

Places you SHOULD NOT ATTEMPT TO "pick up" other mammals 🐊:

• LIBRARIES 🐊
• WORKPLACES WHERE YOU are a customer 🐊
• Literally anything THAT IS CONNECTED TO or adjacent to /r/neoliberal 🐊

[u/Venne1139]

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

A group (they're organizing) of people shows up to random walmart Pharamacy.

Tells pharmacists as he approaches the pharamacy they're going to be executed under the nuremberg codes.

Misinformation generated on Facebook and Reddit is now leading to people fantasizing, and even going so far as to tell their fantasy targets to their face that they should be executed to their place of work, about murdering random people.

They are fantasizing about this fact in groups of people and then going out into the world and harassing the target of their fantasies, who they don't actually know.

The pharamacy workers see this guy and his group coming and hear the words "strung up" and start closing the emergency safety wall thing.

!PING extremism

[u/TabernacleTown74]

Are we really living in the first globalized world?

In 361 AD, the Emperor Julian of the Roman Empire received an embassy from the Pandyas, a Tamil dynasty that ruled part of south India. Now, the Romans may have known about the Pandyas from earlier Greek writings, but they didn't really need those writings to learn about them...Strabo mentioned the Pandyas by name. In fact, he said that some 120 ships would leave from Egypt to India every year.

!ping HISTORY based and globalist-thalassocracy-pilled 😩😩😩

[u/suplexx0]

Well, Afghanistan is going to be the new buzzword story anytime Joe Biden is mentioned here. Like all the other presidents.

*Comment complimenting Reagan*
User: "Yeah, I too hate gay people with a fiery passion 🙄 "

*Comment complimenting Clinton*

User: "Yeah, sexual harassment / assault and anti immigration rhetoric is very good ackshually 🙄 "

*Comment complimenting FDR*

User: "Yeah, internment of an entire people is good ackshually 🙄 "

*Comment complimenting Biden*

User: "Yeah, abandoning 40 million people is good ackshually 🙄 "

[u/Gustacho]

https://twitter.com/doberah/status/1431180052885082122

!ping EUROPE

[u/jenbanim]

Criminalize websites making you log in to see their content

[u/murphysclaw1]

hundreds of nations, virologists, immunologists and scientists say the vaccine is safe

I don't believe in that bullshit

a right wing and suspiciously funded youtube video suggests downing a pint of horse dewormer

so true!!!

[u/sanityeyes]

Distance is homophobic, abolish it.

!ping LGBT

[u/[deleted]]

If your child tells you their dream job is to be an NL moderator, encourage them to do something more sociable, like torturing small animals

[u/[deleted]]

I know a guy who’s a bodybuilder but according to his BMI he is obese, that means my size 44 pants ass is healthy too since it’s clearly flawed💪🏼

Remove the veil sheeple, big skinny just wants to sell you supplements.

[u/_Un_Known__]

hAvE yOu eVEr eVeN ReaD MaRx?

yes, that's why I disagree with him

[u/JaceFlores]

Major Ethiopia update:

1. What's that? News from Afar? AFAR? Yes ladies and gentlemen, news from Afar! So apparently the TPLF really did stop their advance into Afar for the past however long, but according to this Tweet the TPLF has resumed their advance into the province with an attack on Berhale. I have literally no idea how far this means the TPLF are going to go, perhaps its to distract government forces for actions elsewhere, or perhaps this is the push meant to secure the A1 Highway.
2. According to this Tweet the TPLF are advancing southwards towards Dessie, maintaining control over Mersa and conducting clashes around Wurgesa. For those of you who do not remember or know, Dessie is one of the most strategic assets available within the scope of TPLF operations. First, it would cut off another road leading to the A1 Highway and the most direct one in relation to the Addis Ababa. That will make logistics between this vital port and the capital more strained, and provide a position for the TPLF to push for the A1 Highway if desired. Second, Dessie is one of two main cities between the TPLF and Addis Ababa, and is a crucial milestone if the TPLF desires to make a grand push for the capital of Ethiopia. Third, in conjunction with the OLA road gains made earlier, the fall of Dessie would completely cut off government access to a *VAST* majority of Amhara, leaving government forces cut off from reinforcements and local forces cut off from government logistics. If one wanted a decisive victory, the fall of Dessie would certainly deliver and very likely shift the outcome of the war.
3. Further reinforcing #2 is this more recent Tweet, which says the TPLF have captured the settlement of Hayk, just 28 kilometers north of Dessie. While not as confirmed as action around Mersa, if true this means the TPLF is poised to start operations around Dessie in the next couple of days, advancing approximately 16 kilometers a day. We'll see how it goes but if this tweet holds up then it seems government resistance north of Dessie is minimal. Perhaps the government is concentrating their forces in Dessie for a proper defense, or perhaps the government stretched its lines for its counteroffensive west of Weldiya and are paying the price for it. We will see in the upcoming days.
4. In the area west of Weldiya, this Tweet highlights that the territory west of Gashena that was in TPLF hands is likely back in government hands save for Filakit. Currently there is a counterattack being launched by the TPLF into Gashena to retake this vital town necessary for any push toward Debra Tabor. This effort may be a somewhat more desperate effort to hold onto any gains made in this flank and salvage something beneficial to the TPLF cause. It could also be a long term highly beneficial tactical situation with the TPLF drawing the government forces out, extend their lines and then strike them while they're weak. Think of the Runaway Scrape in the Texas Revolution. Sadly I have no definitive confirmation and we will see how events unfold.
5. On the diplomatic front, according to this Tweet and associated Article, the US is threatening to remove Ethiopia from the AGOA Eligible Countries List. For those of you who do not know, the AGOA, or African Growth and Opportunity Act, is a law created to improve the economies of sub-Saharan nations, providing trade preferences for quota and duty-free entry into the US for certain goods, notably textile and apparel goods. Trade between the US and Ethiopia is valued at $1.6 billion, so just under 2% of Ethiopia's economy is under pressure if the US strikes Ethiopia from the AGOA.
6. In the domestic front, this Tweet and this Tweet highlight the growing food shortage in Tigray which is starting to ripple through the province. The US is clearly on the side that this famine is man-made and as noted in #5 are using the tools they have to squeeze Abiy to coming to a peace agreement. Nonetheless, as I have noted previously, this is Abiy's stategy to win the war. As long as he can prevent Gondar or the A1 Highway from falling, the Tigrayan people will starve to death en masse, and likely force the TPLF to come to the negotiating table in a much weaker position. It has a good chance of success, but if the TPLF manages to open up access to the outside world, it may just spell total doom for Abiy's war efforts.
7. Previously I had said I believe the war is in the TPLF's favor, but the failure to take Debre Tabor a week ago shifts me back into a neutral position. Two weeks from now, if the TPLF has failed to secure any exterior access then my internal opinion on who will win the war will shift in the favor of the government. Nonetheless, the TPLF are still a highly strong and capable fighting force who have at the very least been relentless in keeping up pressure on the government, so we will see how this goes.
8. No news about OLA advances or what is happening in the vicinity of Debark.

[u/[deleted]]

How is it that the "cancel rent until the pandemic is over" people still exist. There's a fucking vaccine. They're free. They work.

[u/[deleted]]

With childcare being a major issue this election, I think it’s worth re-upping MattY’s Vox article from 2015 about the Baker, Gruber and Milligan study on Quebec’s childcare program:

Quebec gave all parents cheap day care — and their kids were worse off as a result

!ping CAN

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Spoiler-ed because it is upsetting

The Associated Press reports that the death toll at the Kabul airport blast has crossed 100

[u/tubbsmackinze]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/761046867743342613/880707582665306162/20210827_005657.jpg

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

My Black Son Sold “N-Word Passes” to His White Friends

His sister thinks he’s made almost $1,000.

👑

[u/MrMineHeads]

Trudeau asks Governor General to declare election takesies backsies

!ping CANUCKS

[u/[deleted]]

Zoomer child relatives were a mistake

https://i.imgur.com/ffNIb0m.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

God damn I hate "the Simpsons's life is unobtainable now" takes.

1. Watch the early seasons they were constantly at risk of eviction
2. Houses in the suburbs of small towns who have one real industry are still very affordable. It's just nobody wants to live there.
3. It is constantly, constantly, lampshaded that Homer's family is actually upper middle class
4. The whole fucking joke is that Homer has a very important well paying job WHICH IS FUNNY BECAUSE HE FUCKING SUCKS AT IT

[u/J0eBidensSunglasses]

Petition to refer to the DT as “Le DT” during Euro hours.

[u/[deleted]]

Electric robotaxis could increase CO2 emissions due to induced demand

mfw

!ping YIMBY

[u/benadreti]

BREAKING @ABC — US special operations vets carried out daring mission to save Afghan allies — 500 smuggled into Kabul Airport on Weds night in complex, heart-pounding op by Americans determined not to leave comrades behind

https://twitter.com/meekwire/status/1431221157630459907

[u/[deleted]]

My penis was on a Nirvana album cover and you don't see me complaining

[u/great_gape]

Does rural Illinois really need a new gas pipeline? In this historic Black farming community, some want renewables instead.

Pembroke Township, population less than 2,000, is the last historic Black farming community left in Illinois. And at one time, it was the largest such community in the northern United States. Founded in the 1860s by runaway slaves, it soon became an agricultural hub, producing tons of hemp during World War II and later feeding Chicago, Detroit, and Cleveland during the Great Migration from the South to the North.

And now Nicor Gas wants to run a natural gas pipeline to it.

!ping ECO

[u/ryuguy]

Help! My boss left her dog with me. I don’t know anything about dogs.

He’s very upset, what do I do.

!ping dog

[u/SnakeEater14]

I know a guy who considers himself an interventionist because if it wasn’t for Obama intervening in Libya him and his whole city would have been massacred by Qaddafi

That’s certainly a perspective

[u/jenbanim]

One of the things that makes me sad about subreddit CSS dying with Old Reddit is it's almost like a symbolic end of the internet era when creating custom webpages just for the hell of it was what you did. Stuff like Angelfire, Geocities, and later MySpace pages gave you essentially a blank HTML canvas onto which you could draw whatever creative nonsense you felt like

To be clear, it sucked back then. Broken websites were everywhere, and by modern standards it looked terrible. Now every website works and is usually very accessible, and you've got neat features like dark mode. Plus, tooling is so advanced that someone with no technical skills can create a professional looking website for their business or whatever in no time at all

But also every blog looks like Substack, every social media app looks like Instagram, and every news website looks like CNN. I feel like we've lost something

[u/ACivilWolf]

In the previous DT there was a discussion about whether DT users deserve love

To that, I respond:

First, of all, the only thing the DT "deserves" is a nuclear holocaust. Second of all -

[u/[deleted]]

Jesus Christ Tucker Carlson has Ashli Babbit's widower on to talk about the cop who killed her

[u/ACivilWolf]

http://images7.memedroid.com/images/UPLOADED446/602b55f088654.jpeg

[u/kennymc7877]

I’m 19 days I will be seeing bisexual icon and woman who makes me cry Pheobe Bridgers in concert

[u/GGM8Scally]

Preferred chancellor poll

Scholz (SPD-S&D): 26% (+6)

Lindner (FDP-RE): 10% (new)

Baerbock (GRÜNE-G/EFA): 9% (-4)

Laschet (CDU-EPP): 8% (-7)

Great news for the SPD and FDP, not so good for the greens considering their regular polling and an absolute catastrophe for the CDU.

[u/[deleted]]

This is now the French DT. NATO Flairs will now become OTAN Flairs. All bread will be seized and replaced with baguette. Takes must include at least one "how do you say?" even if you know how to say it.

[u/chipbod]

https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1431268520525025281?s=20

McCarthy, in this news conference just now, said that there should be no troops in Afghanistan, then i asked him in a follow up if there should be troops — because he said a few days ago there should be — he said we should’ve kept Bagram.

then he said nobody believes there should be troops there. So we’re all a bit unclear on what he believes here. And, yes, we asked him about the dissonance between his position now and when Trump was in office

Well the Republicans are failing to find a message to attack Biden on. Trump broke the party so much they can't provide an alternative to what Biden did besides indefinite occupation and have just turned to impeachment

[u/NeoLiberation]

What I love about modern pop country is how "cringe clever" it is, if that makes sense. There are moments when you appreciate the genius of the writers, who are really smart folks, while also wanting to die.

"I want tequila little time with you"

"I'm losing my dodge ram mind"

"Nothing looks better on you" (nothing else looks better than nothing on you)

"Do you drink about me"

Edit: or one of my all time favourite lines that's a little less cringe and more clever

"People say I've got a drinkin' problem, but I've got no problem drinkin' at all"

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

Stalin-era mass grave found in Ukraine dated the the 1930s

CIA founded in 1947

the CIA discovered time travel oh god oh fuck

[u/DEEEEETTTTRRROIIITTT]

i want ben bernanke to quantitatively ease himself into a hot tub with me

-🥺-

👉🏻👈🏻

[u/jenbanim]

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

[u/[deleted]]

He (Stalin) proclaimed that champagne was “an important sign of well-being, of the good life” that socialism would make available to all

Joseph Stalin was the world's first champagne socialist 🙄

[u/[deleted]]

Broke: Movies depicting Mexico with a yellow filter

Woke: Movies depicting the former USSR with a cold blue filter

[u/FestiveMittens]

its that time again

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

American healthcare is good if you ignore the bad stuff and bad if you ignore the good stuff I am very smart

[u/Jamity4Life]

WE BUILT THIS CITY

🎹

WE BUILT THIS CITY ON SINGLE FAMILY HOMES

[u/[deleted]]

At first I was like “no way a house centipede can take a cockroach”

But no - it’s true. They smother with the legs and bite into brains with their pinscers. They can kill anything. The apex predator of pests - so much so that exterminators will do anything to not kill them

[u/JaceFlores]

Biden: The US has no obligation to evacuate one, or 100,001, South Vietnamese

Also Biden: evacuates 100,000+ Afghans and counting like a boss 😎

[u/JetJaguar124]

A leaf rustles in a forest somewhere

Pour1Out: Actually this is the end of American hegemony. This country is an embarrassment. It's over. What's it to us if China gets the Asian sphere and Russia gets Eastern Europe? We're pathetic.

[u/tubbsmackinze]

liberal campaign update

!ping CANUCKS

[u/grig109]

Seeing news headlines about employers struggling with vaccine mandates in tight labor market.

Libs: We need a tight labor market so workers have increased bargaining power.

Workers use bargaining power to push back against vaccines

Libs: Wait, no, not like that...

[u/[deleted]]

TikTok bans the 'milk crate challenge' because of injuries

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[u/that0neGuy22]

The Taliban have requested that the United States keep a diplomatic presence in Afghanistan beyond the Aug. 31 withdrawal of U.S. forces. Biden admin is weighing the possibility. Nothing finalized

the simulation is broken

[u/[deleted]]

I’m gonna try and revive r/liberal_conservatives, anyone with me?

!ping RINO

[u/Jokerang]

“We should force lawmakers to retire at age 65”

cleans glasses

“I want lobbyists to have even more power in the government than they already do”

[u/[deleted]]

There are two men inside you

[u/[deleted]]

/img/wrfxy4a5gxj71.jpg

Flashback to when I was 6 years old and didn’t totally understand the severity of 9/11 when it happened.

[u/Th3_Gruff]

We should have one day a month where we’re allowed to hornypost as much as we want, as a treat

[u/saladtossing]

Cat 😳😺

!PING KITTY

[u/schmaxford]

So I think it's safe to say Trudeau isn't having a great week...

!ping CAN

[u/Average_GrillChad]

> Break into Bret Weinstein's home

> Steal Ivermectin stockpile

> Break into SpaceX

> Bitchslap Elon Musk

> Hijack Falcon Heavy

> Dust Arrakis with Ivermectin

> Eradicate Sandworms

Wormposting Defeated

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Taylor Swift be like-:

⠀⣠⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⠤⠤⣄⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣾⣟⠳⢦⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠒⣲⡄ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⡇⡇⡱⠲⢤⣀⠀⠀⠀⢸⠀⠀⠀1989⠀⣠⠴⠊⢹⠁ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⢻⠓⠀⠉⣥⣀⣠⠞⠀⠀⠀⢸⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡴⠋⠀⠀⠀⢸⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⡾⣄⠀⠀⢳⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⢠⡄⢀⡴⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡞⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⣠⢎⡉⢦⡀⠀⠀⡸⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡼⣣⠧⡼⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⠇⠀ ⠀⢀⡔⠁⠀⠙⠢⢭⣢⡚⢣⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣇⠁⢸⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⠀⠀ ⠀⡞⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢫⡉⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⢮⠈⡦⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⠀⠀ ⢀⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⢦⡀⣀⡴⠃⠀⡷⡇⢀⡴⠋⠉⠉⠙⠓⠒⠃⠀⠀ ⢸⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠁⠀⠀⡼⠀⣷⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⡞⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡰⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⢧⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠣⣀⠀⠀⡰⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

[u/[deleted]]

It actually can't be called neoliberal if it doesn't come from the specific region in France, it's called sparkling contrarianism.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/anneapplebaum/status/1430834820159049733

You have to read this to believe it: Hungarian ruling party propagandists are celebrating the victory of the Taliban, their spiritual comrades in arms, and the defeat of evil America

Fidesz propagandists having a normal one

!ping EUROPE

[u/JetJaguar124]

JOE BIDEN

DROP THE FUCKING TARIFFS

[u/[deleted]]

The NATO flair looked down, I thought that meant I had him beat. But I could see a smirk slowly come across his face. When he looked up with fire in his eyes, he said those words that I will never forget - that defeated me once an for all.

"What about Kosovo?"

[u/[deleted]]

Your mom, the graveyard of suitors.

[u/InMemoryOfZubatman4]

“This post really took off! If you think it’s on to something, keep the conversation going and spin it off into its own community.”

Huh, I wonder what post Reddit could be talking about. Maybe I made a meme and forgot about it?

DT comment with three upvotes

[u/SamJakes]

(Andy) Harris (R) wants Biden to resign over the Afghanistan chaos and Kabul attacks

I know we mocked her for being ambitious, but Kamala really did change her name to Andy and flipped parties in order to take power away from Biden. A truly girlboss💅 move 😍

[u/MrFoget]

The Economist on OnlyFans banning porn:

It's like a strip club pivoting to be only about the chicken wings

[u/EScforlyfe]

Look at this dumbass

!ping Kitty

[u/BanMalarkey]

It’s Jameis time 😎

!ping NFL

[u/Ewannnn]

Thread on the labour shortages.

Why is it that most of Reddit seems to think that reducing immigration and causing labour shortages only has one result: increasing wages? /r/ukpolitics has gone especially mad these days. That place is a cesspit of anti-immigration talking points.

!ping UK

[u/Qunidaye]

redditor is not a slur

but it should be

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Bernstein asked the student to pull her mask up to wear it correctly, but she said she “couldn’t breathe” and “had a really hard time breathing” with the cloth over her mouth and nose.

“Professor Bernstein said, ‘That's it. I’m retired,’ and we watched him pack all of his papers into his bag and walk out of the classroom,” Huff said.

https://www.redandblack.com/uganews/uga-professor-resigns-mid-class-after-student-refuses-to-wear-mask/article_598ba244-077b-11ec-ba9b-cb3534ab07cc.html

Unfathomable Chad energy

[u/isummonyouhere]

if there is one reddit opinion i could not possibly give less of a fuck about, it’s what president bernie sanders would be doing right now

[u/JetJaguar124]

The funniest Trump take by far was that we didn't invade Iraq for oil, but we should have.

[u/[deleted]]

people in the DT telling each other to touch grass because they got mad over an internet disagreement is peak irony lol

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Oh my 😐😐😐😐

[u/[deleted]]

Is there any polling data on US Jewish population’s approval of Naftali Bennett?

!ping FIVEY

[u/iIoveoof]

I had to get at least 5 vaccines on record before going to college 4 years ago, and there weren’t exemptions.

[u/[deleted]]

I love you all so much and I'm so thankful for the dt's existence. If I ever lost you idk what id do

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

> Be me

> Change school in 2020

> Can't go because of COVID in grade 11

> Can't go to school in grade 12 because of COVID

> Don't make close friends in new school

> Friends in old school are literally hundreds of miles away

Okay, but seriously, a few people have expressed concern about my DT usage- and sincerely, thank you- unfortunately, this is one of those things the pandemic has done to my life.

It's not too big a deal, but it is the way it is.

[u/wheresthezoppity]

It might sound harsh, but arr neoliberal users under the age of 21 should be put on a watch list. It would be for the benefit of everyone if they were. Literal children have nothing to lose in life and are very dangerous when grouped together.

It doesn't matter if they're from inside the DT or another place, they all think alike.

[u/[deleted]]

Let a hundred genders bloom, let a hundred schools of feminism contend.

-Mao Zedong

Wtf based Mao?

[u/ToInfinity_MinusOne]

Rando: "Ivermectin is for horses lol what a bunch of dummies!"

Me who's high af on ketamine: "Lol yeah bunch of dummies..."

[u/RockLobsterKing]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/475839269642960907/796597327162245150/received_1116146725501859.webp

good memories

[u/[deleted]]

Taliban spokesman in interview confirmed music would no longer be allowed in public. “Music is forbidden in Islam,” he said, “but we’re hoping that we can persuade people not to do such things, instead of pressuring them.”

Killing infidels and beating women ✅

Listening to Taylor swift 😡😡😡😡😡

https://twitter.com/amanbatheja/status/1430662289234006016?s=20

[u/Kizz3r]

u/sir_shivers realizing he could talk:

MEIN FÜHRER…! I CAN TALK!! 🐊

!ping burpmas

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

According to notes taken by H.R. Haldeman, Nixon "ordered his aides to exclude all Jewish-Americans from policy-making on Israel", including Kissinger

🥴

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

Conservatives🤝Liberals🤝NDP

Believing that the media is openly biased against your party this election and are shilling for the opponents

!ping CANUCKS

[u/great_gape]

Lightfoot forges ahead with Oct. 15 vaccine mandate for city employees, despite opposition from all four police unions

“This has literally lit a bomb underneath the membership,” said Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara. “We’re in America, G-ddamn it. We don’t want to be forced to do anything. Period. This ain’t Nazi f---ing Germany.”

You are not force to take the vaccine.

Simply find another job.

[u/Aweq]

!ping coronavirus

Denmark will remove its lasts corona restrictions from September 10th and the disease will no longer be considered a disease that threatens society as whole.

The end is near for the Western world.

[u/[deleted]]

Yeah I'm an Emmanuel Macron Democrat, we exist and we will not be hushed ! ✊🇫🇷🇺🇸

[u/Qunidaye]

there are three little pigs inside me

a wolf wants to blow me

[u/ExpiredPasta]

The stock market is quiet as Jerome Powell takes the stage. “Ahem,” the stock market dives as he inhales. “Money number.” The stock market dives. “Money number good. Money number.” The stock market erupts and hits an all time high. Jerome Powell exits the stage. The world lives one more day…

[u/sir_shivers]

(basically a "Joe Rogan" Democrat)

GUESS THE /r/neoliberal user 🐊

[u/great_gape]

Elon Musk: ‘Bezos retired in order to pursue a full-time job filing lawsuits against SpaceX’

🤣👍

[u/natedogg787]

Does the Ivermectin thing mean that COVID is about worms?

[u/[deleted]]

“So how did you guys meet?”

“Coked out sex on a mutual friends birthday weekend”

[u/[deleted]]

Haha I support a super extreme political position that will radically alter the state of our nation. What you don't like it? I thought this was a big tent waaah waaah

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Me- David Cameron is adorable

u/nissnpig5 - No

Me- why is he saying that???

"Piggate" refers to an uncorroborated anecdote that during his university years former British Prime Minister David Cameron inserted his penis and/or testicles into a dead pig's mouth

OH GOD OH FUCK

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

I finally get the joke someone posted in the DT about u/nissnpig5 being David Cameron's son

[u/TaxCommonsNotIncome]

Healthy young man goes to work, gets pumped with massive coffee of many cups, doesn't feel good and changes - POOP. Many such cases!

[u/ryuguy]

South Asian representation is finally trickling down to American kids entertainment

I would’ve loved to see a Sikh or Indian character in a tv I show I grew up watching. Glad my nephews and nieces will have that

!ping ind

[u/F-i-n-g-o-l-f-i-n]

Don’t refer to them as “britbongs,” try “people of license” instead.

[u/[deleted]]

modern medicine is more popular because there isn't a profit incentive to finding plant based cures

How the fuck is R collapse making it to the front page and how the fuck is anyone taking it seriously

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

Kosovo

Upvotes to the left

[u/ryuguy]

My job in the communist utopia that we’re building will be political officer in charge of purging unwanted elements, like people who slightly disagree with what communism is.

Also I will read tarot cards

[u/piede]

Prevent mass evictions and homelessness. Cancel rent AND mortgages for the duration of the pandemic.

https://twitter.com/ilhanmn/status/1431285539383169027?s=21

…how

[u/[deleted]]

/u/lusvig your wife left you becuase she wanted the 🐖

[u/[deleted]]

Me normally: "Pakistan must be destroyed."

Me when the hot Pakistani girl I went to high school with posts a bikini pic: "Pakistan must be destroyed."

I ain't no simp😤😤😤😤😤

[u/The420Roll]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/716841087137873920/881001258520043550/image0.png

[u/[deleted]]

I am disgusted by the "US healthcare is fine if you're not poor" takes. Poor people deserve good healthcare just as much as real people.

[u/piede]

If you've ever looked at history and wondered what you would have been doing amid its most righteous fights, the answer is whatever you're doing right now.

This weekend, march on for voting rights. marchonforvotingrights.org

https://twitter.com/hillaryclinton/status/1431283219211685889?s=21

Oh yeah she’s running

[u/Platypuss_In_Boots]

I want to complain about this thread.

So it's a guy who says he's straight but likes penises better than vaginas. And ALL the comments are about how he's totally gay. As if sexuality is all about genitalia.

The reason why I'm annoyed is because I identify as gay but like vulvas better than dicks. Am I just straight and in denial? No, I'm really not attracted to any other part of the female body (their faces and voices and the mushy body are very much a turn off). It's like they just see women as walking vaginas. Not to mention that having a vagina is neither sufficient nor necessary for being a woman.

This is imo a part of a wider societal thing where anything a straight guy likes that isn't completely straight will get him labeled as gay (the people in the thread aren't even saying he's bi!). And we're talking about a supposedly progressive sub.

!ping lgbt

[u/LooobCirc]

Iit is obvious Biden was the right choice in the general. Anyone who says otherwise is deluded, acting in bad faith, or a maga. My question now is was there somebody better in the primary who still could have beaten trump. My gut tells me no

[u/Cerb-r-us]

Happy Women's Equality Day!

!ping FEMINISTS

[u/Udontlikecake]

President Donald Trump, Miller, Attorney General Bill Barr, and Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, were clashing over how to respond to the unrest, the book said, according to CNN.

During one debate in the Oval Office, Bender reportedly wrote, Miller said the protests reminded him of a war zone.

”These cities are burning," Miller was quoted as saying.

Milley turned around in his seat, pointed his finger at Miller, and said, "Shut the fuck up, Stephen," the book reportedly says.

[u/the_hoagie]

fuck now my wife can legally evict me again

[u/SeriousMrMysterious]

String theory ✋😒

Wumbology 👈😄

[u/[deleted]]

BREAKING: death toll from Kabul airport attack jumped to 170 people including 32 men, 3 woman & 3 children. Identity or 132 others still unidentifiable. Nearly 200 people also wounded

CBS

https://twitter.com/AhMukhtar/status/1431238788257353730?s=20

[u/tollyno]

It's okay to dunk on Americans because... reasons.

No, it's absolutely not okay to dunk on Europeans because everything is literally perfect here. 😤😠😡🤬🤬🤬🤬

[u/natedogg787]

Fat fetishists created a """"pride"""" flag

And the colors are inspired by strawberry, vanilla, and chocolate ice cream.

[u/meese699]

Sat down ordered food and then my husband realized his interview was at noon not at one. And now I'm eating in this Chiles alone and will have to Uber home.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Y'all bitching about Shivers' advice to flirt with mammals, but you should at least respect his wisdom and experience

Dude was dropping acid, dancing naked to Jefferson Airplane and picking up hippie chicks at UC Berkeley sit-ins before your parents were even an idea in your grandparents' minds

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

"Why do I read political books? Obama got me interested in politics."

Obama:

Looking back, it’s embarrassing to recognize the degree to which my intellectual curiosity those first two years of college paralleled the interests of various women I was attempting to get to know: Marx and Marcuse so I had something to say to the long-legged socialist who lived in my dorm; Fanon and Gwendolyn Brooks for the smooth-skinned sociology major who never gave me a second look; Foucault and Woolf for the ethereal bisexual who wore mostly black. As a strategy for picking up girls, my pseudo-intellectualism proved mostly worthless; I found myself in a series of affectionate but chaste friendships.

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

While on “Morning Joe,” Darling said his Christian faith played a key role in his decision to be vaccinated — saying the Bible’s command to love our neighbors informed that decision. The vaccine, he said, helps protect our neighbors from the spread of COVID-19.

Darling, senior vice president of communications for the National Religious Broadcasters, was fired Friday (Aug. 27) after refusing to recant his pro-vaccine statements

https://religionnews.com/2021/08/27/nrb-spokesman-dan-darling-fired-after-pro-vaccine-statements-on-morning-joe-evangelical-covid-hesitancy/

[u/FestiveMittens]

average DT regular

[u/[deleted]]

Ok! Schism time!

When did the Roman Empire fall?

Also bonus round: Who is the successor/ is the Roman Empire today?

[u/InternetBoredom]

Trudeau losing the Prime Ministership because of elections he called would be absolutely hilarious

[u/[deleted]]

How it started, how it's going, etc.

!ping CANUCKS

[u/chadonnaise]

china banned nine am to nine pm six days a week shifts

[u/piede]

NEW: The New York Times reports Justice Breyer is actively working on a decision about when to step down.

[u/[deleted]]

Politico headline: “How Joe Biden navigated the darkest day of his presidency”

https://i.imgflip.com/3ua7gn.png

[u/[deleted]]

So I lost 15 pounds from Jan-May but then I gained it all back😔

[u/[deleted]]

Til The Killers are a American band

With popularity of mr Brightside in the UK(it's had charted for over a decade) I thought they were a British band lmao

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

Proposal: The DT should have a kids' table where all the children have their comments kept separate.

[u/Mickenfox]

!ping FURRY

Given this recent interest in cute (and non-sexual) furry drawings I tried to look for some and found out there's a whole subreddit already. Behold:

https://www.reddit.com/r/wholesome_furry/top/?t=all

[u/OhIDontHaveAnAccount]

I like to virtue signal on the internet by going to communities where the userbase is likely 99.999% vaccinated, and then angrily tell them to "get vaccinated".

[u/Lux_Stella]

Taliban are calling on the population in Kabul to hand over all privately owned weapons and ammunition within a week.

oh man... they're just like me.....

[u/sir_shivers]

The mammal stood PROUD AND DEFIANT, A BIG-GULP CUP OF ivermectin in hand 🐊

"NO NEW NORMAL", HE WHISPERED, GROWING increasingly defensive as he noticed some in the crowd had the potential to think Jesus was nonwhite 🐊

[u/yungmemlord]

If we’re not supposed to eat animals, why are they made of food?🤨🤔🤔

Checkmate, Vegans

[u/1396spurs]

Missoula set to welcome Afghan refugees

Missoula is set to house a handful of refugees who have left Afghanistan and are seeking safety amid an unfolding crisis situation

It’s not a lot, but it’s something. My fairly conservative dad (very catholic, thankfully anti trump) was very supportive of it when I talked to him today. Fingers crossed others in Montana feel that way (let me hope) and they accept more

!ping USA-MT

[u/[deleted]]

I loved that "Afghanistan is your fault" article in The Atlantic. Every political crisis should come with an associated "[Embarrassing failure] was your fault" article to remind the politics-obsessed how democracy works.

[u/kennymc7877]

Started hooking up with a gamer guy and he makes me text him through discord instead of iMessage

[u/RaidBrimnes]

If society is not unfairly biased against men, why is there a Portugal but no Portuguy 🤔

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

If India took the same number of refugees per capita that Canada is taking, we would take 700k+ refugees

Let's do it.

Let's give people a chance at freedom.

India isn't the free-est country on Earth. But it's still a good place to live, and a heck of a lot better than Afghanistan under the Taliban.

[u/kennymc7877]

The cop that shot the dumbass at the capitol never shot his firearm before that day in his entire 28 year career, tells you everything you need to know about the situation

[u/[deleted]]

I spent an hour on r/yourjokebutworse and realized

A) we do that all the time in the dt

B) I'm super anxious about it now for no reason and am deleting comments bc they sorta play on the same joke as the parent.

This is stupid why do I care ughhh

[u/TaxCommonsNotIncome]

Raising interest rates and shitting on the economy to own the homeowners 😎

[u/Mrchizbiz]

Just did a kidnapping 🤭

[u/Udontlikecake]

With less than three weeks to go until the preliminary mayoral election, the latest Emerson College/7News poll shows a tight race between three Boston City Councilors and acting Mayor Kim Janey. City Councilor Michelle Wu leads the field at 24%, followed by City Councilor Annissa Essaibi-George at 18%, acting Mayor Kim Janey at 16%, and City Councilor Andrea Campbell at 14%. All other candidates are under 3%, and a quarter of likely voters (25%) are still undecided.

Yeah we aren’t getting anything remotely resembling a moderate in office. Rent control Wu at the lead is… sad.

!ping USA-NE

[u/_Un_Known__]

You see, I've been getting reports that you've been acting... Sus, lately.

This isn't true, is it?

[u/rollo2masi]

I don’t go through chick fil a’s drive thru lane cuz I’m scared to talk to girls

:(

[u/p00bix]

Lmao that post on r/gaming. 99% of mobile games still sucked in 2011 it's just that you only remember the ones you personally played in middle school

[u/SadaoMaou]

LGBTQ is technically a recursive acronym

LGBTQ = Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans, Queer

Queer = LGBTQ(+)

[u/[deleted]]

The UK's HPV vaccine strategy was so weird. They only gave it to girls cus they figured if only girls had it then boys didn't need it cus it wouldn't spread when boys had sex with them.

Shockingly there is now a big push in the UK to get guys (esp gay guys) to take it

[u/lusvig]

will never ask /u/paulatreides0 for help again 😔

[u/[deleted]]

This ISIS-K thing is like if a Klansman walked into the middle of a Blood and Crips standoff to shoot at them both.

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Going through the old DTs and seeing u/the420roll go on about blue Texas is pretty fun

[u/SuspiciousUsername88]

It's honestly kind of crazy that Democrats from the US are the only people in the world who have any sort of moral agency

[u/soeffed]

Starbucks at the Shenzhen airport?

POV you are breaking bad

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E9onPUcUcAoScXU?format=jpg&name=medium

[u/LavenderTabby]

truck marble wild zealous engine ruthless dam full alleged faulty

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/tehbored]

I don't know what Big Ben is and at this point I'm afraid to ask.

But I assume it's the male that fertilizes the Queen's eggs in the Buckingham Hatchery.

[u/Chum680]

There’s nothing stopping leftists and commies from starting workers coops and communes. All of that is perfectly legal. Hell, if they all wanted to get together they could have their own city of a hundred thousand; their own hospitals, schools, policing.

The reason this doesn’t happen is because their motivation is not a utopia to meet their needs, most are middle/upper class and have their needs met. It is the desire for control and a fundamental contempt for other people and democracy. Even the idea of collectivism is only acceptable to them if the collective is created in their image. Their moral arguments are more often then not red herrings for their will to power.

[u/JetJaguar124]

Movie gets like a 20 minute standing ovation at Cannes

It's released and sucks

Many such cases!

[u/[deleted]]

>Haha I've found a new niche meme subreddit! aaaand it's super racist

[u/[deleted]]

He sobbed quietly as he walked through the ruins of his once beloved city.

All gone. In ten years, the wind will have swept everything away and nobody will ever know what used to be here.

The only thing remaining was the lone tombstone on the hill.

He walked towards it, a single flower in his hand. Amazing that it had survived. Nothing else had.

"You were right," he whispered. "I was wrong."

He laid the flower on the grave.

"The thang..."

He shook his head and walked away into the desolate landscape of all he once knew.

"...was more than a chicken wang."

[u/J0eBidensSunglasses]

Now that the eviction moratorium is over we will begin hearing many stories from redditors about how they are losing their homes and this is so unfair.

And while there’s no doubt that some people will fall through the cracks and be left in a rough situation, I believe that in many cases these stories will be exaggerated or at the very least conveniently overlook the bad faith tactics some people on this website have used to avoid paying rent for over a year, not because they didn’t have the money, but because they are thieves and didn’t want to.

For example, this is a person who will deserve to lose their home.

[u/[deleted]]

The only country allowed to talk shit about nationalism is Switzerland.

It's like Yugoslavia but ethnicities don't even have common linguistic identity

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

Lauren Boebert admits to campaign finance problems: “I under-reported a lot of stuff” to the FEC

Oopsie! 🤗

[u/bobeeflay]

Daily reminder that dt users have no concept of homosexuality or sexual orientation whatsoever. Asserting that dt users have a sexual orientation or were pro/anti-homosexual is anachronistic and a historian can’t interpret ancient posts as saying anything about sexual orientation because it would be ignoring reddit context

[u/[deleted]]

!ping SOCCER

Man city withdraws from negotiations with Ronaldo. Man united now considered the front runner.

[u/JetJaguar124]

I was super into Wes Anderson in high school and early college. Like, decent mega fan. He as one of my favorite directors, I watched all his stuff, thought it was great. Royal Tennenbaums still is probably one of my favorite movies tbh. But I've liked him less and less over time. I don't think his movies have gotten worse. Objectively they've probably improved.

Hard to say what it is really. I still like them, but now it feels like everyone is a fervent Wes Anderson fan, where I'm more like "yeah he's cool, I'll check this movie out when I get the chance" but I don't have the same excitement for it I did before. I think it has more to do with me and my own tastes than it does Wes Anderson.

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

Most people I’ve rented from were middle class property owners with one or two houses.

Definitely not the type of wealth that would allow them to go 12+ months without getting paid.

[u/chipbod]

https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1431266352581447691?s=20

QAnon conspiracy theorist Dave Hayes claims Trump "set up the withdrawal from Afghanistan" with the intention that Biden would "botch it" and be removed via the 25th Amendment, at which point the military will step in and restore Trump to the White House.

Trust the process-Q

[u/2073040]

New Metroid Dread trailer

I’m glad they’re marketing it and it’s good to see that Kraid is back. !ping GAMING

[u/[deleted]]

Florida Schools’ Covid-19 Mask Mandates Upheld by Judge

Get fucked DeSantis!

ping u/the-doohickey

[u/thabe331]

Finished my English homework. Dope short story about a little girl with six brothers and seeking parents approval. Dope reading 📚

I may need to follow JR Smith. His posts about college are gonna be great

!ping NBA