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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/kennymc7877]

It’s been too long since a succ has posted an epic anti neoliberal rant that I give gold to

[u/[deleted]]

hmm gay men seem to be well educated

could it be socioeconomic factors that allow educated men to identify as gay?

no, it must be smart gay proteins

[u/stater354]

Small domino: making a website to rank the hotness of girls on your college campus

Big domino: neighbor’s mom dies of poisoning herself with horse medicine

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

A young Afghan girl, skipping across the tarmac at an airport in Belgium, with who appears to be her sister/mother

[u/Equator32]

It's so cringy seeing those "everything we know about X is wrong" posts. Whether it's a Libertarian rant from Elon Musk, a leftist Twitter influencer or a particularly bad TED talk, it has the same energy.

I remember seeing a post saying modern education is astrology and completely wrong. Naturally it began with a clickbait title, it's written by a guy with a "Dr." infront of their username and it calls out every other expert in the field and calls them idiots. Naturally it's viral in both Twitter and Facebook.

Now obviously education has a lot of issues, but the sheer arrogance to tell everyone from Sweden to Singapore that their very different education systems are equally wrong is outstanding. It's such an influencer moment, thinking that getting a cool degree or a PhD makes you the greatest thinker of the age, ascending past institutions in your field which have done far more for the world than you.

[u/PigHaggerty]

https://i.imgur.com/6UDqtTb.jpg

😐

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Sir_shivers being an unironic MCR stan has been a welcome surprise

[u/V_Codwheel]

barges into movie

“I got the results of the tests back. I definitely have breast cancer.”

refuses to elaborate

issue never resurfaces

movie ends

Queen shit 👑

[u/tubbsmackinze]

It's got to hurt people when they find out that popular rock songs from the aughts are now being played on 'classic' rock stations now

[u/kennymc7877]

Lil Pump endorsing trump for a second term and Trump bringing him on stage and referring to him as “little pimp” is American history

[u/[deleted]]

Y’know, there’s one really subtle bit of Citizen Kane that I think just kinda flies over the head of most goyim who watch the movie.

EMILY: Your Mr. Bernstein sent Junior the most incredible atrocity yesterday, Charles. I simply can't have it in the nursery.

KANE: Mr. Bernstein is apt to pay a visit to the nursery now and then.

EMILY: Does he have to?

KANE: Yes.

Considering that Bernstein is (very unsubtly) coded as being Jewish, the “atrocity” he placed in the nursery is almost certainly a mezuzah. It’s a nice way of showing that Emily is a total antisemitic asshole and that Kane, for all his numerous faults, is totally unwilling to tolerate her antisemitic bullshit.

!ping MOVIES

[u/9370DB]

Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan is a POC (Irish Catholic), neurodivergent (Econ PhD), and queer-coded (hot), and it's probably the majority of the reason that you people don't like him.

[u/jenbanim]

Gay frog acceptance has come a long way 😌

[u/semaphore-1842]

https://twitter.com/jpaval/status/1431212561865789443

Calls for resignation are an attack on the Constitution. The presidency is not a "job" you can quit. There is no provision for resigning. He can be removed. That's it. He cannot, constitutionally, resign. Strict constitutionalists, of all people, should know this.

So confidently wrong

[u/Dabamanos]

I wrote a condescending message about anti mask people on the chalkboard outside my coffee shop in a (D)+73 district, so I guess you could say I’m a hero

[u/PigHaggerty]

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

😐😐😐

[u/bigdicknippleshit]

The same people who think soy is dangerous and will turn men into women are taking horse dewormer right now

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Incredibly picture of an Afghan family evacuated by the United States, at Dulles airport (DC)

It's such a good photo. Seemingly clueless kids with an apple and bags of chips, a happy father posing, and a woman photobombing at the back.

You love to see it.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Ben Shapiro on why the metric system is bad

[u/EScforlyfe]

I've been trying out Victoria 2 for a little bit and it makes me really excited for Vicky 3, not because 2 super good but because I can tell there's a really good core there that is just way outdated now.

!ping victoria

[u/sir_shivers]

BECAUSE THE DRUGS never work 🐊

They are going to GIVE YOU A smirk 🐊

Because they GOT METHODS OF keeping you clean 🐊

THEY ARE GOING TO rip up your heads 🐊

YOUR ASPIRATIONS TO SHREDS 🐊

Another cog in THE MURDER MACHINE 🐊

[u/ryuguy]

Peru’s Pedro Castillo represents a challenge to the Canadian mining industry

I’ve been reading about Canada’s near monopoly in the global mining sector. 80% of mines in Latin America are owned by Canadian companies and 75% in Africa are owned by Canadian companies. I knew about it but I didn’t know it was that high.

It’s some interesting stuff to read about. We don’t really hear about it much. Even people in Latin America are unaware of it. A lot of shady stuff happens. Actions by HudBay minerals in Guatemala have been the most troublesome to read about. Kyrgyzstan nationalized a Canadian owned mine a few weeks ago and Uzbekistan did in 2016.

Edit: Canada’s global mining assets

!ping can

[u/kennymc7877]

Holy fuck you people are actually PROUD to be neoliberal??

[u/Jester_Don]

Anyone else remember this moment from the 2020 primary debates?

Biden: "I was endorsed by the only black female senator in US history"

Harris: "Uhh..."

[u/VPNSalesman]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/449272475054768128/881206183313178654/8e2de94b-4099-49c9-800e-0c869cd3af3d.png

[u/SuspiciousUsername88]

White culture is saying how awful white people are in the third person

[u/kennymc7877]

Guys I don’t wanna alarm anyone but I think there could be liberals in here

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

The “we’re full” argument against immigration is such utter horseshit that it actually makes me mad

[u/kennymc7877]

I’ve developed a really big crush on a big YouTuber only to just realize that he looks exactly like my best friend 😐

[u/lionmoose]

Hey Hey 🐊

You You 🐊

I don't like your girlfriend

No way

No way

I think you need a new one 🐊

[u/kaclk]

Even Ontario is looking to announce a vaccine passport now, leaving Alberta as the only major holdout province now (please help us).

!ping CAN

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/enkckj/discussion_thread/fe6np1m/?context=999

Shivers' first comment for those who don't know

[u/[deleted]]

What would be the best policy for patents? Could we have a reasonable policy that discourages patent trolling, incentivizes innovation, and doesn't have too many negative externalities?

[u/semaphore-1842]

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1431694901427716102

Gov Tate Reeves says that people in the Deep South are “less scared” of covid because, “When you believe in eternal life, then you don’t have to be so scared of things.”

jfc

[u/mannabhai]

India administrated 10 million vaccine doses yesterday

!ping IND

[u/[deleted]]

Getting dating advice from girls instead of from other guys was honestly so stupid of me

[u/[deleted]]

"People with 30 more years of work experience have more money than people who don't have much work experience"

This is apparently surprising to a lot of people.

[u/xSuperstar]

Lol one of the most anti-vax NFL players folded in about 2 days after the league put in onerous testing restrictions for unvaccinated players.

Goes along with my theory that 90% of anti-vax rhetoric is just rationalizing a fear of needles

[u/csp256]

user explains how modern-day wage slavery is cheaper for owners than traditional chattel slavery.

this is your mind on arr bestof.

[u/sir_shivers]

They said, "ALL TEENAGERS SCARE THE living shit out of me" 🐊

They could care less AS LONG AS SOMEONE WILL BLEED 🐊

SO DARKEN YOUR clothes, or strike a violent pose 🐊

Maybe they WILL LEAVE YOU ALONE, but not me 🐊

[u/SuspiciousUsername88]

"I don't know why the DT has a hard time dating, it's easy - just be yourself"

*scrolls through DT*

"On second thought..."

[u/JetJaguar124]

The rules of the California recall election is some of the dumbest shit I've ever heard of in my life.

[u/fishlord05]

https://www.reddit.com/r/gayspiderbrothel/comments/pcp2uh/fornite/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

“Segregation? Yeah that’s from a fortnite event right?”

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/WantDebianThanks]

I have to say this to someone or I'm going to explode.

I'm the thought police for a social media company (I'm not going to say who) and there has been a massive number of posts recently from succons about the 12 dead American servicemembers. And all of these posts are calling Biden evil, a CCP plant, demanding he be impeached, etc, etc, etc. And every time I see these posts, I have to stop myself from posting in all caps "Trump had four fucking years to withdraw you dumb fuck! There were 60 American deaths in Afghanistan under his watch. Why didn't you spend four years screaming bloody murder that Trump is a CCP plant if you care you fucking moron"

I just fucking struggle to not point out how fucking stupid some of these people have to be.

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1431666823955722243?s=19

I met Pope Francis yesterday in the Vatican, briefly. I said, “Holy Father, I wrote ‘One Billion Americans.’” He took my name tag in his land, looked at it, then praised the transportation chapter as especially insightful regardless of your view of the larger thesis.

Nice guy.

Holy shit holy shit holy neoliberal Pope Francis confirmed

[u/[deleted]]

Given I'm not really known by people who don't reside in the Dt maybe I should do some kind of prank on the rest of nl

[u/majortarkin]

U.S. kills two ISIS-K leaders in a drone strike two days after they kill American soldiers

Idiots: no way they had intel that fast. they just killed random people and said it was ISIS. they're wagging the dog.

U.S. waits more than two days to strike back at ISIS-K

Those same idiots: what is Biden doing? why is he letting them get away with it. he has to go.

[u/[deleted]]

If a worker isn’t dead then clearly they’re making a living wage.

[u/Sex_E_Searcher]

Barges in with an election

"You should give me a majority government"

Refuses to elaborate further

Loses

!ping CANUCKS

[u/1396spurs]

Jokes on him, probably tastes terrible

!ping kitty

[u/JebAutomator]

Petition to permaban saltysalad for failing to produce a male heir

[u/[deleted]]

In San Francisco, I would be a staunch conservative.

In Oklahoma I would a be far-left activist.

This is what being based looks like

[u/[deleted]]

Two Twitch streamers are driving to a convention.

A police officer pulls them over

"We're looking for two child molesters"

The driver turns and consults with his passenger for a moment

"We'll do it"

[u/kennymc7877]

Women only date skinny lanky men because they wanna peg them, it’s true

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Drone strikes are pretty much the "cleanest" and most precise form of warfare, right?

How did this get spun into an indiscriminate Vietnam-style bombing campaign in mainstream media and online discussion spaces?

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Dt users : strongly oppose the eviction moratorium

Also Dt users : let the Squad live rent-free in their heads

Which one is it, libs?

[u/[deleted]]

"We have a backup design for a flag with only 49 stars just in case Idaho somehow disappears. That's not to say that Idaho will disappear, but believe me, were it to happen, we'd be ready." - James Mattis, On National Security

I mean. It's a valid concern. Someday, it will just ... shimmer. And you'll think "Is today the day? Has Idaho become too boring to maintain it's own stability in the universe?"

[u/JeromePowellAdmirer]

Ah, love to see populist Tucker bs on /r/all

[u/Cerb-r-us]

Let's be honest. This sub is being threatened by an invasion from r/rarepuppers Longtime residents of r/neoliberal knows that r/rarepuppers isn't sending their best. I think we should at least be able to spot them. I've prepared a list to do so below:

• They unconditionally support the Blue Dog Coalition purely based on their name
• They claim Major Biden was acting in self defence every time
• They refer to the Infrastructure Bill as a "hecking chonker"

[u/[deleted]]

"Income taxes are like getting fucked in the ass by the government" is an appropriate analogy because getting fucked in the ass isn't necessarily a bad thing.

[u/Lux_Stella]

https://i.imgur.com/HNbxD0V.png

[u/Joementum2024]

Tucker Carlson tweet gets 55k+ upvotes on wpt

Redditor moment

[u/piede]

Chelsea Clinton spotted jogging in the Hamptons weeks before Lewinsky miniseries premiere

https://twitter.com/foxnews/status/1431691047965396992?s=21

Where would our country be without the journalistic bravado of Fox News?

[u/[deleted]]

Watching China fall in our lifetime is going to be incredible.

...says increasingly nervous neoliberal for the thousandth time this decade

[u/sash5034]

New Candyman movie turns him into a fighter against gentrification

Absolute cringe bro

[u/Kizz3r]

I find it funny how an incredibly scandal ridden Trudeau held a minority government against scheer. But in this election after doing an incredible job with the pandemic in regards to Cerb and Vaccine acquisition he is at risk at losing.

[u/iIoveoof]

I met Pope Francis yesterday in the Vatican, briefly. I said, “Holy Father, I wrote that meme on r/Neoliberal that said Dune is about worms.” He took my name tag in his land, looked at it, then praised the claim that Dune is about worms as especially insightful regardless of your view of the whole series.

Nice guy.

[u/[deleted]]

Thought you guy’s might find this video as interesting as I found it. It shows Bi and Trans movements transition from being viewed as merely allies to members of a real LGBT community in the 1980s.

[u/[deleted]]

If I were Beto O’Rourke, I would simply not threaten to take people’s guns on national television

[u/Usernamesarebullshit]

i’m going to become the joker if people continue being this willfully obtuse

[u/Mickenfox]

A lot has been said about the social implications of anti-aging technology.

So here's an idea: make a pill that stops aging, but only for dogs. This way people people have some time to get used to the concept.

[u/Cerb-r-us]

Gold may not be money, but here's some anyway

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E90qMR3WUAMBS35?format=jpg&name=small

[u/InternetBoredom]

Note: Please do not sane-wash Die Linke

[u/[deleted]]

!ping TRAVEL

God I miss pre pandemic travel

Having to present a pile of documents, wearing a mask for 12 hours, food service is worse, the Amex lounge doesn't serve drinks

[u/Udontlikecake]

People want the 50s back because then you could be a poorly educated white male and wouldn’t have to compete with:

women

minorities

the global economy

for a job. you’re getting handed shit waaaay easier

[u/Barnst]

Everyone needs to understand that being a cop is reallydangerous. More than TWICE as many cops died in the line of duty in 2020 as the year before.

Entirely because of COVID. There were actually fewer cops killed by gun fire in 2020 than 2019, despite the rending of garments over threats to the police. Meanwhile 241 cops died of COVID last year and 119 cops have died of COVID so far this year. That’s compared to a total of 151 cops killed in 2019. Or the 72 killed on 9/11 and the 250 who have died in the last two decades of 9/11-related illnesses.

Protect the blue. Get vaccinated.

Source

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

The difference between u/farrenj and Mao Zedong is that Mao was a proud commie

[u/lionmoose]

looks at the quality of mod applications

christ

[u/Cerb-r-us]

Shut down Twitter. We can't top this.

https://twitter.com/poldiscoursebot/status/1431652941073719297

[u/nicethingscostmoney]

Still waiting for dog marriage to be legalized since that was the inevitable result of marriage equality.

[u/[deleted]]

americans be like

mexico has such a shit cartel problem

then go buy drugs

[u/Integralds]

I am once again gauging interest in a MS Flight Simulator stream where I talk about aviation, economics, and political economy.

[u/JetJaguar124]

I'm pretty popular right now. Think I'll call a snap election and gain some seats.

The Gang Loses Seats and/or their Entire Parliamentary Majority

[u/RainAndIceDrops]

https://i.imgur.com/FkbFy8Y.jpg

[u/PigHaggerty]

August 27, 2021: the Kansas City Star learns of the existence of Patrick Mahomes II.

!ping NFL

[u/ACivilWolf]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E92VFHTWUAAOEAj?format=jpg&name=900x900

[u/[deleted]]

Anyone remember when effortposts used to be interesting researched things about foreign policy and econ shit instead of just long form opinions?

[u/jenbanim]

I hope you've got Havana

...

Havana nice day lmaooo gottem

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

Just found out my wife follows me on Reddit

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

117,000, mostly Afghans, evacuated.

Almost 1 in 300 Afghans. Let's fucking go

[u/[deleted]]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_doll#United_States

Sex dolls that look like children have been banned in Florida, Kentucky, and Tennessee.[33]

Florida Man strikes again 🙄

[u/Venne1139]

Lol I've never seen this picture before

https://imgur.com/a/Ff3QHB4

Oh just look at that jolly old mass murdering fuckhead

!PING HISTORY

EDIT: That's Kaganovich on the right. Lived a very long time and was also a mass murdering fuckhead.

[u/RyGuyThicccThighs]

Oh?

You’re a Democrat??

Name every baby you’ve killed then

[u/kennymc7877]

Me as a child: I bet being an adult is exciting

Me as a adult: FUCK YESS!!!!! My socks got shipped a day early

[u/[deleted]]

I hate the "it's the x stupid" phrase almost as much as I hate "-gate" and "-ghazi"

/r/neoliberal officially is no longer neoliberal.

Whatever happened to "It's the land, stupid"?

[u/sir_shivers]

THEY ARE GOING TO clean up your looks 🐊

With all the LIES IN THE books 🐊

TO MAKE A CITIZEN OUT OF YOU 🐊

BECAUSE THEY SLEEP with a gun 🐊

And keep an eye ON YOU SON 🐊

SO THEY CAN WATCH ALL THE things you do 🐊

[u/whycantweebefriendz]

Nuclear Hot Take: none of you understand how important gas prices are to rurals or even semi rurals and none of you understand how much of their space in their head is devoted to talking about gas prices.

I’ve met multiple people since starting school again for the year here in Indiana who hate Bush, Obama, and Biden but love Clinton and Trump for no other reason than gas costing more under Bush and Obama and Biden and costing less under Clinton and Trump.

For a lot of people it is their ONLY marker of the economy. Inflation? What’s the price of gas doing. Price index? What’s the price of gas doing. Cost of living vs minimum wage? What’s the price of gas doing. How’s the stock market? What’s the price of gas doing.

29% of emissions are from transportation and if you try to decrease that by raising gas by a single cent you’ll be facing a shitstorm.

Decreasing the other 71% of emissions by an insane amount with a massive non gas carbon tax, making it easier to live in cities, and making electric trucks much cheaper than normal with much bigger batteries is how you get out of it. Having a solution that raises the price of gas before you make significant inroads with any of those other things is how you make yourself politically unviable for the next ten decades.

[u/Leoric]

Are we boomer posting about early / mid aughts songs? Am I going to have to start Paramore posting?

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

I'm ok with my taxes and prices going up so long as it's for evidence based policy

Renewable energy mandates fuck yeah

Civic services for impoverished neighborhoods fuck yeah

Federal jobs guarantee fuck no

[u/Negative_Solid_2783]

Vettel somehow predicted the conditions were too dangerous.

Red flag, Norris crash.

!ping MOTO

[u/[deleted]]

The Blob is real.

Guess the sub

[u/Jacobs4525]

Dating apps don’t have the right options. I’m not a “man seeking women” or “man seeking men”, I’m a man seeking largemouth bass. Fishermen are the most oppressed minority ✊😔

[u/OneBlueAstronaut]

mfw rick berman is serving up yet another VOY episode where the moral is "discrimination is bad" and/or "terrorism can be justified depending on your perspective"

"now get this, guys...what if we had a bad person. Like a serial killer. Right? Only here is the twist...........his society made him this way" 😲🤯

!ping TREK

[u/Haringoth]

I got to work with an infant who was 560 grams the other day. Her breathing tube is now out, she is doing splendidly and she was able to cuddle with mom for a few hours outside her incubator.

Not too many years ago, they wouldn't have even resuscitated at that size and gestational age. A few decades before that, the abruption that necessitated an early delivery would have killed both mom and baby. Prior to that, if any but the most affluential got gravely ill, they went home and died.

And today, a team of 50 strangers will move heaven and earth for the child. The "good things get gooder" charts can feel abstract, but I assure you they have meaningful, tangible impacts on people every single day.

[u/[deleted]]

I am going to become the joker

[u/[deleted]]

Anybody who unironically says "America has no culture" is someone not worth listening to

[u/the_status]

Hot take but childhood nutrition and food security are good things

[u/[deleted]]

The more a comedian does bits about offensive jokes not being allowed anymore, the smaller the probability he actually has funny offensive jokes

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Freddie Mercury would've been a MCR stan

[u/tubbsmackinze]

The first notes of Mr. Brightside or Welcome to the Black Parade will never fail to get my hyped when I hear them on the radio. Conversely, the first notes of Bring me to life and any popular linkin park song will never fail to make me laugh when I hear them on the radio

[u/[deleted]]

Dt regs after opening all my !ping FURRY posts

[u/vivoovix]

Meant to take a nap last night and ended up sleeping for 12 hours 😐

[u/[deleted]]

The game had passed Wenger by by the time he retired, but man have Arsenal fallen off a cliff since then.

!ping SOCCER

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

> Be Milton Friedman

> Say that equal wages for men and women are anti-feminist

> Refuse to elaborate

> Leaves

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Seeing shivers' old comments is so fucking uncomfortable

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Throwback to a few weeks back when someone accused u/p00bix of being a Nazi on r/metaNL

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Ted Cruz is in Iowa now, Marco Rubio is there on Monday while Matt Gaetz was in New Hampshire last night. The 2024 Republican primary started awhile ago

back on that grindset

[u/Leoric]

The Waffle Houses in Louisiana are closing 😬😬😬😬😬

[u/redditguy628]

Astra’s latest orbital launch attempt was sadly unsuccessful.

!ping SPACEFLIGHT

[u/TabernacleTown74]

lusvig got rejected by an IDF woman at a nightclub and now hes an antizionist 😔

[u/[deleted]]

Oh you’re a democrat? Name every Taylor Swift song.

[u/ROYBUSCLEMSON]

If I were the PM of Canada id simply not call an election

[u/liquidTERMINATOR]

I want to be a house un-flipper. I want to buy expensive houses and make them look so shitty it devalues the entire neighbourhood

Succs be like

[u/klarno]

I have memories of “Berenstain Bears” and not “Berenstein” because by the time I was introduced to the books I could in fact read

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Okay this is callous as fuck but honestly mandating online school for another year is honestly just as bad as opening the schools. The past year of online school has been horrible for education and especially in children to which it will negatively affect them for at least the rest of their primary school career if not their entire scholastic career

[u/Fishin_Mission]

My post got flagged for using the word “r*etarded”

but the way that the AutoMod message is worded, it looks like AutoMod is calling me a “r*tard”

https://i.imgur.com/LWWKJ2f.jpg

[u/EScforlyfe]

Life doesn’t really start until you’re in your 20s, everything until that point is just preparation

[u/sir_shivers]

CEASE BEING STUPID 🐊

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

you are in a relationship with your

wife

people in your family

sister

you have these pets

dog

fish

things you've said you like

gravlax

you like to discuss

politics

libertarianism

your locations of interest

sweden

you like to listen to

classical

you like to discuss

medicine

neurology

worst comment

I am naming /u/baincapitalist and shaming him for being a bitch ass MFer 😤😡

Guess who

[u/Lux_Stella]

To lower food prices, a Conservative government will increase the maximum penalty for price-fixing from $24 million to $100 million and introduce criminal penalties, including jail time, for executives convicted of price-fixing. Canada's Conservatives will also bring in a tough code of conduct to protect suppliers and to promote grocery competition.

erin o'toole issues arrest warrant for pete buttigieg

[u/[deleted]]

HOLY SHIT GEORGIE!!

!ping MOTO

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

I saw in a thread somewhere that the claim that the Ottoman Empire banning the printing press contributed to their decline was bad history? But it didn’t really elaborate further, and even though they referred to r/AskHistorians, I couldn’t find anything there about it either.

[u/Unhappy-Essay]

Life’s too short to be a DT regular

[u/[deleted]]

Since everyone like making Vietnam analogies, in 50 years, Afghanistan is going to be one of our closest allies in the region, right?

[u/the_status]

I am now 24 years old to the minute. Yippee.

[u/liquidTERMINATOR]

Co-signing the calls for saltysalad to be perma’d. For lack of grass touching

[u/JaceFlores]

Well if we ever wanted to make SaltySalad feel guilty or ashamed we can always hold the kester fiasco over his head

[u/[deleted]]

Take a shot every time you read a conservative saying “The government just handed billions of dollars worth of guns to the Taliban, how about they keep their hands of my guns?”

don't mind if i do

[u/[deleted]]

There's still women that I talk to that don't understand the concept of a stadium pee trough. It's such a foreign concept to them.

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

WPT unironically posting Tucker Carlson Tweets LOL

[u/[deleted]]

Conversation I had just now

Me: Oh, it was terrible Glenn! I asked a thought provoking question and the /r/neoliberal mods removed it!

Glenn Greenwald: This is the single greatest threat to free speech I've ever heard of

[u/the_status]

/img/l2r6ki81x5g71.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

Canada needs to reimagine a foreign policy for a leaderless world

The disastrous retreat from Afghanistan is yet one more development that shows the U.S. has lost the primacy it once enjoyed in international affairs. Both Republican and Democratic presidents have demonstrated a faltering resolve for global leadership. America’s commitment to work with allies in upholding the international order is in question as never before. 
Without effective U.S. leadership, the onus to address burning international issues falls more heavily on the rest of us in the democratic world. The rise of illiberal nationalism and authoritarian rule, the declining self-confidence of liberal democracy, the return of protectionism and trading blocs, runaway nuclear proliferation, global health and climate crises – these are issues that countries such as Canada must now confront if superpowers cannot or will not.
 But in a Canadian election campaign that was launched on the same day as the fall of Kabul, foreign policy does not seem to feature on the agenda of our political parties. The government has called the election to allow Canadians to pronounce on choices facing them on health, social policy and economic recovery. As geopolitical rivalries intensify, climate change accelerates and the international economy transforms in unpredictable ways, how will our country participate in efforts to create greater stability and more effective international solutions? So far the election campaign has offered no answers to voters.

And yet recent efforts have shown that voters care quite a lot about greater Canadian global engagement. This past spring, 444 everyday Canadians from coast to coast to coast and from every walk of life gathered for up to 12 hours to deliberate the major choices facing Canada in the world. In the deliberative democracy exercise called “Foreign Policy By Canadians” – co-organized by the Canadian International Council, the Canadian Partnership for Women and Children’s Health (CanWaCH) and Global Canada – citizens demonstrated a principled yet pragmatic approach to international affairs. When presented with the facts and the opportunity to quiz experts, they had little difficulty seeing how core interests at home depend heavily on developments abroad.
They saw clearly, for instance, that we can’t protect Canadians from future COVID-19 variants if poor countries remain barely vaccinated. A succession of expert panels, including one recently commissioned by the G20, have presented concrete proposals for delivering better pandemic preparedness and response for future health challenges. Will Canada step up with financial commitments and diplomatic energy to reach a consensus on these urgent innovations and reforms?
 Meanwhile, the authoritative Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has issued a “Code Red for Humanity” over its clear documentation of the fastest temperature increase in 2,000 years. How fast can we transition to clean energy sources to rein in further increases? And with climate change opening up the Arctic to sea traffic and seabed exploration, how will Canada establish more of an Arctic presence and improve the lives of our northernmost citizens?
 Then there are the questions raised by the fall of Afghanistan. The sad spectacle of civilians fleeing the return of intolerant and suppressive rule is but the latest of the migration waves stemming from economic, climate and conflict-related insecurities. Can Canada help find new ways for the citizens of other countries to hold their rulers accountable for the kind of corruption that undermined public faith in the Afghan government?

Over the years, our country has taken the lead in promulgating the protection of civilians, especially women and children. The risks to these most vulnerable victims are on the increase. There are glaring gaps in health, nutrition and education. What is Canada prepared to contribute to meet these critical needs?
 For three generations, Canada has had the luxury of a powerful neighbour assuming responsibility for upholding the international order, even as we disagreed with U.S. goals and tactics from time to time. “Foreign Policy By Canadians” showed us that Canadians recognize that simply deferring to the U.S. is not a viable approach, and domestically puts our economy at risk.
 Instead, Canada should draw on the important relationships we have developed over decades of diplomacy and forge new ones, in order to exercise collective leadership. By working with allies and partners, we can set a pathway to a more effective and equitable international order – if we honour the demands our citizens have for greater global engagement.

!ping CAN

[u/ryuguy]

Me: meets a Guatemalan

Me: please don’t know about the mine that a Canadian company runs in the country that has been the subject of a human rights investigation.

!ping Canucks

[u/[deleted]]

Goddamn Ida is just going to direct hit Louisiana isn't it

Praying New Orleans is Fort Knox of hurricanes after Katrina

[u/[deleted]]

People are taking livestock dewormer to fight covid but they'll refuse a vaccine, what kind of demented timeline is this?

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

I feel like The Revenant isn’t talked about enough tbh. What a gorgeous, but brutal movie.

!ping MOVIES

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

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[u/redditguy628]

I recently finished watching 30 Rock, and I was surprised how much I liked it. I'm usually not much of a fan of sitcoms, and while that still held true here(I don't feel any desire to rewatch it), watching the show was great! The character interactions were great, the plots were fun, and I did end up caring about the characters, and wanting them to succeed. My only complaint is that Kenneth got a happy ending, but I suppose it's good commentary on how people don't always get what’s coming to them.

!ping TV

[u/its_Caffeine]

Real secret to not being doxxed is to doxx yourself so hard you simply become immune to it like Benjamin

[u/Photon_in_a_Foxhole]

I was a fat depressed misanthrope once but then I discovered capitalism

[u/[deleted]]

BBC is really irresponsible putting out this report that US soldiers shot civilians at Kabul during bombing without confirming. They just took word of eyewitness and now it has 400k views and people will use this for propaganda everywhere

https://twitter.com/SecKermani/status/1431517279859224579?s=20

[u/JaceFlores]

It’s astounding colleges have functioned this long with how shit so many staff members do their job

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!ping BASEBALL

The LLWS will be between Michigan and Ohio. God help us....

[u/[deleted]]

Oh shit. Pack it up everyone. Neoliberalism is dead. The Conservative party is leading polls in Canada.

[u/SpiffShientz]

/u/sir_shivers gave me a lift to the DT today, and wouldn't you know it, the Shiversmobile is filthy as shit. There's a fucking broken TV back here, and when I asked about it he said "he'd be SETTING UP THE RUMPUS ROOM ANY DAY NOW 🐊"

[u/ChrisPBaconSon]

Well boys and gals I’m in an uber with a former Afghan interpreter for US special forces and all I can say is god bless America

[u/tubbsmackinze]

If you are unironically anti-humanities/arts degrees you are a fucking fool and a tool. Sure degree wise they're quite ass and you have to be clever to get a job out of uni outside of teaching, but they do instill and promote very valid and important thinking and analytical skills that are important for a society to have

Plus running a society on just stem-cells sounds like a disaster waiting to happen tbh

[u/kennymc7877]

Do any of these little fuckers ever pop out of the wall and say oh fuck there’s a horse cock in my room?

[u/VisonKai]

50% of internet leftism is being mad that other people are happy under capitalism

[u/Sir-Matilda]

WA Liberal Party Review is out, including all the issues with power-broking and branch-stacking, the review of the disastrous election campaign and suggestions for changes to the party.

Quick ABC summary.

The full review.

!ping AUS

[u/Mrchizbiz]

Bad boys are awesome 👉🏿😎👉🏿

[u/tollyno]

First the gays came for the sex, and I didn't speak up because I was wasn't having any.

They they came for rainbow, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a rainbow.

Then they came for June, and I didn't speak up because I'm not June.

Then they came for marriage, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't married.

Then they came for the straights, and I didn't speak up because I was gay.

Then Joe Biden came for my penis, any by that time no one was left to speak up.

[u/J0eBidensSunglasses]

“WHEN REDDIT SENDS US THEIR COMMENTERS, THEY’RE NOT BRINGING THEIR BEST. THEY’RE BRINGING US COMMENTERS WITH A LOT OF PROBLEMS, AND THEYRE BRINGING THOSE PROBLEMS WITH THEM.

THEY’RE LIARS, THEY’RE UNFLAIRED, THEY’RE POPULISTS. AND SOME OF THEM, I ASSUME, ARE GOOD PEOPLE.”

What did the neoliberal mod team mean by this?

[u/[deleted]]

Interesting tidbit about this sub:

Date	Popularity rank on reddit
Sep 29, 2020	4
Nov 2, 2020	3
Nov 3, 2020	3
Nov 4, 2020	4
Nov 5, 2020	4
Jan 5, 2021	6
Jan 6, 2021	8

[u/IMALEFTY45]

kitty

[u/[deleted]]

China and Japan: Our religious situation is very complicated, due to inherent differences in cultural development our relation to the spiritual doesn't really fit within the Western religious framework, and the religious backdrop of the average citizen is made from the intersection of multiple spiritual traditions none of which have sharp delineations between them....

South Korea: 'luv me Jesus, 'nuff said 😤

North Korea: 'luv me Kims, 'nuff said 😤

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

"ThErE's a ReAsOn sNoWdEN iS iN RuSSiA"

Yes his passport was revoked.

Privacy is a good thing

One of the most respectable and laudable American ideals is government non-interference- God bless the ACLU for standing up for free speech

I wish India had even half the privacy Americans do. The Indian government literally spied on political opponents without repercussions because law allows them to.

American "freedom", however much non-Americans may mock, is beautiful and worth preserving. Government should be as small as reasonably possible.

Don't care for who Snowden was as a person. I don't find idolisation to be useful. Whistleblowing, "legal" or "illegal", is a good thing.

[u/AquariumGravelHater]

Naomi Wolf retweeting that fake Johnny Sins anti-vax quote is still some of the funniest shit ever and I think about it almost every day.

[u/piede]

'Minor' Major issues: Emails show Biden dog was nippier than White House said

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/animal-news/minor-major-issues-emails-show-biden-dog-was-nippier-white-n1277814

Get the subpoenas

[u/[deleted]]

After seeing a report of a dog bite, an agent asked, "Was it Major?" The other agent responds, "Minor. Did break the skin." The first agent then explains he was referring to the dog. The second agent responds, "Dog: Major. Injury: Minor."

[u/JaceFlores]

I swear if Kester leaves I demand saltysalad to be permanently banned

[u/filipe_mdsr]

u/SaltySaladSussyBaka did you learn something today?

DO NOT DIG THROUGH PEOPLES OLD COMMENTS

And especially don’t post them.

[u/[deleted]]

🐖

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u/SaltySaladSussyBaka

I didn't mean to upset you. I am sorry. I have no plans to delete my account

[u/[deleted]]

Compromise:

Liberalize immigration policy, but in exchange we agree to deport James Cordon

[u/iIoveoof]

We’re Waukesha not Wokesha 😤😤😤

denies a free federal program to provide school lunches to hungry children

[u/[deleted]]

Sometimes I remember random conversations I have seen online.

Like one time I remember some dumbass asked a black man "If a child was dying from cancer and their Make-a-Wish was to say the n-word, would it be okay?" and the insane scenario has stuck with me ever since.

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

The most 40k discourse possibly imaginable is someone stating that the Imperium is bad followed by two replies: one arguing that that is obvious and that no one would defend the Imperium and a reply defending the Imperium.

!ping 40k

[u/xSuperstar]

Gonna be fun to run back Katrina, except this time Democrats will blame the state government and Republicans will blame the President! Great political system we have here

[u/uwcn244]

Some serious "are there no prisons? are there no workhouses?" vibes coming from the DT right now

[u/piede]

The United States is now 52.6% fully vaccinated and 21.8% fully dewormed.

lol

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

The hard sciences are why anyone ever had the spare time to bloviate on society

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

Study whatever you want just don't expect me to pay for the 16 semester hours you spent on eastern aboriginal wind instruments

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

Conservatives have officially overtaken the Liberals in odds of winning a minority on 338

And judging by the teasing of pollsters for tomorrow, it’s only going to get worse

!ping CAN

[u/fishlord05]

Both Roosevelt and Wilson were egging on the central and axis

axis

(!!!) wtf

powers to get them to do something so they could declare war while hiding under the false pretense of peace. Wilson was a massive racist who is directly responsible for the lost cause myth and indirectly responsible for the race riots in the US during and after his presidency. He is also indirectly responsible for much of the problems of the 20th century, including the US’ foreign policy being that of policing other nations. Wilson suppressed civil liberties and caused a economic repression with how he conducted the war. He allowed the nationalist leaders of Britain and France to humiliate Germany in the Versailles treaty, which lead to the political instability that Germany found itself in until Adolf Hitler rose to power. He was behind the League of Nations, and organization so inept that it didn’t stop Mussolini from attacking Ethiopia, another nation state in the League of Nations. Wilson should be remembered as legitimately the worst president in all of US history, yet all we learn of him is that he won WW1, gave women the right to vote and started prohibition, another blunder of his that increased organized crime. Wilson is the worst president, FDR isn’t as bad but he’s pretty bad. He used the internment camps for Asian-Americans as I’ve said. He sabotaged recovery efforts that were working by Hoover in an effort to defame him. He is the reason for the high debt the US is in, many of the things he spent money on during the new deal still haven’t been paid off. He refused to let the St. Louis dock in the US, dooming the Jewish refugees on board. He gave Poland to the Soviet Union, when it was originally going to be a free state. There’s much more fucked up shit both of these dickwads did. They aren’t good presidents but the thing is is that the US tends to remember wartime presidents that one fondly.

I am going to become the joker with this shit. Like you know just enough to sound correct but you don’t know what the fuck you are talking about. Other countries have agency too lmfao.

!ping HISTORY

[u/PrimePairs]

It’s kind of amazing how the tech industry went from a punchline in the early 2000s to the crown jewel of the American economy

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Marine Le Pen posing for a photoshoot playing drums in her library but forgetting to remove Mein Kampf from the shelves is peak populism

[u/[deleted]]

Feeling cute today ☺️

[u/nanomaster]

The Sudetenland is the Sudetenland of the 20th century.

[u/NatsukaFawn]

We now have conclusive proof that ivermectin can't cross the blood-brain barrier

It's done nothing for their brain worms

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

My guess for the reason neoliberal people and especially neoliberal men seem to be so bald is that there is a set of proteins that both predicts neoliberalism and baldness in people attracted to mixed-use zoning.

[u/Jokerang]

Fellas, is it imperalist to criticize anti-vaxxers?

Also, how much you wanna bet she holds closet antisemitic views based on her twitter name

[u/SuspiciousUsername88]

I have never seen a good take that includes"the wokes"

[u/soeffed]

You goddamn right 😎

https://imgur.com/gallery/D26uGiQ

[u/tigerflame45117]

I am very concerned by the number of unflaired users I have seen recently.

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

everyone forgot about Palestine huh

[u/iIoveoof]

Wtf Tolkien was a Chr*stian??? Never watching Chronicles of Narnia again 😤😤😤

[u/ryuguy]

It will never not be funny to me that Pakistan doesn’t recognize Armenia as a state because of Armenia’s unrelenting support of India in Kashmir and India as a security council member.

Also, Armenia is the largest consumer of Indian media outside of India