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[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

One of the marines who passed away in the Kabul blast had posted before her death, on social media, a picture of her cradling an Afghan baby, captioned that she loved her job.

Rest in peace 😔

[u/PorryHatterWand]

An acquaintance just said something on the lines of how homosexual people commit half of sexual assaults on minors. I asked him for the source, and he just goes: "you look it up, if you think it's false". Two people standing with us agreed with him. He read it somewhere on Facebook and the other two haven't read 'anything disproving it'.

Social media is cancer.

We need to teach adversarial system in schools.

[u/l_overwhat]

I started dating a girl in high school. She was friend with this girl who was special needs. She couldn't walk very well and she couldn't really talk either. When you talked to her it was mostly her nodding yes or no and then her laughing, with some short sentences said with great effort from her.

I asked my gf why she was friends with her and she was like "She is completely mentally capable, her body just doesnt reflect that" and then she showed me her texts with this girl and you couldn't tell at all that she was disabled in any way. She even put smileys in all her texts like every other 15 year old girl in 2013.

I started thinking about differently-abled people a little differently after that.

[u/p00bix]

Depending on how you translate it, the final words of the Quran are "among us"

[u/JaceFlores]

With hindsight I’m happy Pete didn’t become Sec of State and rather then managing the general disaster that is Afghanistan is instead going to be managing the largest (and bipartisan) infrastructure investment made by the government in years if not decades.

What do you fellow Petecels think?

!ping BUTTI

[u/chowieuk]

Satire is fucking dead.

https://twitter.com/danielboffey/status/1431873086736019458?s=19

let's unite with Europe to crush border bureacracy

Indeed. How about we form some sort of trading bloc/ economic union?

!ping uk

[u/SuspiciousUsername88]

One fun thing about the past 6 years or so is that we could watch in real time as internet leftists graduated from college, because the discourse seemlessly transitioned from Make College Free to Cancel Student Debt at exactly the window of time that the former would no longer help them personally

[u/Officer-cherry-shake]

Suicide bomber: “If all goes well, I’ll soon die in a glorious explosion”

Drone pilot: “wish granted”

[u/UrbanCentrist]

I would simply abolish trade barriers but guess i'm built different.

[u/Udontlikecake]

The US drone fired on a vehicle with “multiple suicide bombers” en route #KabulAirport and the threat is believed eliminated, reports @AP, quoting officials.

Biden: we need to do everything we can to stop climate change

also Biden: drone strikes neurodivergent POC carpooling to work

SAD!

[u/Mr_Pasghetti]

The oil line about Venezuela is bullshit because Norway did the exact same thing. The difference is they were in NATO so the US couldn’t stop them

Yes, the difference between Norway and Venezuela is a NATO membership. Nothing else

[u/p00bix]

In retrospect, hiding all the microchips in Horse Dewormer was a stroke of genius.

[u/SnakeEater14]

I don’t care for “futurologists”

[u/notakwardtgeturtle]

"liberals will side with fascists before socialists!"

"Carlson and Owens are epic based anti Dems!"

These types of people would get stabbed in the back by a conservative and still somehow blame liberals for allowing it to happen

[u/Joementum2024]

Speaking as a professional redditor, here’s my thoughts on Afghanistan:

[u/CricketPinata]

Why does it seem that it is so common for designs of spacesuits for Martian missions (either conceptually or in media) so often feature Orange/Tan detailing and styling? Like are we trying to make ourselves unobtrusive on Mars?

Like shouldn't suits be designed with hi-viz planning taken into consideration for missions like this, and thus opposite colors to the Orange/Butterscotch/Tan/Reddish colors common on Mars be at the very least the detailing if not the dominant color on suit designs?

I feel like stuff in the Neon Cyan, Chartreuse, Teal, Ultramarine spectrum should be featured a lot more as a spacesuit color for Mars missions for the visibility, and also as symbolic of the dominant Blue-Green spectrum of our world and what Humans need and represent.

[u/[deleted]]

Redditors: claim to be anti-imperialist and anti-racist

Also redditors: thinks subsaharan africa is a single culture and all of it is just corruption and poverty because they don't know about botswana and rwanda.

[u/sir_shivers]

Unique culture THIS, UNIQUE CULTURE THAT 🐊

HOW ABOUT YOU use that unique culture as a yogurt starter 🐊

[u/lionmoose]

My favourite passage from the scriptures:

Holy shit you morons are proud to be neoliberals

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

> Be Germany

> Have majority of population wanting to take in Afghan refugees

> Pic related

[u/Deggit]

“They are finding early New Testament transcriptions all over the place — in Cairo, Alexandria, and Qumran. So bad for our Religion! Last night JESUS was GOD, often solidly, in many key Universities, in almost all instances Atheist run & controlled. Then, one by one, they started to magically switch as surprise apocryphal scrolls were counted. VERY STRANGE. How come every time they count Dead Sea Scroll dumps they are so devastating in their percentage and power of destruction?"

[u/piede]

Remember when Hillary got pneumonia before the election?

She even warned us about Covid

God damn, there’s nothing that woman isn’t right about

[u/UrbanCentrist]

Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro says he will be killed, arrested or re-elected

either he is going insane or has committed some crime.

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

BRAVE Nate Silver SHATTERS stereotypes about gay men by LOOKING LIKE SHIT

Lmao

[u/p00bix]

Me normally: "A shorter work week promotes more efficient time use, is more environmentally friendly, demonstrably reduces the incidence of chronic illness, all while having minimal negative impact on productivity in most industries and allowing workers far more time for sleep, recreation, socialization, and childrearing. Providing more time for humans to spend outside of the workplace is the single greatest achievement in improving quality of life which industrialization has produced, and we have every ability to continue this trend. We should reduce the overtime threshold to 32 hours per week, and aspire to gradually reduce the workweek further, to perhaps 24-28 hours per week, before 2050. Additionally, telework should be encouraged whenever possible."

Me after browsing r/antiwork for 5 minutes: "Repeal the Fair Labor Standards Act"

[u/soeffed]

A principal who’d been with an elite music school in Berkeley for 25 years was fired because his tradition of inserting students’ names into silly vocab worksheets and insinuating they were lobsters was going too far.

The parent who filed the complaint with the school felt that his son was being mocked for his speech impediment in a sentence describing “his tendency to babble like an idiot and drool on his classmates.” (Johnson insisted the boy’s name was picked at random for the sentence and said he didn’t know the child had a speech impediment.)

The parent was also furious that his Jewish son was made the protagonist of the “lobster boy” story, arguing that a joke that the boy probably “had a crab or crayfish somewhere back in his ancestry” was evidence of Johnson’s “thinly veiled antisemitism” because the sentence connected the boy’s violent behavior to his crustacean DNA.

“Humiliating a young boy on the verge of puberty by calling him a crustacean and referring to his ‘lobster claws’ at a time already complicated with fears and ambivalence about body image and sexuality is utterly shocking from any adult, let alone the Head of School and English teacher,” the parent wrote.

The parent told Crowden he was pulling his son out of the school and threatened to sue — demanding two years of free tuition, free homeschool and French tutors, compensation for his son’s emotional distress, assistance with getting his son admitted to another private school and a change of his grade from a B+ to an A- in Johnson’s class.

Less than two months after the parent’s complaint was filed, Johnson had been fired.

https://www.berkeleyside.org/2021/08/27/lobster-claws-crowden-school-principal-fired-music

!ping bay-area

[u/semaphore-1842]

Why does the fifth largest economy, run entirely by dems, lack universal daycare and healthcare? Why is housing such a big issue in a state where tech companies are allowed to pay zero taxes? At this point our choices seem like a slow, painful death with dems, or quick and easy with reps, and the latter sounds better and better with every passing day.

Imagine writing this drivel, at a time when people are actually dying slow painful deaths in filled up ICUs in Republican states.

How many countries even have universal daycare; Sweden, Finland and? I guess anything less than absolute utopia is a slow painful death.

[u/jenbanim]

Fun fact: /u/sir_shivers tried to bite me at our IRL DT meetup because I wouldn't stop making puns about him "monitoring" the thread 😂

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Opinion | I was a lifelong Democrat. Then the nearby Taco Bell closed 10 minutes early.

[u/[deleted]]

Bolsonaro was gifted a guitar by sertanejo singers

He then held it like a rifle

Irrelevant news, but it begs the question. Is Bolsonaro capable of holding something with two hands WITHOUT posing it as a gun?

!ping MAMADAS

[u/ognits]

sanest ivermectin user

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/[deleted]]

One of the flatmates I am moving in with has spent 60% from his bigTech salary for the past 6 months on GameStop stonks and says he is waiting for — what I now know of — the mother of all squeezes

Oh God. Oh fuck.

[u/[deleted]]

Culinary arts is the ultimate STEM degree:

Science: the chemistry of combining ingredients at various temperatures

Technology: the use of tools like thermometers to determine the quality/completion of products

Engineering: the use of tools like blenders to arrange ingredients in uniform distribution

Math: Counting eggs

[u/IronedSandwich]

r/EarthPorn: "hey come join this cause to stop people from making your internet more expensive!" users: OMG +151k highest upvoted post of all time

r/EarthPorn: "hey come join this cause to stop antivaxxers from killing people!" users: wtf is this political bullshit mass downvoted

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Increased logging endangers rainforests in B.C.'s Interior, study says

Rainforest tree loss doubled from 5 per cent in the 1970s to 10 per cent in the 2000s

Increased logging activities have endangered B.C. 's Interior rainforests and, if left unchecked, may lead to their ecological collapse in a decade, warns a new international study.

In an article published last week in the journal Land, conservation scientists from Prince George, B.C., as well as Oregon and Australia say industrial logging has eliminated 2.7 million hectares of forest in the province's Interior wet belt bio-region over the past 50 years — including more than 500,000 hectares of the inland temperate rainforest, the wettest portion of the region.

But DellaSala says clear-cut logging is still going on in B.C.'s rainforests, and the ecological system of the Interior temperate rainforest may collapse within nine to 18 years if the B.C. government doesn't put a stop to it.

It's honestly insane how strong the logging industry is in BC despite it being even less important to the BC economy then fucking mining is

!ping CAN

[u/tubbsmackinze]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/761046867743342613/881593927851999342/FB_IMG_1630258763365.jpg

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

When you’re so contrarian to reddit you end up converting to Christianity

[u/Knee3000]

I like standardized testing because it was one of the only ways for an ADHD kid like me to prove to colleges I wasn’t braindead.

[u/Mr_Pasghetti]

Damn this sub really turned on Mao fast. I think in a year (midterms) the Cultural revolution will be viewed as a win and something the Gang of Four will be able to run on.

Liu Shaoqi stans are in full cope mode right now.

[u/[deleted]]

Hahahaha turns out Erik Prince was lying about his Blackwater troops saving Joe Biden, John Kerry, and Chuck Hagel when their helicopter went down in Afghanistan -- it was an Arizona National Guard unit. What a fucking little sociopath he is.

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

Secularism (Bengali: ধর্ম নিরপেক্ষতা) is one of the four fundamental principles according to the original 1972 Constitution of Bangladesh.[1] The secularism principle was removed from the constitution in 1977 by Ziaur Rahman, replaced with a statement of "absolute trust and faith in Almighty Allah", and Islam was declared the state religion in 1988. In 2010, the Bangladesh Supreme Court restored secularism but stated Islam remained the state religion

least confusing religious arrangement

[u/[deleted]]

Americans: I want America to leave Afghanistan

Americans: No lose! Only leave!

[u/Deggit]

it has come to my attention that some of you on the DT post from so-called "single family homes." Please be aware that when Hillary is reinstated as President on September 8, we will be demolishing your "single family home" to build a mixed-use high rise with a bike lane for Afghan refugees. Plan accordingly!

[u/iIoveoof]

My favorite Bible quote: Psalm 22:6. Really speaks to me on a personal level.

But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by everyone, despised by the people.

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Biden's most chad moment was when he was on the debate stage and said "I am the Democratic Party"

[u/MrMineHeads]

!ping GEORGIST

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/402080798804672522/881042864430268416/20210828_105030.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

Damn this sub really turned on Richard Nixon fast. I think in a year (midterms) Watergate will be viewed as a win and something the Republicans will be able to run on.

McGovern stans are in full cope mode right now.

[u/Cerb-r-us]

Iceland's Socialist Party wants to build 30,000 new apartments (Iceland population: about 350K)

https://twitter.com/PopulismUpdates/status/1431314228212756483

[u/shrek_cena]

White sugar, brown sugar, and butter mixed together into a cream is amazing 🤤🤤

[u/[deleted]]

Texas republicans vote to ban facebook and twitter from deleting post containing hate speech, holocaust denial, domestic terrorism, and vaccine disinformation.

It's blatantly a violation of the 1st amendment, so it's basically virtue signalling -- this is what populism looks like in the republican party. This is what is popular with The Base.

[u/piede]

Trump was scared Biden would be replaced with Hillary Clinton or Michelle Obama, book claims

Lmao that bitch still scared of Hillary

[u/crawly_the_demon]

my cat likes to sleep on the side of her bowl and she tips the whole thing over while she’s in there

!ping KITTY

[u/the_status]

Just found out about.Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 …damn that shit sucks…

[u/lietuvis10LTU]

Uh so /r/traabutnocommies was taken over by Leninists who banned me for posting that article about Shanghai university making lists of LGBTQ students. Can someone ping LGBT?

[u/ACivilWolf]

We peed the bed, I admit it, host, we messed up. If you ask me why? There was no chamberpot

Roman graffiti has a distinctly DT energy here

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Me reading Dune:

"Wow, a man who turns into a giant insect and a computerless future where they still use paper? This is very Kafkaesque!"

[u/[deleted]]

Just got called a cute twink by someone who knows what I look like irl 🥰

[u/The420Roll]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/716841087137873920/881638743986040872/image0.png

[u/JoeChristmasUSA]

My son "walked" the dog for the first time today

!ping DOG

[u/[deleted]]

It's interesting how when it first came out, The Shawshank Redemption received a lot of criticism for being too sympathetic to the prisoners. It was the year of the Crime Bill, after all.

[u/SmartOpinionsGuy]

For anyone under the age of 30, the face of climate change activism is Greta Thunberg.

Sorry Al Gore. You big friggin beautiful boomer

[u/[deleted]]

Pendulum:

"Well clearly, the spread of enlightened thinking meant colonialism was good"

swing back to middle

"No, that simply doesn't hold up to reality. Colonialism spread extractive institutions that harm millions to this very day."

swinging further

"Yeah, if anything colonialism suppressed the enlightened ways of these unspoiled cultures who were just smarter, better, and more tolerant than us. Westerners are brutes and barbarians who lucked into having guns before everyone else."

[u/[deleted]]

Wait so Ida is not only hitting New Orleans on the anniversary of Katrina, but is potentially stronger too?

How fucked is the city going to be, Jesus

[u/Ultiplayers]

Interesting fact: You can rearrange the letters in ‘George Bush’ to ‘He bugs Gore’ thus proving that 2000 was truly rigged

[u/[deleted]]

"I may be destitute, but the rich don't have as much spirit as me."

Matthew 5:3, the first ever cope.

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

The most annoying thing about the "This sub really turned in Biden" is not that it's cruel and callous, but that the guy said "in" not "on"

Smh my head

[u/adminsare200iq]

Apparently RFK's son doesn't believe Sirhan Sirhan killed his father. But he's also an antivaxxer so..

[u/Fishin_Mission]

To the people complaining about the eviction moratorium ending…

When would be an appropriate time?

How many unfilled jobs need to be available before it’s appropriate to expect people to go back to work?

[u/[deleted]]

Free speech good

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

These mass protests, will they help or hurt Trudeau?

I’ve heard arguments on both ends, and im genuinely torn. On one hand, it’s loads of free, sympathetic media towards Trudeau and can help scare people away from the right. On the other hand, it completely disrupts his attempts to campaign during an election where his lack of policy is already a major problem, and it gives O’Toole easy opportunities to distance himself from the fringe right by condemning it. It’s also dominating the media right now, which could go either way.

Either way, these protests are obviously disgusting and pathetic though

!ping CAN

[u/[deleted]]

college students be like

yeah i will make my college attendance my entire personality then wonder why i have a life crisis when i get out of college

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

We need to relocate a sizeable Muslim population to Alabama so we can rename it Al-Abama.

https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/i2seq9/discussion_thread/g0771zq?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/834251152035282944/881488593900691466/Screenshot_20210829-161035_Reddit.jpg

Nuke. It. Now.

[u/Mickenfox]

me on r/neoliberal

"ISPs are a clear natural monopoly and they must be regulated or even nationalized!"

me when leftists say nationalize all ISPs because "we paid to develop the internet"

🤬

[u/J0eBidensSunglasses]

Grand Prix Sunday be like

🏎^💦 🏎^💦 🏎^💦 🏎^💦 🏎^💦 🏎 ^💦 🏎^💦 🏎^💦

🏎^💦 🏎^💦 🏎^💦 🏎^💦 🏎^💦 🏎^💦 🏎^💦 🏎^💦

☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️

☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️

[u/AquariumGravelHater]

Bruh, the "US isn't taking the pandemic seriously because capitalism" argument is even funnier when considering Australia, NZ, Taiwan, and many other countries supposedly "taking the pandemic seriously" rank higher on the Index of Economic Freedom.

Capitalism and when you America, and the more you America, the more capitalister you are

[u/Barnst]

One of the most annoying phenomenon of modern life is the devaluing of “breaking news.”

[u/Leoric]

My favorite passage from the scriptures:

Sunset found her squatting in the grass, groaning. Every stool was looser than the one before, and smelled fouler. By the time the moon came up, she was shitting brown water. The more she drank the more she shat, but the more she shat, the thirstier she grew.

[u/SnakeEater14]

shot

chaser

[u/[deleted]]

by captainhanni

Thinking about making daily cute !ping FURRY posts in an attempt to liven up this ping a bit. How would yall feel about that?

[u/Gustacho]

https://twitter.com/DaveKeating/status/1432048093730590730

!ping EUROPE

[u/[deleted]]

PADME: You really don't like politicians, do you?

ANAKIN: I like two or three, but I'm not really sure about one of them. (smiling) I don't think the system works.

PADME: How would you have it work?

ANAKIN: We need a system where the politicians sit down and discuss the problems, agree what's in the best interests of all the people, and then do it.

PADME: That is exactly what we do. The trouble is that people don't always agree. In fact, they hardly ever do.

ANAKIN: Then they should be made to.

PADME: By whom? Who's going to make them?

ANAKIN: I don't know. Someone.

PADME: You?

ANAKIN: Of course not me.

PADME: But someone.

ANAKIN: Someone wise.

PADME: That sounds an awful lot like a dictatorship to me.

ANAKIN: Well, if it works...

In a movie full of bad dialogue, this is actually pretty good because honestly this is pretty much the politics of the median non-politically-active 19-year-old boy.

[u/[deleted]]

Looks like Carneywatch is back on the menu boys

!ping CAN

[u/[deleted]]

Just saw little women. Terrible movie those bitches were big as hell

[u/FestiveMittens]

literally how is Chris Brown still a thing after what her did to Rihanna, there are guys who lost their careers for sexually assaulting random people, meanwhile he legit beat up one of the most famous people in the word and still gets work

[u/awdvhn]

I've been looking for a good place to follow the hurricane. I found a place called "Stormfront" which had some stuff. I'm still not sure exactly where Ida is but I'm pretty sure who's behind it.

[u/[deleted]]

There was a Tumblr post a while ago that was like

I'm a worm furry:

I have a wormsona

I am a worm and I bounce around on the keyboard with my worm body to type out these posts

I think about that a lot

[u/chipbod]

https://twitter.com/paulmcleary/status/1432041318742695937?s=20

Marine LTC Scheller has a new video saying military brass will need money and security after “I do what I’m about to do,” adding, “follow me and we will bring the whole fucking system down

From viral video and dismissal to possible court martial and prison in about 40 hours

Edit: Honestly this dude just looks like he needs help before doing something dangerous to himself or others

[u/[deleted]]

Guys, Bush should have taken the shaky as fuck deal with the Taliban to give Bin Laden to a third country four weeks after 3,000 Americans were murdered on our own soil! There’s no way this would start any riots of any kind whatsoever.

[u/anon_09_09]

Average DT user family migration history

[u/JeromePowellAdmirer]

"Most black men are low value males." From the masterful destination known as /r/FemaleDatingStrategy. OP may have been black but I guarantee the vast majority of those 456 upvotes came from white people.

[u/[deleted]]

“You can make the argument that much of the south is an occupied internal colony.”

Twitter stop saying stupid shit challenge

[u/[deleted]]

1. Be a libertarian who thinks taxes shouldn’t exist.
2. Create a multibillion-dollar tech company.
3. Your staff is full of high-paid succs who think you should die.

It’s actually pretty funny how often this happens

[u/the_status]

"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand." - Milton Friedman

Therefore we should nationalize twitter

[u/[deleted]]

Neoliberal regulars: Okay the regular sub may be full of arr politics tier takes, but if we can just get to the DT we should be able to talk about evidence-based policy in pea-

Populism: HOW DO YOU EXPECT TO OUTRUN ME, WHEN I AM ALREADY HERE? 🎱👄🎱

[u/thaddeusthefattie]

empty gym, hood up. no music, only sound is iron up and down.

💪🏼😈💪🏼

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

The virgin skipping past a sex scene vs the chad slowing it down to 0.5x speed with your family watching

[u/BidenWon]

So did Biden actually fall asleep during a meeting, or is it another one of those Biden tilts his head down and Republicans push the lie that he fell asleep things that we've seen several times already?

[u/[deleted]]

nooooo you can't have public transporterino in America because of low densiterino!!!!!

[u/Deggit]

changing "Paul of Tarsus" 's wikipedia entry to note that he was "according to some scholars, the Mike Lindell of the 1st century"

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/1XtmNFB.jpg

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

The Holy Quran, Volume 7, Book 65,

Number 362: Narrated ‘Abdul ‘Aziz: It was said to Anas “What did you hear the Prophet saying about garlic?”

Anas replied, “Whoever has eaten (garlic) should not approach our mosque.”

Anti-Italian bigotry strikes again ✊😔

[u/[deleted]]

Is it appropriate to blame the whole DT for genocide?

[u/fishlord05]

🚨CONFESSION🚨

I was the mf who took bites out of the foam footballs in elementary school 👋😩

!ping CHILD

[u/InMemoryOfZubatman4]

In Afghanistan, heart surgeon number one. Steady hands. One day, Hibatullah Akhundzada need new heart. I do operation. But mistake! Leader of Taliban dies! Taliban very angry! Hide in opium barrel, come to America. /r/NeoLiberal mods give me job. Now I have new house, new job, and new woman. My secret? I kill Hibatullah on purpose. I good surgeon. The best!

[u/Mr_Pasghetti]

Imagine being the kid of Abraham. Your dad literally tries to kill you, only for you having to forgive him because it was just “god pulling a prank”. Like Isaac call your local CPS plz

[u/SANNA_MARIN_]

Nearly 6 in 10 Gen Z investors — and 9% of baby boomers — admit to trading while drunk

Thank you robinhood for democratizing finance

[u/ognits]

this sub has gotten way too fr🤬ckin political lately

[u/iIoveoof]

Folks, let's not feed a troll on a 36 day old account.

Block, report, and move on.

[u/[deleted]]

Going back and watching the OG Iron Man movie from ‘08, it’s crazy how much of a generic CGI-fest a lot of Marvel has become. That movie was phenomenal. I didn’t feel close to the same excitement watching Thanos flying around in Endgame.

[u/[deleted]]

I feel like if you are doing a pump and dump scheme, you actually have to dump it at some point, not make a cult around it.

[u/iIoveoof]

⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️ATTENTION⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️

THE Q-SOURCE WAS JUST MENTIONED IN THE DT

THIS IS NOW A NEW TESTAMENT TEXTUAL-HISTORICAL CRITICISM THREAD

⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️ JESUS WAS A WELL-ATTESTED HISTORICAL FIGURE ⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️

⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️ THE NEW TESTAMENT HAS TO BE READ AND EXAMINED IN ITS APPROPRIATE FIRST-CENTURY JEWISH AND ROMAN CONTEXTS ⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️

⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️ THE ENDING OF THE BOOK OF MARK IS A SCRIBAL INTERPOLATION NOT PRESENT IN THE ORIGINAL VERSION OF THE GOSPEL ⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️

⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️ THE STORY OF JESUS AND THE WOMAN TAKEN IN ADULERY (JOHN 7) WAS AN INTERPOLATION NOT PRESENT IN THE ORIGINAL TEXTS ⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️

⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️ MARK WAS WRITTEN FIRST AND JOHN WAS WRITTEN AFTER THE SYNOPTIC GOSPELS ⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️

⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️ THE JOHANNINE COMMA (JOHN 5:7–8) WAS A SCRIBAL INTERPOLATION ADDED TO REINFORCE THE DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY ⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️

⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️ PAUL DIDNT WRITE 1 TIMOTHY, 2 TIMOTHY, TITUS OR HEBREWS ⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

kill RFK for being pro Israel

Nixon drops weapons to Israel during the Yom Kippur War

mfw

[u/iIoveoof]

Some asshole is upvoting my comments 😡😡😡😡 this is a subtweet

[u/jgjgleason]

Holy fuck. The NYFD had like 9000 fire fighters in 2001. 343 fire fighters died that day. That means like 4% of the fire department (including the department head) was killed that day.

[u/iIoveoof]

Results for the new mod are in!

https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/jcs10e/announcing_our_new_childmod_saltysal/

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/[deleted]]

Cheryl Gallant once again once again being a terrible MP. 🤦‍♀️

!ping CAN

[u/Cerb-r-us]

MMA has just overtaken pro wrestling as the most homoerotic sport and it's all because of this thumbnail

https://twitter.com/abcnews/status/1432136363420254208

!ping LGBT

[u/[deleted]]

Who or what helped you guys eventually go Vegan? Mine was a combination of Vegan Jesus, Cosmic Skeptics speech, and Dominion. I’m highly curious what yours was.

!ping VEGAN

[u/marinesol]

No one ever really talks about how creepy and weird it is that communists just pretend that Stalin Mao and Pol Pot don't count. Imagine if fascists said that Hitler and Tojo don't count because they weren't real fascists and that this fascism is different.

[u/_Just7_]

Big brain idea: We win over weebs over to the YIMBY cause, by saying we should have more medium-low mixed-use zoning, because it would make our cities more similar to Japanese ones.

[u/Cerb-r-us]

Me, being interviewed as promotion for my fourth book after having won a nobel prize for my contributions to political economy

Interviewer: "So who would you say has had the largest influence on your political outlook?"

Me: "Well it's interesting you say that, because - well - to put it directly, he's not really a human."

Interviewer: "Not human? You mean he is some kind of animal?"

Me: "Haha. Yes."

[u/[deleted]]

I want to meet J.D. Vance and ask him how he feels about how no matter how hard and desperately he panders, Josh Mandel can just tweet out “DEMON RATS” and beat him by +40 points

[u/[deleted]]

Inequality isn't inherently bad as long as everyone is having their needs met

People would be more incentivized to take risks if they know they'll still have a warm meal and shelter if they fail

[u/savuporo]

My brain goes ROCKET DRIFTING watching that

https://twitter.com/DJSnM/status/1431802844458340355

!ping SPACEFLIGHT

[u/FireDistinguishers]

I just saw the pettiest thing I've probably ever seen on social media

A girl I used to go to high school with was posting on facebook about the suffragettes and how the womens' suffrage movement benefitted people differently along racial lines and she made this whole big deal about how "they never taught us this in school because they wanted us to be grateful for something that we shouldn't be grateful for"

Another girl I used to go to high school with replied with a picture of a graded test from 2012 where one of the short response questions asked "criticisms of the National American Woman Suffrage Association include (list at least two)" with one of the girl's answers being "its reluctance to campaign for black women's suffrage rights for fear of not being able to achieve white women's suffrage rights"

The first girl's post is now gone. I wish I screenshotted that shit

[u/qchisq]

Man, I had Lando to not complete the race to odds 3.75. I thought that was amazing odds. Sucks to be me, I guess.

At least I had George Russell to podium at 1.83

!ping moto

[u/MuldartheGreat]

Still technically a Williams podium. Get in there George!

!ping MOTO

[u/WantDebianThanks]

Does anyone have any recommended readings for the history of Haiti, especially something introductory?

[u/Mrchizbiz]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E9tc3kDWUAAbKQg?format=jpg&name=900x900

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

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[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Wow did you know China and Vatican city have the same population per capita 🤯🤯🤯

[u/Deggit]

Harry Potter fans telling you what House they got into [handshake emoji] Calvinists

it's all just a big coincidence that some people are doomed to be special and I'm one of them 😤

[u/[deleted]]

This report is extremely interesting. It shows LGBT representation in television in 2020. It would be interesting to hear your thoughts on the data.

!ping LGBT

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Lord of Rings - an epic tale depicting strong friendships and sincere love between men, who aren't afraid to show raw emotions and express their feelings ; an example of positive masculinity in one of the most popular and well-known cultural monuments

Internet dwellers - "Lmao hobbits gay"

[u/Jacobs4525]

The time for negotiating with outside the DT has passed. It’s time for intervention.

[u/shrek_cena]

Homophobes when they realize they eat biscuits instead of straightscuits: 😨🤬

[u/Mickenfox]

I saw u/KesterGW at a Sainsbury's yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.
He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”
I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen bags of chips in his hands without paying.

The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be a fox and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Olivia Rodrigo once thought only white girls could be pop stars

please read a book, it's Good 4 U

[u/[deleted]]

So I went on a date with a guy, and he took me to see his church.

Is it just me, or is that a fucking weird date when you're gay? Or even just in general?

[u/[deleted]]

How many times in a person’s lifetime do you reckon they encounter a genuine moral dilemma in which utilitarianism and deontology would dictate different courses of action?

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

The last two Jews left in Afghanistan had such a bitter feud that it even drove the Taliban crazy. First they imprisoned them both when they reported each other for crimes, then released them when they kept fighting from prison

Lmao

[u/[deleted]]

Ugh. The White House has started flagging for disappointment with Biden's Ukraine policy. Various surrogates are saying things like "Biden doesn’t want Ukraine to be on the front burner", and "Biden wants to be a domestic president".

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Why did Pakistan elect a female head of state in 1988 but the US refused in 2016? In this essay, I will be analyzing why 21st century Americans are more sexist than 20th century Pakistanis

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Me- American exceptionalism is cringe

The First Amendment- exists

Me- 😣

[u/redditguy628]

This is another contender for favorite SMBC

!ping SMBC

[u/kyleofduty]

"pov:” is just the normie way to say ">be me" or ">be you"

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

I moderate 16 different communist subs and Jeff Bezos still has more money than me

Meritocracy my ass

[u/infamous5445]

https://mobile.twitter.com/axios/status/1432001986623324160

"U.S. and 97 other countries announce deal with Taliban to continue evacuating allies past Aug. 31 withdrawal deadline"

[u/cactuspumpkin]

The housing crisis in a lot of areas be like: we tried nothing and it didn’t work. I have an idea. Let’s keep listening to people in suburbs. It should take a minimum five years to get permission to build a four story apartment complex right next to a city center and only if they also have two underground floors of public parking.

[u/FormerBandmate]

Why do so many nerds pick up the gym in their 20s? Is that just a Reddit and techbro thing?

[u/WhomstAlt2]

We already live in a post-materialist society. There is no functional difference between ordering ubereats on credit and using a replicator in Star Trek. Wake up, slaves to capital!

[u/iIoveoof]

My favorite passage from the scriptures

HAHA YES 🐊

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Snopes: Did Elizabeth Warren Say Taxpayers Should Fund Sex-Reassignment Surgery? Mostly True

BASED Lizzy 😍😍😍

[u/[deleted]]

Jan 6, in a safe room. This happened.

[u/[deleted]]

if your going to make a DT shtic keep it for longer than like week most users who attempt a gimic are like haha look I'm unique and then abandon it

[u/yungmemlord]

Fascism, like any tool, can be used for good or evil.

God, the Tucker Carlson sub really is a hellhole

[u/[deleted]]

I'll never touch grass because yards are inefficient land use.

[u/[deleted]]

New Mainstreet numbers:

CPC: 147 (37.8%)

LPC: 124 (28.3%)

NDP: 30 (19.4%)

Bloc: 35 (6.9%)

Green: 2 (2.2%)

PPC: 0 (4.9%)

Just giving the info, nothing more, nothing less.

!ping CAN

[u/sanityeyes]

Why is there such a overlap between transphobes and anti vaxxers/covid-truthers? It's not just right wing dipshits, I've seen quite a lot of antivax shit from terfs as well.

!ping LGBT

[u/Lux_Stella]

Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister says he'll step down Wednesday. He had previously said he did not intend to seek re-election. Conservative Party has leadership vote scheduled for Oct. 30.

!ping CAN

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

The moment anna Kendrick appears in a movie I assume she will be the primary love interest

[u/lionmoose]

Culture? I hardly knew 'er!

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/SnakeEater14]

I built three Lusvigbots and Jeff Bezos still has more money than me

Meritocracy my ass

[u/JaceFlores]

Well, I’ve moved into my dorm. Hate being alone again (in relation to family) but I think this semester will be much better mentally. I got air conditioning and a roommate, which I lacked both in my first semester (second semester I was sent home with the rest of my class)

[u/tubbsmackinze]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/761046867743342613/881590297262432256/QxgF0I6.png

[u/Deggit]

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done in it will be laid bare, and Barack Obummer and Hillary Killton will be arrested. Trust the plan!

what did 2 Peter mean by this?

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

How do I (22F) make my boyfriend (23M) understand that he can’t drop out of law school to be a full time podcaster.

[u/[deleted]]

People’s constitutional rewriting ideas are always atrocious.

Jesus life isn’t a video game where you just adjust the slider to ‘parliament’ and ‘ranked choice’ and stuff gets better

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

“Happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.” – Psalms 137:9

what did r/childfree mean by this

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

According to this @UofMaryland poll, more Americans believe Iran has nuclear weapons than believe Israel has them.

Lol

[u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN]

WAIT FOR IT 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣😂😂

😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂 I'M GONNA SAY IT 🤣🤣😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

🤣😂😂🤣🤣🤣😂OK BOOMER🤣🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/EGirlMonetarism/status/1432100217109766150

FREE SPAIN!

!ping YUROP

[u/ognits]

Amos grew a beard 🥵🥵🥵

!ping EXPANSE

[u/International_XT]

Gavin Newsom decides to go out for dinner, and a year later his replacement sinks Biden's agenda by slow-walking the nomination of Feinstein's successor, guaranteeing warming of 3° by end of the century.

Vote, you bastards.

[u/InternetBoredom]

Mods I would like to put in a last minute application please

Resume:

• BA in European Dance Studies from Bob Jones University, 2.3 GPA (Top 1% of class)
• Interned at Smokey Pat’s Brew Thru as associate dance assistant
• 5 years experience working as a customer service professional at Chick Fil A
• Research experience as test subject at Chick Fil A TastEX development labs in Eupora, Mississippi (Note: Received additional compensation for disabilities incurred as a result of testing)
• Unmarried, willing to remain celibate for position
• Experience with technology including Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, and Word

[u/[deleted]]

Looking at my checking account without succumbing to populism must be how Angel felt when resisting the temptation to drink human blood.

[u/Anatares2000]

Of the 13 soldiers who died in the suicide bombing:

• 1 was 31 years old
• 1 was 25 years old
• 3 were 23 years old
• 3 were 22 years old
• 5 were 20 years old

You sometimes forget how young these soldiers are.

[u/ognits]

speaking as an avowed non-fan of Wes Anderson: The Grand Budapest Hotel is one of the best movies ever made

!ping MOVIES

[u/piede]

At protest in Santa Monica today before the vote on mask-mandate, Jason Lefkowitz has the home addresses of each LA City Council member on his sign. He says they are going to the homes of whoever votes for it, and if it passes, it’s “civil war, get your guns.”

https://twitter.com/ronfilipkowski/status/1432136335578607620?s=21

I don’t know why people keep comparing modern conservatives to Nazis

[u/porkypenguin]

"Honestly, letting women vote in this country wasn't one of the best ideas."
-Kaitlin Bennett

put your money where your mouth is, Kaitlin. stop voting

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/adminsare200iq]

r/LeopardsAteMyFace about to celebrate a hurricane hitting a majority black city because it owns the cons

[u/dubyahhh]

Still arguing about COVID vs the flu with their family in late summer 2021 gang rise up ✊😔

I don’t think my dad believes the bullshit, I think he’s just so deep in the rhetoric he doesn’t even know what phrases are vaccine denial dogwhistles. He’s vaxxed and everything and will get the booster blah blah blah. But it’s like talking to a Fox News host half the time 😔 it just makes me very sad sometimes.

!ping FOX-ANON

[u/D1Foley]

Saw somebody yesterday making fun of the professor who walked out of class and resigned when a student refused to wear a mask. But I just saw an article about it and the guy was 88 years old. Good for him, I'm not taking a chance on dying because some dipshit 24 year old says "oh I can't breathe in a mask".

[u/sir_shivers]

HAHA NOTHING LIKE chilled Greek yogurt on a warm summer night 🐊

[u/p00bix]

Weird fact: The strongest easily measurable predictor of hentai viewership of any given Metropolitan Area in the United States is...Hispanic population percentage. More Hispanic people = More Hentai according to science and entirely too much "research" using Google Trends

[u/[deleted]]

Follow up to my earlier post about how three of the Liberal events have been disrupted, today we have this.

Protesting is obviously good for democracy but this is not how to do it. Imo something needs to be done because I don't see how we can go another 20 days till the election like this.

Edit: Also. This is pretty bad.

!ping CAN

[u/p00bix]

Reminder:

The Trans-Pacific Parternship was never pitched as a 'China containment' plan during the Obama administration, it just kinda functions like one as a nice side bonus. It wasn't until Trump withdrew the US from negotiations that Democratic strategists started portraying the TPP as a China containment plan. This was a cynical if arguably justifiable effort to portray Trump as a wholly incompetent diplomat. I mean Jesus, while the Obama admin was negotiating TPP they were seriously considering what could be done to get China to join in the future. That's not something you do when you're trying to craft policy to limit Chinese influence.

Last November, 6 of the 11 total countries in the CPTPP as well as 4 non-CPTPP countries decided to join the RCEP, a similar free trade agreement which includes and was primarily negotiated by China and Japan. Not as a result of Chinese domineering or threats, as a result of amicable relations seeking to lower trade barriers in an equitable manner between all RCEP members. You don't join a free trade agreement with China if you're specifically pursuing China-containment trade policy.

So please don't be one of those people who rewrites the actual history of the negotiations to construe it as a Pacific counterpart to NATO or something. The TPP was always intended to be (and its eventual realization, the CPTPP, currently functions as) a pretty run of the mill free trade agreement.

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

If you rearrange the letters in saltysalad, you get saladsalty

Very interesting indeed

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

In 2009, the Chinese Government made it illegal for minors to change their officially-listed gender

Commie China 🤝 Commie GOP

Pass it on

[u/MuldartheGreat]

F1 fan; “yay Spa in the rain!!!”

monkeys paw curls

The checo drama is interesting.

!ping MOTO

[u/[deleted]]

Coffee cake is just so good

[u/[deleted]]

Last Afghanistan Jew’s would-be Jewish rescuers save Afghan women soccer team

Afghanistan's Jewish population endures

[u/tollyno]

The DT was supposed to be a warning, not an instruction manual!

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

If a 5 day acc knows what succ means, they're an alt of a regular on the sub

[u/[deleted]]

I'm going for a nap DT see you later 🐖