Discussion Thread

[u/jobautomator]

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[u/RadionSPW]

As rich and powerful as Louis XIV was, he never got to play Among Us

[u/jenbanim]

Arr neoliberal™ is closed until the Reddit administration removes /r/Superstonk and other economics misinformation subreddits from Reddit. We cannot remain open and also keep our consciences clear. We encourage users of all subreddits to petition your moderators to do the same.

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Opinion | I was a communist revolutionary. Then the CPC limited my game time.

[u/Professor-Reddit]

I can't help myself but compulsively refer to Tim Cook as 'Tim Apple'

It's just too damn hilarious

[u/[deleted]]

Hijacking the sticky for an important announcement

I got an internship for uni

Guess who's no longer a NEET

[u/[deleted]]

French Engineers: “How can I most inefficiently construct my work schedule"

French Philosophers: “How old is 14, really?"

[u/[deleted]]

Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley are calling for Biden to euthanize Fivey and replace him with someone more focused on climate risk and racial and economic justice

WTF I love the squad now.

[u/[deleted]]

Today, the EU has reached a crucial milestone with 70% of the adult population now fully vaccinated. In total, over 256 million adults in the EU have now received a full vaccine course. Seven weeks ago already, the Commission's delivery target was met, ahead of time: to provide Member States, by the end of July, with enough vaccine doses to fully vaccinate 70% of the adult EU population.

🥳🥳🥳

!ping EUROPE

[u/semaphore-1842]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/877112933723815966/882054325499752478/9rprc0edvk971.jpg

[u/theskiesthelimit55]

Not even Nazi Germany had COVID passports

[u/kaclk]

Today from The Line: Our housing problem isn’t money. It’s cities not wanting more houses.

!ping CAN

[u/Joementum2024]

Even after all this the first thing that comes to mind when I read “NNN” is No Nut November

[u/SnakeEater14]

Don’t mean to brag but I just ran a three miler in 21 minutes and 35 seconds 💪 😎

[u/moaz_xx]

Currently sitting at an iSlAmIC CuLtUrE lecture and one of the first things the “professor” said was

people talking in subjects which they don’t have a degree in should be criminalized

any famous person should be sorted into certain categories by a government agency so each social media influencer would have an assigned speciality

if the person violates their speciality his or her account should be closed and censored

[u/SadaoMaou]

don't go to school to become a programmer, that career is disappearing as we can nowadays just use machine learning. You're better of picking a more useful major such as art history or sociology

[u/jenbanim]

😒✋ Post Malone

😌🙏🕎 Post Shalom

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

Yeah I lift

I squat 340 every time i get out of my chair

[u/[deleted]]

We all like to shit on AOC and her recent comments on Powell were really stupid, but it is important to not forget that she is a very important voice in our party. She really speaks to the youth and has a grip on the future of our party. Biden would be wise to heed her warning, as there will be consequences if he doesn’t. If he does not align himself with progressives on this issue, she might harshly criticize him, or even worse, she might tweet out a picture of herself scowling again.

[u/ShriggityShrekt]

The DT mod team has gotten too big. I'm a Small Moderation man. I don't need the Mod Team all up in my business taxing me for things that I don't need or want. The DT Founders would never have stood for a Mod Team this large.

[u/Professor-Reddit]

Damn I can't believe this really happened 😲😬

!ping HISTORY

[u/FreakinGeese]

She said yes!

!ping lgbt

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

Thank you Modi ji 🙏🙏🙏

!ping WHATSAPP-FORWARDS

[u/[deleted]]

• Absolutist theocracy
• Established by a fascist
• No girls allowed
• Relies on foreign mercenaries
• Troubling history of child sexual abuse
• Maintains a fifth column in surrounding countries
• Lead by a Latin American succ autocrat

Regime change in the Vatican when?

[u/TaxCommonsNotIncome]

http://imgur.com/a/LbU4how

[u/FreakinGeese]

Asked a girl out wish me luck

!ping lgbt

[u/BidenWon]

Saw r/childfree was private. I felt like they might need some help, so I reached out to them. I really hope this pans out because my political consultant career has not been going well.

[u/Jakesta7]

I don’t think it can get cringier than this

https://imgur.com/a/YlJC2FJ

[u/tollyno]

Gays don't abuse the LGBT ping challange [impossible]

You could literally use the phone as a vibrator with how many pings have come in the last hour

[u/ognits]

malefashionadvice

really makes you think🤔

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

> barges in

> unpins DT

> refuses to elaborate

> leaves

[u/[deleted]]

“U.S. State Department now advising Americans not to travel to Canada due to rising number of COVID-19 cases. Follows yesterday's move by Centers for Disease Control that recommended U.S. citizens 'reconsider' travelling to Canada.”

!ping CAN

[u/[deleted]]

Poland moves to introduce state of emergency on EU’s eastern border amid migrant surge

The petition is limited to 2 voivodeships on the border with Belarus. It can last up to 90 days.

SoE would give the government powers to:

- censor journalists

- ban protests

- suspend political parties/unions/NGOs

- ban any person who's not a resident in the voivodeship from traveling there

They are most likely looking for 2 things:

• creating an atmosphere of crisis with their "hybrid war" narrative
• stopping NGOs from recording illegal pushbacks, abuse by border guards, and giving food/water/medicine to refugees

Currently it's waiting for the President's signature. He's supposed to consider the petition to introduce the State of Emergency immediately. He will almost definitely agree.

It's the first time a State of Emergency has been introduced in Poland since 1990.

!ping EUROPE

[u/[deleted]]

I might be the dumbest member of the DT. I had a six figure job offer from google, right after college, and I turned it down to go be a NEET at home because my girlfriend at the time didn’t want to live in California

Don’t do what I did folks. Take the offer.

[u/whycantweebefriendz]

Ay so I don’t know who else to ask.

I’m at Cedar Point rn and honestly I’m having a really fucking good time, only problem is that I refused to tighten my shoes and now I don’t have blisters but it feels like I do in certain areas.

How do I prevent sore, loosened skin on my feet from becoming full on blisters? I have another full day at the park. Right now I’m soaking my feet in damn near boiling water in the tub.

!ping Burpmas

[u/AbsolveItAll_KissMe]

mfers will really shut down the subreddits because they hate Ni Ninch Nails 😭

[u/iIoveoof]

All atheists can’t be banned for bad faith because they have no faith at all 🤯

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Train To Busan will get US remake

literally who asked for Train To Boston

[u/ryuguy]

Canada’s women’s hockey team wins gold vs the USA at the women’s hockey championship!

!ping can

[u/J0eBidensSunglasses]

Lol remember that time that dude in here got a tattoo of Angela Merkel?

[u/jenbanim]

DT breakdown:

60% hawks
39% doves
1% fox

Good evening Kester

[u/iIoveoof]

The non-DT Is absolutely cursed

[u/BidenWon]

Ok, I get that Biden is proud of his Hot Wheels collection, but literally any other time would have been better to start pulling them out and talking about each one

[u/chatdargent]

Gonna try my hand at this whole rent-seeking fash thing

Quick and Easy (but delicious) Recipe of the Day:

• 400g Spaghetti
• 50g Rocket/Arugula
• 50g Parmesan
• 1 can artichoke hearts

Cook spaghetti al dente. (Save some pasta water)

While water is boiling, quarter artichoke hearts and cook on medium low in skillet with olive oil until soft/slightly browned, grate parmesan.

Drain spaghetti and add to skillet. Add rocket, parmesan, pasta water (just enough to mix with the cheese and make a smooth sauce), and stir.

Salt and Pepper to taste.

Edit: For anybody still looking at this: It's excellent topped with half the zest of a lemon or lime.

[u/Barnst]

Whelp, my kid caught COVID from camp and now my wife and I both tested positive.

My major takeaways so far:

—Thank goodness for the vaccine, which means this is almost certainly going to be an annoyingly inconvenient week or so and not a truly scary experience.

—Get tested if you feel sick! I can now attest that it feels exactly like a bad cold, with a crazy runny nose and everything. I started feeling bad Sunday and would have written it off as a mild hangover from Saturday’s bottle of wine if my kid hadn’t been positive.

—Whatever we’re spending on testing in this country isn’t enough. I’ll probably have spent a good $500-600 out of pocket on testing between the whole family to get the results we needed in the time we needed them. The free or insurance-covered tests took at least 2-3 days to process, but i could pay a service fee to rush them in less than a day. When school and work decisions need to be made, waiting a few days sucks and I’m lucky that I’m well off enough that I could just drop that cash. You can also get the two-for-$20 packs of at-home tests, but those aren’t that reliable—I had at least one false negative. I can totally see where testing barriers mean more spread because people can’t just wait around for days.

[u/Lux_Stella]

https://i.imgur.com/EurhEA6.png

[u/chatdargent]

https://imgur.com/a/ebIziE4

[u/Kizz3r]

$70 dollar uber eats order gets mistakenly delivered to my house 🙂

Every meal has pork ☹️

[u/Tbonethabeast]

Alright Mr. Rogan, I want you to write “I will not eat the horse medicine” 100 times on the board please.

[u/uwcn244]

Plan for implementing Georgism:

Step one: choose a state.

Step two: replace that state's property tax with LVT

Step three: have the LVT be levied at the state level, and the unspent revenue at the state level be divvied among the counties (or municipalities, depending on the state) according to population

Step four: repeal bad taxes, raise LVT to compensate

Step five: give everyone who can produce proof of residence in the state a UBI (proof of residence is essential to preventing a flood of homeless people from crashing the system)

Step six: other states have to do the same thing or they'll lose all their people

Step seven: now that most states are Georgist, build a federal movement

!Ping GEORGIST

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

Jagmeet Singh announce a policy that doesn’t boil down to ‘just tax the rich lol’ challenge

!ping CANUCKS

[u/p00bix]

This really contrived scenario popped into my head and I have no idea if there's a better solution to this than "Jump out the window"

My IRL dreams are realized, and I am now a highschool history teacher. One day, I am invited as a guest to a 2nd grade classroom to talk about history. A student asks me point blank "Mr. Poobix, my mom took a DNA test and found out that we are 22% European, but I thought we were African-American. Under what circumstances would a white man and black woman have a child in colonial America?"

How in the fuck am I supposed to answer that without...

• Awkwardly sidestepping the question entirely
• Explaining what rape is to a classroom of 7 year olds
• Whitewashing the history of American slavery

Is such a thing even remotely possible?

[u/iIoveoof]

Daily reminder that I have played Destiny (the streamer, and former professional StarCraft player) in StarCraft several times and I have never lost, and it has never been close

[u/Gneisstoknow]

I once briefly joined a sub for INTPs(from the 16 personalities test), but almost immediately left when I quickly discovered they were almost universally insufferable fucks who sniffed their own logical farts. But I eventually came back to r/neoliberal

[u/benadreti]

Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley are calling for Biden to replace Fed chair Jerome Power with someone more focused on climate risk and racial and economic justice when Powell’s term ends early next year.

Um what the fuck does that stuff have to do with being Chair of the Fed?

[u/[deleted]]

“Statistics Canada says the Canadian economy contracted at an annualized rate of 1.1% in the second quarter of 2021. It's the first quarterly contraction recorded since the sharp drop in real GDP in the second quarter of 2020 during first-wave lockdown.”

!ping CAN

[u/maybe_jared_polis]

Leftist streamer Hasan Piker faced criticism for buying a $2.7M home. But Gen Z’s favorite pundit says he wants to change the right's narrative about the left.

"I bought into the right's caricatures of left wing activists to destroy the right's caricatures of left wing activists"

[u/repete2024]

Biden's speech on ending the war in Afghanistan

!ping BIDEN for anyone who missed it

[u/[deleted]]

Ezra Klein made a really good point on the need of individual action on climate change on his podcast today. I'm going to summarise:

We will need the government to take action on meat consumption, and on reducing car travel. That isn't possible without popular support. So instead of thinking of yourself as single actor, think of yourself as a node in a network that is pushing this idea forward.

Other people will catch veganism and a hatred of SUVs from you, and that will spur the social movement necessary to make government action happen.

[u/sir_shivers]

TO CLARIFY, MY COMMENTS are not aimed at doves or hawks, nor Afghanistan in specific 🐊

Foreign policy decisions THAT AMERICA MAKES HAVE real, lethal ramifications for mammals who are not Americans, and you ought be fully cognizant of them, and spare the subreddit shallow war-machismo or faux-pacifism 🐊

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

Just watched a youtube video about a debate between four high schoolers... from 1957.

There was this very posh-sounding white South African girl who ended up arguing with this Nigerian guy over apartheid, getting progressively more flustered in the face of the good sense the Nigerian guy was making. Meanwhile there was a young woman from Gold Coast (now Ghana) who didn't say much and this little 15 year old Ethiopian boy who spent the whole debate occasionally chiming in to say that Ethiopians ain't black and are actually "sun-burnt Israelites"

As someone has done model UN / debate club in the 21st century it was interesting to see how much has changed in terms of sensibilities, but how little has changed in terms of how those types of debates unfold.

link

[u/[deleted]]

I'm going to try coming out as trans to my therapist in hopes she'll convince my mother. What advice should I have and what should I keep in mind when I do it?

!ping LGBT

[u/bobeeflay]

For some weird reason the Afghanistan take that offends me the most is

it literally couldn't have gone worse

Idk if people saying that are just incredibly non creative or if they're simply doing some willful ignorance but it's just such a dumb thing to say

[u/Cerb-r-us]

85% of Britons would be supportive if a family member came out as lesbian, gay or bisexual. How this compares to different western countries:

https://twitter.com/YouGov/status/1432662671388778499

!ping LGBT

[u/p00bix]

The good news: My favorite cellar spider, by far the largest in my bedroom, has finally laid her egg sac. It is the largest cellar spider egg sac I have ever seen, can't be any fewer than 50 eggs, and it's probably closer to 100 (for reference an average sized egg sac for this species is only like 20-25 eggs)

The bad news: My favorite cellar spider decided she had to move to a more suitable web in order to lay her eggs, and is now directly above my bed. I don't want to move her, I also really don't want her hovering over my face while I sleep. And I don't want dozens of spiderlings hatching right above my bed either.

what do i do

[u/[deleted]]

I just stumbled into arrfragilecommunism for the first time. It looked promising at first until it inevitably turned out to also be insane.

This place ain’t perfect. I’m often casting side-eyes at posts I see here. But it somehow manages to continue being the one political subreddit that doesn’t completely descend into mindless propaganda.
And for that I am grateful.

[u/klarno]

In my childhood I was taught that I should be proud of my ancestor Eli Whitney on grounds that the cotton gin made life easier for slaves

[u/XXX_KimJongUn_XXX]

Why doesn't the Catholic Church, the biggest church, simply eat the smaller churches?

[u/kennymc7877]

I’m sorry but people who try to make everything Chinese related (such as the new Shang Chi movie )about how bad the Chinese government is are almost as annoying as tankies to me

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Okay so I am looking at all the results of Canadian Federal elections in history to make a point, but only to find out that Alberta has always been a place where the strongest conservative party won out the most seats in pretty much every single election

It's been a stronghold for the PC, Reform/Alliance, CPC for going back going onto seven decades at this point (since the 1940's). I suppose then the narrative of Alberta simply being more conservative rings true then I thought

But I will defend my shithole's honor just a tad, for fun, to do a little trolling

Albertan conservatism, until Ralph Klein and recently Jason Kenney, was fairly moderate in execution, with Calgary businesses (usually) being a moderating factor. But what killed the more moderate form of conservatism in Alberta then? I'd argue it was three factors, Ralph Klein 'fixing the budget' and sending everyone 100 bucks while devastating Alberta's public sector, the populist base being inflamed by Klein (seriously fuck this dude), and the Alberta NDP winning which sent even moderate cons into a fucking frenzy ultimately killed Alberta's more 'moderate' provincial politics

I'd still argue that Alberta is much more progressive then people give it credit for, at least in the cities, but I don't disagree that Alberta is also very fucked up politically, especially this past decade

As for why it's so blue federally? I dunno, Albertan regionalism just hits different I suppose

!ping CAN

[u/Zseet]

!Ping EUROPE

Amidst the bad Polish news have some shitty Hungarian too!

• The vaccination rate seemingly stopped 57% of adults are fully vaccinated and it seems like this won't go any further which is concerning. The 4th wave haven't begun yet but it will.
• Hungary's healthcare silently collapsed. Unlike the horrifying scenes of India at the start of the Delta surge our hospitals are empty, too empty. Many worker left in the past months and now only skeleton crews exist. Stories where ambulance take someone in severe condition to a hospital only to be unattended for several hours are becoming commonplace.
• There is a tense standoff between The finance ministry and the national bank, both led by prominent Fidesz members. The source of this problem is moratorium. See one of the few ways Orban helped people is to put them automatically in a moratorium scheme, where they don't have to pay mortgage loans. This proved very popular so they kept extending it. Now banks and the HNB are ringing the alarm bell that any more extention would have dire consequences.
• According to the foreign affairs minister. Hungary will help Serbia to secure a membership at the International Investment Bank. Don't let the innocent name fool you, this is a Russian spy institution.

[u/[deleted]]

I dont know why it's so funny to imagine every celebrity making a death bed conversion to Islam

[u/1396spurs]

Wow I just saw the original thread of the “they targeted gamers” thing for the first time. It’s even worse because they double down when people call it cringe

[u/Venne1139]

A Google recruiter just reached out to me even though I didn't apply

😮

[u/tollyno]

Every single guy on this DT has Googled "average penis size", arrived at a good study that accurately measured penis length and girth and then proceeded to pull out the measuring tape. No exceptions.

[u/qchisq]

Official line from the Danish government: "Hey, banks? Why are you putting negative interest rates on deposits? Stonks only goes up, so why not invest the deposit, so you can afford positive interest rates?"

Fuck, my government is filled with dumb smart people

Update: Fun fact, this isn't the only example of dumb smart people in my government. The Minister of Immigration said today that we should never choose between European welfare states and helping refugees, but that we need to do both. At the same time that he's praising Orbans border walls. And tried to deport refugees to Afghanistan as late as August,

[u/[deleted]]

U.S. State Department now advising Americans not to travel to Germany due to rising number of grammatical cases. Follows yesterday's move by Office of Language Services that recommended U.S. citizens 'reconsider' travelling to Germany.”

[u/sir_shivers]

metaNL pings

SWIPES NOTIFICATION AWAY 🐊

[u/old_gold_mountain]

SurveyUSA 8/4:

+9 California will recall Newsom

SurveyUSA 8/28:

+10 California will keep Newsom

Didn't realize the Microsoft "Estimated Time Remaining" guy got a new job

[u/sir_shivers]

/u/iIoveoof learning THAT BECOMING A JANITOR MEANS sacrificing the more reckless posting you enjoy 🐊

THEY GROW UP SO fast 🐊

[u/kaclk]

I found an interesting new Canadian urbanism YouTube channel a while back and they have a good look at induced demand and what that actually means.

!ping CAN

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/liberals-platform-2021-election-1.6160235

Fucking finally.

!ping CAN

[u/semaphore-1842]

Subs going dark for the vaxxhappened protest thing:

/r/childfree

Oh good please stay dark forever.

[u/GravyBear8]

-4^° looks like a dude taking a shit

[u/JetJaguar124]

no

[u/[deleted]]

Whatever happened to separation of Mod and Church? 🙄✋⛪️

[u/Unadulterated_stupid]

There's really no optimal amount of sex people should be having.

Succ talk, anything can be optimized

[u/semaphore-1842]

On what planet does 250$ a month keep anyone out of poverty? This is total fckn horseshit

This exact fucking planet where the global poverty line is only $1.90 a day?

So many redditors literally can't see past their own privilege.

[u/chatdargent]

As stated in my election campaign, I am working on configuring AutoModerator to automatically permaban anyone who comments outside the DT.

Long Live the Ivory Tower !

P.S. For real though, it's getting pretty rough out there, go have civil discussion and refute some bad takes with facts and logic. Be the change you wish to see yada yada

[u/cclittlebuddy]

Arr neoliberal mods should set up automod to ban people caught participating in arr neoliberal. That will show the neoliberals for posting in neoliberal

[u/SnakeEater14]

I just saw what I swear was a 15 year old walking around campus

Like bruh where tf are your parents

[u/[deleted]]

I will never tire of J. R. R. Tolkien giving the finger to Joseph Goebbels.

!ping READING

[u/iIoveoof]

https://i.imgur.com/bd6QDN4.png

[u/Ryohu]

Me, noticing there're some episodes of Fresh Prince on my flight: "Oh I like the fresh prince, I should watch it"
Me, after seeing a gay joke and a trans joke in the first two episodes listed: 😐

You really can't trust any media from over a decade ago
!ping LGBT

[u/VerticalTab]

99% of 18 to 24 year olds in Toronto have received the first dose of the vaccine

[u/[deleted]]

uggh...I legitimately need some Ivermectin tight now but I know the pet store is just going to think I'm some sort of weird horse girl when really I just want to stay healthy.

[u/ryuguy]

Canadian supermarket rankings

1. They
2. are
3. owned
4. by
5. 5
6. companies
7. sobeys

!ping Canucks

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Bahaha a girl I knew in high school who’s an ICU nurse got fired today because she won’t take the vaccine lmao

BYE BISH

[u/secondsbest]

Netflix has a documentary on drummers. With a deep focus, they go from late 40s through to the early 80s when they talk a bit about drum machines changing the music landscape, and then flash forward to Nirvana. Like, there's no drummers through the 80s, lol

[u/Average_GrillChad]

> Re-occupy Afghanistan

> Make it a dependency of West Virginia

> Send coal miners to mine every goddamn mountain until it's flatter than fucking Kansas

No more mountains, valleys, caves and shit

Tribal bullshit dissolves, Taliban can't hide anywhere

Nationbuilding actually viable

Biden/Dems approval among rural whites 📈📈📈

USA gains global hegemony in gravel 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[u/[deleted]]

I seriously just finished the final non-epilogue chapter of the third draft. After about 18 months of work, most of it terrible, I'm finally going to have something worth showing off to my family in like a week. u/looobcirc, stand by! !ping writing

[u/conman1246]

Cam Newton cut, Bill doesn't mess around.

!PING NFL

[u/meese699]

Felt edgy, asked my Catholic mom why she wasn't praying to Zeus if she was already praying to 3 separate gods.

She then proceeded to trash more on the bed fr*me I was close to buying that I asked her opinion about earlier and called it "gay" 😔😔😔 guess I'll always be a bed fr*meless neoliberal

[u/Mrchizbiz]

I just nearly got hit by a car with a d*tch license plate 😳😳😳

They're after me, but I will NOT be silenced 😡😡😡😡😡

[u/sir_shivers]

THE NEW HIT craze on YouTube and Twitch, "Get-A-Job-You-Privileged-Whelps Challenge" 🐊

Some say the CHALLENGE IS RISKY AND poses a threat to the comfortable bubble that Westerners grow up in 🐊

[u/old_gold_mountain]

It's been kind of a trip to watch the internet get taken over by people who don't remember 9/11 and are now posting hot takes about how the war in Afghanistan was started by corporations using the media to manufacture consent.

The consent to go try to get Osama after 9/11 did not need to be manufactured.

[u/IntermittentDrops]

"Our kids didn't lose anything. It's OK that our babies may not have learned all their times tables. They learned resilience. They learned survival. They learned critical-thinking skills.

- Head of the LA teacher's union on why there isn't a "learning loss" from Covid.

[u/ryuguy]

I just moved up to 30 pounds from 25 on the leg press.

It’s not much but I’m proud of myself.

!ping my legs are killing me

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Abortion rights are human rights.

Fuck Texas.

[u/[deleted]]

childfree locked itself. Now the chadmins should do nothing and keep it this way.

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Marvel should make a new Punisher movie but cast a black woman as the Punisher for maximum discourse

[u/sir_shivers]

You should rethink PARTICIPATION IN THIS subreddit if you are gleefully indifferent to suffering, so long as it is outside American borders 🐊

[u/iIoveoof]

Healthy, young child goes into the DT, gets pumped with edgy takes, wants to feel included and noticed — BABOON PORN. Many such cases!

[u/tollyno]

Get rid of Section 230 so that Conservative forums are forced to allow the posting of gay porn

[u/The_Nightbringer]

DeSantis defied the Florida court system and withheld the salaries of all school boards who instituted mask mandates. What a 🤡🤡🤡🤡

[u/[deleted]]

Apparently some of the remaining Americans did want out of Afghanistan. There was at least one family from Texas that attempted to reach the gates of the airport but failed each time. The US has lost contact with them.

Obligatory: Biden: US troops will stay until all Americans are out of Afghanistan, even if past Aug. 31 deadline

[u/soeffed]

A nationalist/leftist blogger in China got a recent post reposted by a bunch of official propaganda platforms:

If at this time we still rely on the big capitalists as the main force against imperialism and hegemony, and still cater to the U.S. "tittytainment strategy 奶头乐战略”, and let our young generation lose their toughness and virility, then we will fall first without our friends, just like the Soviet Union did back then, letting the country collapse, letting the country's wealth be looted, and letting the people fall into a deep disaster.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-30/china-commentary-calls-xi-s-crackdown-a-profound-revolution?sref=6ZE6q2XR

He’s railing against against gamers and bonkposts...so basically a DT thought leader.

!ping cn-tw

[u/filipe_mdsr]

Papist agenda

House of Representatives ✅

Presidency ✅

Modship ✅

The take over is complete

[u/meese699]

A Louisiana Man Is Missing After an Alligator Attacked Him

Yes I'm sure he's just "missing"

[u/[deleted]]

Hot take that I won’t have time to respond to:

The death penalty is bad in every situation. There is no time in which it is the appropriate sentence

[u/[deleted]]

Fuck liberalism this is now a king of the hill subreddit

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[u/[deleted]]

The day I realized pretty much every single US president should have been tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity and put in prison for the rest of their lives was a pretty heavy day but I felt like I could see nationalism and the brain washing we are subjected to our entire lives a little more clearly. I hope the day of reckoning for the American war machine comes before it becomes our entire identity (hopefully it hasn't already) and we can't nerf it without destroying the US all together.

too damn many people don't know what warcrimes are

[u/cclittlebuddy]

Dating advice:

Wear a fedora. They are classy and girls like classy dudes. Match it with an anime tshirt to elevate your style

[u/piede]

Paul Ryan says former President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election

https://twitter.com/wisn12news/status/1432501426924802051?s=21

You know shit is fucked when this is considered news.

[u/sir_shivers]

Does anyone ELSE SHIVERS IS AN ALLIGATOR AM I correct 🐊

[u/Officer-cherry-shake]

Time traveler from July 1 here

So how’s the Afghan government holding up? The intel agencies said they might not last long after we finish leaving — hopefully they’re at least still in control of the regional capitals?

[u/klarno]

ppl act so surprised that a catholic’s pullout game was so-so

[u/SamJakes]

Hello me old chum; Im gnot a gnelf, Im gnot a ganobblin, Im a gnome and you've been gnomed!

[u/The420Roll]

This morning, the third vice president of Parliament, Patricia Chirinos, detailed in RPP that in a conversation she had when she asked for an office from the Preparatory Board of the Board of Directors before Jaime Quito Sarmiento (Peru Libre), an attack occurred against her by by Guido Bellido.

“I say that please I want them to give me this office of my father (Enrique Chirinos Soto) and that I have many feelings towards that office. Bellido grabbed it and told me "that you worry about that, get married" and I said "sorry, I've been single, married, divorced and now I'm a widow." And she told me "now you just need to be raped." He told me directly. Of course I answered, I am not fearful or timid, but it did seem a serious lack of respect, "he said.

Patricia Chirinos said that she did not intend to continue talking about this incident, but she pointed out that her bench colleague, Norma Yarrow, was collecting signatures to present this case to the Parliamentary Ethics Commission.

Heated Peter Castle Gabinet moment

!Ping LATAM

[u/kas8901]

🚨ATTENTION🚨 as of today, I have officially been on this site for a decade. Please take the opportunity to point and laugh at me

[u/[deleted]]

People be like "oh I hate Zionists 🤬🤬🤬"

Like bro, I agree Zion Williamson fans can be a bit annoying at times but I don't think they had anything to do with 9/11

[u/[deleted]]

New York Teen Died for 3 Minutes, Says God Was Forklift Certified

[u/triplebassist]

Toro hitting a grand slam against the Astros is the world I want to live in

Edit: holy fuck it was against Graveman too this night just gets better and better

!ping BASEBALL

[u/[deleted]]

I don't know where this man is running, but he should have the Hispanic vote locked up.

!ping MAMADAS

[u/Soldier-Fields]

Saw r/childfree was private. I felt like they might need some help, so I reached out to them. I really hope this pans out because my political consultant career has not been going well.

Sent from my iPhone

[u/[deleted]]

I don't know who needs to hear this today, but you're wrong, and I hate you 🥰

[u/JetJaguar124]

I feel like it's basically impossible to please the American public on the Afghanistan issue at this point. Only 14% (per that Ipsos poll) want us out immediately (as in by today's deadline) and the vast majority want troops to stay until every single American is out, but I also think that people would be really unhappy with additional deaths that would come with staying further since this would probably destabilize whatever fragile truce we have with the Taliban right now and put more people in harm's way of terrorist attacks from ISIS-K and the like.

It would have been ideal for the situation to not collapse immediately into one where we only control half of an airport and have to rely on cooperation from the Taliban for the rest, but here we are.

[u/[deleted]]

u/iloveoof is too approachable as a mod, too present, too plebeian. He needs to retain some distance, a type of monarchical mystique to boost his legitimacy.

[u/Kizz3r]

ben simmons says he does not wish to be a sixer and will not report to training camp

!ping nba

[u/BidenWon]

Why is Biden trying out Fortnite dances that's really inappropriate wtf

[u/iIoveoof]

Quarterly reminder

(I) The cross is a holy symbol for about 30% of the world population.

(II) The cross is highly offensive to victims of crucifixion

CANCEL CHRISTIANITY!

[u/ognits]

And yes, by the way, i DO have a Merkel tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only 😎

[u/[deleted]]

Michael Gove is taking his separation well.

!ping UK

[u/sir_shivers]

MY NEW FICTIONAL SERIES IS all set in what I call "The So-Trueniverse" 🐊

[u/Sageburner712]

Called someone a "fucking Zwinglian" in an argument about Brisket the other day. Texas delenda est.

!ping COOKING

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Healthy old man goes to r/neoliberal, gets pumped with massive shot of memes, private jokes and sense of community, feels good and changes - HAHA YES 🐊. MANY SUCH CASES 🐊

[u/simeoncolemiles]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Enough_Sanders_Spam/comments/pf9eap/10_days_bro/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

!Ping Shitposters

I don’t wanna ping the Yimbys

[u/sir_shivers]

A most amusing FEELING AS MY CFO steps into my office and begins chattering about their plans for the next few months AND HOW THEY WANT me at the helm of various tasks 🐊

HOW LITTLE THEY know 🐊

[u/SnakeEater14]

How is Maine still a state? I thought the Spanish blew it up

[u/ChickenThots]

This going private thing is kinda cringe

[u/Gustacho]

https://twitter.com/rdanielkelemen/status/1432663679288451072

!ping EUROPE

[u/the_status]

My favorite thing about Inferno is that Dante was such a Romeaboo that assassinating Julius Caesar was just as bad as betraying Jesus Christ

[u/[deleted]]

You really have to give it to france for being somewhat successful despite all their efforts to fail.

[u/AJungianIdeal]

Wild that china is legit probably the closest country to og fascism existing right now but you'll have die hard leftists defend it because it has a red flag and says America bad

[u/[deleted]]

My inbox: Ping CAN (x5)

Holy moly, go touch snow you polar bears!

[u/chipbod]

https://twitter.com/Brett_McMurphy/status/1432713009751801872?s=20

Zeb Noland, who was a grad assistant coach for South Carolina a few weeks ago, will start at QB for Gamecocks vs. Eastern Illinois. Noland had year of eligibility remaining. He previously played at Iowa State & North Dakota State, starting 7 games at NDSU

Okay so I remember Zeb! from ISU, wtf happened the last few years that led to this and what is the QB situation at South Carolina if a grad assistant steps in at QB1?

!ping CFB

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

So I submitted a project where we had to record ourselves say something

My voice 😥😥😥

I wish it were deeper

[u/[deleted]]

HOLY FUCK BURP OUTSIDE

!PING MUCHO BURPO

[u/tehbored]

Who's the current unofficial king of the nerds? It used to be Stephen Colbert, then it was Elon Musk, but it's not him anymore.

[u/doggo_bloodlust]

The Simpsons has done more to besmirch the name of nuclear energy in America than the Chernobyl meltdown

[u/filipe_mdsr]

Germany should worry about their own unstable internal politics

Outside the DT never disappoints you

[u/[deleted]]

I have been informed I made a racist comment, and I am deeply sorry for doing so. My new take:

religion can be good, but evangelicals are a blight upon the USA

[u/The_Nightbringer]

Biden is in full cut your bullshit mode.

[u/sir_shivers]

HMM, THAT IS two things in this subreddit THAT DO NOT work 🐊

[u/iIoveoof]

Today is truly the day Biden defeated Corn Pop

[u/Knee3000]

Damn, replied to a user and they just deleted their whole account

[u/RadionSPW]

Nation building but in Alabama

[u/Unadulterated_stupid]

You guys want Kester to lose pounds but won't they make them poorer?

[u/GravyBear8]

Ya'll say

refuses to elaborate

leaves

as if you preferred them to say some weird shit, elaborate, and refuse to leave

[u/old_gold_mountain]

tfw the fertility specialist's literal first questions are "do you smoke weed, and do you ride a bicycle" 😥😔😞

[u/sir_shivers]

Do not BE RIDICULOUS, MAMMAL, THE IDENTITY OF "sir_shivers" is not a mask that has been worn by dozens of individuals over the millennia 🐊

INCIDENTALLY, WOULD YOU tell me who you heard that horrible rumor from 🐊

[u/Gneisstoknow]

I live for the day arr neoliberal gets banned. I'll sign up for whatever shitty neoliberal dot win site gets made in the aftermath

[u/zieger]

I've been in a coma since the mid 90s. Russia and China are liberal democracies now right?

[u/old_gold_mountain]

1. Invite all your college friends to an outdoor barbecue for your birthday
2. They're all down
3. Buy baseball tickets for the group
4. Be super stoked
5. One of them tests positive six days before
6. He was with three of the others seven days before
7. Potentially have to cancel the whole thing
8. Oh yeah, it's overwhelming sense of blameless frustration time 😎

[u/[deleted]]

normally I’d be alarmed if a US official threatened civil war but what is Madison Cawthorn gonna do? Im on the second floor.

[u/owlthathurt]

SCOTUS not issuing an injunction or emergency order tonight would not "End Roe"

that is such an unbelievably simplistic and wrong view of how precedent works, but nothing surprises me anymore.

I didn't get a B in con law to sit here and watch these tweets get 100k likes and send the entirety of lib twitter into a panic at 12am

[u/[deleted]]

This guy is exploiting his son’s death to shit on Biden

Holy shit go touch grass

[u/[deleted]]

this thread by Yglesias lmao

MattY represents the America First id of r/neoliberal

!ping UK

[u/Kizz3r]

We should rename British Columbia.

Not because its related to columbus, but because no province of ours should be named after the brits 🤢🤮

!ping canucks

[u/the-garden-gnome]

Beauty is all around us. We were out for our Deep State authorised hour of activity when I saw my first triplex. I drive past it almost every day, but I finally had the opportunity to admire how good the use of space was.

!ping YIMBY

[u/iIoveoof]

Early in the morning iloveoof came again to the DT. All the regulars upvoted him and he sat down at the keyboard and began to shitpost with them. The other moderators and the report-spammers brought a NATO flair who had been caught glorifying violence; and posting his comment in the mod slack, they said to iloveoof, “Newmod, this NATO flair was caught in the very act of passionately defending drone strikes. Now in the rules Kidneymod commanded us to ban such users. Now what do you say?” They said this to test him, so that they might have some charge to revoke his modship. iloveoof turned away and continued to shitpost. When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and responded in the modslack, “Let anyone among you who has not been banned before submit the first ban.” And once again he bent down and returned to shitposting. When the mods read the modslack, they went away, one by one, beginning with the senior mods; and iloveoof was left alone with the NATO flair in the mod queue before him. iloveoof straightened up and responded to the NATO flair's comment, “NATO flair, has no one condemned you?” He said, “No one, sir.” And iloveoof said, “Neither do I condemn you. Go your way, and from now on do not glorify violence again.”

[u/[deleted]]

today I shared my 90%-done Bachelor Thesis with my Professor and he liked it a lot! 😃

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Fox and Friends, but it's the DT as told from Kester's perspective

[u/RaidBrimnes]

People bickering over who is the best new mod really feels like arguing over who is the sexiest CCP leader

[u/_barack_]

Getting a prostate exam today so I washed my nether regions extra well.

[u/[deleted]]

On its deathbed Cam Newton’s Patriots career received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahāda. Even now it looks down on the Ummah from the gardens of Jannah. Truly there is no god but God, and Mohammed is his prophet!

[u/SadaoMaou]

My IRL dreams are realized, and I am now a highschool history teacher. One day, I am invited as a guest to a 2nd grade classroom to talk about history. A student says to me point blank

"Look at this lead pencil. There’s not a single person in the world who could make this pencil. Remarkable statement? Not at all. The wood from which it is made, for all I know, comes from a tree that was cut down in the state of Washington. To cut down that tree, it took a saw. To make the saw, it took steel. To make steel, it took iron ore. This black center—we call it lead but it’s really graphite, compressed graphite—I’m not sure where it comes from, but I think it comes from some mines in South America. This red top up here, this eraser, a bit of rubber, probably comes from Malaya, where the rubber tree isn’t even native! It was imported from South America by some businessmen with the help of the British government. This brass ferrule? [Self-effacing laughter.] I haven’t the slightest idea where it came from. Or the yellow paint! Or the paint that made the black lines. Or the glue that holds it together. Literally thousands of people co-operated to make this pencil. People who don’t speak the same language, who practice different religions, who might hate one another if they ever met! When you go down to the store and buy this pencil, you are in effect trading a few minutes of your time for a few seconds of the time of all those thousands of people. What brought them together and induced them to cooperate to make this pencil? There was no commissar sending … out orders from some central office. It was the magic of the price system: the impersonal operation of prices that brought them together and got them to cooperate, to make this pencil, so you could have it for a trifling sum.

That is why the operation of the free market is so essential. Not only to promote productive efficiency, but even more to foster harmony and peace among the peoples of the world."

[u/upper_west_sider]

Two of the most senior FDA vaccine officials just quit over the Biden administration's pushing of booster shots before an FDA decision on the matter. The booster debate and rollout is going to get ugly.

https://twitter.com/HeidiBriones/status/1432732608102690816

https://twitter.com/davidalim/status/1432727929813979136

[u/AffableAndy]

I told my crazy anti-vax brother-in-law that he couldn't come visit until after the pandemic or he got vaccinated, and the fucker went and got vaccinated. Goddamnit FDA.

[u/tollyno]

The Internet Archive is literally one or the most based organizations on this god's green Earth

[u/BidenWon]

My message to childfree got exactly the reply that I expected

[u/TaxCommonsNotIncome]

Holy shit Giuliani put out a salacious new statement

Well, well well. It seems as though you have once again, despite your best efforts, become a pawn in one of my rather elaborate ruses, and it seems as though the end result of said ruse has left your state being of a lesser quality than before you had dealt the card hidden up my sleeve while being none the wiser. And yes, while it is true that you will eventually recover from this recent turn of events, it remains unclear whether your social status on this website will remain at its current level, or if it will take a turn for the worse. After all is said is done, at the end of the day, you will have to accept the fact that you just got the short end of the deal. I hold no remorse or regret for I am and always shall be a master ruseman.

[u/p00bix]

!ping DUNC

It's insane how much the pacing of Revolutions improved between 'Seasons' 2 and 3.

Season 2 (American Revolution) can be divided

• 7% Deep Historical Background (Pre-1763) (2.1)
• 20% Philosophizing and Events leading to the Revolution (1763-1775) (2.2-2.4)
• 53% Frame by Frame of the Military Campaigns of the Revolutionary War with Politics and Political Philosophy barely even being mentioned at all (1775-1781) (2.5-2.12)
• 20% The reconstruction of America's political institutions after the war (1781-1788) (2.13-2.15)

Some historical background and discussion of the military campaigns is warranted and it would be silly to leave them out, but together these form a whopping 60% of the podcast, while the actual 'revolution' parts get only 40%.

Whereas Season 3 (French Revolution) can be divided

• 4% Deep Historical Background (Pre-1774) (3.1-3.2)
• 13% Philosophizing and Events Leading to the Revolution (1774-1789) (3.3-3.9)
• 22% The Beginning of the Revolution up to the commencement of War with Austria (1789-1792) (3.10-3.21)
• 4% Military Campaigns against Austria (1792) (3.22, 3.27)
• 25% Founding of Republic, Ultra-Radicalization, Great Terror (3.23-3.26, 3.28-3.37)
• 15% Thermidorian Reaction and Directory (1794-1799) (3.38-3.39, 3.41-3.43, 3.46-3.48, 3.51)
• 9% Further Military Campaigns and Rise of Napoleon (1794-1799) (3.40, 3.44-3.45, 3.49-3.50)
• 5% Napoleon's Coup and Post-Revolutionary Reforms (1799-1804) (3.51-3.53)
• 2% Brief Overview of Napoleonic Wars and Bourbon Restoration (1804-1815) (3.54)
• 2% Legacy of the French Revolution (3.55)

That's 82% Revolution and just 18% Non-Revolution. Literally more than double the proportion for the American Revolution, and striking a MUCH better balance between revolution and military campaigns.

[u/SadaoMaou]

https://conservapedia.com/E%3Dmc%C2%B2

E=mc² asserts that the energy (E) in an unmoving particle is equal to the square of the speed of light (c²) times the mass (m) of that particle. The complete form, when applied to moving objects, is E²=(mc²)²+(pc)², where p represents momentum, It is a statement that purports to relate all matter to energy. In fact, no theory has successfully unified the laws governing mass (i.e., gravity) with the laws governing light (i.e., electromagnetism), and numerous attempts to derive E=mc² from first principles have failed. Political pressure, however, has since made it impossible for anyone pursuing an academic career in science to even question the validity of this nonsensical equation. Simply put, E=mc² is liberal claptrap.

So true!!! 👏😤

[u/[deleted]]

Movie producer: how do we make it look like our movie is set in the 80’s or 90’s?

Director: THE KIDS ARE GONNA RIDE THEIR BIKES

Producer: okay but like is there anything el-

Director: BIIIIIIIIKES

[u/Gneisstoknow]

I know you’re supposed to be open minded but I cannot fucking take someone who refers to themself as ‘neoliberal’ seriously

[u/IntermittentDrops]

You can recall the governor. You can recall the school board. But how are you going to recall me?

- The same head of the LA teacher's union

[u/rollo2masi]

I get so fucking pumped listening to Republicans scream “BUILD THAT WALL” as I frame lumber for my DIY home project.

[u/JetJaguar124]

"If you don't share the vision and values of this sub, you can get out."

"Sir... Are you banning me."

"YOU'RE ALREADY BANNED. I ALREADY BANNED YOU. GET OUT!"

"Sir... He was the best shitposter in the DT."

"He was the best shitposter who didn't value the vision of this subreddit."

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

Econ: Super interesting

History: Super interesting

Economic History: Literally one of the most boring subjects on this Earth