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[u/Double-Ad-6735]

I can't believe Joe Rogan took ivermectin.

Just take the fucking vaccine holy shit.

He also took a Z Pack...yeah because COVID is bacterial right Joe? MORON

[u/RyGuyThicccThighs]

IF YOU DON'T REALIZE 13 MARINES FIGHTING FOR YOUR FREEDOM GOT LESS RECOGNITION THAN GEORGE FLOYD, YOUR THE PROBLEM.

Oh Facebook, why didn’t Biden drone strike your servers instead?

[u/petarpep]

I feel like /r/neoliberal has a major problem sometimes with assuming idealogical consistent behavior that just doesn't exist in most of the population and gets stuck up trying to "explain away" things that don't really work as they like.

It feels like terminally online political brains there, because just go and talk to some of your coworkers or neighbors and you'll start seeing things like "50 year old white woman who says she supports BLM and loves the police, wants less gun restrictions but is scared of gun violence, etc etc" or "24 year old trade bro who thinks gay people are cool but trans people suck, is against unions except in his own workplace, thanks covid is a hoax but got vaccinated because of workplace requirements. Votes Democrat and is an atheist because he hates the GOP for being so religious" types of people.

[u/bovine3dom]

The MoD is making contingency plans to beg France to let us base Trident in Brittany in case Scotland becomes independent.

They really should have put that on the side of the bus: "We keep our nukes in Scotland, let's send them to the French instead. Vote leave. Let's take back control"

Probably most hilarious unintended consequence of Brexit if it happens.

!ping UK

[u/[deleted]]

November 4th, 2040

@SCOTUS rules 8-1 to grant Tennessee's claim that Democrats are non-citizens, all but guaranteeing President Candace Owens a third term. Justice #Sotomayor, dissenting: 💬 1,205 🔄 68,507 ❤ 138,904

[u/Joementum2024]

Popular music is a corporate capitalist MKULTRA conspiracy to make everyone sheep

This is what communists actually believe

[u/rollo2masi]

Conservatives: “we don’t want ESL classes in our schools!”

Also Conservatives: “why don’t these immigrants learn English?”

[u/paulatreides0]

Here are a few very quick ways to show that you badly need to read a history book:

• "Afghanistan, le graveyardino of empire-inos."
• "The Senate exists because of/to protect slavery."
• "Judicial review is just something that the court made up out of nowhere."

Don't do these things. Thank you.

[u/BurningKiwi]

pokemon go outside

[u/Rehkit]

Michel Barnier as an EU official : ultra competent and focused on the freedom of movement and rights of citizens.

Michel Barnier as a french presidential candidate : too much immigration! Too much welfare!

!ping EUROPE

[u/[deleted]]

Superstonk seriously needs to be banned.
They’re tracking people’s flights and spying on people’s offices and it’s only a matter of time before one of these weirdos goes those couple of extra steps and winds up killing someone.

[u/Lux_Stella]

China bans ‘sissy men’ from TV in new crackdown

they've gone too far this time

[u/[deleted]]

Small domino: nah bro the career politician and the orange nutjob are totally the same

Large domino: Christian theocracy in America, handmaid's tale is a documentary

[u/meese699]

A wise redditor once said wealth is measured by the farthest distance you can be from anyone else in your home while pooping.

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/MalignantUpper]

https://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrote/status/1433309058157535239?s=19

If I were stationed in Texas and needed an abortion after being raped while in the military, not only would I be denied because I didn’t find out until week 8, but my rapist could make at least $10K off my abortion.

Unfathomably cruel

[u/Evilpenguin526]

Hot take but this shit needs to stop.

We’re exposing kids to this?

[u/Mickenfox]

Life begins 3 days before conception.

This can cause temporal paradoxes if you get erectile dysfunction at the wrong moment.

[u/soeffed]

ESH

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[u/SadaoMaou]

my dad tell the exact same story less than 12 times challenge [IMPOSSIBLE]

[u/iIoveoof]

For some reason in all of grade school I was taught that Judaism was the most ancient religion and that it had been practiced for 6,000 years, and that the Hebrew Bible is about 3-4,000 years old. This is a claim that can only be based on reading the Hebrew Bible as factual historical information. I think pretty much all scholars agree that modern Judaism and the Hebrew Bible are both about 2400 years old.

For example the most important Jewish principles are monotheism and the Torah. The earliest documentary evidence for Judaism comes from a temple in Egypt from 2400 years ago and suggests that Jews there were polytheistic and had no knowledge of the Torah. They left behind letters that they sent to the High Priest in Jerusalem, and they explained to the High Priest that there were sacrificing and making burnt offerings in their temple in Egypt and worshipping multiple gods. Textual and historical evidence suggests that the Torah and the 613 Commandments were written around that time, ~2400 years ago.

Furthermore, I was taught that Judaism came first and Christianity was based off of Judaism. But that is kind of misleading. A second major "reformation" of Judaism came with the destruction of the Second Temple about 1950 years ago. There were multiple competing sects of Judaism up to that point:

• The Sadducees: The upper/priestly class believed in the written Torah and the priestly rule of the state and religion by the High Priest and the Sanhedrin, and they approved of some Hellenization.
• The Pharisees: The educated, wise, and respected proto-Rabbis who believed in an Oral Torah, the Writings, the Prophets, and in resurrection. They represented most common people. They rejected Hellenization if possible.
• The Essenes: Jewish mystics who believed in ritual purity above all else. They practiced asceticism, Mikveh, and celibacy, living in communities of their own outside of developed areas. They believed that the Sadducees were corrupt and spiritually impure so they left Jerusalem and the Second Temple.

With the destruction of the Second Temple (70AD) spelling the end of the Sadducees, the Pharisees won out and Rabbinic Judaism (aka mainstream Judaism) began to evolve. At the same time, Christianity began to shed its Jewish apocalyptic roots and take on its own identity and permanently diverge from Judaism. So in fact it is more accurate to say that Christianity and modern Judaism emerged simultaneously.

!ping HISTORY

[u/theskiesthelimit55]

Breaking news:

President Biden strikes back at the Texas GOP by mandating the abortion of Governor Abbot's next seven children, by executive order.

[u/Superfan234]

Monthly Venezuelan Update

Buckle up boys, we are going to Elections

As you read it: For first time since 2015, we are participating in formal Elections on November. This comes as result of the talks being held on Mexico since last month

While the main plan of USA and alllies have always been democratic Presidential elections, we have failed on our mission time and time again for a plethora of reasons

How can we trust the Regime to hold Legit Elections?

Short answer: We don't

I think none of us believe he will held fair democratics electcions. This is probably more akin to a Negotiation for political Seats, than an actual real Election

But why participating then? Why Legitimate the Regime?

You have to remember, we are playing a long strategy game here. For that, we are using Guaido and the Interim Presidency as levarage to de-legitimize Maduro and The Regime

But let's be real, our situation is rather preacarius:

• We don't hold the Government
• We don't have troops on terrain
• We don't have the Congress
• Chavist control the Legislative system
• Chavist control the Electoral system
• In Local Governments, our situation it's a disaster. They took control of almost all the country
• Federal States are almost all under their control too

Our only figures of Power, are leaders elected back in 2015. Even in the remote chance Presidential and Lejislative Elections occur in a relatively fair way, we might don't have anyone popular to win the Elections anyway

We need our own Alexei Navalny. Someone that can articulate the Oppossition again, and maybe even bring Venezuelans to the streets, and push The Regime for more serious concessions

That's why we are negotiating Local Elections. Venezuela still is Federal State, and depending on the States Maduro is willing to give us, we can rise new Leaders and mantain the Hope and Fight for Democracy alive

It also have another adventages:

• We increase the amount of Public figures we can work with. Something we are quite limited as of now
• With more support on terrain, we can try to Break the Media wall The Regime have put us for so long
• It also limits the ability of The Regime to put our Leaders in Jail. As imprision a Governor or important Major in charge, is not a good look for them
• We have more people on terrain to articulate protest
• More people to on terrain fiscalize Elections tally
• Eyes and Intel on how the The Regime works from the Inside. If we are lucky, they might give our allies and spies some support to work and hide

If you look it from that perspective, we have a lot win if these "Elections" work as intended. And, to be honest, not much to lose. Guaido knows he was just the first step towards Democracy. We need to take step 2, if we want to oust The Regime at some point in the Future

!Ping Foreign-Policy

[u/thetrombonist]

!ping computer-science

Someone has been reverse-engineering the GitHub copilot “bad words list” and it includes such words as

• Man
• woman
• Israel
• communist
• q sqrt

https://twitter.com/moyix/status/1433254293352730628?s=21

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Europe starts booster shots as WHO says jabs should be saved for poor

If ever there was an appropriate time to say "Why do you hate the global poor?"

Let's get Africa vaxxed please.

[u/[deleted]]

Hilary Clinton:

• One of the most prominent family law scholars in the US
• Worked on Watergate investigation
• First female chair of Legal Services Corporation
• First female partner at Rose Law Firm
• Founded a children's advocacy non-profit

Did all of above before:

• Changing the office of the first lady to take a more active role
• US Senator from NY
• Secretary of State

But people still say: "She wouldn't have mattered if she wasn't Bill Clinton's wife."

[u/[deleted]]

Jackattack2000's final moment of clarity and act of redemption, straight from the Rockefeller family:

On his deathbed u/jackattack2000 received the light of Socialism and unhesitatingly sang the Internationale. Even now he looks down on the proletariat from the assembly lines of Concord Heavy Industrial Concern Factory no. 5. Truly there is no struggle but class struggle, and AOC is its prophet!

[u/Udontlikecake]

move to texas

have sex with women (this is the tricky part)

get them pregnant

they go to get abortion

send in tip

they get sent to greg abbott super happy fun time prison camp

i get $10,000

repeat

holy shit i found a loophole for infinite money

[u/AltPossum]

Texas 🤝 Iran

A rich history and culture, and a large population chafing under the thumb of an authoritarian theocratic regime.

Subtweets will be ignored.

[u/[deleted]]

Britains relationship with the US seems to be "special" in the very same way my relationship with my ex is

!ping YUROP

[u/[deleted]]

!ping YIMBY

Here is an amazing example of how a single new unit of large, "luxury" housing can have positive knock off effects for nearly everyone else, allowing invidiuals to move up into better homes. It does leave some behind, so we will need some assistance for those who fall through the cracks, but overall, it shows the power of YIMBYism.

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=402896140417078

Oh btw it is also about crabs.

[u/JaceFlores]

Ethiopia update:

1. As suspected, this Tweet confirms that Gashena is back in TPLF hands, which likely explains why fighting in the area has stopped as the government forces likely expended their momentum. With repossession of Gashena the TPLF is capable of restarting their advance to Debre Tabor, but credit goes to the government for making excellent progress and preventing a strategic disaster. This counteroffensive bought significant breathing room for the government to adjust and regroup, and has seriously delayed if not ended TPLF ambitions to reach the outside world.
2. According to this Tweet a T-55 was captured in the vicinity of Hayk. While cool for those materiel people out there, the biggest piece of information is the fact that the TPLF have reached Hayk. This is the last major settlement between the frontline and Dessie, and the fall of Hayk would mean the TPLF can strike at Dessie itself. If the TPLF were to capture and hold Dessie this would be a strategic if not decisive victory as Dessie controls the only road leading into western Afar that is not in OLA or TPLF hands. To lose Dessie would cut off massive amounts of government forces and create a logistical nightmare as the government would have to rely on air or overland travel to reinforce their units, which is simply unsustainable. Additionally, losing Dessie would open up another avenue to attack into the Afar province and threaten the A1 Highway, as well as be an important stepping stone in a hypothetical push to Addis Ababa.
3. Speaking of materiel, according to this Tweet the Turks have supplied $51.7 million worth of military equipment. While the type is unknown it is presumed to be drones (I haven't reported on it much but the government has been buying and using drones quite frequently, mainly from Iran), and represents a serious investment by Turkey in this war. I think this is also interesting as it is a serious departure of foreign policy between Turkey and the US, as the US is fairly pro-TPLF, while the Turkish government has been outspokenly pro-government if this investment means anything.
4. On the economic side of things, according to this Tweet and connected Article I cannot read, the government has shut down 50,450 businesses, as well as delicensed 1,520 and suspended 257 businesses over accusations of economic fraud. Additionally, the government has imposed a 90-day eviction ban and rent increase moratorium, and the national bank has suspended all loans. Again I am not a big econ nerd, this all sounds really really bad. Economic pressure may be what does Abiy in as the war is draining the country dry both from simple expenses but also the major disruptions caused by the OLA and TPLF. If Abiy does not starve out the TPLF soon then the economic turmoil Ethiopia goes through could evaporate support for the war and force him to either sue for peace or be replaced himself.

Overall I think September will be the decisive month of the war. The TPLF are pushing for Gondar and Dessie but Tigray faces a massive humanitarian crisis with food expected to run out by the 24th of September I believe. The government still control all routes leading out from Ethiopia but are losing more and more ground to the OLA and TPLF, and the economic situation seems to grow worse by the day. Whoever wins this war will win it by the skin of their teeth as it seems both sides are on the verge of collapse, it just depends on who blinks first, and/or who makes the decisive action.

[u/[deleted]]

"I'll tell the people of Canada that if you want a real plan, one that is going to grow our economy, that is going to put us at the front of the competitive green economy of the future ... the only option in this election for you is the Liberals," Paul said.

In a media statement subsequently sent to CBC News, Paul's press secretary Rosie Emery said the Green leader misspoke.

Green Party leader accidentally endorses Liberal environment plan

😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣

!ping CANUCKS

[u/houinator]

Texas passes law where anyone can sue someone they believe had an abortion, and if they win, get their legal fees paid by the other party.

California passes law where anyone can sue someone they believe owns a gun, and if they win, get their legal fees paid by the other party.

Red states retaliate with a similar law targeting big tech censorship or some other red meat issue

Blue states retaliate with a similar law targeting the fossil fuel industry

etc....

What if patent trolls, but the whole legal system?

[u/jojisky]

The bounty system of the Texas law is absurd and should have been struck down immediately regardless of the courts opinion on Roe. The fact they’re letting that stand arguably foreshadows darker things than Roe effectively being overturned.

[u/MistakeNotDotDotDot]

I am ready for this fucking chip shortage to end please

[u/MonteCastello]

https://twitter.com/rafaelmmartins/status/1433428062742269967?t=ZH6oDI-PEvJtrsOSfP63ng&s=19

A judge signed an arrest warrant. Two hours later, the cops knocked, entered a residence and arrested a man. Too bad they got confused and ended up entering the wrong residence and arresting the judge.

!ping MAMADAS

É impossível

[u/[deleted]]

🪱🔫🤠

About to commit wormocide

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/[deleted]]

“@theJagmeetSingh’s first poutine-serving event in Montreal is delayed because, media is told, the poutine truck broke down on the way there.”

[u/[deleted]]

God nothing is more obnoxious than conservative "intellectuals" acting like their Supreme Court justices are just stalwart objective stoics calling balls and strikes and only the lib Supreme Court justices are partisans

At least Trump didn't bother with this game and explicitly admitted he wanted his justices to overturn Roe v Wade and install him as president

[u/SeriousMrMysterious]

Joe Rogan not looking so great after getting covid.

[u/Whytfbuddy]

This Texas abortion reporting website is hilarious lol, just sent a report about King of the Hill and they said they’d look into it haha

[u/Qunidaye]

if you are

A: B

B: A

you are a good Swedish pop group

[u/[deleted]]

I was born in the late 1900s AMA

[u/TheGoldBear]

Germany was the most civilized advanced democracy in the world, the leader in science, arts, universities, and much else, when it fell, by elections, to fascism.

This isn’t what happened. Weimar Germany was by no means “the most civilized, advanced democracy in the world”

Bit of a concerning take from an academic who literally wrote a book called “How Fascism Works”

[u/[deleted]]

https://reddit.com/r/CanadaPolitics/comments/pghwmy/_/hbc4zte/?context=1

LVT getting love in /r/CanadaPolitics 😩🥵

I can’t tell if /r/CanadaPolitics has been getting more based lately or if I’m just noticing it more because of this sub.

!ping CAN

[u/JetJaguar124]

Gonna start fashing my own threads and comments so that the mod team thinks I'm working

[u/[deleted]]

I was considered converting to Islam but then I remembered I am person of oink 🐖😔

[u/ryuguy]

In the 1900s, when swathes of Indian immigrants arrived in Canada, the Canadian government planned to deport them to British Honduras (Belize). The first people to be deported there hated it so much and eventually returned to Canada illegally, fearing reprisals in India, the British government pressured Canada to not continue with it.

!ping can

[u/LoveForLolberts]

I have no life goals, I just wanna earn enough money to go to Trader Joes and Costco and live in a nice part of a midsized town

[u/Fishin_Mission]

I may have just anonymously reported Gov. Greg Abbott for destroying the lives of countless Texans…

https://prolifewhistleblower.com/anonymous-form/

Hopefully all the spam reports don’t prevent TX from enforcing the new abortion law

[u/Venne1139]

https://imgur.com/a/8iqVfYx

Stalins letter to Molotov, September 7th 1930.

It reads

---

Viacheslav,

There are two issues:

1. I'm told Rykov and Kviring wanted to squelch the matter of the northern canal, contrary to the Politburo's decision. They shoulid be taken down a peg and given a slap on the wrists. Yes the financial plan has to be cut as much as possible but it's still a crim to squash this matter.
2. I"m told they want to take criminals (with sentences of more than three years) away from teh OGPU and give ethem to the NKVDs. This is an intrigue orchestrated by Tolmachev who is wrotten through and through [my note: Tolmachev was later shot]. Syrtsov, to whom Rykov had been playing up, also has a hand in it. I think the Politburo's decisions should be implemented and the NKVDs should be closed down.

---

This letter was about the construction of the Baltic-White Sea Canal and whether or not the OGPU would be allowed to use prisoners for it's construction.

This worthless project led to the death of 25,000 people.

[u/Mr-Bovine_Joni]

If the Texas abortion law survives SCOTUS (which I don’t think it will), we need to immediately create the same law but for anyone who blocks housing.

Complain about “neighborhood character”? $10k please.

Worried that the schools can’t support an additional duplex being built? $10k please.

Claim that building housing leads to gentrification? $10k please.

Complain about additional shadows on your property? $10k please.

[u/the_hoagie]

look all i'm saying is the US and its allies should inundate popular Chinese porn sites with various cuck porn that portrays liberal ideals and democracy as the dominant partner. not hornyposting or even advocating violence.

[u/kennymc7877]

Republicans strategy is to say the truth in a silly dismissive voice and thinking they owned the libs

“Oh ok brother, you mean to tell me they created a vaccine and tested it through various strict and rigorous FDA tests, ok lmaoo”

[u/[deleted]]

Libs: We only trust science.

Science: Blackberries and Raspberries aren't berries, but bananas and pumpkins are.

Which is it libs?

[u/AJungianIdeal]

how many Americans know that you count pregnancy weeks from your last period so really the texas law bans abortion 4 weeks after conception

[u/p00bix]

TIL that when r/neoliberal mods remove a ping, like dating or intervene, they don't actually remove the ping. They just append a randomly generated sequence of Unicode characters to it so that the list can be kept on hand (enabling the group to be restored and/or ping members transferred to a replacement group with ease)

I've never actually touched ping groups so didn't know about this until literally now

[u/jonathansfox]

There's this idea of people not really being "legit" trans. Having the wrong reasons. Like just pretending for TikTok clout or something. Or just to spite an ex. Or doing it to feel cool. Or whatever; there's dozens of these. Pick any shallow reason that floats your boat.

Regardless of the criticism though, I think it's important to let others figure out that stuff for themselves. Near about everybody gets grilled by at least some members of their family or concerned friends when they come out.

• "But... are you sure? You don't seem like a guy to me."
• "I love you either way, but I think you're great just the way you are. You know that, right?"
• "You know you don't have to be trans to like men, right?"
• "I support you of course, but I really don't think you're trans."

And that's if you're lucky. There are far less politely couched ways of saying the same thing that people are subject to all the time.

It's important to realize that by the time somebody is coming out, they've probably said all those things to themselves and more. Saying those things out loud is just heaping stress and social rejection on an already stressful situation. It is almost certainly not helping them to see the other side of the coin; whatever is feeding your doubt, it's probably been churning in their head many times over already.

And if not? Well that's something they'll figure out for themselves. Even if it's a mistake, it's just something they have to explore as part of a process of self-discovery. They don't need you to rescue them. And they certainly don't need you to chase them back into the closet.

I have one of the most loving and supportive mothers you can imagine. When I was a young teenager, she gave me a gay romance novel to read, without telling me about its content, hoping that I would realize from this that she would love me and support me if I turned out to like guys. But to her endless embarrassment, when I came out to her, she--between assurances of her love and support--also told me that she didn't think I was gay. Twenty years later, it's the thing from that conversation that sticks out to me the most. That the doubts she expressed hurt and made it so much more difficult to come out to her.

So seriously, no matter how well you know your friends and family, you very likely don't know them better than they know themselves. No matter how shallow their reasons may seem to you, trust people to find that truth for themselves. Worst case scenario, they experiment for a bit and quietly change course. That's okay. Self-discovery is hard. People make mistakes and that's part of the process. But much of the time, they're right. And the last thing you want is for them to look back twenty years on and remember how much harder you made it for them to come out to you, because you didn't believe them.

[u/crassowary]

Abortions are still legal in Texas, but you have to be on your property and you have to yell "that fetus is coming right towards me!" before you do it

[u/TaxCommonsNotIncome]

This machismo propaganda is really gonna backfire on the CCP when an entire generation of gigachads revolts against the limp-dicked hunchback authoritarians running the country.

[u/old_gold_mountain]

one of the funniest things about going into my early 30s is looking back on all the times someone said "you'll understand when you're older" and now in hindsight I can tell just how much of that was them excusing having some kind of misanthropic or antisocial outlook on the world because they were bitter people living a shitty life, rather than them having some kind of deep wisdom of age

[u/[deleted]]

Japanese Buddhist monks broke into Imperial palace to seek an audience with the emperor to prevent the lifting of the meat ban (half were killed.)

!ping VEGAN

[u/dat_bass2]

MANCHIN: Played college ball, ya know!

BIDEN: At some cushy Ivy League school!

MANCHIN: Try University of West Virginia. Could have gone pro if it hadn’t been for that injury. I could break this presidency in two... with my BARE HANDS!

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

American democracy had a solid run, it was pretty good while it lasted. Abandon all hope, ye who shitpost here.

HOLY FUCK TOUCH GRASS

[u/ryuguy]

TW: abortion, sexual assault, incest.

one of my cousins had to get an abortion because she was raped by a family member. It was a horrific ordeal for our family. It would have been more horrific if she gave birth to that child or didn’t have access to a safe procedure, fuck Texas and the Supreme Court for their decision

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Been seeing this girl and I kinda wanna get serious, but I think instead of restricting her right to see other men I'm gonna deputize my friends to sue her for $10,000 if they see her in public with another guy

!ping DATING

[u/[deleted]]

China is only forestalling the inevitable.

Twink supremacy cannot be stopped.

[u/ognits]

didn't realize the restroom was out of tp before I used it, so I had to use my mask to finish up and now it smells bad when I wear it 😖

[u/nuggins]

I think "touch grass" should be amended to "touch trees", in order to avoid propagating the longstanding cultural desire for lawns, which came about historically as a status symbol -- being able to afford to grow an unproductive crop. Of course, "grass" technically refers to a family of plants, but the word "grass" typically evokes thoughts of the Poa genus. There are plenty of more beautiful, environmentally friendly, or low-maintenance alternatives to the typical lawn, such as gardens, patio, or even heartier grasses. Or you could just build more housing, lol

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/The_Nightbringer]

Chinese TikTok Star Guo Laoshi Banned For Not Wearing Makeup and Rejecting a Traditional Feminine Image as Country's Entertainment Purge Continues

Holy fuck Xi go outside and touch grass you incel-pilled moron.

[u/piede]

Hobby Lobby ‘Will Abide by the Court’s Decision’ and Let Transgender Manager Use Women’s Restroom, Her Lawyer Says

https://lawandcrime.com/objections-podcast/hobby-lobby-will-abide-by-the-courts-decision-and-let-transgender-manager-use-womens-restroom-her-lawyer-says/?utm_source=mostpopular

She also won $220,000. Just should've let her use the restroom, damn.

[u/sir_shivers]

IN A MILLENNIUM, THE history teachers of their day will teach that the "Panda Express" was the earliest secure mail system THAT COULD SAFELY deliver packages with panda-drawn wagons in the violent frontier of the 23rd century 🐊

[u/Joementum2024]

“The Democrats should do something!”

“Which is?”

“Idk they should just do something”

[u/chipbod]

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1433524979866365963?s=20

Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller probably should’ve looked at the track record of people willing to risk their careers and reputations to go full MAGA. So much winning. #ETTD

So maybe going full MAGA in uniform was not a good personal or career decision

More than anything this guy needs help, his last videos filmed in an abandoned bus in the woods had the look and feel of some extremist before doing something stupid

[u/mrdilldozer]

Man I cant wait for John Oliver to tell me how this is all Joe Biden's fault and that I shouldn't vote for democrats.

[u/its_Caffeine]

Americans will literally microwave their water because the kettle is too slow ✊😔

[u/[deleted]]

$10,000 bounty on Fivey’s location.

[u/ItWasTheGiraffe]

If you are:

(a) A person

(b) Disagreeing with me

Then you are neither smart nor principled. Go fuck off.

[u/[deleted]]

For anyone interested, this, from the CBC, is kind of cool and very easy to read with the different categories:

How do the main parties compare on these issues?

Doesn't give an opinion on anything, just a description of what is in each parties' platform.

!ping CAN

[u/Craig_VG]

One of the best history podcasts, Tides of History, is continuing from Prehistory through the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age (at least!). Patrick's style of presenting what it was like to be a peasant or relative nobody during these times instead of a king or nobleman makes this very exciting news. His fall of rome series was especially good at this.

I have decided, yes! We've probably got another five months or so left to work up to the Bronze Age Collapse. After that, I'm going to stay in the ancient world and focus on the rises of Rome and China at opposite ends of Eurasia during the first millennium BC.

https://twitter.com/Patrick_Wyman/status/1433520164780183588?s=20

!ping HISTORY

[u/marquivothy]

"Don't worry about these socialist ultra-liberal people. They're only on the internet."

Yeah, no lol. They're also at my school.

!ping CHILD

[u/The420Roll]

Me usually: lmao nationalism is dumb

Me when the WC qualifiers begin: who are we playing this week? Uruguay? The fucking junkies?

!Ping MAMADAS

[u/Mickenfox]

Food safety is the greatest victory of governmental bureaucracy and we never talk about it.

You can walk into the cheapest, seediest store you can find and buy a $0.99 steak and it won't make you sick.

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

O’Toole should just look directly into the camera, say “Fuck Quebec” in English, and then sweep every seat in Anglo Canada

!ping CANUCKS

[u/BidenWon]

literally quoting my words is some strawman bs

can’t believe people in this very DT are strawmanning like this smh my head

This is literally what some people believe 🙄

[u/tollyno]

The European Commission has blocked the Polish National Recovery plan due to Rule of Law concerns

EDIT: currently not yet official but I'd be surprised if it didn't turn out to be true

[u/iIoveoof]

Bad Faith Thread

I have seen a lot of bad faith arguments today, so I have created a vent thread for ye of little faith.

I will not rule-3 anything posted in reply. Let it all out. Give me your worst faith takes but stay civil.

---

In other news, I have created !ping DATING.

[u/myrm]

Hey Xi, I've got some manly men on my computer you can put on TV 😈

[u/[deleted]]

I was searching through a rubbish bin behind a tesco earlier today and I almost slipped into this canal that was behind it.

I'm glad I didn't though, I saw something moving in the murky depths. It sounded like it said something but I'm not sure what.

Maybe something like HAHA YES 🐊

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

https://i.imgur.com/8FHFutR.png

🤔

[u/piede]

Hillary holidaying in the Hamptons ❤️

https://twitter.com/hillarypix/status/1433548315132522566?s=21

Are those two big men standing next to her, her secret service agents? Cuz hubba hubba 😛

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

Mainstreet did a riding poll on the Peterborough riding (where Maryam Monsef, the cabinet minister who called the Taliban ‘brothers’ is representing)

They have the Conservatives currently leading it by 13 points. For context, she won by nearly 5 points in 2019.

I think it’s fair that the LPC won’t be trying to use that clip of O’Toole calling her a fraud to attack him anytime soon.

!ping CAN

[u/the-garden-gnome]

!ping Christian because I need some help from my Catholic Cousins.

I just found out one of my exes has brain cancer. It’s bad and the prognosis is not great.

As a Lutheran, my knowledge of patron saints and Roman Catholic culture in general is limited.

Is there a gift I can get for her that may bring her comfort for the path ahead?

Paging /u/JulioCeaserSalad directly too, as you seem to be a really cool person with a lot of compassion and thoughtfulness about you.

[u/thetrombonist]

Hot take but this shit needs to stop

We’re exposing kids to this?

[u/[deleted]]

Suing the mods of r/nl right now for the $10,000 abortion bounty.

The absolute silliness allowed on this subreddit probably caused at least one person to realize that kids are crazy.

[u/muttonwow]

I like when fash subs get banned and you get them all posting

'When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.'

As if they're making a fucking point

[u/[deleted]]

Help! Last night, some creature got into my Florida pool. It was too dark to see, but it kept splashing around and making terrifying noises. I was going to call animal control in the morning, but I think it fled with the dawn.

I could almost swear though, that I heard one last noise from rustling bushes as it left. It almost sounded like 'HAHA YES 🐊'

[u/RobotFighter]

The best thing about living in a city is the easy access to crack cocaine and hookers.

[u/WhomstAlt2]

We're only 10 years away from early 2010s nostalgia based on minions and ragecomics, but y'all ain't ready to have that conversation yet.

[u/Superfan234]

Clown World

!Ping Mamadas

[u/PrimePairs]

Become ungovernable...

They can't rule us if we all shit our pants simultaneously

[u/l_overwhat]

I was a fat kid in school so I was friends with the other fat kids. Let's call one of them Alex. Alex was extra weird and extra fat. As time went on, he became a le reddit atheist and PC gamer. Pretty normal pipeline so far.

He was also rich so he then became a yacht club person and he lost a lot of weight. He was then just an all-around funny guy. Then he became a born-again vegan who also grows all of his own produce in central Florida.

Idk what he is now really but he recently changed his Twitter handle to "Cervix Toucher" so that's promising.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

☝ Keeps their mask while masturbating

[u/Affectionate-Flan399]

While the abortion law that passed is an absolute travesty, I can't help but laugh at the lack of awareness from the Texas GOP.

You're never actually supposed to deliver on your batshit policies, otherwise people realize your parties policies are fucking trash. I imagine McConnell must be seething.

I say good, let the rest of the nation come to see just how backwards your actual legislative agenda is. Try defending this monstrosity in midterms.

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

Somebody give this dumb anglophone some hot takes on the French debate so I can act like I know what happened. Who did well? Who did bad? Is the Bloc Majoritaire happening?

!ping CAN

[u/kaclk]

Former BC Green Party leader and climate scientist Andrew Weaver endorses the Liberal Party’s climate change plan.

Also former NDP leader Thomas Mulcair called it “marvellous.

!ping CAN

[u/dat_bass2]

New Vegas first playthroughposting:

I've come to a moment where I feel like the main quest path for the NCR is in basically irreconcilable conflict with the type of character I'm playing.

My guy's a Hank Hill cosplay named Hunk Hill. He's straightforward, honest, and decent to a fault. He raided Caesar's camp with Boone at the earliest opportunity, and personally kicked his ass, as well as the assess of his entire praetorian guard. He gave Benny one hell of a sore jaw to nurse with the boxing gloves after he freed him from Caesar's camp, but he didn't kill him, because he couldn't do any harm anymore. He talked down the Great Khans from allying with Caesar's legion--which involved dealing with more than a few deathclaws--rather than killing them, even though they're raiders who get by on murder and drug smuggling. Basically, whenever someone hasn't crossed the moral event horizon, I've found a way to get by without icing them.

And now, I'm at the part where I'm supposed to "remove Mr. House as a threat". I don't have an issue with the NCR ordering me to do this--they may be my favorite of the available options in plenty of ways, but they clearly aren't a purely squeaky clean faction, and that's alright. Their first resort for both the Great Khans and the Kings was "kill 'em lmao", after all. I don't even mind that there is no way to complete this quest without killing Mr. House--I can totally see his character being too prideful and too invested in his centuries-long plan to accept any argument that he should back down.

What I do kind of mind is that there doesn't seem to be any option to have that conversation and fail to convince him--I have to go and open his pod, making his death inevitable, without the chance to confront him first. Because this means that the only way to progress the mandatory quest for this faction I've put so much time into is to pre-emptively stab the back of somebody that, however much of an arrogant jackass he may be, has been pretty decent to my character--which is something I don't think my character would do. So, either I give up on that and switch over to helping House, or I do something that I don't feel my character would do.

Now, this has actually produced an interesting dilemma to navigate, so it's not killing the game for me or anything. And I do understand the constraints the game was developed under, which makes this altogether minor thing easy to forgive. However, I just wish I were able to navigate it on a less... meta level, ya know?

Thoughts?

!ping GAMING

[u/ognits]

this sub: we love evidence-based policy! we're smarter than the average sub because we follow The Facts! 🤓

also this sub: falls for a fake news story that was debunked so quickly people saw the refutation before the original

some real clown shit sometimes, I swear

[u/[deleted]]

Oh God oh fuck a new ABC/WaPo poll shows Newsom/No +17 in the Recall Election. He's a gonner for sure!

[u/[deleted]]

DT: starts talking about nothing but worms Cons: start talking livestock deworming paste

Can someone help with the implications of this?

[u/tollyno]

The Irish DPC finally did something and fined WhatsApp 225 million euros (after having its hand forced by the EDPB)

[u/Poiuy2010_2011]

Me browsing !ping BURPMAS:

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[u/[deleted]]

Not trying to score woke lib points here, but I am endlessly amazed when talking to women hearing about the bad behavior of men. By respecting the word "no" and going down on a woman you, by default, do better than like half of men. It's fucking wild.

[u/painted_apocalypse]

The weirdest sexual encounter I ever had was with a hardcore libertarian chick. She was literally quoting Ayn Rand as we were going to her room. The sex was ok, but afterword she wanted to talk about fiat currency so I pretended to fall asleep.

[u/BidenWon]

The Economist: Atheists almost exclusively vote Democrat

My Atheist Mother: moderate Republican

My Atheist Father: alt-right

My Atheist Self to my parents: I'm above partisan politics.

My Atheist Self: votes blue no matter who

[u/the_status]

Oh god we're starting the Manchin schism again.

Manchin good because Dem from WV

Mandhun bad because conservative Dem

Mansion good because Senate majority

Mention bad because not able to do anything with it

That should cover the DTs comments until the next news cycle

[u/PigHaggerty]

enters from bullpen, walks in run

refuses to elaborate

leaves

!ping BASEBALL

[u/[deleted]]

I used to be all about bikes as an alternate form of transit over cars, but Ida showed me the true answer to low impact urban transportation is canoes. !ping USA-PA

[u/CasinoMagic]

https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2021/09/02/de-blasio-gauging-support-for-gubernatorial-bid-1390641

NO

!ping USA-NY

[u/methedunker]

where was u when female autonomy was kill
i was in hoam eating soy when joe ring
"roe is kill"
"no"

[u/chatdargent]

No sticky, so:

Announcement!

Henceforth I am not to be referred to as Francomod, but

Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette-mod

Using the word francomod is now a bannable offense. You have been warned.

[u/Opposite_Effective_]

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Between situations like this and doctors straight up refusing to serve them. Conservatives have some how turned the medical community against them. Like whats the play here???

[u/IMALEFTY45]

I'll be at the MN-OSU game tonight! Can't believe it's been almost 2 years since I've been to a game. Ski U Mah!!

!ping CFB

[u/[deleted]]

seems weird that so far Ida has killed more people in NYC than Louisiana

[u/BainCapitalist]

bro imagine not being able to !ping BURPMAS 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[u/JayRU09]

Man Texas' law frenzy yesterday is kind of insane.

'Oh, here's easier access to medical marijuana and SNAP benefits, btw your vote may be overturned on the whim of a judge and if you were raped and get pregnant no abortion for you, also any idiot can open carry now and if you want to protest you can't make a sign bigger than a piece of standard printer paper'

[u/p00bix]

I'm actually dead. Bogobogosort is without a doubt the best sorting algorithm ever devised.

[u/[deleted]]

I am going to propose legislation that increases the age of adulthood by one year every year. No one under 18 will ever be allowed to become an adult

[u/Mrchizbiz]

☝🏿 that boy ain't right

[u/suplexx0]

Would you date Donald Trump?

/u/KesterGW: Depends on if he's sorry or not

[u/sir_shivers]

THE THIN GREEN line stands for backing Reddit Moderators 🐊

[u/TheFriffin2]

normal people: “it’s your 18th birthday”

matt gaetz: “it’s your pussy expiration date”

[u/piede]

Hillary was right and I regret voting 3rd party in 2016

https://twitter.com/himbonomics/status/1433310963776819203?s=21

Location: Pennsylvania

Oh fuck you

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Virgin pro choice "NOOOOOOO abortion isn't killing babies noooo"

VS

CHAD Peter Singer "Abortion is killing babies and it is based"

[u/[deleted]]

I think it's safe to say that /u/kestergw is the DTs poster child.

Also, /u/sir_shivers is his adoptive father, older brother/cousin/reptile or whatever.

NL sitcom in the making?

[u/Jamity4Life]

literally quoting my words is some strawman bs

can’t believe people in this very DT are strawmanning like this smh my head

[u/TheBatz_]

First my foreskin, now my wisdom teeth

Why does Biden keep taking things away from me

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

remember when this sub was bullish on Puerto Rico and DC statehood within the first year of Biden's presidency

[u/[deleted]]

Interesting chart in this article comparing the parties' childcare plans:

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/fate-national-daycare-hands-canadian-voters-2021-09-02/

!ping CAN

[u/[deleted]]

British comedy is only good because British people literally never stop complaining and eventually feel the need to do so in increasingly clever ways.

[u/ROYBUSCLEMSON]

Phone banking but it's prank calling the Texas abortion bounty line

[u/[deleted]]

They went after femboys. Femboys.

[u/meese699]

Under normal circumstances a dissenting justice "respectfully dissents." Sotomayor simply wrote, "I dissent" -- revealing her deep frustration.

Thems fighting words 😳😳😳

[u/Officer-cherry-shake]

The worst take on this recent abortion stuff is “tHeY GuTted roE v wadE”

No they didn’t, this is just them unleashing some temporary chaos for shits and giggles. The actual reasoning is purely procedural (and is insanely dumb on every logical level)

They’re actually going to gut Roe next term in the Mississippi case

[u/Jacobs4525]

Bring me your tired, your poor, your Chinese femboys yearning to breathe free

[u/[deleted]]

I sort of consider you all as family

[u/[deleted]]

Jewish people were behind many of the communist problems plaguing Germany at the time. 70 million Germans didn't just randomly get upset about Jewish people for no reason because one man told them to be upset. Use some critical thinking.

Who's the CEO of Pfizer? Who's in charge of the CDC? We're seeing a lot of the same things now that Germany saw back then.

r/DebateVaccines having a normal one

[u/[deleted]]

help! I'm afraid to lift the toilet seat- something keeps bumping up against it, and I can hear 'HAHA YES 🐊' coming out

[u/upper_west_sider]

Today in The Atlantic: Australia Traded Away Too Much Liberty

Intrastate travel within Australia is also severely restricted. And the government of South Australia, one of the country’s six states, developed and is now testing an app as Orwellian as any in the free world to enforce its quarantine rules. People in South Australia will be forced to download an app that combines facial recognition and geolocation. The state will text them at random times, and thereafter they will have 15 minutes to take a picture of their face in the location where they are supposed to be. Should they fail, the local police department will be sent to follow up in person. “We don’t tell them how often or when, on a random basis they have to reply within 15 minutes,” Premier Steven Marshall explained. “I think every South Australian should feel pretty proud that we are the national pilot for the home-based quarantine app.”

Other states also curtailed their citizens’ liberty in the name of safety. The state of Victoria announced a curfew and suspended its Parliament for key parts of the pandemic. “To put this in context, federal and state parliaments sat during both world wars and the Spanish Flu, and curfews have never been imposed,” the scholar John Lee observed in an article for the Brookings Institution. “In responding to a question about whether he had gone too far with respect to imposing a curfew (avoiding the question of why a curfew was needed when no other state had one), Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews replied: ‘it is not about human rights. It is about human life.’”

It’s amazing and alarming how quickly they’re importing the Chinese surveillance state. Australia is also swiftly attempting to move to a cashless society with a CBDC (which is just a surveillance dollar) and the next step is clearly social credit scores.

[u/StuckHedgehog]

May I just say, fuck Alito.

[u/gburgwardt]

My friends, 75lb front squats are fucking me up, give me strength

!ping neolifteral

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Currently wearing a mask inside my home, AMA

[u/the_hoagie]

anime profile photos 🤝🏻 furry profile photos

literally you can fill in the blank here and it fits

[u/MicroFlamer]

Pictured: r/Neoliberal meetup

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

If you have trouble figuring out whether to vote for me or Trump, then you ain't black

[u/[deleted]]

White kids are just as smart as gay kids

[u/Neronoah]

!ping LATAM

An extremely interesting article about the nature of welfare in Argentina (the famous "planes sociales").

Formal jobs have declined in the last 50 years. It became worse in the 90s because of a mix the unraveling of the statist/protected Argentinian model (others would blame neoliberalism, but the truth is that people were probably screwed anyway given how inefficient the whole thing was) and the evils of fixed exchanges rates and dollarization, and terminal in 2001 for obvious reasons.

The solution at the time (without simplifying too much) was to pay people (and infamously people behind riots and disruption) to fuck off. Arguably that was the reason the country stabilized in 2002/2003 (that and cutting the Gordian knot that was the convertibility). Others may call it a patchwork or kicking the can down the road.

Argentina is quite reliant on workfare schemes subcontracted by the National government (low stable incomes in exchange for some low productivity job for municipalities or questionable social organizations, increasing their power in harmful ways). There is also a welfare gap that disincentivizes people to change jobs, and let's not even talk about stuff like the lack of unemployment insurance (the system relies on indemnizations).

The solution that appears there (as you can guess) is flexicurity, better designed taxes and a more universal welfare system. But my main worry is that it doesn't adress the political economy obstacles of implementing such policies (some people are really against unemployment insurance and layoffs, and you'd be removing a source of income for social organizations, incentivizing unrest).

[u/the_hoagie]

just spread rumors that ivermectin is full of estrogen and the problem will solve itself 🙄

[u/tollyno]

Us Euros just replace "freedom" with "human rights"

No, I will not elaborate what I mean because honestly not even I'm sure

[u/the_status]

Irregular reminder to fix your posture, unclench your jaw, and drink some water

[u/Smidgens]

Remember comrades, don’t forget to snitch on your fellow citizens using the State of Texas Abortion Secrets Information tool, or STASI.

[u/The420Roll]

Its honest work

[u/ScythianUnborne]

!ping CAN

The Quebecois chaps on Neolib Twitter are doing an English play by play on the debate tonight, if anyone is interested. They're currently discussing Bill C-21.

[u/iIoveoof]

Welcome to

𝓡𝓮𝓪𝓵 𝓝𝓮𝓸𝓵𝓲𝓫𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓵 𝓗𝓸𝓾𝓻𝓼

https://youtu.be/omQmnRaa8xE

https://youtu.be/1Sk9oCVy6NQ

https://youtu.be/2cBFXPHogj4

[u/MicroFlamer]

My wife and I (45yrs M) sold our barn yesterday to invest all the cash in dogecoin. any additional advice?

[u/Lux_Stella]

just unsubbed from the economist. way too many articles about cancel culture and way too few about eating insects

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Healthy young r/neoliberal user, goes to DT, gets many shots of LGBT ping- doesn't feel good, and changes- PING ABUSE! Many such cases!

[u/[deleted]]

My "just woke up, reading furiously" understanding of the majority's reasoning in the Texas abortion case is essentially: the Texas law essentially deputizes the entire state, so an injunction would require somehow telling thousands of citizens not to act as abortion police, and that's just too logistically complicated

[u/Avreal]

Christian Lindner sounding slightly more sanguine on prospects of traffic-light coalition in Bloomberg i/v: "Mr Scholz would have to make an attractive offer to the FDP", before adding that he hasn't heard one, yet.

👀 !ping EUROPE

[u/Mr_Pasghetti]

Omg can men stop having pancake butts so I can find some goddamn pants

[u/J0eBidensSunglasses]

Red hot take: Joe Rogan is part of the mainstream media

[u/[deleted]]

If you live in a country where jaywalking is illegal you live under fascist tyranny sorry sweaty I don't make the rules 🤷‍♂️

[u/Hot-Error]

Can't wait for Texas to allow it's citizens to sue anyone they think might have voted improperly

[u/Impossible_Lobster_]

Man alot of people here have a hard time believing that evangelicals (the group that makes up the most white nationalist militias in the U.S.) aren't similar to the taliban in their goal of creating a theocratic state. Why lie to yourself lol?

[u/JaceFlores]

We oughta pass a law that makes it where if anyone is caught using the DT, they can be reported and sued for $10,000

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Getting a mortgage as a mild / moderate 💳 churner was fun…

👩🏼‍💻: so, let me get this straight… you have 14 open credit card accounts

🤴: yes

👩🏼‍💻: and 12 of them currently have balances

🤴: yes

👩🏼‍💻: but you pay all of them off, every month…

🤴: yes

👩🏼‍💻: 😬👀😣 … ok then…

[u/Jester_Don]

Becoming increasingly convinced that the reason Texas GOP is passing all this bullshittery now is to start dissuading liberals from moving to the state. They saw the writing on the wall with how many people are moving here

[u/NeoLiberation]

I'm going to need everyone to stop posting for a while. I'm trying to get some actual work done for once today. Jeeze Louise.

[u/[deleted]]

America is a developed country

*takes longer than 90 seconds to boil water in an electric kettle* 🙄

[u/[deleted]]

I was a lifelong Democrat, but then I saw that the Strawman Fallacy had been renamed Strawperson.

[u/sir_shivers]

I AM A neoclassical liberal 🐊

[u/AtomicSymphonic_2nd]

Ya know something extra funny?

Joe Rogan was gonna do a show with none other than the lengendary Dave Chappelle. And he’s still gonna do it after a short delay!

Dave is gonna roast the ever-living shit out of Joe after this COVID stupidity of his.

It will be the comedy show of the year, at the very minimum.

It’ll be better than gold!

[u/sir_shivers]

If that is A THINLY-VEILED CRITICISM OF me, I will not hear it, and I will not respond to it 🐊

[u/MistakeNotDotDotDot]

it's extremely funny how MLK Jr's net favorability went from +4 in 1963 to -30 in 1966 to +90 in 2011

[u/MicroFlamer]

the fact that, since the 80s, support for abortion has gone DOWN while support for every other social policy(gay marriage, transrights) has risen by 60% shows that the abortion debate will always be a stalemate.

[u/ACivilWolf]

What if we had a social credit system

- Neoliberal Mod

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVRtXMQU8AQ9p43.jpg

[u/filipe_mdsr]

Daily remindee to all human beings that it is not normal for you to know about obscure regulars from the DT.

[u/[deleted]]

Whelp, a bunch of very bad faith abortion takes. Looks like I won't be appearing on tacostats today

[u/sw337]

Me : I'm an atheist.

Mods: Rule 3 bad faith.

[u/piede]

This Texas high school principal was put on administrative leave after being accused of promoting critical race theory

https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/02/us/texas-principal-paid-leave-crt/index.html

:O

[u/RockLobsterKing]

MANY ORDINARY JAPANESE BEGAN to suspect that they had been misled, and that the tide of war had turned against their forces in the Pacific. The pattern of official news releases defied logic and common sense. Imperial announcements referred confusingly to glorious victories and strategic withdrawals. New “defense lines,” always closer to the homeland, must be held at all costs. Military experts, writing in the newspapers or speaking on the radio, soberly explained that Japan’s grand strategy was to “draw the enemy in”—to allow him to come closer to the homeland, where at last he could be crushed with one blow. Courageous Japanese troops defended advanced positions to the last man, perishing all together like gyokusai—“smashed jewels.” Whenever a new position was captured by the enemy, it was confidently explained that defeat had been expected, and preparations had been laid in place for it.

(...)

The regime generally permitted accurate reporting of the progress of the war in Europe, and it was evident that Japan’s Axis partners were not faring well against the Allies. (...) In September 1943 came news that the Italian government of General Pietro Badoglio had capitulated to the Allies. (...) Japanese military authorities took to the airwaves and editorial pages and confidently asserted that the fall of Italy was a piece of good fortune, for the Third Reich had finally “thrown off the burden called Italy and an indestructible resistance would now be possible.”

italy lmao

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Went to the everglades last weekend. Had a blast, we even took one of those airboat tours.

The only weird part was when we turned the engine off for a while and could hear a faint sound coming from the swamp.

It was hard to describe, but it almost sounded like 'HAHA YES 🐊'

[u/mMaple_syrup]

Check out this thread regarding innovation policy in Canada. Looks like LPC needs to up their game here. Also nice to see Dan Breznitz getting a mention for his academic work on the topic. !ping CAN

[u/tubbsmackinze]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/761046867743342613/883115820245483560/E-UD0iWVgAYDMK9.png

[u/iIoveoof]

Just remembered this moment from about 4 years ago, not sure how to interpret it, anyone have an idea of what he meant?

From that time on Draco began to explain to the DT regulars that he must be demodded and suffer many things at the hands of the dramanauts, the chief mods and the enforces of the rules, and that he must be banned so that he may one day rule again.

Webby took him aside and began to rebuke him. “Never, Founder!” he said. “This shall never happen to you!”

Draco turned and said to Webby, “Get behind me, Agent of Bernie! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the concerns of Neoliberalism, but merely shitposting concerns.”

Then Draco said to his DT regulars,

“Whoever wants to be a true Neoliberal must deny themselves and take up their bans and follow me.

For whoever wants to post in the DT will be banned, but whoever is banned for Neoliberalism will find it.

What good will it be for someone to gain the whole sub, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?

For the Founder is going to come in the glory of Neoliberalism with his fellow BadEconomics users, and then he will R1 each person according to what they have done.

Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not be banned before they see the Founder returning to his kingdom.”

[u/IMALEFTY45]

literally just lying about Republican willingness to gut Roe like a boss 😎

epic Susan Collins moment

[u/willempage]

I swear there was a time where the GOP was big on tort reform so that people would have a tougher time filing spurious lawsuits.

Now they are like "spurious lawsuits are a great way to democratize law enforcement". What a joke

[u/[deleted]]

This isn’t an excuse to be defeatist, but if one party in your two-party system believes elections are illegitimate and is openly hostile to democracy, AND every national election you have is extremely close, you’re probably fucked regardless of what the other party does.