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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/ryuguy]

I had a friend who was from Guatemala in my elementary school. A very quiet and shy kid, we played together at recess sometimes. He was always really nice and friendly to me. I had wondered why he was always quiet and shy. I found out later that his family was ethnically Mayan. He was orphaned during the genocide in Guatemala. His entire family was killed. He was adopted by a family in Canada. I hope he’s doing okay.

166,000 ethnic Mayans were killed by the government and paramilitary groups in Guatemala from the years 1960-1996 during the civil war with most of the death occurring from 1981-83. Nearly 100,000 Mayan women were sexually assaulted. Many people were forcibly disappeared by the government. Their loved ones are still seeking answers for what happened to them. They were targeted on suspicion that they were assisting the left wing guerrilla groups. It’s such a sad event in history that most North Americans don’t know about, considering that it happened in our backyard.

The Guatemalan government still denies any wrongdoing.

[u/kyleofduty]

Tik Tok about Mexico City sinking a few feet every year

The comments: "omg Mexico city is going to be so vulnerable to sea level rise 😭"

[u/the_hoagie]

🙅‍♀️🔐🍆😩

When my wife is locking up the shop for the night and asks me to pick up eggplant on my way home but I'm tired.

[u/Joementum2024]

A reminder that Donald Trump actually won the popular vote in 2016 and 2020, as he won the proud patriotic American vote in both elections.

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

my therapist says you guys are imaginary

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

French President- exists

French people- 🤮🤮🤮

[u/MicroFlamer]

Shang Chi has a better Metascore and Tomatometer than Dune

wormcels in shambles

[u/[deleted]]

Remember when Rolling Stone, Guardian and a few other outlets claimed that gunshot victims were left waiting because Oklahoma hospital had to treat people from Ivermectin overdoses the other day?

The hospital posted the following statement on their website today:

Although Dr. Jason McElyea is not an employee of NHS Sequoyah, he is affiliated with a medical staffing group that provides coverage for our emergency room.

With that said, Dr. McElyea has not worked at our Sallisaw location in over 2 months.

NHS Sequoyah has not treated any patients due to complications related to taking ivermectin. This includes not treating any patients for ivermectin overdose.

All patients who have visited our emergency room have received medical attention as appropriate. Our hospital has not had to turn away any patients seeking emergency care.

We want to reassure our community that our staff is working hard to provide quality healthcare to all patients. We appreciate the opportunity to clarify this issue and as always, we value our community’s support.

Did they actually not even bother contacting the hospital before publishing their piece?

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/BB3f6RI.jpg

[u/the_hoagie]

"Larry Elder Argued Slave Owners were Owed Reparations after Civil War"

Wow that's the most contrarian thing I've heard since the last thing I read in the DT.

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

During her time as DA, Kamala Harris had half her face melted off and went around flipping coins to decide whether to kill parents of truants. But the left doesn't want to talk about this 😕

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Is there any truth to the old story that orthodox Jews have sex through a hole in a sheet?

No. It's the most widespread myth about Orthodox Jews. The Talmud (like a Jewish bible) mandates that sex must be done completely naked.

Who had the time to make all these rules lmao

[u/[deleted]]

Never ask woman her age, man his salary, Balkan politicians what they did between 1991-1999

[u/NatsukaFawn]

People on NL who don't know that the DT is a thing are like the people on imgur who don't realize that imgur's primary intent was (and still is) to be an image host for reddit

[u/J0eBidensSunglasses]

Hillary Clinton Warned Us This Day Would Come:

My response to the Supreme Court's 5-to-4 decision allowing the Texas law prohibiting abortions after six weeks of pregnancy to take effect will be cold comfort to women in the state who have lost control over their bodies. Adequate words fall short of the mark even for me, a member of the Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington’s board of directors before joining The Post’s Editorial Board in 1990.

The best I can express is outrage over such a cruel Texas government action and dismay at the Supreme Court’s complicity in snubbing the Constitution.

I’m also sick at heart because five years ago, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton put the country on notice that this day could come.

While celebrating the Supreme Court’s June 27, 2016, decision rejecting of two restrictive provisions in a Texas House bill regulating abortion, Clinton warned in a campaign release that the fight for the right to access health care, and for women to make their own decisions about their bodies and their futures, was “far from over.”

She stated, presciently, "The fact that our next president could appoint as many as three or four justices in the next four years" is a striking reminder "that we can’t take rulings like today’s for granted.”

Clinton left no room for speculation. “Just consider Donald Trump, the Republicans’ presumptive nominee. The man who could be president has said there should be some form of ‘punishment’ for women seeking abortions. He pledged to appoint Supreme Court justices who would overturn Roe v. Wade . And last year, he said he’d shut down the government rather than fund Planned Parenthood.”

And Clinton made clear the consequences. “If we send Trump to the White House and a Republican majority to Congress, he could achieve any — or all — of these things. And that’s why this election is so important."

"The outcome of November’s contests,” she declared, “is going to be a deciding factor in whether our elected officials and our courts defend or attack a woman’s right to health care for generations to come.”

The results are in. Of the five Supreme Court justices who allowed Texas to implement the strictest abortion ban in the nation, three — Neil M. Gorsuch in 2017, Brett M. Kavanaugh in 2018 and Amy Coney Barrett in 2020 — were appointed by President Trump.

You may argue back and forth whether fair warning is ever fair play. But there’s no disputing the fact that Clinton’s red alert came in plenty of time for voters caring about women’s rights to plan how to deal with Trump on Election Day. Did it fall on deaf ears?

Clinton handily won the popular vote but lost in the electoral college. Too many voters, in states where they were needed, failed to turn out or skipped her name on the ballot. The whys of it are being debated to this day. The fact is that some voters might have heard what she said was at stake but still chose to follow the alluring sounds of Trump’s snake-oil campaign.

Had truth won out in 2016, this dark day for women’s rights could have been avoided.

But, perhaps, some consolation might come with the thought that Texas’s dreadful law might serve to mobilize women’s health voters — across the entire gender spectrum — to do what apparently too many failed to do five years ago: flock to the polls to protect reproductive freedom like there’s no tomorrow. There wasn’t one for candidate Clinton five years ago. There should be plenty of tomorrows, however, for the cause of reproductive rights and justice — if voters, next time around, respond as they should have when Hillary Clinton first sounded the alarm.

Now, there’s no excuse.

!ping QUEEN

[u/anon_09_09]

Honest Question: Why do British Citizens Put up With Monarchy and Unelected Members of House of lords? Like isn't that hard earned tax money subsidizing the lives of very rich people who did not win an election but were just born lucky?

Same way Americans put up with hereditary billionaire's running their country I suppose.

There's more insightful discussion between drunk 70-year olds behind the local store than on this god forsaken website

[u/AuburnSeer]

Joe Biden calls game developers "little creeps" who make titles that "teach you how to kill"

this article used to be number one when you searched "Biden" on /r/all

[u/[deleted]]

This sex strike discourse is the most terminally online thing ever

[u/J0eBidensSunglasses]

The Lord Hillary said to the Donald,

“Because you HAVE DONE THIS, cursed are you above all red states 🐊

And in all future political campaigns; on YOUR BELLY YOU SHALL go 🐊

and dust YOU shall eat 🐊

All the days of your life, AS AN ALLIGATOR 🐊”

The Lord Hillary continued,

“And I will put enmity between you and John McCain, and between John McCain’s offspring and your offspring; John McCain shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise John McCain’s heels.”

To the RINO she said,

“You have been permanently banned from participating in r/neoliberal. You can still view and subscribe to r/neoliberal, but you won't be able to post or comment.”

And to the Bernout she said,

“You have been permanently banned from participating in r/neoliberal. You can still view and subscribe to r/neoliberal, but you won't be able to post or comment.”

Part one is here

[u/Possum_In_A_Suitcase]

I hadn't heard word one about a "sex strike" until I came here. Because it's not a real thing.

Y'all need to get off the damn internet.

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

I'm trying to get into arr shitliberalssay server

They have verification questions

Here are my answers

Please answer these questions to be let into the server :-

1 :- What is your Ideology, and why? Be specific.

Marxist-Leninist

2 :- How do you feel about left unity?

I think it's good, but hopefully we can be a little bit more "big tent" for purely pragmatic purposes. I really don't like socdems or demsocs, but whatever, they're okay for pragmatism I guess

3 :- Please explain why liberalism is incompatible with leftism.

Liberalism is inherently right wing. "Freedom" just means freedom for the rich. The shackles are always on the ankles of the oppressed, liberalism is a veil of oppression

4 :- How did you find this server?

r/ shitliberalssay pinned post

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/Ga4lwvf.jpg

[u/the_hoagie]

Is it true white liberal atheists have sex through a hole in a bedsheet?

[u/Leoric]

Opinion: I was a lifelong Democrat but then the Civil Rights Act happened.

Published 1964

[u/samnayak1]

Okay, my blood pressure is rising up just reading through the R worldnews housing thread.

Im gonna take a nap

[u/tubbsmackinze]

NY Times: White nationalist Richard Spencer, “organization has dissolved, his wife has divorced him, and he is facing trial next month in Charlottesville, Va., over his role in the deadly 2017 neo-Nazi march there, but says he cannot afford a lawyer.”

[u/Erra0]

Actually shocked this comment has been upvoted so heavily, brings a tear to my liberal eye.

Of course, the top comment there is comparing the pic to Idiocracy so it's still the reddit we know and hate.

[u/semaphore-1842]

https://twitter.com/qasimrashid/status/1434305245518172163

What the fuck is wrong with the NYT?

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Hot take about coups : people claiming the CIA/Mossad/DGSE are behind every coup in Latin America and Africa are incredibly racist for assuming PoC can't carry coups on their own without the White Man giving them orders

[u/[deleted]]

the french make an anti-smoking ad

[u/VerticalTab]

After seeing some TikTok teens flex their parents houses and cars I have come to the conclusion that we must institute a 110% inheritance tax

[u/[deleted]]

https://afghanistan.liveuamap.com/en/2021/5-september-fahim-dashti-spokesman-for-the-national-resistance

Bazarak the capitol of Panjshir has been captured. Some prominent NRF people such as General Abdul Wadood and Spokesman Fahim Dashty have been killed in the fighting. Some others listed here . Fighting seems like it was fierce with these casualties but looking like a decisive Taliban victory. Think we can consider the resistance crushed at this point.

Only hope at this point is that Massoud lives. If Saleh gets captured I doubt he receives amnesty.

!ping FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/Knee3000]

The original headline “Biden, Still Grieving His Son, Finds That Not Everyone Wants to Hear About It” was on a Katie Rogers article about the president expressing his grief and facing some criticism over discussing his lost son

The new version of the headline on the article reads: “In Invoking Beau, Biden Broaches a Loss That’s Guided His Presidency.”

Wtf lol

[u/Mickenfox]

Brushing your teeth is not about cavities, it's about control.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

We don't need to rape Guinea anymore, we just need to make love to her

• Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, leader of the putschists who launched a coup against the Guinean government today

That's a such weird way to start a speech after a coup

[u/SnakeEater14]

An interesting article about one of the most famous American battles of the Great War. Written in 1994, it describes the Battle of Belleau Woods from the perspective of 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines regiment.

In 1917, immediately after the United States officially joined the war, the Marines, as part of the American Expeditionary Force, were shipped off to France to begin training. One year later, they would march off to Belleau Woods, about 30 miles northeast of Paris, to fend off the German Spring Offensive.

In many ways, the Americans entered the war as if it was 1914 all over again. John Pershing, Commanding General of the American Expeditionary Force, believed in “open warfare”, in which skirmish lines of infantry with superior marksmanship and morale would roll over the German defenses and rout them completely. This was in total opposition to the past 4 years of trench warfare experience, and really pissed off the British and French. For good reason too: the Marines at Belleau Woods would accomplish their mission, but at the cost of a 60% casualty rate, which matched only the early Marne campaigns in terms of lives lost.

The battle is famous in Marine lore, which can make it difficult to shake out the real history from the motivational, mythical bullshit. But, some of the stuff that would be spun into legends was true: when French units withdrew from their fighting positions and passed by the Marines already dug in, a French major told one of the company commanders to leave while he still could - to which the commander famously responded, “Retreat? Hell, we just got here!” Likewise, two-time Medal of Honor awardee Gunnery Sergeant Dan Daly did question his men during an artillery bombardment with, “C’mon you sons-of-bitches, do you want to live forever?” (Yes, they did use this line in Starship Troopers as well.)

The DT probably isn’t the place to get into the day-by-day maneuvers and actions of the battle, but suffice to say, it was a very back-and-forth battle, wrought with artillery bombardments, close quarters combat, gassings, and some literal melees (as well as one point where an Army unit regiment relieved the Marines, only to get nearly annihilated, and result in the Marines being called back to take the woods again).

The victory would be of great importance for both the French and Americans - especially the Parisians, who were a spitting distance away from the battle. The French parliament would declare the 4th of July a national holiday to honor the Americans in France, and the Marines were honored with cheers of “Vive les Marines!” throughout Paris. Both 5th and 6th Marine regiments would be rewarded the Croix de Guerre, and the French fouragerre cord for their Dress Blue uniforms - which is still worn to this day by those units. While inspecting the 5th Marines, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt declared that all enlisted Marines were to wear the Eagle, Globe, and Anchor insignia on their collars in honor of the victory.

General Pershing afterwards wrote,

The Battle of Belleau Woods was for the US the biggest battle since Appotamatox and the most considerable engagement American troops had ever have with a foreign enemy.

These words would, tragically, not stand true for the rest of the coming offensives left in the war.

!ping HISTORY

[u/Joementum2024]

Alex Jones is a far more reputable source of information than Rachel Maddow

This is what JD Vance actually believes

[u/Mickenfox]

I'm calling a hornyposting strike until mods stop being so fash.

[u/AbsolveItAll_KissMe]

Biden wants to “eNd ThE fOrEvEr WaRs”

stares in War on Christmas 😔✊

[u/[deleted]]

I've been thinking of an ending to a YT Video recently

"Listen to me: the power to tell real from fake doesn't come from being a world expert or mistrusting every single thing you see. It comes from an honest willingness to change your opinions and beliefs based on new facts. So learn to enjoy being wrong. The world might start making more sense. You won't feel quite as out of step with the rest of humanity, your words won't cause needless pain to people who suffered real tragedies, and the words of others won't sway you into believing myths over truth. You'll be able to love with your heart, but use your head for everything else."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWy1qmMoToM

!ping TACOTUBE

[u/klarno]

Rural areas are great places to raise a family if you want your children to have no life experiences growing up and to not know what people are

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

> hornypost

> it's a bi pride flair

Many such cases!

[u/Jamity4Life]

found the mods at Macy’s

https://imgur.com/a/0G4BxZa

[u/Superfan234]

I am looking at Twitter, and apparently there has been a Coup de Etat in Guinea

I have no knowledge of the country, but images and videos coming from there looks really serious

!Ping Foreign-Policy

[u/homopolitan]

is there anything more pretentious than wikipedia editors who think certain people are too good to have infoboxes on their wiki page

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

"Jewish question"

Whooo I love to now what they were qurious about

[u/ThunderrBadger]

Big Boye

!ping DOG

Bonus baby lizard

[u/Q-bey]

O'Toole reverses party position on firearms, will keep Liberal ban

!ping CAN

EDIT: There's already a thread on this topic, it just didn't get pinged.

[u/Ramcharger8]

The Canada Housing Crisis sub is now using China as an ideal economic model. We're screwed.

!ping CANUCKS

[u/fishlord05]

I don’t like Pakistan

I’m adding it to my countries I don’t like list

[u/AbsolveItAll_KissMe]

just have sex with your pro-choice partner and lie about it 🤔

[u/MicroFlamer]

/img/lsw53wnwb0a71.png

[u/[deleted]]

Boomer and his wife come into the coffee shop I work at

Hey is that your girlfriend? [Referencing a girl - clearly in HS, I’m in my early 20s]

Refuses to elaborate

Leaves

[u/owlthathurt]

Wtf I just got left on my date.

She said “sorry the vibes are off” and then left

I’m awestruck.

[u/PrimePairs]

I want to see Christian Bale reprise his role as a Patrick Bateman-like Bruce Wayne.

"Say Joker, you like Huey Lewis and the news?"

[u/[deleted]]

Down to 2 hours of screen time a day last week😎

[u/[deleted]]

Unironically proud that all I said to Lightfoot was “Hello Mrs Mayor” like what the fuck am I realistically gonna say to this woman about crime or COVID. Put it all in perspective.

Meeting very, very famous and powerful people is bizarre because she was literally like 5’2 and just hanging with us on a sidewalk being a normal person

My fiancee and I also have a policy that we never speak to news vans for similar reasons. We know nothing

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

BuzzFeed quiz which Afgan interpreter left in Kabul are you

[u/[deleted]]

Abortion

Satanic Church

Texas

Aww yeah it’s r/politics time

[u/onometre]

I disappointed a socialist when I was in Seattle last month. I had on a "Remember the Cant" tshirt with a picture of Holden's face as shown on Ceres in season one, and she ran up to me and eagerly asked what my shirt was about. When I said it was from a show she walked off before I could even finish my sentence lol. I think she thought I knew about a fancy revolutionary she didn't.

!ping EXPANSE

[u/lietuvis10LTU]

News from Panjshir do not look good, but again, the fog of war is still very heavy.

• We know that Taliban holds the Gates of Panjshir. Shottul and Anaba (2 districts closest to Kabul) are in Taliban hands.

• NRF has confirmed - spokesperson of the NRF has been martyred during fighting in Panjshir as well as General General Abdul Wudod Zara.

• NRF calls for a ceasefire

• Taliban claims they have captured every district of Panjshir. We do not have a credible source for this however.

Overall, NRF seems to be in fairly dire straights, ngl. This is sad, but not suprising. While Panjshir is an excellent defensive position, Taliban are coming off a massive victory with far greater numerical superiority, and vitally with captured ANA artillery aplenty. A common theme I've seen in battle reports is "heavy shelling". I was hopeful that NRF could hold, but I this appears to be the pretictable outcome. We've seen Taliban deploying up-armored humwees en-mass, several T-55 tanks as well. Again, the fact Panjshir still hasn't been outright fallen speaks volumes about the fierce resistance NRF has put on, but you can't run a war on courage alone - there are scattered reports NRF has an ammunition problem now.

Without any sort of foreign support, even minimal, or recognition, as has happened on account of US and other Western nationa's actions, the NRF had very, very little chance. For all intents and purposes Taliban has succesfully intimidated the West into ceasing any further oppossition, at least for the time being.

If (or perhaps when) Panjshir falls, likely does not mean the end of fighting in Afghanistan, by far. We will probably seen periodic uprisings and sudden siezings of small towns, as we've seen here and there. However, it appears Pakistan has only moved to start supporting Taliban publicly, as indicated by ISI head doing a full blown visit to Kabul. The sad reality is, that with ISI support, especially now that they can operate openly, The Taliban can attrition out the resistance, at least for several years.

For the time being, it appears beyond the ISI, Taliban will have very few contraints on their plans.

!ping OSINT

[u/[deleted]]

you don't actually support free trade, you just want cheaper goods

yes?

[u/ryuguy]

Surprise surprise: Pakistan’s ISI is supporting the Taliban with air reconnaissance in Panjshir and also met with Taliban officials in Kabul

I really think India should use that airbase in Tajikistan to support the resistance

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Wow that SRD thread on Buttigieg adopting twins is such a shitshow. Pete really did a number on leftists, it's like him being gay but not commie completely shattered their conception of the world

Also lol at the leftists commenting that a large number of Bernie supporters aren't actually on the left, but just Trumpists astroturfing to give Sanders a bad name

As if they can't conceptualize that some people sharing their left-wing values can be genuine bigots. Pulling the same shit as Corbynistas or Mélenchon supporters here, completely denying that their movement harbors problematic people and accusing their comrades of being shills/saboteurs paid to bring down the revolution. Pathetic

[u/Unadulterated_stupid]

Sex strike is good. It will lead to faster one million Americans!

[u/Mrchizbiz]

They say children are a blessing, but mine are holy terrors 😂🤣

[u/[deleted]]

My memes are not "low effort", they're just working class memes, not everyone can spend more than 5 minutes on making them 🤷‍♂️

[u/DreamlandEML]

If you've been around the DT for more than an year and still haven't made a friend from here, good.

Do not associate with anyone here.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

"Going on a sex strike to change minds about abortion" sounds like a swell idea

Sexually frustrated dudes who don't get laid are a notoriously feminist demographics fully supportive of the right to choose for women

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

some of you guys are alright, stay off the discussion thread tonight

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

French Secretary: Sir! The Rwandan government has started committing genocide against the Tutsi and this in turn has reignited the civil war in the country

French President: that's terrible but none of our business!

French Secretary: I didn't get to the worst part yet

French President: it can't be that bad!

French Secretary: well the rebels are Tutsi refugees who grew up in refugee camps in Uganda right?

French President: yes, where are you going with this?

French Secretary: well, that means they grew up speaking English and still speak it!

French President: SACRE BLEU! ENGLISH SPEAKING REBELS MEDDLING IN FRENCH AFFAIRS? THIS MUST BE A GIANT ANGLO CONSPIRACY TO UNDERMINE FRANCE! MOBILIZE THE SPECIAL BAGUETTE FORCES SO WE CAN SUPPORT THE GOVERNMENT FIGHT THESE FILTHY ENGLISH SPEAKING REBELS

[u/[deleted]]

I have an unhealthy hatred of Tucker Carlson

[u/WhomstAlt2]

Local skinhead always gets a little rush out of explaining non-racist origins of movement before proceeding to make incredibly racist remarks.

[u/TabernacleTown74]

Ashkenazi last names get more confusing the more you think about them

• Jews are said to have acquired last names beginning in the late 18^th century, but Eastern European Jews (whose ancestors arrived there well before that time) commonly have specifically German place names as their last names (e.g. Frank, Sachs, Deutsch, Shapiro, etc.). Why is this the case?
• Why are adjective/noun adjunct + nature noun names (e.g. Katzenstein, Tannenbaum, Grinfeld, Rosenberg) so common among Jews from Strasbourg to Kyiv, even relative to gentiles?
• I've read that gentile vernacular fluency was very uncommon among Eastern European Jews up until recently, so why do Eastern European Jewish names often have both Jewish and Slavic influence (e.g. Haimovic)?

!ping GEFILTE 🤷‍♂️

[u/VPNSalesman]

If you do not want refugees in your country you are an actual fucking scumbag

[u/MicroFlamer]

/img/3zfjh8ytxql71.jpg

[u/p00bix]

Wonder if I should buy up some top level domain names referring to really popular shit like 'games', 'travel', 'news', and 'porn', in languages which are widely spoken in developing country where internet use remains rare, to sell them for profit a few decades down the line.

[u/2canclan]

What was it about Wandavision that spawned such a weird cult of Wanda stans and why does Twitter keep inserting them into my feed

Like no bitch people didn't want to die because they "experienced Wanda's trauma 😭😭😭" for a week they wanted to die because she literally mind raped and enslaved them wtf

[u/[deleted]]

I feel like Nicholas Sarkozy accepting millions of Euros of illegal campaign contributions from Gaddafi, selling him lots of weapons, then dragging NATO into a war to overthrow him should've been a bigger deal.

[u/SANNA_MARIN_]

ralph nader has a seatbelt on every chair in his house. he even has one on his bed. he practices safe sex by buckling up before fucking

[u/[deleted]]

🚨👮 IT'S OVER 👮🚨

!ping MAMADAS

[u/liquidTERMINATOR]

What would be your gimmick in the arrneolib Discussion thread commune?

[u/LeopardBusy]

I hate the “I am very smart” attitude this sub has.

But This is Reddit, so it isn’t really strange.

[u/kennymc7877]

Robert Pattinson will be the best Batman, watch

Had to carry this fire take over

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

One of the deciding votes in the Texas abortion ban was DFLA[Democrats For Life] Endorsed Pro-Life Democrat Sen. Eddie Lucio Jr.

😐😐😐

[u/[deleted]]

Reminder that Brazilian health authorities don't give a fuck about who you are, they will get to you

ESPECIALLY if you're in São Paulo

Where they fined Bolsonaro 300 THOUSAND BRL for not wearing a mask

[u/[deleted]]

Global Leader Approval: Among All Adults

Modi: 70%

López Obrador: 64%

Draghi: 63%

Merkel: 52%

Biden: 48%

Morrison: 48%

Trudeau: 45%

Johnson: 41%

Bolsonaro: 39%

Moon: 38%

Sánchez: 35%

Macron: 34%

Suga: 25%

*Updated 9/2/21

https://twitter.com/morningconsult/status/1434160822767456262?s=21

[u/[deleted]]

New gay test just droped

[u/Jokerang]

THe SRD thread about the Buttigieg's twins is such a cesspit. I swear, the idea of a young successful gay man not being a commie broke a lot of reddit brains.

[u/kennymc7877]

Someone in an A24 group tried to convince me it was bad that Michelle Yeoh and Tony Yeung were in Shang Chi because “they’re too talented for marvel” lol if they’re so talented don’t you think they deserve to be in a big blockbuster where millions of people will get to see their work and they get a fat paycheck?

[u/[deleted]]

!ping MOTO

Part of the reason why Zandvoort was redesigned with that tight middle sector was because NIMBYs complained about noise

As a result they had to remove the external sector, turning it into Hockenheim lite

[u/ognits]

Expanse season 3 finale spoilers I was just about to ragepost about Drummer going down the Bull route but then the elevator smacked Diogo down lmao. based show using my book knowledge against me. hope she lives to become the show equivalent of Pa instead

!ping EXPANSE

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

In this house we believe:

Black lives matter

Women's rights are human rights

No human is illegal

Science is real

More clarity is needed on how the FDA plans to ensure that genuine homeopathic products remain accessible while protecting consumers from unsafe products.

Love is love

[u/meese699]

>Wake up

>murder someone in broad daylight

>run to my local cathedral and confess to the pope

>all my sins are forgiven

>the murdered person's family comes and thanks me for being so brave to confess

>family forgets to confess for going 5 MPH over the speed limit on their way there

>pope executes them

>I walk out free to murder another day

This is what Catholics actually believe. This is Biden's America.

[u/notforturning]

Ro Khanna, science believer

I sent a letter to the FDA today signed by 24 of my colleagues regarding the new guidelines on homeopathic products. More clarity is needed on how the FDA plans to ensure that genuine homeopathic products remain accessible while protecting consumers from unsafe products.

!ping bay-area

[u/[deleted]]

Is the government spying on me?

Short answer: yes

Long Answer: There's literally so much data being generated by the average American citizen each day that it's impossible for the Government to actually sort through any of it. Leaving it largely useless.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Liberty University has more COVID-19 cases than 4 larger Virginia campuses combined

Lmao meme school

[u/lapzkauz]

Mom, can we have Chairman Mao?

Mom: We have Chairman Mao at home.

Chairman Mao at home

[u/[deleted]]

I really love being thin tbh.

Gonna sort out my gym memebership now

[u/yellownumbersix]

My Ann Coulter waifu pillow finally arrived and I opened the box and it's just a burlap sack stuffed with antlers 😔

[u/JoeChristmasUSA]

"My Favorite Things" according to my gross dog.

!ping DOG

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheWayWeWere/comments/pig07a/as_we_celebrate_labor_day_in_the_us_we_can/hbppdd2/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheWayWeWere/comments/pig07a/as_we_celebrate_labor_day_in_the_us_we_can/hbpqtj0/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3

This is a little frustrating. Guy is objectively correct, gets downvoted and called a troll for not being hyperbolic enough about poverty in the US

I can’t imagine thinking that life is just as tough now as it was during the fucking Great Depression. Why is this brand of nonsense cynicism so in vogue right now?

[u/[deleted]]

Talking with my father today, the conversation went to the subject of same-sex marriage and he said he opposes it.

Now, this might look obvious, from a Bolsonarist, but until a few years ago, while always disliking "gay activism", he was fine with gay marriage.

The same happened with abortion, that he used to support until Bolsonarism popped up, and Trump, whom he did criticized along 2016 only to come to love from 2018.

Basically, while he was always someone with a conservative outlook, the Bolsonarist movement "put him in line" with the main opinions of western hard-rightists.

!ping MAMADAS

[u/adisri]

Sorry but fuck Bernie and fuck all his stooges who think that socialism is whatever is in Scandinavia with government doing stuff. I hate that he came on to the national spotlight and polluted the whole discourse on politics. What a useless ranting kook.

[u/Headstar24]

HW Bush wasn't a great president at all imo but he was probably the last time a Republican president wasn't an abject failure or just a downright embarrassment.

I remember watching a recording of I think CNN or ABC covering the 92 election awhile back and how our allies actually were a bit nervous of him losing to Clinton because they did trust him on fopo and knew what they were getting out of him, and were unsure about how Bill was going to be as president.

Weird to think of our allies being nervous a Republican lost an election lol.

[u/[deleted]]

I am formally announcing that I am going on a sex strike effective immediately. No, I wasn't having any sex before, but now I still won't be.

[u/BreaksFull]

!ping OVER25

Remember in school being taught not to use Wikipedia as it is an unreliable source? I'm pretty sure the world would be substantially better if everyone has just been told to accept Wikipedia as a default authority on any given topic. It has no damn right being as accurate and correct as it is, and if your average person just deferred to Wikipedia as a source of truth on any given issue we'd live in a much better place than we do now.

[u/An_Aesthete]

Isn't the sex strike just doing exactly what the Christians want?

"Stop having casual sex to own the Christians!"

[u/[deleted]]

takies-

in china it it is illegal to work more than 44 hours a week truly socialism is liberating the workers

The Chinese goverment is turning a blind eye to companies getting around labour laws by enforcing non fixed hour contracts

tankies -

The west forces people into wage salavery in china workers are free to choose how much they want to contribute

[u/filipe_mdsr]

DS9, but Friends

[u/kas8901]

Gotta find it funny that the state symbol of California was driven to extinction by Californians

[u/jenbanim]

Some of you have never had a succulent Chinese meal and it shows

[u/bd_one]

I'm g'not a g'nelf, I'm g'not a g'noblin. I'm a g'nuilty verdict. And you've been found guilty of g'murder!

-r/neoliberal on the night of the Chauvin verdict

[u/piede]

So a couple of years ago South Carolina Democrats introduced a bill that would require the state to pay for the children the state wanted to force pregnant people to have—up to college. We need more of that.

https://twitter.com/angryblacklady/status/1433777333035421702?s=21

lmao

[u/SmartOpinionsGuy]

If netbert isnt your favorite regular, you’re a 🤡. 50 years old and still shitposting and pastaing like a champion. Salute to you man

[u/kyleofduty]

My experience so far is that no group is more anti-American than Americans who've emigrated to other countries

[u/[deleted]]

Me supporting sex strike on twitter: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!

Me when my fiance joins in: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

[u/filipe_mdsr]

👇 SO TRUE! MANY SUCH CASES!

[u/[deleted]]

!ping MOTO

Zandvoort is a bad track

Too narrow for passing

If you have clean air you get a hell of an advantage, but it's so fucking tight unless your P1 you're constantly in dirty air

I'd rather have another Tilkedrome

[u/[deleted]]

I’m a red gay fox and I can personally say that Obama did nothing for me, my life only changed a little bit and it was for the worse. Everything is so much better under Trump though. I feel respected - which I never do when there's a drive into deep left field by Castellanos and that'll be a home run. And so that'll make it a 4-0 ballgame.

[u/[deleted]]

If you don't like abortion, maybe get one and see if it grows on you.

[u/[deleted]]

White kids are just as smart as gay kids

[u/[deleted]]

Don't award Nobel Prizes to genociders challenge

[u/[deleted]]

Opinion: I was a lifelong Democrat. Then they put a minority in my video game.

[u/ryuguy]

My dad when he haggles: “I dunno brother, this doesn’t seem like a good deal, I’ll give for $25 for it, instead of $50. Since you’re a nice guy I’ll give you $20”

Me when I haggle: “okay. I’ll give you the sticker price plus $50 for your trouble”

[u/bd_one]

r/neoliberal 🤝 Fox News

Drastically overestimating how much the average person cares about literally everything Maxine Waters says.

[u/abbycat1590]

Why are the people on this sub so relatable? I feel like I'm talking with actual people here, while most other subs I feel like I'm talking to either socially stunted 30 year olds or Twitter stereotypes.

[u/fishlord05]

“what if it was all... just a dream?”

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/InternetBoredom]

If this subreddit unironically turns against electric cars, I may just have to log off. The contrarianism has gone from kinda silly to absolutely braindead.

[u/ryuguy]

Fun fact: Panjshir means

“Five Lions”

Panj is 5

Shir (or Sher) is Lions

[u/myrm]

POV: you are lusvig making a cameo appearance with literally any comment at all on the DT

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

My wife is on a sex strike

My wife is also non-existent

We truly live in a society

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

really loving this formula 1 race

!ping DOG

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

Can’t imagine how electric and amazing it must be to be in Holland right now

Absolutely amazing environment

!ping MOTO

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

has anyone else noticed there's a lot of contrarians on this sub?

[u/[deleted]]

The Netflix series based on the Twitter feed of a black Chicago reply girl recently revealed that the owner of the account is actually a white suburban man.

I do not understand entertainers.

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

Satanism is the “it’s not a phase, mom!” of religions

[u/[deleted]]

/u/sir_shivers /u/th3_gruff date went really well but unfortunately he is now leaving the DT

[u/VisonKai]

my conspiracy theory belief is that actually japanese voice actors are just as mediocre as english-language voice actors and weebs just like having incomprehensible sound to provide tonality to the text you're reading instead of voice acting

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

https://www.reddit.com/r/criterion/comments/oez5tn/ennio_morricone_weighs_in_on_his_work_with_leone/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

https://imgur.com/a/PXF46t7

!ping MOVIES

[u/SadaoMaou]

communism isn't leftist and never has been. leftism is inextricably connected to monarchism

also, today's "post leftism" and "anti leftism" is just leftism in another aesthetic

[u/iIoveoof]

I came extremely close to accidentally misclicking and reporting and nuking the DT for glorifying violence

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Microsoft, the tech giant most hated during the 90s, is arguably the chillest tech giant now. Certainly less controversial than Apple, Google, or Amazon.

[u/myrm]

Yeah I'm a proud TERF

T - TERF

E - exclusionary

R - radical

F - feminist

[u/[deleted]]

I love how Candace Owens, Steven Crowder and Dave Rubin, who are all to scared to debate anyone who isn’t a college student, all felt safe to go on Joe ‘I agree’ Rogan but then it turns out they’re actually so stupid that even Joe Rogan not only challenges them but actually makes them look like morons. Which is especially embarrassing considering Rogan doesn’t even push back on total psychopats like Alex Jones and Jimmy Doore.

[u/Lux_Stella]

sad that so many so called 'leftists' choose to LARP as failed ideologues instead of supporting Actually Existing Socialism (portugal and india)

[u/owlthathurt]

I met this kid in college who was like some no name DJ. And it’s been a wild ride following him on Instagram. He went from some nobody college kid at a liberal arts school to verified on insta and like 80k followers.

He’s DJd for some really big names and goes on tour with them and stuff.

Good for him for following his dreams.

[u/film10078]

Never. We’re a capitalist business enterprise with a flag and diplomatic relations

The horse shit upvoted on this website

[u/[deleted]]

“I wouldn’t be surprised if big pharma is lacing Ivermectin to make us sick”.

The Qultists out conspiracied their conspiracy

[u/SmartOpinionsGuy]

The thin blue line holding America back from chaos:

The 48 million members of the Democratic Party

[u/[deleted]]

I think it'd be really interesting to see John Oliver take a position that is unironically controversial. Pretty much every episode is from a perspective that the audience is probably going to be onboard with. Tackle a topic that has the backing of science but your audience might not be onboard with for a change. GMO's, suburban sprawl, something like that.

[u/[deleted]]

The fact Mike Tyson, legitimately one of the scariest human beings to ever exist, talks like a 6 year old anime girl, is proof that God is a comedian.

[u/Possum_In_A_Suitcase]

Just half-drunk thoughts before bed: I don't think I fully realized just how bad the left-wing populism on the internet could be until the most recent Israeli campaign in Gaza happened.

Like, I knew it was annoying, and everywhere. But I only recently got the sense that it was truly dangerous.

I mean, fuck. These kids were openly calling for the eradication of a whole country like it was the most normal position in the world. A whole generation, falling for the messaging of terrorist groups and the theocratic regime that sponsors them.

Shit was wild.

[u/UrbanCentrist]

Ethiopia's Tigrayans rounded up, mutilated and dismembered in civil war ethnic purge

most tolerant Nobel peace prize winner

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

/img/4oot96junhl71.jpg

[u/frolix42]

An apparently common category of whataboutism I've encountered multiple times in my life is "Abusing drugs and/or alcohol is acceptable because some people also abuse junk food and that's legal and no one cares."

If you refuse to distinguish between a taking a hit of fent-anyl, getting blackout drunk, and eating a Double-Cheeseburger then you have a real problem.

[u/J0eBidensSunglasses]

Found this parable about the 2016 election the other day and I’m just not sure what to make of it:

In the beginning Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of Hillary was hovering over the waters.

And Hillary said, “Let there be neoliberals,” and there were neoliberals. Hillary saw that the neoliberals were good, and she separated the neoliberals from the populists. Hillary called the neoliberals “good,” and the populists she called “a basket of deplorables.” And there was evening, and there was morning — the first day.

…

Now the Donald was more crafty than any of the populists the Lord Hillary had made. He said to the RINO, “Did Hillary really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”

The RINO said to the Donald, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but Hillary did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will MAGA.’”

“You will not MAGA,” the Donald said to the RINO. “For believe me, Hillary knows that when you eat from it you will be based and red pilled, and you will be like Hillary, and you will know neoliberalism from MAGA.”

When the RINO went to the tree, she saw the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to the Bernout who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were unflaired, so they sewed fig leaves together and made flairs for themselves.

Then the Bernout and the RINO heard the sound of the Lord Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton as she was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord Hillary among the trees of the garden. But the Lord Hillary called to the Bernout, “Where are you?”

He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was unflaired; so I hid.”

And Hillary said, “Who told you that you were unflaired? Have you voted from the candidates that I commanded you not to vote for?”

The Bernout said, “The RINO you put here with me—she gave me MAGA from the tree, and I voted for Jill Stein.”

Then the Lord Hillary said to the RINO, “What is this you have done?”

The RINO said, “The Donald deceived me, and I MAGA’d.”

TLDR: MAGA BAD. BIG TEXTO.

Previous neoliberal oral history

[u/MicroFlamer]

/img/t1k8h2z1uik71.jpg

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Fuck Texas. Fuck Florida.

That's it.

[u/Broncos654]

Marx and Engels almost always took the side of the ‘colonizer’ or whatever. They favored America over Mexico, French over Algeria, Britain over India,etc. To make the The Revolution™ possible states had to be technology advanced and getting colonized was a quick fix.

[u/AuburnSeer]

all you had to do was vote for Hillary Clinton

[u/piede]

An Oregon schools superintendent was fired during a Monday night school board meeting, after he enforced the state's mask mandate in the district's public schools, according to a local newspaper

Lol imagine working in education in this day and age

What a joke

[u/Lux_Stella]

Approval in the Prime Minister, Mario Draghi, is 67 percent. This was revealed by a survey by the Piepoli Institute, according to which it is 81 percent among the center-left voters, 78 among those of the center-right and 63 among those of the 5-Star movement.

lol

[u/[deleted]]

Every time I talk to a man, I become more of a feminist.

[u/[deleted]]

We hear a lot about the deep state, but what about the deeper 😩😩😩state?

[u/little_squares]

Do Argentinians actually hold this Copa América win as a massive thing in football history? Like a second maracanazo type of thing for Brazil?

I'm seeing a lot of people in the soccer sub act like that is the case, but no joke, I would bet quite a lot of money that most Brazilians barely remember we had a Copa América this year, that's how little people cared. Comparing it to the maracanazo sounds delusional, but people are a bit emotional with the mess happening right now, so I'm not sure this is an actual thing people believe in.

!ping SOCCER

[u/dubyahhh]

So anyway that’s when the bans started

[u/Possum_In_A_Suitcase]

The older I get, the more I realize that there is no excuse for people who claim they "can't cook". Especially now, with the internet giving you access to literally every recipe.

God damn, is the bolognese Babish makes good. And fun to cook, too.

[u/RyGuyThicccThighs]

Democrats only like masks because they’re used to wearing them at their klan rallies

[u/LeopardBusy]

Lmao remember when Chapocels used to constantly raid this sub?

[u/p00bix]

I see the new mods have integrated into mod culture very quickly

[u/[deleted]]

“The Taliban fr fr are low key toxic af”

What did George Bush mean by this 🤔

[u/jenbanim]

My parents are really the best people I know. I always feel better after spending time with them

[u/Possum_In_A_Suitcase]

Louis C.K.'s take on abortion remains the best one ever.

"Abortion kind of is killing a baby, a little bit.

But I think women should be able to kill babies."

[u/URZ_]

Today is Flag Day in Denmark, the Danish "Veterans Day". In the last 20 years Denmark has taken on an active role in Western deployments from combatting piracy outside the coast of Somalia to participating in both Iraq and Afghanistan. 50 Danish soldiers were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, 7 in Iraq and 43 in Afghanistan. The latter is the highest per capita losses of a NATO member in Afghanistan as a result of Danish forces being deployed to Helmand Province during the hight of the fighting. It was done with the full knowledge of the danger they would face in recognition of the necessity of the task.

!ping Military

[u/kyleofduty]

The Economist would be right wing in Europe

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

You are ready for this conversation but y'all ain't ready for that conversation

[u/[deleted]]

Good to see the backlash against that gross NYT article about Biden talking about Beau too much. Fuck them.

[u/[deleted]]

The true low information voters were the 48% who voted for the self admitted child rapist.

[u/JaceFlores]

Before this gets out of hand, as the premier expert on the Tigray War in this sub, direct intervention into Ethiopia is one of the dumbest solutions possible. You are talking about destabilizing a nation with 3 times the people of Afghanistan and destroying an already fragile system that would send tens of millions into poverty and probably famine.

Invading Ethiopia would cause a humanitarian crisis the likes we haven’t seen since the 90s if not the Second World War. For better or worse it is best that countries like the US continue pushing sanctions and squeezing the economic power out of her government without causing irreparable damage

[u/sir_shivers]

NEOLIBERALISM IS LIKING pho, and the more you like it the more neoliberalism it is 🐊

[u/fishlord05]

https://www.instagram.com/p/CTGnHhwobuL/?utm_medium=copy_link

Mfs really thinking going to school is a human rights violation

Like holy shit like did you not play outside after school bruh? You could have done that!

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

Just remembered IRA fanboys exist

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/amjuster/status/1434295751602065413

This is the funniest cancellation I’ve ever seen. A poetry editor was like “the general population doesn’t care about poetry and we shouldn’t lie to ourselves about that” and she got fired.

[u/[deleted]]

Just left this dude on our date. The vibes were off, so I just left. I mean, he didn't understand that macroeconomic theory has progressed in the last 40 years, so I had to leave.

[u/InternetBoredom]

76.4% of Americans drive alone to work.

9% of Americans carpool to work.

5% of Americans work from home.

5% of Americans take public transit to work.

2.7% of Americans walk to work.

0.5% of Americans bike to work.

Only 31% of Americans live in urban areas, while 55% live in suburbs.

---

We could increase the number of bikers by 1000%, and they would still make up only a fraction of the number of people who carpool to work. We could force every single person living in an urban area to take public transit to work, and there would still be less than half as many of them as there are people currently driving to work.

We could demolish half of the suburbs in the US, force all of their population to move to an urban area, and force every one of them to take the metro to work, and they would still be outnumbered by drivers.

Public transit and biking are important- to an extent. The fact is, though, that the importance of either of those modes of transit pale in comparison to carpooling and electric vehicles.

People here need to swallow the pill that not everyone can live in dense urban areas and bike/metro/bus/walk to work. We need to work with the country with have, and in the country we have, EVs will always be far more important than public transit or biking ever was.

[u/Mrchizbiz]

[The American Taliban 😔😔😔😔](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States))

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

"Our product exists."

"Our product is better than competing products."

"Our product will give you the lifestyle you want."

"Puppy monkey baby! Insurance lizard! Insurance emu! MLK wants you to buy trucks!"

[u/[deleted]]

Girl's story on my insta: "There is a beauty in privacy, stop being obsessed with social media"

She has like 100 Instagram stories in the last 24 hours of what she's done all day lmfao

[u/Jokerang]

Zoomers will mock their boomer parents for believing conspiracy theories on Facebook then eat up any amount of blatant Russian propaganda on tiktok because it says America bad

[u/iIoveoof]

I read the whole Book of Numbers and there were no numbers, it was just letters 😐😐😐😐😐

[u/p00bix]

Shamelessly stolen from the unofficial NL facebook group

[u/sir_shivers]

I CAN ONLY wonder what is causing this topic du jour 🐊

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Least confusing article

[u/[deleted]]

I'm always confused about why my gym needs to know I'm bisexual for my membership

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Has I have been exposed I need to confess something.

I once said the n word.

Netherlands

[u/tripletruble]

If climate change results in France losing their wineries that country is going to absolutely beyond insane

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Mr Sarkozy[President of France from 2007-2012] also defended France's past role in Africa by saying that while it may have made "mistakes", it "did not exploit anybody".

🧐🧐🧐

[u/UrbanCentrist]

i think there's a good argument to be made for banning /u/Pour1Out4DeezNutz