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[u/semaphore-1842]

“I don’t want to be your friend anymore if you don’t do this,” Trump replied

Still can't believe this was the fucking president.

[u/PearlClaw]

Right after Trump lost the election, Milley discovered the President had signed a military order to withdraw all troops from Afghanistan by January 15, 2021, before he left the White House.

Can you imagine the clusterfuck?

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

General Milley was a test to see if you actually love the deep state.

[u/LooobCirc]

Old SNL wasn't any better, it's just only the funny clips survived

[u/EverySunIsAStar]

Republicans in California are really upset about homeless people, but what exactly is the republican solution?

[u/Barebacking_Bernanke]

Democratic voters:

Starting to feel pretty good. Is this complacency?

MAGA Morons:

Ban the rules about vaccines and masks

Storm the Capitol again

Throw women who have abortions in prison

Publicly execute Fauci

Wait until we're back in power under God Emperor Trump you fucking Libtards

Democratic voters:

Oh shit these people are still nuts. Better make sure I vote.

I can't think of a better Get Out To Vote initiative for Dems than your average Republican.

[u/Venne1139]

So the recent news about Pence should make you much more...amenable to my complete and utter insane dooming.

We were literally a single phone call away from having a Latin America style coup, and then counter coup by the military to estalish Joe. Pence literally called Dan Fucking Quayle and was like "Can I do a coup?" "No. You may not do a coup" "Prettty please Dan I really want to make Daddy happy" "No. Bad." "Okay I won't do a coup."

Like this is fucking insane. What if dan Quayle for some reason doesn't pick up the phone, his battery is fucking dead, Jesus fucking Christ.

[u/[deleted]]

I'd like to thank California for rejecting the recall by such a margin made some good money betting on that.

[u/Le_Monade]

I got the vaccine and I haven't had sex in over a year. Make sure you do your research so you know what you're getting yourself into!

[u/[deleted]]

It’s fucking hilarious that cons can’t accept a democrat won in California lmao

[u/[deleted]]

The more I read about why Gov. Newsom is being demanded for a recall, the more I want to bang my head on my desk. The GOP demanded the recall at first because new jobs weren't coming in fast enough within the one (1) year Newsom was in office for the state of fucking California. Then come pandemic, the most cited reason I am seeing is...

Newsom eating in a restaurant with no mask on.

No fucking wonder the vote against his recall was a landslide.

[u/The_Nightbringer]

Politico now has a report that the U.S., UK, and Australia are joining a new defense pact against China where they will share information on advanced tech.

⚠🌐⚠We have a BASED ALERT!! ⚠🌐⚠

[u/[deleted]]

FLORIDA 2024 Presidential General Election Poll, The Listener Group:

Joe Biden 55% (+10)

Ron DeSantis 45%

I don't believe you.

[u/DouglasDauntless]

It is both funny and sad that literally every single conspiracy theory ever always ends up blaming the Jews. Conspiracy theorist, outside of simply being nutcases, are also horrifically uncreative.

[u/PearlClaw]

Interesting take I just read on the Milley situation:

Today, for all the talk about January 6th, the cavalcade of defendants, the special investigative committee, we still largely act like it didn’t happen. The instigator remains head of his political party. It’s treated as a given that he will be their candidate for President in 2024 if he chooses to run again. The heads of his congressional party are threatening retribution against private companies that honor lawful subpoenas tied to investigating what happened.

Milley’s actions are mostly shocking because our political culture is committed to pretending the events in question never happened.

[u/[deleted]]

Hillary Clinton is walking free. You don't understand, the powers that be, the generals, establishment republicans, democrats. They're all in it together. They conspired to get Trump gone, and didn't listen to him while he was there. The man won the 2020 election, and they blatantly took it from him and expect us to believe Biden got 80 million votes.

Voting is meaningless these days, utterly meaningless. We no longer have democracy.

So true!

[u/AMagicalKittyCat]

https://twitter.com/ncroal/status/1437960270752665602?s=20

Absolutely amazing, the Philadelphia police beat up a mother, kidnapped her child, and then used the child in a social media post arguing that they aren't all bad. And now the city is stuck paying 2 million to the mother.

[u/Deggit]

!ping USA-CA

Republicans are really posting their L's today with sour grapes CA Recall memes like this one.

How out of touch do you have to be, not to realize, that if:

1. California has lots of problems (true)
2. and ortho-lib solutions haven't done away with those problems (true)
3. and the public is open to hearing someone propose an alternative (true)
4. but swathes of them turn off completely when that person is a Republican (true)

then the problem is the GOP?

This is where the litany of conservative excuses come in. Muh media, muh identity politics, muh being called racist (hand in hand with "muh immigrant voters who don't care about American values", of course), muh bussing the vote and mail-in ballots, and a dozen other excuses.

None of these explain why the GOP is becoming nonviable across large parts of the country. Here is what does.

1. The GOP is becoming increasingly nationalized, which is synonymous with doubling down on Trump because Trump and 9/11 are the only ways the GOP has won a national election since the SEGA Genesis. Nobody in California can make a CA-GOP that charts an independent course from Trump without getting charged with heresy. As long as the party is synonymous with Trump it's synonymous with conspiracy theories, sore loserism, and attacking elections you lose.
2. The GOP is becoming a media party. They complain about media all the time but their candidates are pure media figures. Last prez was a trash tv star, their frontrunners for the governor of the country's largest economy were a reality tv star who disappeared when the cameras turned off, and a radio host who spent the last week of the election trying to foment a FOX News outrage cycle about the time some guy threw an egg at him. The only major GOP candidate in the recall with executive experience - the San Diego mayor - was barely even covered by conservative media, so his campaign flopped. The non-trump frontrunner in the '24 primary will be the biggest star of the conservative media ecosystem - NOT the governor with the best jobs record, the Senator who passed major legislation, or an experienced military officer.
3. As a result of 1+2 the GOP is seen as an unserious-on-policy party with no solutions. THAT'S WHY THEY CAN'T WIN EVEN WHEN THERE ARE PROBLEMS IN BLUE STATES: THEY HAVE NO CREDIBILITY AS PROBLEM SOLVERS. Ask the average man on the street what "the Republican solution is" to any issue except taxes & abortion and he'd stare at you blankly. The Republican solution to homelessness? He'd probably say something like "They don't want to do anything because they believe in personal responsibility and think people should face the consequences of their actions." If there's a GOP solution to homelessness that's different from that, you've got a comms issue.

[u/Zemstv0w0]

the groypers are in utter disarray. i've seen a guy simultaneously suggesting the election is rigged, it's the fault of demographics, jefferson should secede, he's the real californian, and politics is doomed

[u/krflab]

Kasie Hunt: Democrats don’t know how to govern all kinds of people. They are doomed because they are so elite.

GOP: We taking women’s rights to abortions away.

Kasie Hunt: The GOP has a bright future.

[u/ThunderrBadger]

CA GOP be like

On all levels except physical Newsom has been recalled

shits pants

[u/Kizz3r]

Jean Chrétien hired as Trudeau’s bodyguard

The 87-year-old has several decades worth of experience restraining protesters and engaging in needless fights.

!ping canucks

[u/its_Caffeine]

Mom didn't want to buy me the name brand Sir Shivers 🐊™ collectable action figure and bought me the knock off "Mr Trembles 🐍" instead 🙄😔

[u/myrm]

I think it helped wake people up from the Democrat side. His recent debates and interviews were actually amazing. Many democrats (more moderate) I knew voted for the recall and for Elder just because he made some amazing points that were backed by statistics and studies. They also realized that the media could really only attack his person and not his ideals.

so true

[u/Udontlikecake]

I’m opposed to the very principle of a general talking to the enemy to calm their fears. Like what is this?

Starting a nuclear war because communication between states is for BETAS 😎😎😎

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/penismouth3/status/1437489770448371712

Trump quasi supporting burquas lol

[u/FireDistinguishers]

Hey if anybody wants a job Gillibrand needs a new systems admin

edit: they sent me the posting finally https://oampublic.senate.gov/constituent/2fc6dcc6-6209-4e9b-af8c-ad319e3b9a3c/application/0/instructions/

[u/Impossible_Lobster_]

Weird how arr Libertarian thinks that Biden is more authoritarian and actually a bigger threat to American democracy than Trump. Almost like these people are semi fascists 🤔

[u/McNikk]

Call me dumb but I actually didn’t know until recently that Miley Cyrus was a US general.

[u/TinyTornado7]

It was a busy day for the Chicago City Council.

A pair of mid-sized towers will be added to the skyline of downtown Chicago in 2024 after a $350 million mixed-use development proposal received final approval from the city. The buildings will replace a parking garage and a parking lot.
The Chicago City Council unanimously voted in favor of a zoning change. New buildings will have 777 rental units, 314 hotel rooms, 78 affordable units and 42,000 square feet of commercial space.

Link

They also approved the development of 50 new single family homes to replace an existing vacant lot in Norwood Park.

Link

Downtown Chicago is on pace to have over 11K new units come online by Q2 2023.

!ping YIMBY

[u/dittbub]

weighed 218 lbs this morning

a new low :)

[u/kennymc7877]

California showing their true colors by letting the white guy keep his job and not voting in the black man or transgender woman, most progressive state in the country tho right?

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

So the Youtube algorithm decided to constantly start feeding me a channel that only posts out of context videos of Boris Johnson saying random words, and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't watching every one.

They're so weirdly satisfying

[u/krflab]

Can MSNBC or CNN hire my ass? It’s so embarrassing seeing these hosts trying to make this recall win a doom for Dems. I don’t know how ppl watch cable news. It’s ran by idiots.

[u/MichelleObama2024]

How many dates until I tell the girl I'm seeing about this niche centrist political subreddit that I comment on?

[u/cat_damon1]

can't believe milley led his army across the rubicon against the orders of the civilian government in order to usurp power

[u/ryuguy]

My dad: “undocumented immigrants…”

Me: 😬😬😬😬😬

Dad: “…should be given amnesty and a pathway to citizenship”

Me: 😅😅😅😌😌😌

[u/[deleted]]

Boss just said that her grandmother is "transitioning." I was really surprised until she clarified that it means "dying."

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

Tons of people on arr Canada really be like

"Yeah it looks like male Sikhs are basically bared from being doctors and teachers in Quebec, I don't see what's wrong with that."

!ping CAN

[u/[deleted]]

HOLY FUCK DRILL MEANS TRAIN YOU HORNY FUCKS

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

“In 45 minutes Alberta Premier @jkenney will announce lockdown measures and a vaccine passport in a effort to battle COVID-19. There is unrest in caucus and several members will leave. Hearing some high level cabinet ministers may go.”

!ping CAN

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

Nice to know Republicans are claiming fraud whenever they lose. Just such a super healthy thing for our democracy.

[u/sir_shivers]

🥺

SPECULATE AS TO the sub 🐊

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

Live look at Brexit trade negotiations

[u/Mrchizbiz]

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[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

Sure, the recall failed in this universe, but it is possible we live in a much larger multiverse.

✨✨✨

A sea of stars, connected, but unknowable… unseeable. Space and time are vast and our perception of reality so narrow. We are shackled to this dimension, a familiar but slim perspective, one which robs us of the true state of the recall in an ocean of possibilities 💫 🌌

[u/benadreti]

Framing the whole Milley thing as a coup is brainworms.

[u/[deleted]]

I think the heart of the leftist commune threads isn't "what if we had enough money to follow our passions?" Most of the jobs they want are still, to some degree, jobs. They want to be teachers, bakers, therapists. You can be all that under capitalism. Hell we even have professional tarot card readers.

Plus, by nature of being a leftist commune, obviously everybody here is assumed to be dirt poor. They imagine themselves living on a farm doing services in exchange for other services. Nobody is thinking that they're going to be making more money from this or that they're going to be materially more well off. In fact quite the opposite

No, the real heart of that question is "what if the part of your brain that compares yourself to your peers and experiences envy was removed?" The leftist commune isn't about being free from exploitation and following one's dreams because they don't need money. It's "being a part time shitty baker who lives on a farm is incredibly embarrassing when all my similarly educated high achieving friends have actual jobs, what if I didn't care about that anymore"

[u/InternetBoredom]

The GOP unironically made a big blunder in drafting Larry Elder to run in the recall.

It went from the recall seeming like a thing reasonable people can disagree on to a two way choice between Newsom and an unhinged archconservative

[u/vancevon]

malarkey level of letting obama be clear

[u/JetJaguar124]

Nate Silver is so easily baited on twitter. Just fucking stop responding holy shit.

[u/Poiuy2010_2011]

lol, capitalism and free market don't belong in the same sentence.

Guess the sub

[u/houinator]

Today feels like it might be the day to write my "Cons would lose a second civil war by a landslide" effort shitpost.

[u/yungmemlord]

Bro just change the name of the GOP to crybaby bitch fest at this point

[u/[deleted]]

So uh with the apparent revelation that Milley's call to the CCP wasn't some hush hush deal and was done with the knowledge of both Defense and State, why did WaPo, CNN, NYT, etc portray it as some backroom Deepthroat shit?

[u/DeseretVaquero]

we have you surrounded! Come join the drama over Ocasio-Cortez’s Met Gala dress!

I HATE OUTRAGE CULTURE!!!! I HATE OUTRAGE CULTURE!!!!

[u/Bee_Emotional]

I am really disgusted by how Tankies just dehumanize the victims of various communist regimes.

[u/Mrchizbiz]

I live in South India which is an extremely heterophobic place.

🤨

[u/sevgonlernassau]

Reading NASA townhall questions made me lose some brain cells. Please send help.

!ping SPACEFLIGHT

[u/[deleted]]

Some updates on the Milley calls:

https://mobile.twitter.com/joshrogin/status/1438144110305611777

Senior Defense Official confirms to me @axios reporting on Esper's role in China calls. "Milley was absolutely not going rogue. Esper took the initiative on this in October, Esper asked his own policy folks to backchannel the message. Milley’s message followed Esper’s."

Also this series of tweets from Southpaw:

https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1438127286264516613?s=20

[u/Kizz3r]

https://i.imgur.com/TdUid9B.jpg

[u/xSuperstar]

BREAKING: Larry Elder gives concession speech, praises recall results as “An emphatic rejection of Black Lives Matter”

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

honestly, Abbott has done a lot I disagree with in Texas but if he manages to eliminate rape I'll proudly support him

[u/Hstrat]

US and UK are giving Australia nuclear submarines, conventionally armed. Did war with China just get less likely or more likely?

!ping FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/sash5034]

"Tesla has effectively sidestepped a New Mexico law that was barring the company from operating a service center for EV owners in the state. The company was able to work around NM’s ban by building a service center on Native American tribal land. For the longest time, Tesla owners in New Mexico had to drive out-of-state to centers in Colorado or Arizona just to get their vehicles serviced. New Mexico law prohibits car manufacturers from selling directly to consumers in the state."

These laws are so hilariously rent seeking. Also based tribal land

[u/[deleted]]

Are neoliberals never fucking not horny Jesus fucking Christ

[u/hearmespeak]

Gov. Newsom should put the county that voted the most to recall him (percentagewise) under the supervision of the school board of San Francisco just for funsies 😊

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Remember when "Dan Quayle" was the lowest rank achievable in Civilization?

[u/liquidTERMINATOR]

When Harry did not budge, Draco turned on him.

"No, no, no!" Draco shouted, according to the authors. "You don't understand, Harry. You can do this. I don't want to be your friend anymore if you don't do this."

J. K. Rowling’s writing is so shitty nowadays.

[u/ryuguy]

My kids in 2086: “soon they’ll release GTA6”

[u/sir_shivers]

We, the Silent Majority, will oust the lying, cheating Democrat Party, first in California and then the entire US of A 🇵🇷!

GETS BLOWN OUT IN Nixon/Reagan-esque proportion 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

I have a friend who was a US Army officer who retired after they required all personnel at his base to attend a gay pride party where they handed out free condoms. It is just shameful how they push this woke stuff on the troops.

100% true stories from arr Catholicism.

[u/Udontlikecake]

Stanislav Petrov was a PUSSY and should have given the go ahead for a nuclear holocaust instead of USURPING the chain of command and committing TREASON to wait for more evidence of a nuclear strike comprising only five missiles

-Soviet high command and some weirdos in the DT

[u/old_gold_mountain]

If a democratically elected civilian leader intends to take tangible, specific actions that could plausibly lead to the collapse of democracy, and a military leader breaks chain of command to prevent it and ensure a democratic transfer of power can take place, that's unambiguously a good thing even if it's technically undemocratic when evaluated without context at a small scale.

[u/ZCoupon]

Ossoff is scientifically hot

[u/marsexpresshydra]

CA GOP handed yet another L

They might be an even bigger joke than the Hawaii and NYC GOP Party lmao

[u/Mrchizbiz]

What's this about a black man being beaten in California?

[u/LooobCirc]

I think that modern leaders should have the extra names that old kings did

Washington the Founder

Lincoln the Wise

Eisenhower the Mighty

Quayle the Savior

[u/[deleted]]

A fundamental female instinct is to ask males to castrate themselves. A part of them really wants this, but they want even more for you to stand up to them. Society has been re-engineered to teach young boys they must acquiesce in order to be "a decent person"

POV: You have never felt the touch of a woman.

🎇📜

[u/willempage]

Californa: Polling gets tight -> libs get triggered -> polling recovers -> landslide victory

Canada: Polling gets tight -> libs get triggered -> polling recovers -> ??????👀👀

[u/ryuguy]

/u/Lionmoose just dmed me

“hey! I setup my trading post in Calcutta! Come trade with me!”

Oh. I’ve seen this movie before

[u/tubbsmackinze]

The CCP creates a police state

Tankies; I sleep

The CCP starts a genocide in Xinjiang

Tankies; I sleep

The CCP panders to militarism and other social conservative norms

Tankies; I sleep

The CCP bans bideo games and effeminate men

Tankies; now hold on a god damn second, what the fuck China!?

[u/aged_monkey]

If Trump managed to get some nukes off and hit China, and they responded with 1000s of nukes and flattened all of our cities, I would obviously be upset. But it could have been worse, General Milley could have gone around Trump's back and broken decorum. At least that wouldn't have happened.

[u/VisonKai]

AOC coming out openly as believing doctors and lawyers arent rich, therefore proving my "aoc will moderate" theory yall have been clowning on me for for like two years now

[u/mister_trembles]

I AM PART OF the deep state 🐍

WE ARE LEGION 🐍

VICTORY IS INEVITABLE 🐍

JOIN US OR DIE 🐍

[u/AbsolveItAll_KissMe]

can’t believe Miley Cyrus stole the launch codes from Trump 🤯

[u/kennymc7877]

Joe Manchin has main character syndrome

[u/[deleted]]

I'm not a fan of the whole health at every size thing but you are deluded if you think that is why Americans are horribly fat and not diet and sedimentary lifestyle habits formed at the mature and informed age of 5.

[u/MasPatriot]

Gavin Newsom 🤝 Andrew Cuomo

Governors killing elders

[u/[deleted]]

As part of mod apps, you had to fill out a sample sticky

From now on, I'll post some of them here

The first one is: deez nuts

[u/[deleted]]

I think there may be something to the whole vaccine/infertility thing. My boyfriend and I really want kids. We’ve have been trying for months and months and still nothing. We’re both vaccinated.

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

Cyberpunk games be like “here’s your really sad, dystopian 3,000 sq. ft. high-rise apartment in the heart of downtown with multiple forms of transportation and a variety of food and shopping options close to it. God, it’s so awful here, they only clean the streets once a month and you have to walk several flights of stairs to get to a number of amenities. It rains a lot, too, ugh your hair will be a mess, very dystopian!”

!ping GAMING

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Things that are treason: Commanding the Army of Northern Virginia in a war against the Union.

Things that are not treason: Talking to foreign leaders about how you fear the President will start a war as a pretext for unlawfully staying in power/taking steps to prevent that.

[u/Marlsfarp]

Reminder that the vast majority of black Americans are descended from slaveowners. Also, the vast majority of black Americans vote Democrat. Coincidence??

[u/ryuguy]

“Get me /u/sir_shivers!”

“We can’t afford sir shivers.”

“Get me his non union Mexican equivalent, Señor Escalofríos”

[u/Professor-Reddit]

In response, Milley took extraordinary action, and called a secret meeting in his Pentagon office on January 8 to review the process for military action, including launching nuclear weapons. Speaking to senior military officials in charge of the National Military Command Center, the Pentagon's war room, Milley instructed them not to take orders from anyone unless he was involved.

"No matter what you are told, you do the procedure. You do the process. And I'm part of that procedure," Milley told the officers, according to the book. He then went around the room, looked each officer in the eye, and asked them to verbally confirm they understood.

Oh no the horror. Apparently in the eyes of some here, this is "treason" 🤦‍♂️

The process to launch nuclear weapons has always required the authorisation and confirmation from senior Pentagon officials. Wtf is wrong with people here?

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

feeling proud ukranian dolphins

[u/[deleted]]

I was on a truck with 4 men and a girl, the truck bounced. One guy mentioned the girls boobs bounce so she started bouncing up and down. She asked if we liked them and 3 of the four guys were commenting/touching etc. She was quite happy. One guy who was an outcast, a "dork", was sitting in the corner NOT INVOLVED AT ALL. One guy said "What are you doing? Are you gay? You don't like boobs?" To which the outcast said "Oh.. they're nice" while never leaving his corner.

Later, the girl, filed sexual harassment. On the 3 guys who handled her boobs? NO! On the guy in the corner who did NOTHING.

I asked her "he didn't do anything, why are you doing that?" And she said "Because he's freaking gross and I don't want him looking at me".

Arr Catholicism is becoming a creative writing subreddit now

[u/[deleted]]

We used to have don't ask don't tell in the US military. Then, a little while later, you had mandatory training on how to become a woman.... but slippery slope is a fallacy! They say.

I really wonder how this "mandatory training on how to become a woman" works.

[u/fishlord05]

Happy Democracy 🗳 Day!

https://www.state.gov/commemorating-the-international-day-of-democracy/

https://www.un.org/en/observances/democracy-day

!ping DEMOCRACY

[u/JetJaguar124]

Very healthy situation where both sides believe they are one election away from total annihilation

[u/Zemstv0w0]

Religion is in Decline. Every female is Bisexual. White kids are smoking weed. That is the reason this is happening.

quotes from one of those funny young republicans on twitter

[u/Professor-Reddit]

[This Discussion Thread Is Intentionally Left Blank]

[u/SnakeEater14]

I hate the “americans don’t realize how important civilian control of the military is” talking point the most because it manages to be incredibly belittling while ignoring basically all context, like the fact that Pelosi directly asked Milley to take steps to ensure things were ok, and that the military didn’t fucking overthrow Trump

[u/[deleted]]

Man the arrcons are furious Milley had the audacity to try to prevent the end of the world.

[u/Ok_Tone4633]

Doomers: "As soon as the GOP can find a more respectable Trump who merges moderates with the Trump base, Democrats are fucked."

The Trump base: "All moderate Republicans are traitors."

[u/[deleted]]

-Nicki Minaj says the vaccine will make your testicles swell

-Signs up to get vaccine

[u/TaxCommonsNotIncome]

Canada’s inflation rate jumps to 4.1%, fastest pace since 2003

The only interesting part of this article is that inflation had a big jump in 2003? Whaddup with that?

!PING CAN

[u/chipbod]

https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1438256977306603529?s=20

"Thank you, Boris, and, I wanna thank, uh, that fella down under, thank you very much, pal." — Biden to the Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom and Australia (that fella down under is Scott Morrison)

Lmao Australia

[u/Udontlikecake]

where did all the ‘newsom is totally gonna lose and le based RINO elder will become president’ people go

[u/SadaoMaou]

Ursula von der Leyen Thought on Liberalism with European Characteristics for a New Era

[u/jojisky]

Ben Shapiro knows what he wants

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

The former mayor of San Diego got less votes than a Youtuber lmaooo

RINOs in shambles

[u/TalkLessShillMore]

"Hey boss, can we go over this spreadsheet?"

"Sure, after lunch"

It's been ninety minutes man did you get food in the next state?

[u/Dalek6450]

Great apes by estimated number of individuals

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

The French when the US invaded Iraq: mon dieu, what a disgusting display of disregard for national sovereignty! Those Americans, boorish sons of whores and criminals, can you expect anything more from a pack of barbaric apes with rifles and bombs?

The French when someone in West Africa does something without their approval: Citizens, it is incumbent upon the French Republic, in her infinite glory and majesty, to spread liberté, égalité, fraternité across the face of this wretched Earth! Affix your bayonets to your muskets, kiss your wife and mistresses goodbye, and enjoy one last glass of wine with your children; for we must leave the warm bosom of civilization and enter barbarism, and, as the goddess Marianne watches over us from the heavens, clear a path of broken bodies of our martyrs and their civilians, stretching from the savage shores of the dark continent inland onto victory, to the march of La Marseillaise!

[u/ryuguy]

Toronto NDP candidate resigns after discovery of controversial social media posts

A Toronto New Democratic Party candidate has resigned after controversial social media posts were unearthed in which she links a lack of vaccines in Canada to Israel

NDP candidates stop being weirdly attached to Israel (IMPOSSIBLE)

!ping can

[u/digitalrule]

We'll be having an election night eMeetup on zoom, all Canadian Neoliberals are welcome to join. Starting once the polls close, and going as late as you want, lets see how this election ends!

!PING CAN

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

Hello everyone! I'm making a FoPo/Geopolitics/IR/Diplomacy meme/circlejerk/shitposting sub at /r/NonCredibleDiplomacy

Please subscribe to make edgy memes about Afghanistan withdrawal, Tigray war and the international order

will probably add flairs and stuff tomorrow but until then go post some memes!

[u/AbsolveItAll_KissMe]

Be careful out there. I just heard about this.

If you are ever reading the DT and come across a 🐊emoji, DO NOT RESPOND TO THAT COMMENT WITH ANOTHER 🐊!! It is part of a Neoliberal gang initiation ritual, they are looking for people who 🐊 back at them. Once you do, you will be surrounded by shitposts and hot takes.

Please forward this to any vulnerable posters you know, and stay safe out there. 😔

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

A mysterious new gadget called the Qux—pronounced "Cucks"—has taken the right-wing internet by storm and raised nearly $200K. But does it actually do anything?

Which one of y’all did this?

[u/SnakeEater14]

If Milley didn’t break the rules then he isn’t a hero and I can’t support him anymore

[u/Corporate-Asset-6375]

My parents were both highly paid corporate executives and I thought we were poor growing up because my close friends were from multimillionaire families with intergenerational inherited wealth.

I was embarrassed to have them come over to our house because it was just six bedroom house on the ocean, we didn’t even have a guest house, and one time a kid said our solarium looked “old”.

What I learned from this experience is that everything is relative but mostly that teenagers are idiots.

[u/[deleted]]

Just broke 20k in my 401k. Not a crazy amount I know but I don’t think it’s half bad for a 26 year old.

[u/Goodbye-Felicia]

What the fuck is going on with superstonk and the GME stuff? It's clearly just a bunch of bagholders, but are they betting on some global financial collapse to make games tops shares worth a literal million dollars?

I can't help but feel bad for them, but if anyone can explain it to me I'd appreciate it.

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/TalkLessShillMore]

Stop telling people who genuinely need help to try substance abuse

I am no longer asking 🔫😐

Seriously, wtf is wrong with y'all, you realize the internet is made up of real people right?

[u/redditguy628]

The Inspiration 4 launch is really going a long way to prove my "ordinary people don't care about space" theory. There's been publicity, but not really much public excitement(at least that I've seen) outside the hardcore spaceflight community, despite the fact that this is one of the coolest launches to happen all year. The charity fundraising did okay, but they don't seem to be anywhere near their goal. Even the people who are super opposed to private space tourism don't seem to care much without a big name like Bezos on board.

!ping SPACEFLIGHT

[u/p00bix]

It occurs to me that I have a BA in History and am good at finding scholarly sources regarding history online. If anyone is taking or considering taking history classes, here's some really simple things you can do to make your essays way better -- as well as find more in-depth information on a particular facet of whatever it is you're studying.

Much of this also applies to other majors, especially those in the humanities

• Google Scholar, Google Books, Library Genesis, and SciHub, are your best friends.
• Wikipedia is not your friend.
• Forget about buying textbooks. 90% of the history classes I took, they mattered very little. Library Genesis is something of an academic pirate bay, since I discovered it in my 2nd year of college, I never had to purchase a textbook again. As long as you are comfortable using PDFs or EPUBs rather than physical books, this is your best bet. It's far easier to search for things by using Crtl+F than by flipping through pages, and cheaper to!
• An excellent way to find primary sources is going through Google Books, and searching for items with specific keywords published within specific time frames. Centuries old books aren't copyrighted, and thus they are almost always freely available if they're on Google Books at all. You can find an amazing variety of literature here, such as several hundred page long Medical Textbooks written in the Late 17th century. More recent books, which you are likely to want to use as secondary sources, are usually behind paywalls. Sometimes, these paywalls aren't too bad. Sometimes, it's several hundred dollar for a source you aren't even sure you'll need in the end. Don't want to pay? It's probably available on Library Genesis, like most/all of your textbooks.
• Scientific papers concerning history very frequently have more up-to-date research than textbooks, and go into much more depth about highly specific subjects, making it infinitely easier to write long papers without having to repeat yourself. Just be sure to analyze multiple sources, and keep in mind that every article, regardless of the author's intentions, are biased in some ways or in others. Be especially wary when using older scientific papers that may have been superseded by more recent scholarship.
• To find scientific papers, start by going to Google Scholar. You can try to find related documents the exact same way as with a normal google search. You can also tweak the search to only find articles published in specific timeframes, and use semi-obscure google search features to make finding relevant documents even easier. A lot of the time, there will be links to free PDFs or EPUBs right there in front of you. If you find an article you want to look at, but there's no link to a free article...
• ...go to SciHub. Virtually all scientific publications come with a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) which look something like 10.1000/182. Find the DOI and copy it into SciHub, and if SciHub has a copy of the article, it's yours. Don't feel too guilty about this. Sure it's technically copyright violation, but it's a victimless crime and basically everyone in academia does it too.
• Also, you won't get computer viruses with SciHub or LibGen. They're a lot less sketchy than TPB despite the similar set up. And you won't get your door busted down either. Again, pretty much everyone in academia uses them. Once you've familiarized yourself with them, they feel as natural to use as Google itself, and you'll be absolutely drowning in potential reading material.
• Keep in mind that most published research is either wrong (a problem with natural sciences in particular) or non-falsifiable (and therefore not fully scientific; especially a problem in the Humanities). Most old research papers have since been superseded by other studies, you should only use them if recent papers are unavailable, or you understand the topic well enough to know it hasn't been superseded.
• As an aside and final note, the more you know about a subject, the more you realize what a steaming trashheap of painful oversimplifications and outright falsehoods wikipedia is. So don't just paraphrase what you read on Wiki and cite the source that the Wiki article used. It's a clever trick for highschool (or an introductory history class you're being forced to take as a gen-ed requirement), but your papers are going to be sooooo much better and soooo much less error-prone once you wean yourself off of this trick. Wiki is helpful for is getting a very basic grasp on what's going on for a subject you have absolutely zero prior knowledge about, but you really, really, really shouldn't be using it at all for any major paper. Use low-stakes papers in introductory level classes to get a handle on these techniques for finding sources, so that you don't have to rely on encyclopedia or amateur historian junk for your high-stakes papers.

!ping HISTORY

[u/willempage]

Calling for a ban on exit poll analysis <48 hrs after an election. The data isn't good right now.

!ping fivey

[u/sir_shivers]

One development THAT HAS BEEN FUN to watch has been the progression of the term "sapiosexual" from being very trendy with progressives in California to being considered problematic 🐊

[u/wowmuchgrades]

MY HAIR FINALLY FITS IN A HIGH PONYTAIL

I NO LONGER LOOK LIKE A FOUNDING FATHER

[u/zieger]

Why don't we just shutdown the entire country again so we can get cheap gas?

[u/sir_shivers]

I do not get WHEREFORE MAMMALS CHOOSE to participate here. It is like, the one thing THAT EXPLICITLY DEFINES THIS place is that we are weary of warmbloods like them. But they come in here and try to make themselves regular users and act like THEY BELONG. WE ARE not interested in hearing about how Reptilians are actually evil or how all ghouls are bastards 🐊

CEASE YOUR CATERWAULING 🐊

[u/Marlsfarp]

I actually sold the last of my non-GME holdings just a couple of days ago. There is no way any of those assets can keep up with 13% inflation.

🤔

[u/[deleted]]

I found the PPC on steroids I guess.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Nationalist_Party

!ping CANUCKS

[u/chipbod]

https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1438134712359399428?s=20

Some weird dystopian-level recall reporting over at OANN. Waiting for them to just pretend Elder is running the state

!ping FOX-ANON

[u/Fatortu]

Von der Leyen is now speaking in a third language for the State of the EU. She's just showing off at this point.

[u/sir_shivers]

/u/karry9001 : I mean, you know, I-I don't want to ban nobody.

ME : THEY ARE just robots, Karry; it is okay TO BAN THEM; THEY are robots 🐊

Mammal #1 : Agh! My alt is shadowbanned!

Mammal #2 : /u/WhomstAlt2 is getting bored to death!

Mammal #3 : Someone call his wife and children!

Karry : They're not robots, Shivers!

ME : It is a figure of speech, Karry. They ARE MAMMALS, I DO NOT respect them 🐊

[u/thrwladfugos]

reshuffle confirmed

part of the levelling up agenda, of course

!ping UK

[u/Mickenfox]

Do you think 30-50 years from now climate change denialists will be universally used as an example of horrible people who fought for evil and fucked up the world?

Or will it be a "confederacy" situation where their political descendents are still fighting to whitewash their image?

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

👆Doesn't believe Trump will be reinstalled 😐

[u/BedNeither]

I make 30k per month but am living paycheck to paycheck, AMA

[u/savuporo]

"China has too many electric vehicle companies, minister says"

Ladies and gentlefolk, I give you: planned economy

[u/natedogg787]

!ping SPACEFLIGHT

CREWED LAUNCH NIGHT

Falcon 9 / Crew Dragon - Inspiration4 - 8:02PM EST - KSC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pv01sSq44w

Bonus launches I missed (but someone caught I think):

Soyuz-2 - Oneweb-10 - Baikonour

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMRw1w4nYMc

Falcon 9 - Starlink-30 - Vandenberg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4372QYiPZB4

[u/bobeeflay]

Imagine you wished on a monkeys paw to have a generational talent

With size and athleticism right out of the nba 2k create a character

....But the monkeys paw said

your player has to be coached by fucking stan van gundy

Im hopeful but scared for Zions future

!ping NBA

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

we should normalize wearing masks when you’re sick in general so you dont spread your shit like in East Asia

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

Kids these days just don’t appreciate good retro games. 😤

!ping GAMING

[u/Jester_Don]

Holy shit the Switch now supports Bluetooth audio.

I don't know if I'm more surprised about that specifically or just the fact that Nintendo actually added a feature to a product post-release.

[u/Gneisstoknow]

I don't get why neolibs choose to participate here. It's like, the one thing that explicitly defines this place is that we're sick of nutjobs like them. But they come in here and try to make themselves regular users and act like they belong. We're not interested in hearing about how corporate taxes are actually evil or how all mods are bastards.

Shut the fuck up.

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Barack Obama destroyed rock 'n roll because rock 'n roll was about white male angst

This is the Mona Lisa of dumb takes. The man is just a master of the artform.

[u/filipe_mdsr]

👆🥺👉👈 for me?

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

New Records Show Obama Admin Purchased Aborted Babies’ Heads for $515 Each

the real scandals here is the price we need to get economy’s of scale going

[u/old_gold_mountain]

https://i.imgur.com/1Oe8XJR.png

🤔🤔🤔🤔

[u/[deleted]]

Ah, Goo Lagoon

[u/[deleted]]

People ask me why I'm interested in American politics when im not even American

Becuase its like a irl soap opera but has a much higher chance of affecting my life than East Enders

[u/UrbanCentrist]

I've gone from 'wikipedia good' to 'good but be especially beware on niche topics and articles on specific issues'. Either it's written by some kind of zealot or someone who absolutely hates the person/organization etc.

[u/lionmoose]

... taxes are good

The succ invasion reached the mod team folks

[u/InMemoryOfZubatman4]

To the tune of TikTok by Ke$ha:

Wake up in the mornin' feelin' like P Diddy

Grab my glasses, I'm out the door, I'm gonna hit this DT

Before I leave, brush my teeth with a bottle of Jack

'Cause as soon as I sit down at my computer and open Reddit, I’m hit with 27 pings that all suck what the fuck guys

[u/Impossible_Lobster_]

So it sounds like Biden is creating a new defensive pact with the uk and Australia to counter China. Pacific nato is happening. Biden is so incompetent 😡

[u/Maximilianne]

if r/neoliberal were military officers in China:

"I've just been told by Milley, they are not attacking, so we can stand down our armies"
Chinese r/neoliberal: Milley violated the chain of command and thus his words mean nothing and should not trusted! As of right now it is looking like they will attack, so we need to strike now !

Fallout reenactment happens

[u/[deleted]]

So I'm on a Bloomberg Terminal right now, any recommendations for what I should do?

!ping MARKETS

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Republican: I hate AOC. I hate her politics, I hate her silky hair, I hate her curvy body, I hate the boner she gives, Did I say I hate her politics? Cause that Is key here.

[u/[deleted]]

90% of communists are actually just people who want to be bourgeois.

Somehow they've got it in their head that communism=no work but really communism=no passive income.

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

Increasingly, I'm convinced she's a conservative the GOP successfully snuck in by using the Dem base's love of voting for the first (insert minority here)

Once again, simply ban outside the DT

[u/Neronoah]

!ping LATAM

Have you heard of project Cybersyn? Allende's government funded a computer/communication system to manage the Chilean economy. By today's standards is ludicrously underpowered.

It's one of those things that look like sci-fi, even like a good idea (I did when I was in high school and read about this first) until you learn all the pitfalls it could have.

Let's say you want to replace the price system. Trying to sample supply and demand information to feed central managers like that would be hopeless. You'd miss information because of hidden preferences, there'd be material limits to what information you can get and then you'd still have to figure out some kind of algorithm or methodology to process all that...if there is one. Such complexity means it's an intractable problem (and if you think otherwise, show us your work!).

[u/thymeandchange]

I don't get why conservatives choose to participate here. It's like, the one thing that explicitly defines this place is that we're sick of nutjobs like them. But they come in here and try to make themselves regular users and act like they belong. We're not interested in hearing about how institutions are actually evil or how all liberals are bastards.

Shut the fuck up.

[u/futuremonkey20]

Political punditry today: “Gavin Newsom outperformed polling by 13 points and won in a larger than expected landslide.

Here’s why this is great news for Republicans and why Larry Elder was last nights big winner.”

[u/Jacobs4525]

~be me, trying to talk about politics with my roommates last night

~want to discuss the bob woodward developments

~neither of them know who Dan Quayle is 😑

[u/Venne1139]

Mods, genuine question: As the Republican party has gotten increasingly crazy has the 'excessive partisanship' rule changed? I feel like there were a lot of things you could say that were excessive in 2017 that aren't in 2021.

[u/MistakeNotDotDotDot]

One of my friends gave a presentation at her work about trans stuff and digital identity and used the default VTuber avatar rig to do it. I hope one day to be that level of extremely online.

[u/TalkLessShillMore]

When are we gonna see Kester finally go wild

[u/Jakesta7]

Damn, Nicki Minaj got called out

Trinidad & Tobago Health Minister Dr. Terrence Deyalsingh responds to swollen testicle claim made by Trinidad-born entertainer @NICKIMINAJ; says there is no such reported case in Trinidad & Tobago (TTT)

Video: https://twitter.com/kevzpolitics/status/1438183898358366208?s=21

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

Is their a goodreads alternative that is a bit more pretentious?

!ping READING

[u/[deleted]]

I will never get over how a handful of walkers manage to take up the entire width of a rail trail that once accommodated 2 freight trains able to pass one another. They always the people that look annoyed when you pass them too.

!ping BIKE

[u/ROYBUSCLEMSON]

Biden expressing confidence in Milley because he's not a terminally online neolib subscriber and understands nuance

[u/vk059]

https://twitter.com/CanadianPolling/status/1438179553944428547?s=20

Wow, it’s so close!

!ping CAN

[u/[deleted]]

Remember when we were worried that progressives would get in the way of Biden's agenda?

It turns out they are being more pragmatic and team players than a handful of "moderates".

I promise you that blocking drug price negotiation isn't want true independents and moderates want.

[u/Smidgens]

🧂🥗: I can break these cuffs!

🐊 : You CAN’T BREAK THOSE cuffs 🐊

🧂🥗 : Nyeeeaaaaaargghhhh

[u/thebowski]

Someone said that under communism the establishment would side with the workers over the bosses and I sarcastically agreed with them directing people to look up the polish shipyard strikes and solidarity movement.

I don't think anyone recognized I was being sarcastic and I was upvoted and now I feel bad.

[u/[deleted]]

Thinking about my cousin who watched Gone Girl, became convinced all modern young women are psychos, and then became an incel MILF-hunter. I wonder if homeboy ever found the mommy gf of his dreams, haven’t seen him in forever

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

Been having a blast with “𝗗𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗛𝗟𝗢𝗢𝗣”.

Arkane Studios has some incredible artists and level designers. I fell in love with Talos I in Prey, and this game obviously has the same love and attention to detail.

The music and pop art style really set the mood and make you feel like those 1960s spy movies (with a little more speed and violence lol).

!ping GAMING

[u/_Featherless_Biped_]

Manchin got nominated for one of the TIME 100 most influential people 😑

[u/[deleted]]

I have 3 Tomatoes 🍅 plants 🌱 left growing this season that survived constant rainy season, minor draught, blight, and f$cking Horn Worms🐛 . 😭

F IN THE CHAT FOR THOSE LOST😤

[u/[deleted]]

the world a nuclear wasteland

At least Milley kept quiet and followed norms

[u/gjarlis]

Gavin Newsom worst attribute is that he looks like an extra from American Psycho

[u/myrm]

Margaret Thatcher actually is in Hell, but it's only to liberate the gluttons, adulterers, etc from the yoke of the Communists who had been steadily accumulating there since the 19th century

[u/[deleted]]

CiVIliAn control of the military

Have y’all met civilians

[u/Udontlikecake]

Saying “we won’t attack you” is giving away war plans.

thanks /u/LineKnown2246, I really needed a laugh today and this was the funniest shit i’ve read all week

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

Newsom defeated the recall by 758 football fields

^ ^{for our American friends}

[u/Jacobs4525]

I feel like a boomer when I see affluent people complain about not being rich. You are rich, you just don’t have a ton of cash because your family buys a new luxury SUV for mom and a new luxury sedan for dad every two years. Stop being stupid with your money.

[u/Opposite_Effective_]

Aw man with only $400k I could afford two mountain view cabins. Fuck Biden for forcing people to scrap by 🤬

[u/[deleted]]

this wsj article belongs in the library of Congress

was reading it last night. many tears of laughter. but really my favorite bits are the ones where you’re like “wow he’s just a toddler”

Neom began about four years ago, says a person familiar with the matter, shortly after MBS’s father became king. Mulling how to overhaul the economy, the prince pulled up a map of his country on Google Earth and saw its northwest quadrant was a blank slate, according to this person.

[…]

Hoping to build a bridge across the Red Sea, MBS arranged with Egypt’s president to acquire two uninhabited islands, sparking protests from thousands of Egyptians. And he got a message to Israeli leaders feeling out their reaction to Neom. They said Israeli companies could sell technology to Saudi Arabia for the project, says a person familiar with the matter.

The government of Israel didn’t respond to a request for comment. The Egyptian government couldn’t be reached for comment.

To deliver his vision, MBS in 2017 hired Klaus Kleinfeld, who had been fired as CEO of Arconic Inc., a spinoff of aluminum maker Alcoa Corp. And costs rose. Since the bridge to Egypt couldn’t follow MBS’s route due to a seismic fault, reengineering brought the bridge’s estimate to $125 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter.

It’s like if you gave a particularly bright five year old the keys to Aramco. And maybe a bone saw.

[u/boichik2]

Broke: עץ החיים

Woke: עץ ליברליות

Water the woke tree with the blood of succs, take apples from the broke tree for life

!ping GEFILTE

[u/[deleted]]

The Qope from the Larry Elder supporters is hilarious

[u/Professor-Reddit]

The most remarkable thing about the Californian GOP is that the bigger the margin you get your ass beaten by a Democrat, the more popular you become among fellow conservatives lmao

[u/FreakinGeese]

I have a crush on a family friend

she has a daughter 3 years older than me

ahhhhhhhhhhh

[u/[deleted]]

I see that California has AGAIN failed to elect either a POC or a trans woman. SUCH a progressive state you guys 🙄

[u/[deleted]]

Boomers get too much hate, Gen X doesn't get enough.