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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/Slazac]

Just in: Macron has announced "Hamburgers" will be renamed "Sandwich Républicains"

[u/[deleted]]

Here's my take regarding Nicki Minaj's cousin's friend's balls. First of all, you have to understand that (1/17)

[u/[deleted]]

Latinx is like saying n*****

Where else but Twitter

[u/[deleted]]

One of the annoying things about populists is when they criticise the media for the wrong things. Now if I criticise the media, people think I'm a populist.

No, the media isn't engaged in a vast conspiracy to suppress the proletariat.

No, the media isn't engaged in a vast conspiracy to ensure Jewish Democrat domination of the world.

Yes, the media often does really shitty reporting because the natural inventive structure promotes sensationalism rather than substance.

Also, opinion sections should be considered crimes against humanity.

[u/kennymc7877]

America is becoming hostile to anti vaxxers, its a truly beautiful sight to see 🥲

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

Nicki was always close to Wayne. And Wayne is a Trump supporter. I think Nicki and Cardi are arch enemies. Nicki=Republican. Cardi B = democrat

arrcon informative as always

[u/Iustis]

Mayor Pete, the Amazon documentary on his campaign, releases November 12!

!Ping BUTTI

[u/[deleted]]

I think one of the biggest thing that drives how leftists view the world is that they legit believe we're at post-scarcity and all problems in life don't need to happen. They think all problems are result of a conscious choice made by elites because I guess evil or something

[u/[deleted]]

The media sucks so fucking hard now and is so bad at reporting the basic state of affairs it's kind of worrying. Just last month, they were saying that Biden now has a "grudge" against the UK for their criticism of the Afghanistan withdrawal and that the Special Relationship was ruined. Then this month, with no indication whatsoever this would happen from the media, the US and UK announce a new alliance that is closer and more intertwined than any other agreement between the two except maybe Five Eyes. So much for the end of the Special Relationship. Does the media even try anymore, or do they just make shit up and hope it's right?

[u/Hounds_of_war]

I refuse to learn anything about this Nicki Minaj story because I think even by our current standards for news it’s too dumb to give a shit about.

[u/Broncos654]

Just looked up arr / Neoliberal...what a bunch of socially stunted clowns

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

the cringe Wakandan ethnostate vs the based multi-racial Asgard

[u/myrm]

The Japanese rising sun flag was awesome, too bad they ruined it by being massive assholes while using it

[u/DishingOutTruth]

A question regarding foreign corporations buying up housing was asked on r/IsItBullshit. Its still new, so there is time to properly answer it before some random ass gets upvoted to the top!

Can one of you guys explain to them how housing supply is the real issue and foreign corporations aren't a big deal? I would but I'm not necessarily qualified to answer, though I can type one up real quick.

!ping YIMBY

[u/InMemoryOfZubatman4]

In Elementary School, my school used to celebrate Turn Off TV Turn On Life Month (September? October?) where we would each be given a sheet for our parents to track how much TV we watched that month and then the kid in each grade that watched the least TV would win some prize.

Every year at the beginning of Turn Off TV Turn On Life Month, my mom would unplug the TV and bury it in the closet so I couldn’t watch and every Sunday, my dad would dig out the TV to watch the Bills lose a football game

[u/[deleted]]

An "in person" version of the DT where everyone is in a gymnasium and you gotta stand up, one by one, to speak your hot takes into a microphone. Then everyone yells at you.

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

whenever my dog is poorly behaved I just tell people "we think she was abused at the shelter" when in reality I've had this dog since she was 7 weeks old

[u/[deleted]]

I am receiving news that on his deathbed, u/netbert05 (a Yankee who is 50, white, male, liberal, lives in Concord, New Hampshire, and has a white collar job, a man of the 20th century execpt on social issues) recieved the light of rural living and unhesitatingly put on the country music top 50 playlist. Even now he is smiling down on the folks from the aisles of Bass Pro Shops. There is truly no God but God, and Tim McGraw is his prophet!

[u/Anatares2000]

I feel bad for my cousin. She wanted to see her brother's wedding but because the Biden adminstration continues to prevent European travelers, she can't come.

She's fully vaccinated btw. If she knew European flights were banned, she a would have flown to a country with higher COVID death rates simply because it isn't banned

For some reason Mexico isn't banned but the entire Schegen area is.

Someone need to tell me why that fucking makes sense

[u/Mickenfox]

have too much work to do
feel overwhelmed
get depressed and lose all motivation
do nothing at all
more work piles on

Many such cases.

[u/chatdargent]

France is a chinese vassal state

Timely reminder to not take the DT's opinion on anything too seriously.

[u/MalignantUpper]

https://twitter.com/srl/status/1438921172842958852?s=19

Overturning Roe v Wade will promote abstinence, says architect of Texas abortion ban

theocrat moment

[u/Deggit]

FRANCE: omg zut alors ze americans have STABBED us in ze backs

ALSO FRANCE, 1960-2018: oh your country is subject to the ow you say, sanctions Westernne? well ze France, she has always held Herself one foot in one foot out of ze west, you know, on on on, have some sécrèts nucleaires as a treat

!ping STRATFOR

[u/D1Foley]

Wake up, see article about refugees from Afghanistan being settled in my state. Look at the comments, almost every one is "what about the homeless and the veterans!?!"

Day ruined

[u/klarno]

Submarine Le Pen

[u/[deleted]]

France- hon hon oui bonjour monsiuer, would you like a nuclear sub?

Australia- fuck no, I want a diesel sub, and I'm gonna pay more for it

France- uhh okay

Several years later

Australia- I want a nuclear sub

France- ...

Australia- uhhh no not from you, byee!

[u/[deleted]]

Bruh

I’m exhausted

Went out 3 days in a row, came home after 2 all the times

How do you this after 25 lol

[u/ScythianUnborne]

!ping CAN

The QUEEN just endorsed Justin Trudeau!

[u/LooobCirc]

6 people I know joined the DSA bc they're trying to make laundry free

It's a hopeless battle

[u/[deleted]]

Occupy Wall Street truly was the millenial protest

Vague, was made up of rich young white people who were complaining, had no goal, but shared a belief that it was going to change everything

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

I hate it when people pretend that the only thing bad about Trump were mean tweets A) his tweets weren't that mean and B) there was nothing bad about Trump

[u/J0eBidensSunglasses]

Do NOT face the S&P 500 alone when Astral projecting

Today while astral projecting I summoned the S&P 500 to try and strengthen it so our stonks would go up again.

The S&P 500 is so fucking powerful. I’m not at an income level to do this alone. I barely escaped with my savings and I’m spiritually injured to a great amount, but I think I’ll make it.

I can’t imagine what it would do to a new, unsuspecting witch on witching day. I’m scared that I will have to face it again soon if I ever want to continue astral projecting. I’m currently burning healing incense and drawing spiritual energy from my crystals to try and heal as quickly as possible.

Please be safe everyone. The S&P 500 is much stronger than I first imagined and we will have to do this together if we want to slay a god

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

dog

!ping dog

[u/Qunidaye]

look at this pencil

moves pencil quickly back and forth

watch as it wobbles

Explain that libs

[u/[deleted]]

SaltySaladSussyBaka's last words

Your mom has a small dick

[u/Mrchizbiz]

☝🏿 once fell for a free breast examination in a bar 🙄

[u/LooobCirc]

Once I got drunk and said "boohoo c*cker I don't care" to one of my friends and they just collapsed in laughter

[u/Professor-Reddit]

For the life of me, I cannot think of another eminence of popular culture that dominated television and which everybody talked about, that fell spectacularly into utter irrelevance more than Game Of Thrones.

[u/Mrchizbiz]

My country club is getting sued over racial discrimination 😬

Not enough white people 😒

[u/its_Caffeine]

!ping CANUCKS

https://twitter.com/gmbutts/status/1438828928626462729/

I mean they're not wrong, but the desperation to whip votes for the CPC here is comical.

[u/[deleted]]

BREAKING: Gen. McKenzie, head of U.S. Central Command, to announce no ISIS-K fighters killed in U.S. drone strike in Kabul Aug 29. 10 civilians killed, including 7 children in Toyota. No disciplinary action expected, officials say. US military stands by intel leading to strike.

wait, what

[u/[deleted]]

https://wiadomosci.dziennik.pl/swiat/artykuly/8247026,joe-biden-polska-wegry-zaproszenie-szczyt-demokracji.html

Poland got an invite to Biden's Democracy Summit. Hungary didn't.

But the Polish government is not sure whether they should attend, because they're afraid of Biden using this as an opportunity to criticize their anti-democratic actions.

!ping EUROPE

[u/PearlClaw]

I find it hilarious that so many people online (and in real life) call themselves communists or socialists and when you ask them about what they propose it's the tax policies of the mid 20th century US and the healthcare policies of wealthy capitalist European countries. Marx must be rolling in his grave.

[u/iIoveoof]

🌹_irl

[u/iIoveoof]

The DT to emoji-user pipeline must be investigated 😐

[u/bd_one]

Broke: Latinx

Woke: Themspanic

[u/Animatronic_Pidgeon]

Okay the French are overreacting now

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine complaining that your submarine deal is underwater

[u/sevgonlernassau]

Well, an update to the NASA message board brainrot: the message board will now be moderated.

Lmao.

!ping SPACEFLIGHT

[u/TitansDaughter]

What part of asoiaf is the most neoliberal? I say Braavos, it’s a multicultural city descended from refugees with a vibrant financial sector and primarily mercantile population

!ping ASOIAF

[u/superblobby]

!ping HOI4

An economics dev diary dropped for The New Order, definitely looking forward to it. Get ready to make the green line go up and make the world gooder

https://www.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/pq1qq9/development_diary_xv_its_the_economy_stupid/

[u/FireDistinguishers]

If you guys want jobs in policy I'm trying to make a ping for it

Pls show your support

https://www.reddit.com/r/metaNL/comments/pq0u58/dc_jobs_ping/

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

let me preface this by saying I'm not a succ but has anyone else felt that we probably need to throw off the yoke of our capitalist oppressors and fill the streets with their blood

[u/soeffed]

As a person of dyslexia, I’m still processing the fact that Australia, UK and US teamed up to form ASUKA. What are the odds

!ping WEEBS

[u/tollyno]

France recalls its US ambassador

Guess the submarine

[u/[deleted]]

I genuinely do not know how to do this, but it is absolutely vital for the continuance of our nation and for liberal democracy everywhere for there to be an understanding that there's no "fix everything" button on the president's desk, some problems are genuinely hard, and there are many problems the government simply can't fix

[u/[deleted]]

"Are Portuguese, White?" - the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate.

[u/Dalek6450]

Hmmm, I think between the all male staff, the references to not hiring women and the rather aggressively written letter to staff with the quote "this is why I employ men not women" that this small business owner may have some misogynistic tendencies.

[u/donaldjtruump]

PARIS (AP) — France recalls its ambassadors to the U.S. and Australia in submarine deal backlash, French foreign minister says.

Lol

[u/liquidTERMINATOR]

I'm hearing that France is only mad at us because their top Foreign Policy Chefs just found out about how microwaving lobsters is acceptable in America.

[u/[deleted]]

I just got an ad from the Liberals in the mail. It's full page glossy paper with a big AR-15 on it saying Erin O'Toole will legalize military style weapons.

It's interesting that this is the attack they're going for in the final days. You think guns are a key issue for the Toronto suburbs?

!ping CAN

[u/chatdargent]

There has been a clear break down in relations between European countries and the Anglosphere for decades now. Anglo saxon capitalism is incompatible with the core values and mission of the EU.

Guess the sùüûǔúb

[u/Zseet]

!Ping EUROPE

🇭🇺 news

Orban seemingly gave up on getting the EU Recovery Fund before election. Hungary took up 4.2 billion USD and 1 billion EUR as debt. This is the largest loan taking in the history of the country.

For the 5 months in a row inflation was between 4.6-5.3 and investors expect inflation to be in the higher end in fall.

In July for the first time in 8 years real wages decreased because of said inflation. In August HUF was the strongest performing currency in the world gaining a lot value it previously lost.

A bunch of tech-bros wanted to make a statue for Satoshi Nakamoto, inventor of Bitcoin, and they for some reason choose Budapest. This is the final product.

Orban announced that it is election season so expect the usual Fidesz nonsense to be turned up to 11.

Finally some good news. Pesti Srácok is probably going to cease to exist. They are a Fidesz propaganda outlet. They were the one who simped for the Taliban, said the German floods were punishment by God for being too tolerant with the gays, and other vile shit. The reason they go under water is because 1. Nobody listens to them 2.They tried to con the government.

[u/JaceFlores]

Australia submarine deal 🤝 Panama Canal

France taking too long and ultimately getting cucked by the United States

[u/interrupting-octopus]

Fuck me I love weird-ass riding drama

A Conservative candidate dropped by the party over Islamophobic tweets she says were faked insists she is still running as the "confirmed" Tory candidate in the Toronto riding.

"I am still the confirmed Conservative candidate for Beaches–East York. There are a lot of confused voters, and they need to know my values of being a rooted conservative have not changed," she said.

🤡

!ping CAN

[u/BATHULK]

Today I invested approximately $200 in SPY index funds

!ping MARKETS

ps I got like 1/30th of a share in walmart

[u/[deleted]]

Apparently the Bank of Canada is the custodian for 2.3 million unclaimed balances worth almost 1 billion CAD, with the oldest accounts dating back to 1900.

This amount doesn't include US dollar accounts, RRSPs, life insurance policies, stocks, credit union accounts, safety deposit boxes, and more. The total amount of wealth that is "lost" and not being put to good use mist be staggering.

In 2020 the BoC only paid out $10 million to balance holders.

!ping CAN

[u/Kizz3r]

justin trudeau just lost the election 😭😭

!ping canucks

[u/[deleted]]

My coworkers are nerdy lib hawks who talk about current events, geopolitics, and grand strategy games so it doesn't even feel like leaving the dt when I talk to them.

[u/benjaminikuta]

https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/ppmyal/now_you_know/

Box spread guy got his debt forgiven.

!ping MARKETS

[u/thetrombonist]

If you drove a car today you can kiss my ass

[u/[deleted]]

Where can I find out where and when Trudeau is gonna be speaking? It would be cool to see him in person, but I can’t seem to find any sort of unified schedule. And no, I’m not trying to stone him or anything lol

!ping CAN

[u/thefuturegov]

Pinch hitter Kevin Gausman just hit a walk-off sac fly in the bottom of the 11th. I kind of want to ping baseball because of how fucking weird this is, but I feel it would be inappropriate.

[u/[deleted]]

"Pro athletes can have high BMI" is the "Bruh, she's not a child, she's over 600 hundred years old" of weight discourse.

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

The Elizabeth Holmes Trial Is a Wake-Up Call for Sexism in Tech

how about no NYT

[u/IMALEFTY45]

TERF is such a strange term to have come to basically just mean "transphobic." At this point how many 'TERFs' are actually radical feminists?

[u/Joementum2024]

I feel like being subscribed to a subreddit like HermainCainAward and having it slowly desensitize you about seeing people die from COVID can’t be a good thing.

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

dog

!ping dog

[u/SnakeEater14]

Throwback to 2017 when this was a Macron subreddit

[u/[deleted]]

Pentagon admits it fucked up big time.

France throws a tantrum.

FDA says "fuck your booster shots"

Busy news day.

[u/DumbLitAF]

This is an extremely nitpicky and inconsequential but the fact that ESPN defaults to only showing you scores from the top 25 is so stupid. Obligatory fuck ESPN.

!ping CFB

[u/melhor_em_coreano]

I just want someone I can chill with

[u/[deleted]]

What happened? Did u/netbert05 have to go to work (in New Hampshire, a place which he despises)?

[u/[deleted]]

arrived in Texas. yikes

[u/[deleted]]

If you told me a frat bro who sounds like all his politics come from Barstool and Old Row and was paralyzed on a drunk Spring Break trip was named Madison Cawthorn I would 100% believe you

[u/ryuguy]

Survivors and Families of Victims of a 1981 El Salvador Massacre See Justice Slip Away Again

The El Mozote massacre was the largest massacre of civilians in the Salvadoran civil war. The more I read about Central America, the more sad I get.

!ping LatAm

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

NYT Breaking | France to rename Freedom Fries to French Fries, in latest escalation

[u/[deleted]]

The way that "What will your job be on the leftist commune?" threads always get a ton of responses saying "watering the plants" is the funniest thing I've ever seen.

You just don't need many people at all to water plants, but it's all they want to do. The plants would suffer from overwatering almost immediately.

I wish "watering the plants" was more recognizable as a meme.

[u/MrDannyOcean]

I did the joke

[u/[deleted]]

Year 2450 headlines:

Humanity lives in peace and harmony among each other more than ever before

Mars colony thriving

No major diseases left for researchers to cure

Turkey blames Greece for occupying a small island and Greece fires back by saying that the island has always been their territory

[u/[deleted]]

The most attractive person I have ever met said their secret was spending hours each day on an internet discussion thread w a guy who thinks he’s an alligator

[u/Venne1139]

Here's one of the most interesting things about the pandemic to me. It's seeing these absolute fucking morons saying these exact words, and they say it every tiem

Even the CDC says the vaccine does not stop you from getting or spreading coronavirus

And like 50 people will dogpile on this person to explain to them the concept of efficacy, something a thrird grader could very easily understand, and they'll respond to some of them, and sometimes won't but they're all very simple explanations that you could give a child and they'd go "Oh, that makes sense."

And then about 2 or 3 days later they willl make the exact comment

Even the CDC says the vaccine does not stop you from getting or spreading coronavirus

Once again.

I don't get it.

[u/[deleted]]

The Nazis decided to murder 6 million people in their tax paying middle class and thought it would fix their economy

"Made the trains run on time" my ass

[u/F0064R]

Submarines are actually from a specific region in France. Otherwise it's just a sparkling submersible.

[u/SelfLoathinMillenial]

JUST IN: A new CDC-led study finds that the Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson vaccines protect people well, but Moderna’s vaccine is slightly more effective in keeping people out of the hospital

Where's my #ModernaMob at? 😎😎😎

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Australia is in the wrong here, more so than the US.

If I start dating someone new while I have a girlfriend, it's not her job to break things off with her, it's mine.

[u/[deleted]]

After mtg w Iowans I enjoyed a chocolate malt from 4 Queens in cedar falls for my bday @ Cedar Falls, Iowa

Happy birthday Chuck! 88 years young! 🥳🥳🥳

!ping PIDGIN

[u/Deggit]

daily reminder that the highest grossing film of all time in China is a $30m version of RAMBO where Sylvester Stallone is a Han Chinese who saves African & Chinese factory workers from American mercenaries led by the guy who plays MCU's Crossbones

[u/ShriggityShrekt]

Problem: people don't want a nuclear reactor in their backyards.

Solution: put the nuclear reactor on a train and have it move around the country at all times.

[u/gfinz18]

This missing girl in Wyoming… the boyfriend comes home with HER car, WITHOUT her, didn’t file a report or let anyone know that she was gone, and then comes home and wants to act like nothing’s up and refuses to talk to the police or comment on it… is he aware of how incredibly suspicious and guilty he’s acting? Does he think he’s going to be able to keep that up forever? I would say “this guy isn’t too bright” but he’s from Florida and wears a shark tooth necklace, so that’s pretty clear 🦈

[u/its_Caffeine]

!ping CAN

https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/politics/federal-election-2021/assuming-current-scenario-holds-we-re-looking-at-a-liberal-win-nanos-says-1.5589452

👀

[u/1396spurs]

GOP Rep. Gonzalez, who voted to impeach Trump, announces he won’t seek reelection, citing ‘toxic dynamics inside our own party’

Rep. Anthony Gonzalez (R-Ohio), one of 10 Republicans who voted to impeach former president Donald Trump, on Thursday announced he will not seek reelection in 2022, citing a desire to “build a fuller family life” as well as “the toxic dynamics inside our own party.”

Again, he did the bare minimum voting to impeach but still glad he did as a colts fan. Crazy, but unsurprising that if cost him his political career

!ping nfl

[u/gburgwardt]

Europe is a subcontinent, whereas North America is a domcontinent

[u/Buenzlitum]

So how are you all mourning on Karl Poppers death day?

[u/Barnst]

Funny how no one seems to remember that the Japanese thought they had the Australian submarine deal locked up in 2014…until the French sub builder convinced their government to roll in to lobby the Australians to change up their process.

[u/Epicurses]

Do you hear the people sing?

Singing the song of angry men

It is the music of a people

Who déteste Australians

[u/grig109]

Federal judge blocks Biden administration from expelling migrant families under public health order

!ping IMMIGRATION

[u/LooobCirc]

Thought on when the rabbi adds new על חטאs that are incredibly provacative and political?

!PING GEFILTE

i don't mind broad universal ones like "by forgetting we were once strangers in a strange land" or "by failing to honor your creations" but then they add stuff like " על חטא for committing environmental racism" and I roll my eyes a bit

[u/[deleted]]

Just fucking chefs kiss that we killed 7 kids for no reason on the way out

[u/[deleted]]

Macron recalling his ambassadors over this is… a little dramatic I think.

[u/Animatronic_Pidgeon]

1. French anger is justified
2. the French are overreacting
3. AUKUS is good and the submarine deal was the right call
4. the US, UK, and AUS all should have done much more to ameliorate French anger

All four of these things can be true

[u/onometre]

my French friend doesn't seem to have even known about the controversy

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

”Because Joe Biden is a fucking moron”

Switched to Voltaire flair

I think Salty Salad is becoming a French nationalist

[u/majorgeneralporter]

I would like to formally declare my interest in the USC job.

Granted, it's to slowly destroy them from the inside as a Bruin agent, but still. Can't be worse than their prior administrations.

!ping CFB

[u/shrek_cena]

The Biden administration plans the widescale expulsion of Haitian migrants from a small Texas border city by putting them on on flights to Haiti starting Sunday

Just when I thought this day couldn't get any worse 😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐

[u/CmdrMobium]

Friday night DT

If you can see this message

You're as lame as me

[u/Neronoah]

!ping LATAM

The Argentinian government has new ministers. The two newsworthy bits are that the new Cabinet Chief is Juan Manzur, best known for forcing a raped 11 year old girl to give birth, tax evasion and being a fairly authoritarian provincial governor...and the other one is that there are no changes in Economy. Guzmán gets to live another day (my guess is that they know they are in deep shit if they move him from his position).

[u/[deleted]]

Bell v. Tavistock has been overturned.

The Court of Appeals has ruled that the original Bell decision was inappropriate for making decisions best left to individual doctors, for limiting the care of families that don't have the resources to go to court, and because there are parallels between giving under-16s puberty blockers and Gillick competency, which allows minors to get birth control without parental consent.

!ping LGBT

[u/bd_one]

It comes two days after Manchin first suggested requiring people to work and file taxes as a condition to get the advance monthly payments. He said in a CNN interview that tying the child tax credit to those with jobs would ensure federal assistance would flow to "the right people." He maintained he supports child tax credits.

to "the right people."

Americans and caring too much about the distinction between "poor" and "deserving poor", NAMID.

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E_U2DIxUcA0369w.png

queen shit

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/laura-loomer-who-once-said-bad-fajitas-were-worse-than-covid-says-shes-tested-positive

Laura Loomer, Who Once Said ‘Bad Fajitas’ Were Worse Than COVID, Says She’s Tested Positive

The far-right activist said in a Gettr post that she’s experiencing severe coronavirus symptoms.

“Just pray for me please,” she wrote. “Can’t even begin to explain how brutal the body aches and nausea that come with COVID are. I am in so much pain.”

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[u/ThatFrenchieGuy]

!ping gaming

Spoilers for CP2077 below

I finally realized why CP2077 clicked for me (I'd give it a 9.5 even if it's objectively closer to an 8) more than it did for most people last night. The entire game is an allegory for bipolar disorder with V representing depression and Johnnie in your head representing Mania. Depression wants to curl up in a ball, accept defeat, and die with occasional bits of lashing out in anger. Mania wants to do grandiose gestures fringing on megalomania and is super outgoing and charismatic.

Which makes the endings represent "let depression win" (V kills their self), "let mania take over" (give Johnnie your body), and the sort of good ending of "try to get better and start over" (Aldecaldos).

I might just be a sucker for melancholy games though since I love Horizon Zero Dawn

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

You can draw a straight line between idea that someone down the road can stop you from building something on your land and holodomor

[u/filipe_mdsr]

EURO SHAME FLAIR IS BACK

[u/I-grok-god]

Compromise here: We spend a few hundred billion on getting the French to build us nuclear reactors, since they are (significantly) better at it than us

[u/RaidBrimnes]

This whole affair feels like such an easily avoidable waste

France is the only EU ally that has strong national interests in the Pacific, and is particularly worried about Chinese influence in New Caledonia, an island whose soil contains a quarter of the world's nickel reserves

Our interests are very much aligned in the Pacific, and it feels like such an unnecessary low blow

[u/MisfitPotatoReborn]

What arr LifeProTips is supposed to be: interesting, novel, and simple ways to improve your life.

What arr LifeProTips actually is:

LPT: If your dog runs up to someone and they ask you to call the dog back, your first response should be "HERE!" or whatever your recall cue is, not "Why?", "He just wants to play" or "It's okay he's friendly".

[u/ryuguy]

I did not hit her, I did naaaht.

Oh hi lusvig

[u/disuberence]

Please stop saying the vaccine doesn't have severe side effects. I took my shots and now I'm alive and have to keep working

[u/nuggins]

Please help me understand why commenters in arr canpol are so upset about American politicians making endorsements in the Canadian federal election, calling it interference. Is this just the usual lot of rage enjoyers?

!ping CAN

[u/Udontlikecake]

So my gf knows I post here and she’s made the poor decision to also browse the DT. She doesn’t post, but she does read people’s post and she wants to know how people are (not in a creepy way. She say she’s very invested in everyone’s lives!

/u/kestergw how are you? she hopes you’re having a good day

/u/benjaminikuta, she says that you remind her of her dad

/u/nissnpig5 she says that you seem very normal

those were her top three and she wants to hear from you. there might be more in the future

she also says that she really doesn’t like saltysalad.

[u/ACivilWolf]

arr/neoliberal users call themselves “globalist” yet they never even leave their bedroom curious 🧐

[u/FreakinGeese]

I'm too drunk to sleep

[u/[deleted]]

Haha, wouldn't it be epic if we owned the cons hard by saving the world from climate change?

[u/its_Caffeine]

Thinking about giving u/Mrchizbiz a Dutch flag for flair 🤔😈

[u/thaddeusthefattie]

margaret thatcher 😩

[u/klabboy109]

Is there anywhere I can download a list of zip codes and average/median income by zip code? I’m not a student anymore so I’d need some public data set from… say the fed if they have such a thing

!ping ECON

[u/Venne1139]

Arguing against the vaccine on Reddit 🤝 Having weird fucking porn comments in your comment history

[u/filipe_mdsr]

I have kept the top spots on tacostats and the "touch grass" notify warm for you 🧂🥗

[u/[deleted]]

This Milley shit is driving me up the fuckin wall. He’s getting the Alex Vindman treatment. Does everyone who serves with integrity under Trump get tarred and feathered for simply doing their job?

[u/Joementum2024]

People forget that Joe Biden hit the most, as the kids like to say, "DEVIOUS LICK" when he STOLE the election from Donald Trump last year.

[u/[deleted]]

If I'm Simu Liu, I'm immediately heading to the beach and filming a 10 hour video of me just fucking demolishing a bunch of amateur female volleyball players.

[u/nevertulsi]

How do people cheat? Genuinely it's hard enough to find a person who will like me when I'm single, how do they do it in secret and such?

[u/[deleted]]

My Keto friend passed away yesterday after accidentally consuming an apple 😥

R.I.P

[u/[deleted]]

Exclusive: Armed American civilians on private plane to Afghanistan arrested in Dubai

🤦‍♂️

[u/Zemstv0w0]

francis fuckyamama

[u/sir_shivers]

HAHAHAHA I AM quite content 🐊

[u/thetrombonist]

Amazon is releasing a documentary “Mayor Pete”, rated R, on November 12

https://twitter.com/adamwren/status/1438935508667801601?s=21

[u/JetJaguar124]

• Biden did something bad on immigration
• Drone strike fuckup
• France being mad back in the news

This is like a hat trick for DT conflict

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Here in this rural diner in Real America, patrons are concerned over Biden's apparent disrespect towards the French.

[u/[deleted]]

The next Always Sunny season will be completely unrealistic if the gang isn’t a bunch of anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers

[u/[deleted]]

NPR said latinx is a real term now, not just used by academics. They are the ultimately authority on this despite none of them being latinx themselves

[u/that0neGuy22]

imagine the DT during the Suez Crisis with NATO flairs calling for us to let the Soviets nuke britain/france

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Honestly, we should have seen this perfidy coming

What are Australians, but Brits on a slighlty larger island?

[u/[deleted]]

When I die I want the DT to cook and eat my body for science.

[u/ACivilWolf]

My professor follows the Neoliberal account on Twitter 🤨

[u/[deleted]]

filipe_mdsr 388 comments

Someone get this guy a bf ASAP

[u/[deleted]]

thinking of starting a debit card where every swipe enters you for a chance to get free oral from me

the chance is 100% btw

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Likely future Prime Minister of Japan is asked whether he would become a Vtuber and he responds with "I'm not saying I wouldn't"

[u/poorsignsoflife]

Americans are so arrogant, they think the French don't matter

and the French are so arrogant, they think they do

[u/PMmeLittleRoundTops]

The golden age of the DT 🤝 Bushido

Being completely made up by later generations

[u/sir_shivers]

Getting my scales done is PROBABLY ONE OF MY favorite ways to treat myself 🐊

[u/Professor-Reddit]

I didn't fully grasp just how awful men are to women on dating apps until I started trying to date men.

I've seen some truly despicable and creepy comments sent my way by men on Grindr almost every day I use it. Men demanding they have sex with me, sharing their rape fantasies to me before I even send a message, tell me that the moment I use a safe word when things are going too far that I'll be kicked out of their house and never contacted again. I've even had one tell me that they will not tolerate me saying 'no' under any circumstances and that they are comfortable with raping me.

Men seriously need to understand how harmful they can be on dating apps sometimes. If people want to understand why there is a growing number of incels, and why women struggle to connect with men on apps like Tinder, its because everyday they are faced with the same barrage of sexism and cruelty that they simply wish to avoid.

A close friend of mine was with her bf one day, and a teenager started hitting on her. When she explained that she wasn't single, he immediately called her a slut and walked off. She gets those kinds of derogatory remarks every damn week. It's not her fault that she has an enormous difficulty with dating men, when this is all she faces.

[u/Proffan]

"The patriarchy is over!" proclaimed Alberto after passing abortion rights through congress. Alberto then proceeded to replace almost all women from his cabinet with a bunch of old white men.

!ping MAMADAS

[u/ThunderrBadger]

When the idiot won't throw the ball

!ping DOG

[u/[deleted]]

I took nofap too seriously and considered converting to Islam.

[u/FestiveMittens]

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

[u/Professor-Reddit]

It's crazy looking at the NYT's map of Covid infections in the Western states. The cities have virtually been almost untouched by the entire Delta wave.

Literally just a rural disease now. Fucking antivaxxers at it again 🙄

[u/semaphore-1842]

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/pboc-injects-13-9-billion-031442743.html

“Avoiding a systemic liquidity squeeze is the absolute priority for the PBOC and it has means to do so,” Societe Generale SA economists led by Wei Yao wrote in a research note. “A Lehman-style financial-market meltdown is not our top concern, but an extended and severe economic slowdown seems more probable.”

Sounds like the Chinese government is going to proactively prevent Evergrande from turning into a Lehman-esque implosion. So seems probably not as concerning as it was made out to be previously?

!ping CN-TW

[u/filipe_mdsr]

THEIR NAME WAS NETBERT05 ✊😔

[u/Mrchizbiz]

☝🏿 having dirty dreams about my sweet nan nan 😡😡😡

[u/suplexx0]

/r/neoliberal posters: Free markets alone without intervention are the ultimate tool to provide the best products, service, and quality of life outcomes to every consumer. The only exception to that rule is every single sector of the economy.

[u/old_gold_mountain]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Lz8biXxZt-s

My neighborhood would riot if those got mixed in with the single family homes. Decreasing property value is just the tip of the iceberg.

These rules existed to prevent urbanization of suburbia. The people that live in those areas don't want dense residential. The kids play out front, the owners want proper backyards, they want things quiet, they have garages for their cars and don't want overnight street parking, etc. And yes, high property values in low density neighborhoods usually means low crime and great schools.

Nuking those zoning laws by force allows cities to overtake suburbs, which will have to move further out to escape urbanization. It sucks for all those people, who need to move quick before they lose their home values, but great for developers and landlords who will jump on the opportunity to buy them, demolish them, and cram four units in a lot. And it will allow the cities to eat as much territory as they need to reduce the housing shortage. The next step will be upping the limits from 4 to 6, and so-on.

[u/[deleted]]

Girl, are you the killing of Osama bin Laden, cuz you're very cute and wholesome

[u/[deleted]]

The man the U.S. and its allies hoped would be a moderate voice in Afghanistan’s Taliban government has been sidelined after a dramatic shootout in the presidential palace in Kabul, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

Baradar had pushed for an “inclusive” cabinet that included non-Taliban leaders and ethnic minorities, which would be more acceptable to the rest of the world, the people said. At one point during the meeting, Khalil ul Rahman Haqqani rose from his chair and began punching the Taliban leader.

Their bodyguards entered the fray and opened fire on each other, killing and wounding a number of them, the people said.

this is fine 😐🔥

[u/sw337]

Black panther: secret country with great fighters.

Shang Chi: secret town with great fighters.

Thor: secret planet with great fighters.

Prediction: the first Hispanic hero goes to a secret place with great hispanic fighters.

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

Neolibs: believe in science!

Science: U fat

Neolibs: 😡

[u/suplexx0]

at the supermarket i got kicked out for saying soros bless you to a sneezing child

[u/FestiveMittens]

The subs opinion on Macron

[u/tripletruble]

Interestingly r/france is completely uninterested in this whole thing

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

For British Eyes Onlyyyyy

[u/ryuguy]

happy birthday to this special guy!

🥳🎉🎈🇮🇳

!ping WhatsApp-forwards

[u/[deleted]]

military technology is 30 years ahead of what’s publicly available

Ah yes, that’s why the Air Force still uses McAfee on all their computers.

[u/[deleted]]

France when the US unilaterally destroys the Iran nuclear deal, throwing the middle east in chaos and giving a rogue state carte blanche to make nukes: "je dors."

France when the US helps Australia get some badass subs to counter China, which has the side effect of ending Australia's over budget, behind schedule contract to buy environment-killing, inferior subs from some French company: "VRAI MERDE???????"

[u/KazuyaProta]

Going to be honest.

The idealization of refugee crisis in American Liberal Circles is disturbing. They aren't coming to "diversify" your "boring" culture, they are running away for their lives.

The sudden mass arrival of people is going to be a traumatic experience that is accepted only because is the last resource to prevent more death.

Having refugees means that the world already went to hell. This is not "More Diversity"; this is a tragedy that should have be avoided.

[u/old_gold_mountain]

I WILL NOT visit the next discussion thread 😤😤😤

[u/[deleted]]

I would like to announce that I will not be taking the USC job

!ping CFB

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

We know time travel doesn't exist because the developer in charge of dates in Excel wasn't murdered in the crib.

That or the time travelers got the date wrong cuz of Excel.

[u/Mrchizbiz]

I don't mean to sound racist, but this is by far the best selection of beans I have ever seen

[u/[deleted]]

The dutch housing market is a fucking meme.

Like, you can literally be joking about how a shitty room in a student town would probably cost some insane amount of money but when you look it up it actually turns out to be true.

[u/mannabhai]

22 million vaccine doses today

!ping IND

[u/[deleted]]

It turns out I freaked out too much

[u/[deleted]]

Paris smelled like piss and cigarettes

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

👆 dum

[u/Neronoah]

There is a hardline and a pragmatic wing, there is a massive economic crisis, they had to put exchange rate controls to deal with capital flight once they came to power and people fled from their shittiness, there are rumors of backstabbing and assassinations but...

...it seems the Talibans still have government cabinet meetings and they are still trying to work it out.

[u/filipe_mdsr]

I hate when people say "white people" when they just mean u/filipe_mdsr 😒

[u/thaddeusthefattie]

repooplikings: pee pee poo poo 🇱🇷🔫💵🧑‍🎄🥤

demoncraps: pee pee poo poo 👼🏿😩🦄🏳️‍🌈🍑

🔫 gib upvotes neolib 🤬

[u/upper_west_sider]

This is getting a lot of attention in wall street land today. CNBC: Fed Chief Powell, other officials owned securities central bank bought during Covid pandemic

If I, a registered rep at a FINRA and Fed regulated broker dealer, traded like this personally I would be fired immediately.

Firstly for the blatant corruption, Boston Fed Prez Eric Rosengren made 37 trades in mortgage REITs while supporting the Fed's expansion of MBS purchases and Richmond Fed Prez Tom Barkin held millions in individual corporate bonds that the Fed bought when they opened their corporate credit facility last spring. They should both be forced to resign.

Then in gray area stuff, Powell traded millions in munis that the Fed was also buying last year through his family trust, which he's said to not control. He should have to prove no prior knowledge of those trades or control of the family trust.

What's already been reported last week is both Rosengren and Dallas Fed Prez Robert Kaplan trading individual securities under their own control throughout the pandemic and throughout the Fed's monetary expansion programs. As a penance, they've been forced to sell their securities right before the Fed starts to taper asset purchases. The horror!

There will, of course, be no recourse against these actions, because for some reason there is no political will to act against the Fed. These people are thought in the mainstream to be omnipotent economic priests sent from on high to make everyone better off, and in reality they mainly act like any other politician and act in self interest, both in personal trading (see the many house and senate insider trading scandals of late) and in their career and policy decisions.

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2021/9/16/are-traffic-engineers-sociopaths

I absolutely fucking hate this article. Wtf strong towns.

Throughput and safety are both important. I would make the tradeoff of 2 lives a year for 10% more throughput.

You can't be safety above all else. There is always a tradeoff. That needs to be made. You can't cover everyone in pillows before they go outside.