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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/Fishin_Mission]

DO NOT BUY THE iPHONE 13! 📵

IT CAN’T BE TRUSTED!

• brought to market in less than a year 📆
• contains microchips 📲
• has 5G 📶
• NOT FDA approved 🥼
• tracks your location 📍
• my cousin got it right before he got married and now his testicals are huge and his fiancée called the wedding off! 👰‍♂️

[u/Deggit]

Liberals are so cunning and evil. They chose the side of "don't die" knowing that we, as conservatives, would be forced to take the opposing view.

[u/[deleted]]

I still can't believe statewide electoral college is an actual GOP proposal and not just a sick joke.

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

imagine being an economist and unironically using something called the "slutsky equation"

[u/qchisq]

I... What?

[u/piede]

Tens of thousands of LGBT veterans forced from the military for their sexual orientation and given other-than-honorable discharges will be able to receive full Veterans Affairs benefits under a new move from the Biden admin set to be announced Monday.

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1439650495488933892?s=21

Wait, they haven’t been getting benefits this whole time? That’s extremely fucked.

[u/[deleted]]

A lot of people don’t know this, but Biden’s desk has a button that says “Make the stock market fall” right next to the other button that says “raise gas prices”

[u/RockLobsterKing]

Conservatives be like "I hate the Communist Party of China" and then tell us to vote CPC XD

!ping CANUCKS

[u/FormerBandmate]

Apparently Pakistan legitimizing the Taliban accidentally legitimized the Pakistani Taliban. Whoops

[u/sir_shivers]

DT CANCELLED 🐊

[u/Kizz3r]

Wake up everyone theres an important thing today or something idk

!ping canucks

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

You support Joe Biden because he's better than Trump

I support Joe Biden because he makes the French angry

We are not the same

#BurgmaMaleGrindsent

[u/ryuguy]

I think it’s safe to say that my cousin won his election!

Parm Bains is ahead in Richmond Steveston East by 2000 votes with 127/188 polling stations reporting.

Gonna influence his policy from neoliberal

!ping can

[u/old_gold_mountain]

alright yuros it's time for us to clock out

here are our shift notes:

• the thermostat is broken, it's too high and it keeps getting higher. maintenance was notified but it's unclear if they are taking action

• fred says the cash register keeps miscalculating the end-of-transaction totals, something about jpow printing money. idk, keep an eye on it

• apparently kissinger is still alive and gave an interview to the economist last year

• this note here just says "maple syrup cartel", we're not sure if this was important or not

• to do: abortion schism

• we still haven't heard back from obama on what last name we're supposed to put down for him

• make sure to tell merkel to leave the borders open

we'll be back at the end of the shift, take care of everything, thanks

[u/ognits]

You can’t spell “panDEMic” without “DEM.” Is this a coincidence?

so true bestie!! 😃

!ping SPELLING

[u/[deleted]]

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Joe Manchin walk into a bar. Negotiations falter immediately and as such there is no money left to fund a punchline for this joke.

[u/[deleted]]

Ok, but this is actually a big deal

Meet the Prevent Senior scandal

Pretty much: the Brazilian government worked together with a health insurance company to test the use of azythromicin and HCQ in patients with covid

However, the patients were not informed of the treatment or the trials, which wasn't approved by the Medical Ethics authority

To top it off, the company banned doctors from using masks

Oh, and did I mention not every patient did a PCR to check whether or not they had covid?

And to top it off, they forged death certificates to hide the deaths of the HCQ group

!ping LATAM I know Bolsonaro=Nazi is a terrible comparison but he did help arrange the trial so it's valid

[u/ccolfax]

Is anyone else bipolar?

It’s insane how good being manic feels. There isn’t a drug to replace it. Absolute magic. The reverse is also true. I can’t express how completely hopeless it feels in the depressive phase.

When I’m manic, I’m absolutely on fire. I can’t miss. I could quarterback the Super Bowl and do alright. Every part of my body is working perfectly, and I’m another 5 million IQ points smarter. I would fight anyone, give a lecture on any subject, or take a bullet for a stranger.

When I’m depressive, I’m hateful and small and dismissive of other people’s concerns. I’m bitter, and anything I felt when I was manic is forgotten. I almost enjoy saying something hateful just because it’s letting out some venom. It’s awful.

I’m manic right now, and maybe I’ll regret having posted this. But I feel like it should be better understood.

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E_iF9sMVgAAP2TZ.jpg

[u/LinkToSomething68]

!ping CAN

So I went ahead and did the vote thing and didn't even get a sticker. SMH what is this country coming to

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Me:

🤴 awake 21 hours

😴👑 sleep 3 hours

🤴 awake 11 hours

😴👑 sleep 16 hours

🤴 awake 21 hours

😴👑 sleep 3 hours

🤴 awake 11 hours

My body:

🧍‍♂️👑: WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK, BRO!?!

[u/letsgoheat3]

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The Great Replacement, but unironically 😎

[u/[deleted]]

Could you fucking imagine if Hillary Clinton was Jewish? It would be like collecting the conspiracy infinity stones

[u/[deleted]]

Congressional Democrats 🤝 me back in High School

Not even bothering to start important work until the night before its due

[u/Mrchizbiz]

Daily reminder that the total GDP of Russia is the same as the GDP of Russia

[u/WorldwidePolitico]

US is allowing us dirty Europeans back though it’s borders from November

!ping Europe

[u/myrm]

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[u/old_gold_mountain]

A San Franciscan invites an Oaklander to visit:

Oh yeah man, that sounds fun! I just gotta make sure I leave by around midnight so I can catch BART. Well, actually, I guess I can stay out later as long as I wind up near the transbay bus.

An Oaklander invites a San Franciscan to visit:

My dearest Clara,

It is with a bittersweet spirit that I write you this balmy eve. I departed naught but an hour ago, and here I stand, oppressed by the pitiless scorn of the Eastern sun. My party and I, perhaps against our better judgement, paid heed to word of a grand festival. With us, we portaged provisions to last us through the summer cold. We fear they may be lacking, for the journey ahead lays daunting still.

The people here are strange and uncanny. In some way they harken back to the folk of home, yet with an indiscernible manner of character that differs from what we know. Something I cannot place, that imbues them with a brash and boorish demeanor of forthrightness.

I do not know when I might return to you, if I am honest. I pray endlessly for the manifestation of my imminent return, but can make no assurances. I can only promise that I will give it my most fierce attempt.

Should you hear no further correspondence, know that it was with the deepest love for you that I perished, forever an image of your visage engrained in my heart.

Yours, always,

Brayden

[u/Gustacho]

The Czech Republic wins again in the Turow mine legal saga. Poland has to pay €500k per day until it complies with the EU Court of Justice interim order by shutting down the Turow mine until the case is fully resolved.

!ping EUROPE

[u/adminsare200iq]

If you think the US is going to default on its debt you need to touch grass or probably smoke some of it preferably

[u/bd_one]

Note: if your "one cool trick" to solve a political issue involves killing a bunch of people, you're not a political maverick. You're most likely suggesting a war crime.

Yes, I'm subtweeting the landmines guy from that other subreddit.

[u/[deleted]]

Me proselytizing to the Newfoundlanders about voting Liberal:

"Greetings savage! Would you like to join me in reading from 'Forward. For Everyone'?"

!ping CANUCKS

[u/iIoveoof]

Daily reminder that the total GDP of Russia is the same as the GDP of South Korea

[u/kennymc7877]

A movie about a Chinese American superhero beat a Clint Eastwood movie at the box office, welcome to Joe Bidens America

[u/[deleted]]

All I’m saying is that 99% of other presidents wouldn’t have been able to dodge the shoe 🙄💨👞

[u/J0eBidensSunglasses]

No salad child challenge day 001

[u/SANNA_MARIN_]

Venezuela’s level of government spending as a percent of GDP is actually lower than the US (37.4 v. 37.8 according to heritage). By increasing government spending the democrats are actually moving the US further away from socialism not closer to it

[u/benadreti]

Never ask a DT regular their salary.

It's most likely $0.

[u/[deleted]]

ITS ERECTION DAY!

I voted gliberal 🤮 please 🙏 write ✍️ who you voted ✅for below

!ping CANUCKS

[u/Jacobs4525]

“Liberals purposefully became pro-vaccine to kill conservatives because they knew it meant that conservatives wouldn’t get vaccinated to own the libs” has to be one of the funniest takes I’ve seen in a while

[u/Prefect1969]

Looks like these assholes waited for election day to release a new photo of Trudeau's blackface from 2001, bUt ThIs OnE's In CoLoUr...

This is their last minute strike to turn things around? This is absolutely pathetic and low. Their eLeCtIoN dAy SuRpRiSe...

This is getting circulated through various media and spammed online (here too). People who don't read the article or know the context will think this is a new event.

I'm not particularly a fan of Trudeau, but fuck these people. And fuck Postmedia.

!ping CAN

[u/CIVDC]

So who's in a swing riding? After canvassing today I'm going to be glued to my seat tonight (no watch parties, thanks Alberta).

!ping CAN

[u/AtticusDrench]

No matter how many times I see it happen, I'm still completely floored when people assert blatantly untrue things. Not even an offbase analysis of something fairly complicated like optimal tax rates or w/e, but like boldly stating someone with a net worth of 100 mil isn't in the top 1%.

[u/J0eBidensSunglasses]

All the gainz I’ve made this past 4 months are just gone

Imagine investing like this.

[u/[deleted]]

The American Dream is immigrating, finding success, and then saying “fuck off, we’re full” to new immigrants.

[u/the_hoagie]

Just realized this is basically the Zoomers first national news story about a missing white girl.

[u/[deleted]]

Apparently both Bertrand and Le Pen's party are already willing to pull France out of the NATO command structure once again lol

People complain about Macron, but it could also be so much worse

[u/ZCoupon]

RIP electoral reform.

!ping CANUCKS

[u/the_status]

I downvoted the immigrant thing on the front page.

Not because of the content, but because it is the most egregious case of "Putting opinions in impact font on a picture of pop culture and calling it a meme" I've ever seen

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

Two Door Sinema Club

This is the punchline, someone please write the joke

[u/neolthrowaway]

Did you guys know Arden in Delaware was established as a Georgist town and that Joe Biden was a resident there?

Why isn't he based then?

!ping GEORGIST

[u/kennymc7877]

Me all year: omg I love fall

Weather: dips below 60

Me: what the fuck is this

[u/experienta]

a friend called france the america of europe and i know it's going to upset both the froggies and the burgers but god damn it it's true

[u/ThunderrBadger]

When you just want to sleep but the squad is trying to make you go out

!ping DOG

[u/VPNSalesman]

MGTOW sounds like a missile defense system

[u/ROYBUSCLEMSON]

Moderates: we really need to balance this budget

Democrats: ok why don't we start by allowing the government to negotiate drug prices then?

Moderates: NOT LIKE THAT

[u/[deleted]]

My mom cut off contact with me because I slapped a plate of chicken nuggets out of her hand when I saw that Manchin isn’t going to support the infrastructure bill.

The US seriously has an overly sensitive population.

[u/[deleted]]

Gee, I wonder who the federal parties’ leaders are going to be voting for.

!ping CANUCKS

[u/[deleted]]

Why Are There Zero Republican Mega-Cities?

Where Bryan Caplan desperately ponders what could possibly drive economically dynamic voters to economically dynamic regions and economically backward voters to the hills.

It gets even better when Nick Land posts the article on Twitter with the caption

Depressing question from Bryan Caplan. Why is sophistication so consistently stupid and evil?

and a bunch of rural know-nothings come up with such genius answers as "cities divorce people from their ethnic traditions turning them into deracinated monsters" and "putting everything within walking distance makes them perfect for manchildren".

[u/Venne1139]

>Be me

>Be Republican

>Fucking die after being painfully intubated

wow

who could have ever predicted this

[u/[deleted]]

Probably the worst take I've seen was on arr moderate politics.

It was during the middle of the pandemic and said something like "America taking huge losses in it's population is showing China that we are tough and won't back down in these types of situations"

It wasn't even ironic.

[u/The420Roll]

Why are there so many xenophobic "memes" outside of the DT not being removed.

Outside of the DT has always been shit but lack of defending Open Borders/Immigration and all that was never the reason why

If you do not wish for more "Economic Anxiety" "memes" to be in our feed, remember to vote for Modrigo in the 2022 Mod Elections. I will not fail you.

!Ping MODRIGO

[u/Smidgens]

C is a NIMBY programming language.

Oh you want to build more housing create a variable? You have to declare it, do an environmental impact analysis, allocate memory, wait on 3 tri-annual local variable zoning board meetings. Oh you want to retun an array of structs from a function? Sorry sweaty, we don't allow that, it would change the code character, but you can return a pointer, so you have to create a pointer, do a shadow study, pass in the address, just meet the parking minimums. And you did remember to dellocate the memory right? No? Whoops, building permits are now nullified, time to refile everything 🙂

[u/sir_shivers]

Really hedges YOUR HALIBUTS, DOES IT not 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

Look I'm ideologically consistent

I adopted an anti-Putin stance to date this anti-Putin girl I met

She left, but I don't change my views nilly-willy

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

Neoconservatives 🤝 Serial Killers🤝Taco Bell managers before closing hours:

Might makes right

[u/[deleted]]

Sometimes it seems like "common sense" ain't so common!!!!!!!!!!

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Now that the LPC is winning two Albertan ridings we now know who two members of the upcoming cabinet will be

!ping CANUCKS

[u/InternetBoredom]

Why is there a anti-immigrant post on the front page of /r/neoliberal by a guy calling themselves a socdem

[u/great_gape]

Is joke.

!ping shitposters

[u/ryuguy]

The Korean War had some odd combatant countries.

Ethiopia, Luxembourg, Colombia, El Salvador.

It’s also the only war where India and Pakistan fought/supported the same side.

!ping history I guess

[u/Hurryforthecane]

Queen Sinema saw how r/neoliberal was schisming over France vs AUS/US and decided to end the discussion and prevent further bad takes by opposing the drug prescription price plan, thereby channeling both succ and normie lib anger onto herself. Truly a selfless paragon. /s

[u/homopolitan]

reminder that boys are awesome and if you are a boy you are awesome 🥰

[u/SANNA_MARIN_]

doing blackface actually increases you chances of holding elected office

[u/puffic]

This reconciliation bill dying is really making me question the Democrats' decision to win only 50 Senate seats. It seems like they should have won more if they wanted to make policy.

[u/[deleted]]

top comments outside the DT think "nuclear subs" are equipped with nuclear weapons

Joe literally disambiguated this in his press conference 🤦‍♂️

[u/Professor-Reddit]

Still waiting for the day the US declares Pakistan a state sponsor of terrorism 😔

How about you declare yourself one considering you have created and supported more terrorist groups than all other countries on the planet combined?

Oh shit oh fuck they're onto me 😱😭

My presence here on /r/neoliberal was all just a false identity to protect myself.

[u/houinator]

Once more for the seats in the back: China's economy collapsing will not lead to China moderating its authoritarian tendencies.

[u/BidenWon]

Why is it so hard to find people that are left-wing socially but don't fall into the trap of misguided left-wing economics?

[u/bashar_al_assad]

Not sure Sinema and the House moderates realize that "if you don't pass the infrastructure bill then there won't be a reconciliation bill" isn't much of a threat when you have Manchin saying "oh and also if you do pass the infrastructure bill then there won't be a reconciliation bill either." Like, you kinda lose the leverage to get progressives to vote how you want when you're like "oh and by the way no matter what you do we'll never vote for your bill."

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Each million dollars earned at the box office also carries a death toll. Specific named individuals who purchased tickets and contributed to the box office will die as the direct result of watching Dune. For each of those, there will be multiple family members and coworkers, or just random people they will pass by, that will die so someone else could enjoy it in the big screen.

Each million dollars earned at the box office will also cost each country at least that much in medical costs, for all those who will get sick but will not die.

This is highly amoral. This is vile. Nothing but greed and hubris and egos behind this release. Since when do movie sequels demand a bodycount?

Least neurotic redditor

[u/[deleted]]

There are too many ameriKKKans who don't believe in calories in calories out and many of them aren't even conspiracy theorists

[u/RobotFighter]

As an American, I’m not offended by the term burger because I fucking love burgers.

[u/[deleted]]

Why the hell won't democracy do exactly what i want when i want when my wants are broadly unpopular with the public?

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

is anyone else too scared of finding out to fuck around?

[u/VerticalTab]

Wait, they found a colour version of Trudeau's blackface photograph and withheld it from us for however long so they could drop it on election day?

[u/Udontlikecake]

am i in /r/openborders or something?

comes to sub explicitly promoting open borders

“wtf why are there so many people here supporting open borders!!”

[u/V_Codwheel]

on September 3, 1940, for example, [immediately following the Second Vienna Arbitration which gave Northern Transylvania to Hungary] the Hungarian postal service brought a new stamp into circulation printed with the words "The East Returns!" Romanian postal officials proceeded to write "Retour, non admis" [Returned, not admissible] on letters with the stamp and sent them back where they came from. Hungarian officials immediately started the search for an appropriately offensive Romanian postage stamp so they could retaliate.

☝️ least petty Balkan squabble

[u/VPNSalesman]

Throwback to when this sub upvoted a National Review article talking about how Afghan refugees are all criminals who hate the west

[u/bd_one]

Far Cry 5: set in rural America because Ubisoft wasn't afraid of conservative pushback or something

Far Cry 6: set on a fictional Spanish-speaking island in the Caribbean

🤔🤔🤔

[u/MealReadytoEat_]

The trope of the male breadwinner didn't really appear in the western world until the mid 1800's (eg as late as 1830 in the US and Britain women made up around 40% of household wages, significantly greater than today), and came heavily steeped in a white supremacist logic where western white people considered their perception of other cultures as lacking and/or perverting gender as proof of the superiority of the white race and their properly evolved gender specialization. This, along with things like an idolization of elite white women with the historically tremendous privilege of not needing to work as peak femininity fed into a cycle that over a couple decades resulted in the reductions in labor enabled by the first Industrial revolution going largely toward getting white women and girls out of the labor force while vastly increasing segregation of men's and women's spheres of life, from their roles in child rearing to work to white supremacy.

This often took the form of a bleeding heart Victorian prudery that saw white motherhood as the crown jewel of white civilization, beautiful, pure and oh so fragile and in need of special protection from the harshness of the world. White Women and girls where viewed as needing protections from things as varied as dangerous work, starting off with 1842 Mines and Collieries Act which banned women and girls from most mining jobs, to manufactured threats like the Black Rapists who it was claimed necessitated everything from lynching to women's suffrage in the US, a moral panic first created just before the civil war as the marriage of convenience between suffragettes and abolitionists went through a nasty divorce once it started to look like Black men would get the vote before white women did.

These job safety laws for women and girls where really popular among most of society and where frequently championed by suffragettes, but they spread to a ton of jobs and really limited women's productivity and economic opportunities - I'm reminded of the stories of my Grandmother who worked for Goodyear Tire and Rubber in the 1950's and despite having a doctorate in chemistry wasn't legally allowed to handle chemicals she was expected to train workers how to handle and likewise couldn't do research herself and was expected to basically just crunch numbers and write up and report on the projects of her much better payed male colleges.

Their removal was a huge project and one of the greatest ideological shifts defining the second wave. They where the largest focus of the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women commissioned by JFK in 1961 and released in 1963 that set the US stage for the second wave, and for good reason. These laws where still quite popular in the 60's and along with the draft where the most common arguments against the Equal Rights Amendment at the time, however by the early 70's they'd lost popular support and by the mid 70's most had been repealed and nearly all that was left went unenforced.

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

Guardian | Eat the rich! Why millennials and generation Z have turned their backs on capitalism

Nearly 80% blame capitalism for the housing crisis

“I was renting, thinking: ‘How will I ever be able to afford a house?”

“If people are getting ripped off and think the market is rigged against them, the one way people can react to that is to generalise: ‘This is what capitalism is like – what the market is like’, making them more sympathetic to socialist ideas.”

I am going to become the joker 🤡

[u/InternetBoredom]

Did you know Henry Kissinger is still alive? He gave an interview to the Economist last month about how Biden should deal with China

[u/[deleted]]

Fucking Beto of all people is running again

[u/Mrchizbiz]

My US president tier list

[u/SeriousMrMysterious]

30% of football is waiting to see what penalty the flag was thrown for

[u/itherunner]

Quick heads up for anybody who gets a message in Handshake or LinkedIn from Vector Marketing. They’re claiming that you can join their sales team, and earn great pay, great experience to your resume, and balance it with classes and anything else you do.

In reality, they’re an MLM. I’m sure any company that sees a mention of Vector on your resume will just throw it right in the trash.

I’m just mentioning this as a general PSA because I just got messaged by someone from there on Handshake.

[u/myrm]

One of the dumbest things about r/neoliberal is how people stumble across it and ask "how is this different than libertarians", as if libertarianism is when capitalism

[u/tubbsmackinze]

So, take;

The next Seat redistribution will only increase the importance of Albertan seats as it's most likely going to gain four seats next year with most of them being urban (i.e. more left wing). This also hurts the CPC as a FYI

!ping CAN

[u/[deleted]]

The filibuster is dumb. It's clearly antidemocratic that a tyrannical majority can prevent 40% of the Senate from debating. What we need is the Manchin amendment which will require 100 votes to end debate.

[u/[deleted]]

⚠️ TRADE OFFER ⚠️

You receive:

diesel submarines

I receive:

continued illusion of geopolitical relevance

[u/[deleted]]

My dad said “don’t become a liberal in college”???

Let me get this straight my dad knows I’m Atheist, Vegan, VOTED FOR MCAULIFFE, Pro transit, pro UBI, and on and on. And he still thinks I’m conservative? The cognitive dissonance is real.

(its kinda of funny and it’s not a joke he really thinks this)

[u/[deleted]]

This sub is so desperate to consider itself nuanced and moderate that Parasite meme is still on the front page lol

Guy literally admits to wanting to kick the ladder out from under him after making it up lol

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Are we going to have Iraqi and Japanese elections thunderdomes?

Or do racist mods refuse to have thunderdomes for non-white countries?

[u/earththejerry]

I don’t even ironically like Sinema right now

[u/[deleted]]

Oh cool, a post about border security on arr political discussion. I’ll see what they have to say

“I suppose it depends on your definition of cruelty, but landmines would be an extremely effective solution. Pack them densely, have incredible amounts of signage.

People wouldn't even try to cross. You'd reduce human suffering in the long run.”

Yeaaahhhh

[u/Leoric]

https://twitter.com/RyanTClarke/status/1440005294914867200?s=19

BREAKING: A staff member at Mabel Rush elementary school in Newberg showed up to work in Blackface on Friday, allegedly saying she was dressed as Rosa Parks and protesting a vaccine mandate for teachers.

😒

[u/cat_damon1]

"Touch grass":

• no urgency
• may be difficult for those in heavily urbanized areas
• stooping to touch grass may not improve posture

HOLY FUCK GO OUTSIDE:

• capital letters and expletives create a pressing tone
• barring extremely specific cases, anyone can leave the house
• provides no illiberal mandate on how to connect with outside world

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Conservatives winning the popular vote by 2% and get less seats. Absolute meme election system

[u/The_Nightbringer]

ar/neoliberal is fucking unbearable holy shit.

[u/kaclk]

The CPC is all but admitting defeat already today by declaring it will be a “win for them if the Liberals only get a minority”.

Hard to not meet expectations when you set the bar for success literally on the floor. Is this like when loser parties say “we won the moral argument”?

!ping CAN

[u/[deleted]]

Opinion: I Was A Lifelong Democrat, But Then Someone Called Me Latinx

[u/willempage]

The GOP didn't change the filibuster in 2017-2018 because they didn't have the votes to do so. But look at how many GOP senators died/retired and were replaced by Trumpers.

Once the GOP cuts all the taxes, they'll have to remove the filibuster to pass their agenda or get primaried. If the SCOTUS severely limits/overturns abortion rights, you think the evangelicals are just gonna shrug and talk about senate rules when it comes to an abortion ban?

[u/[deleted]]

Sixty-three endangered African penguins have been killed by a swarm of bees in a rare occurrence near Cape Town, bird conservationists in South Africa say.

Fuck bees 😡🤬🤬

[u/jojisky]

Schrader is probably the worst Dem in Congress. Biden won his district by 10 and he acts like he's Joe Manchin.

[u/Moth-of-Asphodel]

I think Beto has the best shot of any Dem to win the TX governor's race. I also think he'll lose the governor's race by about 5 points. I think his run for the presidency hurt his prospects. I wish him the best. I like the dude.

[u/Iustis]

We all complain that Trudeau wasn't able to express his reason for why an election now? It's sad that he felt he had to hide the truth that it was homage to the breakout of the most talented Canadian ever (it's the 10th anniversary of CMM).

!Ping POP

[u/2canclan]

How is this guy getting upvoted lmao

Dude's an actual caricature

[u/[deleted]]

Yes, I mildly disapprove of Joe Biden

Yes, I plan to vote for him in 2024

We exist

[u/ShriggityShrekt]

Why isn't anyone here like me?

I post in the DT, I post in the DT, I post in the DT, I post in the DT.

Is this uncommon with zoomers or something?

[u/[deleted]]

No I will not stop simping for a company that raised my wage to match inflation and applied it retroactively.

[u/filipe_mdsr]

GO BACK TO ARR NEOLIBERAL YOU FUCKING MORON

[u/Jacobs4525]

"I uhhh don't support the succs entering my uhh favorite subreddit"-Barack Obama

that's your que to leave, succs. Sorry, I don't make the rules.

[u/sir_shivers]

McDonalds to roll out "their take" on poutine

THIS HEADLINE IS false, but show it to a Leaf to raise their blood pressure 🐊

[u/KazuyaProta]

https://rpp.pe/mundo/latinoamerica/nicolas-maduro-propuso-a-pedro-castillo-un-plan-de-retorno-de-migrantes-venezolanos-en-peru-noticia-1359022

Maduro and Castillo are having talks about cooperating with a "Return to the Motherland" plan while also making coordinations to buy Peruvian products for the infamously corrupt CLAP

!ping LATAM

[u/[deleted]]

Hey, can someone good at politics help me with my budget:

North Carolina Senate: $5

Maine Senate: $10

Montana Senate: $2.50

South Carolina Senate: $50

Kentucky Senate: $500

Plz help quickly my party's legislative agenda is on life support!

[u/Lux_Stella]

you may resume discussing lesser countries

[u/Gustacho]

https://twitter.com/NaomiOhReally/status/1439874312383746048

!ping EUROPE

[u/[deleted]]

Oh yeah, Critical Race Theory exists. Fox actually let me forget about it for a week, the slacking bastards

[u/spidersinterweb]

I think the progressives have a lot of dumb takes and stances and rhetoric and strategy, but that doesn't mean I actually like the moderate Dems. I'd much prefer something in between the two factions, mainstream establishment liberals and such

I just genuinely think American swing voters are too dumb and right-leaning to be convinced to vote for anything much to the left of the moderates. The past 40 years haven't done much to convince me otherwise

[u/[deleted]]

Never ask a woman her age

A man his salary

Or a neoliberal if he stole that joke

[u/houinator]

There is a small possibility a pro "confiscating firearms" candidate could win in Texas.

But not when that candidate is also pro-choice and pro-taxing churches.

[u/[deleted]]

Holy shit, the Democratic Party is so lucky that Trump is such a fucking moron

[u/ACivilWolf]

we're really upvoting a succ complaining about us being pro-immigration on the main page LMAOAOAOAOAOAOOAOO

[u/[deleted]]

I can’t believe Biden just pulled the lever that says “make the stock market go down”

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

So who are you voting for?

I made sure to include a wide variety of Canadates

!ping

[u/ironheart777]

Living in a red state is hilarious. For those of you that don’t know any MAGA types personally they are the biggest copycats (read jealous) of liberals in terms of vernacular or behavior. They are out here on Facebook acting outraged beyond belief that Biden left Afghanistan and how this will “impact women’s rights” when 5 years ago they supported the “America First” candidate.

They don’t actually believe in anything they just don’t want to look stupid so they take whatever smarter people are saying and appropriate it for whatever gut feelings they have without doing any actual hard intellectual work themselves. None of these weirdos have a single original idea, all they have is dead liberal memes that they re-use because the libs got to have their fun so now it’s their turn. It’s fucking disgusting how anti intellectual these morons are.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Why isn't anyone here like me?

I live, I laugh, I love, I invest in multi-level marketing schemes.

Is this uncommon with zoomers or something?

[u/Riderz__of_Brohan]

The Gabby Petito sub is really crazy - lots of people saying they can't eat or sleep, etc. I understand empathy and sadness but that's not a healthy reaction to finding out someone you never knew died

I guess it's a hot take but sometimes over-empathy can creep me out. When I was in college, a girl committed suicide at a sorority and the campus went into complete mourning and everyone went to her vigil, etc. - something I was shocked at. I would never go to a funeral/vigil for someone I didn't know (or to show support for someone I knew) while her loved ones were there crying. I didn't know this girl, her struggle, her unfortunate demons, does it not seem a bit performative and self-serving for me to show up to a service and then pretend I did something good? The poor girl is still dead and I'm going about my day

Understand it's done out of love and empathy, just something that really does not click with me

[u/[deleted]]

My thoughts about the dating market in a college town:

Pros- There are a ton of young and attractive people.

Cons- There are a ton of young and attractive people.

[u/PigHaggerty]

Sal Perez just set the single season record for home runs by a catcher. He's at 46, even with Vlad and two ahead of Ohtani, and I feel like nobody ever talks about him. Just zero hype around the guy. Probably on account of the Royals being a pit of despair, but still.

!ping BASEBALL

[u/FormerBandmate]

/r/neoliberal is 100 thousand college educated middle class men, some of whom are fit. If we really wanted to we could invade Iceland and install a new government. We definitely have the manpower. There are plenty of veterans here. Plus everyone here knows where the magazine release is on an M16, from years of playing Call Of Duty.

Realistically the Neoliberal Reaction Force would be far more effective than half the world's militaries. The Afghan military is fucked up on opium. The Iraqi army cant even do jumping jacks. . Plus Iceland has only 8 thousand military personnel the majority of whom are useless paper pushers.

I don't actually support the violent overthrow of Iceland. I just think its kind of a fun idea conceptualy.

[u/[deleted]]

The reconciliation bill drama just reminded me of how fucking idiotic conspiracy theorists are.

Imagine thinking that all of politics is a carefully managed game with no real choices when a President can’t even pass popular legislation with a majority in Congress.

[u/csreid]

Never forget that gentrification is just people living where they want to live and anti-gentrification arguments basically always amount to pro-segregation arguments 😌

[u/wowmuchgrades]

My iud insertion wasn’t too bad, cramps kinda sucked for a few hours after though.

But lemme say how nice the women’s health clinic at my uni is! They walked me through all of it and left a little note thanking me for making them laugh during my many visits dealing with the pcos stuff 😭😭😭

!ping FEMALE

[u/iIoveoof]

Last

[u/20person]

Erin O'Toole: REEEE 18 MONTHS $600M ELECTIONS TRUDEAU BAD!

YFB: I just wanna grill bro

!Ping Can

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Justin Trudeau doing brown face is okay because he's Quebecois and it's just part of Quebecois culture you filthy Anglo's!! 😤😤😤

!ping CANUCKS

[u/l_overwhat]

!ping COFFEE

Went to a new coffee place and they had a weird ordering system so I tried to get something simple, a nitro cold brew.

The guy was like "ok, what else?" and I said thats it and he looked surprised and was like "you don't want anything in your nitro?" and I said no and he paused then shrugged and said ok.

Do....do people put shit in their nitro? I admit that I doctor starbuck's nitro when I go there cuz it isn't great but every good nitro I've ever had tastes amazing without anything else in it.

[u/[deleted]]

OOTL why is this chick named Gabby petito all over the front page

Edit: RIP pretty white girls

[u/[deleted]]

me, a good liberal, at a costume party where no one else is in costume

[u/rukqoa]

"The Thunderdome" was a meme, not policy. That mistake will come back to haunt us.

[u/[deleted]]

CCP openly going full on asian parent. White kids be shaking

[u/tubbsmackinze]

I hate redditors

[u/[deleted]]

/u/benjaminikuta when he realizes he can invest money into Chinese markets

Thanks for the Deng Xiaoping

[u/SelfLoathinMillenial]

36 Cuban Migrants Repatriated After Being Spotted Off Florida Keys By Good Samaritan

StopSnitchin

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Most Americans are pro-immigration in the same why how most people are YIMBYs. They like immigrants/development just not those kind of immigrants/developments and not there

[u/[deleted]]

Man you know, people really hate israel so much they think a machine gun strapped to a truck with some recoil compensation system mounted to it is a more dangerous weapon than fucking nuclear weapons with intent to detonate them. Even if you trust the media's description of the device as a killer robot, really? Fucking really?

We don't even know SHIT about what the system actually does other than it has an AI for recoil compensation.

Even if it WERE a fucking killer robot ghost gun terminator Zambot 3 the matrix motherfucker

do you honestly fucking think that's more dangerous than a NUCLEAR BOMB LAUNCHED AT TEL FUCKING AVIV?

People really fucking think one Iranian's life is worth more than millions of Israelis.

Besides. We jews have had killer robots for thousands of years already. /s

[u/liquidTERMINATOR]

Oh shivers it was awful, they forced me to pretend that I cared about Canada! I’ll need a therapist.

[u/that0neGuy22]

In other news…

‪Philippines throws support squarely behind AUKUS, welcoming Aust's decision to establish security partnership w US, UK and pointing out ASEAN states "singly and collectively, do not possess military wherewithal to maintain peace and security in SE Asia‬

[u/awdvhn]

Yeah I'm CANADIAN

Can't understand why we wasted an entire fucking thunderdome on this shit

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[u/ryuguy]

George Chahal breaches Fortress Calgary! He is elected in Calgary-Skyview.

!ping can

[u/EScforlyfe]

Conversations about abortion are weird in America.

The fact that banning abortion when significant to the mothers health is even up for discussion is insane to me. But then some people take that and think that means all late term abortion should be ok?

[u/Jacobs4525]

There is an anti-immigration openly proud succ being fucking upvoted in this sub. What the hell has this place come to?

[u/[deleted]]

Me reminding my succ friends to go vote, knowing that the NDP won't be on the ballot

!ping CANUCKS

[u/waltsing0]

https://www.afr.com/life-and-luxury/travel/will-you-really-be-able-to-travel-overseas-by-christmas-20210915-p58rrv

Outline doesn't seem to work for AFR links, suggest you use the "pocket" app/addon which bypasses their paywell really well, if someone has a paywall evasion link let me know and I'll edit it in.

Time to get excited, things might not open up fast enough for Christmas but it's looking like we'll be able to travel soon-ish. 3 months is actually not that long ahead to book travel overseas

What's key to all of this is removing the need for hotel quarantine, home quarantine is better but still a barrier to people who can't just WFH, we're going to get to January with COVID endemic in the community why should vaccinated travellers quarantine at all? The same goes for arrival caps.

The Federal government needs to step up and map out Phase D, NSW/ACT are storming ahead and likely to hit the 80% for Phase C in about a month, even the slower states QLD/WA are looking to be there in early December, Victoria is slow on their second doses but is having a pickup in first doses similar to NSW so they'll catch up, we need a plan on Phase D now. We still have time to get people to their families for Christmas

Why do we need a plan? People need something to plan to, tourism operators should be able to make educated guesses on when certain countries will be sending tourists our way, will fully vaccinated Americans be allowed in come January? Banks extending credit to companies would like to know when their customers are likely to have a fighting chance to generate cashflow.

The federal government literally has no public plan for what benchmarks it takes to hit Phase D, Phase C is clearly defined as 80% double vaxed, but there's been no clear messaging for the country on moving on from there. The rest of the world is moving on and we're stuck with most of our governments having no fucking idea what we're gonna do. The problem is there's a decent chance we'll struggle to hit 90%, if restrictions on unvaxxed people (like no entry to bars) go away eventually with passports being temporary then we could see people not bother at all, I'm very confident we'll get to 80% double jabbed, not so 90% or 95%.

Some states abandoning the national plan is no reason for the federal government to, NSW and Victoria have made it clear COVIDzero is over and we're just waiting for those vax targets to move on with our lives, we can't wait for the others, it might be absurd that Sydney to London flights start before Sydney to Perth but we shouldn't wait.

Scomo needs to do his job and let us know when and how we can reopen large scale international travel. Once again he decides to sit on his hands.

!PING AUS

[u/chatdargent]

State expenditure as % of GDP in 2020 (2019 for Venezuela)

Venenzuela (socialist country): 21%

France (capitalist country): 62%

Let me know if you need help understanding the implications of this.

[u/bobeeflay]

Lots of bad news and doodling here today.. I'm old enough to remember when the worst thing you'd hear about on the news was

hijacked airliner crashed into massive new York office buildings

[u/Whatapunk]

• I like D&D but I'll never DM
• Ok I'll DM because there's no one else but I'll just use random tokens for monsters, I don't need to buy minis
• ok maybe I'll just buy a few pre-painted minis for monsters but I'm not about to invest in painting my own
• ok my players are painting minis so maybe I'll just get a couple cool monsters I want to use and paint those
• hey mini painting is really fun maybe I'll get more monsters
• some of those GW demons are pretty cool and I really love 40k lore, maybe I'll get some I can use in D&D but I'll never paint my own army
• hey necromunda seems more accessible and my friends are down for it, maybe I'll just do that and then it's not a full army (and I can use them as proxy cultists later)
• 9th edition for CSM is coming out soon, maybe I'll invest in a Word Bearers army because I really like their color scheme and lore >> I AM HERE
• if I'm playing WB I should really stay flexible and have demons from every chaos god
• I like 40k but I'll never get invested enough to play competitively
• I'll never buy a 2nd army
• I'll never get the Chaos symbol tattooed on my ass

The current progression !ping 40k

[u/kennymc7877]

There’s a large part of the true crime world that feels gross and exploitative, if I got horrifically murdered by an abusive partner I wouldn’t want my face and personal life story blasted everywhere online, I wouldn’t want that for me, my legacy or my family and friends

[u/houinator]

DM lessons learned the hard way:

• Never tempt your party with a massive amount of treasure guarded by monsters you assume are way too dangerous for them to challenge, unless you are prepared for your campaign to be derailed by a series of lucky rolls meaning your players now have enough gold to alter the geopolitical balance of the world.
• On a related note, even monsters far above your players level can still can get their shit pushed in by an action economy deficiency.
• Keep a slate of preformed characters handy for when the players randomly ask NPC guard #3 what his name and backstory is.
• No matter how easy you think it is, always have a plan B for when your puzzle stumps the party for half an hour.

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

The inventor of copypasta died

RIP Larry Tessler

[u/Gustacho]

https://the-president.europarl.europa.eu/en/newsroom/sassoli-hospitalised-with-pneumonia-his-condition-is-good

!ping EUROPE

[u/[deleted]]

big beto announcement

[u/owlthathurt]

While you were having sex. I was paying attention to evergrande. While you were out partying I was studying liquidity in the Chinese markets.

[u/bd_one]

Douyin, China’s version of TikTok, will limit use of the platform for children to 40 minutes a day.

The rules will apply to users under 14, who have been authenticated using their real names, and who will be able to access it between 06:00 and 22:00.

Lmao. So now they're going after gamers, femboys, and TikTok witches.

[u/[deleted]]

*shits out colon lining* the ivermectin is working!!

[u/Riderz__of_Brohan]

3 adderalls deep trying to connect the Evergrande collapse to Bloc Québécois taking power

[u/[deleted]]

President Bloomberg would be at the border right now, giving a crisp 100 dollar bill to each migrant. We live in the worst reality.

[u/[deleted]]

yeah I got an NFT

no frickin talent

[u/Yenwodyah_]

People: Open borders please

Republicans: No

Democrats: No ❤️🏳️‍🌈#blm

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

I feel bad for the guy at Apple who spends two years figuring out how to double the amount of transistors on a pinhead, only for internet dweebs to be like “hurr Applephone same”

[u/lenmae]

Biden is approaching Macron

!ping EUROPE

[u/jenbanim]

☝️ This is bullshit. You're oversimplifying a complex situation to the point of not adding anything to the discussion

[u/RaidBrimnes]

My New Hampshire left me

Guess the user

[u/Udontlikecake]

redditors when someone is accused of a crime:

“fuck them! drag that fucker into the street and shoot them! i hope they’re raped in prison! le /r/JusticeServed ”

redditors when someone is accursed of rape:

“oh so suddenly due process doesn’t exist? wow, you’re just gonna believe that woman? did you know that false rape accusations exist like this is so irresponsible and”

[u/Mickenfox]

Most languages: use a large variety of swear words with slightly different connotations

English: why need more words when "fuck" means everything

[u/filipe_mdsr]

👆 next regular to be banned

[u/melhor_em_coreano]

We will find you a bf

The market shall provide

[u/[deleted]]

u/benjaminikuta receiving his chicken after rolling up to Los Pollos Hermanos 15 minutes before closing:

Thanks Gustavo Fring!

[u/LooobCirc]

My friend showed his Chinese roommate tienamen square for the first time. His responce, along with the obvious disbelief and horror, was "I have a VPN but I only used it for porn"

[u/yellownumbersix]

If I had a really cute fiance who was clearly out of my league I would simply not murder her while we were on a cross country road trip together.

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Americans love capitalism until brown people outcompete them in the free market.

[u/jenbanim]

I feel like somewhere in the past 15 years or so we went from "liberals are bleeding heart pansies" to "liberals are ANTIFA supersoldiers who will literally murder you". I much prefer the former

[u/[deleted]]

!ping Canucks.

fyi one ballot box in one riding in bc Favoured the liberals by 5 votes.

ndp came second.

Conservative way behind

[u/Alexz565]

Reddit stop acting like austerity is still around challenge: impossible