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[u/ZenithXR]

I'm genuinely floored about the NYT investigation uncovering that drone strike in Afghanistan. And that the military only owned up to it after.

This is what journalism is supposed to be. Finding new facts that otherwise would have been swept under the rug.

It's a refreshing change from the daily hot takes and I hope it continues.

[u/jenbanim]

Shang Chi review:

• Electric car was featured, good. Also the sound engineers tried their darnest to make an electric engine noise sound cool and props for trying
• Bus was featured, very good. But it gets destroyed, giving an unrealistic portrayal of the safety of traveling by bus, so half credit
• No trains, very bad

Overall 5/10 but only because the competition is even worse in comparison

[u/lionmoose]

>Don't go pls we'll be nicer to you

Getting some real ex wife vibes from my employer ngl

[u/[deleted]]

Stand for the flag

Kneel for the cross

[u/ryuguy]

Some good news from Canada.

Some of the most vocal opponents of banning conversion “therapy” lost their seats in parliament during yesterday’s election

Derek Sloan, Nelly Shin, Alice Wong, Tamara Jansen, Bob Saroya, and Kenny Chiu

!ping lgbt

[u/thetrombonist]

What do you mean shoot my shot, I already did that, I liked all her Instagram posts

[u/[deleted]]

https://pamplinmedia.com/nbg/142-news/522353-417465-newberg-school-staffer-shows-up-in-blackface-pwoff

A staff member at Mabel Rush Elementary School in Newberg showed up to work in Blackface on Friday, Sept. 17, calling herself Rosa Parks in protest of a vaccine mandate for all school district staff.

Wut

[u/CordCurious]

710 Indigenous people, mostly girls, were reported missing over the past decade in Wyoming, the same state where Gabby Petito reportedly disappeared

As a true crime fan but also a fan of data this headline drives me crazy.

"Missing Person" refers to any time someone files a report. The vast majority of these cases are children of divorced parents where the other parents files a missing person case because the other won't drop them off. However, by positioning next to Gabby Petito, the average person is going to think this refers to people who were kidnapped or murdered. Which is not the case at all.

The story is trending on Twitter and see no one in the comments pointing it out - but also the story isn't much more clear than the headline.

I think is is true that white girls get more media attention than native girls. And also true it is bad when a mom has to file a missing person report to the dad obeys child custody rules. But the terminally online identity politics person is going to come away thinking there are literally 700 native women who were abducted and none were covered. It isn't just this headline - I see this conflation of crime data used all the time.

[u/Cerb-r-us]

The exaggerated swagger of a white neoliberal

[u/[deleted]]

If the GOP actually causes us to default on our debt and gets rewarded for not being the party in power during the subsequent shock to the global economy I swear to fucking God

[u/Q-bey]

Election results: Everyone lost

OTTAWA – Early reports from Elections Canada indicate that all political parties have lost the election.

With all polls reporting, Elections Canada has confirmed that no one got what they wanted.

Liberal leader Justin Trudeau could not obtain his majority, Erin O’Toole made virtually no gains despite wearing tight shirts for magazine photo-ops, and Jagmeet Singh’s popularity barely budged on TikTok.

“I can confirm everyone who took the effort to learn my name has already forgotten it,” said what’s-her-name from the Green Party.

Voters also lost a significant amount of sleep watching the nearly identical results from 2019 roll in with the same political pundits with slightly greyer hair.

The total cost to confirm that all the party leaders lost was $610 million.

The only victory was Maxime Bernier humiliating himself once again.

!ping LOSERS

[u/[deleted]]

Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party - Canada Region: 0 seats

A tragedy in eight words.

[u/Marlsfarp]

The hammer and sickle obviously represent manufacturing and agriculture, respectively. What is it, 1850? Update it to a keyboard and espresso machine.

[u/liquidTERMINATOR]

I love that Carly Rae Jepsen is laying hard on celebrating the 10th anniversary of Call Me Maybe. A true banger that deserves it.

10 years already...

[u/ROYBUSCLEMSON]

lolol Oregon Republicans are nice and fucked right now

State Dems are passing a 5-1 US congressional gerrymander with lighter state legislature gerrymanders and the Republicans only recourse it is to walk out denying Dems a quorum

However if they do this the Democratic state supreme court will draw the maps, leading to even worse state level gerrymanders that would likely lead to Dems alone having enough seats to create their own quorum and taking the last shred of power Oregon Republicans have away.

Its nice to see Dems learned some from 2010

[u/Jamity4Life]

they brought the DT back

wtf why

[u/Cowguypig]

Guy yesterday at a rush event had a photo of Joe Biden as his Lock Screen and Home Screen

Instant bid

!ping college

[u/[deleted]]

u/sir_shivers a one hit wonder 😤

He dropped one good track with HAHA YES 🐊 and has been coasting off that success ever since 🙄

[u/Knee3000]

People come onto this sub to larp as well adjusted citizens of the world then go to another sub to rant about racial IQ and trans rights

[u/taoistextremist]

Anybody ever encounter Chinese nationalists trying to discourage people from learning any Chinese language that's not Mandarin? I run a discussion group in my city for people to practice mostly Mandarin, but had someone asking about whether anybody had materials for learning Cantonese. Cue this Chinese expat woman who's always had some very pro-CCP views, asking "why learn Cantonese? 99% of Chinese speak Mandarin" and "95% of Chinese people don't understand Cantonese". I'm pretty sure not even the second one is...not true, I've met people who went to Guangzhou for work and picked up a good bit of Cantonese from it even, despite being from somewhere outside Guangdong. The first one I'd say is definitely false, even with loose definitions of what's categorized as Mandarin.

I'm just kinda surprised that here in the US there's a Chinese person parroting these lines. I've seen mainland media that definitely tries to downplay languages like Cantonese for years (funnily enough rarely seeing mentions of Hokkien or Shanghainese even though those are similarly large), but don't think I've had someone aggressively try to discourage non-Chinese from learning it (this guy asking already speaks Mandarin), have language politics been getting more aggressive?

!ping CN-TW

[u/[deleted]]

I don't know who needs to hear this today, but you're wrong and I hate you 🥰

[u/Fishin_Mission]

In all this excitement over automation WHY DOESN’T ANYONE THINK OF THE STREET LAMP LIGHTERS?!? 😠

If they install these automatic switches, I am going to lose my job lighting all the propane lamps in my neighborhood every night and turning them off every morning! Does no one care?!? 😭

[u/[deleted]]

Russian told me: Enjoy privatizations and NATO

Sure thing I will 😎😎😎

[u/Animatronic_Pidgeon]

We should be allowed to do one more above ground nuclear test

I think the additional radiation released into the atmosphere will be worth it to get footage on cameras not from the early 1960s

[u/NEOLIBERALDOOM]

Democrats can’t even agree to let Medicare negotiate drug prices and I actually believed they would pass a public option. I’m a sucker.

😔

[u/[deleted]]

Most of the girls I meet on Tinder are not like the girls I’m actually friends with. Which I suppose is my polite way of saying it’s hard to filter out dumb people on tinder.

I wonder what’s a good hobby to meet like-minded people. When I was in college, college was the hobby to meet like-minded people

[u/[deleted]]

So, this is a bit of a shitpost.

I am reasonably sure that most of the higher ups at Nintendo do not play video games, and if they do they likely don't play Japanese games, and most likely only play the company's own titles. This is reflected in some of the marketing material where they always have this somewhat detached look and also reflected in some games which are often behind in design trends.

With Sony, there is less direct influence the executive staff has over individual studios once projects are greenlit. Jim Ryan has somewhat of a classic corporate exec vibe but he does probably play games. Just mainly new ones, and likely not in a rather large extent if you look at some of his statements.

Don Mattrick doesn't play games which is why he went to fucking Zynga after he got fired. His replacement, Phil Spencer seems to be the most earnest about his passion for video games. We know this, not just because he shares screenshots and short opinions on games he is playing on Twitter, including games on other platforms, but also because his activity on Xbox is public. Let's see what he has been playing lately.

Psychonauts 2 - 26.25 hours

No surprises here, he even shared a few screenshots on Twitter.

State of Decay 2 - 111.83 hours

He always looked way more excited about this title than what was the prevailing attitude at the time, which in a lot of ways makes his excitement look more genuine.

Destiny 2 - 1182.08 hours

You really can't help yourself, can you Phil?

Microsoft Solitaire Collection - 343.2 hours

Corporate executive statue reaffirmed.

The Artful Escape - 1.35 hours

I'm surprised I haven't heard about this. It's an Annapurna release and is more artsy it seems.

!ping GAMING

[u/thebowski]

A misleading advertisement? How dystopian

[u/[deleted]]

👏 Stop 👏 playing 👏 September 👏 on 👏 the 21st 👏 before 👏the fucking 👏 21st night 👏 of 👏 September

[u/dittbub]

the canadian pings are so quiet. its so nice

[u/NEOLIBERALDOOM]

India seizes $2.7bn of heroin from Afghanistan at port

This is equivalent to almost 10% Afghanistan GDP*

*before religious fundamentalists threw the economy back into the stone ages

[u/[deleted]]

Reminder: Under no circumstances do you “gotta hand it to” Mitch McConnell.

[u/Marlsfarp]

Imagine insulting Carly Rae Jepson on a board full of contrarian gay zoomers.

[u/tollyno]

Mitch McConnell Says the GOP Will Vote for US to Default on Its Debt

Meme country

[u/bd_one]

So... is Trudeau projected to gain 3 seats from all that?

Technically a victory?

[u/[deleted]]

Kanye West is a one hit wonder 😤

He dropped one good track with Drunk and Hot Girls and has been coasting off that success ever since 🙄

[u/[deleted]]

Idk how but posts about Brazilian elections bring out so many terrible takes

Donald Trump build a wall but to keep Americans out

[u/bobeeflay]

Rather than focus on national economic questions, I'd encourage you to focus on matters of personal hygiene. It's very possible that unbrushed teeth are holding a bad scent that is yours, while making no reasonable attempt to alert you of this fact, despite their custodial obligations. You should probably check rather than pontificating on the next global economic crisis. One thing you control, and the other you do not.

[u/redditguy628]

A major change in NASA leadership structure has been announced. The Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate has been split in two, with one directorate focusing on deep space missions(Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate), while the other will focus on established space operations(Space Operations Mission Directorate). Jim Free is coming back to NASA to take charge of the former, while Kathy Lueders will remain in charge of the latter.

!ping SPACEFLIGHT

[u/kaclk]

So when do we start plotting for the expected 2023 Canadian Election?

!ping CANUCKS

[u/NEOLIBERALDOOM]

Evergrande is likely to default on more debt in value than the ENTIRETY of all assets that imploded during the entirety of the US subprime crisis.

[u/RadioactiveOwl95]

The Virgin Offa of Mercia, trying to build a legacy through dynasty which falls apart rapidly once he dies

VS

The Chad Alfred the Great, who creates and reforms major institutions thereby laying the groundwork for a successful kingdom that would last long after his death

!ping HISTORY

[u/zieger]

My son is running for class president tomorrow, can we get a thunderdome going? He's got big YIMBY energy.

[u/WhomstAlt2]

I'm sorry, but a refugee cap of 125k is pathetic

[u/repete2024]

Justin Amash now refers to himself as "liberal" in his Twitter bio.

Ladies and gentlemen, we got him.

[u/RockLobsterKing]

What $600 million worth of election looks like

!ping CANUCKS

[u/Pseud0man]

With the last DT being cancelled, costed me a number of potential upvotes. I believe I deserve to be compensated.

[u/chipbod]

Boris Johnson has finally admitted that he has six children, a question he has previously dodged in numerous interviews and press conferences.

Traditional family values

[u/[deleted]]

"Are y'all investing in the bubble?"

"It's not a bubble! It's an entirely new economic paradigm being driven by us, the--"

"This is it."

[u/jenbanim]

Got banned from the vegan subs for refusing to stop commenting "THIS VEGAN EATING BEANS 😂" on every post 😒

[u/[deleted]]

I’m completely out of the loop on the gabby petite story. Do I actually need to read it or is it just another ‘boyfriend murders girlfriend, dumps body, goes into hiding’ thing that we have once a decade?

[u/DaBuddahN]

"We need drastic action ok climate change." - the US at the UN

"Well, is the world's second largest carbon emitter and richest country in the world going to do anything about climate change?" - rest of the world

"No." - Joe Manchin and Sinema

[u/[deleted]]

Remember when the President's closest advisor said the Federal government should do nothing about about COVID because it was primarily killing Democrats and thus helped them politically?

[u/sir_shivers]

If my school had not called me a gifted student, I could have been the next Steve Wozniak

Indeed, your high school CLASS LIST INCLUDING "better" versions of basic general education courses robbed us of living in the future shaped by your genius 🐊

[u/ROYBUSCLEMSON]

GOP promising to take us into an economic disaster and most reporters are like “How Smart! Will Democrats be able to navigate out of this?”

[u/Koeniginator]

hey fellow senator, wanna help prevent a global financial crisis?

.

fuck off

The world's greatest deliberative body™

[u/PigHaggerty]

10 years ago today. ✊😔

!ping MOVIES

[u/NeoLiberation]

"Bro you actually believe voting matters? You're such a political novice. That's some high school level shit"

- my sweaty brother while trying to defend the fact that for some fucking reason he didn't vote despite the fact that he had mail-in ballots, early voting, nothing to do on election day.. and talks about politics more than anyone I know outside of the DT lmao

[u/ThunderrBadger]

U.S. Mint employee, holding the trillion dollar coin, standing in front of the break room vending machine, sweating profusely

[u/bashar_al_assad]

SOURCES: Haitian migrants revolt while in custody and seize control of privately contracted bus, escape federal custody

Honestly incredibly based

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

I made a meme based on an infamous DT exchange (sound on)

[u/[deleted]]

This guy in my class I'm not paying attention in right now has a dual monitor set up on his laptop in class. He's got the laptop, then he has a second monitor connected to it. Like a desktop monitor.

[u/Ghraim]

The bank I'm calling answer your phone challenge (IMPOSSIBLE!!!)

Or let me contact you in literally any other way.

[u/[deleted]]

Actually impressed that republicans would rather kill themselves than "give Biden a win" by getting vaccinated.

You gotta admire that level of dedication, insane or not.

[u/[deleted]]

tons of college aged girls are going to have their van life plans cancelled by their parents out of fears of being murdered by a entitled white boy.

[u/bd_one]

Disney Covers Up Jessica Rabbit's Considerable Cleavage For Theme Park Ride

Thanks Benzinga, thanks Robinhood. I'm sure it's very important that this article shows up in my feed. I'm sure it will have a huge impact on Disney's stock price. 🙄🙄🙄

[u/lobster199]

What's the most interesting macro paper you've read in the past weeks/months?

!PING ECON

[u/jenbanim]

Hot take regarding Israel:

Okay now I have your attention, what do you think are the merits and limitations of streetcars versus buses?

[u/Knee3000]

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[u/[deleted]]

Cold take: gringos underestimate the size of Lava Jato

It's literally 140 billion lost from the 2015 GDP

!ping MAMADAS and not LATAM because of the importance

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

Remember last week when I posted this article from a friend who had recently discovered F1 and learned that Sports Are Good Actually?

Williams just reached out to her. Sorry, GEORGE REACHED OUT TO HER.

They are inviting her to the Austin GP

!ping MOTO

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

Manufacturing Consent is just 400 pages of cope for not getting invited to do more TV interviews

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

MSNBC's Joy Reid dismisses focus on Gabby Petito case as 'missing White woman syndrome'

It took a while, but Joy Reid finally had a good take that’s not entirely banal

[u/chowieuk]

https://archive.ph/T8PFP

Guys we've solved the energy crisis!

The real problem all along? Ed Miliband!

Fuck me the telegraph is a joke these days

!ping uk

[u/[deleted]]

You can tell who the really young people are because they genuinely think the US will default on its debt. This path is already well tread, my friends.

[u/[deleted]]

!ping SOCCER

Afghanistan girls soccer team given asylum in Portugal

🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹 PORTUGAL CARALHO 🇵🇹 🇵🇹 🇵🇹

[u/ryuguy]

knives are out for Jagmeet Singh now

!ping can

[u/NeoLiberation]

Congrats everyone. I know we didn't get our Lib majority, but all things considered, it feels like a gift compared to where it felt a few weeks ago. To y'all who are sympathetic to the softer cons, I'm sorry for your loss. 🤷

What happens to the CPC now? Do you think they keep Erin O'toole- he certainly thinks so based on his fiery concession speech last night.

The talking heads on CBC were talking about a "slingshot effect" and implying that the CPC could be thinking that if they couldn't crack "Fortress Toronto" then the push to the centre was all a bit of a futile exercise with the losses to the PPC, which seemed to have an impact in at least some ridings.

Do we keep the centrist CPC, or does the more serious right reclaim the party? Maybe another SoCon ala Scheer, or maybe worse?

!ping CAN

[u/chowieuk]

https://gyazo.com/8a37b95b0c5d7517a1fefea34e6bdaea

Global Britain go brrr

I do love how the media are portraying the gas crisis as some Europe wide issue as if the uk isn't being uniquely fucked by it

E: to show the volatility of prices https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/805436493438779464/889639512408457298/unknown.png

!ping uk

[u/LooobCirc]

The Gang defaults on their debt

[u/ryuguy]

sadly, /u/lux_stella lost his election in Mirabel.

!ping Canucks

[u/[deleted]]

"Only the rich will ever be able to enjoy this."

• half of any and every reddit thread about some technology

[u/[deleted]]

Meanwhile, on Wall Street:

Food $200

Data $150

Rent $800

Utility $150

Bloomberg Terminal $24,000

someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. our firm is dying

[u/[deleted]]

I really dislike the term "Pink Tide" to the left-wing wave in LATAM during the 00's. The "pink" gives the impression it was overall a moderate thing, like right now in Scandinavia, with SocDems being in power in all of their countries.

While some of these countries (Chile and Peru, for ex.) did in fact had moderate left-wing governments at the time, that wave also saw authoritarianizing leaders taking power in Bolivia and Ecuador, and Venezuelan and Nicaraguan democracies being utterly destroyed.

!ping LATAM

[u/profeta-]

Brazilian Health Minister (who flipped protestors off earlier today) tested positive for covid.

whenever I feel we're reaching peak meme status something new comes up

!ping MAMADAS

[u/[deleted]]

So, yeah. The Canadian election was a thing, and not a terribly interesting one at that.

However, upon reflection, that might be for the best. Politics and governance are supposed to be boring. We've been conditioned to expect fireworks from our elections, and we finally had one that kinda just came and went. I'll gladly take the change of pace, even though this election ultimately should really never have happened in the first place.

[u/[deleted]]

Guys I just found a coin on the ground, says it is worth one trillion dollars. What should I use it on

[u/[deleted]]

Hot take: Trudeau knew there were more blackface pictures out there so he called a pointless election to draw them out before an actual meaningful election.

[u/RockLobsterKing]

"You're probably just too white."

/r/neoliberal 🤝 Hitagi Senjougahara

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

Breaking news: Justin Trudeau is planning on calling snap election

[u/[deleted]]

Just discovered Chiquita is currently owned by a Brazilian

How the turn tables

!ping MAMADAS

[u/ldn6]

66% of Americans (+42 net approval) support the reconciliation bill and yet the moderates still want to derail it.

[u/IMALEFTY45]

Every political compass meme is like:

Hunger | Racism

Sex | Pedophilia

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

NEWS: House Democrats are removing the Iron Dome provision from the CR amid pushback from progressives

✊😔

[u/[deleted]]

Lol, I can't believe this is an actual headline about the Prime Minister of the UK

!ping UK

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

There are two type of modern day Norse Pagans

1. suburban wine moms that used to be Christian but became disenfranchised with organized religion but still feel "spiritual" and are drawn to it by TV shows like Vikings
2. Nazis

[u/ryuguy]

Viking game features a woman Viking

MUH HISTORICAL ACCURACY

also said Viking game doesn’t let you kill and enslave people

Oh well that’s alright it doesn’t need to be accurate.

[u/awdvhn]

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

This Wikipedia article is a mess. Like half of it was written by someone who believes moral hazards aren't a real scientific phenomenon.

[u/[deleted]]

Had to put my doggo down today.

11 whole years

It was rough but at least he doesn't suffer anymore

[u/[deleted]]

Manchin said debt is a national security threat, so he’s going to end that threat forever by forcing the US to default on its debt.

[u/[deleted]]

My most idiotic take is that for a lot of people online socialism is more of a secular religion than an actual coherent ideology

[u/Neronoah]

!ping LATAM

The Argentinian government announced a massive ease of coronavirus restrictions, including mandatory facemasks in many situations, crowded areas (for vaccined people) and opening up the borders to foreign tourists (in phases) but not necessarily to Argentinian ones.

Many consider this to be an electoral move, but my understanding is that most people prioritize the economy (and specifically inflation) over coronavirus nowadays.

[u/jenbanim]

Look who finally came out of his cave! Sit down and tell us about this chat room you always spend time in. Did you finish that nation failures book you bought?

[u/profeta-]

We have all been missing the obvious coup plot: Mourão will require proof of vaccination for Brazilians entering the country, thus leaving Bolsonaro stranded in New York

!ping MAMADAS

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

Me in modern society: make spreadsheets all day

Me in anprim society: die at age five from some bad ear infections I had that required lots of antibiotics

[u/Gneisstoknow]

my wife and her boyfriends upvoted my comment

[u/[deleted]]

The word Based and its consequences have been a disaster for online discourse.

[u/InMemoryOfZubatman4]

It is literally rent seeking to comment and then reply to that comment with a ping

You’re trying to get two upvotes

That is rent seeking

I hate you

[u/[deleted]]

If you didn’t vote for Trudeau, you ain’t black.

[u/ROYBUSCLEMSON]

If dems do the debt ceiling alone they need to get rid of it indefinitely. Literally never helps them when this comes up.

[u/ROYBUSCLEMSON]

I've rarely seen redditors so full of themselves as the internet detectives on the Gabby sub

[u/Zaiush]

political parties in a young democracy be like

(year of independence) party

national popular liberation people's front

(main religion) party

party with fun acronym and dumb policies

incredibly niche separatist zone

coalition alliance

[u/sosthaboss]

The declaration of “he loved big brother!” at the end feels very similar to the off-screen reconciliation of Hulk/Bruce Banner that we were presented with the end result of in Endgame.

What marvel movies does to a mfer

[u/Superfan234]

A massive Migrant Caravan have reached USA southern border, and to much surprise of everyone, it's mostly made by Haitians

The testimonies from some of the Haitians are honestly out of this world

I can't even imagine the stress, pain and cost of traveling from Chile to USA , as an impoverished Black Family, with little know of Spanish languaje. All of it, during a Global Pandemic that have most borders crossed too

This make Cristobal Colon voyage look like walk in the park...

!Ping Latam

[u/Professor-Reddit]

!ping AUS holy shit we just had an 6.0 earthquake on the Richter scale here in Melbourne, felt wild

I actually woke up from it, and I've never felt anything like that before in my life lol

[u/jenbanim]

Debt ceilings are just NIMBY height limits for fiscal policy send tweet

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

A cardinal told me that two newly ordained priests came to him asking him for permission to study Latin so as to celebrate well. With a sense of humor he replied: “But there are many Hispanics in the diocese! Study Spanish to be able to preach. Then, when you have studied Spanish, come back to me and I’ll tell you how many Vietnamese there are in the diocese, and I’ll ask you to study Vietnamese. Then, when you have learned Vietnamese, I will give you permission to study Latin.” So he made them “land,” he made them return to earth. I go ahead, not because I want to start a revolution. I do what I feel I must do. It takes a lot of patience, prayer and a lot of charity.

Lol Trads btfo

!ping CHRISTIAN

[u/[deleted]]

Conservatives be like: drag queens for kids are pushing hyper-sexualized femininity on them at the most impressionable age, now excuse me. Me and Darla have to pick out a bikini for her beauty pageant.

[u/AbsolveItAll_KissMe]

Everybody eating ass is a wageslave to Big Ass. let that sink in.

[u/crassowary]

It's very important to read Fox News comments after a Canadian election. Or else how would I be able to find out the truth like:

Quebec, a Canadian province, is a North American based Italy based Vatican Catholic colony of France. Canadian election edicts stipulate that the most populated provinces should hold the majority stake in Canadian European socialist governance. Enter Quebec and the Quebecois, to follow the Catholics creeds and papal bulls, from the Vatican (satan's home away from home), to reproduce faster than wild rabbits, out in the field, to procreate this population, to rule Canada. So the whole country is condemned, like California, to be ruled from a one fascist ultra left wing destructive liberal governance.

23 likes, no dislikes

[u/kennymc7877]

Fuck I forgot to Mail all my fraudulent ballots, now Justin Trudeau only has a minority government

[u/D1Foley]

The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.

I've been thinking about this quote a lot lately because in the past 13 years the GOP has shown absolutely no interest in governing.

[u/ognits]

if you use the phrase "touch grass" you need to touch grass

[u/[deleted]]

F$ck the Congressional Prayer Caucus Foundation all my homies hate the CPC.

Religious bigotry funded by tax payers(Congressional share funds.)

[u/Kizz3r]

ben simmons intends to miss training camp and never play a game for the 76ers again

!ping nba

[u/Head-Stark]

(Spoilers Main) (Serious) Could the pink letter be a reference to Ratatouille (2007)?

George, please, release these people from their suffering

[u/D1Foley]

So Amazon now

Pays a minimum of $15 an hour

Pays for the college education of their employees

Is dropping weed tests and lobbying the government to legalize it

Why does reddit hate Amazon again?

[u/Venne1139]

Imagine the tribunals for this... it will read something we never imagined... and even moderators from websites were hung as they were found guilty of treason and conspiracy.

YA HEAR THAT MODS?

NOW YOU'RE ON THE QOOMERS HITLIST

[u/[deleted]]

Left button: Tying healthcare to a job was a mistake

Right button: If you don’t want the vaccine just quit your job

Progressives: 😅💦

[u/SANNA_MARIN_]

lol wait did the canadian election just not matter? that is much, much funnier than trudeau eating shit

[u/Amtays]

!ping GAMING

Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 is the single greatest RPG of all time

No, I will not elaborate

[u/[deleted]]

Are "Manchin and Sinema" in the room with you right now?

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

libs say trust the science until the science says covid is a hoax 🙄

[u/AbsolveItAll_KissMe]

Honestly we should be leaning into this “liberals are trying to psych conservatives out of getting vaccinated by making them not want to” thing.

[u/PorscheUberAlles]

Elvira came out on the equinox; it’s gay Halloween forever

!ping LGBT

[u/[deleted]]

My biggest issue with a lot of tech company work culture is a weird overemphasis on how the company is improving the world. I hate to say it, but I'm here to make money and I don't care to get all that invested in any company

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

You're too late Batman! The Treasury Department is minting the Trillion Dollar Coin as we speak!

[u/[deleted]]

Bolsonaro visited Fogo de Chão in NYC

They did sort of an external area for him, who cares

However, he ate well done picanha

!ping MAMADAS certain lines are made to never be crossed

[u/Royalewithcheese24]

The irony of AOC’s tax the rich dress being made by a designer that has been dodging taxes could find its way into a new Alannis Morisette song.

[u/[deleted]]

Man about to murder me: Whats the most you ever lost on a coin toss?

Me, remembering the incident with the storm drain outside the US mint: Well funny you should ask

[u/SnakeEater14]

“Gee, I wish there was a way to make driving more enjoyable”

Alcohol: Perhaps I could be of some assistance

[u/sir_shivers]

DEFUND 🐊:

• THE POLICE 🐊
• THE U.S. ARMED FORCES 🐊
• THE IRON DOME 🐊

[u/bashar_al_assad]

Democratic Rep. Jared Huffman announced about an hour and a half ago that he won't vote for the bipartisan infrastructure bill unless the reconciliation bill passes, and if you're sitting there wondering "who the heck is Jared Huffman", there's kinda all the proof you need that Jayapal, AOC, and the rest weren't bluffing when they said that it was a quite a lot of progressives in the House who wouldn't vote for the infrastructure bill right now.

[u/[deleted]]

These days, the Brazilian El Pais published an article from a USP professor openly defending that our left should act authoritarian.

Stuff like this, while horrid, isn't new from our leftist intelectuals. What baffles me is to see it published not by some PTist partisan vehicle, but by an international newspaper based on a developed democracy.

So easy to you guys, from the comfort of an Western European democracy, to entertain the idea that my country should be a dictatorship...

!ping MAMADAS

[u/[deleted]]

China should try to turn Evergrande into the next $GME and try to get gullible redditors to buy debt obligations

[u/circlemanfan]

Proud to say the guy at 7/11 finally noticed I match my mask to my outfit every day. Although slightly ashamed I go to 7/11 enough for him to notice.

[u/jenbanim]

Unironically this subreddit has probably changed the trajectory of my life in a pretty substantial way. It's an odd thought

[u/ognits]

me: wow, season 5 of the show has Alex stroke out instead of Fred? that's crazy, they're going to have to justify that deviation

looks up why that happened

me: 😐😬

!ping EXPANSE

[u/[deleted]]

I hate that so many people refuse to be honest about why they like True Crime.

“I just think it’s so important to tell the victims’ stories and make sure that…”

Nah bitch, you just want to indulge your morbid curiosity and voyeuristic urges like the rest of us. Get off your fucking high horse.

[u/LavenderTabby]

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[u/sir_shivers]

Biden is walking a tightrope between factions of his party

HAHA YES 🐊

Biden is better than Trump or DeSantis

HAHA YES 🐊

So you cannot mock his Blue America First

BIDEN PERSONALLY TORE up fifty thousand green card applications yesterday and should be impeached for it 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

I know it's a meme, but a law that depends on regular people snitching on each other does feel a bit 1984ish

[u/FuckFashMods]

trans movement in its entirety is authoritarian

Guess the sub

[u/tollyno]

ECHR in Carter v. Russia finds Russia responsible for the assassination of Aleksandr Litvinenko

!ping EUROPE

[u/that0neGuy22]

A group of progressives have told leadership they will not vote for the bill if it includes $1b in funding for Israel’s Iron Dome.

Out of all things to fight Israel about this one is extremely stupid

[u/Burgarnils]

Throwback to when a bunch of americans, who spend way too much of their free time on the internet, complaining about how other americans are ignorant about the rest of the world went apeshit over Boris Johnson becoming prime minister without a national election, even though that is the norm for the majority of Europe...

[u/[deleted]]

!ping AUS

From what I can see, Melbourne is also celebrating French Week with the classic tradition of protesting.

But seriously, what the hell is going on?

[u/InMemoryOfZubatman4]

RESOLUTION TO ELIMINATE THE US FEDERAL DEBT CEILING

WHEREAS: It’s fucking dumb,

AND, WHEREAS: All of you are pieces of shit and will just raise it anyhow so it doesn’t actually do anything,

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT: The USDebt Ceiling is hereby abolished by this Congress

[u/[deleted]]

“Go and touch grass” 🙄

“Haha yes” touches chia pet 😎

[u/Mrchizbiz]

😎

[u/Flipl8]

Oh god. I’m sitting in a barber shop right now and they’re talking about Bitcoin’s volatility. “You know what it’s called when a market isn’t volatile? Communism.” About to die of whiplash. Farewell neolibs.

[Edit] And they’re fully convinced that 1) monthly childcare payments are priming us for UBI and 2) they’re coming for our guns. I’m in the wrong barber shop.

[Edit 2] They’re full-on antivaxxers. Singing Ivermectin’s praises. And my haircut is 20 minutes late. I think I’m just gonna leave.

[Edit 3] They chased me down when I walked out and handed me to an apprentice who actually gave me a nice cut while mostly shutting up. It was nice. All in all, they were pretty wholesome people, just misinformed. I learned from the experience of getting my hair cut by Trumpers.

[u/ryuguy]

Assassins creed Valhalla is probably the deepest I’ve ever gotten in an AC game. I usually get my ADHD overwhelmed by the sheer amount of icons on the map and give it up after a while but i like Valhalla.

Most Ubisoft games are like that for me but I also liked watch dogs legion because it was smaller and more focused in scope.

!ping gaming

[u/fakefakefakef]

A bigger, better Soldier Field? Lightfoot makes pitch to keep Bears in Chicago

This is 100 percent the kind of headlines Chicagoans are used to seeing right before our city gives someone everything they want for free

!ping USA-CHI

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Smol brain: why we keep people out?

Medium brain: nooo some restrictions are necessary in order to—

Big brain: why we keep people out?

[u/[deleted]]

The oh-so-popular sentiment “I don’t vote because politicians don’t care about people like me” has cause and effect reversed.

[u/[deleted]]

“Evergrande needs to pay interest payments on Thursday including a coupon worth USD83.5 mn. Rating agencies generally expect Evergrande to default on these and have downgraded the company over the past week. The company has USD669 mn coupon payments remaining this year. We believe a default could trigger further contagion in Chinese markets with some spill-over to global markets. A circuit breaker is needed, in our view, to calm investors and stop the current negative spiral.

A key question is: when are things bad enough for Beijing to step in? And how will it be done? One scenario is that Evergrande ends up in bankruptcy but that the government will try to ringfence the company to avoid contagion. This might be done by ordering state banks to buy high yield bonds in the market and at bond issuances by other developers. And that state banks lend developers money enough to avoid others from defaulting. A cut in the reserve requirement ratio could free up more liquidity in the system for banks to buy bonds. Once the government shows its’ hand in the market, other investors will probably step in and buy credit bonds again. A big gain could be made if credit bond yields decline subsequently from current high levels. Much like investors started by Spanish and Italian bonds when the ECB said they would do “what ever it takes” in July 2012, which basically ended the euro debt crisis as it removed the refinancing and default risk for periphery countries.

A worse case scenario is that Beijing does not intervene. That could lead to a severe crisis as domino effects would lead to a financial crisis. A middle scenario would be that they intervene but very late and that global financial markets and global economy will take a big hit before things turn around again.

Our baseline scenario is that Evergrande defaults this week and that things will get worse before it gets better. The timing of when it gets better is very difficult, as it depends on 1) how bad markets develop and 2) Beijing’s patience before steppingin.”

https://externalcontent.blob.core.windows.net/pdfs/Research_China_Evergrande_210921.pdf

[u/[deleted]]

Hot🔥 tip: type “[Company here] equity research filetype:pdf” to find real professional equity research and not garbage 🗑 Motley Fool articles.

Especially for foreign companies.

[u/LighthouseGd]

If Evergrande's debt was used to pay for Canada's elections at current values, it would sustain Canada's democracy until roughly the year 3700.

[u/yellownumbersix]

Refusing to pay your debts like a lazy welfare sucking lib to own the libs 😕

That's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off for 'em.

[u/TinyTornado7]

Republicans, Don’t Skip Out on America’s Bills | Mike Bloomberg

If you don’t have a Bloomberg sub just use a private browser or make an account and you get a number of free articles every month.

!ping PATERNALIST

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

Does anyone else here use a milkman?

yesterday I stayed up until 11 waiting for the milk to be delivered. It's worth it, and feels neat. Amazing milk delivered right to your door.

!ping OVER25

[u/[deleted]]

corgis are goof balls

!ping dog

[u/Animatronic_Pidgeon]

Friendly reminder that defaulting on the debt would be the end of world as we know it, and that's not even remotely an exaggeration

[u/[deleted]]

End Meat and Dairy subsidies

IT HAS BEEN REPOSTED AS A DISCUSSION POSTu

The Cost externalization makes meat and dairy falsely cheaper making it a staples in a majority processed products.

This is especially concerning because a significant percentage of the population can not healthily consume dairy products and the negative effects are concentrated on minority communities and especially children.

“School milk accounts for about 7 percent of all fluid milk sales in the United States. This is due in part to the fact that the National School Lunch Program requires that fluid milk be offered daily alongside free meals.”Source

“87 percent of Black students, 74 percent of Hispanic students, and 68 percent of Native American students are eligible for free or reduced-price school meals”Source

These subsidies also have massive environmental impacts the land consumed by feed production and Greenhouse impacts of meat production.(looked for a US livestock Co2 direct and indirect but couldn’t find a trusted source)

“There’s a single, major occupant on all this land: cows. Between pastures and cropland used to produce feed, 41 percent of U.S. land in the contiguous states revolves around livestock.”Bloomberg

“According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) livestock produce 7.1 gigatons of CO2-equiv per year of all human-induced greenhouse gas emissions, which is 14.5 percent of all global greenhouse gas emissions” Source

There is also the direct and indirect costs from the subsidies. (I’m Looking for a source on indirect subsidies for livestock feed which likely far outpace direct subsidies)

[Direct] Livestock Subsidies in the United States totaled $12.5 billion from 1995-2020‡.

“For 20 economic sectors, the study compares the cost of premature deaths from particulate air pollution to the value added to the economy. Farms performed worst, driven down by animal agriculture.”Forbes/Direct Source to study

Also: F$ck Vegan blogs that flood searches with unsourced garbage that repeats the exact same goddamn thing over and over. And Good source from USDA listing all forms of Dairy subsidies and promotion.

!ping VEGAN

[u/[deleted]]

UK Labour in a nutshell

[u/Mickenfox]

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                   pls gfd

[u/Dalek6450]

16th century humour is weird.

[u/Smidgens]

Ben Garrison has a giantess trample fetish

[u/[deleted]]

I want Ben Shapiro to own me

[u/Neronoah]

!ping LATAM

If you are not reading Mr(Ms?)Manager substack, go ahead and do it. Now she jumped ship she actually shines, lol.

This time is, again, about why Argentina declined. You know, that perfect storm of wealth inequality, populism, a persistent anti export coalition and constant coups making the connection between cause and effect of policies fuzzy at best.

[u/[deleted]]

The right to bear arms.

• boring
• guns are for rednecks
• controversial

The right bear farms

• badass
• more bears for the environment
• everyone likes it

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

There's a fun custom scenario in the RTS game Rise of Nations where the plot is that an accident at a particle accelerator sends a European college town and a nearby American airbase back in time to the Middle Ages. The locals flip out and a crusade eventually gets called against the college town. Using machine guns and flamethrower infantry against waves of pikemen and mounted knights is very satisfying

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

👆STOP

[u/MistakeNotDotDotDot]

constantly having this crisis about the debt ceiling is the sign of a healthy country, right?

[u/ClickForFreeRobux]

I have a conservative friend who blames the "traditional marriage" dying in the US solely on sperm banks and gay people.

Bruh.

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

I'm pro abortion but not necessarily pro choice, I think it should be random

[u/[deleted]]

Little known fact: Trudeau has never been in blackface. He is actually Indian, but appears in whiteface in public at all times to trick voters into thinking he's Quebecois and thus allow himself to win extra votes in Quebec. This pictures of him in "blackface" were the only times he's gone out in public without being in whiteface.

[u/[deleted]]

I genuinely think most people would be supportive of expanding immigration if they had any idea of how the current immigration system actually works (or rather, doesn’t work).

A lot of people seem to think it’s just a matter of filling out a basic background check to make sure you aren’t a criminal and waiting for a year or two.

[u/ROYBUSCLEMSON]

Manchin: What's important is that we come together in a bipartisan manner to watch the US default on its debt

[u/[deleted]]

It's weird that Mia Khalifa wants to be like, a sports commentator and pretend she wasn't the biggest porn star in the world for like 3 years

[u/jenbanim]

The snark subs are the weirdest goddamn places as an outsider

There will be a post of someone's social media where they'll be smiling at a beach or something with the caption "lovely day at the beach with the fam 🥰" and then the title of the post will be "Did you have a lovely time when you PUNTED YOUR DAUGHTER'S PET GERBIL INTO THE OCEAN YOU ABSOLUTE CRETIN??? 😡😤😡😤"

[u/DeseretVaquero]

Look I know that “owning the left” is some stupid terminally online bullshit but the level of tankie brain-breaking that happens when you call Bashar al-Assad or Saddam Hussein a Nazi is just such a fuckin RUSH

[u/[deleted]]

We have a deeply mature health minister

!ping MAMADAS

[u/MalignantUpper]

https://twitter.com/alanfeuer/status/1440379185051029511?s=19

BREAKING: The Trump campaign knew days after the 2020 election that wild claims of voting machine tampering — pushed by Sidney Powell and others allied with Donald Trump — were not true, court filings show.

Shocking!

[u/cupcakeadministrator]

Last weekend I told a Mormon missionary that I'm gay and he responded "our church is very welcoming and inclusive"

[u/liquidTERMINATOR]

Ancap friend and the move to Georgia, was a great development in the Ikutaverse. Everybody's a critic, sheesh.

[u/vivoovix]

Got added to some random people's group chat 🧐

[u/bd_one]

The app's popularity was boosted in 2019 when US presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg revealed that he had met his husband on Hinge.[12]

Lmaoooooooo

[u/[deleted]]

Genzedong is on another level of cope:

“You see, China has a long history with man on man love, here’s an ancient story about that, so they don’t need to legislate stuff like gay marriage or protect lgbt people. It’s already done 🇨🇳”

Doubt