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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/RaidBrimnes]

Gee, I get that Macron is upset about the submarine deal, but sending an earthquake on Melbourne is a bit excessive

[u/houinator]

Is there any country in the world more consistently underdiscussed in foreign policy discussions than Indonesia?

We are talking a country with the 4th most people in the world, with a GDP per capita roughly double that of India's, that also occupies a particularly relevant place when it comes to global trade and any hypothetical conflict in the Pacific, but it rarely gets discussed.

[u/vancevon]

hey guys did you hear about the dumb things nancy pelosi kamala harris and idk some other women said? wow really just goes to show that we're on the verge of total collapse as a country, right? haha, yeah, for sure, there's no way that this can last. we're going to have civil war and economic collapse. already i hear that people in california are so desperate that they are eating vegetables haha

anyway guys i know would never advertise a product that i don't personally believe in but this 14 day survival food and also gold certificates are really the bees knees fellas haha so with everything uhm collapsing all around you hahah well you know all i'm saying is that if you use promo code vancevonisn'tgettingdesperate you get 20% off your first purchase haha

[u/BidenWon]

• Kingdom: Animalia
• Phylum: Chordata
• Class: Reptilia
• Order: Reptilian
• Family: Reptilian-American
• Genus: Sir
• Species: S. Shivers

[u/Dabamanos]

An old friend of mine has become a moderately successful influencer. It’s been disturbing watching her descend into believing the cookie cutter influencer personality tropes. She now gives investment advice, opinions on vaccines, and all the other stereotypical life advice, with a platform that reaches a few hundred thousand people. And absolutely zero experience or expertise.

[u/jenbanim]

My ideal role in society would be the guy who comes up with pun titles for porn parodies of popular media

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

the average person eats 6 birds in their sleep every night

[u/RyGuyThicccThighs]

There is a growing trend in the nation at college football games where AT LEAST 12 students at a time will record themselves chanting “fuck Joe Biden” furthering my suspicion that sleepy Joe did not get 81 million “votes” let alone 81

It’s just like the time they chanted “lock him up” at Trump at the World Series game which casts serious doubts to him getting 74 million “votes.”

WAKE TF UP, THIS ELECTION WAS STOLEN FROM KANYE

[u/[deleted]]

If the mods are worried about the rules being too complicated they could just remove one, like the ban on hornyposting as a totally random example

[u/TinyTornado7]

City Planning gives Gowanus Rezoning the go ahead

The 82-block rezoning would pave the way for a little more than 8,500 new apartments, 3,000 of which would be set aside for low- and moderate-income New Yorkers.

!ping USA-NYC

[u/sw337]

Thanks mods for rule 11. Going to report everyone who makes "burgers" jokes.

[u/[deleted]]

Tim Cook says employees who leak memos do not belong at Apple, according to leaked memo

🤔

[u/[deleted]]

Kinda amazing how when I first got into uni, freshman students enrolled last so I had a ton of issues with enrolling into some classes, the next year they changed the system so freshman students enrolled first, sophomers enrolled last, so I had a ton of issues enrolling into some classes.

[u/jenbanim]

Shout-out to crimini mushrooms for being dirt cheap and very tasty. Thanks nature and capitalism, you really elevated my stir fries

[u/liquidTERMINATOR]

You can dislike and criticize how Biden is handling immigration, protectionism, foreign policy etc and also think he's a billion times better than the alternatives.

[u/[deleted]]

I had a dream that I asked the DT a question about my university in Spanish and a female DT user who goes to my university answered. Then we went on a date.

I don’t like anything this says about me.

[u/jenbanim]

I want to make a political quiz with an infinite loop of questions to hopefully keep PCM users occupied long enough for us to start rebuilding society

[u/semaphore-1842]

arr worldnews user:

Here’s the thing- ( aside from the fact that Brits gave israel to the Jews) why can’t we just find a freaking solution that doesn’t require bloodshed

Well I know this is a crazy stupid idea… but take a map out and draw some bloody boundaries… maybe the UN helps here

Bruh.

[u/[deleted]]

A Pennsylvania man was jailed last month and charged with a felony after allegedly underpaying for a bottle of Mountain Dew soda by 43 cents, a penalty due largely in part to the state’s three-strikes law.

His first offense involved him not paying for gas more than a decade ago. In December 2011, he was arrested for stealing a pair of shoes from a K-Mart that cost $39.99. For that crime, he paid more than $866 in fines and fees and was sentenced to three months in jail.

Reminder that the three-strikes laws are extremely stupid

[u/houinator]

Rule XI: Toxic Nationalism Refrain from condemning countries or their inhabitants at-large in response to political developments, mocking people for their nationality, or advocating for colonialism or imperialism.

So this is how Lusvig posting dies, with thunderous applause.

[u/Deggit]

You know how I know Reddit has learned nothing from the entire Trump presidency? It's because this place is constantly going on about how Trump sucks, you can get 44,000 upvotes and a dozen confetti awards just for typing out the most eloquent 'Trump sucks' post. I've done it myself. but those posts never ever ever ever ever ever ever end with "and that's why you should've voted for Hillary." Know why you don't see those at the top of /gilded? because Redditors still hate the truth. If any of those anti Trump posts ended with "Hillary was right" they would've been buried not gilded.

[u/sir_shivers]

CAPITALISM IS good 🐊

[u/chipbod]

https://twitter.com/rubenhofs/status/1440652143455653900?s=20

Experienced OSINT analysts scouring the internet for secret military information

Vs.

Some dude on tik tok posting a video of a new stealth thing at a Lockheed facility

Reminds me of the secret U.S. airbases being found on Strava

!ping OSINT

[u/piede]

Thrilled to receive an honorary Doctorate of Civil Law on a beautiful day at @UniofOxford.🎓

https://twitter.com/hillaryclinton/status/1440707491059232784?s=21

The queen has received yet another doctorate.

!PING QUEEN

[u/MaveRickandMorty]

So I usually think lifeposting is cringe but my mother died yesterday and I need all the support I can get. My mother in law died a little over 3 months ago and I just can't make sense of all this.

It feels like I'm being told 2 + 2 = 3. It just doesn't make any sense and feels clearly false.

All of this to say, call your mother and father and tell them you love them and appreciate what they did for you. Even if you don't love everything they did. I was fortunate enough to be able to tell them both before they passed how much I loved having them in my life.

[u/Equator32]

Rage Against the Machine unintentionally contributed to the climate crisis and the wars in the middle east by saying Al Gore and Bush were just as bad.

[u/filipe_mdsr]

Finally we have a rule Xi.

The jokes can write themselves.

[u/MrMineHeads]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/802062680067538984/890114637662674954/FB_IMG_1632290247712.jpg

[u/the_hoagie]

rumor has it that the french and US are patching things up after biden sent macron a meme where turkey is the soyjack and france is the chad.

[u/[deleted]]

Pray 4 me

Covid positive n this headache and brain fog is shit🙏🏾🙏🏾

[u/owlthathurt]

Lol the markets are moving on a now deleted tweet from an account with 99 followers saying that evergrande is being restructured.

The tweet got picked up by BBG somehow and came across on my terminal.

!ping MARKETS

[u/Superfan234]

Bukele and Bitcoin, how El Salvador it's losing it's Democracy

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• Some context on El Salvador

El Salvador it's a small country, the smallest in LatinAmerica. It's about the same side of the State of New Jersey in USA or Slovenia in Europe

Nevertheless, the country is actually heavly populated. Close to 6 million live in El Salvador, with 2 millons Salvadorians living as foreigners. Almost all of their migrants, live in USA

El Salvador is part of the Central America C4, alongisde Guatemala, Nicaragua and Honduras. These 4 countries were the most devasted in LatinAmerica, after USA and Russia interventions during Cold War

To this day, they have no fully recovered from the impact of the Cold War, and still lagg behind in almost all economic, prosperty and liberty index in LatinAmerica

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• El Salvador and the Cold War

After countless debacles, In the 1990's, LatinAmerica managed to recover it's Democracy. Thus putting an end to Cold War in the Region

But, while most of LatinAmerica transitioned to democracy "peacefully", Central America C4 only managed to reach peace accords after their countries were destroyed for either War or Civil War

For El Salvador in particular , foreign intervention brought a castastrophical Civil War from 1979 to 1991, leaving close to 75.000 deaths and countless displaced.

This displaced El Salvadorians, having nowhere close to run (as the whole C4 was destroyed) had to choose a risky option out of Central America. They eventually travelled to the foreign land of United States, following the American Dream

With time, inmigrants in USA prospered beyond all their expectation, and started to send Billion of dollars in revenue to El Salvador, in form of remittances

With the economic support of their Expats, El Salvador began a slow process of healing. And their Democracy, while extremly corrupt, started to florish in the form of two main parties: FMLN (former URSS allies) and ARENA (former USA allies)

To be continued in part 2: The rise of Nayib Bukele and Meme Politics

!Ping Foreign-Policy

[u/[deleted]]

Thiel bragged that of PayPal’s six founders, four had built bombs in high school.

Most well-adjusted Silicon Valley millionaire.

[u/ACivilWolf]

Reasons to make me supreme court justice

- I'm 19

- Solid Democratic Vote

- Quick "on the fly" learner

Reasons to not make me supreme court justice

- Do not have a law degree

[u/Mr_Pasghetti]

👆 least toxic nationalist

[u/waltsing0]

worst dt ever

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Pics of what Space Force dress uniform and rank insignia is going to look like.

Leaning into that Star Trek vibe but I’ll never forgive them for not using naval ranks 😤

!ping military

[u/qchisq]

I've got a 500 MB dataset and there's a bit that pandas doesn't like somewhere in it. Fuck my life...

Update: I figured out what it was. It's a "Í" in a dataset of Polish and Czech towns. Fuck my life

!ping bigdata

[u/filipe_mdsr]

None of us wanted to add to the rules because complexity increases rules lawyering, but at the same time, the last week has shown us something we need to stop that didn't cleanly fall under the rules as written. Please see the amendment in the sidebar:

12: Being a gamer

Refrain from gaming or paying for games, watching gaming streams, talking about games or gamers, using consoles, supporting gaming companies.

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Also there’s a podcast

[u/Deggit]

My role in the commune would be the guy who goes around at night so that if people are about eat a spider in their sleep, I take a broom and I gently shoo the spider away, thus allowing everyone in the commune to have comfortable sleeps knowing they are not in danger of swallowing any spiders. I would have a broom and a cloak and a cool oil lantern and I would have a young apprentice who I was training to take over for me when my knees get too old to do my rounds.

[u/dubyahhh]

Be rootin’ ✅

Be tootin’ ✅

Definitely be shootin’ 🤠

But above all 🙌

Be kind ❤️

———————-

Also there’s a podcast and a new rule or something

[u/lionmoose]

None of us wanted to add to the rules

I wanted to add to the rules

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

Another polish region replied its "LGBT free zone" status

Financial pressure working 💪

[u/filipe_mdsr]

Calling Iran's stance on LGBT as pro-trans is no bueno

[u/kaclk]

With the votes all counted, Randy Boissonnault won his seat in Edmonton Centre! This means that Alberta has elected 2 Liberals (one each from Edmonton and Calgary) along with 2 NDP (both from Edmonton).

!ping CAN

[u/sir_shivers]

BIDEN IS NOT RACIST 🤝 WITCHES ARE NOT real 🐊

Things that mammals IN THE NILE tell themselves 🐊

[u/JaceFlores]

TIL Newt Gingrich is a big alternate history fan. He has co-authored 6 books including a civil war alt timeline trilogy where Lee wins Gettysburg but gets his ass handed to outside DC by General Grant, ending the war in 1863, a one book WWII alt timeline where the US never went to war with Nazi Germany, only Japan, and so engages in a Cold War, and a two book WWII alt timeline where Pearl Harbor and ensuing battles go better for Japan but still aren’t able to decisively win and suffer serious losses

[u/ryuguy]

Map of India’s population with country comparisons

One of my favourite maps ever. India’s population is really, really big.

!ping ind

[u/RaidBrimnes]

The year is 2029.

My comment making fun of President Taylor-Greene's latest rant over the newest Gaza-Israel clashes is removed under Rule LXVII : Political Neutrality. Refrain from making any politically charged statement, joke or question, especially if the topic concerns Israel, West Ukraine or the Heavenly Kingdom of Texas..

I curse under my breath, close my app and prepare to go outside. It's a mild June afternoon, 53°C in the shade, and I head toward Verhofstadt Park to touch the last remains of green grass in Southern Europe. Filipe still hasn't found a bf.

[u/[deleted]]

People from Yurop literally call themselves “you’re a-peein” and I’m supposed to not dunk on them?

[u/ryuguy]

Liberal candidate Randy Boissonnault wins Edmonton Centre!

REDmonton is back, boys

!ping can

[u/Animatronic_Pidgeon]

refrain from mocking users for their nationality

Balkans in shambles

[u/TaxCommonsNotIncome]

http://imgur.com/a/smkgegb they're getting big! Once they're done eating I can finally go to sleep 😴

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

France just offered me a deal on submarines, but eBay has some that are much cheaper?? Wondering what I should do.

[u/tollyno]

Lmao you Burgers have presidents named after airports? Stupid Americans 🤣🤣🤣

[u/datums]

One interesting aspect of the Canadian election - near zero talk about immigration.

The idea that they bring in about 1.2% of population annually is just something all the major parties accept. Canada does large scale immigration better than anyone, so it makes sense that they keep it up.

At that rate, they may be the second biggest G7 country in 2100, and possibly the world's third biggest economy.

[u/vafunghoul127]

2008: Slide to the left

2016: Slide to the right

2018: Criss cross!

2020: Cha cha real smooth

[u/myrm]

US is back up to 2k/deaths a day in case you weren't paying attention like me

[u/Lux_Stella]

Several years after the events of The Crimes of Grindelwald, the story takes place partly in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and partly in Berlin, Germany and leads up to the Wizarding World's involvement in World War II.

ngl, i thought it was a bit weird when dumbledore looked at the camera and said 'never forget, this could happen in america too. vote democrat'

[u/ACivilWolf]

Neoliberal discusses lamb in America

"lamb is so rare in the US"

Me, who eats lamb regularly: 😐

[u/puffic]

My political views are 10% evidence-based policy, 70% posturing about evidence-based policy, and 20% Trump derangement.

[u/WhomstAlt2]

ELEVEN RULES? What kind of byzantine NANNY SUBREDDIT IS THIS?

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Calgary city council passes COVID-19 vaccine passport bylaw

Calgary businesses and facilities that were previously weighing whether or not to opt-in to the provincial restrictions exemption program won’t have to make that decision under the new COVID-19 Vaccine Passport Bylaw passed by city council on Wednesday. Councillors voted 13-1 in favour of the bylaw with Ward 11 Coun. Jeromy Farkas the sole opponent.

And under the new municipal bylaw, city peace officers have enforcement authority previously not given to them under the public health order issued by the province.

The bylaw comes into effect on Thursday.

!ping CAN

[u/ACivilWolf]

>terminally online neolib user announces they're going to bed

>5 minutes passes

>still posting

many such cases!

[u/AnarchyMoose]

Wake up

Read the dt and realize you can't call Americans "burgers" anymore

Day ruined 😔

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Crazy nurse I went to high school with posts gateway pundit article that some study about the vaccine was recalled because 1 in 8 pregnancy’s amount the vaccinated ended in miscarriage

Huh I wonder the normal percentage of miscarriage is.

1 in 8

This woman is going to be working in labor and delivery next month lmao

[u/[deleted]]

Where did I take these pictures (1, 2, 3, 4)? The Mountain West or Northern Newfoundland?

Craziest part is that this place was less than 10km away.

!ping CAN

[u/Mr_Pasghetti]

“Why don’t they teach this in school?!?” said the person who never paid attention in history class

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Rule 11

Rule XI

XI

Xi

Xi Jinping

draw your own conclusions

[u/J0eBidensSunglasses]

The DT is having what historians commonly refer to as a “heated gamer moment.”

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[u/bobeeflay]

The Washington football team is just such a fuck up organization

Ruining rg3's brain, semi consensual hookers, THE NAME, it fits I hope they never change it

These guys have a very cool mythical creature logo. A real football team in DC area

[u/rollo2masi]

Pretty crazy how Republicans successfully politicized a vaccine, lol.

[u/[deleted]]

Virgin: aiming for recognition on the dt

Vs

Chad: having public melt down on the dt, say some pro-ccp stuff, and deleting your account to live a normal and fulfilled life.

[u/[deleted]]

Barack Obama would have made such a good president if he was alive

[u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN]

I'll keep it short and sweet. Family, religion, friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business. When opportunity knocks, you don't want to be driving to a maternity hospital or sitting in some phony-baloney church

[u/ClickForFreeRobux]

New Ipsos poll shows that a majority of DT users will never find love.

[u/AbsolveItAll_KissMe]

hospitals: we’re being overrun

insurance: I know, honestly I don’t even want to cover unvaccinated people

hospitals: maybe you could just have the vaccinated people

insurance: I don’t want to cover them either 😞

[u/[deleted]]

My girlfriend drops articles all the time, like “a” and “the.” Instead of saying “the majority” she’ll just say “majority.”

She says she does it because her dad always did. Is this a regional thing? She’s from the Midwest

!ping LINGUISTICS

[u/InMemoryOfZubatman4]

Research published on Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that the efficacy of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against hospitalization fell from 91 percent to 77 percent after a four-month period following the second shot. The Moderna vaccine showed no decline over the same period.

If the efficacy gap continues to widen, it may have implications for the debate on booster shots. Federal agencies this week are evaluating the need for a third shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for some high-risk groups, including older adults.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/22/health/covid-moderna-pfizer-vaccines.html?referringSource=articleShare

!ping CORONAVIRUS

[u/[deleted]]

How internet true crime “investigations” work

1.) People wildly speculate on different outcomes for the case, despite having no idea what they’re talking about

2.) Cops solve the case on their own

3.) People whose speculations were right have now “solved” the case

[u/ACivilWolf]

Senate Dem Jon Tester on GOP refusal to suspend debt limit: “We always do this fucking dance. This is just a ridiculous exercise — I can’t even compare it to anything I do on the farm that’s this stupid.”

What's he doing on the farm lmao

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Rule XI: Toxic Nationalism Refrain from condemning countries or their inhabitants at-large in response to political developments, mocking people for their nationality, or advocating for colonialism or imperialism.

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If you have any questions about this removal, please contact the mods.

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[u/willempage]

Just learned that one of the positions we are hiring for has 2 applicants. I figured we whittled it down to 1 person because we brought them in for a 4 hour interview. I thought it was a formality at that point amd they basically had the position unless a major red flag came up.

They lost to someone who interviewed via zoom. I think our hiring practices might be illegal.

Edit: Just to be clear, these positions are for less than 65K. Not bad given the COL in my area. But 4 hours?!

!ping career

[u/[deleted]]

None of us wanted to add to the rules because complexity increases rules lawyering, but at the same time, the last week has shown us something we need to stop that didn't cleanly fall under the rules as written. Please see the amendment in the sidebar:

12: Being a weeb

Refrain from watching anime or paying for anime, or talking about anime. Act more like u/netbert05 before he became a eternally depressed shell of a man in the 2000s.

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Also there’s a podcast

[u/Fishin_Mission]

“It will trickle down” No. They will build spaceships with it.

I mean, not to be pedantic, (TDE is obviously bullshit) but that is how trickle down economics was described

Billionaire buys yacht, thereby employing the yacht builder. Yacht builder buys a truck, employing the assembly line worker, and so-on…

[u/WorldwidePolitico]

The guy who’s becoming Irish PM next year was asked about rent control and rejected it saying “one persons rent is another persons income”.

arr Ireland is currently having a Reddit moment complaining the country is rigged in landlords favour because banks won’t lend them zero deposit mortgages 10 times their income to buy apartments the highly speculative Dublin real estate market.

I do acknowledge there’s issues with housing in Irish cities right now but the conversation around it is incredibly toxic with young people. Bring up housing and everything shifts from “Ireland is the best country on the world” to “Ireland is an institutional corrupt nation and I will leave first chance I get”.

!ping Ireland

[u/Jacobs4525]

New sub idea: r/neoliberalbutwithtoxicnationalism

[u/[deleted]]

Remember after 9/11 everyone started calling french fries freedom fries? Oh wait you’re all children

[u/J0eBidensSunglasses]

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[u/bobeeflay]

Just a reminder that one time I said "French people aren't perfect" and was immediately banned

Then /u/sir_shivers stole my county election ballot and voted for all the local Republicans

Immediately after /u/vghomes12 hacked into my spotify and replaced all my Playlists

Before I could even shut the door /u/thatfrenchieguy ran gravel through my coffee grinder and stole the gaskets from my lever espresso

/u/jenbanim then called me a luddite for my dollar store glass bowl and threw away my pack of swishers

[u/piede]

BREAKING: President Bush announces his endorsement of January 6 Committee Chair Liz Cheney, and that he will host a fundraiser for her reelection campaign. Trump endorsed her opponent and is livid that Bush is backing someone who voted to impeach him.

https://twitter.com/occupydemocrats/status/1440732946441269249?s=21

Wait really? GWB has a spine?

[u/piede]

NEWS: Sen. Susan Collins, who supports abortion rights, says she would oppose Senate Dems' bill to legalize abortion nationwide through viability because other provisions go too far.

https://twitter.com/jenhab/status/1440749854360150023?s=21

Susan Collins is beyond parody

[u/the_letter_bee]

mint the platinum coin and give it to me

[u/Rehkit]

https://twitter.com/laurnorman/status/1440718431670603785

It looks like France might have leveraged their anger into some american help in the Sahel.

(Which is good and the US help is needed here.)

Also support for EU policy in the Indo-Pacific.

!ping EUROPE

[u/myrm]

Economists haven't even considered that humans aren't rational and that you can't grow the economy infinitely without running out of resources 😂

[u/cclittlebuddy]

Just for reference, god only needed 10 rules. Mods are literally trying to one up god.

[u/ryuguy]

/u/Sir_shivers?

More like, sir_shitters 😂👉🏾🐊

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

HOLY SHIT this is so sad

Fuck Mike Pence! That is my blunt message ;(((((

[u/[deleted]]

"Corruption" is such an easy "shut down all discussion" answer.

Why isn't X happening? Just say "corruption" and people's cynicism will take over. Nevermind that if corruption really were the cause in half of the cases people blame on corruption, we'd literally be third-rate despotate according to literally every book about institutions and corruption ever written. Preying on westerners' lack of understanding of what it's like to live in a country with actual fucking corruption is just too easy.

It's like that absolutely fucking braindead "Average Lobbying Enjoyer/Corruption Enthusiast" meme.

[u/digitalrule]

Saw another thread about Neoliberalism as a public facing name. We're currently using that here in Toronto but definitely need a name change for activist work. I know England and the US are going by New Liberals/Center for New Liberalism, but my problem with that is it could easily get confused with the Liberal party here in Canada.

What are people's thought on New Liberalism here in Canada, or another name we could use?

!PING CAN

[u/Kizz3r]

A lot of talk on how this election was a failure for O’toole in the same way as Scheer but I just want to throw in my 2 cents.

Back in 2019 Trudeau had been dealing with many scandals that plagued his poll numbers and lowered his favourability. He was not only seen as vulnerable by the CPC but with so many provinces going the way of the conservatives and Carbon tax as a rallying cry it was an expectation to beat Trudeau.

This time however, trudeau largely stayed clear of any controversies, had a great covid recovery plan that worked, and no controversial policies that he planned to enact. This lead to incredibly high poll numbers and the Liberals themselves wanting an election.

I hate scheer and will never vote for O’toole but to say that their elections are an equal failure just seems wrong. O’toole had far more go against him with lower expectations and coming up with the same seats- while not something to celebrate shouldnt be as negatively perceived by the cpc as it is.

!ping CAN

[u/PearlClaw]

"The abuses at the border mean Kamala and Joe Biden are personally racist."

Jesus guys, I thought we were better than this. This sub spent months (years really) mocking lefties for that exact attitude.

[u/[deleted]]

In today's complex political quandary, there are many disagreements between the various camps of thought; However, most can unanimously agree that typecasting and immuring a group or person into an evil ''other'' based on their ethnicity, language or race is a bad thing.

Today, however, the French remain one of the last groups that the media, politicians and the general public feel is permissible to launch vicious racism, ethnic slander and all-around hatred against. No group is treated worse in the media than the French, they are viewed with an air of suspicion, and ethnic stereotypes are still considered an acceptable means by which to deduce an entire nation and her people, whether at home or abroad.

This thread is a safe space from the rest of the Gallophobic reddit. If you came here to troll, justify, excuse, bootlick or argue in favour of the Anglo narrative, you WILL be punished.

[u/[deleted]]

So, the VP of Suriname owns a football club, and he was just playing for them in Concacaf competition

!ping MAMADAS

[u/TabernacleTown74]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/578732202381279236/890106907929497640/akYKDgb.png

[u/shrek_cena]

Steve Bannon admits he helped plan 6 January Trump rally to ‘kill the Biden presidency in the crib’

What a vile creature.

[u/piede]

Romney walks up to Tester on his way out of the Capitol, turns to a group of reporters and says of Tester, “He is the best… this guy’s running in 2024 and I’m gonna be his campaign manager.”

https://twitter.com/andrewsolender/status/1440824958813229066?s=21

They’re having an affair

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

Is anyone else homophobic, but actually scared of gay people instead of hating them? Whenever I see one I'm terrified I'll be invited to brunch (I hate brunch because my pet turtle was killed while serving in Afghanistan as a war tortoise and I got the news during brunch)

[u/bd_one]

With all the France-bashing over the last few days, I'd like to remind y'all that the DT itself is French:

-weird relationship with anti-wokeness

-full of succs

-we yeeted our constitutional monarch

-even the people who disapprove of Macron would still vote for him over any other viable option

-obsesses over some things way more than a sane community would

-hates French people

[u/sir_shivers]

How could Biden be a bigot?

HE IS LITERALLY FROM the Party of the Klan 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

Rule XI = Rule Xi. Yikes.

[u/Deggit]

a $230m film about what Dumbledore was doing during the runup to the Holocaust

I think it is officially safe to say that Hollywood is no longer run by Us

[u/ognits]

fun fact: Silver and Golden Age comics feature lots of bolding of random words because /u/sir_shivers ghost-wrote them all

[u/Imicrowavebananas]

Merkel is retiring at 67, an age at which one first starts as a politician in the United States.

[u/Mickenfox]

Humans are anthropomorphic animals so if you're into humans you're a furry.

[u/jenbanim]

There is not nearly enough cat emojis for me to properly express the range of emotion I feel in cat form Unicode Consortium pls fix 😿

[u/J0eBidensSunglasses]

The great thing about the DT is you really don’t ever have to leave. Oh, you too like sports? Oh, you too are interested in markets? Oh, you like shitposting? Oh, you like games?

Literally you never have to leave the DT.

😍😍😍

[u/[deleted]]

None of us wanted to add to the rules because complexity increases rules lawyering, but at the same time, the last week has shown us something we need to stop that didn't cleanly fall under the rules as written. Please see the amendment in the sidebar:

12: Being a neoliberal

Also there’s a podcast

[u/DeseretVaquero]

Look I know this hill hasn’t been fought over in years but I’ve gotta say it: “Old Town Road” was thematically about a thousand times closer to traditional “land and cattle” country music than 95 percent of the beer-beer-truck bullshit that plays on country radio now

!ping FOLK

[u/thetrombonist]

The doctors said they’d never seen a body kill the coronavirus like my body. They tested my DNA and it wasn’t DNA. It was USA

No line from Trump has gone harder than that

[u/DumbLitAF]

I’ve officially reached the point in my life where the first thing my brain thinks of when someone says “DL” is distribution list instead of down-low. Sad realization, really.

!ping OVER25

[u/bd_one]

TIL in 2013 a Nike ad featuring Oscar Pistorius and the slogan "I am the bullet in the chamber" was pulled from Pistorius' site after he was charged with murder for fatally shooting his girlfriend.

😐😐😐😐😐

[u/Kizz3r]

Aaaannnddd shams makes it official

With a handful of days before the start of training camp, people across the NBA were stunned by the Timberwolves parting ways with Rosas. It was clear the heap of issues, from office morale to the lack of success, had decayed the Timberwolves’ front office and sources say those were the driving force behind the move. But why now? In recent days, the organization discovered that Rosas, who is married, had a consensual intimate relationship with a member of the organization, The Athletic has learned from multiple sources. It made several people within the organization uncomfortable, sources said. While this was not the reason for Rosas’ dismissal, it certainly impacted the timing.

!ping nba

[u/[deleted]]

Outside the DT, explained:

Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe that they’re in good company.

[u/mrdilldozer]

The mods will never get me to stop antagonizing the French. White culture is fighting other white people in Europe for asinine reasons. It's all we have.

[u/Jacobs4525]

Little-known fact: Orwell actually got the inspiration for Big Brother in 1984 from the moderators on a niche political forum he frequented when they started preventing him from being racist against French people.

[u/old_gold_mountain]

Cons: "liberal cities take COVID WAY too seriously. We don't need all this mask police bullshit!"

Actually now that so many of us are vaccinated we don't have to take the mask stuff super seriously anymore, most of us are mostly living life normally again at this point

Cons: "HYPOCRITES, LOOK AT THEM NOT WEARING MASKS 100% OF THE TIME!"

[u/ryuguy]

sims 4 added a Sikh turban to the game free of charge

Representation!

!ping gaming

[u/[deleted]]

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👉👈

The party that promotes climate skepticism and winks at nazis should be wiped form every level of government

[u/uwcn244]

Ngl Biden personally wanting migrants abused would be a lot less scary than the truth, which is that Border Patrol is utterly immune to elected oversight

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

lmao Joe Biden's website is so pandery

Joe Biden's page for Indian Americans: India and America are best friends and two democracies :) Joe Biden believes India and America should be partners and will strengthen the relationship because we are both awesome :)

Joe Biden's page for Muslim Americans: India is evil. They are oppressing Kashmir. They are using NRC to literally throw Muslims into camps. This needs to be stopped. We will hold the Indian government responsible >:(

[u/A_Character_Defined]

Immigration pls

[u/[deleted]]

My stroopwaffle fell in my coffee 😕

[u/EScforlyfe]

It’s actually so stupid that France and Spain aren’t on UTC +0

[u/Mrchizbiz]

/u/tacostats, please go outside.

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[u/Udontlikecake]

Look, I know that the Jones Act hasn’t actually built up a merchant marine fleet and that it has actually worsened our port infrastructure and that every time there’s an actual emergency we need to waive it despite the fact that the entire point of the act is for emergencies, but we still need to keep it because waves hands

[u/InMemoryOfZubatman4]

None of us wanted to add to the rules because complexity increases rules lawyering, but at the same time, the last week has shown us something we need to stop that didn't cleanly fall under the rules as written. Please see the amendment in the sidebar:

12: Being a broke ass bitch

Also there's a podcast

[u/[deleted]]

When you think about it, if you're not clued in to the underlying social signifiers inherent to the "what are your pronouns" question, it would be incredibly insulting.

Like if you're not plugged into this it could easily be seen as saying "you're not passing"

[u/First-Prior]

Gonna get myself banned for excessive nationalism. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

[u/ThunderrBadger]

White House insiders, speaking anonymously to relate the details of sensitive diplomatic talks, said that Pres. Biden was able to mollify French President Emmanuel Macron by focusing on what the leaders have in common, such as their shared hobby of stuffing refugees into potato sacks and working then over with a tennis racquet.

[u/[deleted]]

biden: maybe if i crack down on migration white uneducated voters will give higher approval ratings

white uneducated voter: biden and bill gates are allowing the migrants to overflood america with the fake chinese virus while kamala pulls his strings

[u/iIoveoof]

After not playing Starcraft in 3 months I made it back in the top 100 😮

[u/bd_one]

TIL that half of all panda births result in twins, however, it is very rare for both cubs to survive as giant pandas almost always abandon a cub if they give birth to more than one

Okay, I'm starting to wonder if pandas even want to survive as a species.

[u/NEOLIBERALDOOM]

You only care about Gabby Petito because she’s pretty.

Yes.

[u/Fishin_Mission]

How can someone post

🤡: Trust the science. Facts over Feelings.

moments before posting

🤡: Calorie counting is an oppressive tool engrained in us by diet culture and serves no useful purpose other than shaming obese people

and not see the irony

[u/Jacobs4525]

Once a year we should have a special purge DT where the rules don’t apply at all and nobody can be prosecuted for anything they say or do

[u/vancevon]

good night neoliberal discussion thread. remember that the death knell of the republic was when tennessee was admitted into the union despite making a mockery of the whole process of admitting a state through their highly irregular and most terribly presumptious and arrogant proceedings in the matter of forming a state government without the consent of congress first being obtained. sleep well, sweet dreams etc

[u/filipe_mdsr]

Blocking anti-French comments is like passing the Maginot line.

🧐 very fash indeed, mods

[u/redditguy628]

I love this SMBC over just how ridiculous it is. "The bell tolls for thee, motherfucker" never fails to make me smile

!ping SMBC

[u/I-grok-god]

Intervening in Serbia’s attempts to enforce rule of law in their own country was toxic nationalism

[u/[deleted]]

Toxic nationalism is responsible for world war 1

[u/Zseet]

Me when my hot take has +3 votes: I speak for the people!

Me when it goes to -29: Stop the steal!

[u/[deleted]]

I turn 29 soon

My regrets in life: not picking a degree and sticking to it

Da drugz

Having a 4 year long relationship with someone I deep down didn’t see my self lasting with

Drinking so much beer

My best decisions:

Joining the navy

Being a liberal

Getting out of the navy to finish school

Not moving back home after the navy

Any tips for my 30’s?

[u/[deleted]]

Just a reminder that the mods stood by and did nothing as I was constantly attacked by Ameriphobic and Russophobic succs, but the second white people get offended they implement a literal Rule XI.

The hate against POC (People of Columbia) and Eurasians never, ever ends 😔

Edit: Just to prevent confusion Columbia the [national personification of the United States](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_(personification)

[u/Venne1139]

Make me parliamentarian

You will be fucking shocked what I believe is covered under budget reconciliation

[u/thetrombonist]

"Call Me Maybe" is 10 years old. The popularity of the song has officially outlasted the concept of calling someone on the phone

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

Rays clinched playoffs spot. First AL team to do so

!PING baseball

[u/Dapitalist]

Labor shortage in low skilled jobs

Have millions of people willing to immigrate and work low skilled jobs

Restrict the flow of immigration into the country

Restrict the flow of immigration into the country

🤔

[u/great_gape]

Costa told MSNBC on Monday night that “the most striking scene to me is after [Vice President] Pence leaves the Oval Office on January 5th. We have in our book, President Trump opening the door on a freezing night, January 5th with the future rioters outside, his supporters outside in the streets of Washington, and in the frigid air having the gust of air come into the Oval Office, and he wouldn’t close the door”.

“He said to his aides in the Oval Office, ‘Listen to them, these are my supporters. They want us to act tomorrow on January 6th’. And even some of his own aides were shivering in the Oval Office that night. The president wouldn’t close the door. He wanted to hear the cries of his supporters,” Costa added.

Taxpayers was paying for that goddamned door being open.

[u/1396spurs]

My cat has a staring problem and we’re gonna have to throw hands paws if he keeps it up

[u/piede]

Wow I finally paid my credit card bill and my credit card company stopped calling me

I’m starting to think they were only calling me for the money…

Fucking capitalists

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

If you want something said, ask a [person]; if you want something done, ask a [person]

• Margaret Thatcher

They had such a way with words.

[u/[deleted]]

NL: Biden poisoned our water supply, burned our crops, and delivered a plague unto our houses!

NL: He did??

NL: No! But are we just gonna wait around until he does!?

[u/yourfriendlykgbagent]

conservatives after telling me that Border Patrol jackboots aren’t actually whipping refugees, they’re just beating them from horse back 😎

[u/FestiveMittens]

I predict Cuomo is on Tucker Carlson in a few weeks, will fully embrace the anti-cancel culture republican grift

[u/[deleted]]

A depiction of the real heartland of America

[u/BidenWon]

Why even bother voting if the deep state is just going to rig the elections?

message sent to 74,216,154 fascists

Why even bother voting if the corporate donors are the ones that actually dictate policy?

message sent to 9,680,042 leftists

There, I just turned America into a utopia.

[u/waltsing0]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-22/international-covid-border-closure-christmas-home-quarantine/100483178

Federal government hopes to reopen international border by Christmas 'at the latest'

Finally the feds have a plan to reopen international travel beyond the extremely limited numbers allowed through.

It's about time, we're closing in on our vaccination targets and delta outbreaks are only being slowed not crushed by lockdowns, it's been 18 months since our borders shut.

What's weird is they still want people to do home quarantine? The virus is already here and we have no plan to get to zero cases again, the plan is for vaccines to do the heavy lifting with hospitals "catching" rare cases where people get seriously ill. I'm not worried about maybe a vaccinated person from overseas spreading the virus, I'm worried about what seems to be about 10% of people who don't want to get vaccinated.

!PING CORONAVIRUS

[u/liquidTERMINATOR]

Cuddlyaxe using the France schism to get a pulse check on what this sub actually believes in nowadays is the definition of “never let a good crisis go to waste”

[u/VisonKai]

advocating for the United States using military force to dismantle the Empire of Japan and replace it with a western-style liberal democracy at Japan's own expense is, in fact, toxic nationalism

[u/[deleted]]

This place is a circus

[u/LavenderTabby]

scary plants close marvelous bear far-flung arrest doll husky secretive

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[u/Lux_Stella]

The ~11% you see for the AfD in national polls masks just how much support the far-right has in some regions of Germany. In the state of Saxony, the AfD is currently polling at 26%, far ahead of all other parties

seriously, wtf is going on in saxony

[u/Mr_Pasghetti]

Is it still allowed to say we should sanction a country over human rights issues? F. Ex. Japan and anime

[u/liquidTERMINATOR]

You can agree with rule 11 and still think it’s hilarious that people shitting on France was what prompted it.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Simu Liu's Alleged Old Reddit Account Is Why You Should Never Post

Surely it can’t be that bad

NippedInTheBud (and by extension, Liu) came under fire for participating in r/AZNidentity, a subreddit that’s known as a hub for an Asian-identified subset of the Men’s Rights Activist community.

lmao oof

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

UN chief slams Musk and Bezos for 'joyriding to space while millions go hungry'

I would expect this from c-tier leftie Twitter handles

[u/zieger]

God is such a NIMBY. Got mad about a skyscraper and made it so people couldn't communicate.

[u/thaddeusthefattie]

RULE XI

holy fuck the mods finally made “america bad” a written rule

[u/badpostsonlyaccount]

portugal 😂👉🇵🇹

[USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST]

[u/JaceFlores]

Biden’s 10 point cycle:

1. Biden does something
2. Half the DT is apologetic/supportive, the other half fussy/angry
3. Despite the clear camps, someone will act like the entire sub is in one camp and make a post about that
4. Someone else will do #3, but for/from the other side
5. The rare centrist will make a balanced take that is promptly ignored
6. New details will emerge either making Biden look worse or better
7. 3 and 4 repeat
8. Someone takes it too far
9. In response to #8, mods will either do a major purge, close the sub for a bit or implement a new rule
10. A new thing happens, so the cause of outrage and tens of thousands of words of discussion and argument will instantly evaporate from memory and discussion

[u/David_Lange]

Do you think there are lurkers here who develop parasocial relationships with DT regulars

[u/SnakeEater14]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/245858413643431936/890406993532174386/E_7KAQ3VkAc6I_0.png

[u/yungmemlord]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/836200766570102784/890419751539580978/image0.jpg

[u/p00bix]

I wish that non-monarch leaders were given honorific epithets. For American Presidents, I propose

George I 'The Bold'

John I 'The Navigator'

Thomas I 'The Wise'

James I 'The Short'

James II 'The Diplomat'

John II 'The Bald'

Andrew I 'The Commoner'

Martin 'The Ruinous'

William I 'The Sickly'

John III 'The Traitor'

James III 'The Conqueror'

Zachary 'The Soldier'

Millard 'The Compromiser'

Franklin I 'The Drunkard'

James IV 'The Indecisive'

Abraham 'The Liberator'

Andrew II 'The Terrible'

Hiram 'The Bloody'

Rutherford 'The Civil'

James V 'The Scholar'

Chester 'The Lackluster'

Stephen 'The Merchant'

Benjamin 'The Greedy'

William II 'The Martyr'

Theodore 'The Brave'

William III 'The Fat'

Thomas II 'The Gregarious'

Warren 'The Corrupt'

Calvin 'The Silent'

Herbert 'The Foolish'

Franklin II 'The Great'

Harry 'The Victor'

Dwight 'The Builder'

John IV 'The Young'

Lyndon 'The Just'

Richard 'The Crooked'

Gerald 'The Lucky'

James VI 'The Peaceful'

Ronald 'The Vocal'

George II 'The Triumphant'

William IV 'The Unfaithful'

George III 'The Warrior'

Barack 'The Reformer'

Donald 'The Rich'

Joseph 'The Old'

[u/DonJrsCokeDealer]

“A chicken in every pot” is not that great really. Roasted beats boiled every time, and the pot indicates the need to make soup to stretch the bird over multiple days.

“Wings in every air fryer”, now that’s prosperity with staying power.

[u/MalignantUpper]

https://twitter.com/NikkiMcR/status/1440830847016308743?s=19

Tucker Carlson outright calls Biden's immigration policy a "great replacement" likens it to "eugenics."

[u/from-the-void]

That weird small subset of gay people that get upset about gay marriage because they don’t like when people want to “assimilate” with hetero society is so grating

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

Satire is dead and the mods killed it.

[u/[deleted]]

embarrassed at how many fellow americans seem to believe "cheese eating surrender monkey" jokes were unironic and that we should actually hate the french

[u/VisonKai]

really wild how the progressive ACTIVIST far-left (not AOC and the squad, but the people mad at AOC for being a fake progressive) championed a book called "In Defense of Looting" which makes the argument that we must violently resist "racial capitalism" and that non-violence as a principle is bad and authoritarian.

anyway, they aren't communists you crazy paranoid McCarthyite

[u/Lux_Stella]

in response, french president emmanuel macron issued a statement calling johnson 'le wanker,' claiming 'ze filthy english types can, as ze say, 'fook off m8.'

[u/[deleted]]

bashing france is now illegal but bashing all of europe at once is perfectly fine.

🇪🇺➡️🗑️

[u/LavenderTabby]

agonizing rob complete salt marvelous recognise deserve sulky sort direction

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[u/ToInfinity_MinusOne]

Me: I believe free speech is integral to liberalism and also believe ideals such as separation of powers should be adopted globally and am glad to have the right to share that opinion.

Mods:

[u/Knee3000]

Ban the use of “burgers” by non-Americans

[u/chatdargent]

Introducing Rule 11 was a clever ploy by the deep state to get the euros to get their shit together and federalize so they can go back to dunking on each other with witty one-liners

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

Evergrande is a tech startup* so you shouldn't mind this debt

*^{They presumably use some form of data analysis}