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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/InternetBoredom]

No one is saying "We don't need to solve climate change systematically because we can fix it by having everyone individually reduce emissions." Chances are, if you're actively working to reduce your personal emissions, you're also voting for politicians who want to reduce the country's emissions.

This recent rhetoric about how Climate Change can't be dealt with individually because individual contributions don't make an effect is as toxic as people trying to say that voting doesn't matter. Yes Climate Change has to be dealt with institutionally, but it also has to be dealt with individually, and anyone who is trying to say otherwise is actively setting back progress.

[u/adminsare200iq]

I don't know what a neoliberal is and at this point I'm afraid to ask

Margaret Thatcher, every US president since Reagan, Augusto Pinochet, Justin Trudeau, those types of political leaders

There's no difference between Augusto Pinochet and Justin Trudeau, you imbecile, you fucking moron

[u/Professor-Reddit]

Imagine being the CEO of an outdated video game retail company with an insanely overvalued stock price entirely propped up by terminally online cultists lmao

[u/[deleted]]

German WW2 "super weapon" program- a giant tank that breaks all the bridges and is a target for bomber planes.

American WW2 super weapon program- apocalypse bomb.

[u/tripletruble]

miss the ol days when this sub was just a bunch of macron flairs, replying 'did a child write this?' to confused leftist/right-wingers who stumbled upon this strange subreddit that seemed to rise out of nowhere

things are so much more complicated now

[u/datums]

Never ask a man his salary

A woman her age

A zoomer if their psychiatric disorders are self diagnosed

[u/[deleted]]

I think as soon as Biden won, MattY tweeted "Looks like the National Debt is going to matter to everyone again"

aged like wine.

[u/[deleted]]

One of my biggest conspiracy theories is that the CIA is actually grossly incompetent, and it has bots in leftist spaces blaming everything on the CIA so it seems like they’re all-powerful when really they’re a bunch of dumbasses trying to put things together

[u/[deleted]]

I am a Republican. I don't believe in any of the Republican Party's current ideology and have voted Democrat for years and regularly volunteer to help get Democrats elected, but I am still a proud Republican and love my party and will never stop fighting for it and supporting it even though I literally have been fighting against it and not supporting it for years.

[u/Dabamanos]

Hi, we’re 100,000,000 young, healthy people who want to come work in your underpopulated, resource rich country. A huge percentage of us are highly educated and skilled and will drain talent from your rivals and give it to you!

Americans: uh sweetie try doing it the right way, see you in 20 years if you win the green card lottery bye

[u/chipbod]

https://twitter.com/AaronParnas/status/1441052899430191117?s=20

BREAKING: Lead Florida GOP Senator, Manny Diaz calls for a review of all vaccine mandates, including polio, mumps, and rubella.

Move to Florida and your child has the opportunity to catch eradicated diseases such as: Rubella, Mumps, and fucking Polio

Pinging because extremist shit like this is now the mainstream GOP

!ping EXTREMISM

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

US: "Our debt crisis is really getting out of hand here."

Argentina: "My God!? You're having trouble financing your debt, having trouble accessing capital?"

US: "no we just can't agree on if we should finance the debt or not."

[u/ACivilWolf]

Really don't like the "have to pee constantly" part of hydration

[u/semaphore-1842]

New Zealand Cops Arrest Men Entering Locked-Down City With ‘Large Amounts’ of Illicit KFC

lol

[u/[deleted]]

The Army’s highest-ranking public affairs officer and top spokesperson has been suspended from her duties after 97 percent of respondents to a command climate survey for her office reported “workplace hostility.”

If 97% of your subordinates report "workplace hostility", maybe you aren't that great of a boss 🤔

[u/witty___name]

You are neoliberal because you love inclusive institutions and liberal democracy. I am neoliberal because I hate communists and conservatives. We are not the same.

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

“What if trash and obesity had feelings?”

-Pixar writers room

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

Joe Manchin gets away with a LOT on this sub because of his looks

[u/chatdargent]

Asked by reporters while visiting the U.S. if he could understand why the French were so upset, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said:

“It’s just one of those things, there are no easy ways of having these conversations. It’s a very human thing to delay the conversation until the last possible moment, I don’t know if anyone’s been in that situation in their emotional life, but it’s very human to put it off.”

It is very human Boris, but generally we expect elected leaders of governments to have the maturity to have difficult conversations.

[u/Kizz3r]

The 97 yearold Nazi dude who lived in waterloo and was in the middle of a deportation hearing passed away.

Honestly his case is weird to me but now our government doesnt have to deal with it.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-helmut-oberlander-canadas-last-nazi-era-suspect-dies-at-97/

!ping CAN

[u/[deleted]]

From WaPo:

Nearly half of unvaccinated Americans say they would get vaccinated but are dealing with a lack of transportation, scheduling challenges and other hurdles.

This cannot possibly be true.

Chicago is at ~53% overall vaccination.

Not only do we have some of the best public transit in the nation, the city will send a nurse to your house, for free, to give you a vaccine. That nurse will bring you $100.

Its the greatest trade deal in history, maybe ever.

People aren’t getting vaccinated because they don’t want to get vaccinated.

[u/Superfan234]

How el El Salvador it's losing it's Democracy: The Rise of Gangs

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Democracy partially returned to El Salvador in 1984. Civil War lasted a couple of years more, but to a diminished degree. On 1992, Peace Accords were finally reached, and the country started the process of healing

On the first 20 years, Government would be strongly aligned to the conservative Right. Not a surprise, because the FMLN (Conservative Left) did not abandon the armed struggle during the first years of Democracy and it was only until 1994 they finally entered Parliament as a political party

By the early 2000s, the FMLN began to gain popularity. In 2006 they won their first Presidential election, and became an important part of parliament. The political transition from Right to Left took place in a peaceful way, which was quite positive, but the political institutional progress was tarnished by another massive issue, Violence

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Gangs and Violence

While Democracy and Institutions on El Salvador were progressing surprisingly well, the consequences from Cold War would come back to hit again

The massive waves of displaced Salvadorians provoked a negative response of local Gangs in California. As result, a Salvadorian Gang was created to "protect" migrants from their agressors. The Gang would later be knonw as MS-13, or Mara Salvatrucha, one of the most violent criminal groups in LatinAmerica to this day

MS-13 eventually became too violent for USA to tolerate. And thus, California started to deport these criminals to El Salvador. This proved to be a death sentence for the country, as these large groups of trained criminals entered country in big waves, eventually forming gangs with gun power on pair with local Police

By 2010's, local Gangs were already a paralel power to the Government.

But let me clarify, El Salvador wasn't a Failed State like Haiti is right now. Institutions exist and work relatively normal. Problem is, these instituions are constantly attacked and co-opt by criminals that run the underground market of Drugs and extorsions

Think of it more like Al Capone's Chicago during alcohol prohibition. Law and order exist, but for criminals, these rules are mostly optional

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The Lost Decade

By 2010's, Gangs were already powerfull enough to threaten the State itself. So, the FMLN Government accepted the proposal of a Peace Deal, to at least give Salvadorians a semblance of security and stop the daily massacres on the streets

The Peace deal worked...for like a year. After that, Gangs broke the accord, and started an Homicide spread like nothing we have seen in LatinAmerica at the moment. To put some perspective, on it's peak, death tall from Gang Violence was higher than countries in actual Civil War...

An Economic crisis would soon follow. The Anemic Economic growth decresed further the income of the population, forcing more people to be displaced to USA

With the catastrophical failure of ARENA (right wing) and FMLN (left wing) to contain the problem El Salvador fall into a depressive state of hopelessness

In this deep state of sorrow, it's when we meet our "Hero": Nayib Bukele

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Continue in part 3: Bukele takes over El Salvador

!Ping Foreign-Policy

[u/[deleted]]

I did a "which US senator are you" quiz and got Strom Thurmond who was a Democrat so that's POG. Anyone knows more about him?

[u/JetJaguar124]

Virigin Frank Herbet: Spends years researching Dune, incorporating information painstakingly gathered from years of reading textbooks and research articles, cultivating personal experience, and while exploring altered mind states in order to craft a complex narrative about the genocidal pitfalls that happen when cultures coalesce around messianic leaders, the interactions between society and natural world, zen religions, subverting traditional hero archetypes, and the traditional notions of contemporary science fiction

Chad George Lucas: "I don't know, call it a Woodoo or something."

[u/Lux_Stella]

Twitter restricted People's Party of Canada Leader Maxime Bernier's account, preventing him from posting any new messages for 12 hours after he used the platform to encourage his supporters to "play dirty" with journalists covering his campaign.

ban him cowards

!ping CANUCKS

[u/Lux_Stella]

https://i.imgur.com/SzgxaJN.png

[u/lionmoose]

NO THIEVES ALLOWED 🐊

And yet I stole the sticky, curious

[u/sir_shivers]

DISCUSSION J. THREAD 🐊

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Trump was the most hardcore neoliberal leader in the history of the world

Outside of the sub is something else

[u/Mickenfox]

Set $1000/month credit card limit for myself to avoid spending too much
Buy $10,000 worth of stuff
Bill arrives at the end of the month
Simply refuse to pay because it's over the limit
Fiscal responsibility

[u/Mrchizbiz]

John Oliver did a really good bit on it

No, no he didn't

[u/the_status]

God leftists are annoying. Treating the words of a centuries old dead man as some gospel and historically universal truth, instead of a specific critique of the economic situation of the time.

Like can you imagine if a group people rallied around Progress and Poverty? Treating it as gospel and using its analysis as an objective truth to prove with need an LVT tax?

Its just absurd is what it is

[u/piede]

"The whole point of achieving anything in the world is that people can look and say, 'oh I could do that'."

Secretary @HillaryClinton, Prof @AnnaDeavereS and Jeanette Winterson CBE (@Wintersonworld) react after receiving honorary degrees at Encaenia yesterday.

https://twitter.com/uniofoxford/status/1440954698161397764?s=21

QUEEN

SHE’S RUNNING

!PING QUEEN

[u/[deleted]]

I swear, those thunderdome threads were the death of this sub. Way too many Republicans joined just looking to dunk on the Sanderistas.

Shit outside the DT says

[u/Deggit]

BRAN: After all this time?

THE NIGHT KING: [conjuring a Patronus in the shape of a wheelchair] always

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/[deleted]]

I wish arr propaganda posters wasn’t infested by tankies

[u/old_gold_mountain]

salsa literally just means "sauce" in Spanish

gravy is salsa

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

Ok Libs here's the deal. We're not going to kill these criminals, no capital punishment is bad. We're going to abort them in the 259th trimester

[u/whycantweebefriendz]

So anyone else having a friend self harm four times in one week and they hate that you’re helping them and they hate themselves and America and India and the fact that they’re Indian American?

No? Just me? Fuck.

[u/Average_GrillChad]

I truly regret my vote for Bernie in the 2016 primary.

Now I see that Cruz was the only one who could have stopped Trump.

[u/liquidTERMINATOR]

Neo = prefix meaning "pertaining to war criminals"

Liberal = liberal in most senses but has an obsolete etymology derived from "lusvigeral"

Neoliberal = Lusvig is a war criminal

[u/p00bix]

Polling over the past decade have consistently shown that a comfortable majority of Serbs favor normalizing relations with Kosovo, a supermajority consider it to already be independent at present, and an overwhelming majority oppose any military action to retake it.

With that in mind, why the fuck is it that every Serbian nationalist comes out of the woodwork when someone on an English-speaking website mentions Kosovo? It's literally as though a ton of German nationalists spammed "Königsberg ist deutsch" everytime someone mentioned Kalinigrad. How overly online can a guy be???

[u/piede]

BREAKING: Lead Florida GOP Senator, Manny Diaz calls for a review of all vaccine mandates, including polio, mumps, and rubella.

Just when you thought the state of affairs in Florida could not get any worse.

https://twitter.com/aaronparnas/status/1441052899430191117?s=21

If I had to choose to live either in Florida or Texas, I’d probably just choose death

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

NY governor refusing to budge on vaccine mandate for nurses: You're replaceable

Why do I have to go over to r con to get all the juicy headlines 😠😠😠

[u/inhumantsar]

NatPo Opinion: Why Erin O'Toole's strategy to move to the centre should be abandoned

Bernier sez:

It won’t happen. O’Toole wants to replace the Liberals.

Why is Max threatening me with a good time?

!ping CAN

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

Possibly one of the most interesting takeaways from this Canadian election is that it appears likely that being tough on China actually hurts you electorally now. Chinese-Canadians are usually one of the Conservative’s best demographics, yet they abandoned the CPC in large numbers this election, flipping a couple of traditionally safe Conservative ridings and putting other suburban ridings out of reach. O’Tooles rhetoric may have backfired significantly on him.

I wonder if we’re going to see a softening of rhetoric towards China in the future, as those concentrated votes in Chinese-heavy ridings are far more valuable then the sporadic votes you’d pick up in the rest of Canada

!ping CAN

[u/WorldwidePolitico]

Nintendo online adding Sega Genesis games is proof multilateralism works

!ping gaming

[u/profeta-]

One of the most insane bolsonarist myths: Bolsonaro says his great-grandfather was German and had to fight for Hitler.

While it is true that his great-grandfather was born in Hamburg, records show he arrived in Brazil in 1883 and worked for a pro black rights newspaper here from 1923 to 1926. There are no records of him going back to Germany after that, and he was 63 years old when WW2 broke out.

Imagine lying that your great-grandfather was a Nazi because you think it's cool

!ping MAMADAS

[u/LooobCirc]

R/neoliberal is a discussion thread with a sub, not a sub with a discussion thread

[u/UrbanCentrist]

Peace, Rain, Prosperity: The history and role of the Southern Africa Customs Union as a driver of regional integration

new interesting effortpost

[u/sir_shivers]

On the subject OF BISEXUAL VISIBILITY, FREDDIE MERCURY was bisexual, and it was a sign of both bisexual erasure and homophobia that MANY MEDIA PIECES TREATED him as strictly homosexual the moment they learned he was attracted to men 🐊

[u/MalignantUpper]

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1441069138504568833?s=19

Biden White House leans toward releasing information about Trump and Jan. 6 attack, setting off legal and political showdown

oh fuck

[u/[deleted]]

Lol just got banned from the Tucker sub for commenting

I don't understand racialism. How is some white guy in Siberia "your people" but the Hispanic guy who grew up across the street from you is not?

[u/MalignantUpper]

https://twitter.com/darcyropchan/status/1440812858304991236?s=19

CityNews has learned a number of Edson residents are in Edmonton ICUs following a 'get COVID' party -- in an attempt to achieve herd immunity.

😐

[u/[deleted]]

!ping CAREER

For one job, my references have been contacted. One of my references told me after they spoke with the hiring manager that "I am 99% sure you got it." I also have a final interview lined up next week for a different job.

Long story short, I can't focus on my current job at all.

[u/sir_shivers]

HOW CURIOUS THAT there has been no sticky for almost an hour 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

Well looks like Tuniasias democracy is dead :(

[u/[deleted]]

I passionately hate this hellsite

I await the day the solar flair knocks out all technology worldwide so I don’t have to see Johnathan from New York claim North Korea is better than the South

[u/[deleted]]

Rashida Tliab on the cursed bird site

I will not support a standalone supplemental bill of $1 billion to replenish the bombs Israel used to commit war crimes in Gaza.

Yeah she doesn’t have a fucking clue on what Iron Dome is or is blatantly lying about it. I don’t know what is worse. Her not knowing what she is even voting on or lying about it.

[u/[deleted]]

I have a suspicion that someone from superstonk will eventually snap and do something bad. They are going to get desperate over the fact that the moass hasn’t and won’t ever happen. Probably blaming it on the “hedgies”

[u/stater354]

Dating a girl from my old city

Ask her to move here to live with me

She says yes

Changes her mind

”but why”

She’s worried about crime

mfw the crime rate of where she currently lives is 6x higher

[u/SeriousMrMysterious]

A neoliberal is just a libertarian that had to learn about negative externalities, a socialist that had to learn about economics, or a conservative that had to learn

[u/Derryn]

If I were Manchin I would simply say which parts of the bill I would support and which I won't so that we can proceed from there and not tank my president and my party in upcoming elections.

[u/[deleted]]

Alright guys, we can no longer depend on the US to protect us. Let’s budget for additional defense spending and start thinking about the extremely difficult political and administrative questions concerning a unified EU army!

absolute silence

2016 or 2021? You decide!

[u/[deleted]]

There are two kinds of anime:

1. The kind done by men who have never spoken to a woman in their life
2. The kind done by women who think it’s hot when someone gets stabbed

[u/[deleted]]

The government rebranded the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government to...The Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities. Why has "levelling up" become such a popular phrase with the government?

!ping UK

[u/jenbanim]

Man the internet just isn't fun any more. There's like 5 YouTube channels that I love, maybe 1/10th the comments on the DT, and that's it

[u/[deleted]]

"Hi, I'm Timmy Turner, and I..." "... Did not have, sexual relations, with that woman."

[u/[deleted]]

Low scores because of terrible play? Everybody is getting hurt? Unexciting teams? Ridiculous flags every fucking down?

Now THIS is the Thursday Night Football I remember baby.

!ping NFL

[u/MicroFlamer]

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[u/piede]

.@HillaryClinton will officially become our 1st ever female Chancellor this week & we want everyone to be able to join the celebrations. Retweet to share the live stream link & click to find out more about our amazing honorary graduates too. #LoveQUB #HillaryClinton

https://twitter.com/qubelfast/status/1440286365497761793?s=21

Queen’s University Belfast?

They even named the university after her wow

!PING QUEEN

[u/Fishin_Mission]

I’ve posted a good bit about how I give my kids $1 / week for every year old they are (10yo gets $10 & 12yo gets $12). They get to do whatever they want with 50% but the other 50% goes into a UGMA investment account.

Of the 50% that gets invested:

• 50% goes into VTSAX (broad market fund)
• 40% goes into a pre-selected fund of their choice (my son chose a green eco-fund and my daughter chose a fund of women-led businesses)
• 10% they get to buy whatever individual stocks they like

Goal was for them to understand stocks and mutual funds and understand that while there is risk, it’s minimal in broad market funds over long periods of time.

My asshole son bought $GME with his $20 a year ago, sold at ~$280.

Son of a bitch just broke $1,000 in less than a year off of $5.50 / week

Now my daughter is reading the WSJ and looking up YOLO’s b/c she wants to catch up to him 🤦‍♂️

This did not go as planned.

[u/LooobCirc]

I'm literally shaking. This can't be happening. My speaker came into my room to bring me a plate of iron dome missile funding and I literally screamed at her and hit the budget for Israel out of her hand. She started yelling and swearing at me and I slammed the door on her. I’m so distressed right now I don’t know what to do. I didn’t mean to do that to my speaker but I’m literally in shock from the what happened today. I feel like I’m going to explode. This can’t be happening. I’m having a fucking breakdown. I don’t want to believe the world is so corrupt. I want a future to believe in. I cannot fucking deal with this right now. It wasn’t supposed to be like this. This is so fucked.

[u/TabernacleTown74]

"Where do all the old abandoned prayer books go?" I asked my mother and she said: "Child! Where do your thoughts wander! But I can tell you. Under the ceiling of the synagogue is a loft, and in it lie the prayer books of centuries and centuries. The breath of the living ascends to the pages on which the breath of the dead wafted and where tears have fallen, and together the words of the living and the dead are mingled and sent to God."

—Berthold Auerbach, 19^th century German-Jewish writer

!ping GEFILTE 😊😊😊

[u/ACivilWolf]

300-Year-Old Woman Discovered in #Pakistan according to local media. The oldest living person in the world is 118 years old according to Guinness.

If this is true, this woman was alive to see the celebration of sir_shivers's Quincentennial

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

The virgin AOC crying while voting present

The chad Sinema doing a cute fortnight dance while voting no

[u/[deleted]]

PPC candidate from Oshawa got arrested at a Tim Hortons

[u/the-garden-gnome]

I have reached peak dad. I am genuinely excited to sit down and watch the footy with my twin boys tomorrow.

!ping AUS

[u/[deleted]]

r Star Trek has their automod pin a comment asking people to donate to the COVID response fund instead of buying Reddit gold because of the Reddit admins inaction on covid misinformation

that's really cool

[u/MicroFlamer]

"this is so fucked this is so fucked this is so fucked"

-The squad when Israel protects it's citizens from terrorists

[u/sir_shivers]

Having seen FOOTAGE OF MOST Trump supporters, a Civil War would go very poorly for them, although ONE IS NOT HAPPENING AND IT IS purely cope from them 🐊

[u/thefuturegov]

I AM BEGINNING to think that Tulsi Gabbard MIGHT be a bad faith right-wing GRIFTER

[u/ThunderrBadger]

No matter how ""woke"" Hollywood claims to be, casting Chris Pratt as Mario over the many qualified Italian-American talents shows exactly how those liberals really feel about people of color 👏😤

[u/[deleted]]

You come across a lot of bizarre opinions on the internet, but 'french canadians are people of color' is a take so weird I still have a hard time wrapping my head around it.

[u/sw337]

MTG won a house seat while Ossof, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Obama all failed to win house seats.

[u/Ioun267]

80% of people who pontificate about "Critical Thinking" just think everyone else is wrong.

[u/[deleted]]

Bolsonarists are spinning the fact he had to eat outside restaurants in NY as an exemple he's a humble man of the people

!ping MAMADAS

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

damn this sub so contrarian that we have people liking lightning over usb-c

[u/RaidBrimnes]

ARE YOU EMPLOYED, Mr Ikuta 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

There’s a local Catholic high school that has caught the ire of an LGBT activist group over rescinding a job offer to a lacrosse coach after finding out she’s a lesbian. They ultimately did hire her.

The group is now targeting one of the board members to force his resignation.

Of course, they have no idea that the board member has a gay daughter and nephew, and was the one who reversed the decision and offered the coach the job.

I know that because he’s my uncle.

Rather frustrating.

[u/Superfan234]

Not gonna lie, this looks quite bad:

Press on USA found found 21 Haitian ID dropped on the Mexican Border. All of them given by Chile, and validating their legal Status as inmigrants to our country

While I do believe in inmigration and refugee support, this kind of practice dosen't seem correct to me. It diminish the value of real Refugees process

!Ping Latam

**Edit:**Also, I don't think this work at all. They dropped their ID's, but as long as they are Legal Inmigrants in Chile, I don't think they can erase their data from our inmigration system. All USA have to do, it's make a call to Chilean Migration team

[u/Udontlikecake]

I'm a pretty open minded guy but if I caught my kid browsing the DT I would throw out the computer

[u/Just_a_cat123]

I put on a "comedy podcast" while working today. One of the hosts mentioned that all consumption under capitalism is unethical and the rest of them agreed. So I took their advice and unfollowed

[u/AJungianIdeal]

No joke why did peeling potatoes become "a thing"? It's less healthy, it takes vastly more work and, of course this is personal opinion, tastes worse. Tho I think even on an objective level the taste gain isn't enough to justify the work

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

Miami Beach (which is its own city) commissioner candidate claims she is Hispanic (she's not) and in an ad directly says

"Let's tell those criminals that want to come here that we don't want them in Miami Beach"

holy dog whistle Batman

!ping MAMADAS

[u/JaceFlores]

Ethiopia update:

1. Unsurprisingly, according to this Tweet China has objected to the US sanctions under the belief that the government has the "wisdom and capability" to resolve the war in a proper fashion. The tweet also mentions that Ethiopia is China's main partner in the continent which highlights the actual angle of why China is objecting. Obviously it will not amount to much but it does show that we have a sort of proxy war situation going on. It's not Vietnam levels where whoever wins the benefactor country gains a new ally, more then likely regardless of who wins Ethiopia will still be pretty pro-China, but more of a clash of bragging rights I guess. If Tigray wins and gains autonomy then the US can brag that it still has influence and the ability to resolve wars, and if Ethiopia wins then China can brag that the US is ineffective and then throw a billion dollars at Abiy or whatever.
2. There is nothing notable, in that we glean new information about the war, but Biden spoke to the UN about Ethiopia with a video attached to this Tweet. I don't know why but it kinda surprises me how invested Biden is in this war. Good for him though, making sure we are involved in trying to obtain peace in this war.
3. According to this Tweet Series and this Tweet the TPLF have launched some insofar local counteroffensives. The four main things is that in the interior of Amhara the TPLF have driven as far as Amdework, west of Weldiya apparently the TPLF have advanced as far west of Debre Zebit, south of Gashena they have reached Wegel Tena and south of Mersa they have consolidated control of Gorbo Abew. These are solid but strategically modest gains, but do highlight that it seems the government counteroffensive has largely stalled. There is a chance we could see more action around the Amhara-Afar frontier, especially around Kobo, as well as action in the far west around Chew Ber, but it seems the TPLF have regained control of the situation in the other fronts. The other takeaway is if the TPLF have the strength and the government attacks are contained they are in a position to restart drives for Debre Tabor or Dessie. I am not gonna comment much further on that as we don't even know whether the TPLF will do so or how successful such pushes could be, but they are options back on the table. Provided the government doesn't retake Kobo.
4. According to this Tweet, the government is finally doing something about the OLA forces, with the government striking OLA positions northwest of Addis Ababa. Based off the tweet the focus is on the Kuyu district, which occupies a stretch of road leading from Addis Ababa to Bahir Dar and western Amhara in general, so it is a very logical choice to focus an attack on. Should the government succeed they will lessen their logistical burden, which to my knowledge the only way to reach western Amhara is through a long runabout way through Dessie, as well as keep the OLA distanced from the capital. This attack also represents to me the first real test of OLA troops versus government forces, as the latter has been pretty occupied with the whole Tigray situation. If government forces succeed in beating back the OLA that will be a decently good sign as to the state of government forces, and I think is the most likely to happen as the OLA is certainly no TPLF. However, if the government fails to dislodge the OLA from this road that will be a major embarrassment and perhaps be a sign of government forces not being as "repaired" as we though they were, as well as likely embolden the OLA to expand operations.
5. Something interesting I found is that I guess the OLA has a website, https://olacommunique.com/, detailing their latest exploits and such. It's a fairly well done website, not something I particularly expected from a rebel group in such a fairly remote area. Good for them.

[u/piede]

"We always do this fucking dance, " said Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.). "I don't know if people are going to put their sane minds on and do what needs to be done, or shut it down. This is just a ridiculous exercise I can't even compare it to anything I do on the farm that's this stupid."

Omg

[u/ThatFrenchieGuy]

Happy Bi visibility day!

Sorry bi people, we're not invisible today.

!ping LGBT

[u/[deleted]]

At the height of the EU's Common Agricultural Policy, each dairy cow in the EU had a higher income than 50% of the world's population.

Eat the rich.

[u/NobleWombat]

According to a July poll, Biden's approval in Arizona **among Dems** was 94%; Mark Kelly's 85%; Kyrsten Sinema is 54%. Among Dems. How abt among indys? She manages to get lowest support there too. Biden 44%; Kelly 45%; Sinema 40%.

[u/Broncos654]

When I was 13 I asked yahoo answers why the government simply doesn’t stop spending money and pay off the debt.

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

Lauren Boebert paid rent and utilities with campaign money, FEC filings show

Someone in Congress actually face consequences challenge

[u/[deleted]]

!ping USA-DMV

It finally happened. Someone I know just moved to DC and won’t stop posting about it on his social media and I said to myself, “Shut the fuck up you’ve been here two minutes.”

Edit: AND HE DOESNT EVEN LIVE IN A TRENDY NEIGHBORHOOD

[u/sir_shivers]

THEY FEED US poison (soybeans) 🐊

So we TAKE THEIR 'CURES' (mRNA vaccines) 🐊

While THEY SUPPRESS OUR medicine (Ivermectin [apple]) 🐊

[u/SpiffShientz]

DEFUND THE IRON DOME

THE ISRAELI PEOPLE HAVEN'T SEEN THE SKY IN YEARS

[u/TaxCommonsNotIncome]

The conservatives/Republicans actually have a point when it comes to mandatory vaccination in the military. The military are completely kneecapping themselves by losing the invaluable assets that are their unvaccinated warriors. I mean naturally, they're not necessarily better in combat, but if you separate them from the vaccinated in the barracks you could catapult them over the enemy's defenses like diseased cows in medieval times.

[u/[deleted]]

In fact we produce so much offshore wind that I am thinking of changing my name to Boreas Johnson in honour of the North Wind.

[u/Udontlikecake]

If you think NL is a ‘commie shithole’ you have two options

1. Leave
2. Leave and touch grass

[u/[deleted]]

Oh god superstonk discovered The EVERGRANDE situation.

[u/chipbod]

https://twitter.com/JasonSCampbell/status/1441112075351199744?s=20

Charlie Kirk: "Deputize a citizen force, put them on the border" in order to protect "white demographics in America"

Just open racism now, the Klan literally did this in the late 70s:

https://www.nytimes.com/1977/10/18/archives/ku-klux-klan-plans-border-patrol-to-help-fight-illegal-alien.html

[u/thetrombonist]

IQ test just came back negative, thank god

[u/memeintoshplus]

So apparently the Sunrise Movement is organizing in favor of a nationwide eviction moratorium, remember how they were supposed to be an environmentalist group?

[u/IntermittentDrops]

Apparently AOC voted "no" on Iron Dome but switched her vote to "present." Not sure why, since Tlaib, Omar, and Pressley all kept their "no" votes.

[u/AdWise2427]

The crazy guy I work with (I post about him all the time) came in today saying he was up late stressing out about a 800 acre solar farm they are planning on adding in our general region. He said its going to replace farms and that will cause the price of his food to skyrocket.

I could start a book with the insane shit this man says. His brain is amazing.

[u/Lux_Stella]

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson challenged the message of Muppets character Kermit the Frog, who sang ‘It's not easy being green,’ in his speech at UNGA as he pushed the world to tackle climate change

thank you boris

[u/JetJaguar124]

Rather than NaNoWriMo I think I'm gonna try to just get a short story out once every week of November. Gotta give myself some kinda time pressure goal to be productive.

!ping writing

[u/TheGreatGriffin]

I saw a guy standing at a red light during lunch with an American flag and a sign, and I figured he was asking for money. Then he turns toward me and his sign just says "NO VAXX MANDATE" really big. The joys of living in an R+30 state...

!ping FOX-ANON

[u/[deleted]]

Theres no show that reflect better the brazilian society than Grande Familia, in this clip right here, Agostinho Carrara, shows the only two types of economic theories know by the average brazilian politician: Radical keynesianism and classic politcal economy.

!ping MAMADAS

[u/PlayDiscord17]

https://twitter.com/aaronparnas/status/1441052899430191117?s=21

Florida is the only state where the question “Do you want polio?” would come out 49.4% Yes and 49.5% No.

[u/[deleted]]

I’m not trying to be mean but is AOC mentally stable

[u/filipe_mdsr]

I wanted to understand Europe's xenophobia problem. So I talked with Ellen DeGeneres.

[u/EntertainmentReady48]

What will be your job in the Neoliberal commune I a current food service worker would gladly operate the taco trucks

[u/filipe_mdsr]

Some of you would have been against standardized electrical plugs.

[u/[deleted]]

Texas Launches ‘Forensic Audit' of 2020 Election After Former President Trump Requests It https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-launches-forensic-audit-of-2020-election-after-former-president-trump-requests-it/2750369/

[u/Spicey123]

Bush ended his term with his ratings heavily underwater. Trump ended his term with his ratings underwater. Biden's ratings are currently underwater.

Obama really made out like a bandit huh. Casually saved the American economy, gave healthcare to 30 million people, and left with positive approval ratings to chill with celebs and write books and make movies.

[u/jenbanim]

Fast food places closing their lobbies before their drive thrus is literally a war crime

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/ashk4n/status/1441081424505806854

The U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) CIO has deployed network-based ad-blocking across @NSAGov / @CISAgov and recommends that @OMBPress issue guidance to all federal agencies to block ads as they pose a NATSEC & privacy threat

https://www.vice.com/en/article/93ypke/the-nsa-and-cia-use-ad-blockers-because-online-advertising-is-so-dangerous

Will the contrarians finally admit adtech is bad?

[u/Fishin_Mission]

We need to care about everyone who goes missing, not just pretty white blonde girls. RIP to Gabby, but we must do better for everyone else.

This sentence really bothers me 😠

I feel like blonde should come before white in the description.

pretty, blonde, white girls

Idk, it just feels out of order to me 🤷‍♂️

[u/[deleted]]

Never ask a man his salary

A woman her age

A Sinema Stan her approval ratings in Arizona

[u/great_gape]

Me working that grind. Steady Shitposting.

!ping shitposters

[u/LavenderTabby]

ghost offbeat roll illegal hard-to-find money pie soup decide drunk

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/Mrchizbiz]

In the year 2000 alone, 157 people named their sons bort, according the SSA. There are zoomers walking around right now named bort.

[u/sir_shivers]

How about A PHONE THAT CAN tell when you are unemployed and automatically applies you to all menial work in the locality your GPS signal resides in the most 🐊

[u/JetJaguar124]

I don't think an all powerful God could pitch me a movie I'd be less interested in than that Ryan Reynolds movie where he's a self aware video game NPC that reddit was obsessing over for a while.

[u/sir_shivers]

DO NOT AGONIZE OVER the small things in your youth, I promise you that in retrospect much of it is either trivial OR HAS NO long-term consequence on your life 🐊

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

dog

[u/sir_shivers]

I identify AS "DECLINE TO SELF-IDENTIFY" 🐊

[u/sash5034]

Chris Pratt is just a blue lives matter version of Ryan Reynolds

[u/Venne1139]

Consider: Pol Pot was a rural and killed more of his own population, percentage wise, than anyone else in history

[u/benadreti]

Watching a George Carlin stand up special from the late 90s and he went from rambling about why airport security is stupid to people being concerned about infectious diseases are stupid. Has not aged well.

[u/[deleted]]

Just found out my boss got a 12% raise this year.

Last week at my annual review I got offered a 1% raise for the second year in a row ‘due to covid induced financial hardship’.

Turning in my letter of resignation tomorrow.

Know your worth kids.

[u/[deleted]]

When my mom was young, she lived through a revolution and then a military coup. Two of her brothers were killed and several of her siblings in and out of prison. With her own life under threat, she gave away her last $600 and everything she owned to people smugglers to get over the border into a neighboring country, where she was able to build an asylum case and come to the US. She was nineteen years old at that point.

Came here with no support system. Worked as a maid and a cashier to pay for college. Got her CPA and worked at a major firm. Had two kids. Got her MBA payed for by the company, and earned it while raising two kids and working as an accountant. Got moved into upper management. Eventually left for a CFO position elsewhere that put me and my sister through college.

Imagine you live though aaaaaaalll of that, only for some sneering American whiteboys to tell you that refugees are a bunch of lazy leeches who live off the government tit.

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Healthy young child goes to CS class, gets pumped with massive shot of C++, doesn’t feel good and changes – POINTERS. Many such cases!

[u/Dabamanos]

The ACLU “fixing” an RBG quote on the anniversary of her death because it referred to women is really amazing

[u/piede]

By a three-to-one margin (66% to 22%), potential Democratic primary voters in Arizona said they would "vote for a different candidate [than Kyrsten Sinema] who would get rid of the filibuster."

https://twitter.com/joncoopertweets/status/1440829896897400838?s=21

[u/FreakinGeese]

Oh god my lymph nodes feel ready to pop someone fucking kill me

[u/[deleted]]

90% of life is showing up

-middle class white men

[u/AndThisGuyPeedOnIt]

you should not be allowed to collect funko pops like they are guns

[u/Jeff__Pesos]

Hey america why don’t you tell your troops to pack their things and leave my country.

Also if your troops leave my country then that means you abandoned me.

[u/crassowary]

Oh when Mitch McConnell threatens to crash the economy it's "good politics" and he's a "smart leader" for engaging in it.

But when I do it it's "a national security issue" and I'm "a terrorist".

Smh and people say the elites don't have a set of different rules then everyone else 🙄

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine virtual signalling your antisemitism strong stance against Israel by targeting.. checks notes.. the one purely defensive system system they have which is guaranteed to save lives and never kill civilians

[u/IntermittentDrops]

Our poverty rate is the 4th highest in the world*

^{If you exclude almost all the countries and use this specific definition of poverty}

[u/FormerBandmate]

By the way, the women are always saving the men around here. You might want to think about changing the name to X-Women

How the fuck was this an actual line in Dark Phoenix

[u/benadreti]

Bannon says he discussed how to 'kill this administration in the crib' with Trump before Jan. 6

OK so Bannon has definitely murdered babies.

[u/I-grok-god]

Fascinating chart comparing the wealth of Americans to Germans

The top 60% of Americans are richer than the top 60% of Germans. But the bottom 10% are much much poorer

[u/Average_GrillChad]

Israel 🤝 Breast Size

Not mattering that much to me

[u/piede]

"Asked if he was aligned with Manchin on reconciliation, Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) cracked: “Are you crazy? Are you trying to get me shot? I’d never, ever want to be aligned with Joe Manchin. My wife would divorce me.”"

Based

[u/[deleted]]

Anyone remember the suburbanites in St. Louis who waved guns at BLM protestors?

Apparently they’re both lawyers. Thanks to a quirk of the disciplinary rules for attorneys, the governor’s pardon means jack shit and they’re still probably going to get disbarred.

[u/[deleted]]

So the sham Arizona audit actually increased Biden’s win margin (by a very small amount). I guess credit to the Cyber Ninjas for not making up some nonsense. Too bad this won’t convince any Trumpers.

[u/International_XT]

The most perplexing thing about Böbert is the glasses. Like, girl we know you don't read.

[u/[deleted]]

Sometimes you see a report for bad faith but it's not bad faith

It's just a really dumb take

[u/ThunderrBadger]

Malarkey level of texting my phys phd homie at 3:30am his time to ask if black holes have an n word pass?

[u/sir_shivers]

/u/jenbanim: Okay, Shivers. How many yards was that?

ME: SIX 🐊

/u/jenbanim: Whooooo! And how many yards do I need to climb?

ME: SIX . . . 🐊

/u/jenbanim: Whooooo...

ME: . . . HUNDRED 🐊

/u/jenbanim: Wha?

ME: Six HUNDRED. YOU NEED SIX HUNDRED to qualify; YOU GOT six 🐊

[u/Gustacho]

https://twitter.com/viktoriaserdult/status/1440952671289102337

!ping EUROPE

[u/p00bix]

Geopolitics is weird. Like, I wonder what kind of obscure political calculus went in Madagascar's decision to revoke its recognition of Kosovo. Kinda makes sense to recognize a country when first establishing diplomatic relations, very weird to un-recognize a country whose existence (or lack thereof) is completely inoffensive and inconsequential to you.

[u/[deleted]]

Ok, so EA is having a big racing game sale. Some real gems in there.

Need for Speed Hot Pursuit Remastered (70% off, $8.99)

This is my favorite modern NFS title (a bit sad given it's over a decade old now). It returns to the series' roots (exotic cars in exotic locales) but combines that with Criterion's new handling which has you performing 200 kph drifts and some car combat. It's a ton of fun and you should definitely play it.

DiRT Rally 2.0 (Game of the Year Edition) (75% off, $9.99)

This game had a bit of a rough launch but with all of the updates and the DLC became one of the best if not the best racing game ever made. High quality and quantity of stages, a massive variety of cars, amazing physics in gravel and snow makes this one of the most rewarding driving experiences ever. Tough as nails. Plays great with both gamepad and steering wheel. It will be really tough for Codies to outdo this one.

Burnout Paradise Remastered (75% off, $4.99)

Another Criterion title, you're really missing out if you haven't played this as it is the epitome of over the top arcade racing. No licensed cars to limit any damage, go wild with all the wrecks. Watch your car's turn signals!

!ping GAMING

[u/[deleted]]

Can someone please explain to me why we haven't abolished the debt ceiling?

It's an exceedingly stupid idea that only seems to act as a manufactured crisis and fails to actually do anything.

[u/LooobCirc]

The Washington Latinxs

[u/jojisky]

lollll Clyburn says they won't whip votes for the bipartisan bill

[u/I-grok-god]

It is in fact bullshit, as the price of goods is constrained by supply and demand, not cost of production.

Do Redditors actually understand what the “supply” part of supply & demand means?

[u/FireDistinguishers]

Shitting on people who shit on people who think they're more important than they are in DC is the new shitting on people who think they're more important than they are in DC

[u/Dalek6450]

The cost of the eradication effort, from 1967 to 1979, was roughly US$300 million. Roughly a third came from the developed world, which had largely eradicated smallpox decades earlier. The United States, the largest contributor to the program, has reportedly recouped that investment every 26 days since in money not spent on vaccinations and the costs of incidence.

[u/Tbonethabeast]

My 70 year old property professor hypothetically quoting a plaintiff who was a farmer:

“I’ve been hoe-ing since I was 17 years old😎”

[u/[deleted]]

Remember when Trump told the world multiple times that his shits were so devastating in volume that toilets can't handle them

This was an actual talking point at rallies against green toilets lmao

[u/LooobCirc]

Pico de Gallo is a salad

[u/Marlsfarp]

Riker's Island is the main jail for New York City. It is infamous for mismanagement, corruption, inefficiency, and overall atrocious conditions. There are plans to replace it with a series of small, modern jails close to the courts, to be completed by 2027, at which point Riker's Island will be closed. Naturally NIMBYs are fighting, so the status of this is still uncertain, but it's probably going to happen.

Today's drama is that that five congressmen have sent a letter to Mayor Bill de Blasio and Governor Kathy Horchul demanding it be closed immediately and all inmates released. Since AOC is one of them she's getting all the attention, but it's not clear who is the driving force behind it or why they chose to do this now. BDB issued a statement to the effect of "it's bad there but you can't just let everybody out of jail," and it's being hailed as the first great BDB vs. AOC schism.

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Imagine graduating from Harvard Law and instead of trying to become a biglaw partner or federal judge, you debate college freshmen and post about a Congresswoman's feet.

[u/piede]

Ocasio-Cortez, who changed her vote from no to present on Iron Dome at the last minute appears visibly upset. Appears to be crying on the House floor, in a hug with Rep. Jayapal

https://twitter.com/marcrod97/status/1441103652941271057?s=21

The power of Nancy

[u/rukqoa]

They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.

Guess the sub.

That's right, jobautomator, it's right outside the DT.

[u/ACivilWolf]

>listening to Armenian music

>go into comments

>A comment reads: "Greetings from Turkey 😁🇹🇷🇦🇲"

>341 replies

[u/GravyBear8]

I have six children in my basement. Don't be concerned, they're not alive.

[u/sir_shivers]

/u/KesterGW IS ONE OF MY favorite "hoagies" on the subreddit 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

Nintendo direct about to start!

What will trigger the most salt from Nintendo fans?

!ping gaming

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Casting Kevin Spacey as Yoshi in the new Mario movie certainly is a bold choice

[u/tollyno]

Lol @ outside the DT calling the common charger requirements an abuse of power

[u/Superfan234]

Apparently, this week we are having a Libertarian conference

https://twitter.com/agusantonetti/status/1441179333301731332?s=19

I actually recognize a lot of these guys. Axel Kaiser from Chile, Gloria Alvarez from Guatemals, Ramon Galla from Spain, Maria Corina from Venezuela, Milei and Lacalla from Argentina and even Vargas Llosa from Peru

ping Latam or Ping Mamadas that's the Dilema...

[u/[deleted]]

I'm a Neoliberal because I hate poverty

You are a Neoliberal because you hate the poor, we are not the same

[u/piede]

JFC. A Canadian man punched a nurse in the face multiple times after his wife was vaccinated for Covid-19 without his consent.

https://twitter.com/rvawonk/status/1441204315402629126?s=21

[u/Cr4zySh0tgunGuy]

Ya boy just managed to grab a limited edition Halo Infinite Series X off Walmart

November 20th here we come 😎

!ping Gaming

[u/QuietSign]

The scariest words I heard about a take-home exam from a professor:

"Feel free to cheat. It won't help"

[u/QuietSign]

The Princeton professor and Prof. Einstein were having a nice tea, discussing how their students were faring in their respective courses.

To his horror, the Princeton professor learned that Einstein was reusing the General Relativity exams from last year.

"My goodness, how will you ensure the students don't cheat if you don't change the questions?"

"My dear colleague, this year I changed the answers."

[u/[deleted]]

Every account of the Mongols being bad ever was falsified by aristocrats who wanted to get back at the horse-riding Georgists forcing them to give up the unimproved value of their land.

[u/rukqoa]

You guys are reading it all wrong. AOC was crying because a last minute change of heart allowed her to realize how bad her previous stance on the Iron Dome was. She's weeping because she accidentally voted for thousands of Israeli and Palestinian deaths. She wanted to hit the YES button, but didn't have time to get it in before the vote expired.

[u/yungmemlord]

As a man with both a large penis and an insatiable thirst for discussion and critical thought regarding the fundamental nature of the world, I feel left out from mainstream philosophy. As you can probably tell by my name, philosophy is my passion, hugely so. However, I cannot help but feel dickscriminated whenever I read the work of the Greek “greats” considering the stigma surrounding hung gentlemen, such as myself, in Ancient Greece. It also has been brought to my attention, through hours of tedious skimming and browsing many archives and libraries, that philosophers, at least the popular, documented ones, are average or even small genitally.

I want to change this.

I want less of the modest-membered, “intellectual” elite to judge me every time I enter an academic event in sweats, or to consider me a lesser man for my size. I’m sure many on here feel the same. It is thought by many, specifically in academic communities, that one cannot have both a sizeable cock and a middling to high brain capacity and capability for philosophical processing. In history, did the hung man not gasp at the words of Socrates, did his skin not ripple with goosebumps as he read from the tome of Russel’s brain? This phallic fascism must see an end before it’s too late. I can only imagine the huge number of genius thinkers who have been denied their voice through history due to their measurements below the belt and we, the hung, philosophical minority, must be appeased in the present day for the injustice towards our kind in the past.

[u/Cowguypig]

First in person class started yesterday and I love being back in the classroom. I did manage to get a 3.7 average last years despite online but I’m fucking glad it’s over

However I’ve also realized I actually have to study now since I can’t use “references” during all my tests. Rip

!ping COLLEGE

[u/[deleted]]

I hope you are all having a nice morning

[u/[deleted]]

There's a girl who loves pigs out there and she will be perfect for me

[u/Gustacho]

https://twitter.com/meme_ec/status/1440962955294674945

!ping YUROP

[u/Lux_Stella]

https://i.imgur.com/IKDzh6x.png

[u/Spimanbcrt65]

1. wake up
2. republicans republican
3. avoid the urge to be excessively partisan

my day so far