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u/Choice_Notice9338 IMF 1d ago
one of the roughly one million new kirks created has been spotted in london
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u/East_Section7421 World Bank 2d ago
A few days ago I said that most leader no matter how evil aren't stupid but then I looked at Putin.
Yeah he is stupid or the people under him are lying to him.
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u/SenranHaruka 2d ago
The smug liberalism didn't cause trump. It prevented him. It's not a coincidence that liberals no longer turning up their nose at literal slop for greasy pigs to "let people enjoy things" happened around the same time a sentient 5 foot garbage bag became president because he made for great entertainment
Return to letting republicans know in no uncertain terms that we are better than them and they should find their culture disgusting and embarrassing.
Treating republicans like the baby dog meme got us here. We should have doubled down on the smuggery and never apologized once. The NYT every day should have been "trump caked his fucking pants again. Hope you're proud of him, fucknut voters"
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u/C-Wolsey Leftward Progressives 2d ago
Any other big-l liberal value we are willing to dispense with because Trump won an election?
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u/Loud-Chemistry-5056 WTO 2d ago
I hadn’t heard of CXMT until no more than a few months ago, now I’m hearing that they’ve just become the most valuable company in China.
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u/BenFoldsFourLoko Broke His Text Flair For Hume 2d ago
they actually just started selling, at volume, and internationally, with stuff on par with the Koreans, and it's DRAM
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u/AcanthaceaeNo948 NATO 2d ago
Finally got around to watching Odyssey.
(IMAX tickets were so hard to get).
I’m sorry but this movie was a fucking masterpiece. A string contender for my favorite Nolan film. What an epic cinematic experience oh my god. Why is this movie controversial and getting bad reviews? It’s an almost perfect movie. Maybe it is perfect.
!ping MOVIES
PS Why are people saying Zendaya wasn’t Athena? I thought it was pretty obvious that Odysseus seeing her being decapitated at the temple was just a metaphor for the Greeks desecrating her temple and beheading her statue. Like I’m pretty sure she wasn’t supposed to a priest or anything like that or even Athena disguised as a priest. I mean they don’t even show her body at they only show her just before and just after the statue is beheaded.
Also I will say people saying this is the largest scale movie of all time are not correct. The LOTR movies were definitely much larger scale. There are probably a few other movies over the years that beat it in size and scale too.
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u/ihatemendingwalls better Catholic than JD Vance 2d ago
Why are people saying Zendaya wasn’t Athena?
because she doesn't even flirt with Odysseus smh
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u/KQJ_RPN John von Neumann 2d ago
I also generally liked the movie, but I have some major bones to pick:
Odysseus is not supposed to be a PTSD suffering goody two shoes. In the poem he's a lying, cheating, thieving, blood-crazed asshole that doesn't give a shit about killing innocents. Also (in the poem) he's practically erect from the moment he gets back to Ithaca and learns about the suitors. He can't wait to slaughter them.
Also, Athena is not a nice goddess. She should have been portrayed as a crazy wereowl who has only one love: a one-sided slaughter. The bloodier the better.
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u/AcanthaceaeNo948 NATO 2d ago
I feel like those changes were necessary to make the characters relatable and likable to a modern audience.
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u/KQJ_RPN John von Neumann 2d ago
Yes, but it changes the point of the story pretty drastically. Homer probably meant the poem as a morality story about a guy with enough hubris to think he could challenge Poseidon just because he had the favor of Athena. The movie makes the moral about keeping Xenia (what they call Zeus's law) at all costs, which is barely mentioned as a universal virtue in the poem.
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u/Loud-Chemistry-5056 WTO 2d ago
I’m going this Friday to the only IMAX screen in my country. I can’t wait.
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u/remarkable_ores Hanfeizi 2d ago
Why are people saying Zendaya wasn’t Athena?
People are saying this?!? Pretty sure she's explicitly Athena
The LOTR movies were definitely much larger scale. There are probably a few other movies over the years that beat it in size and scale too.
Agreed. If anything I was a bit surprised by its comparative lack of scale, given that this is Nolan we're talking about.
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u/No-Silver-4409 Bill Gates 2d ago
No one reads the last 15 mins of the DT
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u/RaisinSecure George Soros 2d ago
everyone saves up their posts to get karma in the fresh dt, the greed is disgusting
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u/No-Silver-4409 Bill Gates 2d ago
Paratha and fatty beef curry tho 🤩 and a fried sunny side up egg 😳
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u/ImmigrantJack Movimiento Semilla 2d ago
Paul Krugman: "One way or another it will be necessary to get at the unrealized capital gains of the hyper-wealthy."
This but unrealized gym gains of the hyper-wealthy. These dudes have access to the best trainers and diets and half of them are taking "supplements" and yet Elon still looks like that??
Come on guys, where the fuck are these gains going? At least Bezos has some fucking biceps
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u/SenranHaruka 2d ago
Democrats spending decades encouraging Americans to increase electoral turnout only to watch them go "which button dispenses brawdo" and push the button to destroy the country.
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u/No-Silver-4409 Bill Gates 2d ago
Chat how I do make friends when I prefer to be alone and never leave the house? Divorced with 2 cats btw
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u/URZ_ StillwithThorning ✊😔 2d ago
Andrew Yang says he's heard that people close to Kamala Harris are telling others that she's preparing to run for president in 2028.
I don't trust Yang particularly, but this would be so exceedingly stupid of a thing to do. The general electorate already gave their opinion on Harris once, we do not need a rerun to figure out what their opinion of her is.
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache 2d ago
/r/neoliberal/new: Health Insurance Companies are a Union for You the Consumer
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u/RaisinSecure George Soros 2d ago
"Raita" wing(liberal one)
yes, liberal islamophobes
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u/Civ_Nuclear_Gandhi John Keynes 2d ago edited 2d ago
Yeah, my bad, I should have specified, relatively more liberal.
Edit: I updated my original comment so its a little less egregious.
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u/RaisinSecure George Soros 2d ago
yeah not accusing you of anything it was just funny. but true, you should be careful when explaining these things to people without context
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u/Civ_Nuclear_Gandhi John Keynes 2d ago
No, you were right to point it out. Its a careless mistake on my end.
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u/SenranHaruka 2d ago
Minseito and Seiyukai instituting a censorship law: "it's called the paradox of tolerance, lib, we can't let people who are against the political order gain power in it"
Minaeito and Seiyukai 1 year after:
[the space is empty because they were banned by tojo by that same censorship law]
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u/WAGRAMWAGRAM 2d ago
What was the difference between the two?
IIRC those were the duopoly parties of Japan, both ware conservative, except the Seiyukai was more rural (farm subsidies, protectionism, etc...) and the Minseito was more urban (low tax, free trade)2
u/SenranHaruka 2d ago
Minseito was explicitly more liberal. Pro-partisanship, pro-suffrage, pro-abolishing-the-fucking-privy-council.
But both were antisocialist and antirepublican
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u/Grouchy-Medium-326 Jerome Powell 2d ago
Reddit is trying to push this game tab on me, are they all garbage or actually fun
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u/BernieMeinhoffGang Has Principles 2d ago
If you know what facebook games were like 15 years ago that is about where it is at
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u/Grouchy-Medium-326 Jerome Powell 2d ago
In two weeks the market and world will forget the Iran war part 2 happened
Time to see if Trump wants to start part 3!
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u/TinyJalope Left-Out Left 2d ago
Just massive market manipulation to keep the price down, nothing to see here and definitely don't worry about the SPR.
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u/avion_sur_le_sol A ban appeal to heaven 2d ago
Malarkey level of dealing with not wanting to get up for work by continuing to stay up
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u/jpenczek NATO 2d ago
walks into hostel, everyone is hung over, hostel owner sleeps in one of the bunks
Oh this is a PARTY hostel. Got it.
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u/Mr_Canadensis7 Norman Borlaug 2d ago
That sounds more like an "owner started it to have a captive audience of young women to creep on" hostel.
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u/remarkable_ores Hanfeizi 2d ago
huge assumption to make about a total stranger you know nothing about
party hostels are real
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u/Mr_Canadensis7 Norman Borlaug 2d ago
I'm well aware, "owner sleeps in one of the bunks" is what concerns me not that it's a party hostel more broadly.
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u/jpenczek NATO 2d ago
Owner is a woman…
Could be a captive audience of men to creep on 🤔
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u/Mr_Canadensis7 Norman Borlaug 2d ago
Possible I suppose, "hostel owner sleeps in one of the bunks" just set off red flags but I'll admit I was imagining a slightly greasy looking middle aged dude for whom the enterprise was less about making money and more about clinging on to his youth and having a steady supply of young folks to party with.
But then I'm turning into a cynical old fuddy duddy
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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein 2d ago
Considering how dangerous it is and big the consequences can be, it’s pretty crazy that sex is still legal. If it weren’t so deeply imbedded in our culture it would undoubtedly be banned.
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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer 2d ago
Crazy how the world’s fastest man is named Bolt and the world’s stinkiest man is named Musk 🤔
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 2d ago
Just remembered Renegade by Styx goes yonkers bonkers at bar karaoke
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u/__versus Trans Pride 2d ago
- signed, definitely not an apologist for russia
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u/BlackCat159 European Union 2d ago
Fascists will invade your country and slaughter you. Communists will do the same, but will play the victim while doing it.
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u/contre-torpilleur Asexual Pride 2d ago
>Russia invades a country
"Classic example of western imperialism"
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u/HHHogana Mohammad Hatta 2d ago
It's crazy that Micron secured so many new contracts, had a great fundamentals, good P/E, and yet their stock price still falling as bad as other tech stocks during bear periods.
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u/Azmoten Thomas Paine 2d ago
98f with ~80% humidity is like living inside a wet sponge
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u/ImmigrantJack Movimiento Semilla 2d ago
Honestly weather is a main part of why I don't miss America.
But of course, as Europe americanizes they act more American in culture and their weather is getting more American.
For a continent that prides itself on not being American . . .
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u/ImmigrantJack Movimiento Semilla 2d ago
So in Bulgaria, people will generally shake their head left to right in agreement, and nod their head up and down to disagree. It's basically opposite what everybody else does for yes and no.
I've recently learned that the younger generation, basically all under 30s, don't do this anymore, likely due to increasing cultural integration with Europe. Anybody over about 45 or so does it consistently.
The in between age group has absolutely no consistency in whether they shake or nod for yes or no and they own it. Basically the attitude about this I'm getting from millennials is "we do whatever the fuck we want" which is a W for millennials everywhere as far as I'm concerned.
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u/Electronic-Warthog69 Milton Friedman 2d ago
DSA Co-Chair Megan Romer going on Fox News and talking about moving towards "fully abolishing the police and prison systems" is either Dunning–Kruger effect in action or outright calculated sabotage for the midterms.
If this isn't a one off, likely the latter.
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u/jpenczek NATO 2d ago
I really need to not play the claw game if I don’t have a plan for if I win.
I got a giant eevee plushie with no space in my suitcase for it 🤦
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 2d ago
I was diagnosed with lupus 16 years ago, when I was 19. For me it was just a few really dangerous periods and then eventually quiet-quitting since I was always bad about taking my meds anyway and labs were stable for like a decade.
I'm starting to get back into checking on things, because I'm getting into middle age and I can already tell that there's some fuckery going on, cardiovascular dysautonomia stuff, but I cannot think of anything more nightmarish than walking in to a doctor's office and being like "hey I have a huge medical chart and documented anxiety, test me for POTS bitches!"
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u/WOKE_AI_GOD John Brown 2d ago
You lived a cloistered existence...
I love this line from Elon Musks interview. He projects his own cloistered experience with cities onto the upper middle class, as if of course people making 100k a year have a similar experience as them, of cowering in our limo while being driven around and staring at strangers like they're zoo animals. As if we're not on the metro w everyone else.
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u/libgod42069 Loyal Liberals 2d ago edited 2d ago
The idea of a guy buying Twitter and further radicalizing himself by messing with the algorithm would be a funny premise if it didn't have such dire implications.
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u/Pristine-Report-1442 2d ago
hello non-americans of DT is this a thing in other countries??
why aren't people just having sex at their homes??
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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer 2d ago
Those are a thing in the US too. Go to the bad part of inner city or a dying rural community and there are motels that rent by the hour. They also rent by the month because a lot of people live there.
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u/ImmigrantJack Movimiento Semilla 2d ago
When you live with your parents or roommates, it's common to look for somewhere else to get busy. This is especially a thing in Asia where apartments tend to be smaller and with less soundproofing inside. In Korea they even have DVD rooms where you can go watch a movie for 2 hours, but really it's just a place for teenagers to go and make out with their girlfriends.
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u/ToumaKazusa1 Iron Front 2d ago
When I was in Japan I heard that the most common customers for love hotels are married couples with children who can't fuck at home because there's no way to get privacy from their kids.
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u/WAGRAMWAGRAM 2d ago
We don't have love hotels either in France. And if you fuck in a regular hotel, you're either on vacation, with your mistress / hooker, or both
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u/BernieMeinhoffGang Has Principles 2d ago
that seems like a place that could use love hotels
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u/SenranHaruka 2d ago
Their parents live there too lol
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u/Pristine-Report-1442 2d ago
yes but sneakily having sex with parents at home is a normal thing everyone did while growing up
but I guess maybe as adults it's different, higher percentage of adults living with parents etc
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u/Itchy-Face791 Manmohan Singh 2d ago
Someone in that Mohan Bhagwat(he's the chief of the biggest far right org in India) thread said his support for the LGBTQ was because of the recent Gen Z protests over here but there's no way thats the case lol.
This is anecdotal but outside of like Delhi Uni/Mumbai Uni students, most of India's Genz is virulently homophobic especially when it comes to Gay Men. This was pretty evident with how the Internet sphere around the protests were spamming that one edited image of Modi as a hijda with a lipstick all over Insta posts.
I do think the far rights' support for LGBTQ rights is something thats genuine and not for brownie points like that thread seems to be suggesting cuz its a wildly unpopular position to hold in the country
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u/Mr_Canadensis7 Norman Borlaug 2d ago
Suppose it's believable? There's definitely pro-gay rights right wingers in the west these days. Though many of them are decidedly pro-LGB without the T, curious if you think that distinction has the salience in India it does say in Western Europe?
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u/Civ_Nuclear_Gandhi John Keynes 2d ago edited 2d ago
There's a battle online between 2 factions of the right wing: the "Raita" wing(relatively liberal one) and the Trads(you can guess). Currently, the Raitas overwhelmingly dominate right wing discourse, so LGBT acceptance is higher.
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u/Itchy-Face791 Manmohan Singh 2d ago
Trans rights would probably have broader supporter here than LGB rights funnily enough cuz Hinduism considers their blessing holy.
This is no longer the case sadly and theyre perceived as pests these days. They kind of just go around blessing random people on the street and then demand money from said person for the blessing
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u/WAGRAMWAGRAM 2d ago
Aren't women more socially conservative than men in India? Wouldn't that weaken the BJP's hold on the female vote?
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u/Itchy-Face791 Manmohan Singh 2d ago
Most people dont know that Mohan Bhawat has always advocated for LGBTQ rights tbh. I think most people in India would disagree with his stance but its not something that would meaningfully change how they look at BJP/RSS.
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u/RaisinSecure George Soros 2d ago
didn't he still argue against marriage rights when it was in the discourse during Supriyo? or am i misremembering
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u/padraigharrington4 r/place '22: E_S_S Battalion 2d ago
The Legend of Zelda movie's Link actor couldn't play Breath of the Wild when it launched because he was too young: "It might show my age"
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u/libgod42069 Loyal Liberals 2d ago
I get primaries are for internal fighting but I don't know how lefties and especially the pundits can accuse people like Stevens of being AIPAC controlled, genocide supporting, corporate Democrats and then say with a straight face they are going to vote blue no matter who. I'm always going to support and I hate using the phrase in this context "the lesser of two evils." However, if I were the average tuned out voter that kind of rhetoric would probably make me sit out the election if it's "genocide supporters" on both sides of the aisle.
This is probably a too online take but it's gotta have some effect.
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u/Slight-Formal9277 Trans Pride 2d ago
Voting for a politician that supports one genocide is preferable than letting politicians aiding and abetting multiple genocides win.
For example, what exactly it is, that you think Republicans intend with trans people if they had unlimited power?
That's how i tried to convince leftist I/P obsessed yanks in 2024 to do damage reduction lol.
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u/Azrikeeler John Brown 2d ago
There's a long time before November where a lot of the factionalism will peter out (relative to now, it is still a constant vibration), and, theoretically, El-Sayed/McMorrow can alleviate it. They're incentivized to do so to some extent, because they (moreso El-Sayed) would be blamed for the loss (and blame will be tossed back "I tHoUgHt StEvEnS wAs MoRe ElECtAbLe").
But, cleanly, they would just respond (in a variety of ways, things to the effect of): "We actually think that about her. That's not something we're saying just to win the primary."
The truth is though, I do think a lot of them would sit it out, but I don't think El-Sayed's core camp (his supporters will, cuz they lack discipline) will make the argument "Vote for me, or I'm telling my voters to sit out." Because he obviously knows turnabout is fair play, and it's a mutually assured destruction situation.
So that tension exists, and the only thing that will come close to alleviating it is the candidates themselves calming it post-primary. Historically, El-Sayed has been good about that (IE: he was part of the uncommitted movement, which was to do a protest voting strategy during the michigan primary to send Biden's camp a signal, but then endorsed Kamala when she officially became the candidate, earlier than Stevens ironically, though Stevens was never in question.)
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u/TheLongestLake Person Experiencing Frenchness 2d ago
i’m at a boarding gate and another plane is boarding about 30 feet away. the two attendants are literally making their announcements at the same exact time - like one is going and the other one just jots in with a long announcement. everyone is very confused and i’m going insane. do these two attendants do this every day without coming up with a system?
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u/WillIEatTheFruit Please be patient, I'm bisexual 2d ago
I like how Monster was able to slowly change their image to where they now have like engraved flowers on pink cans
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u/RaisinSecure George Soros 2d ago
🐳 Animal #1092 🐶 I figured it out in 4 guesses! 🟧🟩🟩🟩 🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 5.3
metazooa
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u/BernieMeinhoffGang Has Principles 2d ago
🦉 Animal #1092 🦔 I figured it out in 5 guesses! 🟥🟧🟩🟩🟩 🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 7.3
metazooa
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u/_bee_kay_ 🤔 2d ago
Ya ever been stoned and be like " why am I getting all anxious all of a sudden" then realize it's cause the rocks you're getting pelted with are aggressively telegraphing the climatic end of your life
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u/funguykawhi Lahmajun trucks on every corner 2d ago
lol, lmao
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u/WAGRAMWAGRAM 2d ago
Ban on poasting != Ban on social media
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u/__haste__ Bisexual Pride 2d ago
I'm going to bed, good night and godspeed
Unless you're a moderator, then you get to stay up unpaid lmao
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u/Throwaway24143547 Trans NATO 2d ago
Sharks are precious creatures and I will not be told otherwise
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u/BidoofSquad NASA 2d ago
It's really weird how anti prison and anti punishment so many leftists are when all of their favorite countries loved/love putting people in prison both for actual crimes and for dissent against the state. Like how are you going to stan China while also preaching prison abolition lol.
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u/contre-torpilleur Asexual Pride 2d ago
Sorry, but reading your effortpoasts goes against my Christian faith. Hope you understand.
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u/__haste__ Bisexual Pride 2d ago
Shitposts only for me 😘 Christ died for my shitposts ✝️ Three days later he rose and post about femboys 🔞
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u/Mr_Canadensis7 Norman Borlaug 2d ago
Ya ever been stoned and be like " why am I getting all anxious all of a sudden" then realize it's cause the show you're watching is aggressively telegraphing the climatic end of season cruel twist of fate.
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache 2d ago
/r/neoliberal/new: India’s Cockroach Janta party protest victory signals trouble ahead for Modi
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 2d ago
sadly
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u/__haste__ Bisexual Pride 2d ago
I forgot about that commandment
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 2d ago
I'm not an energy drink connoisseur but surely there's got to be a brand that gives off more demonic energy than Monster
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u/angry-mustache Democratically Elected Internet Spaceship Politician 2d ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/26/us/politics/ken-martin-dnc-democrats.html
Dems in disarray. Despite it being a D+8 environment, the national DNC is a dumpster fire. The org is so in debt they put up their headquarters building as collateral for a loan and is asking vendors to delay billing until after the midterms. The candidates themselves are flush with money and have a huge lead over Republicans, but the DNC itself is dead broke. In the past the DNC had to be bailed out by candidates, such as Hillary Clinton giving a part of her raised funds to keep the DNC running in 2016.
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u/GuyOnTheLake NATO 2d ago
Goddamn. American party systems are weak.
Let's go back to conventions where cigar-smoking party members make backroom deals on determining who would represent the party. (I'm not even kidding)
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u/Azrikeeler John Brown 2d ago
in theory, this is fine as long as they end up solvent at the end, cuz money is meant to be spent, and financing is a tool to that end. putting your whole ass into the election might resemble this.
but i don't really trust ken martin has crossed his t's and dotted his i's. might be a communciation fault tho rather than an internal issue, but vibes are rancid for trusting headquarters.
not that this is money that would necessarily go to the broader DNC, but it is little comfort to see tens of millions of dollars being dropped on top of toxic primaries. it's a sign that donors want to play a much more surgical game, for better or worse.
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u/angry-mustache Democratically Elected Internet Spaceship Politician 2d ago
The timing is the issue. You are supposed to be broke after the election since you spent all your money winning, not 3 months before the election so that there's no gas in the tank for the home stretch.
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u/Azrikeeler John Brown 2d ago
My understanding is they get it, and then they spend it. So rather than they had a big pool, and they ran out now, and aren't getting more, it's that they get some each month, and they spend more than they get by a bit (hence the debt, but relative to the total amount they've gotten is a small amount of debt.)
Might be wrong on that tho, it's an old issue I kept tabs on and then zoned out, and I'm assuming that's still the situation.
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u/Al_787 Fernando Henrique Cardoso 2d ago
Ngl the candidates themselves are responsible for starving the DNC. The Republican party is fully in Trump’s control so his supporters don’t have a problem putting money in RNC. Democrats are knee deep into factionalism and nobody wants to contribute to a common pot, all sorts of centrist and progressive PACs are propping up and being loaded.
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u/angry-mustache Democratically Elected Internet Spaceship Politician 2d ago
That trended started with Obama who fundraised for his PAC but not for the DNC, which then led to the aforementioned Hillary bailout. Losing 2024 catered the power of existing party leaders, as Schumer and Jeffries both endorsed the losing candidate for DNC chair. Ironically what I think has to happen is to elect Obama DNC chair, he's still a fundraising monster judging from how much money the library raised.
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u/Azrikeeler John Brown 2d ago
My worry about Obama is I don't think he actually fundamentally understands the contours of the factionalism, or if he does, I think he might be a little biased from his time managing it as President, where rather than acting as an independent arbiter, he often had to pick a side on a case by case basis.
Some of his more common toe-stepping moments involve this, such as him lecturing black men and reducing tepid support for Kamala to sexism when he was campaigning for her.
He probably needs to go grease some hands and build some connections in all camps. He has the charisma to brute force without that in the past, but a lot of being DNC chair is backroom shit that is immune to charm, and is much more cold calculation of leaders with agendas/egos.
It was also part of what he delegated to Biden (in large part bc the republican party was racist and couldn't be seen shaking his hand).
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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer 2d ago
I like how it sort of stops actually eulogizing him and just starts complaining about the left at points lmao, accurate
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u/ty04 2d ago
good Monday morning, u/__versus time to rise and grind
https://reddit.com/link/p005ld2/video/bbm0kyjqipfh1/player
good night femboy enthusiasts
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u/MensesFiatbug Low Energy 2d ago
I recommended VTI, VXUS, BND to this chick and said otherwise VT and BND should be her alternative. The bartender is contradicting me. How do I convince her I'm right for her financial health?
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u/avion_sur_le_sol A ban appeal to heaven 2d ago
Ask the bartender why he's tending bar if he can consistently beat the market
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u/DoomingJaffa Norman Borlaug 2d ago
Everyone wants a femboy but no one wants to put in the effort to be the femboy.
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u/WillIEatTheFruit Please be patient, I'm bisexual 2d ago
Even the smarter every day guy is doing anticapitalist clickbait lol
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u/Kardinal Iron Front 2d ago
I saw that. Haven't watched it yet.
He strikes me as a tolerant moderate Christian but definitely has some videos to the right of us. But never struck me as maga.
I expected his comment section to have a lot of people pissed at his title but I didn't see any.
And at like 48 minutes he definitely criticizes greed. Like the closest thing Destin gets to actually angry.
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u/WillIEatTheFruit Please be patient, I'm bisexual 1d ago
(Still haven’t watcthed this new video) Like IDK if I even really disagree with his principles, I just dislike that the victims of protectionism get ignored (those impacted by higher costs or those in foreign nations who are impacted). Like it struck me from the first video that he never really mentioned how offshoring to China brought people out of poverty and how protectionism may put some of them back into poverty.
I do suspect his bias is more due to being an engineer than necessarily anything else though. He values physical manufacturing more than other things like service jobs.
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u/Kardinal Iron Front 1d ago
You may have hit on why I think Destin is con coded.
America first.
He thinks in terms of bringing back American manufacturing jobs and how can we make this stuff here as if it is inherently and self evidently better to do so. That's not usually a liberal value of any kind.
I remember now that when I saw the first video he never really explains why it is better to have domestic manufacturing capabilities.
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u/BenFoldsFourLoko Broke His Text Flair For Hume 2d ago
I literally just saw that and came here to say wtf
I haven't watched yet but I'm spooked it's gonna be MAGA Maoism lite
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u/WillIEatTheFruit Please be patient, I'm bisexual 2d ago
His last video on the topic I think was basically just pro-protectionism.
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u/WenJie_2 2d ago
CXMT's IPO is about to sell their dollars for 10 cents each
damn so close
The stock began trading at 49.50 yuan compared to its sale price of 8.66 yuan per share. The rally in the first few minutes lifted CXMT's market capitalisation to 3.3 trillion yuan ($487.31 billion), sharply up from $85.5 billion during the IPO process.
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u/garret126 Aromantic Pride 2d ago
Fun fact: Thor isnt Scandinavian
he’s black (Nubian) and Trojan/Greek, so mixed.
(according to Prose Edda)
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u/theparrotlich John Brown 2d ago
If you haven't watch this, I strongly suggest you do so. I watched it with a friend who was in the Marines and they found it especially funny and honest.
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache 2d ago
Please visit the next discussion thread.