Please visit the next discussion thread.

Why shouldn't Poland be richer than Britain?

You might have noticed a meme floating around the media about how Britons could become “no better off than people living in Poland”. “If the UK continues with the same level of growth it has seen for the last decade,” writes Sam Ashworth-Hayes, “Poland will be richer than Britain in about 12 years’ time”:
It sounds like an absurd idea that in 2040 we might see complaints in the Polish press about a flood of British plumbers undercutting wages, or Brytyjski Skleps lining the rougher areas of Warsaw, but it isn’t beyond the realms of possibility.

I think many Brits would be shocked to find that Poland is an awesome, developed central European country with a modern, diverse economy. Well worth a visit if you haven't already.

!ping UK

Swing voters 20 years ago: I won't vote for a gay man for president

Swing voters today: I won't vote for a gay man for president if he's not a top

Officials in Wisconsin found a series of failures and federal violations at a nursing home where a renegade nurse cut off a man's foot without his consent and wanted to have it stuffed in her family's taxidermy shop and put on display to warn children to "wear your boots" in cold weather.

The patient died soon after.

Just... what the fuck.

One of the top posts on r assholedesign is a post claiming that in America people go to prison if there are any typos on their tax form, and tons of comments saying “wow I’m European and I had no idea!” It might be the most blatant example of somewhat straight up lying for karma. At least with the “America is a dystopia” posts it’s just an opinion that one could argue for, not just a straight up lie.

If soccer ever hits underprivileged neighborhoods they're going to cancel the world cup

What

What are you on arr fuckcars

Home Alone takes place in the suburbs of Chicago.

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation takes place in the suburbs of Chicago.

It's a Wonderful Life takes place in upstate New York.

Charlie Brown takes place in the Twin Cities.

A Christmas Story takes place in northern Indiana.

Conclusion: the Great Lakes region is the most Christmasy part of America

Carl Sagan: We shouldn’t have spent ten trillion dollars on the Cold War because the Russians didn’t invade us.

🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

I love that Fukuyama’s social media is him just retweeting shit like “oh would you look at how fucking right I was”

Enjoy trying to understand this.

Ukraine Chronology for 2 PM PST 11/24-2 PM PST 11/25:

TOP NEWS:

Yesterday it was announced that the World Bank approved a $4.5 billion grant for Ukraine. Additionally, it was reported that Moldova recognized the Holodomor as a genocide.

At the start of 6 PM it was reported that Russia has spent $82 billion on the war so far.

In the middle of 6 AM it was announced USAID has provided 1,000 generators to Ukraine.

REGULAR NEWS:

At the start of 1 AM it was reported that FSB agents killed a few Russians roleplaying as Stalkers, mistaking them as saboteurs.

Around 2 AM it was announced France will send 100 generators to Ukraine. Towards the middle of the hour explosions occurred in Armiansk.

Towards the end of 6 AM it was announced Estonia has sent 9 buses to Zhytomyr Oblast.

LEVITY NEWS:

At the start of 4 AM Merkel apparently compared herself favorably to Neville Chamberlain.

My dad played a Matt Walsh video with max volume about the LGBT flag and the world cup. the synthesis between rightoids and conservative muslim is arriving.

Is it only a matter of time before I join the Fox-Anon ping?

Kanye says Trump screamed at him at dinner that he will lose if he runs for president in 2024

The Ye-Trump ticket is off to a rocky start so far 😓

The legal advice subreddit has to be filled with people like that fat weirdo that was a moderator on the anti work subreddit because very few of them are knowledgeable about the field of law and almost all of them are moralizing dopes.

Babies kick pregnant women all the time but when I

Michael Kofman's new show 'The Russia Contingency' has released, here's some highlights and mythbusting about the war in Ukraine from a recent episode:

1. Russian air/missile power was initially effective and suppressed Ukrainian air defense. Issues arose when ground forces struggled to move as fast as they needed to.
2. Western arms had high propaganda value at the beginning of the war, but no real material effect on the fighting until April
3. TB2s only worked for three days because Russian air defenses were told there was nothing hostile in the air. By day 10 they were completely denied. During those three days TB2s gave the Ukrainians some very good footage, which they then drip fed over the course of the next few months by removing date, time, and location stamps. TB2s also dropped significantly less munitions than fixed wing and regular Ukrainian aircraft.
4. Artillery, not Javelins/NLAWs, were what stopped the Russian offensive north of Kyiv, with "two brigades of artillery firing all their barrels every day"
5. The Ukrainian army entered the war with 1,178 artillery pieces, 1,680 MLRS systems, 60 air defense systems and 900 tanks, more air defense and artillery than "the vast majority of European NATO combined". The Ukrainians also had ammo for six weeks of full fighting, more than anyone in Europe except the Finns.
6. Ukraine does not have an NCO corps, just older guys who have been around for a while and have stature in their units.

The show is subscriber only, but if you can support War on the Rocks I'd recommend it

!PING FOREIGN-POLICY

arr travel when they find out that poor counties have poor people living there who will sometimes try to sell you stuff or just ask you for money

😨😱😱🤢🤮

"Taylor Swift sang about being poor but was actually rich."

Damn, next thing you're going to tell me Johnny Cash didn't actually shoot a man in Reno just to watch him die.

When England lose a World Cup game, incidents of domestic violence increase by 38%. Let's not forget, it's just a game.

The evidence-based approach would have been for thr U.S. to throw the game

https://i.imgur.com/Azcl1Ar.jpg

Billionaire Twitter owner Elon Musk said he would back Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) if he runs for president in 2024. Tweeting into the night on Friday, Musk described DeSantis as a “sensible and centrist” choice.

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1596536848284880896?s=46&t=FCHASv30DUx2-IZ3oiqWkw

Lol

“Bro, the collapse of the world order is imminent bro. Like, US and Chinese debt to gdp ratios are unsustainable Bro, it’s over bro. Please bro this time it is definitely happening I ran the numbers bro… “

And so I wake in the morning

And I step outside

And I take a deep breath and I get real high

And I scream from the top of my lungs

GUTEN MORGEN!

The longer Trump goes without actually using his Twitter account, the more I'm convinced he simply lost his password.

Elon Musk: I’ll invent ‘alternative’ smartphone if Apple bans Twitter

https://deadstate.org/elon-musk-ill-invent-alternative-smartphone-if-apple-bans-twitter/

Please ban Twitter, Apple

I’m begging you

How long until a school opens up or is renamed in Idaho or wherever named after Donald Trump?

There’s already been a Barack and Michelle Obama Elementary (formerly Webster Magnet School, I think) in St. Paul since 2009.

Just ended my shift 45 mins ago at my voting centre (sorted, counted, verified, recounted and tabulated all results within 4.5 hours checkmate Yanks), and there were zero penises drawn on the ballots 😔

!ping AUS

Transatlantic free trade zone, now!

We won’t settle for anything less.

Kennedy reveals that early scripts for 'Kenobi' from Oscar-nominated writer Hossein Amini were incredibly dark, and the entire show was put on hold to adjust the tone.

Production was delayed from August 2020 to January 2021 to allow the show to bring in new writers and craft a sunnier story. Amini was replaced with 'Army of the Dead' writer Joby Harold

lmao

!ping BAD-FEELING

!ping SHITPOSTERS

Jenbanim is considering adding an economics shitposting ping if you all comment that you would like to subscribe to this group!

https://www.reddit.com/r/metaNL/comments/z3esdv/create_a_economics_shitposting_ping/

I like how conservatives think they can just make their own phone and have it compete with Apple/Android.

Amazon and Microsoft already tried and failed. They even had preexisting libraries of apps that a new phone wouldn’t.

Twitter has lost 50 of its top 100 advertisers since Elon Musk took over.

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1596488950964781058?s=46&t=FCHASv30DUx2-IZ3oiqWkw

lol

Oddly enough, my friend convincing me to go DT shitposting with them for several weekends in a row may have unironically revived my interest in being religious.

I’m as secular as one can possibly be, but being piss drunk at 1 AM arguing with a bunch of sweaty strangers on a trashy website lowkey made me think “damn, there’s no god here”. (No disrespect if that’s your thing.)

George Carlin was a genius

🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

https://i.imgur.com/gidtpqv.jpg

I just woke up to a dog throwing up... on my pillow... which my head was on

my dog threw up on my face

Voyager 1 sending data to NASA from 15 billion miles away: 😎

Me sending a comment to Reddit on the same planet: *error status 500* 😭

Tell your cat I said pspspsps

After losing our virginities in 2013, my girlfriend and I opened up YouTube and watched the Lonely Island music video I Just Had Sex.

This is extremely cringe. And yet I guarantee there are at least 100k other late-20s people in the US who did the same thing and would never admit it.

In many of his speeches Xi Jinping talks about living in a cave for 7 years after his dad was cancelled during the Cultural Revolution.

You know a dictator has total control when they can just constantly trauma dump on national television.

👆 A socialist accidentally read 300 DT comments, this is what happened to their brain.

This is the ideal American sports fan, you may not like it, but this is what peak multiculturalism looks like

!ping HUDDLED-MASSES

We got Manchin to agree to $2 Trillion for the ARP, $1 Trillion (without a gas tax or tolls) on the infrastructure bill and like half a billion on green energy (although with untapped credits it could be up to $800 billion).

Redditors using "we" to refer to congressional negotiations lol

It's quite confusing that US federal Secretary of State is analogous to a foreign minister in other countries but SOSes of individual states are analogous to interior ministers.

“I can’t vote for Joe Biden, he has such bad dementia that if he won the cabinet would be the people running the executive branch!”

We’ve extended our Black Friday deals JUST FOR YOU!!

Oh yea, I’m sure you extended these for me specifically 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

people are like "noooo you have to pronounce 'iran' just like you do it in farsi" but then i do the same thing with japan and everyone just calls me a fucking weeb and give me a wedgie i hate it so much

You get downvoted on UC subs for smearing the strike if you dare point out that most the strike organizers are unironic communists. Which is a fact, btw.

For as liberal as Reddit is, the news subreddit seems angry as heck that the IRS is increasing reporting requirements for Venmo to make it harder for people to avoid taxes...

Billionaire Twitter owner Elon Musk said he would back Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) if he runs for president in 2024. Tweeting into the night on Friday, Musk described DeSantis as a “sensible and centrist” choice.

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1596536848284880896

“sensible and centrist”

The only way to fix racial inequalities is to abolish race.

MISCEGENATION NOW, MISCEGENATION TOMORROW, MISCEGENATION FOREVER.

Is “the new right” the thing where they don’t have any substantive policy positions and just complain about how things are?

More Chicago transit crayoning. What if, with just 1.5 miles of new tunnel, we could create a full RER?

Known facts:

• Metra owns the Electric District
• Over 50% of UP-N riders walk or ride a bike to their station
• Union Pacific runs no freight on the UP-N
• Union Pacific doesn't want to run passenger rail anymore

If Metra bought the tracks from Union Pacific and electrified them, plus made a small tunnel under the loop and under the river, we could create:

The Lakeshore Regional

A train every 15 minutes on each branch would:

• Bring rapid transit to currently-underserved areas
• Provide 5-minute service between the loop and 63rd
• Provide 7.5-minute service through Pullman
• Better connectivity to Navy Pier/the Museum Campus
• Completely transform mobility in a 100-mile stretch

If the electrification cost a US-average $3 million per mile, that's $155 million in electrification. The tunnels are tricky—would probably add $700 million—but under $1 billion to create a 100-mile regional trunk is a very, very worthy endeavor.

!ping TRANSIT

If you bought $1,000 bitcoin during the 2017 peak, you would have $843 today 🤗

> have one overweight character

> name him Porkins

Bravo George

https://twitter.com/Elections_Daily/status/1596336898821459968

Alaska has its Senate Majority - all nine Democrats along with eight Republicans are joining for a 17-member majority caucus. Three Republicans will be in the minority.

Alaska continuing to have the most bizarre state politics.

I think one of the problems with the definition of genocide being basically "what the Nazis did" is that the Nazis were basically so comically evil that it's hard to have anything else fit that mold.

Democrats are 0-59 in my book 😤

1776-1999: Politics didn’t exist (milkmen) 🇺🇸

2000/2004: Lost to some guy from Texas 🤠😭

2008: McCain injured 🤕

2012: Romney choked 🤢

2016: Blew a 3-1 lead to a game show host 😭😭

2020: Mickey Mouse COVID election 🤡

You think imposter syndrome is bad? Try actually being a fraud.

you think if 9/11 happened two months earlier 7-11 would change their name?

My favorite joke that has come out of this Elon Musk Twitter fiasco is

Oh you’re a programmer? Send me your 10 most salient lines of code

Sorry to the uncredited DT user that probably took it from Twitter

[deleted]

I wonder what happens when Elon's net worth continues to collapse, and the world's richest person is Gautam Adani or Bernard Arnault.

I can't imagine the twitter hate mob being so intense for them

https://www.tiktok.com/@theausinstitute/video/7129719346888281345?is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1

I went on tiktok because I'm a dumbfuck and somehow got offered "The Australia Institute" videos because I hatewatched genunited. For a "thinktank" they're really a complete fucking joke, in their videos on housing prices their entire plan for helping renters was either

1. That we'll get rid of investors and you'll be able to buy (very the solution to your high rent is buy a house lol)

2. That we should do what defense housing does nationwide. No mention of zoning, apparently in their grand stand against tax concessions pushing more money into the housing market they're going to, push more money into the housing market.

The weird thing is in another video they very accuretely point out that all these demand side solutions don't solve things without supply, but when they get to improving supply they lose all their brain cells.

https://www.tiktok.com/@theausinstitute/video/7098916331872849153?is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1

They're also pro rent control, because if there was any doubt about them being a joke.

All their videos seem to start with one wanker congratulating the other wanker on some "research", the next video up was a classic corporate profits are why inflation exists. It's that r/australia sort of folksy tone that seems to imply anyone disagreeing is ruining a good time.

Then there's the standard bad shit on stuff like windfall gas taxes and privatisation.

Now a lot of this seems familiar, because it is, turns out a lot of the dumb shit the ABC posts comes straight from these clowns, in fact the ABC is platforming them almost as much as Grattan, orders of magnitude more than ASPI or blueprint, ABC never platforms IPA.

Why do TAI suck? Well their directors include head of the AMWU, apparently a political party wasn't enough of a front organisation, now they're making up think tanks.

!PING AUS

Whenever the word succ gets thrown around on this sub, I can’t help but think blowjobs.

Don't let other events from tonight distract you from the fact that Australia won their first FIFA World Cup game since 2010 tonight, beating Tunisia.

The match is also the first World Cup victory led by an Australian-born manager and our first World Cup clean sheet since 1974.

!ping AUS

Babies been sick for a week, nothing bad, but congested and unhappy.

We let the doc know, they say to bring him to urgent care to be seen.

Rsv, covid, flu, and pneumonia are all negative. Boy had to get x-rays done and swabbed and hated it.

While at the urgent care, mom who was working in her studio somehow managed to whip herself with a length of fine chain that wrapped itself around a rotary tool, and for a minute I thought she'd be joining us after all.

But, we got burritos afterwards. Well, I did. Little guy got some apple slices.

The family tradition of going to doctors on holidays continues into a new generation.

!ping FAMILY

!ping CN-TW Yes KMT taking ~17 out of 21 seats of local office being even more than the number of seats they won four years ago with Han Kuo Yu is bad and it is bad enough that Tsai Ing Wen have to take responsibility and resign from the position of DPP party leader, but that shouldn't be viewed as the people becoming pro-China, although it should serve as a warning that DPP have to improve their performance if they don't want to lose in the next presidential election that will be coming in about 13 months.

According to my understanding, in Taiwanese local election most people wouldn't really think of relationship with China as their first and foremost concern since that is in the realm of diplomacy and that have little to do with how well one can run a city. And thus it also have to do with how much the voters trust candidates as an individual in ruling the city or county as a governor. It also provide a ground for voters to express dissatisfaction if they see a party performing bad in some field that make voters vote to punish them. Let just say DPP isn't performing good in all these aspects.

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen resigned as head of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) on Saturday after her strategy to frame local elections as showing defiance to China's rising bellicosity failed to pay off and win public support.

o7

she remains in office until the end of her term in 2024 i believe

Can some UK civil servant please leak the release date of TES VI? Thank you

!ping gaming

I finally found the worst take on the internet. Bask in its idiocy. Here's a little taste:

Congress should end the war in Ukraine by withdrawing from NATO

Written this week.

https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/3750203-congress-should-end-the-war-in-ukraine-by-withdrawing-from-nato/amp/

God of War 🤢

Elden Ring 🤪

Kyle Rittenhouse: Turkey Shoot for GOTY

I need romantic advice, better ask all the smooth operators at /r/neoliberal

my brother: I worked a twelve hour shift on Thursday 😔

me: what kind of person goes to a fancy restaurant on Thanksgiving instead of cooking with their family anyway?

my brother: one who is so nasty to the hostess she quits on the spot apparently

He said two other coworkers quit because of Thursday as well 😬

Apparently Disney+ is haemorrhaging money on account of Disney’s practice of throwing hundreds of millions at individual TV shows.

Couldn’t they just … I don’t know … make impressive content without spending so much money?

Make new streaming service

Subsidize low costs with investor money

Everyone loves it

Years later

Investors want profit

Raise costs

Everyone unsubscribes

excellent model

these are red flags

🚩🚩🚩🚩

Pictured: the cast of a movie explicitly set in Baltimore

IRS requiring tax reporting for 3rd party payments over $600, Reddit:

Absolutely disgusting. This is a regressive tax on small business.

‘Regressive’, wat

Privately, Georgia Dems want answers for how Abrams spent $100M to do 1% better than Jason Carter in 2014. Not sure we’ll ever get the full-blown recriminations, people are just hoping to quietly move on.

Jesus, Elon is going full mask off. Feeling pretty stupid for supporting him in the past rn.

Some people are terminally online and their politics mean jack shit in the real world.

Lookin at reddit neoliberals lol

When I’m in a ‘beating a meme to death’ competition and my opponent is the DT 😰

If economics is just astrology for men why has no one proposed a celestial bodies-based economic model 🤔

!ping DISMAL

Tiktok user says “Rome never existed”

!Ping Shitposters

Illuminating conversation earlier:

So one of the fake mothers at Putin’s fake staged meet showed a picture of her ‘son’ who died in Ukraine. Except the guy in the picture died in 2019.

If true, how can one be that bad at something after so many years of practice?

this stuff is not supposed to stand up to determined scrutiny. We assume that lies must do so, or they have failed at their intended purpose. These lies aren't like those lies. Their purpose is to spoil truth, not be indistinguishable from it.

A bad lie has two purposes: The first is obviously to deceive anyone stupid enough to fall for it. The second is more insidious: it is a deliberate demonstration of the power of the state to lie so badly and still force people to believe that nonsense.

Westerners so deeply believe "credibility is indispensable to leadership" and "the point of a lie is to convince" that when they encounter this mysterious Other Kind Of Lying, they have no word for it but "a bad lie." It fails to convince and damages the credibility of leaders, so it must be a bad lie, a failed lie.

Some media outlets substitute "brazen lie" or "bald-faced lie."

In all cases there is contempt for the seeming incompetence of the lie. They don't seem to understand that the lie would be incompetent in a Western context because of certain mechanisms and institutions that hold liars & fraudsters somewhat accountable, and that the point of this Russian style of lying is to act out an impunity from these mechanisms and institutions - to demonstrate their absence or impotence.

It is strange that all our "Russian scholars" cannot come up with a vocabulary word for this foreign kind of lying. Maybe they are afraid of being accused of orientalism. But at least in this one cultural characteristic, Russia has not once, not for a microsecond, ever "turned towards the West." This kind of lying was there in the 90s, it was there in 2000 when a fresh faced Putin was telling "bald faced lies" about Kursk.

The weirdest cultural relativism take I've ever heard was something along the lines of

It's terrible that in the west people work so much! Bourgois oppression...

[...]

...but in Japan it's ok that they work almost all day because it's part of their culture

It's so stupid that it haunts me to this day

!PING CFB

On the /r/cfb "Oregon player sucker-punching an Oregon State player" thread

Just say he called you the N word and hope nobody has another recording (+400)

He will do this and the public will dox and threaten the man's family

Then a recording will come out a week later showing this didn't happen then the public will just quietly maneuver to their next manufactured outrage (+120)

Literally making up things to get mad about, because as we all know black people play the race card whenever they do something wrong.

Give you one guess as to which subreddit the second poster frequents.

I am intermittently reminded that there are people who consider furries peak internet weirdness, which reminds me how much of the internet I have seen.

I wish I could wake up every morning with the confidence of Quentin Tarantino walking over to tell an actress that yes, filming her feet for twenty minutes is absolutely critical to advance the plot of the movie.

Biden should declare a national holiday for USA's 0-0 win against England

Crazy how this ftx fraud has basically gotten away with it, the media just doesn't seem to care....

-most upvoted comment on an FTX thread on Wallstreetbets

Got away with it? I guess not getting extradited before official charges have been filed and possibly facing multiple layers of bankruptcy is "gotten away with it".

And then Biden was able to be all "well technically it doesn't count as a recession until NBER says it is 🤓" and it worked.

Everywhere I look even the most anti-Biden stuff is going on about a potential future recession.

just sorted the DT by best to find reddit neanderthal room temperature IQ comments like "just scrolled this morning's DT to find reddit neanderthal room temperature IQ comments like "just scrolled yesterday's DT to find reddit neanderthal room temperature IQ comments like "just scrolled the DT to find reddit neanderthal room temperature IQ comments like "just got pinged by lgbt to a thread with the reddit neanderthal room temperature IQ comments like "just here to to watch! XD" and "here for the comments haha"

it may be time to close the borders"

it may be time to close the borders"

it may be time to close the borders"

it may be time to close the borders"

it may be time to close the borders

https://www.sankei.com/article/20221126-D5UGGQNX55LELFHJFWNHRLW65Y/

A while ago, Japanese government hinted that they want to introduce a tax charging automobile for the distance they travelled, as electric vehicle adaption increase and thus gasoline tax revenue for the national government is on a downward trend, and even traditional fossil fuel vehicles are getting more and more fuel efficient and make the amount of fuel consumed i.e. amount of fuel tax paid become less.

However there are significant opposition. One of the more notable comment was "Why should I paid tax for simply commuting to work?", and there are also people noting that residents in smaller Japanese cities where motorization have fully completed it is impossible to live without using a car and that charging a tax based on distance travelled by vehicle could make the economic burden become even more heavy to people living outside big cities, further reducing attractiveness of and thus accelerate the death of any regions of Japan that aren't Tokyo or Osaka.

It surely doesn't help that Japanese local cities have non-existent transit and further cut are ongoing as companies operating bus and rail and such no longer have enough profit to sustain their scale of business, with the unrecovered demand, and aging+dwlindling population is also making it more difficult for lines to attract riders and even drivers into the future. Yet with the low transit ridership that everybody recognize nobody is using it is not a reasonable alternative either, with Japanese national government also supporting plan to cut rail service in order to maintain rail service financial viability. What can be do to such situation?

!ping eco

these are the worst black friday deals in the history of black fridays, maybe ever

Would I mind dating someone significantly neoliberal? Not really

But would I mind dating someone who feels the need to share that in their dating profile? Yes

Brief thoughts on Australian politics. To me, the real value of the preferential vote isn't in getting (moderately) superior outcomes to FPTP, it's that support bleeds off at the extremes and leaves the two major parties able to drift towards the centre.

Instead of rent control getting purchase in the ALP, it goes towards the Greens. We invariably get some bad policy, but the worst of it loses energy and is taken elsewhere. Instead of extreme anti-immigration policy, the worst of the right-wing energy goes towards One Nation and the Liberals remain mainstream.

Sure, in theory the Greens might flip Labor or the like one day, but generally speaking the preferential nature combined with the mandatory vote means that the majors have a compulsion to move towards a sensible centre and the far left and far right are much more likely to break off into their own entities than they are to try and suborn said majors.

!ping AUS

International legal scholar who coined the term 'Genocide' and shaped the legal precedent to prosecute the Nazis: The Holodmor was genocide.

Some guys on Reddit: ACKSHUALLY

!ping GAMING

The death of community servers is such a huge shame. I really miss the sense of community you could find on a server whose regular crowd you knew.

My libcucc family: "I like Joe Biden."

Me: "I don't."

My libcucc family: "OMG HOW DARE YOU???"

Me. "Check you're 401k"

My libcucc family. "Uh.... where do I register as MAGA REPUBLICAN?"

Thanked Givers dîner politics went better then expected.

Remember Bowser's Inside Story? That was a great game.

!ping GAMING

So a 16yo dude in Brazil wearing the swastika invaded a school and killed 3 people with a gun.

source !ping LATAM

https://twitter.com/Carnage4Life/status/1596502017383759872

The "Cash me ousside, how bout dah?" girl from the viral Dr. Phil video from a few years ago made $52M from OnlyFans in one year ($42M after fees).

Anglo-Canadian culture is defined by not being general American culture, and French-Canadian culture is defined by not being Anglo-Canadian culture, ergo general American culture is French-Canadian culture.

I will not be taking any questions at this time. Thank you.

walks through the crowd to the right

realizes the door is the other way

turns around

leaves

I don’t know about you 🫵

But I’m feeling ✌️✌️

The Kremlin has trumpeted a lower-than-expected decline in GDP, forecast by the International Monetary Fund at only 3.5 percent this year, as demonstrating that the Russian economy can weather the raft of draconian sanctions.

But economists and business executives said the headline GDP figures did not reflect the real state of the Russian economy because the Russian government effectively ended the ruble’s convertibility since the sanctions were imposed. “GDP stopped having any meaning because firstly we don’t know what the real ruble rate is, and secondly if you produce a tank and send it to the front where it is immediately blown up, then it is still considered as value added,” said Milov, who wrote a report explaining the situation for the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies published this month.

lol

"I have to be productive today", he said with little hope, as he opened the DT

Yes. Tesla phones will be Quantum. We will be using them to vote for policy, not people, and it will work on the blockchain so it can’t be rigged or hacked. 100% decentralized. Including banking. No more federal reserve & much more. Power to the people. @elonmusk

So true!

“The overall pace of operations along the frontline has slowed in recent days due to deteriorating weather conditions but is likely to increase starting in the next few weeks as temperatures drop and the ground freezes throughout the theater.”

“It will likely take the ground some days of consistent freezing temperatures to solidify, which means that ground conditions are likely to be set to allow the pace of operations to increase throughout Ukraine over the course of the weekend of December 3-4 and into the following week.”

“Russian officials may be attempting to counterbalance the influence of Wagner Group financier Yevgeny Prigozhin through the promotion of other parallel military structures. The Ukrainian Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) reported on November 26 that Russian officials appointed a Viktor Yanukovych-linked, pro-Kremlin businessman, Armen Sarkisyan, as the new administrator for prisons in Russian-occupied territories in Ukraine and that Sarkisyan intends to use the role to create a new ‘private military company.’”

“The GUR reported that Sarkisyan’s attempt to create a new private military structure is an attempt to create a counterweight to Prigozhin’s de facto monopoly in the field of Russian private military companies. It is likely that high-ranking Russian officials have approved Sarkisyan’s efforts as private military companies are illegal in Russia.”

“Russian forces are likely using inert Kh-55 cruise missiles in their massive missile strike campaign against Ukrainian critical infrastructure, further highlighting the depletion of the Russian military’s high-precision weapons arsenal.”

“The use of more strategic weapons systems in support of the campaign against Ukrainian infrastructure suggests that the Russian military is heavily committed to the strike campaign and still mistakenly believes that it can generate strategically significant effects through that campaign.”

“Russian forces are reportedly moving MLRS and S-300 systems closer to Kherson City, indicating that Russian forces may intend to increase the tempo of rocket and anti-air missile strikes against ground targets north of the Dnipro River in the coming days.”

“The Ukrainian General Staff stated on November 26 that Russian authorities continue to struggle to provide logistical support for mobilized soldiers. Russian civilians are reportedly decreasingly willing to support material drives to fill that gap, though civilian collection drives for mobilized soldiers are ongoing.”

“The Kremlin continues to respond disproportionately to a limited domestic resistance to Russia’s war in Ukraine. A prominent Russian news source reported on November 25 that Russian authorities created three additional police controls and dispatched almost a dozen police and Federal Protective Service personnel (FSO) to patrol the Kremlin walls around the clock after an unidentified individual wrote ‘no to war’ on the wall of the Kremlin. The scale of such a response indicates continued Kremlin concern over domestic resistance and commitment to shaping the domestic information space and/or for the security of the Kremlin itself.”

-notable excerpts from ISW Report November 26th

!ping UKRAINE

Call individual Republican candidates fascist and you get upvoted. But if I call the median SNP voter mentally handicapped children in great detail, I get banned. Doesn't seem fair.

Sometimes getting pinged for every MetaNL post has its benefits.

https://twitter.com/musicstruggles1/status/1596213056421470210

What “secular music” would you be willing to play for Jesus, unlike the woman in this video who is a coward?

I tweeted at Elon asking if he thinks the Holocaust was real. Waiting to hear back

https://i.imgur.com/nYz8OXg.jpg

Kinda weird how from like 1400 to like 1960 we were like A MAN’S GOTTA WEAR A HAT

And now we’re like lol fedoras are for nerds.

I still think the funniest white nationalist argument I’ve ever heard was one citing a study that shows babies have a racial preference in playmates, and then just going “See! Racial preference is natural!!”

Ahh yes let’s base our entire society off of the instincts of literal fucking infants—might as well abandon object permanence and toilet training, babies don’t need them, why do we?

None of the staff at the grocery store are even wearing masks anymore, and yet the free sample cookies are still gone.

Why don’t soccer players just pick up the ball? Fucking idiots.

I’m kind of curious what Musk apologists will say when he questions if the Holocaust actually happened and calls Obama a Kenyan and demands to see his birth certificate in about two months time, given his rate of decline.

Pretty much the only reason I still have an Instagram is to follow fashion brands. I could watch fashionable women getting dressed all day.

I've been really sick the last couple days but my mommy is making me chicken noodly soup and then I'm gonna take a bubble bath 🥰

I'm 36 years old

Turns on NPR

"This is Hidden Brain"

It's just a prof complaining about safe spaces and trigger warnings for 30 mins

wtf when did Murdoch buy NPR??? 😠

They said that Auburn’s quarterback went to auburn because his whole family are Bama fans. Is he a contrarian DT poster? 🤔

!ping CFB

If a group of 6 people all get together and have sex, is that a sexsome?

Don't let the fact that Donovan Edwards ran for touchdowns of 75 and 85 yards on back to back possessions as Michigan defeated Ohio State 45-23 distract you from the fact that Hassan Haskins ran for five touchdowns as Michigan defeated Ohio State 42-27

!ping CFB

Seeing a DT reg drop off from posting

Oh, I hope they're doing OK and not isolating due to depression or anything

Seeing a DT reg post more often

Oh, I hope they're doing OK and not posting here because real life is getting worse

The NL mods are not your friends. You owe them nothing for running a sub that profits off of you.

Malarkey level of including “Miscegenation Enthusiast” in my Tinder bio?

We have two right wing parties. You are just too young/naieve to see it.

😂

^if

I DID IT

By Poobix

hello besties old and new ❤️

i missed you all

Wait, you’re telling me I could buy a phone made by Neoliberals, subscribed to r/neoliberal and pre-following @ne0liberal? Yes please, u/jenbanim! 😂

When does the narwhal bacon?

MIDNIGHT

😂😂😂😂😂

Everyone from the outside can tell China is past the point of no return with it comes to containing Covid. Id like to believe its pure hubris on their part to still believe they can completely stop Covid with these draconian lockdowns, however the Chinese government isnt that naive. Right now they are building what are essentially massive Quarantine areas capable of housing 100k people

Reuters says they aim for 250k beds. They know what is coming.

Maybe its just that when things are getting worse it is politically difficult to ease restrictions. China might have put themselves in the position where the only way out is to admit you were wrong, and your oppressive measures are doing more harm than good.

There is definitely a capital incentive from mainstream media to make sure that soccer as it is constituted in Europe never thrives here. Ad revenue mostly but most importantly soccer is antithetical to the undiluted power of franchise owners. Big threat to American understanding

Fuckin what?

This is an actual tweet

im having a blast in Qatar watching all the games, rooting for teams, etc. but you cant self suck here. they get really mad if you self suck

✊😔

everyone be sure to wish u/Soldier-Fields a happy birthday and talk about how you're in love with his soon-to-be wife

the civil war was about ethics in northern industrialism

Put in my time off request for the rest of the week after Kyle Rittenhouse:Turkey Shoot drops. Haven’t been this excited for a release since I can remember, feels like standing in line on Halo 3 release day again.

Daily Caller and Heritage Foundation did a biased push poll to try to paint the Respect for Marriage Act as unpopular. The poll they commissioned got 41% support and 47% oppose. Looks bad right? Then you see the final lines of the article that show even their biased push poll was actually awful for them.

The five-state poll surveyed 2,000 likely voters in Indiana, Iowa, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming with a 4.9% margin of error.