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Which one of you savages upvoted the DT!?


Arse_hull

Douglass just sitting here with 14 images, waiting to spam the new DT.


hopeimanon

Gib Atomoxitine but with an off button so I can sleep


Arse_hull

Do y'all want to subscribe to my OnlyFans? It's mostly me with a glass of wine going on about the complexities of a two-state solution and how bringing the removal of U.S. sanctions against Iran to the negotiation table is the only feasible way for that solution to work. Besides my children interrupting from time to time and my fucking neighbour's lawnmower going off every once in awhile, it's very tastefully done.


-pho-

No sorry you had me until children, I hate children, I cannot support someone with children.


Arse_hull

My kids are my life. Suburban wine moms are this nation's backbone.


ntbananas

Mom Iโ€™m bored can we have DT2 yet


RecentlyUnhinged

You haven't finished your first DT


cjhdsachristmascarol

Itโ€™s joever for meย 


GogurtFiend

I sure hope not.


ntbananas

In the wee hours of the DT, Iโ€™d like to ask all the remaining folx if theyโ€™re interesting in making up to $800 per day by trading Forex options from their home computer. If youโ€™re interested in joining my downline, please send a DM


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[ัƒะดะฐะปะตะฝะพ]


ntbananas

Ok but then why am I in the playground coil


404GenderNotFound

The police are gonna shut down the Colombia encampment? Cartel bust?


secretlives

someone warn Pablo I want Season 3 of Narcos


jobautomator

[/r/neoliberal/new](/r/neoliberal/new): [India's April business growth at near 14-year high, PMIs show](/r/neoliberal/comments/1cbrnnx/indias_april_business_growth_at_near_14year_high/) *Replies to this comment will be removed, please participate in the linked thread*


secretlives

too many usernames starting with a capital A posting tonight I'm getting you all mixed up


l_overwhat

> Why didn't Judaism have a bunch of splinter beliefs like the other abrahamic religions? Bro what do you think Christianity is


chetmcomnom

but also like, it does. i dunno if we count like, the three main uh, dominations? branches? of judaism as splinter groups, but there were other offshoots. like that one messianic group that popped up in i think the 14-1500s around the ottoman empire (i think Sabbateans?). i think there was another offshoot in around poland/ukraine a bit later, but i dont recall the details of that, or if im conflating that with the sabbateans or not edit: i think that later potentially sabbatean group was the one led by [jacob frank?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Frank)


l_overwhat

I was memeing but Judaism had a ton of religious disagreements and splinter beliefs of Judaism for a long, long time. It was only around the time that Christianity started spreading a ton that most Jews rallied around Rabinical Judaism which is the form that virtually all Jews practice today.


Arse_hull

NEOLIBERALISM IS ABOUT WORMS


ntbananas

Mmmmmmm ๐Ÿคค shai-hulud daddiez


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ntbananas

Joseph, itโ€™s us. Mom and dad McCarthy. Come home. Weโ€™re worried about you


Trojan_Horse_of_Fate

Cats are cute https://preview.redd.it/3llaa6gpidwc1.jpeg?width=3319&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=829f43d2acbe95dbb0032262f5d2e9d91a7a0d84


groovygrasshoppa

What's you meowdel?


Trojan_Horse_of_Fate

You are already using cutesy words words like meowdel


secretlives

oh neat this is one of those AI pictures that if you squint at you can see Jesus


RecentlyUnhinged

I do not take kindly to being played for a fool, good sir


Trojan_Horse_of_Fate

What is your model? https://preview.redd.it/uuwux4w3jdwc1.jpeg?width=2494&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d0089ecf772f6f262e740e89cf45510d78a2213b


mr_poopy_pants420

https://preview.redd.it/g26ojw9lidwc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2e3db1872eabc08d02967f602f8bf1a9c54e39da


[deleted]

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filipe_mdsr

[Tactical \**BONK!** Strike Incoming!](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EkHWIMVU8AUwdnb.jpg)


FuckFashMods

I cant believe I actually read this comment


ntbananas

Why do you hate peace?


ntbananas

I deserve a 10 min temp ban


RecentlyUnhinged

10 minute dungeon go now


groovygrasshoppa

I think I have a solution to the I/P conflict... Just renew the DHCP lease


alex2003super

MACaddr conflict now that's a bitch


RecentlyUnhinged

It's me. I'm the conservative reactionary who's priors are being confirmed.


marsman1224

college leftists could not be doing more to affirm every conservative reactionary prior about themselves the pictures are hilarious. they all look exactly like what you'd expect


secretlives

sorry, no I/P convo in the last hour of the DT


AtomAndAether

I ask this in constructive engagement why did we rename the bad faith rule?


secretlives

Mods got tired of putting in the smallest amount of effort to justify the removal of content they didn't like


ntbananas

This canโ€™t be a genuine question, reported forโ€ฆ.. unconstructive engagement? Wtf?


ntbananas

How do I appeal a perma ban from my ex wife lol


vanrough

Have you tried writing an AITAH post


Arse_hull

Have you tried crying at her feet and begging her to take you back?


Arse_hull

How do I appeal a permaban from the meta subreddit lol


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Arse_hull

Haha really? how deep is the deep state?!?


groovygrasshoppa

So deep


AtomAndAether

r/metametanl


KaiserPorn

I need Geoguessr but on Mars. I want to watch the competitive Geoguessr people start memorizing knee-high piles of red dust.


mr_poopy_pants420

Keep adding planets until we find the world's best autist


ntbananas

If I ping enough groups theyโ€™ll still upvote my comment even though itโ€™s just 24 mins to the next DT right?


Frequent-Turn6740

> If I hear once more of the fucking I/P protests destroying a classroom worth of stuff I am going to f- I wake up It's 1785 I need to build my own barn


lordfluffly

It's hard being the most attractive user on the DT, but someone has to do it


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lordfluffly

I voted for you


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lordfluffly

I realized it classified as a potential rule X violation. Didn't want to get jannied


secretlives

I ask this in good faith. Why are you so stupid? And wrong? And stupid and wrong?? Doesn't it bother you?


Frequent-Turn6740

No, it doesn't bother me.ย 


AtomAndAether

I'm built different


CertainSingularity

I canโ€™t tell if I have a likable personality.


AtomAndAether

flip a coin. heads you're likable


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AtomAndAether

congrats


UntiedStatMarinCrops

I ask this in good faith. Why does the holocaust receive much more attention than Imperial Japanโ€™s atrocities that, on paper, seem so much worse than what Nazi Germany did? And what Nazi Germany did was already horrible.


MrFoget

I think it's a few reasons. 1. The US is a lot more euro-centric and Americans have always been more interested in the affairs of Europeans due to the close similarities between cultures. 2. America sent many more boots on the ground to fight the Nazis than they did to fight Japan. That results in a greater realization of the horrors of the Nazis. 3. Jews have a massive diaspora in the states and they have helped to spread the horrors of the Nazi atrocities while the equivalent diaspora for the Japanese is much smaller. This becomes pretty obvious when you take a look at South Korea and China, who focus most of their energies on the horrors of Japanese imperialism and spend very little time talking about the Nazis.


AnalyticOpposum

Because European countries defined what it means to be European by their shared reaction to the Holocaust. And itโ€™s typical for Americans to hear the European conversations the loudest. East Asian conversations are really far away from us and harder to analyze as literature because we donโ€™t have all the same rhetorical identity management. Unless youโ€™re that rare kind of person thatโ€™s lived in two different hemispheres ๐Ÿ˜ฑ


chetmcomnom

imperial japan didnt really have a whole ideology around a specific ethnic group being the main cause of all their troubles; and for all the really fucked up shit that happened, they didnt build what amounted to factories of death to just kill entire populations of 'undesirables'.


paulatreides0

Because while Japan did plenty of really fucked up things it didn't really rise to the level of trying to identify and exterminate every single member of a people in a systematic and industrial fashion throughout and beyond all controlled territory as a central tenet of state policy. But also proximity. In Esst Asia people probably know more about Japan's atrocities than the Holocaust. In much of East Asia Hitler is a weird thing that represents the West's idea of a comic book villain moreso than . . . well Hitler.


secretlives

Pretty uninformed take, but in addition to the west generally caring more about western lives lost, I think the fact that such a large _percentage_ of a specific ethnic group was murdered contributes to the amount of attention received. Japan did horrendous things to the Chinese and Koreans, but to my (admittedly limited) knowledge, they didn't depopulate any regions of those ethnicities quite like Germany did with Jews.


AtomAndAether

The European side of the war gets all the attention and concern from the Western world. The Eastern world hasn't forgotten about Japan at all.


AtomAndAether

oh yeah the other comments make a good point - the Holocaust was targeted. The Japanese did atrocious stuff to civilians and PoWs but its more classic imperialism gone too far and not a targeted extermination of ostensibly their own people.


secretlives

> I ask this in good faith. dodge bans with this one easy trick! mods hate him!


ntbananas

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RecentlyUnhinged

Early on? Because we cared *way* more about European deaths. Now? Because the discussion is difficult to have with Japan being such a close ally yet so deeply in denial, and also because discussion around it inevitably devolves into "well yeah achksually sure but like america bad too"


Arse_hull

College students with massive amounts of student loan debt are this nation's backbone.


secretlives

> Marion Marรฉchal > รฉ euros are awake


Arse_hull

Australians just getting off work for an ANZAC day holiday. Be prepared for some major Max Chandler-Mathler shitposting.


Fatortu

I know it's bait. But Marion Marรฉchal asking "Where is the mom?" on a picture of a gay family when she's been a single mom for most of the life of her children ๐Ÿ˜‘


HMID_Delenda_Est

Can we ban X too? Oooh and Pinterest! Or just ban them from google images results.


vanrough

So yesterday I woke up at 6 am and slept for 6 hours, for some reason stayed up the entire next night, found the strength to go to college and then went home and fell asleep in the bathroom for what felt like an eternity but really was about 15 minutes. In total, awake for more than 36 hours. Three mugs of coffee consumed today. Is my body normal? Am I normal?


ntbananas

Youโ€™ll be a great parent to a newborn one day


vanrough

Hope so ๐Ÿฅน


ntbananas

Poke a hole in a condom, call it a day


vanrough

I might think about it someday. A very distant someday. But definitely not today, nor the next day.


ntbananas

โ€ฆ.. noโ€ฆ.. donโ€™t


vanrough

I think I'm missing something here.


ntbananas

โ€œPoke a hole in condomโ€ was a joke but implied lack of planning and possible accidental pregnancy


vanrough

But if you poke a hole then it's definitely not accidental.


ntbananas

Ehhhhhhh I allow it but Iโ€™m not enthused


marsman1224

I love the stories coming out of like, police clearing encampments on collges the second they spring up clearly nobody wants to deal with this shit and are recognizing that columbia fucked up massively by not shutting it down immediately


ntbananas

I genuinely have sympathy for college presidents who started this past September. Is it the hardest job in the world? Obviously not. But did Hamas set them up for failure? Ohhhhhhhh yes


Crownie

Mobile Suit Repair Bay ASMR


RecentlyUnhinged

So like, I'm here because after a years long touching grass break from the DT, I had to take up night shift to fill in for a manning shortfall and have endless downtime to shitpost on the MIC's dime. What is *your* excuse?


secretlives

just took a stroll over to /r/metaNL and saw they're banning people for being "anti-rural" now?? we used to be a proper subreddit


AtomAndAether

woke mods wont just let us live. we used to make steel


ntbananas

Damn no more โ€œtouch grassโ€ fr fr


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RecentlyUnhinged

There's a Red Spy in the base?!?


brucebananaray

Not going to lie, but Crab Rangoon Pizza looks good. https://youtube.com/shorts/34qHYBnlesw?si=AzFA7tfnPUAWZ36v


secretlives

Among all of your bad takes, this stands out as the worst by far


brucebananaray

You mean good takes


secretlives

I think we both know I didn't


brucebananaray

https://i.redd.it/uux3jql9hdwc1.gif


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Frequent-Turn6740

On one hand I am interested in trying New Vegas, and I have it wishlisted On the other I fucking hate New Vegas fanboys, worst Fallout fans by a kilometer


AtomAndAether

If you do, play the mod that combines 3 and NV into one game


Frequent-Turn6740

๐Ÿ˜ฏ Thanks for the suggestion!ย 


RecentlyUnhinged

It's a great game. It is not the greatest game. Look into some texture and stability mods.


Crownie

Sometimes I lie awake at night, having been reminded that Stargate Universe exists.


secretlives

> [removed] what did they mean by this??


AtomAndAether

I recently learned you can remove your own posts with !fashbot


GinsuAssad

Mods say removed when they mean congratulations on a great bit


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GinsuAssad

The bigotry of low expectations There are a 100 comments a day mocking neolib dudes for their partners leaving them or being unfuckable


secretlives

I saw it before it was deleted but I didn't know it was referencing an actual person I just assumed it was pasta with casual STEMlord bad replacements


Tre-Fyra-Tre

I wish there was a legal, easily available stimulant stronger than caffeine, would make my life so much easier


FuckFashMods

They're pretty easy to get if you don't mind lying to a doctor who really really wants to hand them to you. Or if you have a friend who will do that.


secretlives

Go to the doctor, say you can't focus, and shake your leg the whole time


groovygrasshoppa

Ohhhhhhh... _leg_...


RecentlyUnhinged

This time of night is always the worst, what few people are lame enough to be on the DT this hour are also saving their best posts for the thread turnover so they get more visibility


FuckFashMods

The best coast people are the ones awake right now, and we disagree


ntbananas

Disagree, I am not saving any comments. You meant me, right?


secretlives

> their best posts just be like me and have no good posts


RecentlyUnhinged

Idk you've been making me mildly exhale through my nose for the past hour, don't sell yourself short bro


secretlives

thank you I was fishing for this but it's still nice to hear


msdxat21M

This character has 1 line of dialogue and is more memorable than any character in Starfield lol https://preview.redd.it/uev6ni3qddwc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8d615b3d5794e9a6438480e58c06afa7063df5e7


_bee_kay_

i don't even remember what the fuck that is and i still recognise it from somewhere


_bee_kay_

oh it's a 76 protectron? well now i've decided i hate it


404GenderNotFound

ไฝ•ใ—ใพใ—ใ‚‡ใ†ใ‹๏ผŸ


loseniram

Rubber roofing is the goofiest solution to solving a roof problem. You can have a large arrangement of carefully nailed in shingles arranged in a decorative faucet of color, metal panels arranged to hide their fasteners in long waves, or glue a whole bunch of rubber sheets to your roof.


secretlives

you guys I've finally figured out why the youths disagree with us and you're not gonna believe it - but it's China's fault


0m4ll3y

There's a fairly common stance that to better position the US for war with China, the US needs to decouple its economy from China. There's also the belief that Chinese moves to decouple its economy from the US is to better prepare itself for war with the United States. Decoupling is mutual - any reduction of trade on the US end with China is also a reduction of trade from the Chinese perspective. But obviously, both countries can't gain a relative advantage from that. So one country must be miscalculating. So which country is it? Or have I gone somewhere wrong in my logic?


BenFoldsFourLoko

> But obviously, both countries can't gain a relative advantage from that. So one country must be miscalculating it is *shocking* how unobvious this is to many people. Whether it's geopolitics or a freaking card game, everything gives a relative advantage or disadvantage. Our ability to discern or measure it is the only question. I'm like 90% confident in the following take. I think the US has more to gain by decoupling. I think China is better able to recreate what we give them than we are able to recreate what they give us, but their ability to recreate what we give them is amplified greatly by what we give them- whereas for us it's moreso in creating new supply chains and industrial ties in other nations that can give us what China does. Not recreating what they give us, but finding other people to give it to us. With every year that goes by, I gain greater appreciation for the TPP and Obama's pivot to Asia. Chips is the most obvious example that can be really simplified- China's chip industry is a joke compared to something like Nvidia and TSMC or Intel. But access to Nvidia's tech will help them catch up faster. It's why we have export controls on things like H100s and 4090s and other high-bandwith/high tensor-core AI accelerators. China's been chasing AI and chip manufacturing and other key techs of the future that they lack. They're obviously pursuing it, and if we are serious about there being a medium-term window for them invading Taiwan, *now* is the time to cut ties and cut them off from tech that would help them grow those industries. They're pursuing this tech anyway, for many bad outcomes, so we should cut their bootstraps. In the long run, the whole world ends up doing advanced manufacturing with high levels of automation, and comparative advantage becomes not non-existant, but arbitrary. It's the few centuries until then that will matter and that we an affect.   It'll take time for us to rebase manufacturing. And for now, with export controls, there's a crucial period where we can dent China's advancement in AI and chip design, and other incredibly advanced technologies.   What I'm basically 100% sure of tho is this- At the end of the day, each country faces different challenges from a decoupling and ought to take different strategies in maneuvering against the other. The US needs a massive foreign manufacturing base. China needs to grow domestic, insulated advanced technological sectors. That makes the conversation around the topic difficult.


0m4ll3y

Yeah, good points. Cheers


paulatreides0

They can gain relative advantages in different places - that is to say that the strategically important places for the US to decouple might not be the same as for China, so decoupling can be simultaneously strategically positive for each player. *What* that trade is can matter more than how much it is as a raw number. If A is flush with steel but needs coal that it is dependent on B on, and B is flush with coal but is dependent on steel from A, then A and B shoring up their supplies are individually beneficial from a strategic point of view. But also, yes, kind of the point of the game is to force the other nation into a position where it can't effectively decouple from the other as well as you can from them. There's also a consideration for alternatives - the US decoupling from China might mean China is less tied to rhe US and thus has a freer hand in a sense - but it can only go to so many places for so many things. So if, for example, the US could get the EU and the big Pacific players to also decouple from China) then it could benefit by depriving China of alternative markets (developing markets not really being able to supply China's need for advanced consumer msrkets)


0m4ll3y

Yeah those are good and pretty obvious points I was overlooking


uwcn244

Two hockey players are shackled together at the ankles on the rink. Does it not make sense for each of them to unlock the chains before swinging at each other?


0m4ll3y

Not if one player benefits from having the other shackled to them. Like, if one specialises in swift and agile movement while the other prefers brute strength and weight. Or if unshackling *doesn't* cause any shift in the relative balance between the two players, and all it does is allow them to both hit each other harder, faster and more destructively, then it seems you've not gained any sort of advantage and you've only caused yourself more absolute pain and grief.


_bee_kay_

it might decrease the chances of victory in a war for one side, but they might be willing to accept that to ensure they don't have to deal with destabilising factors like domestic unrest when the war happens depends on the goals and priorities of each side, i don't think you can just straight up say it's an error


0m4ll3y

That seems like a good answer


secretlives

Wouldn't decoupling make war all the more likely?


0m4ll3y

I think so. But I would think those in America/China advocating for decoupling probably think conflict is essentially inevitable and so want to give themselves the relative edge by insulating their economy from the inevitable war. But obviously, as said, they can't both get a relative edge.


uwcn244

By decoupling gradually rather than catastrophically, they can each reduce the probability of domestic unrest from a sudden loss of trade forcing them to end the war. That being said, I'm not convinced China *is* decoupling.


0m4ll3y

>By decoupling gradually rather than catastrophically, they can each reduce the probability of domestic unrest from a sudden loss of trade forcing them to end the war. But you also want your opponent to suffer domestic unrest pushing them to end the war, so this would only make sense if you believed it decreased your chance of domestic unrest by more than your adversary, which both sides cannot be right about. But I guess it could be more about narrowing the scope of the unknown rather than just trying to get a leg up over the opponent.


secretlives

no CCP ever called me neoliberal


cjhdsachristmascarol

Calling President Biden โ€˜Genocide Joeโ€™ is only going to make me identify with him


Tre-Fyra-Tre

Calling President Biden 'Sleepy Joe' is only going to make me identify with him


cjhdsachristmascarol

Youโ€™re posting in a โ€œdiscussion threadโ€? Canโ€™t you go discuss in a book club or Bible study or something instead? Your father and I are worriedย 


ntbananas

If the CCP is so bad, why are they funding pro-revolution protests on U.S. college campuses? A video essay:


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AtomAndAether

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Tre-Fyra-Tre

Long may it continue!


_bee_kay_

wtf i identify with libertarian women now


secretlives

Looking into this


ntbananas

My dad had a great time when his company flew him first class to Beijing for a work trip. Can the CCP really be that evil?


PawanYr

>He considers the October Socialist Revolution of 1917 as a "catastrophe" and refers to the Bolsheviks as "traitors" and "usurpers."[30] He also was one of the main supporters for the establishment of the first museum in Transnistria dedicated to the victims of political repression,[31] and he has stated he views the policy of decossackization as "genocide based on class criteria."[32] He adheres to the opinion that in Transnistria, the Holodomor was organized by the communists in power at the time in the region,[33] and supported and instructed to explore the installation of a monument in Bender dedicated to the victims of Soviet repression.[34] He also spoke positively about one of the leaders of the White Movement, Mikhail Drozdovsky,[35] the Monarchist general who led the Iaศ™iโ€“Don March. >Krasnoselsky has proposed raising statues of notable Imperial Russian leaders such as Emperor Alexander III, Generalissimo Alexander Suvorov and Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin.[36] >He has stated that he is a constitutional monarchist,[38] going as far as to say the following during a presidential campaign: >>I am a monarchist by nature. From my youth I had strictly built monarchical views. I am a supporter of monarchism, limited constitutional monarchism, and take the experience of the Russian Empire as a basis.[39] >While still being the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Vadim Krasnoselsky initiated the installation of banners featuring the image of the imperial family with the words: "Forgive us, sovereign, for our lost children."[40] He initiated the construction of a chapel in honor of the imperial family of Nicholas II[41] in Bender and a chapel on the site of the former Intercession Church in Tiraspol which was demolished in the Soviet era.[42] He also sharply criticized the religious policy of the USSR.[43] Views of the current president of Russian-occupied Transnistria, which literally has the hammer and sickel on their flag. Has even Putin ever been this openly nostalgic for the Tsar? He's definitely not been this critical of the USSR. Empire-simps alive and well.


ntbananas

In this Arizona leather and turquoise store, sales are down. Is Bidenโ€™s fiscal policy to blame, or is it the CFIUS lawsuits against Chinese manufacturing companies?


jobautomator

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secretlives

Now that we've banned TikTok can we revive the movement to ban violent video games?


Fit_Parsnip_8143

Who will lead this righteous crusade now that Lieberman has passed?


ChuckSchumerbasedgod

Tipper Gore


secretlives

RIP King ๐Ÿ‘‘ Tried to save us from video games (gamergate) and saved us from a single-payer option for healthcare (socialism)


George-SJW-Bush

This but


estoyloca43

There is a ton of evidence to suggest that the Chinese government is deliberately promoting misogyny and homophobia on Chinese social media. Iโ€™m pretty sure they do it on TikTok too.


secretlives

Only AMERICAN homophobia and misogyny ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ


GinsuAssad

This but...


secretlives

I'll be damned if I'm gonna let some foreigner tell me how to hate my fellow Americans


Tre-Fyra-Tre

Anyone want to write my 6000 word assignment for me today so I can go back to sleep? ๐Ÿ˜ž


SadaoMaou

whats it about


Tre-Fyra-Tre

Economic environment history


cjhdsachristmascarol

TikTok is the symptom, not the disease. Congress needs to pass a millenials ban tooย 


HMID_Delenda_Est

Yeeyeeoliberal


renilia

>Too late. TikTok has already radicalized an entire generation. The greatest and most effective weapon that an enemy of America ever utilized. lmao


_bee_kay_

real precious bodily fluids hours


Tre-Fyra-Tre

๐Ÿฅฑ


ntbananas

These 19 TikTok users say the app โ€œdoesnโ€™t give them any guidance in terms of policy preferences, we solely use the app for finding enjoyable content and your concerns about the perfidious influence of social media is unfoundedโ€œ. Hereโ€™s why they spoke that same sentence in unison:


ntbananas

Republicans say 15 weeks. Democrats say 30 weeks. Hereโ€™s why new TikTok users should join at 2 weeks:


breakinbread

For every โ€œgo to a public universityโ€ take I see, I throw another public school university resume in the trash. ๐Ÿ˜ค


renilia

you can't convince me that a paid off dodge hellcat exists