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It's the dunk tank.

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[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 38 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Posting /r/neoliberal is cheating, they're all a bunch of liberals

[–] ThereRisesARedStar@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Can you rephrase that sentiment (which I agree with) without the -isms please?

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

Edited but the sentiment is the same

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago

But we're the shills on a government's payroll, huh. Yes. Clearly it's us, talking about piss, and not this person who may as well be working for a literal PR firm.

[–] Graphite22@hexbear.net 31 points 2 years ago

think tank posters trying to hit their new slang quotas

[–] privatized_sun@hexbear.net 29 points 2 years ago

They were calling him genocide Joe last week.

I will never again call Biden anything, irrelevant old fucker lol

Extracting more hostages out of the hands of terrorists while minimizing concessions is truly NEXT LEVEL

extracting more oil, extracting more hostages, Papa John

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 29 points 2 years ago (3 children)

WHERE IS HIS PEACE PRIZE????

They want to give him a peace prize for funding a fucking genocide. Liberals are unreal.

[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wouldn't even be the first time. obama-drone

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's what the nobel peace prize is for

[–] Vncredleader@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

One of the first nominees was Tsar Nicholas, so it checks out

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I mean he gotta do more than Obama who got that prize for waging something like 6 wars in his presidency and that quantity is really hard to beat, so instead of just mere "wars" he is going for full genocide.

Not to mention Parenti could write "To kill a nation 2" about what's been done to Ukraine.

[–] Darth_Reagan@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

He won it like 2 weeks into his presidency. It made no sense. It was like a pre-prize that assumed he would govern differently then he did.

[–] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And this is no easy conflict, this is a full blown quagmire.

smuglord

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

lol, I find it hard to believe that's not an LLM, it hits all the beats. It's a masterclass! He's slaying! The US is back! Citations Needed could probably do a full episode on the language this user's comment history is filled with.

[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

lol, I find it hard to believe that's not an LLM

The real magic of LLMs is not that they sound like people but that so many people already bang out their comments like vending machines.

[–] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They don't know the carrier deterrent has failed, that America's bases have been pelted for weeks without a response, and that the resistance is escalating on its own terms. very-smart

[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago

I'm old enough to remember Baghdad Bob jokes that would fit perfectly here.

[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago

Not giving into all the reactionary ceasefire queens at the UN then watching them all literally do a complete 180° and now follow Biden's lead in calling for humanitarian pauses is not only chefskiss but BDE.

Liberals think "reactionary" means "in reaction to a thing".

[–] RION@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not giving into all the reactionary ceasefire queens at the UN then watching them all literally do a complete 180° and now follow Biden's lead in calling for humanitarian pauses

but also

And now this: intervening to get a significant deal that includes a 4 day sustained ceasefire.

josephine the reactionary ceasefire queen?

[–] DrCrustacean@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I mean even just the first bullet point is contradictory. The "ceasefire queens" (gay, bad, etc.) were calling for a ceasefire but now they've done a 180 and are calling for a ~~ceasefire~~ humanitarian pause. I get that a major point of neoliberal messaging is training people to accept contradictory ideas to support the status quo, but they should at least try to go more than one paragraph without tying themselves in a knot

[–] MemesAreTheory@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

You can't tie a knot in an overcooked noodle, and that's all these people have for brain matter

[–] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago

imagine my horror when i clicked that and thought it was satire for a moment and realized you had the gall to link me to the neoliberal subreddit and it was serious

how fucking dare you

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I checked the r/neoliberal redditor's history. it's like they are doing a bit.

In another thread - somebody asked for advice because they were having disagreements with their mother about taking vacation to Iceland together. The redditor's reply includes words like "rapprochement" which I guess makes sense if you look at your mother not a person who loves you but like a country that has no friends - only interests.

Disingenuously attending a vacation is part of the problem. You should be going on a vacation out of your own volition, because you want to. To do otherwise, under false and resentful pretenses, isn’t fair to you or to your mother, and is only exacerbating the problem at hand.

You should have fixed the problem and wiped the slate clean before you scheduled any vacation. Tiptoeing around real rapprochement and reckoning is only a temporary false band aid. You should be striving, especially with people close to you, to have authentic relationships. Even if this vacation miraculously makes you closer to your mother and fortifies the relationship, it has set an unhealthy precedent for dealing with conflicts in the future.

As far as evaluating your boundaries that’s kind of impossible for anyone judge without knowing the specific original problem, i.e., the reason for the boundaries in the first place.

nominal_goat comments on Discussion Thread

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And there's this.

I mean he won the Nobel Peace Prize so…

nominal_goat comments on Discussion Thread

Yes. He's talking about Kdog.

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